Gallic light infantry

legacy.drivethrurpg.com/product/494215/Gallic-light-infantry

Publisher: Warriors and BattlesWarriors and Battles represent the "Gallic light infantry" set. In this set, you will find 8 double-sided figurines. All you need is knives or scissors, glue, paper and a color printer Paper miniatures are a great alternative…

This one is for server admins and moderators 👇

Would you be open to trying new technology built to help you manage your Mastodon server?

Please boost for more visibility!

#Fediverse #Mastodon #MastoAdmin #FediAdmin #Admin #Server #Patchwork

• Yes, I want to try new things! (36%, 21 votes)
• Maybe... (43%, 25 votes)
• No, I'm content at the moment (20%, 12 votes)

What’s that smell — and how’d you know?

From @KnowableMag: "It’s clear that genes, receptors and neurons all play a role in detecting odors. But much of how we make sense of what we sniff remains mysterious. A neuroscientist explains."

flip.it/NZPPm0

#Smell #Neuroscience #Science

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

May your Friday be kind to you.

Security updates for Friday

lwn.net/Articles/989196/ #LWN

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

archive.is/c1ZIc

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/a…

The #Kdenlive team just landed in Germany for @akademy. You know what else landed? Keyframe types are also drawn in clips in the timeline.

@kde
@kde@lemmy.kde.social

#videoediting

"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 sessions—including reports, video and audio recordings—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-heal… #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 Mars’ 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-429…

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

Debian Developers Figuring Out Plan For Removing More Unmaintained Packages

phoronix.com/news/Debian-Debat…

Discussions: discu.eu/q/phoronix.com/news/D…

#debian #linux #unix

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:

➡️ social.growyourown.services/@F…

(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/…

Here's Google's English translation.
actualitte-com.translate.goog/…

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."