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Describe important dynamics that determine how snow turns into flow, and the charts show the connection between snowpack (measured as snow water equivalent) and streamflow (measured as discharge). github.com/DOI-USGS/snow-to-fl… #opensource #openscience #climatechange #climate



Ugandan Olympic athlete dies after being severely burned in gasoline attack


Rebecca Cheptegei, who was 33, had competed at the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. She died from organ failure after being set on fire by a man local authorities described as Cheptegei's partner.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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#Gaza #Palestine
#IsraelWarCrimes

A tent camp near Al-Aqsa Hospital was hit by an Israeli airstrike, leaving a scene of devastation. Dozens of tents were destroyed, and displaced residents searched for their remaining belongings.

The strike, which killed at least four people, including women and children, occurred without warning near Gaza’s largest hospital.

The area, "a safe zone", was unexpectedly targeted, turning the hospital into a graveyard rather than a place of treatment.

✡️ 🇵🇸 ☮️



HELP #demoscene ! About 35 years ago there was a demo running at my local computer store. I only remember a scene showing a planet's surface (sepia) and revealing/zooming in on an alien skull/bones.

Any idea which demo? Probably #MSX or #Amiga - Thanks!

(picture for fun)



The typical homebuyer’s down payment was 18.6% of the purchase price in June, the highest level in over a decade and up from 15% a year earlier.

#news #finance #economics #stocks #options




I despise the double-s possessive as much as I love the Oxford comma.
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mastodon - Link to source
Jeff Jarvis
@bhawthorne @lomanfeusagach
Adding the apostrophe is sufficient to make meaning clear. s's is typographically offensive.


The kids spent a generation training for active shooter drills at their schools.

The protocol is “ABCD”:

Get (A)way
(B)arricade yourself
(C)onfront
(D)isarm – or, more likely, (D)eath

They know Bad Men™ when they see them.

inaniludibrio.com/2024/05/22/k…



Small, harmless asteroid burns up in Earth’s atmosphere over the Philippines.

AP reports: "The asteroid — about 3 feet (1 meter) across — was spotted by astronomers in Arizona and broke apart over the coast of the Philippines hours after the discovery. This space rock, dubbed 2024 RW1, is only the ninth to have been spotted before its impact."

flip.it/yQK_m7

For similar content, follow @space-ScienceAlert

#Asteroid #Space #NASA #Philippines #Science #Astronomy



Pamela Paul dredges up the broken-glass theory that enabled Guiliani's stop-and-frisk horrors to call for policing in the subways so we can have nice things like cloth seats like the London Underground. Yeah.
Taking the City for a Ride nytimes.com/2024/09/05/opinion…
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

Wait, she’s talking about Silicon Valley and the Rich. Right?
in reply to Jeff Jarvis

I am continually shocked that even the NYT finds Paul worth the column inches



Intel's Open-Source Vulkan Driver Will No Longer Warn Over Using Xe2 Graphics

With Linux 6.12 the Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics are being enabled by default for out-of-the-box support with Intel's next-gen Xe2 graphics. Over in user-space the Intel OpenGL and Vulkan driver code has also begun enabling Xe2 graphics by default for use when running on Linux 6.12+. In Mesa besides no longer being hidden by the force probe option, a warn…
phoronix.com/news/Intel-Mesa-A…



Found 3 new servers and 12 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,801 servers checked. 13,800,196 Total Users with 1,047,040 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

fujidana.xsns.jp a #mastodon server from Japan
sk.fedifriends.social a #sharkey server from Germany
miltonmarketing.com a #wordpress server from United States

Help others find a home, send them to fediverse.observer



Went to our favorite plant nursery this past week to see what we could find. While there, the owner pointed to a pile of sad-looking parsley she was tossing out and said with a laugh, "If you want any, just take it. I know you people are butterfly freaks."

Little did she realize that she had given us more than she realized, because a few days later, look what we found hidden in the leaves.❣️

There are actually three, but the one pictured is the biggest. We brought them inside and set them up in a terrarium to keep them safe.

#photography #NaturePhotography #caterpillars #VeryHungryCaterpillars #BlackSwallowtailCaterpillars

in reply to Tre Cooper

What a beauty! 🐛

Must be a nice place you are living in, if people know about your passions :)

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The DNA secrets of a medieval cave-dwelling community
arstechnica.com/science/2024/0…
Isolated community marked by inbreeding, violence, and devout worship.


#Matomo (previously known as Piwik) not only supports live tracking (using an embedded JS script) but also access log parsing and import.

The latter method is the one I'm using on my sites and this has worked pretty good over all these years.

However I ran into a log import error this morning. The responsible #Python script just threw a JSONDecodeError, without a hint of the actual reason.

Described and solved in my latest blog post.

claudiokuenzler.com/blog/1438/…