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Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 April 26

Planet Parade over Sydney Opera House
Image Credit & Copyright: Prasun Agrawal

Explanation: The world is waking up to a picturesque planet parade. Just before dawn, the eastern skies over much of planet Earth are decorated by a notable line of familiar planets. In much of Earth's northern hemisphere, this line of planets appears most nearly horizontal, but in much of Earth's southern hemisphere, the line appears more nearly vertical. Pictured over the Sydney Opera House in southern Australia, the planet line was captured nearly vertical about five days ago. From top to bottom, the morning planets are Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Jupiter. As April ends, the angular distance between Venus and Jupiter will gradually pass below a degree as they switch places. Then, as May ends, Jupiter will pass near Mars as those two planets switch places. In June, the parade will briefly expand to include Mercury.

Notable Submissions to APOD: Morning Planet Parade 2022
Tomorrow's picture: Jupiter eclipse

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"HPR3584: The collective history of RAID controller brands" The market segment of RAID adapters has a long history and tradition, and has undergone gradual concentration, followed by upstream mergers of the owning corporations - a feeding frenzy of sorts, among the semiconductor manufacturers. http://support.fccps.cz/industry/RAID_history/index.htm http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=3584 ( Feed URL: http://hackerpublicradio.org/hpr_ogg_rss.php )

"This Week in Google 661: Oligarchs At the Gate" Elon Musk: There's a reason no smart buyer already purchased Twitter. Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation. Musk Not Allowed to Disparage Twitter When Tweeting About $44 Billion Deal. Elon Musk buys Tesla a pounding Chinese headache. Matt Levine's Money Stuff: Elon Musk Got His Deal for Twitter. Why exactly does Elon Musk want Twitter? Elon Musk Might Be Just What Twitter Needs. Breakingviews: Elon Musk probably won't buy Twitter. Again a man lets me fall on the spikes by myself.' Amber Heard laments about her public breakup from Elon Musk and admits she wasn't in love with him in emails to agent. New York Times Pitchbot - @DougJBalloon. CNET Rebrands And Invests For The Future. Stop Stealing Sheep & Find Out How Type Works by Erik Spiekermann. Alphabet Earnings Show Slowing Sales Growth on Digital-Ad Tumult. YouTube's huge miss shows digital media ad market is getting hit hard. Google tells shareholders that YouTube Shorts is doing great, don't worry about TikTok! Pixel 6 is 'fastest-selling Pixel ever' as Sundar Pichai teases Android, new hardware at I/O 2022. Alphabet announces $70 billion buyback. Facebook earnings beat sends Meta stock soaring, but sales hit the slowest growth in a decade. Jack Dorsey ditches Block CEO title for 'Block Head' CNN+ streaming service pulls a Quibi, will shut down a month after launch. Christina Warren's CNN+ swag and swag from failed companies and festivals. Google Rolls Out New Cookie Rejection Banner in Europe. Meta's Sheryl Sandberg Pressured Daily Mail to Drop Bobby Kotick Reporting. Picks: Glenn - Web3 is going just great Jeff - Reddit is spending $1 million to fund its users' best ideas and competitions Leo - Mastodon Leo - Internet spring cleaning: How to delete Instagram, Facebook and other accounts Take Control of Untangling Connections by Glenn Fleishman - https://www.takecontrolbooks.com/untangling/ Hosts: Leo Laporte and Jeff Jarvis Guests: Cathy Gellis and Glenn Fleischman Download or subscribe to this show at https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google. Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: Codecademy.com promo code TWIG ourcrowd.com/twig eightsleep.com/twig https://twit.tv/shows/this-week-in-google/episodes/661 ( Feed URL: http://feeds.twit.tv/brickhouse_video_small.xml )

Siding With The US Empire …
https://caitlinjohnstone.substack.com/p/siding-with-the-us-empire-is-always
by #CaitlinJohnstone #NotesFromTheEdgeOfTheNarrativeMatrix

Astronomy Picture of the Day

Discover the cosmos! Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer.

2022 April 30

M44: The Beehive Cluster
Image Credit & Copyright: Drew Evans

Explanation: A mere 600 light-years away, M44 is one of the closest star clusters to our solar system. Also known as the Praesepe or the Beehive cluster its stars are young though, about 600 million years old compared to our Sun's 4.5 billion years. Based on similar ages and motion through space, M44 and the even closer Hyades star cluster in Taurus are thought to have been born together in the same large molecular cloud. An open cluster spanning some 15 light-years, M44 holds 1,000 stars or so and covers about 3 full moons (1.5 degrees) on the sky in the constellation Cancer. Visible to the unaided eye, M44 has been recognized since antiquity. Described as a faint cloud or celestial mist long before being included as the 44th entry in Charles Messier's 18th century catalog, the cluster was not resolved into its individual stars until telescopes were available. A popular target for modern, binocular-equipped sky gazers, the cluster's few yellowish tinted, cool, red giants are scattered through the field of its brighter hot blue main sequence stars in this telescopic group snapshot. Dramatic diffraction spikes highlighting the brighter cluster members were created with string crossed in front of the telescope's objective lens.

