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У каждого датчика температуры и влажности в даташите написана своя погрешность. Но честная проверка — не читать даташит, а положить несколько штук в один и тот же воздух и снять показания в один и тот же момент. Я взял четыре популярных копеечных модуля с AliExpress — BME280, BMP280, AHT20 и HDC1080 — посадил их на одну шину I2C к одной ESP-шке и вывел всё на одну веб-страницу: у каждого датчика живое значение и график тренда, рядом.

Температуры совпали в пределах полуградуса. А вот с влажностью получилось интересно: один датчик показал на почти 10 процентных пунктов больше соседнего, который лежал в пяти миллиметрах от него. Ниже — как это выглядело, почему так вышло и на чём собран сам дашборд (спойлер: это несколько строк C++, без единой строчки фронтенда).

If the US wanted to be the world’s police officer, then why not try to be its doctor too? 

Just two months before the invasion of Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush announced an ambitious plan to pump $15 billion into the global fight against HIV, stunning his allies in Congress, health advocates, and heads of state of the program’s intended beneficiaries. 

The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, or PEPFAR, was the largest commitment by any nation in history dedicated to addressing a single disease, a disease that killed about 3 million people in 2003, most of them living in sub-Saharan Africa, and infected 5 million more. “Ladies and gentlemen,” Bush proclaimed in his State of the Union address that year, “seldom has history offered a greater opportunity to do so much for so many.”

On that, he was right. In the two decades to follow, PEPFAR would save an astounding 25 million people’s lives through lifesaving HIV therapies, and prevent millions of babies from being born with HIV in the first place, all at a cost of about 0.08 percent of the federal budget. 

And yet, in the wake of the Trump administration’s foreign aid cuts, one of the greatest achievements in American history is now at risk. PEPFAR, mercifully, still exists, saved from the sledgehammer by an outpouring of bipartisan support last February. But experts say the program has been transformed beyond recognition by countless small cuts, and the abrupt gutting of global health architecture, reshaped not by decades of accumulated wisdom around HIV prevention, but by at times absurdly petty ideology.

Over the past year, more than 77 percent of PEPFAR grantees have lost funding or had their payments delayed, according to a survey released Tuesday by the HIV research group amfAR. 

Nearly two-thirds of grantees — especially those supporting vulnerable populations such as LGBTQ people, young women, and sex workers — said the cuts had disrupted their ability to offer HIV treatments and other services. The Trump administration released limited data showing a deep reduction in HIV prevention services, but a relative consistency in access to treatment earlier this year. However, this new survey paints one of the first pictures available of how PEPFAR cuts are actually being felt on the ground, and how the administration’s priorities are reshaping who and what gets funded.

According to the survey’s authors, at least 1,700 HIV-related sites or clinics have shut down as a result of cuts. Well over 16,000 health workers — including those going door to door to make sure pregnant parents get tested for HIV or children get on treatment — have lost their jobs. 

Many organizations surveyed reported receiving emails when their PEPFAR grants were terminated, noting that their work violated President Donald Trump’s executive order against “unlawful diversity, equity, and inclusion.” It appears, they say, that many of these groups were flagged not because they embraced the distinctly American concept of DEI in their work, but because their name or mission description included a phrase like “gender” or “LGBTQ.”  

A health clinic serving survivors of domestic violence in Mozambique, for example, might now be flagged just for using the phrase “gender-based violence” in their name. This may be part of the reason why even pregnant women — who even the Trump administration has emphasized as a critical demographic in its HIV goals — have lost access to services. 

Back in 2003, Bush defied conservative critics in his own party who attempted to redirect PEPFAR funding to abstinence-only programs. For decades, American presidents have been able to see past their ideology in service of saving lives. They largely understood that contraceptives like condoms and special interventions for those most at risk, including LGBTQ people, were necessary for stopping the spread of HIV. Under the Trump administration, this norm is unraveling. 

“This administration has zero interest in addressing clinical outcomes for vulnerable people with HIV,” said Asia Russell, executive director of the advocacy group Health GAP, who noted that “to be effective, HIV prevention and treatment services actually have to go where the disease is, and that risk is not evenly distributed,” surging in certain geographies like South Africa or within key populations like trans people or young women. Getting support to these groups is “morally right,” she said, but it is also “the only way to do effective HIV work, regardless of your stance on the morals or the merits.”

The fight against HIV is running on fumes

When HIV aid does get doled out these days, it is distributed with far less transparency than in the past, and in ways that often appear to be ideologically or politically driven, both in terms of the populations they serve and the countries they operate in, rather than guided by best practices. 

