Tootfinder

In 2014, NASA awarded a Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract to Boeing to fly astronauts to and from the International Space Station with its #Starliner spacecraft; as part of its contract, Boeing was awarded up to six crewed flights to the orbital complex - after a thorough evaluation, the definitive order has been adjusted to four missions, with the remaining two available as options: https://www.nasa.gov/blogs/spacestation/2025/11/24/nasa-boeing-modify-commercial-crew-contract/. The next Starliner flight, known as Starliner-1, will be used by NASA to deliver necessary cargo to the orbital laboratory and allow in-flight validation of the system upgrades implemented following the Crew Flight Test mission last year - NASA and Boeing are targeting no earlier than April 2026 to fly the uncrewed Starliner-1 pending completion of rigorous test, certification, and mission readiness activities.

"I have no internet on my machine anymore". OK, on-site visit.
Me: "What's that connection here?"
"Oh yeah, that colleague added a Wireguard Tunnel on my PC so I can access his server."
M-hm. Let's check the config...
AllowedIPs = 0.0.0.0/0, ::/0
ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?

RE: https://ruhr.social/@Jayson1985/115594781268916741
Ich hätte ja schon Lust so ein Projekt mit Frankfurt zu machen und dann die flankierende Radinfrastruktur mit dieser enorm starken Stadtverwaltung gleich mitzuplanen.
Wenn heute Weihnachten wäre -…

reading a prelim paper on scaling up gpu-accelerated database query engines and feeling kinda gobsmacked at where that world is at
i remember when we built a “massive” memory machine at princeton with … i think it was 256 MB of RAM. (it sat idle except when ken thompson was logged in and building hash tables for chess endgames which was most of the time)

‘Dit drukmiddel van importheffingen wordt misschien komende week al uit Trumps handen geslagen’ | de Volkskrant
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/dit-drukmiddel-van-importheffingen-wordt-misschien-komende-week-al-uit-trumps-handen-geslagen~be3533ba/#Echobox=1768713483
Leuke analyse van de Volkskrant.
Wat ik alleen volledig mis is de 'logische keus' om Groenland in bezit te willen hebben.
The devil is waarschijnlijk in de details van de bijzondere aardmetalen. Een Amerikaans bedrijf heeft daar al een flinke vinger in de pap bij een van de bedrijven die zich er mee bezig houdt. Maar Groenland heeft een paar problemen:
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A broad retreat is underway in the nonprofit world.
After Donald Trump ordered his administration to root out “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts earlier this year,
opening the door to investigations and funding cuts for offenders,
more than 1,000 charities rewrote their mission statements in forms they filed this year with the Internal Revenue Service,
removing or minimizing language tied to race, inequity and historically disadvantaged communities.<…

Deleting DEI
As the Trump administration ordered agencies to eradicate “illegal” diversity, equity and inclusion efforts, we identified more than 1,000 nonprofits that removed such language from the mission statements in their tax filings.

Het onderstaande beeld zie je in heel veel Amerikaanse films, met naar mijn idee ontspoorde wetsdienaren. Zo langzamerhand realiseer ik me dat dat land op die manier is georganiseerd en dat de rechtsstaat een nog veel dunner vernislaagje is dan bij ons.
Wat sheriff Tillman uit Fargo ons leert over Trump: ‘De wet ben ik’ |…
https://archive.ph/HqwU…

Reminder: Applications for Research Fellowships at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library due Jan. 15, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136727/reminder-applications-research-fellowships-winterthur-mus…

Reminder: Applications for Research Fellowships at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library due Jan. 15, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136727/reminder-applications-research-fellowships-winterthur-mus…

Reminder: Applications for Research Fellowships at Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library due Jan. 15, 2026 https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20136727/reminder-applications-research-fellowships-winterthur-mus…