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The hardest problem in computer science is to make a social network without nazis

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

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 :

Mais quel 🤡 !

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-06/twitter-now-asks-some-fired-workers-to-please-come-back

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

#StarTrails