In theory, lifesaving HIV care was exempted from sweeping aid cuts last year. But in reality, access to even the most basic HIV services and treatments has also atrophied across the board, while falling disproportionately on at-risk populations. 

That’s come both in the form of direct cuts and as a byproduct of broader disruptions to the kind of outreach services, testing, and socioeconomic programs that get patients in the door to begin with. 

“You can’t cut pieces of the architecture of how PEPFAR functions and expect to maintain a really robust treatment program in the long term,” said Jennifer Sherwood, director of research and public policy at amfAR. “If you cut the testing program, the prevention programs, the kind of services that allow people to stay in care and return to care, you’re going to see that you can’t maintain a treatment program.”

The number of people getting on treatment for the first time has sharply declined over the past year, even according to the administration’s own limited data drop, while access to testing, contraceptives, and other preventative services — all critical to keeping infections down in the long run — face cuts that threaten their ability to function at all. 

To make matters worse, amfAR’s survey shows that services designed for the populations most at risk of HIV — such as sex workers, LGBTQ people, young women, and teenage girls — have been disproportionately affected by PEPFAR cuts. Among those who lost funding, a staggering 90 percent of organizations that serve gay and bisexual men were forced to slash access to PrEP — which strongly protects against HIV infection — and many stopped offering it entirely. The same was true for over half of organizations serving pregnant women, whose children now face a higher risk of contracting HIV in the womb.  

The majority of new HIV infections are concentrated in these “key populations,” as they’re known in public health parlance, many of whom face stigma or other obstacles to obtaining care. “One really powerful aspect” of how PEPFAR used to work, said Thomas McHale, public health director at Physicians for Human Rights, was that it consistently “followed the science and followed the epidemiology” to serve “groups that are at the margins of society.” That approach appears to have been thrown out under the new administration, and in at least some cases, actively discouraged.

McHale has been documenting the impact of PEPFAR cuts in South Africa in recent months, and “what we saw was a system under severe stress and strain,” he said. It is one in which a bisexual man stopped taking his HIV medications for weeks because the LGBTQ clinic he used to go to closed. “He just couldn’t bear the stigma of accessing services in a place that’s not meant for him,” according to McHale. Similarly, a young woman was forced to wait in line for 10 hours just to refill her PrEP prescription. 

“If we’re not focusing on preventing disease,” McHale said, “it’s just a more expensive and more devastating challenge to address in the future.”

Some countries may soon stop receiving PEPFAR funding altogether

As I’ve written previously, the Trump administration has attempted to remake foreign aid into a dealmaking enterprise, one in which money flows directly through national governments rather than through large, western-led non-governmental organizations or NGOs. 

In theory, there are benefits to this approach, because it prioritizes the expertise of local health groups and policymakers who are often best equipped to evaluate and address the needs of those in their care. In practice, however, amfAR’s survey shows that so far, under the Trump administration, local organizations have actually lost more funding and been forced to close more sites than international groups have. “These cuts fell heavily on locally-based organizations” while NGOs have fared somewhat better, said Sherwood, “and that really runs counter to all of our global health goals.”  

“I’m concerned because public health is no longer how we’re measuring success” when it comes to reaching PEPFAR’s goals, said Jirair Ratevosian, a senior fellow at the Duke Global Health Institute who served as chief of staff of PEPFAR under the Biden administration. He is especially alarmed by the decision last month to end PEPFAR support for South Africa, which has the largest HIV epidemic in the world. The administration appears to have done so in part because of Trump’s insistence that the nation is waging a nonexistent “genocide” against white Afrikaners. 

“HIV control is not their chief concern,” said Ratevosian, who recently ran the numbers on a separate fissure with Zimbabwe, finding that cutting PEPFAR would lead to 75,000 new HIV infections in just one year. In South Africa, similar cuts could lead to over 2 million more infections over the next two decades, a toll that would invariably cross borders, and could threaten the world’s immense, hard-won progress against HIV. “You can’t have a global HIV strategy,” said Ratevosian, “if you’re not engaging these countries.”

Priorities shift under any new administration, and it’s not abnormal for an organization to tweak its language or services to adapt. But PEPFAR, the bipartisan program which began under Republican leadership, and thrived and expanded under three successive presidencies, including during Trump’s first term, has never faced such turmoil. 

“Even among organizations who didn’t lose US funding, we’re still picking up changes to the way they work, the populations they serve, the words they use,” said Sherwood of amfAR. Her group’s survey showed that nearly 80 percent of organizations that did not lose funding still altered the way their organization worked to comply with new policies. “This network of changes from the US,” she said, “are prompting a lot of changes on the ground.”

