Tootfinder

Pronto, consegui terminar o trabalho aqui. Eu não resisti ao cansaço e dormi durante a tarde 😬. É muito incomum eu dormir assim no meio do dia. Acho que foi uma combinação de ter acordado cedo e exercícios físicos (a instrutora hoje pegou pesado).

Hundreds of desalination plants sit along the Persian Gulf coast, putting individual systems that supply water to millions within range of Iranian missile or drone strikes.
Without them, major cities could not sustain their current populations.
In Kuwait, about
⭐️90% of drinking water comes from #desalination,
along with roughly
86% in Oman and about
70% in Saudi …

The Gulf resource most imperiled by war may be water, not oil
As the Iran war widens, experts say the Middle East’s real strategic weak point may be water – not oil. Much of the Gulf’s drinking supply comes from desalination plants clustered along vulnerable coastlines within easy range of Iranian missiles and drones. Many of the individual plants supply water to millions of people. Without them, major cities could not sustain their current populations. In recent days, Iranian drones struck an energy facility that powers a desalination plant in the …

China, which dominates the global drone industry, has sharply tightened its drone use rules, as some users say they are hindering routine and lawful flights (Joy Dong/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/05/world/a

China Built the World’s Drone Industry. Now It’s Locking Down the Skies.
The Chinese government tightened rules to curb what it described as illegal drone use, but some users say the changes are now restricting too many flights.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
DRAMA:
🎵 Miss My Chance
#DRAMA
#newRelease 🆕 album
https://thedramaduo.bandcamp.com/track/miss-my-chance
https://open.spotify.com/track/1UCxW7PdkUSuGInQdpn1Kq

Warum dieser Artikel über eine Konferenz in China 2024 erst jetzt erscheint, who knows, aber lots of spannendes Zeug drin. (I myself had politely declined an invitation.)
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-education/how-china-learned-to-love-th…

How China Learned to Love the Classics
The Chinese Communist Party has embraced the study of Greek and Latin—as, in some ways, an antidote to the modern West. Chang Che writes.

from my link log —
Evaluating TCP BBRv2 on the Dropbox edge network.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2008.07699
saved 2020-08-19 https://dotat.at/:/FHLM3.html

Evaluating BBRv2 on the Dropbox Edge Network
Nowadays, loss-based TCP congestion controls in general and CUBIC specifically became the de facto standard for the Internet. BBR congestion control challenges the loss-based approach by modeling the network based on estimated bandwidth and round-trip time. At Dropbox, we've been using BBRv1 since 2017 and are accustomed to its pros and cons. BBRv2 introduces a set of improvements to network modeling (explicit loss targets and inflight limits) and fairness (differential probing and headroom for…

#SilentSunday

Sources: HP, Dell, Acer, and Asus are considering sourcing memory chips from Chinese chipmakers; HP and Dell are currently qualifying DRAM products from CXMT (Nikkei Asia)
https://asia.nikkei.com/spotlight/supply-chain/h…

HP, Dell, Acer and Asus mull using Chinese memory chips amid supply crunch
Shortage a golden opportunity for China's memory chipmakers and electronics manufacturers

Ontem eu fui para a cama, vi um episódio de Fringe, peguei meu Kindle e dormi quase instantaneamente antes de conseguir ler uma pšgina qualquer, mesmo ainda sendo bastante cedo para os meus parâmetros (não eram nem duas horas ainda). Aí hoje acordei espontaneamente Šs oito horas. œbvio que não dormi o suficiente e sentirei sono mais tarde. Mas queria saber o que estš acontecendo comigo. Serš a idade chegando e deixando meu sono fragmentado?!

Chinese military procurement documents show the PLA's efforts to use AI to assist in drone piloting, cyberattacks, decision-making, and disinformation campaigns (Foreign Affairs)
https://www.foreignaffairs.com/china/chinas-ai-arsenal

China’s AI Arsenal
The PLA’s tech strategy is working.