DNA repair mechanisms help explain why naked mole-rats live a long life
Naked mole-rats are one of nature’s most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ten times longer than relatives of a similar size. But what is the secret to their extreme longevity? How are they able to delay the decay and decline that befalls other rodents? The answer, at least in part, is due to a switch in a common protein that boosts DNA repair, according to new research published i … ⌘ Read more
DNA repair mechanisms help explain why naked mole-rats live a long life
Naked mole-rats are one of nature’s most extraordinary creatures. These burrowing rodents can live for up to 37 years, around ten times longer than relatives of a similar size. But what is the secret to their extreme longevity? How are they able to delay the decay and decline that befalls other rodents? The answer, at least in part, is due to a switch in a common protein that boosts DNA repair, according to new research published i … ⌘ Read more
Every third school in Vilnius lies in a high air pollution zone, Lithuanian study reveals
A study carried out by researchers at the Center for Physical Sciences and Technology (FTMC) revealed that 37% of primary and secondary schools in Vilnius, the capital of Lithuania, are exposed to harmful air pollutants due to their proximity to major high-traffic roads. ⌘ Read more
#MaradoWeekly #WeeklyPlant Week 37
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′28″W] Raw reading: 0x6891E431, offset +/-3
[47°09′04″S, 126°43′37″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′21″W] Transponder fixed
[47°09′31″S, 126°43′37″W] Reading: 0.77 Sv
[47°09′10″S, 126°43′37″W] Transfer aborted
[47°09′17″S, 126°43′37″W] Transfer 75% complete…
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′22″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′07″W] Reading: 1.99000 PPM
[47°09′12″S, 126°43′37″W] Dosimeter malfunction
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′20″W] Transponder jammed
Two murder arrests after boy, 14, stabbed to death
A 14-year-old girl and a 37-year-old woman were also detained on suspicion of assisting an offender. ⌘ Read more
Two murder arrests after boy, 14, stabbed to death
A 14-year-old girl and a 37-year-old woman were also detained on suspicion of assisting an offender. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′39″S, 126°43′37″W] Transfer aborted
Jessie J reveals early breast cancer diagnosis with surgery planned soon
The 37-year-old singer, whose real name is Jessica Ellen Cornish, said she had a surgery planned after the Summertime Ball, a music event being held at Wembley Stadium on June 15. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′35″S, 126°43′37″W] –bad checksum–
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′20″W] 4426 days without news from Herve
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′14″W] Transfer aborted
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′16″W] Sample analyzing complete – starting transfer
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′37″W] Reading: 1.51000 PPM
[47°09′35″S, 126°43′37″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from SE
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′08″W] Raw reading: 0x682477B1, offset +/-3
[47°09′25″S, 126°43′37″W] Wind speed: 108kph
[47°09′14″S, 126°43′37″W] Raw reading: 0x6809E172, offset +/-2
[47°09′53″S, 126°43′37″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
Dead Internet Theory Confirmed: 51% of Traffic Now Non-Human
Even worse: 37% of all Internet traffic is from “malicious bots” according to the 2025 “Bad Bot Report”. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′04″S, 126°43′37″W] Dosimeter overflow
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′37″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm
[47°09′28″S, 126°43′37″W] 4330 days without news from Herve
vtnerd submits CCS proposal for 3 months of full-time Monero dev work
Lee Clagett (vtnerd1) has submitted a new CCS proposal2 looking to continue working full-time on Monero core components development for 3 months (Q1/Q2 2025):
Work primarily on the monerod, wallet, and monero-lws. [..] There is intentionally more work than time allows - to ensure there is always something to work on in the proposal.
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Total funding proposed: 134.37 XMR (USD 65/hr).
