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Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen science.nasa.gov/missions/webb… #NASA #Astrophysics #Galaxies #GoddardSpaceFlightCenter #JamesWebbSpaceTelescopeJWST #ScienceResearch #TheUniverse

Webb Unlocks Secrets of One of the Most Distant Galaxies Ever Seen - NASA Science

Looking deeply into space and time, two teams using NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope have studied the exceptionally luminous galaxy GN-z11, which existed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was only about 430 million years old.
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only to find....... A light left on at the end of the corridor!

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how are you expected to meditate in a chair that looks like it is absolutely dying to fight General Kenobi

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Pipersong Meditation Chair PRO

Pipersong Meditation Chair allows you to sit in a variety of different positions such as cross-legged, squatting, kneeling, and others.
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Secret Panel HERE 🍪 tapas.io/episode/2591128

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Robert Siegel nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/robert… #NASA #PeopleOfNASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter

Robert Siegel - NASA

Glenn Research Center established itself as a hub of heat transfer expertise early in its history. Rooted in basic research, as opposed to applied, this group
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Bruce Banks nasa.gov/people-of-nasa/bruce-… #NASA #PeopleOfNASA #General #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter

Bruce Banks - NASA

Bruce Banks’ 50-plus-year career as a researcher, inventor, and manager includes the invention, development, and commercialization of a wide range of
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NASA Names Winners in Lunar Gateway Packing and Storing Challenge nasa.gov/directorates/stmd/stm… #NASA #CoECINews

NASA Names Winners in Lunar Gateway Packing and Storing Challenge - NASA

Humans living in space have confronted the challenge of maximizing the physical space available to them.
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Raymond Sharp nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter #PeopleOfNASA

Raymond Sharp - NASA

Edward Raymond Sharp, known as "Ray," was the center's director for its first 20 years. Sharp expedited the wartime construction of the laboratory; empowered
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Bonnie McBride nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter

Bonnie McBride - NASA

Sanford Gordon and Bonnie McBride worked side by side to develop one of the most important and widely used computer programs in the aerospace industry, and
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Abe Silverstein nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter #PeopleOfNASA

Abe Silverstein - NASA

Abe Silverstein began his career at the center in 1943, pioneering early jet technology. Dr. Silverstein was responsible for the conception, design, and
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Erwin Zaretsky nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter #GlennHistory #PeopleOfNASA

Erwin Zaretsky - NASA

Erwin “Erv” Zaretsky’s research in increasing life and reliability of mechanical components has significantly advanced the state of the art of bearings and
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Annie Easley nasa.gov/general/annie-easley/ #NASA #General #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter #PeopleOfNASA

Annie Easley - NASA

Annie Easley began her career in 1955 as a human "computer." When machines replaced people, she evolved along with them, becoming a computer programmer. She
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Robert Deissler nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter #GlennHistory #PeopleOfNASA

Robert Deissler - NASA

THE GIANTS OF HEAT TRANSFER: DR. ROBERT DEISSLER, DR. SIMON OSTRACH, AND DR. ROBERT SIEGELThe NASA Glenn Research Center established itself as a hub of heat
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Olga Gonzalez-Sanabria nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter #GlennHistory #PeopleOfNASA

Olga Gonzalez-Sanabria - NASA

Olga González-Sanabria contributed to the development of nickel-hydrogen battery technologies, most notably in the area of battery separators, and the study
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Dorothy Gambrell created the below #comic about discovering her work was used to train #Midjourney #GenerativeAI.

We spoke to her about this comic—and the broken promises of the early web—in our most recent newsletter: themarkup.org/hello-world/2024…

Screenshot of a comic by Dorothy Gambrell Slide 1 reads "On being listed in the court document of artists whose work was used to train midjourney with 4,000 of my closest friends." Slide 2: "I didn't expect to be there. I'm small time" Slide 3: "In 1999 I drew two cartoon characters, cat and girl." Slide 4: "I made them a webpage and some people liked it." Slide 5: "For about ten years I scraped together a meager living making work I thought was worthwhile in that way that only young people think their work is worthwhile." Slide 6: "Now I have a job." Someone asks Dorothy, "Do you still make cat and girl," and she replies "yes, every week." Slide 7: "if you can reach any kind of financial equilibrium, it's tempting to look back on your time with no money as a funny story" Slide 8: "I need it to be a funny story" Slide 9: "Because it was hard at times, so hard."
Slide 10: "But I believed in the work, alright?" Slide 11: "And I believed I could do my best to distribute it ethically by making it free to read, free to copy or reprint to anyone not making a profit." Slide 12: "By refusing to do unpaid work for anyone who was making a profit." Slide 13: "There might have been a moment I could have gone big" Slide 14: "But it didn't happen. So I'm still here. Small." Slide 15: And maybe I think small time was the right path after all-in that way that only middle-aged people can think that small time was the right path after all." Slide 16: "But I can't even get cartoons to most people for free, now." Slide 17: "without doing unpaid work for the profit-making companies who own the most-used channels of communication." Slide 18: "and now even that nominal opt-in option is gone. They just take it. Whatever they want."
Slide 19: "I'm small time" Slide 20: "I've never wanted to promote myself. I've never wanted to argue with people on the internet. I've never wanted to sue anyone" Slide 21: "I want to make my little thing and put it out in the world and hope that sometimes it means something to somebody else" Slide 22: "Without exploiting anyone. and without being exploited" The remaining three slides have no text and display a monster's mouth taking a bite and eating the comic's narrator.

