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Cropping, scaling, and resizing images on the fly, for free, with GAE. Great service, wish AWS had something similar
App Engine API has a very useful function to extract a magic URL for serving the images when uploaded into the Cloud Storage. get_serving_url() returns a URL that serves the image in a format that allows dynamic resizing and cropping, so you don’t need to store different image sizes on the server. Images are served with low latency from a highly optimized, cookieless infrastructure.
(tags: gae google app-engine images scaling cropping image-processing thumbnails google-cloud)
Ex-surgeon duped into being €100k drug mule
Oh man. This is so sad:
Soriano, who had travelled to Ireland from Bogota via Panama and Paris, told customs officials that a red bag he was carrying contained a gift for banking officials which would facilitate the transfer of a $2.3m inheritance from a long-lost relative he had never heard of until recently. He was very co-operative with the officials and agreed to allow them x-ray and examine the bag. It was found to contain 1.86kg of cocaine in three packets. Sgt Finnegan said gardaí were initially sceptical that Soriano could have fallen for the scam but, as interviews went on, they became aware that there were underlying issues. Gardaí found documentation that Soriano had printed out about other phishing scams. He said that he knew they were scams but he was lonely and would respond to them for “a little bit of fun”. Sgt Finnegan said that, despite this, he remained adamant that the inheritance was still due to be claimed.
Bizarrely not the first prominent surgeon to fall victim to 419 scammers.(tags: 419 scams cocaine smuggling surgeons phishing dementia)
Wikipedia’s Piracy Police Are Ruining the Developing World’s Internet Experience | Motherboard
Oh dear.
The Wikimedia Foundation told me last month that it has been aware of people using Wikipedia Zero for file sharing for about a year, and says that there are no plans to pull out of any countries because of piracy. But that hasn’t stopped rogue Wiki users from suggesting it anyway, and members of the task force have gotten Wikimedia Bangladesh to plead with the pirates to stop contributing to an “increasingly negative perception of Bangladesh in many different sectors.”
(tags: wikipedia wikimedia bangladesh filesharing piracy wikipedia-zero copyright)
Go best practices, six years in
from Peter Bourgon. Looks like a good list of what to do and what to avoid
(tags: go golang best-practices coding guidelines)
raboof/nethogs: Linux ‘net top’ tool
NetHogs is a small ‘net top’ tool. Instead of breaking the traffic down per protocol or per subnet, like most tools do, it groups bandwidth by process.
(tags: nethogs cli networking performance measurement ops linux top)
The Airplane Seating Arrangement that Triggers ‘Air Rage’
The presence of a first-class cabin, and having to walk through it to get to economy, is a triggering factor for “air rage” incidents:
As lead researcher Katherine DeCelles explained to Gizmodo, airplanes are like a miniature version of class-based society. “It’s a small world of the greater society that we live in, though one that’s greatly concentrated,” she said. Traveling by plane is stressful enough, but DeCelles believes that seating inequality on airplanes often serves as “the straw that breaks the camel’s back,” and that air rage can be partly explained and understood through the lens of social inequality.
(tags: air-rage first-class flying air travel anger economy)
The Challenges of Container Configuration // Speaker Deck
Some good advice on Docker metadata/config from Gareth Rushgrove
(tags: docker metadata configuration build devops dev containers slidfes)