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As is tradition, the Resonite panel and meetup will happen at Eurofurence 30. You can meet team members as well as community members there. If you’re attending EF, don’t forget to drop by and say hello! It will take place on Saturday,...
“I try to be good but sometimes a person just has to break out and act like the wild and springy thing one used to be.” - Mary Oliver, from “Green, Green is My Sister’s House”Hello friends! It’s hot. Tomorrow we get cooler north winds...
I see a considerable contrast between President Zelensky of Ukraine and Vice President J.D. Vance of the U.S. Zelensky is a strong heroic leader standing up to Russia and its despotic psychopathic leader. Ukraine has defied the odds and...
I’ve been neglecting one of my favourite hobbyhorses lately. That’s right: it’s been nearly six months since I’ve bothered you about a really wonderful Latin name. That ends today, because I’ve recently managed to acquire the new, and...
Don’t get me wrong, it looks kind of cool, almost like an “advisor gun” of the type that the original SF A-Teams (the “Gypsies of the Battlefield”) liked in the early days of the CIDG program in Vietnam, but I have to wonder if the juice...
Look who just popped up at AMARC at Davis–Monthan in Tucson: “Nutz”, an aggressor-livery F-18E series aircraft, late of the “Fighting Omars” of VFC-12 out of NAS Oceania. Yup, the series is getting that old. Boeing F/A-18E-54-MC Lot 23...
How about this great series of photos of T/5 Walter Barnett of Oklahoma City, captured in July 1943 at Fort Pepperrell, Newfoundland, showing the correct form for riflery in sitting, prone, and standing positions with an M1 Garand. Note...
I have a small solar farm and the panels have got visibly dusty. Is cleaning them worthwhile? How much difference does it make? Let's find out. I know that my panels have not been cleaned in the last year. I expect they also weren't...
I generally try and avoid Chromium-based browsers. I use Vivaldi quite a lot, because I’m keen to encourage European-based development and because (especially in its latest release) it’s super-customisable. But I’ve found something else,...
Editor's note: Today I've invited a contribution from Jakub Olexa, CEO of Mailkit and Ominvery. Jakub's a good guy, part of the collaborative spirit that works together to protect the email ecosystem from within, and I was curious about...
Gumroad is a $100m/yr business. The founder, Sahil, has put his life and soul into it. Today it runs with 3 part-time maintainers and Sahil working 1 hour a week. The rest is handled by AI. Sahil uses Hermes to automate everything. Token...
The single best signal for identifying a phishing domain is the domain registration date, and yet domain registrars still limit access to such data. For certificates, we have Certificate Transparency Logs where every issued TLS...
The Small Mottled Willow, Spodoptera exigua, is a species of moth in the family Noctuidae. Its larvae are highly polyphagous, feeding on a wide variety of herbaceous plants, including both wild and cultivated species. The larvae can...
The Full Moon is Thursday July 30. In the morning Saturn and Mars form a long line. Saturn is rising just around 11 pm local time. Mars is below the red star Aldebaran. In the evening, Venus is visible well after the sky is fully dark...
Yesterday I was going through the “onboarding” process via Zoom with two new Editors at the Open Journal of Astrophysics (OJAp) when one of them mentioned a recent policy decision at the USA which means we’ll probably get even more...