Fourth of July in Chicago
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Fourth of July in Chicago
Residents in neighborhoods across Chicago celebrate summer and Independence Day by setting off fireworks Friday night.Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere (Chicago Sun-Times)
Europe’s first geostationary sounder satellite is launched | EUMETSAT
#science #space #climate #meteorology
Europe has taken a major step forward in strengthening its resilience to extreme weather events with the successful launch of the Meteosat Third Generation Sounder 1 (MTG-S1) satellite. MTG-S1 will deliver new streams of atmospheric data, enabling earlier, more accurate warnings that protect lives, property and infrastructure.
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Samsung is about to find out if Ultra is enough
It looks like Samsung has some new ideas about foldables this year — but will they be enough to entice buyers?
Samsung is about to find out if Ultra is enough
Samsung’s summer 2025 edition of Unpacked promises some new designs for its foldable lineup. After years of stalled progress, it’s a needed change.Allison Johnson (The Verge)
DXVK 2.7 drops support for older Vulkan drivers and introduces key performance upgrades for newer AMD and Nvidia GPUs.
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#dxvk #gaming #linux #opensource
Software Defined Retro ROM Makes 8-bit Easy
#retrocomputing #commodore #dropinreplacement #rom #stm32f #hackaday
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Software Defined Retro ROM Makes 8-bit Easy
Like the rest of us, 8-bit hardware is not getting any newer, and failed ROMs are just a fact of life. Of course you can’t call up Commadore corporation for replacement parts anymore, so some…Hackaday
Have you heard of the Death Smog!?
The 1948 Donora Smog was the worst air pollution disaster in U.S. history.
60 people died, 1000's were sickened, and it jumpstarted the fields of environmental, public health and The Clean Air Act. #ClimateChange
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Game: ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights Original Soundtrack (2021)
Song: Main Theme - Piano Edit.
#music #videogames #gaming #gamemusic
How this long-lost Chinese typewriter from the 1940s changed modern computing
The concepts in the MingKwai typewriter underlie how Chinese, Japanese and Korean are typed today. The typewriter, patented in 1946, was found last year in an upstate New York basement.
#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Felsenkeller – Saalschlacht Reloaded?
Bereits vor einiger Zeit hat das Ladenschlussbündnis Leipzig eine lesenswerte erweiterte Fassung eines Redebeitrags auf der von alea organisierten Kundgebung "Re:organisiert die Antifaschistische Aktion" am 25.05.2025 vor dem Felsenkeller auf ihrer Seite veröffentlicht.
#plenty : full or adequate supply
- French: Beaucoup
- German: der Überfluss/überfluss
- Italian: abbastanza
- Portuguese: suficiente
- Spanish: bastante
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J.K. Rowling Urges Fans to Photograph Women in Public Toilets (video)
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
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The Eternal Mainframe — A funny thing happened on the way to the future. The mainframe outlasted its replacements.
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In the computer industry, the Wheel of Reincarnation is a pattern whereby specialized hardware gets spun out from the “main” system, becomes more powerful, then gets folded back into the main system.
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The Eternal Mainframe
The urge to replace the mainframe has reinvented the mainframe and its problems.www.winestockwebdesign.com
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Doesn't matter.
It's Hostess. They're as good today as the day they were extruded.
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(Excised from this set but remembered from when we saw him in San Francisco: "Pilgrims arrived in Massachusetts without any seeds or farming implements. They must have been thinking "Surely, there will be a shop open.'")
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I absolutely remember it.
I was young enough to think it was cool.
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in reply to Michael W Lucas • • •Remember the red white and blue ice cream with the candy stars? Now that was a treat.
But, yeah, this these days it is all beyond tainted. To me it seems it's become a religion.
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