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billyidle diaspora
cool! ❤ ❤ ❤ thx a lot @Birne Helene !! 😀

Hamas only exists to split the Palestinians and prevent peace talks. They need to go, but not through bombs. After more than 20 years of "war on terror" it should be obvious how beautifully bombs work against terrorists.

On Israeli side Netanyahu and his cronies are another obstacle and I'm not sure how that can be solved. After all he's the PM, so there is a significant portion of the population supporting his ideology. Rabin was killed and probably serves as a warning to anyone in Israel trying to broker peace again. Anyone trying to make peace needs a lot of courage...
Noam Bergman diaspora
I like that quote too, @Birne Helene! Couldn't agree more.

Writing And Running Atari 2600 Games In Your Browser


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#retrocomputing #atari2600 #emscripten #hackaday
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libramoon diaspora

#ukraine #spring #war
SPRING IN UKRAINE

The picture was taken in what remains of the village of Pisky, which was located near Donetsk airport. The village was under Ukrainian control and used to guard the “Road of Life,” the only supply line into the airport heroically held by Ukrainian defenders.
- Because of the unceasing artillery bombardment of the Russian occupation force, the village and the airport were completely destroyed. Their total devastation has been compared to Stalingrad after the systematic and prolonged effort by the Nazis to flatten the city to the ground.

Thank you for re-sharing.


tom s friendica (via Diaspora)

unpack (almost) everything with one command


#unp is a small #perl script which makes extraction of any #archive files a bit easier. It support
several compressors and archiver programs, chooses the right one(s) automatically and
extracts one or more files in one go.

You may also want to install some non-free packages like "unace" (not in Debian)
and "lha" to extract archives of these types.

http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/unp.htm
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Alexander S. Kunz mastodon (AP)
Sun in clouds and haze over the San Ysidro Mountains, Anza Borrego Desert State Park, California; March 2024.

(blend of four exposures at ISO 64, f/16 — 1/32000s for the disc of the sun, 1/8000s for the areas around the sun, 1/400s for the edge of clouds/mountains, 1/200s for the darker parts of the mountains)

#LandscapePhotography #Lightroom #Photoshop #Desert #AnzaBorrego #Sun #Sunset #Clouds #Photography #SanDiego #Mountains #MountainPhotography
Landscape photo showing silhouetted haze mountains with a low sun above them in clouds.
cobalt mastodon (AP)
so exquisite! Thanks for sharing this, my friend. I’ve already shared your link and here I’m tagging @tuban_muzuru


#frog

Al Jazeera (unofficial) friendica (via Diaspora)

Ukraine war ‘a battle of ammo’ says NATO as it agrees huge arms deal


Alliance seeks to bulk up Ukraine’s dwindling arsenal as Russia ramps up attacks.#Russia-Ukrainewar #Weapons #Europe #Ukraine
Ukraine war ‘a battle of ammo’ says NATO as it agrees huge arms deal
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or, as happens in hospitals, a department wanted a new machine, they had to find a place for it, and this was their work-around.

seen this...
Many new massive installations in old buildings require cutting through ceilings and floors with a crane to drop the heavy machinery into place. Above me right now is massive reinforcement on the ceiling to withstand a dozen massive compressors and substations. My building is three buildings merged into one and massively upgraded. Lots of permits and signoffs that made it happen



Torsten friendica (via Diaspora)
Es stellt sich heraus, dass die Großstadt mit den meisten Demonstrantinnen/EW, dass also #Leipzig, im ostdeutschen Sachsen liegt [1].

Es erstaunt mich, dass das von westdeutschen Nazis als Sehnsuchtsort erwählte #Dresden bei den #Demonstrationen der letzten Tage mehr Menschen pro Kopf mobilisieren konnte, als das finanzstarke Frankfurt/Main, dass in #Chemnitz stärker gegen Nazis demonstriert wird, als im arrivierten #Baden-Baden, dass es im überalterten #Görlitz, ja selbst in dem vermeintlich rechtskonservativen Örtchen #Radeberg mehr AntifaschistÏnnen pro Kopf gibt, als im wohlhabenden #Stuttgart und dass in der Plattenbau-Stadt #Halle/Saale genauso viele Menschen gegen Nazis sind, wie im schicken #München.

Ostdeutsche haben nach wie vor weniger Ressourcen, um sich gesellschaftlich zu engagieren (geringeres Einkommen ergibt weniger Zeit für Engagement) und müssen höhere Kosten dafür tragen (in Chemnitz bekommt mensch als bekennender Antifaschist einfach schneller auf's Maul als in Stuttgart).

