Run.Track.Run, GitHub, Spotify Wrapped, More: Monday Afternoon ResearchBuzz, December 16, 2024
NEW RESOURCES
New-to-me: Run.Track.Run. Search for places to run all over the world. Indoor/outdoor, surface, cost, lighting, and minimum/maximum distance. You can also limit your results to only recommended places.
USEFUL STUFF
Peterbe: How I built an index of my blog posts on my GitHub profile page. “If you go to https://github.com/peterbe it lists the most recent blog posts here on my blog. The page is rebuilt every hour using GitHub Actions. This blog post is about how I built that, so that you can build something just like it.”
AROUND THE SEARCH AND SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD
9to5 Mac: PSA: Avoid faking your Spotify Wrapped results if you’re in Congress. “[U.S. Representative Josh] Gottheimer’s X account posted. ‘Fun fact: My first ever concert was at Meadowlands to see The Boss!’ But it turns out there was an even more fun fact! Despite New Jersey native Bruce Springsteen topping Gottheimer’s top five songs played on Spotify, the screenshot showing Gottheimer’s love for The Boss was convincing to exactly no one.”
BBC: Hopes for new home for Monty Python star’s archive. “The family of Monty Python’s Terry Jones have hopes for artefacts from his personal archive to have a new permanent home. The late star’s daughter, Sally Jones, said she hoped the items, which have been lent to a gallery in Wales, will eventually be brought to the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford.”
SECURITY & LEGAL
The Register: Scumbag gets 30 years in the clink for running CSAM dark-web chatrooms, abusing kids. “A Texan who ran a forum on the dark web where depraved netizens could swap child sex abuse material (CSAM), and chat freely about abusing kids, has been sentenced to 30 years in prison. An FBI probe in 2018 identified Robert Shouse, 37, of Houston, as the administrator of a Tor-hidden CSAM exchange on which miscreants could message each other with links to other sites hosting vile images, videos, and erotica.”
Reuters: Turkey fines Google $75 million for violating competition law. “Turkey’s competition authority has fined Alphabet (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Inc’s Google 2.61 billion lira ($75 million), for taking advantage of its dominant position in ad server services market, the regulator said in a statement on Friday. The antitrust body said Google has favored its own supply-side platform (SSP) service over rivals and that move made its competitors’ operations difficult.”
RESEARCH & OPINION
University of Exeter: New project launched to recover and celebrate Indigenous knowledge of Caribbean landscapes. “The natural history of Caribbean landscapes that were subject to years of colonial sugar plantation-related oppression is to be the focus of a new Transatlantic research project. Led by the University of Exeter, Plants, Plantations, and the Anglophone Caribbean: Exploring Indigenous and African-descendent knowledge through text, archive, and orality will seek to recover and celebrate ancestral ecological and botanical knowledge and practices.”
University of Manchester: Russia’s covert propaganda network is largely ineffective, new study finds. “The study’s findings reveal a sprawling network of covert operations aimed at disrupting and influencing Western media ecosystems. The report identifies a shift in Russian tactics following bans on state-controlled media outlets like RT and Sputnik after the invasion of Ukraine in 2022. In response, the Kremlin appears to be investing heavily in new multilingual operations that operate as proxies, adopting domain names and website designs that enable them to evade detection.”
PLOS One: Assessment of Apple’s object capture photogrammetry API for rapidly creating research quality cultural heritage 3D models. “Photogrammetry is a significant tool museums utilize to produce high-quality 3D models for research and exhibit content. As advancements in computer hardware and software continue, it is crucial to assess the effectiveness of photogrammetry software in producing research-quality 3D models. This study evaluates the efficacy of Apple’s Object Capture photogrammetry API to create high-quality 3D models. The results indicate that Object Capture is a viable option to create research-quality models efficiently for a variety of natural and cultural heritage objects.”
OTHER THINGS I THINK ARE COOL
The MagPi: Wax: digital music manager. “There are many ways to organise - and play - your music with Raspberry Pi, and we’ve told you how to use a few in the pages of this very magazine over the last decade or so. Maker Jeffrey Barish has created a way to simplify the process using only a Python script, with classical music in mind.” Good afternoon, Internet…
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