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This is awesome: a lunar eclipse seen from the side, from a space probe out near Mercury.

"In 1843, Ada Lovelace published the first nontrivial program. How did it work?"

"After wildfires destroyed Lahaina, the battle to restore an ancient ecosystem will shape the town’s future."

Table of corresponding actions on dnf (Fedora/Red Hat), apt (Debian), emerge (Gentoo) and...zypper (SUSE)?

"Review of early citations for 'ghost' signs, dating from 1981 and prior to the publication of William Stage's Ghost Signs: Brick Wall Signs in America."

"It turns out Google Chrome (via Chromium) includes a default extension which makes extra services available to code running on the `*.google.com` domains…"

"Why the current hype around AI is a slap in the face for creatives."

If it had been a couple of years later, they would probably have complained it was "woke."

"The world ships too much code, most of it by third parties, sometimes unintended, most of it uninspected. Because of this, there is a huge attack surface full of mediocre code."
Good article on the security implications of shipping big, complicated software with tons of dependencies.