- Wessis, bitte kriegt den Arsch endlich hoch! Ich weiß, dass sich der ausbeuterische #Kapitalismus für Euch lange Zeit ganz kuschlich angefühlt hat. Da er aber evtl. nicht mehr lange mitmacht & sich der Faschismus gerade als Nachfolger warmläuft, ist es eure verdammte Pflicht ein bisschen mehr Balett zu machen und ein bisschen mit zu überlegen, wie eine gute Zukunft für alle Menschen aussehen kann.

[1] Zeit-Online vom 22. Januar 2024: "Hier haben die meisten Menschen gegen rechts demonstriert"

#Antifa #Nazis #Engagement #Kapitalismus #Faschismus
Nutzt jemand von euch Instagram? Ich kann mir nicht vorstellen, dass Leute nur wegen Instagram... Andererseits kann ich mir vorstellen, dass AfD-Anhänger mitlatschen, nur so zum Spaß, es hat ja keine Folgen. Aber nicht nur die, auch Leute von Bündnis Deutschland, DSU, Republikaner...
Torsten friendica
@Karsten Meyer
Die Verfasserin des Artikels scheint irgendwelche Infos zu haben, die außer ihr und der AfD niemand hat. Z.B. diese:
"vor dem Bundeskanzleramt und dem Deutschen Bundestag, versammeln sich Menschen, die von der Bundesregierung aufgefordert wurden, gegen rechts beziehungsweise gegen die AfD, also die politischen Gegner der Regierung, zu demonstrieren" - Es gab keine solche Aufforderungen.

Ansonsten: Ja, die Demos sind nicht ausreichend um den Faschismus zu bekämpfen. Dieser Kampf hat aber m.E. viele Mittel. Und die Demos sind ein ganz wichtiges und starkes.


'Green bubble shaming' at play in DOJ suit against Apple


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Android users have long complained that texting someone with an iPhone on iMessage is an unpleasant experience. The Justice Department argues it is also an example of anti-competitive behavior.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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tio diaspora
Salut à toutes et tous,

Je suis comédien au sein d’une compagnie (Là-bas théâtre, Béziers), et suis à la recherche de nouveaux rôles et contrats avec d’autres compagnies (secteurs privilégiés Hérault, Béziers, Narbonne) et suis ouvert à d’autres secteurs selon les projets. Je chante également, puis suis excellent siffleur !
Je suis joignable par ici ou par le site en lien ci-dessous, sur lequel on peut voir mon jeu dans des courts-métrages (drames et comédies), et autres de mes créations.
Merci de transmettre l’info aux personnes de votre entourage susceptibles d’être intéressées.
Bonne journée.
Sam de Bra
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Biden administration restores threatened species protections dropped by Trump


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Among the changes, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will reinstate a decades-old regulation that mandates blanket protections for species newly classified as threatened.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Andrew Pam diaspora
Australian National University?
Andrew Pam diaspora
Also, though nobody seems to know or care about it much, this is exactly why dashes are legal in domain names. They really really should have registered anu-switch.com instead. That also makes Google treat it as a word separator.


Milky Way black hole has 'strong, twisted' magnetic field in mesmerizing new image


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The polarized light image gives us a "new view of the monster lurking at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy," according to the European Southern Observatory.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Nikki Haley sweeps Dixville Notch's primary, winning all 6 votes


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The New Hampshire resort town was the first place in the nation to vote in the 2024 primaries. The voters were outnumbered more than 10-to-1 by reporters from every corner of the globe.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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And as Dixville Notch goes so goes....


Isaac Kuo diaspora
So, I was browsing Atomic Rockets and came across the idea of spraying instant landing pads by injecting stuff into the lander's exhaust:

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/landing.php#instapad1

This is relevant to a pet ISRU idea I have for CO/LOX+regolith dust propellant, mining Deimos for regolith dust and using its momentum to gather CO2 while aeroscooping to low Mars orbit.

If you dump the dust overboard, the CO/LOX lacks "oomph", but injecting it into the exhaust gives you nice performance. Good enough to supply a deliver drone to Earth orbit as well as for the mining drone to get back to Deimos (completing the cycle).

#gizmo #Space #SpaceExploration
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Isaac Kuo diaspora
Here's an X-Bow inspired rocket ship. The main rockets are to the sides of the bridge, kept above the water.

It lands by dipping its tail in and then flopping forward onto the water.

During launch the angle of the rockets lifts up the nose before the vessel fully emerges from the water.

