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Oh, great. Just looked at Hetzner’s new pricing for VPS servers:
CPX22 (dedicated vCPU): €7.99 − €19.49 ( 143.8%)
So that’s fun. I guess one way to ensure the Small Web doesn’t happen is to make it prohibitively expensive for people to have their own servers.
(Before anyone mentions it, prices of single-board computers are also increasing and shipping hardware is an even bigger challenge.)
If anyone knows cheaper EU-based hosts, please leave a comment.
It’s so m…

The Quiet Place (2024)
(Actually only half true. More up close, glaciers are full of the most amazing sounds... yet from this distance, higher up, all you can hear is the wind and your own breath/heartbeat...)
#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography

While "parasitic convection" is not a formal meteorological term recognized by agencies like NOAA's National Hurricane Center,
the phrase describes secondary, unorganized thunderstorm activity outside of a cyclone's core that competes with or alters the main storm's structure.

Greg Porter (@gporterwx.bsky.social)
Here is a term that I've never heard of before. Parasitic convection. Apparently, that's what is causing these weird bursts of deep convection on the edge of Hurricane #Polo I guess hurricanes can grow parasites

Happy Birthday Diana Muldaur (88)!
https://www.instagram.com/p/DcN7-C_x0od/

Black Wax Cafe on Instagram: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, as a supporting actress on L.A. Law in 1990 and 1991. Born in Brooklyn, New York, and raised on the Massachusetts island of Martha’s Vineyard, Muldaur started acting in high school and continued on through college, graduating from Sweet Briar College in Virginia in 1960. She studied acting under Stella Adler, and made her name on the New York stage. She was at one point a board member of the Screen Actors Guild and was the first woman to serve as president of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (1983–1985)"
0 likes, 1 comments - blackwaxcafe on August 19, 2026: "Happy 88th Birthday, Diana! Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress. Muldaur’s television roles include Rosalind Shays on L.A. Law and Dr. Katherine Pulaski in the second season of Star Trek: The Next Generation. She appeared in two episodes of Star Trek: The Original Series in the late 1960s, playing different roles (Drs. Miranda Jones and Ann Mulhall). She has been nominated for an Emmy twice, a…

Got the replacement diodes and reworked the probe demo board with the messed up one.
Here it is before defluxing. A lot of hand soldering and rework on this one plus two extra oven cycles so it's pretty ugly, let's see how it cleans up in SWAS. Gonna give it an extra good scrub since it's so messy

The Fediverse, however, has *all* of the idiots too horrible for X and Meta, but they only federate with each other, mostly. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
I'm considering blocking anyone who posts content from Meta platforms, as I already do for X content. It's always just rage-farming. People, mostly, are idiots. As a result, a big chunk of what we say is junk. Meta and X thankfully have more than their share of the worst idiots, so I avoid them.

#marswaterhistory

The #SantaBarbaraCounty Board of Supervisors took the first step of what promises to be a protracted and historic pivot to pull the plug on all onshore oil development anywhere in Santa Barbara County.
This Tuesday, the supervisors narrowly approved
— by a 3-2 vote —
⭐️a ban on any new onshore oil drilling. 
The last time a new drilling proposal was approved took place in…

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …

Final probing demo board ready to go to fab, unless anyone else finds something in the next couple hours.
Two 6 Gbps TX-only transceiver lanes, two low speed DAC outputs, four LVCMOS18 GPIOs on SMAs, four LVCMOS33 outputs on probe clips, and a MLT3/PAM3 output on SMAs. Plus test points on all the power rails and the USB.