Direct Solar Power: Off-Grid Without Batteries

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Conventional solar installations do not question our dependence on fossil fuels and the energy-guzzling lifestyle that results. Both rooftop solar panels and … ⌘ Read more

Darwin mango season kicks off, with 2.3 million trays expected to be picked
The Darwin region is forecast to produce about 2.3 million trays this year, according to the Australian Mango Industry Association, down from about 2.6 million last season. ⌘ Read more

A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot
Now, you can group multiple version updates in a single pull request.

The post A faster way to manage version updates with Dependabot appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Cosmic Queries – Wormhole Universe, Black Holes, & Simulations with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more

Unleashing GitHub Codespaces templates to ignite your development
Learn how to leverage templating features in GitHub Codespaces to streamline your project setup, improve consistency, and simplify collaboration within your development team.

The post Unleashing GitHub Codespaces templates to ignite your development appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: Future-proofing legacy systems with Erlang
Relying on outdated legacy systems often serves as the biggest hindrance to both innovation and optimisation for businesses today. Since many of these systems have been used for years, if not multiple decades, the significant costs involved with replacing a system entirely are rarely within budgets, particularly in today’s business climate.

But that doesn’t mean legacy systems should be left as is. Erlang is a resilient and p … ⌘ Read more

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El Niño Explained In One Minute #neildegrassetyson href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23startalk”>#startalk** ⌘ Read more

Brett Lee, avocados, and India: Could this trade deal prevent a future ‘avoglut’?
It’s not the first time Aussies have put all their hopes on Brett Lee, but this time it’s avocado growers hoping to get a taste of his consistency in India. ⌘ Read more

Mixing 3D Printing Resin with Rocket Fuel href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23shorts”>#shorts** ⌘ Read more

AI-powered impact: GitHub Social Impact’s year ahead
How GitHub Social Impact is working with nonprofit organizations, employees, and more to create positive, lasting change in global communities.

The post AI-powered impact: GitHub Social Impact’s year ahead appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Docker Hub Registry IPv6 Support Now Generally Available
Docker announces the general availability of IPv6 support for the Docker Hub Registry, Docker Docs, and Docker Scout endpoints. ⌘ Read more

Une France pleine de millionnaires ?
J’en vois encore quelques uns qui haussent des épaules lorsqu’on leur fait remarquer la France est un pays de cocagne où les millionnaires se bousculent. Pourtant, le dernier rapport réalisé conjointement cette année par les banques suisses Credit Suisse et UBS sur l’état de la richesse mondial est formel : la France se hisse en effet […] ⌘ Read more

Adding Wi-Fi to a Macintosh Portable (or any 68k Mac) ⌘ Read more

Beekeeper says eradication ‘impossible’ as varroa mite spreads through coastal region
The number of varroa mite detections in the Kempsey area of the NSW Mid North Coast has grown to 13 in just over a week. ⌘ Read more

Pronunciation
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Coffee grounds to make stronger concrete
As if Melburnians needed another excuse to enjoy a cuppa joe. ⌘ Read more

In my second apartment, I really like sitting in the winter garden (more some kind of balcony or loggia but with windows) in the evening and looking outside. The neighbors aren’t very close, and you can see the sky well. It’s very relaxing to sit here in the dark, thinking and enjoying the time. ⌘ Read more

What is El Niño? | Neil deGrasse Tyson & Katharine Hayhoe Explain… ⌘ Read more

APVMA talks about dimethoate suspension
Farmers have used dimethoate for decades. So why is the APVMA looking to suspend its use now? ⌘ Read more

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「MalDoc in PDF - 検知回避を狙って悪性なWordファイルをPDFファイルへ埋め込む手法 -」 ⌘ Read more

Plastic! ⌘ Read more

This Black Hole Fact Will Blow Your Mind 🤯 #neildegrassetyson #startalk href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23blackhole”>#blackhole** ⌘ Read more

Queensland farmers have grown too many vegetables, but who’s to blame?
Ideal growing conditions this year have seen the volume of vegetables in one of Australia’s largest winter production regions skyrocket, leading to oversupply and low farmgate prices. ⌘ Read more

The Aussie dollar could slump below 60 US cents, bringing with it pain and gain
For foreign tourists? Great. For travellers? Terrible. For the economy? A mix. The fall in the Australian dollar has created winners and losers across the economy. ⌘ Read more

ChatGPT Plus?
It’s been a while since ChatGPT was introduced to the world, and after the initial excitement, things seem to have settled down. While there’s still daily news about various services and companies integrating the GPT API into their products, the buzz around it has quieted. At least, that’s how it appears to me. ⌘ Read more

Highlights from Git 2.42
Another new release of Git is here! Take a look at some of our highlights on what’s new in Git 2.42.

