Iowa Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station - NASA
Students from Iowa will have the opportunity to hear NASA astronaut Nick Hague answer their prerecorded questions while he’s serving an expedition aboard theNASA
Could Life Exist Below Mars Ice? NASA Study Proposes Possibilities - NASA
Researchers think meltwater beneath Martian ice could support microbial life.Anthony Greicius (NASA)
Transition. Part 25.
Sometimes I take a black and white film camera on my bike rides.
#photo #photography #photoart #filmsnotdead #filmphotography #mediumformat #forest #trees #believeinfilm #rollei400s #Poland #blackandwhite #Transition #staircase
Not one of these Bastard Companies are GREEN as they claim. It's All Greenwash Nonsense!
Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
#BBC #BusinessArticle #DirtyAI #AIDoomsUsAll
Google turns to nuclear to power AI data centres
The tech giant says it will use energy from small reactors to power its use of artificial intelligence.João da Silva (BBC News)
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Más empresas GAFAM entrando en lo nuclear para atender a la pantagruélica demanda de energía de los #CentrosDeDatos
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El Periódico de la Energía, con información diaria sobre energía eléctrica, eólica, renovable, petróleo, gas, mercados y legislación energéticaRedacción (El Periódico de la Energía)
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Public Work is a visual search engine for public domain content. Explore 100,000+ copyright-free images from The MET, New York Public Library, and other sourcespublic.work
Iowa Students to Connect with NASA Astronaut Aboard Space Station - NASA
Students from Iowa will have the opportunity to hear NASA astronaut Nick Hague answer their prerecorded questions while he’s serving an expedition aboard theNASA
Scientist Profile: Jacquelyn Shuman Blazes New Trails in Fire Science - NASA
Jacquelyn Shuman, FireSense Project Scientist at NASA Ames Research Center, originally wanted to be a veterinarian. By the time she got to college, Shuman hadMilan Loiacono (NASA)
Grab 15 more Steam Deck games in the Fanatical Play on the Go Bundle PREMIUM gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/grab…
Grab 15 more Steam Deck games in the Fanatical Play on the Go Bundle PREMIUM
Fanatical's Build your own Play on the Go Bundle PREMIUM edition has launched again with another set of games for you to grab for your Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
NASA’s SpaceX 31st Resupply Mission to Launch Experiments to Station - NASA
NASA and its international partners are launching scientific investigations on SpaceX’s 31st commercial resupply services mission to the International SpaceChristian M. Getteau (NASA)
Nexus Mods new cross-platform app adds support for Heroic Games Launcher and Baldur's Gate 3 gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/nexu…
Nexus Mods new cross-platform app adds support for Heroic Games Launcher and Baldur's Gate 3
The newer in-development open source and cross-platform Nexus Mods app just expanded, and it's sounding awesome. Much easier modding is coming for Linux and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
APOD: 2024 October 17 - The Clipper and the Comet
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
The Starter Pack system on Bluesky is simply magic stuff: bsky.app/starter-pack/gamingon…
Mastodon needs stuff like this.
Play Golf as household objects in the challenging House Hopper gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/play…
Play Golf as household objects in the challenging House Hopper
House Hopper instantly reminded me of WHAT THE GOLF?, taking the basic idea of Golf and turning it into something totally absurd.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Bechtle partners with Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 in Frankfurt: why is this partnership so incredible? 🚀
Strongly committed to promoting digital sovereignty in the public and private sectors, Bechtle is an important actor on the global IT market.
Register for the event today!
nextcloud.com/blog/bechtle-a-n…
Bechtle: a new sponsor of Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 in Frankfurt - Nextcloud
Excited to announce Bechtle as a sponsor for Nextcloud Enterprise Day 2024 in Frankfurt! Read more in our blog.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
Melt Them All is a bit like a retro action rogue-lite Factorio with tower defense gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/melt…
Melt Them All is a bit like a retro action rogue-lite Factorio with tower defense
Stripping down automation sims to the basics, adding in some tower defense and a little rogue-lite action with retro visuals and you have Melt Them All.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Goeland is like Untitled Goose Game but you're a seagull in a town that's a bit too peaceful gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/goel…
Goeland is like Untitled Goose Game but you're a seagull in a town that's a bit too peaceful
Giving off some early Untitled Goose Game vibes, Goeland is a non-linear open-world adventure where you're one of the most annoying birds on the planet - the seagull.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
with the legs pointing forward, and the beak going woo woo
youtu.be/btx2Op2C3tc?si=hEnQ2i…
Sorry, it's a very specific Sardinian meme 🤣
Dunebound Tactics really is one to watch for strategy fans gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/dune…
Dunebound Tactics really is one to watch for strategy fans
Dunebound Tactics has been announced by Terahard Studios and if you're anything like me and love your strategy games, this looks like one to watch for sure.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Grab more quality games real cheap in these Fanatical bundles gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/grab…
Grab more quality games real cheap in these Fanatical bundles
Fanatical have some more quality games you can get extra cheap in a couple of bundles, so let's take a look at what you can get in them.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Mesa graphics drivers 24.2.5 released with a few more bug fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/mesa…
#Mesa #Linux #OpenSource
Mesa graphics drivers 24.2.5 released with a few more bug fixes
Mesa 24.2.5 was announced from developer Eric Engestrom bringing in some more bug fixes for various Linux graphics drivers.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
TRON: Catalyst announced from Bithell Games and Big Fan Games gamingonlinux.com/2024/10/tron…
TRON: Catalyst announced from Bithell Games and Big Fan Games
Recently we had Devolver Digital announce Big Fan Games to get more games made from major licenses (tv, movies, comics etc) and the first is TRON: Catalyst.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Is federation a foundational concept for digital sovereignty? 📡 🔐
Federation might be an answer to the challenges of centrally controlled clouds, offering collaboration across fully decentralized networks.
