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heise | Silent-Tastatur Be Quiet Dark Mount im Test: So leise kann mechanisch sein
Kein Klicken, Klappern oder Kratzen: Akustisch überzeugt die Dark Mount Silent Tactile von Be Quiet. Was die mechanische Tastatur leistet.

Why I Don’t Use #Mocking Frameworks and Why You Might Not Need Them Either by @…

Some statistics about all robotic #LunarLanding attempts so far from 1965 to 2025 compiled from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_missions_to_the_Moon and https://scicomm.xyz/@AkaSci@fosstodon.org/114636519291241321 in which I only count those for which descent to the surface had been initiated, not missions lost at launch or on the way - in a nutshell ~70% of all landings by government agencies went well (essentially the same rate 60 years ago and now!) but only ~30% by private companies. Here goes ...
There have been two separate periods of soft lunar landing attempts of ca. a dozen years each, from 1965 to 1976 and 2013 to 2025 (ongoing) with a huge gap between them.
In the first interval there were 20 attempts with 13 successes (Luna 9, 13, 16, 17, 19, 20, 21 and 24 and Surveyor 1, 3, 5, 6 and 7), one partial success (Luna 23, counting as 50%) and 6 failures (Luna 5, 7, 8, 15 and 18 and Surveyor 4), so the success rate was 13.5/20 = 68 %. All missions were by - the Soviet and U.S. - governments.
In the second interval there were so far 14 attempts with 6 full successes (Chang'e-3, 4, 5 and 6, Vikram 2 and Blue Ghost), three partial successes (SLIM, IM-1 and 2, counting as 75%, 50% and 25%, respectively) and 5 failures (Beresheet, Vikram 1, Hakuto-R 1 and 2 and Luna 25) so the success rate was 7.5 / 14 = 54%.
But looking only at the government missions it was 72%, slighly up from 50 years ago. While for the commercial attempts it was only 29%. In total the success rate was 19 (18 government-run) missions out of 34 (28) attempts or 62% but 69% for governments only. And if you throw in the 6 Apollo landings, the total success rate rises to 68% and the government-only rate goes even up to 75%.

from my link log —
The missing 11th of the month.
https://drhagen.com/blog/the-missing-11th-of-the-month/
saved 2025-06-19

What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (Hint: It’s Not Talent)
https://www.artiststrong.com/whats-holding-you-back-from-your-art/?utm_source=flipboard&am…

What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (Hint: It’s Not Talent)
What’s Really Holding You Back from Making Art? (It’s Not Talent) Let’s be honest: making art can feel really hard sometimes. And if you’ve been avoiding your creative practice, it’s easy to jump t…

Unfortunately & conversely, this (below) is the same framing tech bros (and parts of the population) are finding so attractive to anthropomorphize LLMs: These are not machines, and them making mistakes is normal and expected... At the same time, the other card being played (by politics, military & law enforcement) is that AI-driven insights and decision making are _already_ considered superior, infallible and unchallengeable... in the middle of this two pronged rhetoric is the fate o…

MHRV (Mechanical Heat-Recovery Ventilation) and HR25H Review - Is MHRV right for you? Learn from our years with the Vent-Axia humidistat HR25. #frugal #cutCarbon -

MHRV (Mechanical Heat-Recovery Ventilation) and HR25H Review
Is MHRV right for you? Learn from our years with the Vent-Axia humidistat HR25. #frugal #cutCarbon

Missing Link: Tim Berners-Lee wird 70 – der Architekt des World Wide Webs
Der Mann, der uns das WWW schenkte, feiert 70. Geburtstag und kämpft weiter für ein freies Netz. Ein Blick auf sein technisches Erbe und seine aktuellen Pläne.

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog https://cdm.link/moog-messenger-with-e

The all-new Moog Messenger: a tour with synth legend Erik Norlander of Moog - CDM Create Digital Music
Moog Messenger is something new. Because that's the first major product entirely developed under new owners inMusic*, that might make you nervous. But this synth is full of surprises—and could be the Moog synth your rig has been missing. Moog's Erik Norlander, Director of Keyboard Product Development, walked us through the synth. I think it might wind up being his biggest hit since the Alesis Andromeda.

Klimafreundliches Magnesium: US-Start-up setzt auf Elektrolyse von Meerwasser
Magnesium ist ein wichtiger Rohstoff für viele Industrien. Ein kalifornisches Start-up will das Leichtmetall nun klimafreundlich aus dem Meer gewinnen.