The post Highlights from Git 2.42 appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

“The Wikipedia Hustle”
Listen now (26 mins) | Lunduke’s Big Tech Show - August 21st, 2023 ⌘ Read more

Immobilier : une tempête parfaite ?
C’est bien connu : quand le bâtiment va, tout va. Dès lors, tout va bien en France, n’est-ce pas ? Eh bien à vrai dire, pas tout à fait. Il semble bien qu’après des années, voire des décennies d’une euphorie que certains, chafouins, qualifiaient d’irrationnelle, les choses sont en train de prendre une tournure un peu moins […] ⌘ Read more

Circuit Symbols
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I built a Pulsed Rocket Engine ⌘ Read more

Nerdy things you might have missed this week
Podcasts, articles, comics, musings… good times were had. ⌘ Read more

Tropical flower supply looking tight as rain dampens the north’s dry season
Lovers of Australian-grown tropical flowers could have trouble finding them as an usually rainy dry season has put Queensland growers two months behind schedule. ⌘ Read more

If you haven’t already noticed (though why would you?), I have finally merged my homepage into my blog. Why? Well, I believe it doesn’t make much sense to keep them separate. My homepage had only a few pages, and elements such as my “About Me” page and collections of things I use are well-maintained on my blog as well. Some pages were also deleted during this process, but I made an effort to preserve links where possible. ⌘ Read more

Immobilier, startups, hydrogène : les profiteurs d’illusions
Un article de Henry Bonner Les dirigeants et les politiciens passent leur temps à inventer des prétextes pour la déformation des prix dans l’économie. En général, ils induisent ainsi plus d’agitation dans l’économie, c’est-à-dire plus de transactions, d’investissements, et de consommation qu’ils croient être de l’activité économique. Selon les modèles et croyances de ces dirigeants, […] ⌘ Read more

Meet an Australian helping Afghan farmers find an alternative to opium poppies
With the Taliban banning poppy production, this agriculture consultant from Darwin helps farmers in Afghanistan find viable and legal alternative crops. ⌘ Read more

Gardening 19 August 2023
Gardening 19 August 2023 ⌘ Read more

Spacetime, Premonitions, & Brachistochrone Problem with Neil deGrasse Tyson & Charles Liu ⌘ Read more

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Oups, l’énergie devient fort chère !
Dès 2022, les choses ont été clairement dites par notre Bruneau De Bercy national : il n’y a pas d’inflation ou, disons plutôt que la France y résiste nettement mieux que le reste de l’Europe. Ou disons plutôt que le gouvernement va agiter frénétiquement ses petits bras musclés pour faire baisser les prix délirants de certains […] ⌘ Read more

Electron Holes
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Thematic Book Series: How to Build a Low-tech Internet?

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mTLS: When certificate authentication is done wrong
In this post, we’ll deep dive into some interesting attacks on mTLS authentication. We’ll have a look at implementation vulnerabilities and how developers can make their mTLS systems vulnerable to user impersonation, privilege escalation, and information leakages.

The post mTLS: When certificate authentication is done wrong appeared first on [The Gi … ⌘ Read more

Rosa’s been selling produce at the Queen Victoria Market for decades, but now she fears for its future
Traders at the Queen Victoria Market in Melbourne say they feel “blindsided” by management’s decision to raise licence fees and hand back the cost of utilities, waste disposal and utilities to stallholders. ⌘ Read more

Cosmic Queries – Cosmological Curiosities with Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more

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Unleash Docker Desktop 4.22: The Featherweight Heavy-Hitter for Supercharged Rapid Development
Docker is committed to delivering the most efficient and high-performing container development toolset in the market, so we continue to advance our technology to exceed customer expectations. With the latest version 4.22 release, Docker Desktop has undergone significant optimizations, making it streamlined, lightweight, and faster than ever. Not only does this new version offer enhanced […] ⌘ Read more

Docker Scout Demo and Q&A
We share highlights from a recent webinar: “Docker Scout: Live Demo, Insights, and Q&A,” which is also now available on-demand. ⌘ Read more

Accelerating Machine Learning with TensorFlow.js: Using Pretrained Models and Docker
We explore the concept of using pretrained models with TensorFlow.js and Docker and delve into the potential applications and benefits offered. ⌘ Read more

Why Are Military Plane Cameras So Bad!? ⌘ Read more

PEP 725: Specifying external dependencies in pyproject.toml
This PEP specifies how to write a project’s external, or non-PyPI, build and runtime dependencies in a pyproject.toml file for packaging-related tools to consume. ⌘ Read more

