Ubuntu Linux Was Once Spyware Says EFF & Stallman
Ubuntu Linux has a very interesting history and there was once a time where it was popular to call it spyware and that's not just because people liked to whi...YouTube
An astronaut on the @Space_Station took this photo of Mōkapu Peninsula.
The U.S. Marine Corps Base Hawaii spans most of the peninsula. Next to it is a tuff ring crater called Ulupa’u Head that belongs to the lower part of the Honolulu volcanic series.
Mōkapu Peninsula
The east coast of O’ahu, Hawaii, displays an array of natural and human-made features.go.nasa.gov
New blog post: Client-side comments with #Mastodon on a static #Jekyll website at jan.wildeboer.net/2023/02/Jeky…
Replies to this toot will show up as comments on my blog! It's magic! And this post explains how that works.
Client-side comments with Mastodon on a static Jekyll website
For many, many years this blog was a complicated, outdated and slow Wordpress instance. It became a constant bad thought: “You really need to update/fix/speed up that thing”. A while ago I did just that.Jan Wildeboer (Jan Wildeboer's Blog)
Targeted degradation via direct 26S proteasome recruitment - Nature Chemical Biology
Discovery of macrocyclic ligands to the 19S regulatory particle protein PSMD2 enables the synthesis of heterobifunctional molecules that demonstrate proof-of-concept, targeted degradation of BRD4 through direct engagement of the 26S proteasome.Nature
The fusion/entry complex of an enveloped virus in situ on the virus surface by cryo-ET at subnanometer resolution. Our new paper shows new interactions that reveal paramyxovirus entry mechanisms. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade2727 Twitter link: bit.ly/3RPiHpz
It uses the degenerate codons to only give you the AA's you really want in any position.
github.com/retospect/phagetrix
Will add more statistics later.
You can try it in google colab.
GitHub - retospect/phagetrix: Optimizer for degenerate codon use in phage library generation.
Optimizer for degenerate codon use in phage library generation. - GitHub - retospect/phagetrix: Optimizer for degenerate codon use in phage library generation.GitHub
A piece of the Henbury Iron Meteorite, found in central Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start. Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International)
Henbury Meteorite Crater, Australia.
From sign at the Henbury Meteorite Conservation Reserve: "An Eroded Landform: This hole is actually two overlapping craters. The shockwaves from the meteorite hitting the earth partly destroyed the walls between the craters. They have been further eroded over the last few thousand years by wind and rain."
Andy Maguire via Flickr. Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0) flic.kr/p/2kcePBb
@esmail Fortress Films created a 2-hour-long SFM and it looks amazing!
YouTube:
invidious.esmailelbob.xyz/watc…
Archived version on my VPS:
f.revvy.de/EMESIS%20BLUE%20%5B…
EMESIS BLUE [SFM]
On Halloween Night of 1968, an executive of the Builders League United Corporation mysteriously vanishes in Mortem, New Mexico.Fortress Films | Invidious
A fragment of the Luotolax Meteorite that fell near Luotolahti in Finland on December 16, 1813.
Luotolax meteorite - Arppeanum, Helsinki. Daderot, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Ask Me Anything
So, it's been a few months since I've been back to work here and perhaps some of you have noticed that I haven't really written abkottke.org
Steam Deck has been out for a year now, here’s my previous lil video on it
Steam Deck one year later
One year later, well, almost. Spitting some #SteamDeck thoughts rattling in my brain and giving an overview on the state of things. Games featured are Brofor...YouTube
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#NASAhistory
In Depth | Mariner 06 – NASA Solar System Exploration
NASA’s real-time science encyclopedia of deep space exploration. Our scientists and far-ranging robots explore the wild frontiers of our solar system.NASA Solar System Exploration
I would apologize for posting what at first appears to be another "tech toot"...but since I churned out almost 40 drawings for this talk on the Forth programming language, I don't feel bad about it at all. Here's the slides:
ratfactor.com/forth/forth_talk…
I happen to know some of you enjoy space ships, calculators, and old computers as much as I do.
Necesitamos aprender a cuidarnos cuando usamos la tecnología
y saber que La inteligencia artificial siempre será tonta y destructora,
📍 Nuestro #SábadodeComunes con referencias a #ChatGPT, tecnologías en territorios y lo descentralizado y abierto
sursiendo.org/2023/02/hay-un-s…
Hay un sábado de común denominadores
Llegó el último sábado de febrero y les traemos nuestra selección de enlaces para alimentar nuestras tareas relacionadas con la tecnología, los derechos humanos, la comunicación digital, y todo a la…Sursiendo
The End of “Succession” Is Near
Rebecca Mead interviews Jesse Armstrong about the Roy family and the end of his hit HBO show, “Succession,” starring Brian Cox and Jeremy Strong.Rebecca Mead (The New Yorker)
Conserved domains can be found across distinct phage defence systems
@MolMicroEditors Perspective by @GiusyM1990 and @BlowerLab
the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)
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After a Decade of Tracking Politicians’ Deleted Tweets, Politwoops Is No More
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Since Elon Musk took over Twitter, it has disabled the function we used to track the deleted Tweets of elected officials and political candidates — and the new method that Twitter says should identify deleted tweets appears to be broken.
Regardless of one's feelings about Twitter, this is a loss for transparency.
Thanks to @derekwillis for coming back to write this obit.
propublica.org/article/politwo…
Why Can’t Politwoops Track Politicians’ Deleted Tweets Anymore?
Whether officials were deleting an embarrassing post or just correcting a typo, Politwoops tracked them all. But service changes made after Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter have rendered it impossible for us to continue tracking these tweets.ProPublica
APOD: 2023 February 25 - Crescent Moon Occultation
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Why might VCs be investing in @mammoth?
Because Mammoth allows you to create a Mastodon account within the client.
Which will then be hosted on moth.social, a server owned by Mammoth.
Thus, if everyone adopts Mammoth because of “ease of sign-up”, Mammoth runs the client + server.
If I were a VC, I’d find that quite appealing.
See screenshot. This description was found on the App Store.
Crescent Moon Occultation
Image Credit & Copyright: Fefo Bouvier
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230225.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 February 25 - Crescent Moon Occultation
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
"Urania coeli motus scrutatur, et astra" (~1730-1786) by Marco Pitteri, after Mengardi and Zannotti.
The Trustees of the British Museum. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)
The Camel Donga Meteorite was found in 1984 in Western Australia.
Photographer: Rodney Start. Copyright Museums Victoria / CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International).
"Urania coeli motus scrutatur, et astra" (1781) by Giuseppe Zucchi, after Angelica Kauffman.
The Trustees of the British Museum. (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) Cropping and color edits.
A single meteor becomes many smaller ones in the night sky. Seen on Aug. 18th, 1783.
By Henry Robinson. Wellcome Collection. Public Domain Mark.
The Pasamonte Meteorites fell on March 24, 1933 in New Mexico, USA.
Photographer: Rodney Start, Museums Victoria CC BY (Licensed as Attribution 4.0 International).
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“I realize that following my curiosity opened me up to a world I never thought I would be in — a world beyond who I thought I could be or what I thought I could do."
Dr. Justin Rice helps make Earth science data accessible to a worldwide community.
#NASAEarth
#NASAEarth
Data Chat: Dr. Justin L. Rice
Data Chat with Justin L. Rice, NASA’s Deputy Manager for the ESDIS Project’s Science Systems Development OfficeJoseph Smith (Earthdata)
The Fallen of World War II
This is an amazing video visualization of military and civilian deaths in World War II. It's 18 minutes long, but well worth yourkottke.org

Don Nelson
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