2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find - NASA
The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10Kathryn Cawdrey (NASA)
NASA’s Sandra Irish Wins 2023 Society of Women Engineers Award - NASA
Sandra Irish, mechanical systems lead structures engineer for NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope, has been selected to receive the Society of Women EngineersMarty McCoy (NASA)
2023 Ozone Hole Ranks 16th Largest, NASA and NOAA Researchers Find - NASA
The 2023 Antarctic ozone hole reached its maximum size on Sept. 21, according to annual satellite and balloon-based measurements made by NASA and NOAA. At 10Kathryn Cawdrey (NASA)
You can drink the tap water in these 50 countries — maybe
According to the CDC, 50 countries worldwide have drinkable tap water. But look closer, and the picture is more nuanced.Frank Jacobs (Big Think)
November's Night Sky Notes: Spy the Seventh Planet, Uranus - NASA Science
Spot this green-blue ice giant mid-November, between the gas giant Jupiter, and the seven sisters of the Pleiades!science.nasa.gov
SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux, but it's very...brown gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/stea…
SteamVR 2.0 Beta continues improving on Linux
Now that SteamVR 2.0 is officially out, Valve has continue to push out Beta releases with other improvements and the Linux situation with SteamVR seems better now too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
We had to say goodbye to our sweet Happy. She was the very best girl & we had so many adventures together. Happy hiked mountains in Colorado, camped with us in Texas, ran across California’s beaches & pranced through the Michigan snow.
She named herself Happy & loved every person she ever met. We have always felt extremely lucky to find her on Congress Ave & came to call her our Austin terrier since she was a little bit of every breed. We will miss her every day. #dogsofmastodon
I hope you find some comfort in remembering all the joy you brought each other ❤️
Multiple light signaling pathways control solar tracking in sunflowers
Sunflowers are famous for their ability to track the sun throughout the day and then reorient at night to face east the following morning.plos.io
Cinnamon 6.0 for Linux Mint 21.3 to have 'experimental' Wayland support gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/cinn…
#Linux #LinuxMint #Wayland #FOSS
Cinnamon 6.0 for Linux Mint 21.3 to have 'experimental' Wayland support
Finally. All the pieces are coming together for Wayland to truly be the actual future for Linux, even Linux Mint are now moving forward with it in their Cinnamon desktop.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Haven't seen other Linux sites report this fully so reposting: NVIDIA released multiple new drivers, due to a security issue they revealed yesterday - gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/nvid…
Please RT / Boost so people are aware
NVIDIA driver 545.29.02 out for Linux plus other releases due to security issues
NVIDIA today launched four new Linux graphics drivers, yes four. 545.29.02 is the bigger one with all the new stuff, but they also launched 535.129.03, 525.147.05 and 470.223.02 due to newly disclosed security issues.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Fuck nvidia!
Why people want to run FOSS on hardware the mfg doesn't want to is beyond me.
Survival game Vintage Story has another big tech upgrade coming gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/surv…
Survival game Vintage Story has another big tech upgrade coming
Vintage Story is a challenging open-world survival game inspired by eldritch horror themes, certainly quite different to a lot of survival games out there with some really impressive depth to the mechanics and it's about to get much more impressive.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
KDE KWin may gain early HDR support for gaming gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/kde-…
KDE KWin may gain early HDR support for gaming
While HDR support is still not really there yet on Linux, there's a lot of movement on it now (and plenty of it thanks to Valve and work on Gamescope) but it seems KDE KWin may gain early initial support for it.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Warzone 2100 4.4.0 Beta 1 brings new high-quality terrain gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/warz…
#Warzone2100 #FreeGame #RTS #FOSS
Warzone 2100 4.4.0 Beta 1 brings new high-quality terrain
Ah, what a classic! Warzone 2100 is a quality real-time strategy game that was originally a full proprietary commercial release from 1999 that's nowadays free and open source and it only keeps getting better!Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Sounds good, but the only Steam Family Sharing update I want to see is:
- No longer locking the ENTIRE library if a family member is playing a completely different game to what you want to play
That has always pissed me off about it.
Canonical detail a whole lot of Steam Snap improvements gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/cano…
Canonical detail a whole lot of Steam Snap improvements
While most people will be using a normal package for Steam on Linux or the Flatpak, Canonical continue pushing their own Snap packages and one that's needed a lot of work is Steam.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Outlast Trials gets fixed on Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/the-…
The Outlast Trials gets fixed on Steam Deck
The Outlast Trials from Red Barrels recently had a big upgrade with some big new content additions, but it broke the game on Steam Deck. Thankfully the developers have solved the issue so it keeps its Steam Deck Verified status.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Network N - a games media group
Network N is a games media group, covering three businesses. Publisher Collective is our advertising network. Project N is our creative agency.Network N
The kettle whistle? The slurp? An audible representation of the image?
Or simply silence?
Annular Solar Eclipse over Utah
Image Credit & Copyright: MaryBeth Kiczenski
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231101.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 November 1 – Annular Solar Eclipse over Utah
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
A project I did for Halloween this year was these talking pumpkins, which were a hit with our trick-or-treaters!
I ended up spending more effort on creating an ugly paper mache rock to hide my projector than the actual pumpkin effects, which were pre-rendered videos I purchased.
