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Displaced Palestinians return to refugee camp Jabalia, bombed by Israel, in northern Gaza, during a ceasefire, 19 January 2025.
By Omar Al-Qattaa / AFP in
https://www.volkskrant.nl/buitenland/de-we

De wereld kijkt eindelijk naar Gaza, maar een oplossing is nog lang niet in zicht – is er een uitweg?
In hun hele geschiedenis hebben de Palestijnen het nog nooit zo slecht gehad als nu. Tegelijkertijd lijkt de internationale gemeenschap eindelijk oog te hebben voor hun lot. Wat gebeurt er, en wat levert het op?

TESTQUEST: A Web Gamification Tool to Improve Locators and Page Objects Quality
Dario Olianas, Diego Clerissi, Maurizio Leotta, Filippo Ricca
https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24756

TESTQUEST: A Web Gamification Tool to Improve Locators and Page Objects Quality
Web applications play a crucial role in our daily lives, making it essential to employ testing methods that ensure their quality. Typically, Web testing automation frameworks rely on locators to interact with the graphical user interface, acting as connection points to the elements on a Web page. Nevertheless, locators are widely recognized as a major vulnerability in Web testing, as they are highly sensitive to the frequent changes in Web page structures caused by rapid software evolution. The…

There are times when I wonder about search algorithms, and why a merchant wants to insult me.
#BevMo

There are times when I wonder about search algorithms, and why a merchant wants to insult me.
#BevMo

Europe on high alert as surprise early heat wave creeps north https://phys.org/news/2025-07-europe-high-early-north.html
Satellite image shows Southern Europe's land and sea experiencing extreme heat

Europe on high alert as surprise early heat wave creeps north
Schools were partially shut in France, iconic monuments closed to tourists, and cities across Europe put on high alert as a record-breaking early summer heat wave spread across the continent Tuesday.

An operation by Ukraine's Security Service (SBU) using first-person-view (FPV) drones smuggled deep inside Russian and hidden inside trucks has hit 41 Russian heavy bombers at four airfields across the country.
The operation — codenamed "Spider web" and a year-and-a-half in the planning — appears to have dealt a major blow to the aircraft Moscow uses to launch long-range missile attacks on Ukraine's cities.
"The SBU first transported FPV drones to Russia,

'Enemy bombers are burning en masse' — Ukraine's SBU drones hit 'more than 40' Russian aircraft
"Currently, more than 40 aircraft are known to have been hit, including the A-50, Tu-95 and Tu-22 M3," a source told the Kyiv Independent.

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007) - Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal - https://www.earth.org.uk/low-power-laptop.html

Low-Power Laptop/Server (2007)
Read how I slimmed Web-facing servers in my office from 670W to less than 20W... #frugal

#ScribesAndMakers for July 3: When (and if) you procrastinate, what do you do? If you don't, what do you do to avoid it?
I'll swap right out of programming to read a book, play a video game, or watch some anime. Often got things open in other windows so it's as simple as alt-tab.
I've noticed recently I tend to do this more often when I have a hard problem to solve that I'm not 100% sure about. I definitely have cycles of better & worse motivation and I've gotten to a place where I'm pretty relaxed about it instead of feeling guilty. I work how I work, and that includes cycles of rest, and that's enough (at least, for me it has been so far, and I'm in a comfortable career, married with 2 kids).
Some projects ultimately lose steam and get abandoned, and I've learned to accept that too. I learn a lot and grow from each project, so nothing is a true waste of time, and there remains plenty of future ahead of me to achieve cool things.
The procrastination does sometimes impact my wife & kids, and that's something I do sometimes feel bad about, but I think I keep that in check well enough, and for things my wife worries about, I usually don't procrastinate those too much (used to be worse about this).
Right now I'm procrastinating a big work project by working on a hobby project instead. The work project probably won't get done by the start of the semester as a result. But as I remind myself, my work doesn't actually pay me to work during the summer, and things will be okay without the work project being finished until later.
When I want to force myself into a more productive cycle, talking to people about project details sometimes helps, as does finding some new tech I can learn about by shoehorning it into a project. Have been thinking about talking to a rubber duck, but haven't motivated myself to try that yet, and I'm not really in doldrums right now.

T CrB - overview of the accretion history, Roche-lobe filling, orbital solution, and radiative modeling: #TCrB are mounting, initiated by the discovery in 2015 of a new enhanced mass-transfer phase (SAP), which is reminiscent of the one preceding the last recorded outburst in 1946. [...] SAP has been caused by an inside-out collapse of the disk, during which the mean accretion rate onto the WD has been ~28x larger than in quiescence. SAP ended in April 2023, but from May 2024 mass-flow has intensively resumed at disk inner radii while the collapse wave reached the outer portions of the disk; the consequent revamp in mass accretion could fill the gap inherited by the fainter 2015-2023 SAP and eventually lead the WD accreted shell to ignition."

France expecting peak temperatures as heat wave hits Europe #Europe

France expecting peak temperatures as heat wave hits Europe
Paris extended a red alert for high temperatures on Tuesday, with the top of the Eiffel Tower shut, polluting traffic banned and speed restrictions in place as a searing heat wave grips Europe.