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Ruby on Rails — Rails 8.0 Beta 1: No PaaS Required

Deploying modern web apps – with all the provisions needed to be fast and secure while easily updateable – has become so hard that many developers don’t dare do it without a PaaS (platform-as-a-service). But that’s ridiculous. Nobody should have to pay orders of magnitude more for basic computing just to make deployment friendly and usable. That’s a job for open source, and Rails is ready to solve it.

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fintan on Instagram: "Ricardo López: the “Björk stalker.”

14K likes, 260 comments - t.archivist on September 20, 2024: "Ricardo López: the “Björk stalker.”
A pest exterminator by trade, and an Uruguayan immigrant, López had extremely low self-esteem, was socially reclusive, and starting in 1993 he developed an unhealthy parasocial relationship with Björk.

Although nothing points to him desiring to be sexually or romantically involved with her, he grew angry over her brief relationship with the English musician Goldie, and over the course of nearly nine months in 1996 made video diaries about her and other topics at his apartment in Hollywood, Florida.

On September 12, 1996, López mailed a letter rigged with sulfuric acid to Björk’s residence in London, then returned home, recorded a final video diary explaining his motivations, and ended it filming his death to one of her songs.

Local police discovered his body and the videos four days after his death, they contacted the Metropolitan Police about the package, and it was intercepted before Björk was injured.

In his 803 page diary he wrote 168 references to feelings of failure, 34 references to suicide, and 14 references to murder. He made 408 references to Björk and 52 references to other celebrities as well. His video diaries were compromised of 11 tapes with 2 hours of footage each. After returning from the post office on the final day López shaved his head, and painted himself red and green to make himself unrecognizable so make his suicide easier to perform, and after setting up a hand-painted board with the words “best of me” that he intended to splatter with blood, he said his final word, “Victory!” and finished the job. The gun Lòpez owned was not strong enough to exit his skull, and so he fell to the ground and bled to death.

Posted for educational purposes. Do not try at home.".

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スマホが高精度の測位デバイスに、東工大発スタートアップが開発・製造

スマートフォンに簡易に装着できる高精度の位置情報取得デバイス「LRTK Phone」が建設業界で注目を集めている。開発したのは、東京工業大学発のスタートアップであるレフィクシア（東京・港）だ。デバイスはスマホと同等のサイズで重さが125g。持ち運びやすさとセンチメートル級の精度などを売りに様々な場面で活用されている。

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