Inside the Proton, the ‘Most Complicated Thing’ Imaginable (www.quantamagazine.org)
The positively charged particle at the heart of the atom is an object of unspeakable complexity, one that changes its appearance depending on how it is probed. We’ve attempted to connect the proton’s many faces to form the most complete picture yet.
Minor announcements: Our longstanding "refresh to login" bug has been fixed, and also StarTrek.website is now certified powered by green energy! (www.thegreenwebfoundation.org)
You may need to clear cache/cookies for the login bug to fix itself but a “hard” refresh might do the trick too....
Fedia.io rebuild complete (fedia.io)
Hi all. It took a while for me to get to it, but I have just completed rehoming fedia.io from containers back to a bare metal install. This should fix the issue with federation stopping. I'll keep an eye on it, though.
Slime Mold-Powered Smart Watches See Humans Fall In Love With The Goo (hackaday.com)
Humans are very good at anthropomorphising things. That is, giving them human characteristics, like ourselves. We do it with animals—see just about any cartoon—and we even do it with our own planet…
PHP 8.2.16 Released (www.php.net)
Hugos Apologize for 'Damage' Caused by 2023 Awards Controversy (gizmodo.com)
PHP 8.3.3 Released! (www.php.net)
PHPWeekly February 15th 2024 (mailchi.mp)
So… what's going on? (kbin.social)
Since the beginning of the year, there's been a bit of a pattern over on @kbinDevlog:...
Marvel Studios 'Fantastic Four' poster unveiled, main cast revealed. (startrek.website)
Thought there may be some overlap between the F4 and Trek fandoms. I’m over the MCU overall, but as a life long F4 fan I might check this out if I hear its decent. Poster looks promising, dig the retro vibes and the team being presented as a family. Pascal seems like an odd pick for Reed Richards, but the rest of the main cast...
Tear Down Walls, and Build Bridges (wedistribute.org)
A libre networking project that's designed to bridge protocol spaces together announced its progress and intentions, and Mastodon users freaked out.
Prosthetic limb device enables users to ‘sense’ temperature difference (www.theguardian.com)
Swiss-Italian study finds MiniTouch can help people with amputations feel whether objects are hot, cold or in between
DC Versus Marvel Omnibus, The Amalgam Age Omnibus coming in August (www.comicsbeat.com)
I’m honestly kind of thrilled, I assumed DC vs. Marvel and Amalgam would be lost to the dustbin of history.
Porting Strategy - Redox - Your Next(Gen) OS (www.redox-os.org)
cross-posted from: programming.dev/post/9979951...
Dutch PHP Conference 2024 (www.php.net)
Paramount to Lay Off 800 Staffers as CEO Unveils Broad “Streamlining Costs” Effort (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
Paramount Lays Off Hundreds of Workers (www.nytimes.com)
Here is the text in case of paywall:...
BBC extends their Mastodon social media trial (www.bbc.co.uk)
In case you missed it, Brian Tatosky (Trek's VFX Supervisor) jumped into a convo on /c/StarTrek! (startrek.website)
Link to post, cool of @StillPaisleyCat to summon him.
How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
Bonfire Offers Framework for Next-Gen Fediverse Platforms (wedistribute.org)
We recently chatted with two of the devs involved with Bonfire. Honestly, they have some really amazing ideas about building a modular Fediverse platform that developers can build on for their own apps.
3D-Printed Neural Tissue Grows And Functions Like a Human Brain (www.sciencealert.com)
Researchers have created the first functional 3D-printed brain tissue that can develop and form connections in the same way as real human brain tissue.
Lemmy Development Update 2024-02-09 (lemmy.ml)
Lemmy Development Update 2024-02-09
cross-posted from: lemmy.ml/post/11685952...