RE: https://mograph.social/@dilmandila/117432072219819451
Please help finance GIMP, Inkscape and Krita instead of spending your money on trying to get Claude to make you a Photoshop clone.
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@ottaross Each segment weighs 250 kg, including the supports. And yes, we have a segment manipulator specially designed to handle this. It will be mounted on a crane that can position it directly above the desired segment. This segment will be then pushed above the rest and grabbed by the manipulator. We're currently testing this device at our headquarters in Germany, stay tuned... ;-)
New milestone reached 🥳
Nearly 500 segments of the main mirror of our Extremely Large Telescope (ELT) have now arrived from Europe at the ELT Technical Facility at our Paranal Observatory in #Chile. That is around half of all the segments being made for what will become a 39-metre eye on the sky.
➡️ https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann26009/
#astrodon #astronomy #astrophysics #space #science #engineering
📷 ESO
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Day 1,694 of the full scale invasion has begun
Estimated russian losses from February 24, 2022 to October 14, 2026 of the russian all-out war against Ukraine, according to the General Staff of #Ukraine
🔷 Yesterday 1,650 enemy, killed or wounded
The Netherlands has denied visas to three russian gymnasts, including two Olympic champions who previously demonstrated support for putin and russia’s war against #Ukraine.
The decision prevents the athletes from competing at the World Artistic #Gymnastics Championships in Rotterdam, scheduled for October 17–25.
People are like "let's fork Linux", "let's make a new OS", or "let all switch to BoobsBSD" kinda need to chill tho.
It is a very common misconception of software especially pervasive amongst coders, that you can just whip up any sort of software package at a whim and build something equivalent to the existing, enduring packages.
Software is a social infrastructure not a product, it is built up over time, it's additive, and accumulative. It slowly accumulates features, edge cases, users, expertise, experts, social purchase, a literature of documentation, help, user/developer's public discussions, and similar.
Something like an OS or a big app also accumulates addons, apps, drivers, extensions, or whatever else they might be called.
When you say "let's make a new Linux", it's like saying the metro sucks let's build a new one. Let's use city X's trains to go to our jobs at city Y that we live in. Let's switch to horse drawn carts instead of the metro.
People would protest if the municipality just decided that they'd trust unpaid teenager interns to drive all public transport vehicles. You wouldn't dream of setting up an entire new transport network because (1) the existing one is YOURS it's a public good, and (2) it's fucking impossible are you insane?
But when it comes to software it feels like it's this simple and easy trivial thing. It's perhaps the exact same mindset that trusts it to LLMs: it's insubstantial and easy, why worry!? Well cos it's fucking not, that's why.
Krievijas kaitniecības operācijas Eiropā neliecina par tās spēku, bet gan par tās vājumu un izmisumu, trešdien paziņoja NATO ģenerālsekretārs Marks Rute, kurš apmeklē Igauniju. Rute sacīja, ka Krievijai nav panākumu frontē Ukrainā, tāpēc tā cenšas īstenot sabotāžas operācijas Eiropā, lai mazinātu NATO atbalstu Kijivai, taču alianse neļaus sevi iebiedēt. https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/arzemes/14.10.2026-nato-vaditajs-alianses-atbildes-uz-krievijas-kaitniecibas-operacijam-ne-vienmer-ir-redzamas.a667382/?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=links
Oh wait, now I get it, when they say singularity, they mean IPO.
Par labāko piedāvājumu Stacijas laukuma attīstības metu konkursā atzīts arhitektu biroja SIA "NOONSOON" un ainavu arhitektu biroja SIA "Nemoralis" piedāvājums "Migla". Konkursa uzvarētāji tagad tiks aicināti uz sarunu procedūru par būvprojekta izstrādi un autoruzraudzību. https://www.lsm.lv/raksts/zinas/latvija/14.10.2026-stacijas-laukuma-paviljona-metu-konkursa-uzvar-projekts-migla.a667611/?utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=rss&utm_medium=links
I learned two things recently whilst fixing my bikes. This is the first in case it helps anyone out there.
I had a right-hand Shimano shifter that would only intermittently upshift (to a harder gear) when the smaller lever was pressed.
It was an old shifter so I bought a second hand replacement.
Only when I removed the old shifter did I notice that its plastic case was loose. This wasn't evident whilst the lever was installed and the bar tape was in place. I discovered the loose case had affected the operation of the shifter. After I tightened a screw on the underside of the case - that I never knew was there (see photos) - the case was no longer loose and the shifter worked every time I pressed the lever.
I'm sure my new spare lever will be useful at some point!
Uzslavēju svešu kungu cienījamos gados – viņam bija glītas zeķes. 👍🏻🇺🇦 Kungs bija priecīgs par komplimentu un teica: pašlaik nēsājot tikai šādas merino vilnas zeķes, jo daļa naudas no katra pirkuma taisnā ceļā tiekot Ukrainas armijas atbalstam. Kara laika mode.
...and here we go:
"Dewi explains" Episode 6 – #Fediverse.
In the season finale, our smart and friendly robot colleague gives you the basics of sustainable, decentralized #SocialMedia. 🌐
(brought to you by @Olivia_Luise @andygiefer & @lxplm)
P.S.: Don't forget to tell us how you liked our little series of media/tech videos. And if you'd like to see a second season. 📺
The new vibe coded Epic project is great
10/10 slop
🇪🇺 The #EU is currently changing its core privacy law, the #GDPR. Members of the European Parliament have made more than 1000 amendments - we have analyzed them all. 🔍 Want to know who is playing into the hands of #BigTech by undermining protections, and who is actually trying to defend your #privacy?
👉 Visit https://gdpr-omnibus.eu and look up your MEP by country and political group.
When I read that Anthropic source repository post with the "every bottleneck we remove immediately leads to a further increase in the amount of code we produce" quote, I just think back to Ken Thompson's famous quote:
"One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code."
"More code" is not a metric of success.
Drawing the Line
Bonus speedpaint: https://www.peppercarrot.com/en/miniFantasyTheater/074.html#bonus
I'm seeing people saying the Ukrainian strikes on Yandex data centers resulted in fewer right-wing bots posting and I'm seeing people deny there was any change.
I say we settle this by applying the Scientific Method: Repeat the experiment multiple times.
They're going to kill us all to build a beach resort.
Ouch, JASP got sloppified...
"New feature: JASP AI!"
Of course, the feature itself is slop, too:
"Here's a polished GitHub PR summary:"
One of the best genres of music is "German music from the eighties" (and no, not just the NDW).
Bärchen und die Milchbubies – Motorrad (1981 | NDW)