What Happens When Your Art Is Used to Train AI – The Markup

A conversation with web cartoonist Dorothy Gambrell on the curdled internet, labor, and how we became just numbers
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Lynn Bondurant nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter #GlennHistory #PeopleOfNASA

Lynn Bondurant - NASA

Dr. R. Lynn Bondurant began his career at the NASA Lewis Research Center in 1981 to direct the newly established Office of Educational Programs. His creative
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Julian Earls nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennResearchCenter #GlennHistory #PeopleOfNASA

Julian Earls - NASA

Over his 40-year career, Dr. Julian M. Earls helped to shape the center in a number of areas. He began his career in 1965 as a physicist and quickly
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Simon Ostrach nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter #PeopleOfNASA

Simon Ostrach - NASA

THE GIANTS OF HEAT TRANSFER: DR. ROBERT DEISSLER, DR. SIMON OSTRACH, AND DR. ROBERT SIEGELThe NASA Glenn Research Center established itself as a hub of heat
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Henry Kosmahl nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter #PeopleOfNASA

Henry Kosmahl - NASA

Dr. Heinrich "Henry" Kosmahl was an internationally recognized pioneer in the advancement of traveling wave tube technology for satellite communications
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Lonnie Reid nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter #PeopleOfNASA

Lonnie Reid - NASA

Dr. Lonnie Reid is nationally recognized for his knowledge of internal flow in advanced aerospace propulsion systems. His long history of integrating the
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Harold Kaufman - NASA

Dr. Harold Kaufman began his career at the center in 1951 and developed and tested the first electron-bombardment ion thruster in 1959. The Space Electric
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Bobby Sanders nasa.gov/centers-and-facilitie… #NASA #GlennHistory #GlennResearchCenter #PeopleOfNASA

Bobby Sanders - NASA

Bobby W. Sanders was a widely recognized national technical authority in high-speed inlet technology. He conducted research on all aspects of military and
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On the left: Lady shouting at cat meme: "You don't need more games on Steam! On the right: Viral sad hamster with a wallet next to Steam open on a PC

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The Supreme Court Must Be Stopped. “I think of the Supreme Court the way Batman thinks of Superman: an extremely powerful being who is untethered from the laws of physics and therefore must always be considered a threat to free society.” thenation.com/article/archive/…

The Supreme Court Must Be Stopped | The Nation

The court is fundamentally antidemocratic—and the only way to limit the damage it can do is to reduce its power, budget, and lack of accountability. 
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I'm starting to think that the least credible trait of Superman is not that he can see through things, or have microscopic vision, or be invulnerable, or flying even through the solar system.

No, the most incredible thing (in 2024) is believing that, thanks to him being brought up in America, he would have such a strong moral compass that would never allow him to become a tyrant.

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Input Prompts update released! Over 1,000 icons covering many consoles and input methods, they're all CC0 (public domain) and can be used for any type of project without giving attribution. My gift to you 😊

Download: kenney.nl/assets/input-prompts

#gamedev #gameassets

Changelog: - Added Xbox One - Added Xbox 360 - Added Nintendo Wii (+ Nunchuk, Classic Controller) - Added Nintendo WiiU - Added PlayStation 1, 2 and 3 - Added Steam Controller - Added controller icons for each system - Added keyboard icons (spacebar, backspace, etc.) - Added number flairs (0 – 9) - Merged PlayStation 1 – 5 (due to overlap) - Fixed inconsistent naming (keyboard, arrows) - Fixed Playdate SVG files - Fixed icon names (Xbox, PlayStation)
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Installing Gentoo Linux Is Really Easy #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/aJkebMuRkac

Installing Gentoo Linux Is Really Easy

People meme about Gentoo Linux being so incredibly complex but in reality Gentoo is actually pretty easy it just requires a bit of time commitment that isn't...
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I vividly remember the days almost 20 years ago when a simultaneous updates to Mozilla suite and OpenOffice would basically ruin my day. 😁

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Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/suns…

#CloudGaming #OpenSource #Sunshine #Moonlight

Helldivers 2

Sunshine game streaming v0.22.0 adds HDR on Linux, Wayland + NVIDIA improvements

Sunshine along with Moonlight are popular ways to run your own game streaming system (as say an alternative to Steam Remote Play), and the latest Sunshine release sounds great for Linux gamers.
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#opensource #sunshine #cloudgaming #moonlight

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Valve reveals schedule of sales events for the rest of 2024 gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/valv…

#Steam

Valve reveals schedule of sales events for the rest of 2024

Are you saving up for a particular game, or just want to know what sales events are coming up on Steam? Got you covered here, as Valve have now revealed all.
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Wine pulls in code to eliminate a Vulkan performance issue for wow64 gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/wine…

