@nixCraft I just lost my grub dual boot loader with a bitlocker windows and encrypted manjaro after adding a disk. Tried for a week to get the machine back online as I could access the crypt partition on live usb. No luck, wiped out and reinstalled manjaro encrypted. I can totally relate to that meme.
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Interesting article on the challenges of preserving the more unique #arcade cabinets.
#DigitalPreservation is sadly a topic that doesn't get much media coverage. Particularly with video games, we risk losing modern works of art. #videogamepreservation #gaming #retrogaming #xp https://arcadeblogger.com/2022/11/20/the-last-ridge-racer/
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The hardest problem in computer science is to make a social network without nazis
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A battery filled with algae is somehow managing to power this computer for months: https://www.newscientist.com/article/2319584-computer-powered-by-colony-of-blue-green-algae-has-run-for-six-months/
No-one's quite sure what's going on. Possibly the algae is serving as the medium catalyzing the interaction between the anode and cathode in the battery.
Except research shows the anode isn't degrading, which suggests ...
... the *algae* is producing the electrons.
Some thoughts on this in my blog post here, item 6: https://clivethompson.medium.com/lavaforming-ai-writes-heavy-metal-and-drones-that-deliver-hamburger-helper-59b9bcfda9a8
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Somewhere, someone finally made this and I think it's beautiful: https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4687836
@pb @farlistener
Peut on avoir plus de détails sur les ressources nécessaires et la mention des budgets a titre de curiosité ? J imagine que le flow d info mange beaucoup de BP. J ai sauté le pas sur Mastodon avec les infos actuelles mais en effet je suis resté sur l'oiseau bleu (ou je suis quasi invisible depuis 7 ans, m en servant principalement pour écouter et apprendre)
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Astuce pour ceux qui cherchent le bon logiciel #Mastodon sur Android : la version PWA.
Ce sont des applis qui fonctionne à travers le navigateur, pas besoin de les installer mais ça fonctionne comme si c'était le cas.
Par exemple, avec Firefox sur Android, vous pouvez installer la page de votre instance :
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One of my best #photography of the #night #sky, and forever the first of this quality.
It took me 5 hours to make this #picture from the #HauteProvence #Observatory. The #camera was pointing toward the equator, which explains why stars circles around 2 different poles (North pole on the right / South pole on the left).
The foreground #telescope is the 1.2m, while the one in the background is the 1.93m, ie the one that was used to discover the first #exoplanet in 1995: #51Peg b
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