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2011 8,5°C
2012 7,7°C
2013 6,9°C
2014 8,5°C
2015 8,8°C
2016 8,1°C
2017 8,0°C
2018 8,9°C
2019 8,7°C
2020 9,0°C
2021 7,6°C
2022 9,3°C
2023 9,1°C
2024 9,5°C
Das sind Messdaten von einem Ort Hohenpeißenberg die Mittelwerte eines jeden Jahres.
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Das Bild zeigt eine Temperaturverlaufskurve von 1981 bis 2010. Die x-Achse repräsentiert die Jahre, während die y-Achse die Temperatur in Grad Celsius (°C) darstellt. Die rote Linie zeigt die jährliche Temperaturmittel, die im Laufe der Jahre variiert. Ein blauer horizontaler Strich markiert das 230-jährige Durchschnittstemperaturmittel von 6,2 °C. Die Kurve weist mehrere Höhen- und Tiefpunkte auf, mit einem deutlichen Anstieg der Temperatur in den 1990er Jahren. Der Titel "1981 bis 2010" befindet sich oben in der Mitte des Bildes.

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Critical Sudo Vulnerability Affects Linux Systems – Already Patched in TUXEDO OS

Read more: tuxedocomputers.com/en/Critica…

#tuxedo #linux #sudo

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This browser-based Apple Lisa simulator takes you back to 1983
https://9to5mac.com/2025/07/08/this-browser-based-apple-lisa-simulator-takes-you-back-to-1983/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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UK court convicts three of arson in attack organised by Russia's Wagner mercenary group
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/07/08/uk-court-convicts-three-of-arson-in-attack-organised-by-russias-wagner-mercenary-group?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Rivian’s new Quad-Motor R1T and R1S beat the competition in any conditions
Faster than a supercar to 60, still able to rock crawl with the best of them.
arstechnica.com/cars/2025/07/r…
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well I guess it's better than if it was a diesel but what's the point of rushing 3.5 tons vehicle to 60 mph in 2.5 sec. What a waste of ressources !
in reply to Ars Technica

IMHO this kind of vehicle exists in a small, mainly urban, testosterone-fueled market where practicality is subsumed by specifications.
In Australia it’d be people who’re cashed up but rarely venture into the kind of terrain where - and this is the irony - those specifications are put to the test.
It’s also sadly ironic that while the world is making small but positive steps towards #righttorepair manufacturing, #automakers are going in the opposite direction making cars unfixable where they break down - out in the bush, and making customers more dependent on dealers.
My #offroad vehicle can be fixed in any small town anywhere in the country and that gives me comfort. And yes it has all the specs mentioned earlier in this thread 😊
Apologies for the rant!
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We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing. Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feed customisations...

bonfire.cafe/post/01JZN4D3ZMAD…


🔥 Bonfire Social 1.0 RC2


We’re pleased to announce Bonfire Social 1.0 Release Candidate 2! This update is all about refining and polishing the experience, fixing bugs, and making Bonfire more enjoyable and reliable for everyone. These improvements come directly from your feedback, bug reports, and real-world testing.

Of course, we couldn’t help ourselves and also snuck in some exciting new features—like long-form article publishing and more feeds customisations, plus plenty of interface refinements for both desktop and mobile.

A huge thank you to everyone who has set up a Bonfire instance, or joined the campground (our local-only testing space) to try out the app. Your suggestions and bug reports have been invaluable as we approach version 1.0. Please keep testing, sharing feedback, and helping us shape the future of federated social spaces!

✨ What’s new and improved?

  • Long-form publishing: Going beyond beyond short posts to read and write in-depth articles, ideal for essays, announcements, or detailed content. Article feeds are now available for RSS readers.
  • Smarter feeds: New feed options for events, books, and articles help you discover what matters to you most. You can now also filter out your own activities from your feeds when desired.
  • Multi-profiles overview: A new navigation menu can display all your profiles with notification indicators, allowing quick profile switching.
  • Private by default: New Bonfire instances start as invite-only, giving admins control over membership from day one.
  • Interface improvements: We've refined the user experience, enhanced notifications and ensured posts display properly across mobile devices.
  • More reliable: Tons of fixes for authentication, media uploads, mentions, moderation, and other core features.


Additional improvements include:


  • Better translation and localization workflow
  • Smoother OAuth/OpenID login and SSO support
  • Updated documentation and guides for admins and contributors
  • Enhanced S3 integration for uploads
  • Lots of small bug fixes on comment threads, messaging, settings, and more

For a comprehensive list of changes, see the full changelog.

