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.
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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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in reply to Marius Quabeck • • •I don't recommend #Govware like #Windows and instead get paid to forcibly migrate users to #Linux.
#Windows10 #Windows11 #Microsoft