NASA Provides Update on Venture-Class Launch Services - NASA
NASA currently is working with several commercial companies as part of the agency’s VADR (Venture-Class Acquisition of Dedicated and Rideshare) launchJason Costa (NASA)
I am Artemis: Bruce Askins - NASA
Growing up, Bruce Askins was passionate about space and oceanography. His desire to explore other worlds always made him want to be an astronaut. Though heNASA
NASA Stennis Continues Preparations for Future Artemis Testing - NASA
Crews at NASA’s Stennis Space Center cleared a milestone Dec. 11, installing a key component in preparation for future Green Run testing of NASA’s newLaToya Dean (NASA)
👥 La sociedad civil se une contra las tecnologías que ponen en riesgo la seguridad de personas migrantes.
Únete al lanzamiento de la Coalición Latinoamericana #MigrarSinVigilancia el 18 de diciembre a las 11 am hora México/Centroamérica
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Info: migrarsinvigilancia.org
#MigrarSinVigilancia - Access Now
#MigrarSinVigilancia es un frente común para resguardar los derechos humanos de las personas migrantes desde la protección de sus datos personales.Access Now
The 2023 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide
Itttt’s baaack… After not happening for the past three years, the Kottke Holiday Gift Guide has returned. I’vekottke.org
2023 in Review: Artemis II Crew Visits Kennedy - NASA
On Aug. 8, 2023, Artemis II crew members (from left) Jeremy Hansen, Victor Glover, Reid Wiseman, and Christina Koch took a photo in front of their Orion crewNASA
Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images - NASA Science
Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b. What's next?science.nasa.gov
¿Haces diseño con #SoftwareLibre? 🐧🎨
Estamos actualizando nuestro «Directorio de personas y colectivas que hacen diseño con Software Libre» ✅editorial ✅ web ✅gráfico ✅ilustración y más!
¡Súmate a la base datos! Puedes conocer los detalles aquí ⤵️
sursiendo.org/2023/12/convocat…
Convocatoria para actualizar el Directorio de personas y colectivas que hacen diseño con Software Libre | Sursiendo
Desde Sursiendo buscamos actualizar nuestro pequeño Directorio de diseñadoras/es que trabajan con herramientas y programas de Software Libre…Sursiendo
NASA’s Space Station Laser Comm Terminal Achieves First Link - NASA
A NASA technology experiment on the International Space Station completed its first laser link with an in-orbit laser relay system on Dec. 5, 2023. Together,Katherine Schauer (NASA)
NASA’s Commercial Partners Continue Progress on New Space Stations - NASA
Three NASA-funded commercial space station partners are on track for the design and development of their orbital destinations and the transition of agency’sAna Guzman (NASA)
NASA’s Webb Identifies Tiniest Free-Floating Brown Dwarf - NASA
Brown dwarfs are objects that straddle the dividing line between stars and planets. They form like stars, growing dense enough to collapse under their ownSteve Sabia (NASA)
NASA: Some Icy Exoplanets May Have Habitable Oceans and Geysers - NASA
A NASA study expands the search for life beyond our solar system by indicating that 17 exoplanets (worlds outside our solar system) could have oceans ofWilliam Steigerwald (NASA)
NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Top 20 Stories of 2023 - NASA
Here’s a look back at 2023’s most significant events at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida:Jim Cawley (NASA)
Please join us Wed 2100 US EST, Thur 0200 UTC on the RFF #owncast video channel for a live acoustic performance from visual, writing and music artist @SabiLewSounds
Help us test and explore #community spaces for performance, busking, discussion, listening parties, hangouts etc, in support and celebration of our creative fedizen friends.
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radio free fedi - sounds from the fediverse to the universe
radio free fedi is small web, consent driven, artist populated, non-commercial mechanism, attribution promoting, community radio for the fediverse. This stream is for the main channel simulcast, hangouts and chat, and special events.radio free fedi - sounds from the fediverse to the universe
A 2023 survey by the Pew Research Center found that 65% of Americans “always or often feel exhausted when thinking about politics.” 63% have low or no confidence in the future of the U.S. political system. And 86% believe “Republicans & Democrats are more focused on fighting each other than on solving problems.”
But are the people within the U.S. government really that bad?
sheril.substack.com/p/the-terr… #politics #blog #news
The "Terrible" 10% Get the Most Airtime
Much of what happens on Capitol Hill doesn’t make the news.Sheril Kirshenbaum (Unelected Representative)
GOG Winter Sale live - grab a free copy of Legend of Keepers
GOG have launched their Winter Sale with tons of games discounted, and once again they will be giving away free games with the first being Legend of Keepers: Career of a Dungeon Manager.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Exposing Nicco Loves Linux
Every youtuber has their camera framed in a very specific way so nobody can see the mess in the rest of the room and Nicco Loves Linux is exactly the same.Fu...YouTube
Haven't been in functional genomics in a while now but I really appreciate this comment: now that we can compare protein structures, do we even need protein BLAST?
nature.com/articles/s41467-023…
Very cool example of a few proteins that in BLAST-'space' don't look alike at all, but their AlphaFold structures align well suggesting they're distant homologues
(then again, might just be that AlphaFold is being overconfident based on the known sequences, who knows what the real structure is like....)
