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The fifth #AAS press conference https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dHXMm3pbWU about Asteroids, Low-Mass Stars, and a Mystery from History covered the papers Lightcurves, Rotation Periods, and Colors for Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Asteroid Discoveries (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ae2a30 with https://rubinobservatory.org/news/rubin-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey and https://noirlab.edu/public/news/noirlab2601/ and https://www6.slac.stanford.edu/news/2026-01-07-nsf-doe-vera-c-rubin-observatory-spots-record-breaking-asteroid-pre-survey), Dearth of Photosynthetically Active Radiation Suggests No Complex Life on Late M-Star Exoplanets (https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.02548 with https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1LlyzaK1wTk0hnqNGRCEMNe8BZEaMMFde), A Plasma Torus around a Young Low-mass Star (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ade39a with https://carnegiescience.edu/naturally-occurring-space-weather-station-elucidates-new-way-study-habitability-planets-orbiting-m) and Barnard's mysterious star near Venus - a strange interloper noted during a satellite search (https://scicomm.xyz/@cosmos4u/115849624944298844).

Has anyone ever gotten `services.webdav` to work on :nixos: #NixOS?
I have a very simple and probably very common task: Expose a directory (in my case `/var/lib/paperless/consume`) via #WebDAV so my scanner can upload their PDFs there. I'm pretty much doing this¹ here, but also this person has p…

Webdav - cannot write anything
I got it to work by allowing create (C) and update (U) permissions (permissions = "RCUD"): services.webdav = { enable = true; user = "paperless"; group = "paperless"; settings = { address = "0.0.0.0"; port = 12345; auth = true; scope = "/var/lib/paperless/cons…

Heute kurz vor Ladenschluss der Apotheke doch noch #rausgeschafft und dabei einen wunderschönen rosa-orangenen #Sonnenuntergang zu sehen bekommen. 15 Minuten später auf Rückweg war er schon wieder weg.
Und da ich eh schon die Veloklamotten anhatte, habe ich auch grade noch mit dem G-Li…

(1) This is horrific.
(2) Please note that the supposed “fraud” is a small kernel of genuine concern wrapped in a massive blanket of bullshit. It cannot be repeated often enough. Because the actual amount of fraud is greater than zero, reporters keep making a show of Taking It Very Seriously — but when the actual fraud is…what, 1% the size of BS they’re making up??…well, taking it more than 1% seriously is a failure of reporting.
Via @…: https://zeroes.ca/@broadwaybabyto/115851757331687367

„Anthem“ vor der Abschaltung: Online-Shooter geht in sein letztes Wochenende
Wenige Tage haben Spieler noch Zeit, den Online-Shooter „Anthem“ zu spielen – dann ist Schluss. Am 12. Januar schaltet EA den Bioware-Misserfolg ab.

„Nachdem die Preisträger*innen des Bundeskunstpreises bekannt gegeben worden waren, hatten rechte Blogs herausbekommen, dass es sich bei Hanna S., die in München vor Gericht stand, und der Preisträgerin Hanna Schiller um dieselbe Person handelt. Es folgte eine mediale Kampagne gegen die Auszeichnung, die bei neonazistischen Influencern begann und in Berichten der »Bild«-Zeitung endete.“
Hanna Schiller – Bundeskunstpreis­verleihung: »Wo ist Hannas Arbeit?« | nd-aktuell.de

The third #AAS247 presser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hfDmYXvBbV4 about News from the High-Redshift Universe and Local Analogs dealt with the papers The ALPINE-CRISTAL-JWST Survey: JWST/IFU Optical Observations for 18 Main-sequence Galaxies at z = 4–6 (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4365/ae0928 with https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast and https://public.nrao.edu/news/young-galaxies-grow-up-fast/), A New Population of Point-like, Narrow-line Objects Revealed by the James Webb Space Telescope (https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.12177 with https://showme.missouri.edu/2026/scientists-discover-platypus-galaxies-in-the-early-universe/ and https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/scientists-identify-astronomys-platypus-with-nasas-webb-telescope/; slide), Supermassive Stars Match the Spectral Signatures of JWST's Little Red Dots (https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12618 with https://www.cfa.harvard.edu/news/scientists-use-jwst-examine-ancient-monster-stars-may-reveal-birth-black-holes) and Discovery of SiC and Iron Dust around AGB Stars in the Very Metal-poor Sextans a Dwarf Galaxy with JWST: Implications for Dust Production at High Redshift & JWST Captures Growth of Aromatic Hydrocarbon Dust Particles in the Extremely Metal-poor Galaxy Sextans A (https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/adf06a / https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.04060 with https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasa-webb-finds-early-universe-analogs-unexpected-talent-for-making-dust/).

"Stranger Things": Netflix veröffentlicht erste Minuten der fünften Staffel
Die fünfte Staffel von "Stranger Things" beginnt mit einem Rückblick. Netflix hat die ersten Minuten veröffentlicht.

Very funny, #Sun: many of the small groups on the disk have flared in recent days - (1)4298 on the far right in this SDO HMI view https://jsoc1.stanford.edu/data/hmi/images/latest/HMI_latest_Int_4096x4096.gif from today just this morning with an X1.1: https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1260371819450012 - but the big ones 4294 (center) and 4296 (left) that had received a lot of media hype and even press releases like https://www.dlr.de/de/aktuelles/nachrichten/2025/erhoehtes-sonnensturm-risiko-dlr-beobachtet-weltraumwetter-in-echtzeit have remained completely quiet during their march over the solar disk which is coming to an end soon.

Android: Google halbiert Releasezyklus für AOSP-Quellcode
Google führt weitere Änderungen am Releasezyklus von Android durch: Der Quellcode wird künftig nur noch zweimal im Jahr im AOSP veröffentlicht.
https://www…