🎪 Community contributions and other initiatives



🌍 Localisation: Bonfire in your language!


Bonfire Social is built to be diverse and welcoming, which means making it accessible in as many languages as possible. Thanks to our amazing translators, Bonfire is now available in several languages.

🏅 Top translated languages


- Portuguese (Brazil): 100% translated & reviewed 🎉

- French: 98.9% translated, 69.4% reviewed

- Italian: 96.7% translated, 54% reviewed

- German: 98% translated

- Spanish: 57% translated

- Vietnamese: 20.9% translated, 11.1% reviewed

- ...and several more, including Catalan, Cantonese and Taiwanese.

Want to help Bonfire speak your language? Please join us and make a difference for communities worldwide!

🤝 Help needed


As we push toward 1.0, we're facing some specific challenges where community support and contributions would make a real difference:

  • DevOps expertise: We need help streamlining the Docker installation process to make Bonfire more accessible to new users. If you have experience with containerisation and deployment workflows, your contributions would be invaluable.
  • Elixir developers: Join us in improving Bonfire's stability and performance. We're focused on eliminating bugs and enhancing the core extensions' reliability.
  • Financial support: As a small team of two working full-time on Bonfire, we need community support to sustain development. You can contribute through our Open Collective page.
  • Federation testing: We're seeking users willing to set up Bonfire instances and try out federation and interoperability with other fediverse platforms. Your real-world testing helps ensure Bonfire works seamlessly across the fediverse.
  • Translation: Please join us or share this with your multilingual friends!

These are our most pressing needs as we approach 1.0. If you can help with any of these areas, please get in touch via the fediverse, Matrix chat, or GitHub. Every contribution, big or small, helps make Bonfire better for everyone.

🙏 Thank you!


A heartfelt thank you to everyone who has contributed translations and reviews. You are lighting up Bonfire for people everywhere! Here are some of our awesome translators:

> Gilles Dutilh, Ahmad Dakhlallah, Lamparina Coletivo, alan ptm, Antonio Irre, Zulfikar A, CDN, cranio_is_thinking, Steven Bond, Diego KehrleSousa, Vrlo Vazno, Ed, Andrei Guliaikin, Hendra Wahyu T, Hippie Gschpängschtli, House of Olivier EU, Ivan Minutillo, Juan García, Lapineige, Pascal Schmid, Martin Frost, Duy, Mayel de Borniol, Sovversivo Anonimo, Peter Kvillegård, Poesty Li, Sergio Guidoux, Vaclovas lntas, Williams Melgar, and many more!

We really appreciate your work! 💜

And a massive thank you to everyone who contributed code, ideas, testing, translations, and support—including @spark464@spark.box464.social , @tommi@pan.rent, @lechindianer@sueden.social , @fishinthecalculator@bonfire.fishinthecalculator.me , @dumpsterqueer@gts.superseriousbusiness.org , @ozoned@social.ozoned.net.

Thanks to those that are taking time to test drive Bonfire on our demo instance and provide feedback, such as @[url=https://pawb.social/u/liquidparasyte]liquidparasyte[/url], @[url=https://chaos.social/users/rincewind]🌈 🇺🇦 Jörg Matysiak[/url], @[url=https://mastodon.social/users/youronlyone]♾️ Yuki (스노 雪亮) 🐬 🦣[/url], @coyote...

Thanks to @nlnet@social.nlnet.nl for supporting the Bonfire development, all our Open Collective donors and our amazing community as a whole.

Bonfire is a collaborative project, and we’re grateful to build it with you .

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Ready to try Bonfire 1.0 RC2?

- Get started

- Try our demo instance

- Provide feedback

- Chat with us on the fediverse: @Bonfire@bonfire.cafe

- Chat with us on Matrix

Let’s light up the fediverse together! 🚀


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so, if after that, they are still on 966c7176 that's expected? or have I missed something?



@matrix
@element

I convinced 30 people to install Element X and we used it heavily for half a year on the matrix.org server. Now for a week, most of them could not write in most of our groups. Even when we started new ones and reinstalled Element X the problem came back.

I lost them to fucking Whatsapp and have to use it too. :blobugh:
Whats could be the issue?

Is speak german too.

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in reply to Entony.42

likely status.matrix.org/incidents/8g… seemingly caused by a postgres corruption bug. we’re trying to restore the broken rooms from backup.




