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«Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy:
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.»
Who trusts his blind faith in optical impressions that are almost incomprehensible?!??
Oh no, that's JUST marketing.
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Inside GitHub's Fake Star Economy
Six million fake stars, $0.06 per click, and a VC funding pipeline that treats GitHub popularity as proof of traction. We ran our own analysis on 20 repos and found the fingerprints.

This cheap indicator stand doesn't stick that well to the table through the mat, but it's better than what I had before. Had to shim the camera with some electrical tape to make it fit.
The setup is definitely getting as cramped as a FIB chamber with the spindle, camera, optical scope, light, compressed gas spray, and suction all vying for space around the workpiece

POL-GÖ: (76/2026) Versuchter Einbruch in Duderstädter Optikergeschäft - Polizei veröffentlicht Täterbilder und bittet um Hinweise zu mutmaßlich überregional agierender Tätergruppe Göttingen (ots) - DUDERSTADT (ab) - Im Zusammenhang mit einer Serie gleichgelagerter Einbruchstaten in Optikergeschäfte in Südniedersachsen, Nordthüringen und Nordhessen bittet die Polizei um Hinweise aus der Bevölkerung. Im Fokus der ...

Olisiko klassinen off-by-one bugi?
https://www.traficom.fi/fi/ajankohtaista/opetuslupahakemuksen-jattaminen-sahkoisessa-palvelussa-ei-onnistu-syntymapaivana

Opetuslupahakemuksen jättäminen sähköisessä palvelussa ei onnistu syntymäpäivänä | Traficom
Opetuslupahakemusta ei tällä hetkellä voi tehdä sähköisessä asioinnissa samana päivänä kuin oppilas täyttää vaadittavan iän.

FDA grants breakthrough device designation to ReVision Implant visual cortex prosthesis https://med-techinsights.com/2026/03/09/fda-grants-breakthrough-device-designation-to-revision-implant-visual-cortex-prosthesis/

FDA grants breakthrough device designation to ReVision Implant visual cortex prosthesis - Med-Tech Insights
Belgian neurotechnology startup ReVision Implant has received Breakthrough Device designation from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its visual cortical prosthesis, Occular, clearing the way toward first-in-human clinical trials. The Occular system is designed to restore functional vision in people with severe blindness, including patients whose condition cannot be treated with retinal implants or optic nerve therapies.

Wondering what to do rather than buy a missile or bomb today?
You could feed all the region's hungry children for the cost of this war
Or cure a disease
Or buy this €30,000 🪗 instead of a drone
Cavagnolo Digit AiR Série LB12 Carbon Fibre Digital/Analog Optical Switch Bluetooth OLED Screen, weighs 1.5 kilos (3.3 lbs!)

For optics large enough there is an amazing #comet in the - southern - sky right now, C/2024 E1 (Wierzchos): an image taken by Gerald Rhemann and Michael Jäger remotely in Namibia, https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=25304451112588622
Date: 26 01 2026 UT 18:47
Location: Farm Tivoli, Namibia
Telescope: ASA Astrograph 12" f3.6
Camera: ZWO ASI 6200 MM Pro
Mount: ASA DDM 85
Exp.Time: LRGB 7.8/5/5/5 min.

Ordered an extra VSC8512, the same Ethernet PHY I'm using on my switch project, as microscope food.
I've always been curious what the die looks like especially considering it has a ton of SERDES of several different designs, at least one and possibly two embedded CPUs, a DRAM controller, and is generally a nerfed switch ASIC.
I don't expect to be able to dump the 8051 firmware ROM optically but if I can find at least a rough idea of where it is from the optical images…

The Bell-Bloom-type optically-pumped FID Rubidium atomic magnetometer with a multi-passing probe beam and two counter-propagating pump beams
Yongbiao Yang, Zhengyu Su, Yang Li, Yanhua Wang, Jun He, Xiaojun Jia, Junmin Wang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.02865