Is Protein BLAST a thing of the past? - Nature Communications
Will protein structure search tools like AlphaFold replace protein sequence search with BLAST? We discuss the promises, using structure search for remote homology detection, and why protein BLAST, as the leading sequence search tool, should strive to…Nature
Two weeks ago, I encountered a hilarious bug with the multiple sequence alignment program MAFFT.
Who would have thought that MAFFT calls #awk to parse one of its command line arguments. Now on some systems (including Ubuntu desktop versions before this year) awk is not gawk, but an alias for mawk instead (superuser.com/questions/75875/…) and with that one MAFFT would simply ignore the passed value for --ep.
This is now fixed in the #Bioconda package of MAFFT by requiring gawk explicitly.
awk, mawk, nawk, gawk... WHAT?
I've just started learning awk and I'm a little confused about all those versions around. Is there any "version" which is found on all Unix-like systems? Like, you know, plain vi? Does the standard...Super User
Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Not until 'tens of millions of users' gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/fort…
Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck? Not until 'tens of millions of users'
Hoping at some point to play Fortnite on Linux / Steam Deck without the use of Cloud Gaming services? Well, it's probably quite some time away, if ever.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Some fresh Steam Deck Verified games to jump into for December 13th gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/some…
#SteamDeck #SteamDeckOLED #Linux
Some fresh Steam Deck Verified games to jump into for December 13th
As time ticks on, more and more games go through Steam Deck Verified to check compatibility. Here's a fresh list of games to check out to stock up for the Winter.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Golf With Your Friends is fun. It's an excellent multiplayer game.
It runs so much better via Proton than the native port though.
(It's an old Unity game. In the native port: Mouse clicks don't register properly, changing settings is super buggy, and performance is absolute trash. Running the Windows version in Proton is flawless.)
Valve upgrades the Steam Workshop, plus various Steam Deck improvements in new Beta gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/valv…
#Steam #Valve #SteamDeck #Linux
Valve upgrades the Steam Workshop, plus various Steam Deck improvements in new Beta
Steam Desktop and Steam Deck have a fresh Beta release out that overhauls some parts of the Steam Workshop. Plus there's some fixes for Linux and Steam Deck too.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Open call for temporary outdoor artworks in Buncrana Ireland: visualartists.ie/advert/open-c…
Budget is only €1,000 but they are good folk and an adventurous or interesting idea would have a good chance.
Deadline Reminder | Temporary Outdoor Artworks from Artlink | Visual Artists Ireland
Art in the Park III: AWAKEN Open Call In the celtic agrarian calendar Spring begins on 1st February, Imbolc, St Bridget's Day. Here in Inishowen there is a strong connection to this day and the traditions associated with it.Visual Artists Ireland
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Deep Field: The Heart Nebula
Image Credit & Copyright: William Ostling, Telescope Live
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231213.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2023 December 13 – Deep Field: The Heart Nebula
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
APOD: 2023 December 13 – Deep Field: The Heart Nebula
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
@BrodieOnLinux
Distract and confuse them with a passionate video extolling the virtues of WordPerfect for DOS and why it was peak distraction-free word-processing.
Bonus points for mentioning the calming white-on-blue and how its superior performance was due to versions programmed directly in assembly language prior to their WYSIWYG releases.
Credit to @freedosproject
Andre Braugher Dead at 61: 'Homicide,' 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'
Emmy-winning actor Andre Braugher, whose illustrious TV career included roles on Homicide: Life on the Street and Brooklyn Nine-Nine, has died at the age of 61. He passed away Monday following a br…Dave Nemetz (TVLine)
In case any of you don't know it,
Calvin and Hobbes strips are now posted daily on GoComics. With Bill Watterson's approval.
Windows 7 Users In 2023 Are Psychos
We're just a few weeks away from from Steam dropping Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1 support and I just want to show you a snippet of this insane world ...YouTube
Humble brings back a bunch of top puzzle games in a limited time bundle gamingonlinux.com/2023/12/humb…
Humble brings back a bunch of top puzzle games in a limited time bundle
Another day, another bundle. Humble has put up the Unparalleled Puzzlers Encore bundle for 48 hours with some top puzzle games for you to grab.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading as Its "Most Complex Refactoring" in Decades
Link: phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-CLI-M…
Discussion: news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3…
FFmpeg Lands CLI Multi-Threading As Its "Most Complex Refactoring" In Decades
The long-in-development work for a fully-functional multi-threaded FFmpeg command line has been merged! The FFmpeg CLI with multi-threaded transcoding pipelines is now merged to FFmpeg Git ahead of FFmpeg 7.0 releasing early next yearwww.phoronix.com
NASA’s Perseverance Rover Deciphers Ancient History of Martian Lake - NASA
Now at 1,000 days on Mars, the mission has traversed an ancient river and lake system, collecting valuable samples along the way.Naomi Hartono (NASA)
Seeing and Believing: 15 Years of Exoplanet Images - NASA Science
Fifteen years ago, astronomers delivered what is now an iconic direct image of an exoplanet, Beta Pictoris b. What's next?science.nasa.gov
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in reply to NASA • • •It needs to be done but not by the capitalists