Trying to install remote desktop multiuser in server manager, for win2025 the installer fails. I find out that a security update broke it over a year ago. Uninstalled all updates then rebooted and it works. Not to mention the constant wack a mole admins do to disable unwanted marketing additions to the taskbar and start menu via group policy and registry hacks. Clearly what windows needs next is an AI powered going dark mode to randomly break features it thinks you don’t need. Because even that would be less confusing than what we have now.

Why slow rotating physical storage ? It not like the AI models generate anything worth retaining in the long term. I assume they are in just running out of ssds so will buy any old drive

Definitely students need more sleep, right through to university. According to this study humans are still adolescent from 9 till 32. Scientists identify five ages of the human brain over a lifetime Want to protect human potential ? That would be a good starting point. It’s sensible even from a purely utilitarian profit focused view of study and work.

Extra high energy particles too. So next time we get hit by secondary particles from a cosmic ray we know what’s to blame. On the other hand the planet might not all be here without the extra gravity from dark matter so it’s still all good. Radiation induced Cancer is horrible but having a decent sized planet is a definite plus

It worth mentioning the environment benefits of the Opencore project that allows this. It keeps older Intel Macs secure, extending their useful life as well as do it yourself hackentoshes. Obviously Apple would prefer you buy new models every few years but for high end Intel Macs it’s a good tradeoff till Linux supports them better.

Open shell is a helpful solution that replaces some of the problems in the windows UI at least for the start menu.

OpenShell github

It’s pretty easy to customize most elements for the style you prefer and no adverts.

Yum, looks similar to chicken arroz caldo which is amazing on a cold day. Pure comfort food.

https://www.kawalingpinoy.com/arroz-caldo/

I’ve updated the Illustration.

Seems like they got it straight from the university press release here. I guess we can cut them some slack for using a bit of AI given the recent job losses at that university. They are reported to have lost around 4000 full time staff places in the last year, part of Australia’s recent cut backs to universities that don’t get much international reporting. That’s may hurt their ability to do quality research. Professor Archer noted that "quite clearly, from the many fascinating animals that we’ve already found in this deposit since 1983, we know that with more digging there will be a lot more surprises to come,”. So lets hope they continue to get support.

Yep that’s not how science is done, but the real story is more interesting I think. It wasn’t Einstein so much as Hubble and Lemaître, but he did acknowledge the error that caused him to miss the expanding universe in his equations.

"This circumstance of an expanding universe is irritating " – Albert Einstein, 1929.

In every direction in the sky, there is a background fizz of light. It is all that remains of the most intense flare of energy ever emitted. To explain it, we must look back to 1929. At that time Edwin Hubble, an astronomer at Caltech, proved that the universe was much larger than anyone had expected and expanding in all directions. From this discovery, two competing explanations developed. The Steady State Theory and the Big Bang. The first allows the universe to create new matter as it expands. Matter just appears from some hidden and rather ghostly source. That permits the universe to look more or less the same as it does today, at least as far as galaxies go. The second treats the universe as a closed system. One that begins with a vast and concentrated supply of energy, which decays into lesser forms. Spreading out as it does. The Big Bang universe is an expanding bubble of space-time, with a few wisps of hydrogen and helium that form the stars. The origins of the Big Bang theory began before Hubble’s discovery. A Russian physicist, A. A. Friedmann had used Einstein’s general relativity to model an expanding universe. At this time, it was a purely theoretical exercise. No one realized then that our universe was expanding.

The rate at which the universe expands is known as the Hubble-Lemaître constant. That naming honours Georges Lemaître. In some ways he was the co-discoverer of the Big Bang. He was among the first to model Einstein’s theories of space and time across an entire universe. As a physicist, Catholic priest and astronomer, he had a clear perspective on this question. He had no problem with the idea of the universe having a unique origin for example. Both Einstein and others had learned that Relativity predicted an expanding universe. But at the time, there was no physical evidence of that. Einstein’s solution was to introduce an extra value to the equations. That balanced the universe’s expansion with an opposing force. For the moment, a stable universe seemed possible.

