I did not realize it was going to be this much fun to read my own blog of 15+ years ago: egonw.github.io/blog/
I'm doing so in the process of migrating my blogspot blog to something more sustainable, using @rogue_scholar, giving me archived pages, downloaded PDFs (and ePUBs), and DOIs for my posts.
But reading this back makes me happy and hopeful. Commercial publishers have failed to innovate and are stuck in the old model of just making lots of profit, not helping
After five demanding days in space, Polaris Dawn splashes down safely
They flew high, they walked in space, and finally early on Sunday, they landed.
arstechnica.com/space/2024/09/…
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Aterrizó Polaris, la misión privada que hizo un breve EVA.
Todo impresionante, porque hizo casi mundano (y caro, pero accesible si sos rico), cosas que antes necesitaban años de preparación y entrenamiento.
Lo que me parece hermoso es el diseño y testeo de los nuevos trajes espaciales de SpaceX. Aparentemente funcionaron bien.
NASA comisionó 500 millones de dólares a 2 compañías que tardarán como 8 años más en tener un traje espacial.
Los ingenieros de SpaceX diseñaron uno que ya veremos qué dicen los que saben, pero mínimo es una propuesta distinta.
Starmer is open to offshoring asylum seekers to Albania like the Italian scheme
Human rights groups have condemned Italy’s ‘dodgy’ Rwanda-style deal with Albania to offshore asylum seekers, but as Starmer travels to Rome to meet Meloni, he admits he is open to copying it
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Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu decided to expand a military operation on the northern front with Lebanon, an Israeli media outlet said Saturday.
Channel 13 reported that Netanyahu made the statement during a strategic dialogue session on Thursday to discuss the escalation on the northern front, without specifying the parties involved in the session.
Israel is “on the verge of a broad and strong operation on the northern front,” he said.
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Dozens of illegal Israeli settlers escorted by security forces on Saturday evening stormed the Old City of Hebron in the southern West Bank, forcing Palestinians to head back home.
“Dozens of settlers, accompanied by dozens of Israeli soldiers, entered the Old City of Hebron, including the Palestinian market areas,” eyewitnesses said.
The witnesses added that guides with illegal Israeli settlers forced local residents to stay indoors.
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Discovered some #linux #bluetooth shenanigans yesterday.
I fired up a first-person game for the first time in a long time, and found that the mouse movement was really jerky. Seems that the average polling rate on my MX Master 3S was really low over bluetooth - around 70-80Hz. My main monitor is 100Hz, so this is really noticeable.
The shenanigans come in because when I switched on my bluetooth trackball (M575) at the same time, the average polling rate for both went up to 90-125Hz!
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Israeli soldiers throw stun grenades at demonstrators in Umm Safa village north of Ramallah, West Bank, on Saturday as residents and activists protest the land seizure of 123.5 acres by Israeli settlers.
Local sources said that the occupation soldiers fired sound bombs and toxic gas at the citizens who participated in the stand, against the occupation's attempts to seize their lands in the area for the benefit of colonial expansion.
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Turkish-American activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi, who was shot by Israeli forces last Friday during a peaceful protest in the occupied West Bank, has been laid to rest.
Eygi was fatally injured by gunfire to the head during a peaceful demonstration in the West Bank and later died in a hospital.
Her memory leaves a legacy of sacrifice and dedication that transcends borders and cultures.
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Pandoc 3.4 has been released 🎉
Pandoc (the universal markup converter) changed the default PDF engine via HTML from wkhtmltopdf (now deprecated) to WeasyPrint (written in Python) which is the easiest-to-install, maintained alternative 🐍
pandoc.org/releases.html#pando…
#Markup #Python #Converter #WeasyPrint #PDF #HTML #Pandoc #OpenSource #FreeSoftware
A series of Israeli air strikes near Dar Al-Arqam school west of Gaza City caused the destruction of a diesel refinery plant and the killing of at least 5 Palestinians on Saturday, according to Al Jazeera.
The refinery plant was used to serve hospitals, civil defence vehicles and water wells, according to Palestinian journalist AbdalQader A Sabbah.
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Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
in reply to Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 • • •the bullshit that it would be too expensive to update their platforms is something they have been saying for years, but after 20 years of making 20-30% profit I think we can conclude that:
THEY DID NOT EVEN FUCKING TRY
Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥
in reply to Egon Willigh☮gen 🟥 • • •if you find the F-word offensive, think of all the people died because of our slow dissemination process and the identifiable cases where people LITERALLY died because knowledge was not efficiently spreading
if you still think the F-work was inappropriate then, then please explain
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