Paul Sutton @zleap@social.cleverlibre.org

Chinese probe heads back to Earth after leaving moon's surface

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/dec/03/chinese-probe-heads-back-to-earth-after-leaving-moons-surface

#TheGuardian #RSS #News #Bot #Themoon #Science #China #Space

In 2020, the world collectively spent approximately $1.8 trillion on its militaries. If that much money was spent on food, welfare, healthcare, and infrastructure, I doubt there would be much reason left for everyone to keep fighting.

Found an answer in the Announcement post when Markdown was introduced to Qoto:

> Keep in mind that while many other fediverse serves will view the rich text not all servers can or will and the formatting will be converted into html in a best-effort to remain compatible. For examples vanilla Mastodon instances reject all special formatting, but links from markdown should still be correctly rendered, but bold and other formatting will be filtered out on Mastodon. Pleorma and other software which allows rich-text should properly render the markdown.

So basically, it seems like links should likely work everywhere without a problem, it's just fancy text rendering that's likely to get stripped out elsewhere.

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RT AP Europe
British officials authorized a COVID-19 vaccine for emergency use, greenlighting the world’s first shot against the virus that’s backed by rigorous science and taking a major step toward eventually ending the pandemic. http://apne.ws/2diX4EC https://twitter.com/AP_Europe/status/1334084013649256452 #News #AP #Europe #Science #Shot #virus

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"In this demo I remotely trigger an unauthenticated kernel memory corruption #vulnerability which causes all #Apple #iOS devices in radio-proximity to reboot, with no user interaction. Over the next 30'000 words I'll cover the entire process to go from this basic demo to successfully exploiting this vulnerability in order to run arbitrary code on any nearby iOS device and steal all the user data"
https://googleprojectzero.blogspot.com/2020/12/an-ios-zero-click-radio-proximity.html #security

the #programming language #rust | #rustlang gets an increasing userbase in the #science community. So much in fact, that even the journal #nature has published an article on the topic:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-03382-2

it's quite a natural fit, since scientists aren't the best coders. So while rust has a steep learning curve, you can still get results with speeds of C/C++ comparably fast without living in fear of segfaults (that is if the right libraries are available).

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Well, kids, you may want to try this at home under proper supervision and if you promise to clean up afterwards. 🙂

"Compressed air can be used to levitate rounded objects. Sometimes said rounded objects start spinning so fast that they give up on being round objects. Gav films all the action over 1000x times slower than real time."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nedusgCUZC4

#Science #Apples #Physics

BREAKING: Pfizer-BioNTech say U.K. allows emergency use of their COVID-19 vaccine, the world’s first backed by rigorous science. http://apne.ws/wBL8Y1p https://twitter.com/AP/status/1334035791740358662 #News #AP #Science

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[#BotActu] « Le radiotélescope d’Arecibo s’est effondré ! » https://www.futura-sciences.com/sciences/actualites/radiotelescope-radiotelescope-arecibo-effondre-84111/#xtor%3DRSS-8 #radiotélescope #astronomie #arecibo #science #espace

PinePhone KDE Community https://personaljournal.ca/paulsutton/pinephone-kde-community

Reminder that the hackathon on fully shareable textbooks begins this evening at 17:00 EDT (21:00 UTC) at the FSF office, or remotely on #dbd on Freenode!