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(2021) The Defensive Activation Theory: REM sleep as a mechanism to prevent takeover of the visual cortex https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/neuroscience/articles/10.3389/fnins.2021.632853/full So we should disrupt REM sleep for better masteri…

Frontiers | The Defensive Activation Theory: REM Sleep as a Mechanism to Prevent Takeover of the Visual Cortex
Regions of the brain maintain their territory with continuous activity: if activity slows or stops (e.g., because of blindness), the territory tends to be ta...

On the way to Roßgundscharte (2021)
#FootpathFriday #LandscapePhotography #BlackAndWhite

Herne Bay Ambient (2021-07) - Ambient soundscape from a week in Herne Bay (Kent, UK) late in July: sea, amusements, people... #HerneBay #soundscape #fieldRecording -

Herne Bay Ambient (2021-07)
Ambient soundscape from a week in Herne Bay (Kent, UK) late in July: sea, amusements, people... #HerneBay #soundscape #fieldRecording

eMarketer: ~45% of US influencer marketing spend will go to those with <20K followers in 2026, up from 19.5% in 2021; 19.9% will go to those with <5K followers (Katie Deighton/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/cmo-today/the-latest-d…

On Website Technicals (2021-02) - Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun. - https://www.earth.org.uk/note-on-site-technicals-45.html

On Website Technicals (2021-02)
Tech updates: image preview tweak for dark mode, DNS secondary fun.

from my link log —
Cranelift progress report: a look back at 2021.
https://bytecodealliance.org/articles/cranelift-progress-2021
saved 2021-12-16

Cranelift Progress Report: A Look Back at 2021
The past year has been a productive one for the Cranelift project! Cranelift is the Bytecode Alliance’s native code compiler that serves as the foundation for the Wasmtime and Lucet WebAssembly virtual machines, and is used in other cont...

My new tires held up for exactly 10 km 🙄

Which way now?
2021

India pledges $13.3B to boost domestic chipmaking, building on a $10B incentive program from 2021, which attracted investments from companies like Micron (Sankalp Phartiyal/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-0…

Wally Funk,
aviation pioneer
and oldest woman to go into space,
dies at 87
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/09/wally-funk-astronaut-dies?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Wally Funk, aviation pioneer and oldest woman to go into space, dies at 87
Trailblazing pilot was denied opportunity to become Nasa astronaut but made history on Blue Origin flight in 2021

from my link log —
Let's Encrypt prepared to issue 200 million certificates in 24 hours.
https://letsencrypt.org/2021/02/10/200m-certs-24hrs.html
saved 2021-02-10

Preparing to Issue 200 Million Certificates in 24 Hours
On a normal day Let’s Encrypt issues nearly two million certificates. When we think about what essential infrastructure for the Internet needs to be prepared for though, we’re not thinking about normal days. We want to be prepared to respond as best we can to the most difficult situations that might arise. In some of the worst scenarios, we might want to re-issue all of our certificates in a 24 hour period in order to avoid widespread disruptions. That means being prepared to issue 200 mill…

Heavy boiling below the calm surface, occasionally breaking through... Incredible production by Samuel van Dijk aka VC-118A, Mohlao, Multicast Dynamics...
VC-118A — Silver (2021)
https://soundcloud.com/mohlao/silver

🌱 Im Forschungsprojekt „nascent-SolaRegio“ wurde untersucht, welche landwirtschaftl. Betriebe grundsätzlich gute Voraussetzungen für eine Umstellung auf Solidarische Landwirtschaft mitbringen.
📊 Das Ergebnis: Rund 16.000 Betriebe (knapp 7 % aller landwirtschaftlichen Betriebe in DE!) weisen Merkmale auf, die eine Umstellung begünstigen. Besonders häufig sind darunter kleinere Betriebe sowie ökologisch wirtschaftende und direktvermarktende Höfe.
🚜 Das Potenzial für weitere Solawis i…

from my link log —
SUNSPOT: an implant in the SolarWinds Orion build process.
https://www.crowdstrike.com/blog/sunspot-malware-technical-analysis/
saved 2021-01-12

SUNSPOT Malware: A Technical Analysis | CrowdStrike
In this blog, we offer a technical analysis of SUNSPOT, malware that was deployed into the build environment to inject this backdoor into the SolarWinds Orion platform.

Kurze Rezensionen zu Ken Liu / The Wall of Storms (2021) und V.E. Schwab / The Fragile Threads of Power (2023)
https://blog.till-westermayer.de/2026/05/science-fiction-und-fantasy-im-april-2026/

Science Fiction und Fantasy im April 2026
Im April habe ich tatsächlich nur zwei Bücher gelesen (und auf dem Bildschirm nur ermattet das ZDF-Magazin Royale konsumiert) - gab einerseits anderes, und andererseits nach 10-12-Stunden-Tagen dann auch keine Muße, zu lesen. Beide Bücher kann ich dafür wärmstens empfehlen. Zum einen war dies der

from my link log —
A prototype original iPod.
https://panic.com/blog/a-prototype-original-ipod/
saved 2021-10-25 https://dotat…

from my link log —
PostgreSQL is a great pub/sub and job server.
https://webapp.io/blog/postgres-is-the-answer/
saved 2021-12-18 https://

Postgres is a great pub/sub & job server
If you need a publish/subscribe or job server at any point in your project, try using Postgres. It'll give you lots of data integrity and performance guarantees, and it doesn't require you or your team learning any new technology.

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Zelfs de factcheck afdeling vond kennelijk dat een grens bereikt is. 😇
(Of mn mobiele browser blijft gangne)
full timeline of the claims −
#Trump

from my link log —
Notes from a 1984 trip to Xerox PARC.
https://commandcenter.blogspot.com/2019/01/notes-from-1984-trip-to-xerox-parc.html
saved 2021-09-05

from my link log —
PostgreSQL text search: balancing query time and relevancy.
https://about.sourcegraph.com/blog/postgres-text-search-balancing-query-time-and-relevancy/
saved 2021-10-21

RE: #Trump

from my link log —
Async cancellation in Rust.
https://blog.yoshuawuyts.com/async-cancellation-1/
saved 2021-12-05 https://do…