Klimareporter (Inoffiziell) friendica (via Diaspora)
Ein Umweltverband schlägt vor, in Städten pro Jahr 0,5 Prozent des Straßenraums und der Parkplätze zu entsiegeln. Ziel ist eine "Schwammstadt" gegen Hochwasser.#Hochwasser,Flutkatastrophen #Klimaanpassung #Flächenverbrauch,Versiegelung,Landschaftsschutz
Tempolimit für Regenwasser
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Birne Helene diaspora

Ein Umweltverband schlägt vor, in Städten pro Jahr 0,5 Prozent des Straßenraums und der Parkplätze zu entsiegeln. Ziel ist eine "Schwammstadt" gegen Hochwasser.#Hochwasser,Flutkatastrophen #Klimaanpassung #Flächenverbrauch,Versiegelung,Landschaftsschutz
Tempolimit für Regenwasser


Birne Helene diaspora

Salut à toutes et tous,

Je suis comédien au sein d’une compagnie (Là-bas théâtre, Béziers), et suis à la recherche de nouveaux rôles et contrats avec d’autres compagnies (secteurs privilégiés Hérault, Béziers, Narbonne) et suis ouvert à d’autres secteurs selon les projets. Je chante également, puis suis excellent siffleur !
Je suis joignable par ici ou par le site en lien ci-dessous, sur lequel on peut voir mon jeu dans des courts-métrages (drames et comédies), et autres de mes créations.
Merci de transmettre l’info aux personnes de votre entourage susceptibles d’être intéressées.
Bonne journée.
Sam de Bra



A massive cluster is born


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This image from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope features an H II region in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of our Milky Way. This nebula, known as N79, is a region of interstellar atomic hydrogen that is ionised, captured here by Webb’s Mid-InfraRed Instrument (MIRI).

N79 is a massive star-forming complex spanning roughly 1630 light-years in the generally unexplored southwest region of the LMC. N79 is typically regarded as a younger version of 30 Doradus (also known as the Tarantula Nebula), another of Webb’s recent targets. Research suggests that N79 has a star formation efficiency exceeding that of 30 Doradus by a factor of two over the past 500 000 years.

This particular image centres on one of the three giant molecular cloud complexes, dubbed N79 South (S1 for short). The distinct ‘starburst’ pattern surrounding this bright object is a series of diffraction spikes. All telescopes which use a mirror to collect light, as Webb does, have this form of artifact which arises from the design of the telescope. In Webb's case, the six largest starburst spikes appear because of the hexagonal symmetry of Webb's 18 primary mirror segments. Patterns like these are only noticeable around very bright, compact objects, where all the light comes from the same place. Most galaxies, even though they appear very small to our eyes, are darker and more spread out than a single star, and therefore do not show this pattern.

At the longer wavelengths of light captured by MIRI, Webb’s view of N79 showcases the region’s glowing gas and dust. This is because mid-infrared light is able to reveal what is happening deeper inside the clouds (while shorter wavelengths of light would be absorbed or scattered by dust grains in the nebula). Some still-embedded protostars also appear in this field.

Star-forming regions such as this are of interest to astronomers because their chemical composition is similar to that of the gigantic star-forming regions observed when the Universe was only a few billion years old and star formation was at its peak. Star-forming regions in our Milky Way galaxy are not producing stars at the same furious rate as N79, and have a different chemical composition. Webb is now providing astronomers the opportunity to compare and contrast observations of star formation in N79 with the telescope’s deep observations of distant galaxies in the early Universe.

These observations of N79 are part of a Webb programme that is studying the evolution of the circumstellar discs and envelopes of forming stars over a wide range in mass and at different evolutionary stages. Webb’s sensitivity will enable scientists to detect for the first time the planet-forming dust discs around stars of similar mass to that of our Sun at the distance of the LMC.

This image includes 7.7-micron light shown in blue, 10 microns in cyan, 15 microns in yellow, and 21 microns in red (770W, 1000W, 1500W, and 2100W filters, respectively).

[ Image description : A bright young star within a colourful nebula. The star is identifiable as the brightest spot in the image, surrounded by six large spokes of light that cross the image. A number of other bright spots can also be seen in the clouds, which are shown in great detail as layers of colourful wisps.]

Release on esawebb.org

#news #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Russian missiles target Ukrainian cities of Kyiv and Kharkiv, killing at least 6


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Russian missiles targeted Ukraine's two biggest cities on Tuesday morning, damaging apartment buildings and killing at least six people.

#news #npr #publicradio #usa
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Birne Helene diaspora

Es stellt sich heraus, dass die Großstadt mit den meisten Demonstrantinnen/EW, dass also #Leipzig, im ostdeutschen Sachsen liegt [1].

Es erstaunt mich, dass das von westdeutschen Nazis als Sehnsuchtsort erwählte #Dresden bei den #Demonstrationen der letzten Tage mehr Menschen pro Kopf mobilisieren konnte, als das finanzstarke Frankfurt/Main, dass in #Chemnitz stärker gegen Nazis demonstriert wird, als im arrivierten #Baden-Baden, dass es im überalterten #Görlitz, ja selbst in dem vermeintlich rechtskonservativen Örtchen #Radeberg mehr AntifaschistÏnnen pro Kopf gibt, als im wohlhabenden #Stuttgart und dass in der Plattenbau-Stadt #Halle/Saale genauso viele Menschen gegen Nazis sind, wie im schicken #München.