ETA: 3 … ⌘ Read more”`
[47°09′02″S, 126°43′37″W] 4323 days without news from Herve
reviewing logs this morning and found i have been spammed hard by bots not respecting the robots.txt file. only noticed it because the OpenAI bot was hitting me with a lot of nonsensical requests. here is the list from last month:
- (810) bingbot
- (641) Googlebot
- (624) http://www.google.com/bot.html
- (545) DotBot
- (290) GPTBot
- (106) SemrushBot
- (84) AhrefsBot
- (62) MJ12bot
- (60) BLEXBot
- (55) wpbot
- (37) Amazonbot
- (28) YandexBot
- (22) ClaudeBot
- (19) AwarioBot
- (14) https://domainsbot.com/pandalytics
- (9) https://serpstatbot.com
- (6) t3versionsBot
- (6) archive.org_bot
- (6) Applebot
- (5) http://search.msn.com/msnbot.htm
- (4) http://www.googlebot.com/bot.html
- (4) Googlebot-Mobile
- (4) DuckDuckGo-Favicons-Bot
- (3) https://turnitin.com/robot/crawlerinfo.html
- (3) YandexNews
- (3) ImagesiftBot
- (2) Qwantify-prod
- (1) http://www.google.com/adsbot.html
- (1) http://gais.cs.ccu.edu.tw/robot.php
- (1) YaK
- (1) WBSearchBot
- (1) DataForSeoBot
i have placed some middleware to reject these for now but it is not a full proof solution.
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′39″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
[47°09′22″S, 126°43′37″W] Reading: 0.91 Sv
[47°09′08″S, 126°43′37″W] Taking samples
[WTS] [~0.37 XMR] Lenovo ThinkPad Carbon x1 gen2
Laptops are in good condition, battery can last several hours still, biggest defect is the Touch Bar (which includes the F1-F12 and media keys) is turning hazy and is not cosmetically pleasant. Touch Bar and thus keys all still work. Each laptop has a valid Windows 10 keys but I can also install Ubuntu or Debian upon request.
Link: https://xmrbazaar.com/listing/6zDp/
AffluentLynx (XMRBazaar) ⌘ Read more
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′16″W] Wind speed: 58kph
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′41″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from NE
[47°09′02″S, 126°43′37″W] 4276 days without news from Herve
Bible Back in Texas Schools After Being Pulled for Sexual Content
Elizabeth Nolan Brown , Staff Writer - reason
Stephan: This is how weird book censorship is getting in the Red States. Did you ever think of the Bible as being too sexually explicit to be read by a minor?
Is the Bible too “sexually explicit” for minors? The Canyon Independent School Dis … ⌘ Read more
Monero Observer Blitz #37 - December 2024
Here’s a recap of what happened this December in the Monero community:
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′42″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from NW
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′13″W] Taking samples
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′23″W] Reading: 0.72000 PPM
[47°09′04″S, 126°43′37″W] Transponder jammed
[47°09′52″S, 126°43′37″W] Saalmi, retransmit, please
Docker Desktop 4.37: AI Catalog and Command-Line Efficiency
Docker Desktop 4.37 streamlines AI-driven development with the new AI Catalog integration, command-line management capabilities, upgraded components, and enhanced stability to empower modern developers. ⌘ Read more
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′54″W] Dosimeter overflow
[47°09′46″S, 126°43′37″W] Raw reading: 0x674AA9E1, offset +/-4
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′38″W] Wind speed: 76kph
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′56″W] Raw reading: 0x673E1591, offset +/-1
[47°09′29″S, 126°43′37″W] Working impossible due to thunderstorm
[47°09′01″S, 126°43′37″W] Analyzing samples
[47°09′44″S, 126°43′37″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from E
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′26″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′04″W] –bad checksum–
[ANN] The MAGIC Monero Fund received a new grant application: ‘Monerotopia Buildathon 2024’
Deverick is asking for 4,000 USD to host a hackathon/buildathon to improve Monero integration in the BTCPay self-hosted merchant payment system, especially with BTCPay 2.0 coming up. Community feedback on this idea is appreciated :D
Link: https://github.com/MAGICGrants/Monero-Fund/issues/37
@rucknium:monero.social ⌘ Read more
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′37″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
@movq@www.uninformativ.de I figured it will be something like this, yet, you were able to reply just fine, and I wasn’t. Looking at your twtxt.txt I see this line:
2024-09-16T17:37:14+00:00 (#o6dsrga) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt>
@<quark https://ferengi.one/twtxt.txt> This is what I get. 🤔
Which is using the right hash. Mine, on the other hand, when I replied to the original, old style message (Message-Id: <o6dsrga>), looks like this:
2024-09-16T16:42:27+00:00 (#o) @<prologic https://twtxt.net/user/prologic/twtxt.txt> this was your first twtxt. Cool! :-P
What did you do to make yours work? I simply went to the oldest @prologic@twtxt.net’s entry on my Maildir, and replied to it (jenny set the reply-to hash to #o, even though the Message-Id is o6dsrga). Since jenny can’t fetch archived twtxts, how could I go to re-fetch everything? And, most importantly, would re-fetching fix the Message-Id:?