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Wine pulls in code to eliminate a Vulkan performance issue for wow64

Wine is about to get just that little bit sweeter, with new code recently merged into the project that should work around a performance issue with Vulkan.
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Steam smashes its peak players online record to over 34 million gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/stea…

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Steam smashes its peak players online record to over 34 million

Starting 2024 off strong, Valve has seen Steam smash the all-time record once again for users actually online showing that weekends are a busy time for gamers.
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#Steam #pcgaming

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We at GamingOnLinux (GOL) want to assure you we're unrelated to this 😆
US Bankruptcy Court Approves $1 Billion Loan For GOL Amidst Chapter 11 Process
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Sky Splash :hippogriff:
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now I want to know what you would do with gaming on Linux if you would get $1 Billion for it

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Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/linu…

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Linux on the desktop breaks 4% for the first time on Statcounter

Another month down according to Statcounter at least, Linux on the desktop is doing better than ever. Take it with your usual little pinch of salt like any survey sampling though.
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#linux #pcgaming
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Vancha
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That's not bad at all 😁 I was kind of giving up hope looking at the steam survey numbers, but i guess we can conclude that the majority of linux users just aren't gamers? I guess that makes sense, even though that might change with linux handheld getting so good. Finally some good news.

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Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese gamingonlinux.com/2024/03/stea…

#Steam #Linux

Steam Survey for February 2024 shows a big bump in Simplified Chinese

Seems like once again we're seeing an Asia influx on Steam, as the February 2024 Steam Hardware & Software Survey showed a big +7.62% bump in Simplified Chinese.
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when this happened before a few times, Valve looked into it and saw it was cyber cafes: gamingonlinux.com/2018/05/the-…

but that was repeating monthly, not one offs here and there


The Steam Hardware Survey had some flaw causing cyber cafes to be over-counting users

Well this sure is interesting, Valve have announced some flaws in their Steam Hardware Survey that caused cyber cafes to over-count users.
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Found a little misprint in this scanned book from 1820-something I'm reading. Someone put the L type in upside down.

I love frozen little accidents like this 0u0

Screenshot of the reversed l

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Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia

Image Credit & Copyright: N. D. Liao

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Numerous thin pillars of light connect a landscape filled with snow to a star filled sky. The Big Dipper can be seen through the colorful pillars.

APOD: 2024 March 4 – Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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Hi everyone! The games for blind gamers 3 game jam has ended! But that means we have 27 games that want YOUR feedback and submissions! Give these creators some love! itch.io/jam/games-for-blind-ga… #GameDev #Blind #accessibility

Submissions to Games for Blind Gamers 3

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Informed responses to Jakob Nielsen’s less informed article:
• jakobnielsenphd.substack.com/p… (the comments page, not the article itself)
• linkedin.com/posts/sheribyrneh…
• linkedin.com/posts/khallconsul…
• briandeconinck.com/jakob-niels…
• axbom.com/nielsen-generative-u…
• conffab.com/elsewhere/accessib…

#accessibility #a11y


On Nielsen's ideas about generative UI for resolving accessibility

"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen.
Per Axbom (Axbom • Digital Compassion)
#a11y #accessibility
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Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240304.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2024 March 4 – Light Pillars Over Inner Mongolia

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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@briankrebs Why do I suddenly hear the theme from Close Encounters?
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Does anyone have any insight about what's going on with the plasma-desktop package on Arch, I know there's a todo list for KDE 6 but everything is checked off as complete but we're still waiting for it to leave testing archlinux.org/todo/plasma-6/

Arch Linux - Todo: Plasma 6

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Someone linked to a bug in the screenshot tool in plasma 6 in the arch linux matrix room (i think in offtopic one), which is pretty bad enough. In some cases, black boxes are shown instead of selecting the screenshot area. It was something like that, dont remember exactly. This might be a reason why things are held back.

Will try to see if I can find the bug report once again on kde's bugtracker

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they are probably waiting for the 6.0.1 release tomorrow.
There are a bunch of bugfixes in 6.0.1: pointieststick.com/2024/03/02/…

See here for plasma 6 release dates: community.kde.org/Schedules/Pl…


This week in KDE: a smooth release

Last Tuesday, the KDE Mega-Release came out, and I’m happy to report that it went well. Initial impressions seem to be overwhelmingly positive! I’ve been doing extra bug triage and soci…
Adventures in Linux and KDE

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NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches to International Space Station nasa.gov/news-release/nasas-sp… #NASA #InternationalSpaceStationISS #CommercialCrew #Expedition70 #Expedition71

NASA’s SpaceX Crew-8 Launches to International Space Station - NASA

An international crew of four reached orbit following a successful launch to the International Space Station at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday from Launch Complex 39A
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If you told me a few years back we'd have a good (but still work in progress) open source Nvidia stack on Linux I'd think you need to make up a better lie, but here we are collabora.com/news-and-blog/ne…

NVK is now ready for prime time

As of today, NVK is now a conformant Vulkan 1.3 implementation on Turing (RTX 2000 and GTX 1600 series), Ampere (RTX 3000 series), and Ada (RTX 4000 series) GPUs.
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