Ian Craggs

I've made a new release, 1.3.14 of the @eclipsepaho C client: github.com/eclipse-paho/p… My future posts and updates will be at bsky.app/profile/icragg… and @icraggs" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fosstodon.org/@icraggs

@Samfr To be super pedantic, there is an algorithm, it's just a simple and straightforward one :-)

The best thing about Bluesky is that there is no algorithm. No one is suppressing or boosting content or individuals. (Same name over there).

We're now hearing from @ralight about building camera chips for science applications. #OSHCamp2024 #imaging

New blog post: life and death of asynchronous network programming in Java: @vrmvrm/life-and-death-of-java-asynchronous-network-programming-9cf4feafd5f2" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@vrmvrm/life-a…

The HiveMQ team is proud to announce the release of HiveMQ Enterprise MQTT Platform 4.31, which introduces HTTP header authentication for clients using MQTT over WebSockets, new Health API metrics, numerous performance enhancements & more. 🐝 loom.ly/l4HIL7Y 🐝

Calls for the standardization of MQTT were coming from numerous sources by this time, including IBM clients, industry providers and users. 🐝 loom.ly/Z9jsf_A 🐝 #MQTT #IIoT #IoT #HiveMQ

@skdh @fhohenauer I was taught it in the early 1970s in school in the UK.

@fhohenauer Yes, that is correct. The idea that they knew in the 1970s (or even earlier), which has been widely repeated, is not correct.

In the past decade I have seen the media rewriting history by declaring that: (a) the fossil fuel industry "knew" of climate change already in the 1970s and yet those bad people kept the secret from us and that (b) climate scientists have said all along along that carbon dioxide emissions will cause global warming This rewriting of history is bad because it prevents us from correctly identifying our mistake. First, note that those two narratives (a) and (b) don't agree with each other. If climate scientists knew a century ago what carbon dioxide emissions would do, how come that the fossil fuel industry could keep that secret from us? Answer: Everyone who was paying attention knew the effect of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, but there was no evidence to back up the idea that fossil fuel emissions were causing temperature changes. I repeat: THERE WAS NO EVIDENCE. NO ONE HAD ANY EVIDENCE. Neither the scientists in academia nor those in the fossil fuel industry. No one could have known in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s that the models were correct. If you think they could have "known" just from model projections -- at which point did we stop asking for evidence to back up models? Second thing to notice is that the fact that carbon dioxide traps heat in the atmosphere was so widely known that I learned of it in middle school in the 1980s. So much about it being a big secret or something. The reality is much more complicated: Scientists -- both in academia and in the fossil fuel industry -- developed a set of increasingly good models for the climate. However, few scientists had confidence in these models -- that goes both for those in the industry as well as in academia. As a physicist I would say of course the models were correct because it's just physics and physics trumps. But fact is that most scientists back then didn't have high confidence in their own models. You don't need to take my word for this, you can just look at the published literature. Or maybe you are old enough to remember. This is why there was for decades so much talk about natural variability and so on. This is why the IPCC in its first report did very carefully state that "The observed increase could be largely due to this natural variability". This is why Michael Mann in his book explains why his PhD adviser Barry Salzman "was unconvinced in the early 1990s that we could establish the human impact on our climate" and that "this was a tenable position then". The fossil fuel industry did its best to pretend the evidence took longer to come in than it actually did. Around the mid 1990s they started spreading the idea of "unsettled science" and so on. But that didn't work well, and they soon switched to claiming that while climate change is real it's actually beneficial. To make a long story short: Blaming the fossil fuel industry for supposedly "knowing" that their product causes climate change and not telling us is nonsense. They knew as much or as little as the scientists, and that knowledge was long in the public record anyway. I am not a fan of the fossil fuel industry but that scientists in the fossil fuel industry reproduced what those in academia said was not the main problem. The problem was that no one listened to the scientists! If you are one of those people who like to blame the supposedly evil fossil fuel industry, you have fallen for a myth that the media has created probably to excuse why they themselves weren't covering climate change as much as they should have. The reason this matters is that by rewriting history we are misattributing the mistake. So please stop repeating this stupid idea that the fossil fuel industry "knew" something that the rest of the world didn't. It's not what happened. Oh, and also stop the idiotic accusation that I am being paid by fossil fuel industry. I have no sympathy for the fossil fuel industry and it's obvious that they tried to obfuscate the science. (If not very successfully.) I am just not willing to accept a false narrative even if that aids a party I dislike.