Tomorrow's picture: black hole shadow

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Today at 1PM in room 365: "The rise of the machines: Their impact on society and what we can do about it"

"The Tech Guy 1889" Discussing content moderation on Twitter. A Blockbuster documentary recommendation. Troubleshooting legacy email connections. Changing the default search engine for Windows. Troubleshooting and disabling WiFi Protected Setup. Upgrading to wired ethernet in every room. Finding a way to video chat with pets while you're away from home. Understanding ad tech. Syncing a local Outlook account with Outlook online. Plus, conversations with Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick Debartolo. You Can Now Ask Google to Remove Your Phone Number, Email or Address from Search Results – Krebs on Security Remove your personal information from Google - Google Search Help Spokeo - People Search | White Pages | Reverse Phone Lookup Why Netflix Is the Worst Performing Stock in the S&P 500 - The New York Times FY22 Q3 - Press Releases - Investor Relations - Microsoft https://abc.xyz/investor/static/pdf/2022Q1_alphabet_earnings_release.pdf Meta Earnings: Facebook Parent's Profit Drops 21% - The New York Times Spotify — Spotify Technology S.A. Announces Financial Results for First Quarter 2022 The Shadow Crew Who Encouraged Elon Musk's Twitter Takeover - WSJ Framework | The Framework Laptop is now in stock! Thanks for Joining Us at the 2022 NAB Show - 2022 NAB Show ATSC 3.0 - Wikipedia CNET: Free 4K from an antenna - These 2021 TVs from Samsung, Sony and LG can get it - ATSC : NextGen TV $200 NextGen TV Tuner Now Available on Amazon | TV Tech Features - ZapperBox The Last Blockbuster (2020) - IMDb Prodigy.net - Is Prodigy Down Right Now? Configure Gmail to Pull Mail from prodigy.net | Red Stamp Mail Windows 11: How to set Google as your default search engine instead of Bing - CNET The Internet's Most Unique Clock Uses Google Earth - JohnnyJet.com Earth Clock This man is trolling his airline with PowerPoint presentations to find his missing bag. | CNN Travel SCOTTeVEST: It's not Rocket Science. It's Pocket Science! theoriginalmusclebeach.com Furbo Dog Camera | Treat Tossing Pet Camera with Barking Alerts Alexa's most underrated feature: Why you should 'drop in' on Amazon Echo more often - CNET Interactive Pet Camera • Best Dog Camera 2020 • PetChatz® High-Speed, Secure & Anonymous VPN Service | ExpressVPN NextDNS - The new firewall for the modern Internet uBlock Origin - Free, open-source ad content blocker. Insects Like Your Skin? Here's A Way To Take The "Bite Away" | Giz Wiz Biz Host: Leo Laporte Guests: Scott Wilkinson, Johnny Jet, and Dick DeBartolo Get episodes ad-free with Club TWiT at https://twit.tv/clubtwit Show notes and links for this episode are available at: https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 Download or subscribe to this show at: https://twit.tv/shows/all-twittv-shows Sponsor: wealthfront.com/techguy https://twit.tv/shows/the-tech-guy/episodes/1889 ( Feed URL: http://feeds.twit.tv/brickhouse_video_small.xml )

Dear web designers, I don't care about your fancy scrolling animations.

If I can't use my keyboard to navigate your website, then your website is broken.

https://fosdem.org/2021/

FOSDEM February 6-7, 2021 (virtual) https://fosdem.org/2021/

Thanks to you @JanKusanagi, for being so active developing Dianara!

Packaging it for Debian is a pleasure ;-)

“The sun is awakening with ‘solar storms’ that could affect Earth” Get ready for some auroras much farther from the magnetic poles than usual. https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/12/08/solar-storms-sunspots-aurora/

From mcnees on Twitter: Carl Sagan passed away #OTD in 1996. In his final interview he left us with two messages that are still relevant today: one emphasizing the importance of a science literate public, the other a warning about how hard it is to extract ourselves when we’ve been conned. https://twitter.com/mcnees/status/1340697644545531904/photo/1

From rocksatthestars on Twitter: Don’t miss the Great Conjunction tomorrow. #ScienceAdventCalendar https://twitter.com/rocksatthestars/status/1340817829982052358/photo/1

"Muon Weather and Seasons"

Over the winter break, I have picked up my little muon detector data side project that started in the spring term of 2020. A few days ago, I remarked on how I wanted to take account of “weather” in the data – variations around a daily expectation given seasonal conditions – and “seasons” – long-term …

Continue reading "Muon Weather and Seasons"

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From HEPfeickert on Twitter: A reminder that the PDG 2020 is available for pre-order! Physicists, order your updated particle book! We did a lot of good work in the last 2 years, and if for not other reason then having a reminder of that in your backpack go get it. :) #PDG2020 https://pdg.lbl.gov/2020/html/receive_our_products.html https://twitter.com/HEPfeickert/status/1344784216433848323/photo/1

One benefit from a global pandemic is that with increased cleansing and social distancing, I didn't catch any virus in 2020!

Happy New Year!

Bryan Lunduke might be using that.

IIRC, he's a fan of those kinds of oldies 😁