[47°09′15″S, 126°43′37″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
iPhone 16 Pro Demand Has Been Lower Than Expected, Analyst Says
Apple analyst Ming-Chi Kuo today said demand for the iPhone 16 Pro and iPhone 16 Pro Max has been “lower than expected” since the devices became available to pre-order in the U.S. and dozens of other countries on Friday. Kuo … ⌘ Read more
All this hash breakage made me wonder if we should try to introduce “message IDs” after all. 😅
But the great thing about the current system is that nobody can spoof message IDs. 🤔 When you think about it, message IDs in e-mails only work because (almost) everybody plays fair. Nothing stops me from using the same Message-ID header in each and every mail, that would break e-mail threading all the time.
In Yarn, twt hashes are derived from twt content and feed metadata. That is pretty elegant and I’d hate see us lose that property.
If we wanted to allow editing twts, we could do something like this:
2024-09-05T13:37:40+00:00 (~mp6ox4a) Hello world!
Here, mp6ox4a would be a “partial hash”: To get the actual hash of this twt, you’d concatenate the feed’s URL and mp6ox4a and get, say, hlnw5ha. (Pretty similar to the current system.) When people reply to this twt, they would have to do this:
2024-09-05T14:57:14+00:00 (~bpt74ka) (<a href="https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23hlnw5ha">#hlnw5ha</a>) Yes, hello!
That second twt has a partial hash of bpt74ka and is a reply to the full hash hlnw5ha. The author of the “Hello world!” twt could then edit their twt and change it to 2024-09-05T13:37:40+00:00 (~mp6ox4a) Hello friends! or whatever. Threading wouldn’t break.
Would this be worth it? It’s certainly not backwards-compatible. 😂
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′17″W] –interrupted–
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′20″W] Non-significative results – sampling finished
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′34″W] Transfer 50% complete…
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′38″W] Reading: 1.85 Sv
[47°09′09″S, 126°43′37″W] –bad checksum–
[47°09′46″S, 126°43′37″W] Transponder still failing – switching to analog communication
[47°09′49″S, 126°43′37″W] Taking samples
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′23″W] Wind speed: 43kph – batteries low
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′16″W] 4124 days without news from Herve
Exam Numbers
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[47°09′51″S, 126°43′37″W] Transponder malfunction
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′59″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′40″W] Wind speed: 92kph – batteries low
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′30″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm
[47°09′50″S, 126°43′37″W] Reading: 0.86000 PPM
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′37″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to blizzard
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′41″W] Raw reading: 0x66674D31, offset +/-5
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′02″W] Taking samples
[47°09′01″S, 126°43′37″W] Reading: 0.55 Sv
[47°09′38″S, 126°43′37″W] Raw reading: 0x66501ED1, offset +/-1
** Astronomical occurrences **
In the span of two posts here I’ve witnessed two astronomical events! First the total solar eclipse, and then more recently the aurora borealis. Both were amazing, especially the aurora. I’d never seen either before and both were pretty incredible to behold.
I left my old job at the start of the month, and, after a few days off, I’ve started a new one! I’m really excited for this one, though around day two the anxiety and im … ⌘ Read more
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′48″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to heavy rain
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′48″W] Storm recedes – back to normal work
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′44″W] Working impossible due to blizzard
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′10″W] Resetting dosimeter
[47°09′51″S, 126°43′37″W] Resetting dosimeter
[47°09′58″S, 126°43′37″W] Wind speed: 50kph – batteries low
[47°09′37″S, 126°43′56″W] 4008 days without news from Herve
[47°09′35″S, 126°43′37″W] Automatic systems disengaged due to thunderstorm
[47°09′23″S, 126°43′37″W] –no signal–
[47°09′16″S, 126°43′37″W] Bad satellite signal – switching to analog communication
[47°09′08″S, 126°43′37″W] Weather forecast alert – storm from W
[47°09′42″S, 126°43′37″W] Wind speed: 108kph – batteries low