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"Come to mind the names of violent battles: DR-DOS, Taligent, AmigaOS, Newton OS, Windows for Pen Computing, Copland, Vino, NeXTSTEP, Novell NetWare, JavaOS, BeOS, DoJ vs Microsoft, Rhapsody, POSIX, Linux is communism, Linux is a cancer, Samizdat, Windows Vista, SCO, Symbian, Solaris, OpenSolaris, systemd, Windows Phone, MeeGo, Tizen, Firefox OS, Sailfish OS. Countless mythical man-month hours were lost. Millions of lines of code were fired."

Aftermath Of The Kernel Wars
During the 1980s and 90s, computer companies waged an open war for supremacy. We are witnesses of an age that could be described as post-apocalyptic. The dust has settled for the past 20 years, with a small ignition of hostilities around 2010, between members of the mobile duopoly and some late challengers. But to a large degree, we can say that the Kernel Wars are over, and we are privileged observers of their aftermath. But everyone was surprised to discover the winner emerging from the ashes…

Communicating Through Avatars in Industry 5.0: A Focus Group Study on Human-Robot Collaboration
Stina Klein, Pooja Prajod, Katharina Weitz, Matteo Lavit Nicora, Dimitra Tsovaltzi, Elisabeth Andr\'e
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08805

Communicating Through Avatars in Industry 5.0: A Focus Group Study on Human-Robot Collaboration
The integration of collaborative robots (cobots) in industrial settings raises concerns about worker well-being, particularly due to reduced social interactions. Avatars - designed to facilitate worker interactions and engagement - are promising solutions to enhance the human-robot collaboration (HRC) experience. However, real-world perspectives on avatar-supported HRC remain unexplored. To address this gap, we conducted a focus group study with employees from a German manufacturing company tha…

The coming hours and days will be incredibly consequential.
As this military response unfolds, we must stay focused on the limited authorization for military action which Trump unleashed today.
https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-national-guard-in…

Flying Base Stations for Offshore Wind Farm Monitoring and Control: Holistic Performance Evaluation and Optimization
Xinyi Lin, Peizheng Li, Adnan Aijaz
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.07832

Flying Base Stations for Offshore Wind Farm Monitoring and Control: Holistic Performance Evaluation and Optimization
Ensuring reliable and low-latency communication in offshore wind farms is critical for efficient monitoring and control, yet remains challenging due to the harsh environment and lack of infrastructure. This paper investigates a flying base station (FBS) approach for wide-area monitoring and control in the UK Hornsea offshore wind farm project. By leveraging mobile, flexible FBS platforms in the remote and harsh offshore environment, the proposed system offers real-time connectivity for turbines…

Internal communications reveal Vermont prisons’ frustrations working with ICE - VTDigger https://vtdigger.org/2025/06/28/internal-communications-reveal-vermont-prisons-frustrations-working-with-ice/

Internal communications reveal Vermont prisons’ frustrations working with ICE
Growing demands, arrivals at all hours and a rare disease are just some of the challenges Vermont’s prisons have faced while working with federal immigration authorities.

The #Fediverse is amazing, less than 24 hours after I posted this and @… is only €223 from the penultimate target with 30 hours to go.
Not taking any credit for that, but happy to see a chord has been struck for all genuine surveillance-capital-free social media. Even more important in the time of #NoKings.
Looks like I'm going to be busy making #Science videos on #ClimateChange in the #Polar Regions too for the next few weeks.
Here's one I made earlier on #SurfaceMass Budget. Let me know if there's something #Climate and/or #ice related you'd like to see a short clip about and I'll see what we can do
#fedizens who may not have seen this already? If they make the €55,000 target I promise to write a peertube channel into my next grant proposal, AND I'll post some better quality videos of our Greenland and #Antarctic research over the coming weeks...
Go!
#bigTech derisory) amount of EUR 75,000 to develop the opensource #fediverse competitor app to Youtube. Maybe chuck 'em a few euros if you think it useful?
https://support.joinpeertube.org/en/

A 75% reduction in charging costs compared to immediate charging, and 60% compared to charging during off-peak hours at a standard rate. Per truck 🚛 , an annual saving of €3,000 by purchasing market electricity. This is demonstrated by this successful French project.
https:/…

Une première en France : une flotte de camions électriques pilotée par l’intelligence énergétique - Chargepoly
Avec la réduction inédite du TCO (“Total Cost of Ownership” soit Coût Total de Possession) pour une flotte de camions électriques, Bert&You, Chargepoly et Dreev concrétisent un projet innovant qui trace la voie vers une électrification rentable du transport routier de marchandises. Bert&You montre la voie pour deux de ses dépôts, situés à Sorgues et […]

How the Bochum dish lost the signal from #Resilience at 19:15:33 UTC which would be 1 to 2 minutes before the nominal landing time. It never came back - while on the webcast, which just aborted, they didn't say *anything* and refer to a news briefing in a few hours. Same crisis (non-)communication as two years ago, I'm afraid ...

Why forests aren't coming back after gold mining in the Amazon #Amazon

Why forests aren't coming back after gold mining in the Amazon
Forests in the Peruvian Amazon aren't growing back after gold mining—not just because the soil is damaged by toxic metals, but because the land has been depleted of its water. A common mining method known as suction mining reshapes the terrain in ways that drain moisture and trap heat, creating harsh conditions where even replanted seedlings can't survive.