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After EV maker Fisker's collapse, ~4,000 car owners formed a nonprofit to keep their cars working by reverse-engineering software and building open-source tools (Fred Lambert/Electrek)
https://electrek.co/2026/05/16/fisker-ocean-open-source-ev-story-aft…

Fisker went bankrupt and owners built open source car company from the ashes
After Fisker's bankruptcy left 11,000 Ocean EVs orphaned, a 4,000-member community reverse-engineered software, hacked CAN buses, and kept their cars alive.

According to this updated password hacking table from #HiveSystems, my password system is firmly in the green zone. 💚
https://www.hivesystems.com/password

The 2026 Password Table Is Here: How Fast Can a Hacker Crack Your Password?
The 2026 Hive Systems Password Table is here. This year's cracking rig is a rented 16x RTX 5090 fleet running against bcrypt, and was about 24% faster than last year. See the latest brute force times, why AI makes the rig easier to build but can't crack bcrypt itself, and what quantum really threate

The team had braved temperatures of -40C on the sea ice
to drill holes and pump 50,000 tonnes of ocean water up on to its surface.
It froze almost immediately,
thickening the
1.5-metre-deep ice by about 50cm, according to new measurements.
That has protected the ice, at the start of the melt season at least,
and is an early sign that one day, perhaps, it may be possible to refreeze a significant part of the Arctic.
The ice-thickening process gets a …

Ice reflects 70% of the sun’s heat back into space, while open ocean reflects just 7%.
The more that melting exposes the sea, the warmer it gets and the more melting there is.
Summer sea ice could be gone as early as the 2030s and scientists worry that the heat boost could push the climate beyond catastrophic and irreversible tipping points.
In January and February, the pumps ran for a total of 1,080 hours,
icing over a square area about 450 metres on a side.
Th…

"Toward standardized microplastics monitoring in rivers"
#Plastic #Plastics #Microplastics

Toward standardized microplastics monitoring in rivers
Microplastics (MPs), defined as plastic fragments smaller than 5 mm, have become so pervasive that they are detectable in nearly every environment studied—from remote ocean trenches to urban air, tap water, and human blood. MPs are hardly uniform; they span an enormous size range. Larger fragments are visible to the naked eye, while the smallest ones have a diameter of a few micrometers. These variations in size are important, as smaller particles are far more numerous, behave differently in …

Just built a quickly improvised Switch station with the kiddos using leftover Minecraft parts.
I like the beach vibe. 🏝️
#Fedieltern

analyzing why #osmocom ARM package building is taking too long: Turns out the build worker is spending 7.5 times more time in post-installation of latex (for setting up the package build) than it is taking to actually build osmo-sgsn including its user manual: https://

A group of Democratic senators
and one Republican, as well as two Democratic House committees,
sent letters Monday to the National Science Foundation
asking it to reverse course on its plan to dismantle a sprawling ocean monitoring network,
with House lawmakers going further and accusing the agency of acting illegally.
The Ocean Observatories Initiative is a network of more than 900 ocean sensors built at a cost of $386 million.
Over the last decade it has…

Lawmakers push to stop Trump dismantling of ocean observatory project
Lawmakers are demanding the National Science Foundation stop dismantling the Ocean Observatories Initiative, a $386 million ocean monitoring network being wound down under President Donald Trump's administration. House Democrats on two committees call the action illegal. Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley says he's drafting legislation to freeze the removal of instruments until a full scientific review is completed. The National Science Foundation directed the removal of most of the system’s instru…

#coastStarlight views

Dunes absorb wave energy, reduce flooding, and help shield coastal communities from storms and rising seas.
They also provide habitat for plants, insects, birds, and small mammals, including federally protected species such as the least tern and the western snowy plover.
But dunes are also easy to erase.
They often sit on flat, sandy, highly desirable land near the ocean
— exactly the kind of land people like to build on.

California’s Coastal Dunes Are Vanishing. Over 60% Have Disappeared Since 1850
The loss is accelerating and leaving entire ecosystems vulenrable.