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Fact-check: Russia's 'most successful disinformation campaign' targets free speech in Europe: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/26/factcheck-russias-most-successful-disinformation.html

#PhDCongratulations! 🥳🥳 🥳 Johannes Hölken of the @… has successfully defended his PhD thesis “Towards solar many-line inversions” at the @…

Stefanski stresses continued improvement for Sanders after successful 1st start for Browns https://www.foxsports.com/articles/nfl/stefanski-stresses-continued-improvement-for-sanders-after-successful-1st-start-for-br…

Sable Offshore Corp. has successfully petitioned federal authorities to assume regulatory authority over its Santa Barbara County oil and gas pipelines
-- another move in the company’s attempts to restart production.
The Department of Transportation’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration decided on Wednesday that two Santa Barbara County pipelines operated by Sable are interstate pipelines,
removing them from state authority.”
—and subsequently:

Sable Receives Federal Approval to Restart Oil Pipelines
Sable Offshore Corp. says it has received permission to restart pipelines connected to the Santa Ynez Unit, a week after it successfully petitioned to

Now that #BlueBird 6 is up (https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20251222922862/en/AST-SpaceMobile-Announces-Successful-Orbital-Launch-of-BlueBird-6-the-Largest-Commercial-Communications-Array-Ever-Deployed-in-Low-Earth-Orbit) the question is - after deploying the huge antenna: https://x.com/guo_lin99725/status/2003717302190243904 - how bright it will be in the sky: the earlier BlueBirds were obscenely bright as the paper https://academic.oup.com/mnrasl/article/544/1/L15/8251664 has shown.

Hiring Christian Parker is in line with the practices of other successful teams https://insidethestar.com/hiring-christian-parker-is-in-line-with-the-practices-of-other-successful-teams

Sometimes I consider myself mildly successful because people read blog posts like this and still want to buy things from me...
https://rasterweb.net/raster/2025/01/29/giant-usb-button/

Giant USB Button
But... it is too big!?

Folks who have successfully bootstrapped a complex open source project from a solo endeavor with occasional third part PRs up to something with multiple core developers and lots of more casual contributors: how do you handle the balancing act between conflicting responsibilities?
I'm sitting on top of 250K lines of complex multi threaded C and GLSL HPC code in ngscopeclient and it's been a constant struggle to clean up decade old technical debt to make it easier for new devs …

UNIX V4 tape successfully recovered
🎄🎄🎄
https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/23/unix_v4_tape_successfully_recovered/

I don't think people fully understand what a disaster some kind of cease-fire and/or peacedeal along current frontlines would be for Putin. The occupied parts of Ukraine will become poor. While the part of Ukraine that is free will, with EU assistance ,be economically succesful and prosperous.
#putin #trump