ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Gov. Ron DeSantis used to boast that Florida was where woke goes to die. Now he’s begging Disney to drop its lawsuit against him, and his poll numbers are in the toilet. Florida: Where presidential ambitions go to die.

Mars / Moon conjunction coming up Friday evening:

% sl_data -start 16Aug2023 -duration 7d -interval 5m -planets -refraction 37.8 -122.4 | sl_conjunctions
mars (full) and moon (crescent)
start at 18Aug2023 20:25 PDT b: 266.4° e: 9.8° 1.30° apart
minsep at 18Aug2023 20:30 PDT b: 267.2° e: 8.8° 1.22° apart
end at 18Aug2023 21:10 PDT b: 273.2° e: 1.4° 1.26° apart

I found this video which appears to be talking about me after a presentation I gave

I’m sure glad that this song is on Apple Music in Hi-Res Lossless Digital Master! https://music.apple.com/us/album/300bps-n-8-1-terminal-mode-or-ascii-download-30th-anniversary/1642793195?i=1642793303

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"It seems a little paradoxical to construct a configuration space with the coordinates of points which do not exist."
La nouvelle dynamique des quanta, 1928

Louis de Broglie was born #OTD in 1892. In his 1924 PhD thesis, he postulated the wave nature of electrons and suggested that all matter has wave properties. This concept is known as the de Broglie hypothesis, an example of wave–particle duality, & forms a central part of the theory of quantum mechanics. via @wikipedia

#science #physics

Got this phone up and running, and it is every bit as satisfying as I had hoped to be able to dial using punch cards.

Only one week until the release of #LibreOffice 7.6! In the meantime, check out all the cool features added by our community and ecosystem contributors: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.6 #foss #opensource

The English language is a wonderful thing, and we know some rules without knowing we know them.

‘Have you ever heard that patter-pitter of tiny feet? Or the dong-ding of a bell? Or hop-hip music? That’s because, when you repeat a word with a different vowel, the order is always I A O. Bish bash bosh. So politicians may flip-flop, but they can never flop-flip. It’s tit-for-tat, never tat-for-tit. This is called ablaut reduplication, and if you do things any other way, they sound very, very odd indeed.’ From ‘The Elements of Eloquence’ by Mark Forsyth.

#English #language

Well it had to happen eventually. #Scripps is retiring FLIP (FLoating Instrument Platform). This is an amazing piece of engineering (and soooo weird on the inside - everything pivots, so walls become floors). The #ship to be towed out to a location, and it would literally flip, sinking most of the ship directly down to give a *very stable platform for #oceanography research. Launched in 1962.
https://maritime-executive.com/article/world-s-strangest-research-vessel-heads-for-scrapyard-after-51-years

@dansup I built a simple ActivityPub server for running accounts for my side projects to avoid running a whole Masto instance https://bugle.lol

Was more of a learning exercise than anything but it works (e.g. @wegotfamily) and I wrote up everything I learnt here: https://rknight.me/building-an-activitypub-server/

THE ANGER I FEEL....

Khrystyna and Svitlana were singing in the street in Zaporizhzhia an hour before a Russian missile strike on the city, and this video of them was filmed.

One of them died yesterday at the site of the strike. She was 19 years old. The other girl died in the ICU today. She was 21.

Deepest condolences to their families.

Russia must pay.
#Ukraine️ #Russia #Putin #EU #NATO #Zelensky #war #news #Moscow #USA #UK #Germany #Poland #France #Turkey #AureFreePress

I've been converting all my houseplants to semi-hydroponic setups for a while now, which involves removing all soil and assuming total control over nutrients supplied in the water reservoir.

If you're semi-hydro-curious: Start with a spider plant, like this one. Spider plants are extremely difficult to kill, and they react super quickly and obviously to different nutrient mixes.

Pictured: My spider plant blooming, exactly one day after feeding it a bloom-inducing nutrient mix. Wild!

Exploring the internals of #Linux v0.01: Linux kernel is often mentioned as a overwhelmingly large open source software. As of this writing, the latest version is v6.5-rc5, which consists of 36M lines of code. However, the first version of Linux, v0.01 was pretty small. It consisted of only 10239 lines of code. Excluding comments and blank lines, it was only 8,670 lines. It's small enough to understand and is a good starting point to learn about the internals https://seiya.me/blog/reading-linux-v0.01

Naysayers: "Scaling up free, automated TLS issuance is impossible."
Let's Encrypt:

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Diacumakos's technique involved incredibly fine glass needles that she made herself by heating glass in her Bunsen burner. These needles were thinner than a human hair!

A few years ago I posted about her on the bird site, and within *moments* @jesswade put up a wikipedia page for her.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elaine_Diacumakos

Beautiful display of the Moon, Jupiter, and Venus tonight.