🚨BREAKING: Laura Helmuth has resigned as Editor-in-Chief of Scientific American after over four years in the role. During her tenure, she transformed @sciam from a widely respected, objective popular science magazine into a science-themed, woke political publication.

Bypassing Airpods Hearing Aid Georestriction With a Faraday Cage hackaday.com/2024/11/15/bypa…

Repairing The Questionable £25,000 Tom Evans Audiophile Pre-Amp hackaday.com/2024/11/14/repa…

The Life Cycle of Nuclear Fission Fuel: From Stars to Burn-Up hackaday.com/2024/11/14/the-…

Smart Thermostats Pitched for Texas Homes to Relieve Stressed Grid hackaday.com/2024/11/14/smar…

There is a reason why we established a rule-based order in 1945, even though it has been far from perfect. The United Nations, especially the UNSC, are heavily flawed. In many if not most cases, where decisive questions were asked, the UNSC has been proven useless, and even when UN resolutions passed, they were frequently just ink on paper. Yet, there were some universal rules which all sides have abided, because they were too much, even for this flawed system. Not changing borders by force and annexation of neighboring territories were some of them, especially by a nuclear power. Russia grossly violated this universal rule back in 2014 and the world stayed basically silent, inevitably leading to the events starting 2022. If not corrected it will launch a process which cannot be reversed. Countries across the globe will acquire nuclear weapons, because it is virtually the only effective mean to counter an aggressive neighbor. Ukraine might be the first country to do so, for good reason, but it certainly wouldn’t be the last. Dozens of countries are just waiting and watching how the events will unfold in Ukraine. If Russia can get away with it, even partially, then all dams would break. It would be without any hyperbole the most consequential developments of our times, including all unpredictable consequences. No Isolationist country or government on this planet would be immune from those events. We are all into this.

Making Sense of Real-Time Operating Systems in 2024 hackaday.com/2024/11/13/maki…

Herr @Markus_Soeder, sie haben sich für den Weiterbetrieb des Kernkraftwerks Isar2 ausgesprochen. Ich hatte im April 2023, noch vor der Abschaltung, die Ehre, von Freunden, die dort arbeiten, durch das Kraftwerk geführt zu werden. Ich bin durch meine Freunde im Kraftwerk gut über den Zustand der Anlage informiert. Daher weiß ich: Der Generator, die Frischdampfleitungen und die Hauptkühlmittelpumpen sind bereits ausgebaut und zerstört worden. Das sind alles reversible Schäden, aber teure Schäden und es werden beständig mehr. Wenn sie ehrliches Interesse an der Wiederinbetriebnahme von Isar2 haben, nutzen sie die Authorität die dem Umweltministerium ihrer Landesbehörde zusteht und stoppen sie sofort den Rückbau von Isar2. Das grün geführte Umweltministerium von Schleswig Holstein hat den Rückbau vom Kernkraftwerk Krümmel genauso für 10 Jahre aufgehalten. Das Bayrische Umweltministerium kann dies genauso. Bitte reden sie nicht nur Herr Söder. Handeln sie!

NASA Announces New Trials for In-Space Laser Welding hackaday.com/2024/11/13/nasa…

You’ve had quite a long time to modernise your thinking about nuclear energy. “The unpalatable truth is that the anti-nuclear lobby has misled us all” theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Gabon has fallen to a Free French coup. Last Vichy French supporters now surrendering in Libreville; Vichy governor has committed suicide. De Gaulle's forces now control colonies of French Equatorial Africa.

The End of Ondsel and Reflecting on the Commercial Prospects for FreeCAD hackaday.com/2024/11/12/the-…

Your reminder that promising to do something and actually doing so is very, very, but very different. Fossil fuel CO2 emissions will set an all-time high in 2024, about 10% higher than at the time of the Paris Agreement deal. #carbonbudget #COP29

Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov has arrived in Berlin, to discuss the future of the Nazi-Soviet pact. Stalin wants to know what Hitler plans for Europe in years to come.

First "official" mass execution at Dachau concentration camp today: 55 Polish intellectuals were shot by the Nazis, against this wall.

A Brief History of Cyrix, or How to Get Sued By Intel a Lot hackaday.com/2024/11/12/a-br…

Since Trump warned me not to escalate I’ve: -Blown up a dam -Fired missiles, drones and bombs at civilians -Started using North Koreans to fight -Showed a nude pic of his wife on national TV And he’s said fuck all. So he looks really tough.

Goldcrests are just the sweetest little birds, like, seriously, look at that face! This little one, quite literally, came in for a fly-by visit. A victim of a window strike, the bird was found stunned on the ground. By the time he arrived with us, he was fully recovered🥳.

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We're all familiar with the ISS and Skylab. But what of the Soviet space station efforts? Maya Posch investigates. hackaday.com/2023/05/15/the-…