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How do planets like Earth form? One theory predicts that asteroid-like objects called planetesimals bounce and bang into each other until they form a planet. Another posits that torrents of cosmic pebbles coalesce into a rocky surface. quantamagazine.org/scientists-
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In the pre-smartphone era, I hated wearing a watch and always wanted to return to the days of pocket watches.

Well guess what, my wish came true!

@rysiek @johl English is the most-spoken language in Ireland, but the English flag is that of a genocidal former colonist.
Relations have obviously improved considerably, though having websites ask Irish users to pick the "Union Jack" is very insensitive.

so far, my goal of writing an essay per day is working out. they’re a little shorter than i’d like them to be, but i’m writing them.

NFTs are largely money laundering... that's it... That's all it is.

@zleap
To be fair though, NTP (Network Time Protocol) can be fairly easily compromised if its not in the secure form. We remember reading something about it. It would be a bit less precise but we think it should go over a privacy layer like I2P or Tor to limit the ability of performing targetted attacks.

The clock at the hardware level could be starting to fail too, which would not be a Windows issue.

Thank you to the #SeaGL2021 silver sponsors (Red Hat & Tidelift) and bronze sponsors (ExtraHop, leadingbit, and MySQL)

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@flockingbird

What happened to the Flockingbird project?, seems to have gone quiet, unless I saved the wrong link in my browser.

I wish I had friends. Especially ones that knew #solidity programming. I have some interesting ideas around a series of #DAO implementations.

I have no idea what windows 10 was playing at earlier today.

As Iam running code club, I tried to access stack overflow. Doing this threw up an error, something to do with a website certificate and the time on my system,

At the time it was 10:46 am but the computer clock seemed to think it was 11:45,

Unable to change the computer clock (not admin), I decided to reboot, only this seemed to make the situation worse as the computer clock was now 12:40 something, so moved forward another hour,.

Gave up.

Windows 10 = FAIL

What if... we re-do email, but on ActivityPub? Does it make sense? Would it solve any of numerous email problems? Would it introduce any new ones?

Would love to hear the community’s thoughts on making inclusivity/accessibility a core tenet in elementary OS.

github.com/elementary/hig/disc

(Currently, it is not covered in the Human Interface Guidelines at all as far as I can see.)

#elementaryOS #a11y #accessibility #inclusivity

@zleap @nolan I know how to type gpg --recv-keys HEX when a package fails validating, that's about the extent I'm willing to go into. It's enough to get things working

A dichotomy of user-hostile software:

- Mainstream software: user-hostile because it has a dozen popups trying to upsell you / accept cookies / grant permission to sell your data
- OSS software: user-hostile because it expects you to know how to use GPG to sign a certificate on the command line, and fuck you if you don't know what any of those words mean

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