The Slow Death Of Adblock On YouTube
At this stage people are very used to adblock on YouTube but I don't it to always be around especially with the recent attempt to block it, you can get aroun...YouTube
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Google is officially trying to make .ing domains a th.ing
Google Registry is launching a new and really fun top-level domain: .ing. You can now register .ing domains as part of an early access program.Jay Peters (The Verge)
When it gets bad is if anyone successfully applies to run a TLD for
.lan
.wan
.dmz
.intranet
Because I don't think any of them have ever been formally designated as reserved or special purpose TLDs.
We need more articles like this! 🌱
developer.mozilla.org/en-US/bl…
Introduction to web sustainability | MDN Blog
What can web designers and developers do to build a more sustainable web? This post explores the environmental impacts of web technologies and looks at some of the ways we can build greener websites.developer.mozilla.org
JPL Engineers Put Their Skills to the Test With Halloween Pumpkins - NASA
Pumpkin carving reaches new heights during the annual competition, where spacecraft-building engineers mix ingenuity and creativity for some spectacularAnthony Greicius (NASA)
The totality of all data available strongly supports masks to reduce SARS-CoV-2 spread, especially those of high quality.
New report jamanetwork.com/journals/jaman…
New analysis of flawed Cochrane review
researchsquare.com/article/rs-…
Masks During Pandemics Caused by Respiratory Pathogens—Evidence and Implications for Action
This special communication evaluates the evidence on the association of face mask use with the spread of SARS-CoV-2.Shama Cash-Goldwasser, MD, MPH (JAMA Network)
"The Best Web Browser" Isn't Thorium
Recently I saw the Thorium browser getting a lot of attention especially with the Chris Titus Tech video but whilst the project isn't bad it has some serious...YouTube
Fair enough, I can see that. That said, I don't think the browser would last long if they went this route. Mainly because I doubt most people have time to compile a browser with external patches.
Though if Thorium implemented an update feature that pulls the source and auto complies it, that might be more acceptable. This method would likely require some amount of automated testing to ensure nothing went wrong.
Previous NASA Awards for In Space Production Applications - NASA
As of spring 2023, NASA has invested greater than $60M in more than twenty In Space Production Applications (InSPA) awards to U.S. entities seeking toAna Guzman (NASA)
I don't know anything about this program beyond its web page, but I think it's a clever idea, so I want to share it:
It lets you raise money for a charity through your #NaNoWriMo word count the way runners raise money for the number of miles they run.
This year's charity is We Need Diverse Books.
themightypens.org/about/how-it…
#Bookstadon #weneeddiversebooks
How It Works
What We Do We add a fun and philanthropic layer to November by awarding prizes for words written and funds raised. Prizes are donated by publishing industry professionals and other Mighty Pens. Our…The Mighty Pens
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NASA Kennedy Awards Operational, Institutional Support Contract - NASA
NASA has awarded the Kennedy Operational and Institutional Support (KOIS) contract to Chiricahua-Logical Joint Venture of Albuquerque, New Mexico, to provideNASA
NASA Implementation Strategy for In Space Production Applications - NASA
NASA’s In Space Production Applications (InSPA) implementation strategy consists of a multi-phase award process to demonstrate proof-of-concept, advance toAna Guzman (NASA)
InSPA Inter-Agency Collaboration Goals - NASA
NASA knows it takes a village to make commercial manufacturing in space a reality. NASA is collaborating with experts from industry, academia and other U.S.Ana Guzman (NASA)
Halloween on the International Space Station - NASA
Although no ghouls or goblins or trick-or-treaters come knocking at the International Space Station’s front hatch, crew members aboard the orbiting facilityKelli Mars (NASA)
The History of the Electric Guitar Solo
YouTube channel Polyphonic (whose videos I’ve featured before) has taken on an ambitious project: tracing the history ofkottke.org
Twitch ditches Switch
Twitch is ending support for its Nintendo Switch app. The app will be pulled from the Nintendo eShop on November 6th and will stop working on January 31st.Jay Peters (The Verge)
Today's updated Flathub docs: more information for app developers about verification, including some more technical details. Inspired yet again by conversations with external ISVs.
docs.flathub.org/docs/for-app-…
#Flathub #Flatpak #documentation #Linux #OpenSource #FOSS #FLOSS
In Space Production: Applications Within Reach - NASA
After four decades of microgravity research, NASA and the ISS National Lab have identified numerous applications that are within reach for NASA’s In SpaceAna Guzman (NASA)
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in reply to kottke.org • • •In the Americas, just four countries qualify for quality tap water: Canada, the U.S., Costa Rica, and Chile.
All of Asia has just seven countries with clean tap water: Israel, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the UAE, Singapore, South Korea, and Japan. Australia and New Zealand round out the club.
That leaves out all of Africa, most of Latin America, and the world’s two most populous countries, India and China.
Dan Burzo
in reply to kottke.org • • •First viz is using CDC’s, and I cannot stress this enough, Travel Advice, as some sort of actual data. And it’s not even using its current advice, but seemingly rehashing some 2014-era memes.
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The second viz is using underlying data labeled ”Unsafe water source”, not ”Unsafe tap water”, so it’s definitely not showing that ”the lower the number, the worse the DALY rate due to dirty tap water” as the writer states.
healthdata.org/results/gbd_sum…
Reddit - Dive into anything
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in reply to kottke.org • • •Vicente Perez
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