Hurry Up! ⌘ Read more

Turning Milk into…Clothing?? ⌘ Read more

L’horizon de confiance se réduit franchement
C’était pourtant assuré, promis juré craché : l’été 2023 devait être le plus chaud bouillant jamais enregistré. Cependant, malgré l’utilisation de couleurs cramoisies pour les cartes météos dans tous les médias européens, les autorités ont eu bien du mal à faire oublier la canicule humide et la violente sécheresse asymptomatique qui a frappé l’essentiel de l’Europe […] ⌘ Read more

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC インターネット定点観測レポート［2023年4月1日～2023年6月30日］ ⌘ Read more

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「TSUBAMEレポート Overflow（2023年4～6月）」 ⌘ Read more

Types of Solar Eclipse
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Profanity: Profanity 0.14.0
Apologies for the late blog post.
We have good news though! Two weeks ago we released Profanity 0.14.0!

13 people contributed to this release: Daniel Santos, @DebXWoody, @H3rnand3zzz, @ike08, @MarcoPolo-PasTonMolo, @mdosch, @pasis, @paulfertser, @shahab-vahedi, @sjaeckel, @techmetx11, @thexhr and @jubalh.

Also a big thanks to our sponsors: @mdosch, @LeSpocky, @jamesponddotco and one anonymous sponsor!

We introduced a new /privacy command which should make it easier to find all pri … ⌘ Read more

What’s Up With Superconductors? With Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more

Build for today, transform for tomorrow at GitHub Universe 2023
Get tickets to our global developer and customer event for 30% off during our Super-Early Bird special, only for a limited time.

The post Build for today, transform for tomorrow at GitHub Universe 2023 appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Release Radar · July 2023 Edition
After the last Release Radar, I promised the next one wouldn’t be far away, so here it is. This is the low down on some of the best open source projects that shipped major version updates in July. There’s lots of cool stuff from natural language processing, to APIs, money, and SDKs. I won’t spoil […]

The post Release Radar · July 2023 Edition appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Hardening repositories against credential theft
Some best practices and important defenses to prevent common attacks against GitHub Actions that are enabled by stolen personal access tokens, compromised accounts, or compromised GitHub sessions.

The post Hardening repositories against credential theft appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

I built an IONIC PLASMA THRUSTER (Best Design) ⌘ Read more

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The NT’s mango harvest has begun
The mango harvest is underway in the Northern Territory ⌘ Read more

What’s Inside A Black Hole? ⌘ Read more

Chinese tariffs, changing palates see Australian wine stockpile grow to 2.8m bottles
Australian grape growers have produced a stockpile of over 2 billion litres of wine that will take years to bring back into balance. ⌘ Read more

Nine years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program
It was another record year for our Security Bug Bounty program! We’re excited to highlight some achievements we’ve made together with the bounty community in 2022!

The post Nine years of the GitHub Security Bug Bounty program appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

My unsuccessful search for the perfect 5G home router solution
In search of the perfect LTE or 5G-based home router, I recently found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole. ⌘ Read more

5 Benefits of a Container-First Approach to Software Development
This post provides a quick introduction to the benefits of adopting a container-first model in your software development. Learn more by downloading our free Cracking the Code: Effectively Managing All of Those Applications whitepaper. ⌘ Read more

Pas d’hydrogène blanc pour les Français ?
L’écologie, ce n’est vraiment pas un sujet facile puisque, comme chacun le sait, l’énergie dont l’Humanité a besoin ne peut plus provenir de sources polluante et limitées. Bien évidemment, le plus simple consisterait à diminuer nos besoins, par exemple en éliminant joyeusement une bonne partie de l’Humanité. Mais en attendant de mettre sur pied une […] ⌘ Read more

Lunduke’s Nerdy Q & A
Listen now (53 mins) | The Lunduke Journal of Technology Podcast - August 14th, 2023 ⌘ Read more

Car Wash
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Bro, Just Leave. ⌘ Read more

My unsuccessful search for the perfect 5G home router solution
In search of the perfect LTE or 5G-based home router, I recently found myself tumbling down a rabbit hole. ⌘ Read more

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Is there a better way to track UFO sightings? ⌘ Read more

Could this native pollinator be an alternative solution to the under-threat European honey bee?
Australia’s agricultural industry is heavily reliant on European honey bees, but scientists say native species have shown promise as alternative pollinators. ⌘ Read more

Ces Jeux Olympiques 2024 qui se présentent si bien…
On s’amuse, on rigole, le temps passe et mine de rien, dans moins d’un an, Paris devra accueillir les Jeux Olympiques d’été. Heureusement, les astres s’alignent et tout indique que ces événements sportifs seront placés sous les meilleurs auspices. Reconnaissons-le : ces jeux tombent vraiment à point. Pour une France dont la dette dépasse à présent […] ⌘ Read more

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Perseids Pronunciation
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The XMPP Standards Foundation: The XMPP Newsletter June & July 2023
Welcome to the XMPP Newsletter, great to have you here again! This issue covers the month of June & July 2023.
Many thanks to all our readers and all contributors!