Taichung baseball coach found guilty of sexually assaulting 32 children
20:14

A Taichung elementary school baseball coach who committed 90 offenses including forcible molestation, sexual assault and filming sexual videos of 32 children over a six-year period has been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 3 years and 6 months to 8 years and 6 months for the offenses.
focustaiwan.tw/society/2025070…
#news #taiwan



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Jim Hall dives into DOS graphics with a simple C program that draws Sierpinski’s Triangle using just a few lines of code. No toolkits. Pure retro joy.

allthingsopen.org/articles/int…

#WeLoveOpenSource #FreeDOS #RetroComputing #GraphicsProgramming #OpenSource

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The best Prime Day deals on charging accessories
https://www.theverge.com/tech/698933/amazon-prime-day-2025-chargers-power-banks-batteries-deal-sale?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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Japan, Britain and Italy are in agreement that Saudi Arabia could be allowed to join their next-generation fighter aircraft program — but only once the project is underway and all outstanding points have been cleared. japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/… #japan #gcap #fighterjets #defense #italy #uk #saudiarabia


Reward expectation modulates #attention & #DecisionMaking but are these mediated by common or distinct mechanisms? This study shows that spatial manipulation of #reward expectation modulates sensitivity, while choice-based manipulation affects decision making @PLOSBiology plos.io/4eDPERq


CAA addresses Chinese civilian plane flying over Kinmen
21:27

Recent flights by Chinese civilian aircraft over Taiwan's outlying Kinmen County were caused by poor weather brought by an approaching typhoon and do not constitute a new form of "gray zone" activity, Taiwan's Civil Aviation Administration (CAA) said Tuesday.
focustaiwan.tw/cross-strait/20…
#news #taiwan



"Es ist brennend heiß"

Pariser Häuser zieren oft Zinkdächer. Schön - aber die heizen sich extrem auf im Sommer. Nun hat die Stadt ein Projekt gestartet, um dem Problem Herr zu werden. Und auch im Untergrund wird an der Kühlung der Metropole gearbeitet. Von Cai Rienäcker.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/europa/p…

#Frankreich #Hitze #KlimaWandel



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Identificata in Cina una nuova specie di dinosauro corazzato

#paleontologia

I paleontologi hanno descritto una nuova specie di dinosauro anchilosauride del genere Zhongyuansaurus utilizzando un esemplare rinvenuto nella provincia cinese di Henan.

umbertogaetani.substack.com/p/…



If you want to get started with DOS programming, here's an example of a fun graphics program you can write:

allthingsopen.org/articles/int…

➡️ The Sierpinski Triangle is a fractal image that you can generate by drawing a series of random pixels to the screen.

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The FreeDOS Project

@zombiewarrior Not open source but available for free (gratis) from the Embarcadero website. They bought out Borland years ago

We link to then from the FreeDOS website, in the Developers section

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The FreeDOS Project

@zombiewarrior We link to an open source release of DeSmet but I understand the code needs a lot of cleanup

"..source code to the DeSmet C compiler, and permission to make it open source. It's a complete ANSI C compiler (version 3.1h), but small enough and simple enough to understand and play around with."

See the Developers page on the FreeDOS website




X says the Indian government ordered it to block two Reuters accounts on July 3 and demanded immediate action, then told X to unblock them after a public outcry (Swati Gupta/Bloomberg)

bloomberg.com/news/articles/20…
techmeme.com/250708/p14#a25070…



SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE - GIUSEPPE IANNOZZI - LFA PUBLISHER - DISPONIBILE ONLINE E NELLE LIBRERIE


SORELLA DI PERFEZIONE - GIUSEPPE IANNOZZI - LFA PUBLISHER

DISPONIBILE IN TUTTI I NEGOZI ONLINE E NELLE LIBRERIE.

Il video è sul mio canale YouTube. Nella descrizione dello short ho inserito tutti i dettagli.

youtube.com/shorts/sRb4ueVq_CY



New Years clothing for girls. Taipei, 1939-1940. Gerald and Rella Warner Collection #taiwanhistory #taiwanphoto #taiwan


8 July 1911 | Dutch Jewish woman, Eva Polanus-van Boele, was born in Eindhoven.

She was deported to #Auschwitz from Vught in November 1943. She perished in the camp on 31 January 1944.