@p_surridge @Gilesyb Brexit wasn't "done" then, and it wasn't clear that the promises weren't going to be kept - see immigration for example.

@Gilesyb But then you have to explain why it didn't happen in 2019 when people were angrier and it featured heavily in the LibDem campaign. I'm not suggesting it isn't relevant at all but it is also more complex.

I still think Brexit played a key role. There's no way on earth the Liberal Democrats could have won 70 seats without that as a standing source of anger across swathes of England. And the overpromising that was core to the project was intrinsic to the grievance Reform peddled.

@anandMenon1 In my voting life I've never lived in a constituency where my vote changes anything - the same party always got in regardless. I support PR because I'd like my vote to count, and could vote for policies rather than tactically.

Good answer too on PR. For its supporters, I imagine it’s not about who gets the votes, it’s about whether the outcome is more or less proportionate to the votes each party gets. Politics is about winning the argument #Panorama

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@HeleneBismarck I suggest checking out Stephen Bush's view on bluesky, which I think is pretty objective: bsky.app/profile/stephe… . Also from Tim Shipman's piece in the Times:

@Samfrspare @NoSheds @miss_mcinerney Only for SMS 2FA (see help.x.com/en/managing-yo…). Because of the costs they incur sending texts.

@NoSheds @miss_mcinerney You have to pay!

I'm on my spare account again as it looks like someone hacked my main one again. I can't access it. Though it doesn't seem to be spewing garbage about bitcoin yet.

@rolandmcs Yes, endless checking on the unbelievable absence of serious government since Brexit. "They must have a plan, mustn't they?" To find out they really didn't. See NI for possibly the most egregious example. Government by wishful thinking

What is the cause of our productivity problem? * * He says while tweeting and scrolling endlessly.

The smart factory has arrived and the IIoT (Industrial Internet of Things) landscape continues to expand at an accelerating pace. This means the need for efficient and scalable IoT solutions becomes paramount. 🐝 loom.ly/bZpmytQ 🐝 #MQTT #IIoT #IoT

Calling all open source enthusiasts! Explore the latest innovations at @OpenExpoEurope in Madrid on June 13th. Swing by the #EclipseFoundation booth and chat with @j_rico_ about the power of collaboration in open source. See you there! hubs.la/Q02xxkfh0 #OPENEXPO2024

@Sime0nStylites @rolandmcs Yes. We haven't fully dealt with UKCA, UKREACH and import controls yet. UKCA and UKREACH "dealt with" by extending deadlines - still accepting CE marks. Medical regulation now lacking capacity. This govt unwilling to accept that they repatriated a whole load of state function.

@rolandmcs Eight years too late, I think.

Lots of Brexiters getting bothered over Gibraltar...

As we start limbering up for #MQTT25 in October, here’s an interesting (even though I say it myself) conversation with me and IBM’s chief architect for messaging #PeterNiblett, about the history of MQTT. doyoumq.com/podcast/25-yea… Also on your favourite podcast channels as #DoYouMQ

@GaryMarcus I think of it as dreaming. In Anil Seth's book Being You, he suggests that we are continually dreaming, but when we are awake the dreams match reality because of the feedback we get through our senses. Without that feedback the dreams become unmoored.

Help! Is there a term for this particular LLM trifecta of discomprehension, overconfidence and obsequiousness? 🙏