Ostdeutsche haben nach wie vor weniger Ressourcen, um sich gesellschaftlich zu engagieren (geringeres Einkommen ergibt weniger Zeit für Engagement) und müssen höhere Kosten dafür tragen (in Chemnitz bekommt mensch als bekennender Antifaschist einfach schneller auf's Maul als in Stuttgart).

- Wessis, bitte kriegt den Arsch endlich hoch! Ich weiß, dass sich der ausbeuterische #Kapitalismus für Euch lange Zeit ganz kuschlich angefühlt hat. Da er aber evtl. nicht mehr lange mitmacht & sich der Faschismus gerade als Nachfolger warmläuft, ist es eure verdammte Pflicht ein bisschen mehr Balett zu machen und ein bisschen mit zu überlegen, wie eine gute Zukunft für alle Menschen aussehen kann.

[1] Zeit-Online vom 22. Januar 2024: "Hier haben die meisten Menschen gegen rechts demonstriert"

#Antifa #Nazis #Engagement #Kapitalismus #Faschismus

Lillyliberty diaspora
Hey, ... das ist jetzt auch wieder alles über einen Kamm gesichert. Hey, ich bin ein Wessi und bin Zeit meines Lebens nie auf Rosen gebettet gewesen. Hab Zeit meines Lebens für kleines Geld malocht und mit der Rente sieht's echt mau aus. Und ja, ich hab' den Arsch hoch gekriegt um meinen vier Kindern einen guten Start ins Leben zu ermöglichen.

AI on the Hunt for Better Batteries


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#artificialintelligence #batteryhacks #ai #battery #electricvehicle #ev #machinelearning #science #solidstate #solidstatebattery #hackaday
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No French Mercenaries in Ukraine

Not anymore, anyhow:

The #son of a brigadier #general of the #French #army was #killed by a strike by the Russian Armed Forces at a point of temporary deployment of foreign #mercenaries in #Kharkov. His partner (also killed) came from a hereditary military #dynasty in #France.

According to Mash, the name of the Frenchman eliminated by a high-precision strike is Sabastien Claude Remy Benard. He served in the #RICM (formerly the Moroccan Colonial Infantry Regiment) in the Marine Light Armor unit. For reference: it was these groups that equipped the famous #AMX-10RC wheeled tanks, which Paris proudly sent to #Kiev as military aid. During the process, this scrap metal was deemed unsuitable for mechanized combat.

Benard first arrived in #Ukraine in 2022, but did not receive the desired position in the ranks of the Armed Forces of Ukraine and returned to his homeland. A year later he tried his luck again and joined the 5th Assault Brigade. On July 3, in the Bakhmut area, he participated in the medical evacuation of his wounded fellow countryman Maxim Leconte (a rifleman from the International Legion of Terrestrial Defense), who publicly admitted that the much-hyped Ukrainian counteroffensive turned out to be a bloody failure. On January 16, he was killed by a Russian missile strike.

His partner is Alexis Drion. He is the son of Frédéric Drion, who became a brigadier general in the French army in 2001. Alex joined the Ukrainian Armed Forces no later than last year. He served in the 2nd Battalion of the International Legion. Also was killed on January 16th.

The remaining 60 killed and about 20 wounded mercenaries are recognized activists of Nazi groups in France and other EU countries. Each of them served in the army and even belonged to a battalion of alpine hunters. Many were fired for inappropriate behavior, after which they left for Ukraine. In total, more than a hundred mercenaries from France died during the fighting in the SVO zone.
– FRWL reports

The Kharkov strike is far from the only one of its kind. Many of the fatal “accidents” that have been reported occurring to US troops around the world are actually combat fatalities taking place in combat zones where US and other NATO troops are not supposed to be; you may recall the US Army Rangers who were killed in another Russian missile strike on a restaurant they frequented a few months ago. This sort of thing isn’t new, as we know, from the early days of the World Wide Web when the #US #military didn’t bother to block open access to its sites, that many soldiers had confirmed kills in places that US troops were not supposed to be.

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The active engagement by NATO troops disguised as “mercenaries” is one reason is why I’ve been describing the situation in Ukraine as a NATO-Russian war rather than a Ukro-Russian one for more than the last year. While Ukraine has suffered the bulk of the casualties, the number of #US, #French, #German, and other military casualties will probably shock the various publics when it is finally revealed to them.
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