Il gregge in viaggio per Cogne vale circa 225.000 euro. Dalle 21 in poi sono possibili ritardi e code sulla strada regionale


Il y a trop d'assistés en France. La commission d’enquête sur le soutien de l'État aux grands groupes rendait ses conclusions ce matin. Elles confirment que "l’État-providence fonctionne très bien pour les entreprises", comme l'écrivait Christian de Brie dans le Diplo en 2018.
monde-diplomatique.fr/2018/02/…




Mega-Auftrag: Pistorius bestellt 3.500 neue Kampfpanzer bei Rheinmetall anonymousnews.org/deutschland/… anonymousnews.org – Nachrichten unzensiert

Mega-Auftrag: Pistorius bestellt 3.500 neue Kampfpanzer bei Rheinmetall
Mehrere Medien berichten über einen “gigantischen Rüstungsauftrag” seitens des SPD-geführten Verteidigungsministeriums. So plane Minister Boris Pistorius die Beschaffung von bis zu 3.500 neuen



Nur noch Einheimische dürfen rein: Schweizer Freibad verzeichnet großen Andrang auf Dauerkarten apollo-news.net/nur-noch-einhe… In der Gemeinde Porrentruy im Schweizer Kanton Jura dürfen seit Freitag nur noch Schweizer Staatsangehörige sowie Personen mit Wohnsitz oder ...
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The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us


From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles surged in popularity, while Apple was able to more closely guard the Macintosh from imitators wanting to duplicate its hardware and run its software.

Things changed when Apple announced it would hop aboard the x86 bandwagon in 2005. Soon enough was born the Hackintosh. It was difficult, yet possible, to run MacOS on your own computer built with the PC parts your heart desired.

Only, the Hackintosh era is now coming to the end. With the transition to Apple Silicon all but complete, MacOS will abandon the Intel world once more.

End Of An Era

macOS Tahoe is slated to drop later this year. Credit: Apple
2025 saw the 36th Worldwide Developers Conference take place in June, and with it, came the announcement of macOS Tahoe. The latest version of Apple’s full-fat operating system will offer more interface customization, improved search features, and the new attractive ‘Liquid Glass’ design language. More critically, however, it will also be the last version of the modern MacOS to support Apple’s now aging line of x86-based computers.

The latest OS will support both Apple Silicon machines as well as a small list of older Macs. Namely, if you’ve got anything with an M1 or newer, you’re onboard. If you’re Intel-based, though, you might be out of luck. It will run on the MacBook Pro 16 inch from 2019, as well as the MacBook Pro 13-inch from 2020, but only the model with four Thunderbolt 3 ports. It will also support iMacs and Mac Minis from 2020 or later. As for the Mac Pro, you’ll need one from 2019 or later, or 2022 or later for the Mac Studio.

Basically, beyond the release of Tahoe, Apple will stop releasing versions of its operating system for x86 systems. Going forward, it will only be compiling MacOS for ARM-based Apple Silicon machines.

How It Was Done


Of course, it’s worth remembering that Apple never wanted random PC builders to be able to run macOS to begin with. Yes, it will eventually stop making an x86 version of its operating system, but it had already gone to great lengths trying to stop macOS from running on non-authorized hardware. The dream of a Hackintosh was to build a powerful computer on the cheap, without having to pay Apple’s exorbitant prices for things like hard drive, CPU, and memory upgrades. However, you always had to jump through hoops, using hacks to fool macOS into running on a computer that Apple never built.

youtube.com/embed/0Afw3fchl9o?…

Installing macOS on a PC takes some doing.

Getting a Hackintosh running generally involved pulling down special patches crafted by a dedicated community of hackers. Soon after Apple started building x86 machines, hackers rushed to circumvent security features in what was then called Mac OS X, allowing it to run on non-Apple approved machines. The first patches landed just over a month after the first x86 Macs. Each subsequent Apple update to OS X locked things down further, only for the community to release new patches unlocking the operating system in quick succession. Sometimes this involved emulating the EFI subsystem which contemporary Macs used in place of a traditional PC’s BIOS. Sometimes it was involved as tweaking the kernel to stick to older SSE2 instructions when Apple’s use of SS3 instructions stopped the operating system running on older hardware. Depending on the precise machine you were building, and the version of OS X or MacOS that you hoped to run, you’d use different patches or hacks to get your machine booting, installing, and running to operating system.
Hackintosh communities maintain lists of bugs and things that don’t work quite right—no surprise given Apple’s developers put little thought into making their OS work on unofficial hardware. Credit: eliteMacx86.com via Screenshot
Running a Hackintosh often involved dealing with limitations. Apple’s operating system was never intended to run on just any hardware, after all. Typical hurdles included having to use specific GPUs or WiFi cards, for example, since broad support for the wide range of PC parts just wasn’t there. Similarly, sometimes certain motherboards wouldn’t work, or would require specific workarounds to make Apple’s operating system happy in a particularly unfamiliar environment.

