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French authorities arrest Telegram’s CEO theverge.com/2024/8/24/2422767…


"Pillars of Creation AKA Eagle nebula/M16."

PJ Singh, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2qbWfia

#astrophotography



"Messier 16 - The Eagle Nebula region."

Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2pXMaSu

#astrophotography



A judge has forced Elon Musk to disclose who helped him buy Twitter.

And to no one's surprise: Two rich Russians from Putin's inner circle were part of the deal. Their names are Petr Aven and Vadim Moshkovich, and allegedly they are related to companies on the list.

And clearly, EU parliamentarian Guy Verhofstadt is not having it.

fortune.com/2024/08/22/elon-mu…

Obviously, indirect Russian relations in itself is not proof of Russian influence.

I will do some more digging.

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Do you know MediaDive, the world’s largest collection of cultivation media for microorganisms 🧫? It contains detailed introductions how to prepare the medium you need for your strain. In addition to the provision of all media used at the DSMZ, you can also create your own media or search for a medium suitable for your strain. Give it a try 😉
mediadive.dsmz.de/

#database #microbiology #research #DSMZDigitalDiversity #bacteria #fungi



It is a beautiful morning with the sun shining after a hard rain. We all went outside to see how our flowers held up.
A few were down like one beautiful pink dahlia, but for the most part, the flowers survived.
Our world is very small now, but I do believe we get just as much enjoyment from the flowers we grow ourselves as we would seeing them anywhere else in the universe.
We all found comfort in the fact that most of our flowers weathered the storm.
Now, off to surprise my husband. Every day, he requests bacon and eggs for breakfast and gets something approved on his diet instead, but today, he gets the real deal.
He will be so excited.
#Dahlias #BloomScrolling


Canned pears and pear sauce from our tree. Not even all of them! #canning #growYourOwn
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in reply to Frank Aylward

Yes, we can! 💪 (I still have 6 glasses of apple sauce from last year's harvest and the next harvest is due soon. 🙈)


The diel disconnect between cell growth and division in Aureococcus is interrupted by giant virus infection

frontiersin.org/journals/micro…

#viruses #algae #microbiology



Daniel's summer "lion cut" is starting to grow back in. But his tail is still especially adorable. #Caturday #catsofmastodon


Weekend #Plankton #Factoid 🦠🦐
Bythotrephes longimanus (cederströemi), is called the Spiny Water Flea for obvious reasons. It is an invasive species introduced to #GreatLakes in the 1980s from Europe. They are a large (1.5 cm) and highly predaceous #cladoceran #zooplankton that eat 75% of their weight/d. They peak late in the year to huge densities at times. While they compete with planktivorous fishes, they are also a desired prey for fishes like Alewife and Yellow Perch.
nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/GreatL…


  • If a product requires a subscription to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.
  • If a product needs to connect to a server to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.
  • If a product needs an app to work, you don't own it and it could stop working at any time.

-- pe1, in a comment on Ars Technica
(Emphasis added)



Valve made it even easier to see who played on Steam Deck in user reviews gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#SteamDeck #Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

That's pretty useful. I hope they expand this to some more granular options eg "Played on system similar to mine" (Using hardware survey data) or "Played on Windows/Mac/Linux (Proton)/ Linux (Native)"


Deadlock from Valve no longer a secret - store page is up and we can finally talk about it gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dead…

#Deadlock #Steam #Valve



Steam Deck gets a global resolution override in latest Beta, plus more desktop Steam fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/stea…

#SteamDeck #Steam

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I wish they'd let you set a custom resolution, I have an older TV with a non-standard 1368x768 resolution which is frustrating to use to the deck because it just doesn't scale properly...



Wine 9.16 released with more Wayland work and an initial Driver Store implementation gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/wine…

#Wine #Linux



NVIDIA driver with Linux kernel 6.10 causing kernel oops gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/nvid…

#NVIDIA #Linux



"This repository contains a collection of various lists of #academics on Mastodon. These lists are curated by many awesome folks across various disciplines, so make sure to give them kudos as well!"

nathanlesage.github.io/academi…



"Meteor spotted across Middle TN."

youtube.com/watch?v=mlRnE0OkYs…

#meteor



"Emu In The Sky."

Barnaby Norris, Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International via Wikimedia commons.



"Stunning fireball over south of Spain (Aug. 21) // Gran bola de fuego sobre Andalucía (21 agosto)"

youtube.com/watch?v=cMMBS5-m2P…

#meteor



Valve officially announces Deadlock, a game ‘in early development’ theverge.com/2024/8/23/2421905…


Yesterday's webinar on the new book Governable Spaces - Democratic Design for Online Life by @ntnsndr is now available to view on the Internet Archive.

It was a great conversation.

archive.org/details/governable…



How true, indeed. @Alice @Gargron

„No one’s ready for this“ iphoneblog.de/2024/08/23/no-on…





Build with Nextcloud!✨

New developer features in Nextcloud Hub 8 from new SDKs, updates to the External Apps Framework, distributed AI compute, and so much more!

#developerfeatures

youtu.be/N07jiINET90

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

How can anyone be sure your app interfaces will remain stable from version to version, so you won't destroy important apps just by upgrading Nextcloud?

You already destroyed even featured apps like "News" and "Social." Nobody wants to expend effort for apps you'll discard on a junk heap simply by failing to acknowledge regression bugs. How can we trust your interfaces are worth learning now?



Espadas de plomo

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Cuenta la leyenda que el emperador romano Cómodo gustaba de bajar a la arena del circo a batirse en duelo con los gladiadores. Enfundado en una ornamentada armadura, se hacía llamar 'Hércules reencarnado', y como Hércules, cuando su espada golpeaba los gladios de sus rivales estos estallaban en mil pedazos ante el impacto, ante el asombro y la algarabía del populacho.

🧵

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in reply to Shine McShine

No se puede ganar una partida si el otro tiene las cartas marcadas. Al final hay que romper la baraja y construir alternativas en otros lugares más verdes, lejos de nazis y trolls y bots porno.

O puedes quedarte a "dar la batalla" con tu espada de plomo.

/eof

in reply to Shine McShine

lo de "bar nazi" se ajusta bastante a la realidad de Twitter


🟣💜Presentación del libro #METOO la ola de las multitudes conectadas feministas, de Guiomar Rovira por editorial Bajo tierra ediciones

Próxima semana en La Cosecha SCLC #Chiapas
28 de agosto 2024 5:30pm

#Hackfeminismo



I think the #GovernableSpaces book tour just ended:)

The recording is now available from my conversation yesterday with the brilliant technology scholar and activist Lilly Irani, hosted by no less than the Internet Archive—watch it here: archive.org/details/governable…


in reply to Eugen Rochko

lovely! That market has some great light, especially in the covered section.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

ah, my old neck of the woods. St. Nick's was one of my favourite places to get lunch!


I'm proud to have (finally) just subscribed to @404mediaco. It is so great to see journalist-owned news flourish! fastcompany.com/90983739/worke…


Results of Medical Exam Build Case for ‘Incorrupt’ Body of Sister Wilhelmina, Says Bishop ncregister.com/cna/incorrupt-b…


#SocialCoop members, please be sure to vote in our first participatory budgeting process for our collective contributions to allied projects: loomio.com/p/IfnNLueo/please-a…

@SocialCoop could you post this as an announcement?



First #Powernerd single from #DevinTownsend dropped last night! Full album coming October 25.

youtube.com/watch?v=_DYSzMIugu…



On this day in 1931: Hamilton O Smith born, won 1978 #NobelPrize for discovery of restriction enzyme

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