A quotation from Herbert Hoover

The great liability of the engineer compared to men of other professions is that his works are out in the open where all can see them. His acts, step by step, are in hard substance. He cannot bury his mistakes in the grave like the doctors. He cannot argue them into thin air or blame the judge like the lawyers. He cannot, like the architects, cover his failures with trees and vines. He cannot, like the politicians, screen his shortcomings by blaming his opponents and hope that the people will forget. The engineer simply cannot deny that he did it. If his works do not work, he is damned.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964) American engineer, bureaucrat, President of the US (1928-32)
Memoirs: Years of Adventure, 1874–1920, ch. 11 “The Profession of Engineering” (1952)

Sourcing, extensive notes: wist.info/hoover-herbert/77615…

NASA reveals 'Higher Than Expected' Sea Level Rise in 2024.

As global warming continues to melt Earth's glaciers, sea level rise hits all new heights. However, in 2024 a different mechanism caused most of this water volume increase.

https://www.nasa.gov/missions/jason-cs-sentinel-6/sentinel-6-michael-freilich/nasa-analysis-shows-unexpected-amount-of-sea-level-rise-in-2024/

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AI brings Play-by-Play Commentary to Pong.

While most of us won’t ever play Wimbledon, we can play Pong. But it isn’t the same without the thrill of the sportscaster’s commentary during the game. Thanks to [Parth Parikh] and an LLM, you can now watch Pong matches with commentary during the game.

https://github.com/pncnmnp/xpong?tab=readme-ov-file

Over 269,000 Websites Infected with JSFireTruck JavaScript Malware in One Month.

IT-Security researchers are calling attention to a "large-scale campaign" that has been observed compromising legitimate websites with malicious JavaScript injections.

https://unit42.paloaltonetworks.com/malicious-javascript-using-jsfiretruck-as-obfuscation/

Engineers develop ECO-friendly Plastic from Mineral found in Seashells.

According to UNESCO, plastic waste makes up 80% of all #marine #pollution, with 8–10 million metric tons of plastic making its way into our oceans each year. USC Viterbi School of Engineering researchers have discovered a mineral commonly found in seashells could be the key to a safer #plastic #alternative.

https://link.springer.com/10.1557/s43579-025-00695-z

#Icom in #Kent SE #England is #hiring a two way #Radio #engineer - and is actively asking for licenced #hams

https://icomuk.co.uk/Were-Hiring-Experienced-2-Way-Radio-Engineers/2/3633/

#jechercheunjob ou plutôt une amie cherche un job en tant que Data Analyst / Scientist / Engineer dont voici le CV:
https://cloud.halpanet.org/s/KsQxzKrtgNc65oJ

#soissons #aisne #data #scientist #engineer

Merci pour elle 

Back to Reality with the Time Brick.

The time brick is a simple way of keeping track of the most basic of things in the real world: time and weather. The device has no buttons and only a small OLED display. As far as design goes, it’s an excellent demonstration that successful projects have to avoid feature creep.

https://mar1ash.pp.ua/diy-projects/time-brick/

Engineer creates ad-block for the real world with augmented reality glasses

https://www.tomshardware.com/maker-stem/engineer-creates-ad-block-for-the-real-world-with-augmented-reality-glasses-no-more-products-or-branding-in-your-everyday-life

Phantasy Star 2 - RetroLover is aiming to port this Sega Mega Drive RPG over to the Amiga!

Sure, it's still in a very early stage of development, and at one point I wasn't sure if it was going to go any further at all. But the latest demo footage „aiming to make the full game run on an Amiga“.

https://monoz.itch.io/phantasy-star-2-on-amiga-my-dream/devlog/956291/the-first-true-demo-with-ending-or-kinda

Mastodon updates its Terms to prohibit AI Model Training.

“We explicitly prohibit the scraping of user data for unauthorized purposes, e.g. archival or LargeLanguageModel [LLM] training. We want to make it clear that training LLMs on the data of Mastodon users on our instances is not permitted,” Mastodon said in an email sent to users.

https://mastodon.social/terms-of-service/2025-07-01

#VACATURE 𝐂𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐝 𝐍𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐤 𝐄𝐧𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐫 | Wij zoeken een ervaren, leergierige #engineer met een grote interesse in #cloudnetworking en ambitie tot ontwikkeling in een moderne cloudomgeving.

𝐒𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐢𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐭 https://www.sidn.nl/werken-bij-sidn/cloud-network-engineer

#STEMSunday #STEMinist #NoireSTEMinist #BlackGirlUnicorn
#MelanatedSTEM #BlackGirlSTEM #Engineer #STEM #STEAM
https://youtube.com/shorts/3msUBWpQis8?si=IRolmx0pC-YPJvQ8

[What if OutRun] — released for the Game Boy Color.

OutRun was released in 1986 by Sega in the Arcades, with later ports to systems such as the Amstrad, Amiga and many others.... Just not the Game Boy Colour! So to change all that here's [Rocketship Park's] latest project, which not only looks super cool, it runs and sounds almost like the original game.

https://rocketshippark.itch.io/what-if-outrun

mookie's #introduction / #reintroduction

it's me, hi. i'm the mookie, it's me.

i'm a serial #fediverse instance creator (and destroyer) and have been doing this since 2018. many will already be familiar with my name or my avatar.

i'm the father of two awesome kids. i love watching and talking about #movies. i'm a #gamer. i eat to #run. i'm a giant #starwars and #startrek nerd. i'm a born and raised #engineer.

my home is at https://ultramookie.com where i should be spending more time writing.

Anyone in #norway looking for a good #cloud #engineer? I'm ready to immigrate away from this nut house #usa #hireme #fedihire

You can now play Tetris in a PDF File.

[Thomas Rinsma], a security analyst and hobbyist tinkerer, recently figured out how to create a version of Tetris that runs inside a PDF file. He tackled the project “just for fun” after learning the potential implementations of PDF’s JavaScript API. The result is a novel version [Rinsma] calls PDFTRIS.

https://github.com/ThomasRinsma/pdftris