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Stopped (working) to water the flowers.
Now I need to hunker down, dig through some Excel spreadsheets.

May your Friday be kind to you.




Engineers in China used an ancient sword-making technique to overcome a modern manufacturing problem.

They needed to create a massive steel bearing for a tunnel boring machine, but preventing uneven cooling and weakening of the steel during manufacturing was a challenge. They adopted the clay-covering method used in making the ancient "Sword of Goujian" to ensure uniform temperature change during the quenching process.

#engineering

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A cargo bike with a low price and pedals so low they scrape the ground

A budget offering with a torque sensor (good!) and a whole lot of issues (not good).

arstechnica.com/cars/2024/09/aโ€ฆ


in reply to Kdenlive

Thank you for this great tool! I'm only using it from time to time, but even without practice it's intuitive to use and perfectly fits its tasks ๐Ÿ˜ƒ


"Israel tries to present itself as the only representation of Jews, I don't want to be represented by Israel, quite the contrary"

As long as there is people like him, I will have hope..
@palestine
#palestine #gaza



NEW: Details of people's therapy sessionsโ€”including reports, video and audio recordingsโ€”have been exposed by a healthcare company.

These included people mentioning sexual abuse and highly sensitive subjects. The exposed database has now been closed down

wired.com/story/confidant-healโ€ฆ #cybersecurity #privacy #news #technology




Mars News

The Mastcam team of the Curiosity rover is hoping to capture a special celestial event above the Martian skyline as one of Marsโ€™ moons, Phobos, will be in conjunction with Earth on the evening of this Martian day. So everyone look up, and smile for the camera!

science.nasa.gov/blog/sols-429โ€ฆ

#Mars #Phobos #Earth #Curiosity #rover #Sol4295 #news #Astronomy #Astrodon #space #science #STEM




Appleโ€™s planned chatbot should have no โ€˜personalityโ€™ computerworld.com/article/3502โ€ฆ


PeerTube admins, if you're looking for high quality video accounts to federate to your server, here's a list thread to get you started:

โžก๏ธ social.growyourown.services/@Fโ€ฆ

(Ignore the "livestreaming" section though, they are OwnCast accounts and don't have any recordings.)

#PeerTube #PeerTubeAdmin



A French court just ruled that a #GreenOA policy at the UNantes violated French law on #AcademicFreedom.
actualitte.com/article/119068/โ€ฆ

Here's Google's English translation.
actualitte-com.translate.goog/โ€ฆ

It may be relevant that the requirement to deposit in an #OpenAccess repository was "accompanied by the integration of these deposits into the evaluation [#assessment] criteria for researchers and allocations to laboratories."

Glyn Moody reshared this.

in reply to Pascal

@pascaliensis
Thanks. I hadn't seen it and just tagged it for the Open Access Tracking Project (#oatp, @oatp).



ยกGracias @protonprivacy por agregar mรกs servidores en Colombia ๐Ÿ‡จ๐Ÿ‡ด!


Hey folks, a reminder that August 1 I was laid off after 4 years with my employer.

Iโ€™m an experienced python developer (web, backend, and data processing) with many years working remotely for companies in the US and Europe.

I have the most experience working with web, backend and data systems, and would love to work in #civictech or another domain with more purpose than mere #Capitalism.

#fedihire
#getfedihired
#python
#datascience
#webdev



๐Ÿ What happens when you take a non-web developer and drop them in front of the #Django tutorial at a live presentation? That's exactly what we found out at #Python Frederick. youtube.com/watch?v=ZSs2eZ-yFpโ€ฆ


Die MoodleMoot DACH 2025 findet vom 2. bis 5. September 2025 in Lรผbeck an der Technischen Hochschule statt.

#mootDACH #Community #FediCampus #LMS #OpenSource



Harris risks losing Muslim vote (among other opponents of genocide) if she continues to oppose withholding weapons: "poll of American Muslim registered voters conducted from August 25 to 27 showed Harris winning only 29% of the vote. Jill Stein received identical support while 17% were undecided." commondreams.org/opinion/vp-haโ€ฆ
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