In the 1920s, astronomers were unsure whether our galaxy was the only structure in the universe. There was no astronomical distance scale. That might explain why most astronomers assumed a static universe. Lemaître was willing to explore a different option. He had seen the evidence from Erwin Hubble’s early observations at Mount Wilson Observatory in California. He published his theory in 1927. He estimated the speed of the expansion using those measurements. They proved that Spacetime was rapidly expanding, carrying along the rest of the physical universe.

Wherever astronomers pointed their telescopes every distant object was part of this rapid expansion. Lemaître understood that an expanding universe must have a tiny beginning. He called this origin point the cosmic atom, from which all matter emerged. Einstein rejected the significance of the new astronomical discoveries for some time. He maintained his belief in a static, unchanging cosmos until 1930, when he traveled halfway across the world from Berlin to Pasadena to see Hubble’s evidence in person. He examined Hubble’s photographs, looked through his telescopes, and declared himself fully persuaded.

He called the stabilizing term Lamda also known as the Cosmic Constant his “worst blunder” but actually it forms the foundation for our present understanding the effects of dark energy, the mysterious force driving the observed accelerated expansion of the universe.

So he’s talking about the Christian version of God but what specific variant. There’s lots to select from you know. Do other Abrehamic religions get a pass or just his present kind of evangelical nuttery.

I think your right to be cautious about the timing, cats are very territorial and can take a couple of months to trust that a new place really belongs to them. I guess the breed and personality of the kitten would be the key to harmony because your present cat is already mature. If they can coexist then they will eventually accept one another but seperate feeding areas help. They will try very hard to invade the others space on day one so it can be job to keep them separate.

This is the story of a bloodstained boy. There he stands, swaying as utterly as any windblown sapling. He is quite, quite red. - Railsea, China Mieville.

The compulsory voting tends to help there. The otherwise disengaged have to decide on some party. Even the conservatives looking at the US are thinking, nope we should avoid that. There has been a general trend to more independent candidates as well, which is great. The lifestyle is good even if housing is too expensive in the bigger cities.

Its a pattern in the data that’s consistent unless our observations are very strangely skewed. Even if it only shows that gigantic planets tend to come in matched sets within a solar system that is quite interesting. As the paper suggests it warrants more investigation which might show that the correlation is true for all planets forming together in a system or not. That might have to do with how often, major inward moving currents form in a solar nebula, changing the distribution of matter towards a few giants as in our own solar system, or perhaps the metalicity of the original disk material is a factor ie more frozen gas and less rock. In any case a very interesting result, especially if it continues to hold up. The Vera C. Rubin Observatory should over time add many additional exoplanets to our records as it will survey billions of stars and can detect planets in types of systems not currently covered by TESS.

The implication being that everything is part of Gods plan including suffering. Therefore suffering somehow must be useful instead of a normal side effect of chaos. That’s Platonic thinking at it’s most absurd. Pointless suffering is exactly the problem with this universe, that God came to heal.

Nothing in the article showing password hashes were compromised. General advise to change if passwords are too simple though.

A multiverse with independent universes and varied physics seems plausible given the physics of inflation. On the other hand the quantum kind has multiple parallel worlds. That should have different versions of ourselves among everything else that is possible, but seems unprovable and inelegant as a solution.

But the workaround is complex and only temporary. Well Firefox has easier profiles now so really thats the last straw as far as chrome goes. It’s easy enough to migrate.

That’s truly sad to hear. Hopefully it will improve as Filipino culture becomes better known worldwide.

Recently replaced a small VMware cluster with it after a long testing period. Its working well generally. We have a couple of layers of PBS and the storage backend is varied. Some hardware raid some zfs. No major complaints so far with stability or performance