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A lightning strike exploded an eagle's nest in Boulder County. A female eagle managed to survive and has been spotted looking for a new nest with her mate.

coloradosun.com/2024/10/09/eag…

in reply to The Colorado Sun ☀️

Awful. If this is the nest I'm thinking of, nearby construction has also been a recent problem for the pair. Poor eagles!


Octopus suckers inspire new tech for gripping objects underwater

New adhesive system could be powerful tool for underwater salvage, rescue operations.

arstechnica.com/science/2024/1…

in reply to Ars Technica

Cool tech.

It reminds me of the recent Smithsonian story about corporate interests in undersea manganese harvesting, and the cynical side of me assumes this is why government bodies such as the NSF would be interested in funding it.

According to the original paper, they provided some financial support in the form of a DMREF grant, for research that “accelerates the materials discovery-to-use timeline”.

smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…

onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10…

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Archaeologists Discover Intricately Decorated Coffins Belonging to the Only Daughter of an Ancient Egyptian Governor | Smithsonian smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/…




In the pantheon of first lady memoirs, Melania Trump's is something else (Monica Hesse/Washington Post)

washingtonpost.com/books/2024/…
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BREAKING: Unusual Whales has hit 1.9 million followers on Twitter/X.

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in reply to unusual_whales

Thanks to all those who follow.

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No, the Department of Defense Is not manipulating the weather tucsonsentinel.com/nationworld…
With the storm-battered Southeast bracing for another massive hurricane and the hyperpartisan election just four weeks away, government officials and rescue workers aren’t just battling the elements, they’re fighting against a spiraling misinformation war.
#Tucson #Arizona




Wealth distribution in the United States.

Ken Shirriff: It turns out that if you put Elon Musk on the graph, almost the entire US population is crammed into a vertical bar, one pixel wide. Each pixel is $500 million wide, illustrating that $500...
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The Democratic ticket is working overtime to bury Minnesota Governor Tim Walz’s hot take on the Electoral College.

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The developer of VoiceNote, a note taking, translation, speech to text, and text to speech app for Linux is working on the accessibility of the app!

#accessibility #blind #Linux #foss






Satellite images show Antarctica is turning ‘green’ faster than previously thought.

Satellite imagery shows that vegetation on the peninsula grew from less than one square kilometres in 1986 to almost 12sqkm by 2021. #ClimateChange

independent.co.uk/climate-chan…



Sacramento has tried criminalizing homelessness, but Flojaune Cofer, a candidate for mayor, argues that this approach has failed. She advocates for "safe ground" sites, where people can live with dignity while receiving essential services. boltsmag.org/the-epidemiologis…


GNOME Triple Buffering May Need To Be Re-Engineered - Helping NVIDIA Performance


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in reply to Karna

I'm going to stick with my Intel graphics, X-Org, and the kernel X-server. Fuck Wayland and all corporate bullshit behind it. It does not network properly and right there is a show stopper for my needs.
in reply to Nanook

If you’re going to point fingers, point at the problem, not something you don’t understand.

Wayland has problems; it is not the problem. X needs a replacement and I strongly encourage you to research why if you don’t understand why. Wayland is relatively new, and has large shoes to fill.

It will be many years before it has matured enough to fill your and everyone else’s needs, and by then there will a new replacement for someone else to gripe about on the internet.

in reply to dink

@dink A fundamental property of X was that it was a networked protocol, it allowed you to display an application running on one machine, on another. The kernel X-server has in no way been inadequate in terms of performance. So that is what I continue to use. Wayland might someday make Linux a viable game platform helping it replace Windows, and in that sense I applaud it, and perhaps Wayland on Wires will eventually make it a viable network protocol but it's not there yet.
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in reply to dink

Wayland is already old architecture by today's standards. It was designed in 2007 by the same people who did Xorg. Linux should have copied or ported the 2014 compositor version of Android (which is currently the one still used), which is the most advanced in existence. The license was good for it, and its technology the most advanced (neither MacOS/iOS or Win comes close). But Linux users have allergy on anything coming from Google and so we ended up with Wayland.