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"To test a state-of-the-art laser communication system, NASA did what anyone would do — it sent a high-definition cat video 31 million kilometers (19 million miles) through space. The Psyche spacecraft, which is on its way to the asteroid of the same name, used its laser transceiver to send back to Earth a 15-second video of an orange tabby named Taters chasing a laser (fittingly). The test, while undeniably whimsical, was also a successful demonstration of higher-data-rate communications that will be needed to support complex missions such as sending humans to Mars"

"In fluid width environments, the text that wraps around floated elements can get awkwardly narrow and trap bits of text orphaned away from the rest of the paragraph. This article explains that problem in more details and offers a few solutions."
Media queries when you know the width. Pseudo-elements for general solution. p:before { content: ""; width: 10em; display: block; overflow: hidden; }

"Hyper-accumulating plants thrive in metallic soil that kills other vegetation, and botanists are testing the potential of phytomining."

"The Letterbook Sandcastles project offers an integration and federation test sandbox for developers of fediverse software. The goal is to make it easy to set up local instances of most fediverse servers, which can all federate with each other, with minimal necessary configuration. This includes your own software, running on your local machine."

"As Threads rolls out federation capabilities and tests out Fediverse compatibility, people are getting worked up over what's next."

"Back in the fall, I wrote a series of posts on a particularly horrific episode in Meta’s past. I hadn’t planned to revisit the topic immediately, but here we are, with Threads federation with the ActivityPub-based fediverse ecosystem an increasingly vivid reality."

Four people who experience different types of migraine symptoms, with short videos showing the kinds of distortions they see.
The first one with the moving, glowing zigzags and blind spot is a perfect rendition of what I tend to get.

On poll reports vs. showing up to vote: "Don't listen to the polls, they're trying to manipulate you, trying to make you confidently hopeful so you'll stay home because you believe the job is done, or trying to make you depressed and defeated so you'll stay home because the job isn't worth doing."

Bug in Nextcloud 27: Switch to multipart uploading to support larger files breaks rename/move/copy on files in some S3 providers. (Linode is one of them)