PHP Weekly - February 22nd 2024 (mailchi.mp)
Undiscovered 'minimoons' may orbit Earth. Could they help us become an interplanetary species? (www.livescience.com)
Due to their proximity to Earth, minimoons are prime candidates for exploration. Now, some scientists want to use these tiny satellites to push humanity further into the cosmos.
So blimey - what happened there? (kbin.social)
Kbin seemed tio take a nice long sleep there. I almost assumed it had fallen over for good. I Really hate the generic, undated 'over the next few days we are working on servers' mesesage.
Request for an off-site status communication method and more admins to help run the site & communicate with users (kbin.social)
@ernest, we love you man, and we're grateful for the service you provide. But this site has needs that can't be met by one person: community mod approval, emergency status communication, spam management, and account management are just a few that immediately come to mind....
Come join a Star Trek community free of mods on a power trip where you CAN share ALL opinions (lemmy.zip)
cross-posted from: lemmy.zip/post/10170389...
Reddit has a new AI training deal to sell user content (www.theverge.com)
Can registrations on kbin.social be disabled to stop spammers (kbin.social)
kbin.social is being overrun with spammers. Can we disable registrations on this instance so they can't keep creating new accounts? Every day I log on, I have to spend the first 20-30 minutes, reporting and blocking a bunch of new accounts....
The Berkeley Software Distribution (www.abortretry.fail)
Paramount and Comcast are reportedly considering a streaming partnership (www.theverge.com)
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...