Learn more in our article:
nextcloud.com/blog/federation-…
Federation: a foundational concept for digital sovereignty? - Nextcloud
Learn how federation features in self-hosted apps work and how federation can help businesses and governments achieve digital sovereignty.Mikhail Korotaev (Nextcloud)
The Clipper and the Comet
Image Credit & Copyright: Ben Cooper (Launch Photography)
apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap241017.ht… #APOD
APOD: 2024 October 17 - The Clipper and the Comet
A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.apod.nasa.gov
Defector Annual Report, September 2023 – August 2024 | Defector
Published on October 16, 2024 Purpose of this report This is the fourth year that Defector’s business team is publishing an annual report.defector.com
Juntada global sobre derechos digitales: un encuentro necesario
sobre el Global Gathering, de Estoril, Portugal, a fines de septiembre.
@APC
apc.org/es/blog/juntada-global…
Juntada global sobre derechos digitales: un encuentro necesario
Lupa, miembro de la organización TEDIC, participó en el Global Gathering con apoyo del Fondo de viaje e intercambio de miembros (METF) de APC. En esta pieza cuenta su experiencia.Asociación para el Progreso de las Comunicaciones
#PPOD: Aringa Ora O Te Tupuna (The Living Face of the Ancestors)
Award-winning photographer Josh Dury captured this stunning picture of the Milky Way over Easter Island and some of its famous Maoi. From his Instagram post: "A truly unforgettable night from one of the darkest places on Earth, surrounded by a place and a community that is close to my heart. One of the most powerful, emotional moments of my life."
Credit: Josh Dury
#space #science #astrophotography
@Karl Auerbach Perhaps intentionally ambiguous?!
"Ahhhh, look at those cute students feeling so much better after watching a cat video!"
Hey, I've lectured at a university. I would feel better seeing my students feeling better!
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NASA Pilots Add Perspective to Research - NASA
NASA pilots detailed how they help researchers find the right fit for experiments that might not advance without proving that they work in flight as they doDede Dinius (NASA)
New Team to Assess NASA’s Mars Sample Return Architecture Proposals - NASA Science
NASA announced Wednesday a new strategy review team will assess potential architecture adjustments for the agency’s Mars Sample Return Program, which aims to bring back scientifically selected samples from Mars, and is a key step in NASA’s quest to b…science.nasa.gov
Navigating Space and Sound: Jesse Bazley Supports Station Integration and Colleagues With Disabilities - NASA
A salute is widely recognized as a display of respect, but did you know it also means ‘hello’ in American Sign Language?Linda E. Grimm (NASA)
Is This Pete Buttigieg's Defense of Late-Term Abortions?
A transcript reproduces Pete Buttigieg's response when he was asked whether there should be any temporal limit on a woman's right to have an abortion.David Mikkelson (Snopes.com)
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in reply to Joseph Teller • • •AI nonsense is too damn expensive, and needs 3 times the computer power (and number of servers etc.) and cooling systems to keep the gear going. Since they insist on not using distributed computing power but on segregating the hardware in specific data centers they need their own power grids localized as well. This of course is a flawed idea as it also means that the equipment in the data center is targetable resource, from a security point of view.
A lot of communities don't want them to simply use the existing grid as it means a huge cost to the community while additional capacity is being built if they build and AI data center in it (and only temporary benefit from construction jobs, if any, as once built they don't need a huge number of employees in them to maintain).
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in reply to Joseph Teller • • •Another community problem is the sheer noise. This health crisis story from Granbury, Texas is about a bitcoin mining farm, but the same problem applies to data centers:
sciencefriday.com/segments/bit…
time.com/6982015/bitcoin-minin…
For the techbro community, it's all about "shopping around" for the places with the fewest regulations and the cheapest politicians to buy off. Sometimes that's in some east asian hell-hole. Sometimes that's the middle of Texas.
‘We’re Living in a Nightmare:’ Inside the Health Crisis of a Texas Bitcoin Town
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in reply to Joseph Teller • • •@Alexander Goeres Maybe the techbro geniuses behind nuclear AI asked AI what the most efficient power source for their AI plans would be, and the AI training data was infested with oodles of nuclear power propaganda.
The whole "small reactors" thing is the nuclear industry's current attempt to pretend to be relevant. There has been a constant torrent of press releases and propaganda puff pieces regurgitating industry claims that small reactors are the next big thing ... like way more press than solar freaking roadways or Hyperloop.
Truth is, the economic viability of small reactors is even more hopeless than traditional reactors. But people have been wising up to the failures of traditional reactors, so they pump up talk about these small reactors to fool the easily fooled that we need to stop investing in solar and wind because superior nuclear is right around the corner.
My point is ... if these techbros ask AI what to do, the AI will simply GIGO them small reactor lies.
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