Thursday, 19 June 2025
quote [ A Swedish innovation may hold the key to cutting the fertilizer industry?s massive carbon footprint?by harnessing the power of lightning. NitroCapt is a finalist for the 2025 Food Planet Prize. ]
Lets sprinkle some seeds love is the only fertilizer it needs
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Thursday, 12 June 2025
quote [ The great thing about mathematicians is all they really care about are numbers ]
Nice little film on the origins of the bit.
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Thursday, 29 May 2025
quote [ The long read: When fossilised remains were discovered in the Djurab desert in 2001, they were hailed as radically rewriting the history of our species. But not everyone was convinced ? and the bitter argument that followed has consumed the lives of scholars ever since ]
C?est comment au pays de Toumaļ ?
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Saturday, 24 May 2025
quote [ If you?re a Facebook or Instagram user within the EU, you should have received an email from Meta with the subject ?Learn how we?ll use your information as we improve AI at Meta? open it and follow these steps: Under the heading What you can do click on Object this will take you to the objection form. From there enter your email address and click Submit. ]
Of course it doesn't prevent against being tagged by others or shadow-accounts being further profiled. It looks like the opt-out move was greenlighted by EU politics, despite various data protection offices trying to stop it.
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quote [ The Theory of Knowledge (TOK) is an intriguing and vital field of inquiry that encourages us to examine the very nature of what we know and how we know it. ]
So how do we know, what we know?
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Wednesday, 14 May 2025
quote [ It?s not unheard of to discover a new color, but we?re coming up with new ways to do so?including with frickin? laser beams. ]
Slap some fresh new colors on the walls
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Tuesday, 6 May 2025
quote [ If you bought your computer after 2010, there's most likely no reason to throw it out. By just installing an up-to-date Linux operating system you can keep using it for years to come. ]
Not the first initiative, but still an easy thing to forward to people looking for local support. This came up in the feed of a community repair shop as well.
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Sunday, 4 May 2025
quote [ The code for the message that the background image is ready was located within the background image bitmap code, which means that the message never appeared if you did not have a real background image bitmap. And a single color is not such a bitmap. ]
The article notes that they eventually fixed it after months. At least it's not intential sabotage .
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Friday, 25 April 2025
quote [ DMARC in particular has no discernible benefit for most senders, so it is a useless signal.
Rejecting mail based solely on authentication failures of those deeply flawed authentication methods does more harm than good. ] On the mail auth hoop you need to jump to get your mails to Google. This is federated comments from a jwz post. It gives insight into how useless these complicated mail domain setups are ? other than to lock in people into big platforms.
thumb via New Old Stock
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Thursday, 24 April 2025
quote [ We now have a lot of examples of cloud-enabled smart devices that don?t work anymore. What we don?t have are ways to prevent old gadgets from becoming garbage. ]
I'm smart with out smart devices
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