Of course, you can still build a Hackintosh today. Instructions exist for installing and running macOS Sequoia (macOS 15), macOS Sonoma (macOS 14), as well as a whole host of earlier versions all the way back to when it was still called Mac OS X. When macOS Tahoe drops later this year, the community will likely work to make the x86 version run on any old PC hardware. Beyond that, though, the story will end, as Apple continues to walk farther into its ARM-powered future.

Ultimately, what the Hackintosh offered was choice. It wasn’t convenient, but if you were in love with macOS, it let you do what Apple said was verboten. You didn’t have to pay for expensive first party parts, and you could build your machine in the manner to which you were accustomed. You could have your cake and eat it too, which is to say that you could run the Mac version of Photoshop because that apparently mattered to some people. Now, all that’s over, so if you love weird modifier keys on your keyboard and a sleek, glassy operating system, you’ll have to pay the big bucks for Apple hardware again. The Hackintosh is dead. Long live Apple Silicon, so it goes.


hackaday.com/2025/07/08/the-en…





Vous dites que la gauche israélienne n’existe plus. Pourtant, avant le 7 octobre, des dizaines de milliers d’Israéliens descendaient dans la rue pour dénoncer la politique de Netanyahou.

Une grande partie de l’opinion publique israélienne commence effectivement à s’opposer à la stratégie du gouvernement pour sauver les otages. Mais cette même opinion publique continue pour beaucoup à soutenir le génocide à Gaza. Si vous écoutez les slogans ou les discours prononcés lors des manifestations, vous verrez qu’on parle d’un cessez-le-feu pour sauver les otages, pas pour sauver les Palestiniens.

Certains disent même qu’après le retour des otages la guerre pourra continuer, dieu seul sait dans quel but. Ainsi, toutes les grandes manifestations qui ont eu lieu avant le 7 octobre en Israël visaient à sauver la démocratie pour les juifs d’Israël et non à créer une véritable démocratie où les Palestiniens seraient égaux, une démocratie où personne ne vivrait sous occupation militaire, ne serait sans aucun droit. Non, il s’agissait de sauver notre vie juive ou notre liberté juive, indépendamment des atrocités que nous commettons contre les Palestiniens dans les territoires occupés.
humanite.fr/culture-et-savoir/…

Avi Mograbi explains #zionism and #zionazis



The bean counters always win in Hollywood. Can Ethical AI Work in Hollywood? This Startup Thinks So#AI #Moviestime.com/7300636/ai-hollywood-…



Y'all I'm beginning to think the writers of Andor are trying to give people a message.
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The irony that this inspiring story of revolution against Fascism is streaming on Disney+.
in reply to Ricki Yasha Tarr

The irony is not lost on me. I honestly can’t believe Disney allowed Andor to made with that story. Maybe Disney execs were too distracted by scrubbing out the queer identity of the main character in Elio.
in reply to Ricki Yasha Tarr

Star Wars has always been about fighting against fascism. The difference between Andor and the rest of the franchise is that Andor has painted a much more detailed picture of what the Empire is, how it works, and why it is still vulnerable despite all its power.


Almost a dozen malicious extensions with 1.7 million downloads in Google's Chrome Web Store could track users, steal browser activity, and redirect to potentially unsafe web addresses.

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June’s #Tumbleweed update brings major feature & under-the-hood improvements! Highlights include #KDE Plasma 6.4, Frameworks 6.15, Gear 25.04.2, GCC 15, Mesa 25.1.3 & #PipeWire 1.4.6. Vital security patches for #Firefox, Python, Salt & more. #opensource #openSUSE #Linux news.opensuse.org/2025/07/03/t…

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The realm of Korinthia spans from rugged mountains hosting mysterious temples honoring little-known gods, to sunny islands in a wine-dark sea. Learn to speak about bold actions in their tongue. #travel #history cromwell-intl.com/travel/greec…

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The image depicts a muscular man balancing on a tightrope, with his back to the viewer. He is shirtless and wearing a loincloth. The background is split into two halves: the left side shows a blue sky with white clouds, while the right side shows a starry black space. The man's arms are outstretched, and he appears to be in a precarious position. The text "Extreme narcissism" is written in white capital letters on the left side, and "Extreme self hate" is written on the right side. The image is overlaid with the text "[@]meethimaut" at the bottom.