US health officials say source of Upper East Side cluster has probably been eliminated after 76 people fell ill

An outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in New York City has claimed a fourth life, officials have said, as they again expressed confidence the source of the exposure had been eliminated.

A statement from the city’s health department on Monday said the outbreak, which was traced to cooling towers in buildings in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, had sickened 76 people – with 53 discharged after hospital treatment, and 12 others managing their recovery at home.

Government urges visitors not to approach or feed wolves as it manages safety amid growing population

Danish authorities have advised tourists to stand still, make eye contact and put up “maximum resistance” in the event of attack if they encounter a wolf while on holiday.

After a 200-year absence, wolves started returning to Denmark in 2012. There are now estimated to be 49 wolves on the Danish peninsula of Jutland.

US health officials say source of Upper East Side cluster has likely been eliminated after 76 people fell ill

An outbreak of legionnaires’ disease in New York City has claimed a fourth life, officials have said, as they again expressed confidence the source of the exposure had been eliminated.

A statement from the city’s health department on Monday said the outbreak, which was traced to cooling towers in buildings in Manhattan’s Upper East Side, had sickened 76 people – with 53 discharged after hospital treatment, and 12 others managing their recovery at home.

Government urges visitors not to approach or feed wolves as it manages safety amid growing population

Danish authorities have advised tourists to stand still, make eye contact and put up “maximum resistance” in the event of attack if they encounter a wolf while on holiday.

After a 200-year absence, wolves started returning to Denmark in 2012. There are now estimated to be 49 wolves on the Danish peninsula of Jutland.

Joshua Kerry appears at Westminster magistrates court charged with murder of former MP earlier this month

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of the former MP and Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe.

Joshua Kerry, 28, is accused of killing the 78-year-old former Conservative minister at her home in Haytor, Devon, earlier this month, by hitting her on the head with a hammer 21 times.

Как часто, работая с агентом над новой фичей, вы остаётесь недовольны результатом? То что-то не работает, то качество кода неприемлемо. Вы просите агента ещё раз и ещё раз, пытаетесь подобрать «идеальный» промпт — и всё равно не выходит. Уверен: чем дольше вы работаете с агентом, тем чаще разочаровываетесь. И это неудивительно: агент пишет код очень быстро — и именно поэтому ОЧЕНЬ просто получить ОЧЕНЬ много кода, который вам не нужен. Но код — это как раз простая часть. Настоящая задача инженера — строить системы: надёжные, быстрые и поддерживаемые. Именно за это нам и платят — и вот этого агент пока за нас не делает.

Когда инфраструктура начинает сбоить, причина редко остаётся в одном слое: за проблемой с деплоем тянутся пайплайны, контейнеры и секреты, а за деградацией сервиса – логи, сеть, база данных или настройки Linux. В этом дайджесте собрали практические материалы по K8s, CI/CD, DevSecOps, наблюдаемости, PostgreSQL и отказоустойчивости – для тех, кто хочет быстрее находить слабые места и лучше понимать, как связаны компоненты современной инфраструктуры.

В IT основной капитал руководителя — это люди. И эти люди работают в условиях постоянного давления: меняются требования, горят дедлайны, бизнес хочет большего, неопределённости хватает на всех. В такой среде доверие к руководителю — очень важный ресурс. Его отсутствие влияет не только на атмосферу в команде, но и на её эффективность. 

Меня зовут Юлия Аравина, я психолог и коуч IT-руководителей, а также наставник на курсах «Управление командой» и «Технический директор — СТО» в Яндекс Практикуме PRO. В этой статье я хочу разобрать, почему команда перестаёт доверять руководителю, за счёт чего формируется доверие и как его восстановить.

В 90-е и начале нулевых производитель телефонов Nokia был самым известным в мире: его модели считались хитами продаж, а мелодия Nokia Tune стала одним из популярных аудиобрендов. В нашей статье — подробнее об этом звуке и о том, как он регистрировался в разных странах мира. Спойлер: не без приключений.

В прошлой статье я поспешил с публикацией и лишь в общих чертах объяснил, что такое Napominator Home. Сегодня, как и обещал, публикую подробное руководство, которое охватывает все этапы: от установки до ежедневного использования.

В этой статье вы узнаете, как установить систему, настроить её компоненты и пользоваться всеми функциями.

Joshua Kerry appears at Westminster magistrates court charged with murder of former MP earlier this month

A man has appeared in court charged with the murder of the former MP and Reform UK spokesperson Ann Widdecombe.

Joshua Kerry, 28, is accused of killing the 78-year-old former Conservative minister at her home in Haytor, Devon, earlier this month, by hitting her on the head with a hammer 21 times.

