After almost a full year of ridiculous screen tearing if more than 1 Firefox window was open - trying all kinds of WebRender debugging - I switched to EGL backend from GFX today, thinking it wouldnt do anything. Result: All screen tearing fixed, VSync success. ****** finally

Always an interesting read from C🅰️tSE on $ASTS. This one includes a discussion on power, where the assumption is that each ASTS satellite will have 120 kW of power. This is interesting because power system drives both performance and costs. 1/ reddit.com/r/ASTSpaceMobi…

I don't know why St Patrick gets the credit for just the snakes. He also banished giraffes, nine banded armadillos, sloths and komodo dragons.

Yes, you can wear an N95 and still get COVID, especially with BA.5. But that doesn't mean masks don't work. You can also die in a car crash wearing a seat belt, but that doesn't mean seat belts don't work. Masks reduce the odds of infection. Be probabilistic, not fatalistic.

Here it is in higher resolution. The first image from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope.

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Image prediction: fig Confidence: 11.7% Submission by @starreburst_

Wild mix this year

The Philippines produces 70g of plastic waste per person per day, versus 350g in the US. Y'all are joking if you don't see the colonial aspect of rich states exporting their garbage to South-East Asia.

Neues Gesetz geplant: Aufstand der Wissenschaftler tagesschau.de/inland/gesells… #Wissenschaftszeitvertragsgesetz #Wissenschaft #IchBinHanna

We're already 54% of the way to funding the book after 3 weeks -- but the faster we get to 100%, the faster I can get back to finishing it. ✍️ So if you could encourage all your best newspaper clippings & historical curiosities friends to pledge for a copy that'd be lovely ❤️

#staytech

Nice views from the Futurium this afternoon.

Mathematicians are brutally honest people.

Simply amazing.

Project Kylo: how SVR, FSB and GRU plotted to terrorize the West, stoke existential fears and create animosity to Ukraine refugees. How they conspired to make this "utterly tracelessly". Until we got their emails. theins.press/en/politics/27…

Weiß jemand, ob es die Olympische Eröffnung auch ohne Kommentar zu sehen gibt? Ich würde gerne die Musik hören anstelle des ständigen Kommentars :/

The sky outside has a nice blu(e) colour, doesn't it?