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Buen día, miserables.

Las fuentes de luz son una vieja obsesión mía. Afortunadamente lo son también para Alec Watson aka "el gordito de Technology Connections", quien le dedicó media amorosa hora a un invento que en cada una de sus partes hubiera hecho enloquecer y perpetrar crímenes para obtenerlo a nuestros antepasados.

(Hablando de locura y criminalidad: "carrera hacia el abismo". O "al hoyo". No importa qué tan buena sea una idea, siempre algún delincuente la arruina, sea minimizando componentes electrónicos, buscando los más baratos que hacen funcionar el aparato UNA vez, diseñando mecánicamente para "fabricabilidad" y no "reparabilidad"... Recordemos no confundir, la "rotura programada" es simple y común, no pide ofrecer mejores productos ahora o en el futuro, sólo más de lo mismo.)

Los subtítulos traducidos automáticamente al español no son precisamente cuidados, pero sin habérmelos fumado enteros me atrevo a suponer que entenderán lo que decía el guión original. Y si no, me preguntan.

Volviendo a mi problema, agradezcan que nunca les curtí la paciencia con la lámpara de Nernst, por la que me preguntó @beckermatic en otra red hace algo de cuatro años, capaz porque en esos días salió este detallado video de otro enfermo a quien se extraña. Si viéramos en una longitud de onda más larga hubieran sido la lámpara incandescente, nada de filamentos siempre al borde de partirse suspendidos dentro de vidrios aún más frágiles.


Buen día, miserables.

Hoy finalmente retiré del servicio las dos últimas lámparas fluorescentes compactas que había en mi casa--mientras todavía les queda algo de vida útil, porque soy una vieja sensiblera y no las quiero guardar ya muertitas.

Fueron unas lindas décadas, y una tecnología disfrutable para nosotras las enfermitas. Después de los años de laburo que insumió adaptar tubos plegados al formato requerido y construir bases que incluyeran un balasto, en su versión original magnético, que las hacía pesar arriba de medio kilo sumado al grueso vidrio difusor, y desde fines de los ochentas en adelante electrónico (pero miren la bestia que fue al principio, con un capacitor electrolítico grueso como un dedo), se llegó a productos razonablemente eficientes y longevos si no se los maltrataba.

Pero esa parte la explica mejor el gordo de "Technology Connections": youtube.com/watch?v=_AdBcTMHG0…

Me limitaré a contemplar en mi mente cada uno de los desarrollos que culminaron en estos objetos de complejidad decididamente moderada para nuestra época, pero demencial para cualquier artesano o ingeniero de principios del siglo XIX. (Sí, cuando se estaba aún desculando la electricidad. Buena época.)

¡Brindo por la feliz jubilación de quienes me iluminaron por tanto tiempo!

Y no teman encariñarse con las herramientas que nos han servido. Es bueno ser agradecidos en la vida.


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I now have 14 new monarch caterpillars in the garden!

These are 2nd instars. I am sure I am missing quite a few as they are so small right now.


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As a multi-OS user, i find this actually funny, because i am not in this picture.
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The Windows hate gets more justified with every revision. Windows even shows advertisements as system tray notifications now. As well as the ones crammed into the start menu, and into search results there.


Immer mehr abgesagte Volksfeste: Sie sorgen dafür, dass es keine Sicherheit mehr gibt, und lassen die Deutschen dafür bluten journalistenwatch.com/2025/07/… Niemand hat die Deutschen je gefragt (geschweige denn darüber abstimmen lassen), ob sie eigentlich “bereichert” werden wollen; ob sie zustimmen, dass ihnen durch wahllose Massenmigration ihre Heimat zunehmend



Moonvalley releases Marey, its fully licensed AI video model, available for $14.99, $34.99, or $149.99/month; 80% of its footage is from independent filmmakers (Andrew R. Chow/Time)

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My foxy visitor seems to have slowed down a bit lately, taking time to sniff around and hole still long enough to see their face.

I've been seeing the fox for a few months now, and I wonder if there are other foxes and/or maybe babies somewhere by now.

in reply to Jonly

@Jonly They're just tiny! Wikipedia says about 8 to 16 pounds so not much larger (and often smaller than) a domestic cat.