State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

The US government’s latest allegations that Cuba is behind “many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history” and that its leaders pose “a unique threat to American homeland security” have come as startling revelations to those living under the six-month-long US oil blockade in Havana, where desperate people search through piles of uncollected rubbish for food, or else swelter at home in 24-hour-plus blackouts.

The unsigned 100-page report, Cuba: Capital of 21st-Century Communism, published by the US state department on Monday, blames Havana for everything from “the George Floyd riots to the rise of antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses”.

The World Cup left us with some surprising heroes. Kudos to pop’s leader of the bland and his very public rebuke to hatred and division

Long before the United States turned the World Cup final into an orgy of pop music and advertising, the signs were already there that this year’s co-hosts should never have been allowed within a thousand miles of the tournament. The garish half-time show curated by Chris Martin of Coldplay seemed to reinforce that – but then came a moment of improbable genius.

I was surprised. The last time America hosted, the problem wasn’t commercial overkill so much as sheer shrugging apathy. I was in New York during USA ’94. Apart from a few flapping banners outside the Nike store, you wouldn’t have known one of the world’s biggest sporting events was taking place. This, in hindsight, was a blessing. Football was allowed to football.

Simon Price is a music journalist and author

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Shabaz Ali stormed to TikTok fame mocking the designer ice cubes of the privileged. Now he’s on the BBC stoking revolt against the superrich

It was ice cubes that tipped Shabaz Ali over the edge. “A woman online spent her entire day making content about ‘designer ice cubes’,” he recalls. “She’d freeze flavoured waters or fruit juices and show the whole process in tedious detail. I was like, ‘There’s no way she’s got a proper job or has ever struggled for money. Only someone wealthy would have the time to do this.’ It vexed me, so on a whim, I made a reaction video saying ‘On today’s episode of I’m Rich, You’re Poor …’ Soon my TikToks were getting 30m views and thousands of comments. It blew my mind.”

Ali, AKA @ShabazSays, has since become a cult celebrity for his sarcastic commentary on how the other half live. His scathing takedowns of the “rich and ridiculous” have won him more than 4 million followers. Now he’s transferring his viral fame to our TV screens.

State department’s 100-page report is latest push in Trump administration campaign to bring down government

The US government’s latest allegations that Cuba is behind “many of the most significant upheavals in recent American political history” and that its leaders pose “a unique threat to American homeland security” have come as startling revelations to those living under the six-month-long US oil blockade in Havana, where desperate people search through piles of uncollected rubbish for food, or else swelter at home in 24-hour-plus blackouts.

The unsigned 100-page report, Cuba: Capital of 21st-Century Communism, published by the US state department on Monday, blames Havana for everything from “the George Floyd riots to the rise of antifa to the explosion of pro-terrorist activism on American college campuses”.

Storm warnings stretch from Florida to Louisiana as Bertha brings heavy rain, flooding risk and possible tornadoes

Tropical Storm Bertha strengthened in the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday but was expected to weaken this week as it chugs closer to the US, potentially bringing coastal flooding and heavy rain from the Florida Panhandle to Louisiana.

Those areas along the northern Gulf coast were under a tropical storm warning through Wednesday and could see rain and flooding into Thursday morning, the Miami-based National Hurricane Center said. New Orleans also was under a tropical storm warning.

Перед командой, выросшей на MySQL/MariaDB, встаёт вопрос перехода на PostgreSQL: лицензии, экосистема расширений, более предсказуемое поведение при конкурентных нагрузках - причин достаточно. Проблема в другом: как перенести боевую базу, которая не останавливается ни на минуту, без часов простоя и без риска потерять данные, записанные во время переноса.

В этой статье - как мы решали эту задачу для интернет-магазина на MariaDB, почему готовые консольные конвертеры не годятся для «живой» миграции, и как выглядит рабочая схема на Debezium + Kafka Connect, включая Ansible-роль для повторяемого запуска.

Когда человек приходит выбирать землю за городом, он почти всегда просит участок побольше. Пятнадцать соток, двадцать, а лучше тридцать. Чем больше земли, тем солиднее.

А мы продаём ему восемь. Земли у нас хватает, но базовый размер участка мы срезали намеренно. И человек соглашается, хотя платит за сотку больше, чем в посёлках по соседству.

Меня зовут Михаил Лис, я руководитель проектов в группе MDI. Мы строим коттеджные посёлки бизнес и премиум-класса на Новой Риге, ключевой проект называется Ели Estate. Участок здесь стоит от 13 миллионов рублей. Я отвечаю за то, каким посёлок будет и что человек получит, купив здесь землю.