@radiofreefedi just played a song by @jefftheworld that I really liked. I wouldn't have guessed that "chiptune music" was something I'd like, but I'm digging it. You can find his music at jefftheworld.com
jefftheworld
Official website of Toronto-based micromusic and chiptune musician jefftheworld.jefftheworld.com
NASA Furthers Aeronautical Innovation Using Model-Based Systems - NASA
NASA is using Model-Based Systems Analysis and Engineering to digitally simulate how multiple technologies could best work together as a single, complex system.John Gould (NASA)
A new report from European Commission's Open Source Observatory gives an in-depth analysis of #OpenSource policy across 15 EU and non-EU countries.
It shows that governments are adopting open source to enhance
🔴 digital sovereignty
🟡 data privacy
🟢 control over digital infrastructures
Read the report 👉 europa.eu/!DDyPBb
Progress and trends in the national open source policies and legal frameworks
The report describes shifts in open source policy trends that has taken place in the last 5 years.Monika SOWINSKA
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Milky Way Over Tunisia
Image Credit & Copyright: Makrem Larnaout
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APOD: 2024 August 5 – Milky Way Over Tunisia
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Ooh! These look cool!
Skip’s Mo/Go Robotic Pants Help Power You Up Mountains
"Is it possible to make a hike uphill easier on your body? Skip thinks so, and they have a solution. In a collaboration with clothing company Arc’teryx, Skip, a startup born out of Google’s innovation lab, has a pair of specialized pants that act like a powered exoskeleton. They’re called Mo/Go.
"With a motor at the knee, the Mo/Go (short for mountain goat) has an adjustable carbon-fiber cuffs keep them in place, and they augment the user’s quadricep and hamstring muscles to propel them forward and upward.
"The idea is not to have a robot walk for you, but to help power your joints and muscles, letting you go farther, for longer."
Skip’s Mo/Go Robotic Pants Help Power You Up Mountains
These powered pants by Skip help hikers go farther, more easily.Moss and Fog
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You may be right. After all, walkers are pretty inexpensive; they have reached economies of scale.
Still, they're made of relatively inexpensive aluminum, not carbon fiber.
Anyway, for me building my DIY idea, I've modified it from a couple flexible springs to something with four rigid sticks. Basically, the bottom sticks are walking sticks, while the top sticks go from the bottom sticks to points near the top of backpack straps or suspenders. As before, "pulling" pushes down with a good mechanical advantage.
Originally, I was thinking of attaching the bottom of the sticks to the toes of your shoes, but trying out the cadence ... it feels weird to move your left arm slightly before your left leg. By making the bottom sticks independent walking sticks, you can use your natural cadence. Also, it's more flexible because you don't need to wear anything specific on your feet.
The nature of the last universal common ancestor and its impact on the early Earth system - Nature Ecology & Evolution
Integration of phylogenetics, comparative genomics and palaeobiological approaches suggests that the last universal common ancestor lived about 4.2 billion years ago and was a complex prokaryote-grade anaerobic acetogen that was part of an ecosystem.Nature
i still don't understand the assumption of a single ancestor. my sense of prokaryotes is that we descend from several populations with different specialties all eveolving in an anastomising net of symbisis.
eventually things shake out to bacteria and archaea
@foaylward if by community we might mean half a dozen different kinds of creatures.
i'll have to review the methods again to see what they say about my idea.
Sooooo QUTE!!
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Baby wolverine! Daaaaaaw!
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NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 21st Northrop Grumman Mission to Station - NASA
Following a successful launch of NASA’s Northrop Grumman 21st commercial resupply mission, new scientific experiments and cargo for the agency are bound forNASA
Federated chatting - now in Nextcloud Talk! 🌍 ↔️ 🌎
Add users from independent Nextcloud Hub instances in group conversations and communicate easily without leaving your own Nextcloud. Federated features are ideal for projects between teams using different Nextcloud Hubs, enabling flexible, secure collaboration without third-party messengers.
Learn more about how federated chats work in Nextcloud Hub 8! 👇
#Nextcloud #Federation #SelfHosted
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How federated chat works in Nextcloud Talk - Nextcloud
Nextcloud Hub 8 enables the federated chat feature that let you connect users from different instances via group chats.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
"The federated chat feature is ased on the Open Cloud Mesh (OCM) open standard developed at CERN with the help of Nextcloud and other open source projects."
May i offer you a "b"? 😉
Genomic analyses of Symbiomonas scintillans show no evidence for endosymbiotic bacteria but does reveal the presence of giant viruses
Author summary Endosymbiotic bacteria are found in a wide variety of hosts across the tree of eukaryotes and have been proposed to be evolutionarily and ecologically significant, but in most cases, we know little to nothing about them.journals.plos.org
Unfortunately, the drug that prevents HIV infection, lenacapavir, is currently unaffordable at $42,250 for the first year. If it were sold by Gilead for $40 per year, it would still yield them a 30% profit. But I guess that’s not how capitalism works.
nature.com/articles/d41586-024…
Stunning trial shows twice-yearly shots can prevent HIV infection
Injections of the drug lenacapavir protected sexually active women and girls in Africa from the virus.www.nature.com
New #ISEPpapers #preprint! Comprehensive analysis of the microbial consortium in the culture of flagellate #Monocercomonoides exilis biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/20… #protists #microbes #mitochondria #bacteria #biorxiv @biorxivpreprint
"Monocercomonoides exilis is the only known amitochondriate eukaryote, making it an excellent model for studying the implications of mitochondrial reduction from a cellular and evolutionary point of view."
