Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org

"I took my place in the midst of the world, and I appeared to them in flesh. I found all of them intoxicated; I found none of them thirsty. And my soul became afflicted for the sons of men, Because they are blind in their hearts And do not have sight; for empty they came into the world, and empty too they seek to leave the world. But for the moment they are intoxicated. When they shake off their wine, then they will be sorry."

more and more true every day...

Finally understood why does a 2-port measurement on a network analyzer can reliably find the impedance of a Power Distribution Network. The RF impedance between power and ground is nearly zero on a PCB with many capacitors, diverting 99% current coming out from port 1 to ground, meanwhile port 2 is in parallel, but its 50 Ω input impedance is large and gets almost no current, no voltage drop. Like Kelvin sensing but instead of 1 MΩ, 50 Ω is large enough. And since port 2 receives almost no power, S21 goes to zero and impedance equation simplifies to a straight line Z = 25 Ω x S21, really neat. #electronics

Companies be like: we're looking for a junior developer with the experience of a senior engineer and the salary expectations of an intern.

The W3C Decentralized Identifiers standard is now a 1.0 draft.

https://www.w3.org/TR/did-core/

(I only just heard of it today, I have no opinions on it right now.)

#BenJennings on #Tory #MPs ‘fuelling culture war’ with #education report – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2021/jun/22/ben-jennings-on-tory-mps-fuelling-culture-war-with-education-report-cartoon

#Sunrise #Solstice over #Stonehenge
#Astronomy #Picture of the Day

For the vast majority of the population of the planet, the solstice will be tomorrow as the actual time of its occurrence is at about 03:30 UTC on 21 June. Anyway, hope you have a nice summer/winter.

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap210620.html

#APOD

#Brexit ‘madness’ will wreck #UK #steel #industry, #Tories warned | #SteelIndustry | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2021/jun/20/brexit-madness-will-wreck-uk-steel-industry-tories-warned

#Politics

UK Government engaged in 'a deliberate assault on Welsh devolution' says Gething. https://nation.cymru/news/uk-government-engaged-in-a-deliberate-assault-on-welsh-devolution-says-gething/

Richard Burgon MP
@RichardBurgon Twitter

£96,000,000,000+ of public money has gone to non-NHS providers of healthcare over the last decade.

This is what the privatisation of our NHS looks like.

Time to kick out the privatisers and invest in our NHS.

Welsh Government has published the new Programme for Government to take us from 2021 to 2026.

Plenty to dig into here. Some headlines for well-being and #sustainability are:

👉 Develop a tidal lagoon challenge
👉 A new 120-year Wales infrastructure investment plan
👉 Lift the ban on local authorities setting up new bus companies
👉 Abolish single use plastics (! but Internal market bill?!)
👉 National Forest from north to south
👉 Clean Air Act for Wales
👉 New National Park
👉 Oppose extraction of fossil fuels on land and in water
👉 Consult on a tourism levy
👉 Decarbonise more homes
👉 Establish a Peace Academy

https://gov.wales/sites/default/files/publications/2021-06/programme-for-government-2021-to-2026.pdf

#Cymru #Wales #FutureGenerations

We went from the Turing Test, where a computer tries to convince a human that it is not a computer but a real person, to Captchas, where humans try to convince a computer they're a real person, not a computer.

There are people so dense out there that they dont even understand this...

@Science #science #sciences

Delta variant cases linked to teenage ‘gatherings’ triple in the last week. https://nation.cymru/news/delta-variant-cases-linked-to-teenage-gatherings-triple-in-the-last-week/

We're delighted to welcome Nikira Rose Bowen to Afallen as our first Graduate Intern 🤝🙌🙋

One of the aims of Afallen has always been to help support and train the next generation of sustainability experts in #Wales - we're really happy that we're now in a position to start giving that opportunity to young people. Next step - apprenticeships!

https://afallen.cymru/2021/05/14/introducing-nikira/

This report for RSPB Cymru, WWF Cymru and Wales Environment Link by Stuart Housden OBE sets out the case for a target-led strategy to deliver a reinvigorated ecosystem in #Wales. https://waleslink.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Report_-Nature-Recovery-June-2021.pdf

Top take-outs:

🦋 We need to measure and improve species abundance, distribution and extinction risk
🦋 We need to measure and improve habitat quality and extent
🦋 We need to prioritise nature-based solutions to climate change
🦋 Nature needs to be integrated as a strategic theme in all Welsh Government portfolios

#Cymru #Sustainability #FutureGenerations

@pixelfed Hi there! As a #blind screen reader user, I would really appreciate it if you'd take the time to #captionyourimages as it would really help with #accessibility
And it's not just people like me who appreciate them either, it's users on low bandwidth or metered connections who don't want to load the full res picture, those with #autism who sometimes find the context helpful, the huge percentage of those with preexisting visual impairments [#VI] which includes many people over 55 ETC.
It doesn't have to be anything incredibly detailed or artfully written, but something is nearly always better than nothing. I believe that their is even an option to automatically #OCR images now which should give you a head start.