Current Entries
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07/22/2022 arc4random(3) finally shows up in glibc:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Glibc-arc4random-Functions
07/22/2022 XENONnT hasn't detected an excess of ricocheting electrons:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/xenonnt-axions-dark-matter-experiment
https://indico.cern.ch/event/922783/contributions/4892806/
https://www.interactions.org/press-release/first-results-search-new-physics-electronic-recoils-xenonnt
"Two years ago, the XENON collaboration announced the
observation of an excess of electronic recoil events in the
XENON1T experiment. The result triggered a lot of interest
and many publications since this could be interpreted as a
signal of new physics beyond known phenomena. ... Today the
XENON collaboration has released the first results from its
new and more sensitive experiment, XENONnT, with one-fifth of
the electronic recoil background of its predecessor, XENON1T.
The absence of an excess in the new data indicates that the
origin of the XENON1T signal was trace amounts of tritium in
the liquid xenon, one of the hypotheses considered at the
time. In consequence, this leads now to very strong limits on
new physics scenarios originally invoked to explain an
excess."
07/21/2022 Stargate audio dramas are being re-released:
https://www.gateworld.net/news/2022/07/big-finish-stargate-audio-dramas-up-preorder/
Never knew about them. Something to look forward to.
07/19/2022 Hidden Van Gogh self-portrait discovered:
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/hidden-van-gogh-self-portrait-discovered
07/14/2022 Why you can't dig Switzerland:
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2022/07/dns-esoterica-why-you-cant-dig-switzerland/
It's because of Chaosnet:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaosnet
So you have to dig 'ch.', Switzerland's FQDN:
$ dig ch. NS
07/12/2022 Desktop envirnoments resource usage comparied on FreeBSD:
https://vermaden.wordpress.com/2022/07/12/desktop-environments-resource-usage-comparison/
I'm surprised that XFCE uses more resources than MATE.
Perhaps I will have to switch my VMs to test this out.
07/10/2022 BART uses broad gauge (like India) so that the lighter
BART carriage are more stable in high winds and roomier:
https://www.bart.gov/news/articles/2022/news20220708-2
07/10/2022 Read ebooks in a terminal:
https://nixsanctuary.com/reading-books-in-command-line/
epy, mentioned in the article, works nicely on MacOSX:
https://github.com/wustho/epy
07/09/2022 A Field Guide to Greek Metre:
https://antigonejournal.com/2022/07/field-guide-to-greek-metre/
It is either "one of the most simple and most fundamental
books" or a "revolting little book" that should "not be
allowed to fall into the hands of decent young men and
women".
07/09/2022 Debian 11.4 released:
https://www.debian.org/News/2022/20220709
No problems upgrading from Debian 11.3 to 11.4 on
Parallels on M1.
07/06/2022 LHC discovers three new exotic particles:
https://home.cern/news/news/physics/lhcb-discovers-three-new-exotic-particles
"The first ... is a pentaquark made up of a charm quark and
a charm antiquark and an up, a down and a strange quark.
... The second kind is ... an open-charm tetraquark composed
of a charm quark, a strange antiquark, and an up quark and
a down antiquark, and [] was spotted together with its
neutral counterpart[.]"
07/06/2022 James Joyce, auto journalist:
https://www.thedrive.com/news/read-james-joyces-only-piece-of-car-writing-the-motor-derby-from-1903
https://www.thedrive.com/news/james-joyce-once-tried-automotive-journalism-it-didnt-go-well
07/01/2022 Removing Time Machine backups:
https://derflounder.wordpress.com/2022/07/01/removing-unwanted-time-machine-backups-from-apfs-formatted-time-machine-backup-drives-on-macos-monterey/
07/01/2022 Sirius probably hasn't changed colors:
https://kiwihellenist.blogspot.com/2022/07/sirius.html
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