Comprehensive analysis of the microbial consortium in the culture of flagellate Monocercomonoides exilis
Monocercomonoides exilis is the only known amitochondriate eukaryote, making it an excellent model for studying the implications of mitochondrial reduction from a cellular and evolutionary point of view. Although M.bioRxiv
A little photo shoot around the Northern Quarter.
📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 Wife
⚗️ Come Through Lab
#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Manchester
Emoji to represent your darling wife:💝 meant in good humour.
#Petition #AnimalCruelty #StopAnimalAbuse #StopAnimalCruelty #animals #animal #AnimalRights
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Urgent action against a cruel reptile market in Gloucestershire!
Help take action for reptiles today!Freedom for Animals
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Snack giant PepsiCo allegedly sourced “sustainable” palm oil from razed Indigenous land in Peru
PepsiCo’s supply chain is linked to environmental and human rights violations in Peru, involving Amazon deforestation and Indigenous land invasion. For three years, palm oil from deforested S…Palm Oil Detectives
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Gaia: Here Comes the Sun
Credit: Galaxy Illustration: N. Risinger (skysurvey.org); Star Data: Gaia Mission, ESA, A. S. Sellés (U. Heidelberg) et al.
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Question: is there a way of knowing how fast the camera is moving in the video? I'm guessing it starts at tens of c.
Latest comic: Weirdo Welfare
#2024election #uspol #vance #democracy #fascism #billionaires #extremism
The "Art" of Tea Blowing
"So you are a Brit and you love your national drink, and at Tea Time you stand around waiting for the kettle to boil... what do you do with the spare three or four minutes that this takes?. What you do is revive the Lost Art of Tea-Pot Blowing. You fill the pot full of liquid, press your mouth and cheeks firmly over the lidless hole in the top, creating a vacuum seal, and blow."
The Art of Tea Pot Blowing
So you are a Brit and you love your national drink, and at Tea Time you stand around waiting for the kettle to boil... what do you do with ...knightscsa.blogspot.com
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ICYMI: Grab some cheap Resident Evil games from this Fanatical Bundle gamingonlinux.com/2024/07/grab…
Grab some cheap Resident Evil games from this Fanatical Bundle
Who needs to wait for spooky season? Scare yourself silly right now with the Build your own Resident Evil Bundle from Fanatical.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Global infrastructure's resilience is in digital sovereignty 💪
Following the recent global outage of Microsoft systems caused by CrowdStrike, multiple crucial services around the world were disrupted, affecting airlines, hospitals, banking, and much more.
The world needs digital resilience, especially in the public sector, which can be achieved by decentralization and diversity in infrastructure and technology.
Read our article for more.
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Global outage shows lack of digital sovereignty and resilience - Nextcloud
The incredible impact of the CrowdStrike-Microsoft outage shows the importance of digital resilience, especially in the public sector.Jos Poortvliet (Nextcloud)
ICYMI: The LEGO Worlds Collide Humble Bundle is a shockingly good deal gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/the-…
The LEGO Worlds Collide Humble Bundle is a shockingly good deal
The LEGO games can be a lot of fun for audience both old and young, and now you can get loads of them in the LEGO Worlds Collide Humble Bundle.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
View from around Old Dungeon Ghyll.
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🎞️ Kodak Vision3 250D
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#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #TheLakes #LakeDistrict #Cumbria
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The bus stop thats in the lane so it has to reverse in. 😆
Heres some photos I took around that area.
les traemos nuestras recomendaciones de #SábadoDeComunes. Reflexiones, noticias, materiales, iniciativas y más… sobre temas tecnopolíticos.
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Hay un sábado de común denominadores | Sursiendo
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APOD: 2024 August 3 - Glory and Fog Bow
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
'Many politicians, pundits, and the general public now favor the lab leak idea. Most scientists, particularly virologists, do not. This schism threatens their legitimate and ultimately socially important work, as outlined in a peer-reviewed publication published on August 1 in the Journal of Virology that was written by 41 virologists. I am one of them.'
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The lab leak hypothesis for Covid-19's origin is damaging science | STAT
Promoting the evidence-free lab leak hypothesis of Covid's origin could hold back the development of antiviral agents in the U.S.John P. Moore (STAT)
"Here, we engineered tobacco rattle virus to carry the compact RNA-guided TnpB enzyme ISYmu1 and its guide RNA. This innovation allowed transgene-free editing of #Arabidopsis thaliana in a single step, with edits inherited in the subsequent generation. "
#Preprint
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Viral delivery of an RNA-guided genome editor for transgene-free plant germline editing
Genome editing is transforming plant biology by enabling precise DNA modifications. However, delivery of editing systems into plants remains challenging, often requiring slow, genotype-specific methods such as tissue culture or transformation.bioRxiv
💾 github.com/steineggerlab/foldm…
🌐 search.foldseek.com/foldmason
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GitHub - steineggerlab/foldmason: Multiple Protein Structure Alignment at Scale with FoldMason
Multiple Protein Structure Alignment at Scale with FoldMason - steineggerlab/foldmasonGitHub
Glory and Fog Bow
Image and Video Credit & Copyright: Cem Özkeser and Yasin İlcebay
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APOD: 2024 August 3 - Glory and Fog Bow
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
jefftheworld
in reply to Marc Huffnagle • • •Glad you enjoyed! You can also find more music, videos, etc, on my peertube channel (which you can follow right here on the fediverse):
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