Like this newsletter, many projects and their efforts in the XMPP community are a result of people’s voluntary work. If you are happy with the services and software you may be using, please consider saying thanks or help these projects! Interested in supporting the Newsletter te … ⌘ Read more

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Growers warn ‘unworkable’ Pacific Islander worker changes lack critical flexibility required for horticulture
Changes to the Pacific Islander labour scheme mean workers must be guaranteed a minimum of 30 hours of work each week, but the horticulture industry says the seasonal nature of the work and weather events make that unworkable. ⌘ Read more

Inside NASA’s UAP Report with Commission Chair David Spergel & Neil deGrasse Tyson ⌘ Read more

Rewriting wipEout
The source code for the classic PSX launch title wipEout was leaked in 2022. A few month ago I finally sat down to take a look at it. The result is a (nearly) complete rewrite that compiles to Windows, Linux, macOS and WASM.

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I’m not the only one who embarked on a path to r … ⌘ Read more

Bladeless Turbine built by Nikola Tesla #tesla #engineering href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23science”>#science** ⌘ Read more

Erlang Solutions: 5 ways Elixir programming can improve business performance
Elixir is a simple, lightweight programming language that is built on top of the Erlang virtual machine. It offers straightforward syntax, impressive performance and a raft of powerful features. It uses your digital resources in the most efficient way.

This is all very well, but what does that mean in practice? Aside from impressing your web development team, what can Elixir do for your business?

In this … ⌘ Read more

Border Force seizes 3 million illegal cigarettes in Queensland raids
Authorities say they have dismantled a large-scale illicit tobacco syndicate operating in south-east Queensland, seizing nearly 3 million illegal cigarettes and 380 kilograms of the drug. ⌘ Read more

How Neutrons Drive the Nuclear Chain Reaction ⌘ Read more

Enhanced push protection features for developers and organizations
Introducing two new secret scanning push protection features that will enable individual developers to protect all their pushes and organizations to gain insights and trends across their repositories.

The post Enhanced push protection features for developers and organizations appeared first on [The GitH … ⌘ Read more

GitHub Availability Report: July 2023
In July, we experienced one incident that resulted in degraded performance across GitHub services.

The post GitHub Availability Report: July 2023 appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure
Researchers from Purdue and NCSU have found a large number of command injection vulnerabilities in the workflows of projects on GitHub. Follow these four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure.

The post Four tips to keep your GitHub Actions workflows secure appeared first on The GitHub Blog. ⌘ Read more

Container Security and Why It Matters
Container security is the process of using relevant toolings to protect your images from malware and vulnerabilities.

We look at security for containers in a scalable environment and how Docker can help. ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023: The Apps
As promised in our introduction to the series, welcome to the first of our ‘State of Snikket’ update posts! This installment features all the app development news you could wish for.

So what’s new in the world of Snikket apps?

If you’ve been following Snikket development for a while, you might remember that we were receiving UX advice on making our apps easier and more fun to use, thanks to the team at … ⌘ Read more

Snikket: State of Snikket 2023
This is our first blog post for quite a while, and the last few have all been technical updates of various kinds about the Snikket software. In fact it’s been almost two years since the last post that gave a general progress update on the Snikket project itself, so let’s fix that!

You’ll be pleased to hear that Snikket is very much alive, and although there hasn’t been much of a show to see here, a bunch of stuff has been going on backstage.

We plan to catch you up with our progres … ⌘ Read more

Sentiment Analysis and Insights on Cryptocurrencies Using Docker and Containerized AI/ML Models
Learn how Prometeo.ai leverages Docker to deploy and manage its AI/ML models for sentiment analysis of cryptocurrencies. ⌘ Read more

Docker Desktop 4.22: Resource Saver, Compose ‘include’, and Enhanced RBAC Functionality
Docker Desktop 4.22 is now available, with improved memory & CPU management, support for Compose subprojects, and improvements to role-based access control. ⌘ Read more

L’Allemagne a tué la France et l’Europe a tué l’Allemagne
Sur le papier et il y a cinquante ans de cela, l’Union européenne semblait une excellente idée. Avec les dernières décennies et, notamment, les cinq dernières années, l’idée a rapidement viré au cauchemar et tout s’y déroule comme si la construction européenne avait été conçue pour ruiner la France puis, maintenant, l’Allemagne. Pour tous les […] ⌘ Read more

お知らせ：JPCERT/CC Eyes「カスタマイズ可能なマルウェア検知ツールYAMA」 ⌘ Read more