The truth is, we already sort of have one: It’s called the national debt.

newrepublic.com/article/185976…

Attention Florida drivers!

joeydevilla.com/2024/09/15/att…

Monday ice update - #Arctic sea ice extent is currently the 5th lowest on record (JAXA data)

• about 260,000 km² below the 2010s mean
• about 1,360,000 km² below the 2000s mean
• about 2,450,000 km² below the 1990s mean
• about 3,150,000 km² below the 1980s mean

Plots: zacklabe.com/arctic-sea-ice-fi…

The Colorado Sun partners with Gigafact to investigate viral claims

coloradosun.com/2024/09/16/do-…

Luks! Use the --force!

(probably made a thousand times before)

#linux #starwars

At #Dyalog24 Brian Ellingsgaard is presenting raylib-apl. This powerful library extends raylib to APL users across platforms, with support for 2D, 3D, and VR graphics, sounds, and shaders.

#APL #GameDev #OpenSource #Graphics

EO-Tools version 2024.9.1 is out! Users can now define their own Sentinel-1 pipelines while taking advantage of easy preprocessing functions that stitch bursts, coregister and calibrate the data.

Read the new tutorial here: eo-tools.readthedocs.io/en/lat…

#EarthObservation
#RemoteSensing
#SyntheticApertureRadar
#Interferometry
#Sentinel1
#python
#geospatial
#InSAR
#eo_tools

Aljoscha Meyer & Sam Gwilym are working on Earthstar + Willow. The latter is a family of protocols for synchronisable data stores.

The key issue they see with the internet is fragility: "Most networked services are built in a tightly coupled way where a single component failure can bring the whole service down, and users regularly lose access to their data."

Willow addresses this issue: "Devices using Willow can connect to each other directly, with no privileged intermediary infrastructure like a data centre."

Read the interview to learn more about what Willow adds to the offline-first space.

nlnet.nl/project/Earthstar/int…

#NGI0 #FOSS

Linux kernel 6.11 is out - with its own BSOD zdnet.com/article/linux-kernel… by @sjvn

Yes, #Linux 6.11 comes with its own Blue Screen of Death (Well, sort of purple, actually), but this latest Linux kernel release has far more important features.

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#monero #xmr #crypto #cryptocurrency #decentralized #privacy #security #opensource #sauce #sticker #mastodonart #illustration #digitalArt #art #cartoon #anime #comic #manga #creativetoots #mastoart

The average 30-year mortgage rate for purchases has stayed under 6% for the last two weeks, and the 30-year refinance rate has also fallen under 6% for two straight days, per YF.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options

Flooding due to heavy rainfall in temporarily occupied Sevastopol

According to the Kremlin-appointed "authorities," there are reports of serious flooding , landslides on roads, and flooded residential areas. As can be seen from numerous videos online, cars on the roads have "gone afloat," water has flooded shelters, and public transportation is paralyzed in places.
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #Ukraine #Russia