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Bernd: "In dieser Asia-Suppe waren drei Päckchen Zutaten, aber sie ist dennoch total geschmacklos."
Mela: *wackelt mit der Nase* "Vielleicht haben sie alles in den Geruch gesteckt?"
Bernd: "Du meinst, ich habe keinen Geschmack mehr?"
Mela: "Uh … Du hast nicht etwa Covid? Iss mal ein Stück Covid-Testschokolade."
Bernd: "???"
Mela: "Hat doch Lars mehrfach drüber geschrieben. Fast so gut wie ein Schnelltest. Aber wi…

Upgrading my homelab with a new 2.5Gb managed switch to bring the need for inter-lan speed to casa del taco....that also means more ports to shove things in, what else could a guy ask for right? (other than a nice fiber connection) Mood:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yEM-IgR69Y

Hey Canada, Greenland and Panama, did you know that "...the U.S. government argued that Bin Laden and Soleimani posed an imminent threat and that the killings were defensive and, therefore, justified under international law."
I'm not saying anyone should hurt anyone. Violence is never a good answer. I also think someone threatening to invade and take possession of you by force is...bad.
quote source:

What does international law say about targeted killings? | CBC News
It certainly wasn't the first time a government was accused of orchestrating a killing on foreign soil, but observers around the world were nonetheless shocked by Prime Minister's Justin Trudeau's allegation that India's leaders had a hand in killing a Canadian citizen earlier this year in B.C. 

Old graphical editor prototype (2019/20) with various ways of managing multiple selections of graphical entities, incl. align/distribute, duplicate, invert, select/deselect region (box/convex hull). editor is generic. items could be files, shapes, mesh vertices, 2d/3d points, graph nodes, whatever...
Been re-animating this prototype and toying with integrating it into my personal note taking & media management tool to organize items into piles for batch-processing and to easier app…

Beautiful & impressive 3D visualizations in this paper by Muyuan Chen:
"Rendering protein structures inside cells at the atomic level with Unreal Engine"
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.12.08.570879v2
(The video is just …

"#Trump zelf heeft al aangekondigd op de eerste dag van zijn presidentschap een wet uit te vaardigen om ministeries, #universiteiten en digitale media te kunnen vervolgen wanneer ze betrokken waren bij ‘censuur’. De woorden ‘desinformatie’ en ‘misinformatie’ mogen niet worden gebruikt om polit…

De winst van Trump bevestigt het: dit is de tijd van de strongman
De Verenigde Staten kozen willens en wetens een autoritaire leider. Een nieuw tijdperk in Amerika, en daarmee in de rest van de wereld, blijkt misschien al langer onderweg dan gedacht.

Pondering insignificance.
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#SilentSunday #LandscapePhotography #Photography

We play Penn State tomorrow. As I said 3 weeks ago... after barely beating Hawaii, I don't see the UCLA Bruins having another win all season.
At least we're gonna make gobs of cash from the BIG 10 conference share of the recent media contract renegotiation... but this is embarrassing.
UCLA Football 2024 schedule
@ Hawaii (W 16-13)
Indiana (L 13-42)
@ LSU (L 17-34)
Oregon (L 13-34)
@ Penn State
Minnesota
@ Rutgers
@ Nebraska

Birth place of giants.
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#Glacier #LandscapePhotography #Photography

Some #GenArtAPI updates from this week:
- switched from Apache 2.0 to MIT license
- started publishing API files & types as package (optional)
- updated readme & diagrams
New installation & getting started instructions:

genart-api/README.md at main · thi-ng/genart-api
Generalized API for browser-based generative art projects, plug & play support for platform specifics, parameter declarations, GUI creation, IPC - thi-ng/genart-api