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Finally found the IC2000 with coworking space ❤️

Introduction to the A* Algorithm (very cool interactive visualisations)

https://www.redblobgames.com/pathfinding/a-star/introduction.html

Hat tip to John Kemp for admitting that he was wrong to blame Spain's blackout on excessive reliance on inverter-based renewables and insufficient inertia, and 👏 for his very decent explainer on what actually happened. https://jkempenergy.com/2025/06/19/spains-blackout-blamed-on-poor-voltage-control/

Fun fact: If you see someone at a nerd event wearing a vim-themed shirt, it's because they put it on in 2003 and couldn't figure out how to take it off

"A cyclist can go 3 or 4 times faster than a pedestrian, but uses 5 times less energy. The bicycle is the perfect transducer to match metabolic energy to impedance of locomotion. Equipped with this tool, man outstrips efficiency of not only all machines, but all other animals as well."
—Ivan Illich, 1974.

Last week, the vintage IBM 1401 computer at the Computer History Museum started behaving strangely: it wouldn't halt. More specifically, if you had two HALT instructions in a row, it would halt for the first, but when you continued, it crashed mysteriously. Here's how we fixed it.... 1/N

Instead of using butter with your garlic bread, you should switch to Linux. You can set up a virtual machine to try out various distros to see which one works best for your needs.

The Fediverse is a great idea in theory, in practice its user hostility will perennially hold it back from mass adoption. Especially as many of its proponents consider gaps like lack of algorithmic discovery of content or people to follow as features not bugs.

It’s Linux on the desktop of social apps.

https://www.timothychambers.net/2025/06/18/113327.html

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/06/why-one-man-is-archiving-human-made-content-from-before-the-ai-explosion/

thank you all for coming to our rendition of The Jackpot

Millions of degrees hot off the press – first results from ESA's PROBA-3 mission, using two spacecraft separated by 150 metres to create artificial solar eclipses.

This makes it possible to trace the solar corona close to the surface of the Sun on a routine basis, not just during actual eclipses.

Congratulations to the PROBA-3 team 👍

Image taken on 23 May 2025:
Inner yellow: PROBA-2 SWAP
Middle green: PROBA-3 ASPIICS
Outer red: SOHO LASCO C2

#SpaceScience

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_s_first_artificial_solar_eclipse

Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YRJHIJy5Nno&si=AlYVa6jqdfu1wr9R

@susannelilith Dieses Bild würde ich am liebsten allen ins Hirn einbrennen, weil es der Grund für so viel Unheil ist. Die Medien züchten Nazis.

I thought #DrWho fans would like this

Enormous long shot.
I lost my necklace today (Sunday June 15th 2025).
Probably somewhere in Brussels during the #IkTrekEenRodeLijn #RodeLijn manifestation.
It was a custom made present from my wife.
If anyone found this, or sees it posted as found somewhere, please contact me! 😢

#Brussels #Brussel #Bruxelles
#LostAndFound #HelpMeFind
#perdu #trouve
#verloren #gevonden