- NAS is a single storage device that serves files over ethernet and is relatively inexpensive. NAS devices are easier for a home user or small business to set up. - A SAN is a tightly coupled network of multiple devices that is more expensive and complex to set up and manage. A SAN is better suited for larger businesses and requires administration by IT staff.

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NAS vs. SAN - What Are the Differences Between Them

Both NAS and SAN provide dedicated storage for a group of users, but they couldn't be more different in their approach to achieving their miss...

« There is no power in these points, and no point in these presentation. Fuck PowerPoint. » — Masood Boomgaard —

The French government is working on a law that could threaten the free internet. The so-called SREN bill (‘Projet de loi visant à sécuriser et réguler l’espace numérique’) would require web browsers to block websites in the browsers themselves. It would set a dangerous precedent, providing a playbook for other governments to also turn browsers into #censorship tools. Sign #Mozilla petition to stop #France from forcing browsers to censor websites

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Sign our petition to stop France from forcing browsers like Mozilla's Firefox to censor websites

The French government is considering a law that would require web browsers – like Mozilla's Firefox – to block websites chosen by the government.

It feels like nuclear powered #rockets are in development for a century, let's hope it becomes a reality in the 21st 🤞

Payload

Lockheed Nabs $500M to Build Nuclear Powered Rocket

NASA and DARPA have chosen Lockheed Martin ($LMT) to develop the first nuclear-powered Demonstration Rocket for Agile Cislunar Operations (DRACO) r...

« After last week’s testing of Booster 9, the water deluge system, and other important activity at Starbase, the #Starship program is now moving into a critical testing phase where Booster 9 will begin static test firings of the Raptor engines with the water deluge in use.»

NASASpaceFlight.com

Starship Booster 9 and launch infrastructure moving into critical testing phase - NASASpaceFlight.com

After last week’s testing of Booster 9, the water deluge system, and other important activity…

Mathematics are beautiful: new proof demonstrates how heart cells synchronize in an expander graph network arrangement, with no central authority. I bet we have a lot to learn from it. We can easely imagine such seamless synchronization applied to lightning channels and nodes, and surely many more peer to peer applications.

Quanta Magazine

New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize | Quanta Magazine

The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync.

I realize now Worldcoin is not a joke... Sam Altman must believe he has created Skynet 😂

Skynet (Terminator) - Wikipedia

Avoid feeding government. Think twice before paying taxes.

Any law that cannot be understood by a five year old kid should not exist.

Yeaterday, French police did try to arrest singer Izïa Higelin for picturing Macron as a giant piñata (to be broken up, just like piñatas) during a concert. This comes after Macron suggested a DNS block on social media during social unrest. This stinks dictatorship...

#TwitterDown: Thousands of users hit with ‘rate limit exceeded’ error message 🤦‍♂

FTX begins talks to relaunch international cryptocurrency exchange: seriously? https://www.reuters.com/technology/ftx-begins-talks-relaunch-international-cryptocurrency-exchange-wsj-2023-06-28/

« Just as the mathematician Edward Titchmarsh said of the irrationality of π, it may be of no practical use to know that these numbers are transcendental, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to know. »

Quanta Magazine

Recounting the History of Math’s Transcendental Numbers | Quanta Magazine

Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them.

So far in 2023, we have an orbital launch attempt occurring every 1.85 days 🚀

« Britain's Cycling Time Trials banned transgender women from competing in the female category of competitive events on Wednesday, renaming the men's category to 'open'. » Actually a good decision but one can wonder: is it now open to stimulants as well? 💊🧐🤫🤥😄 https://www.reuters.com/sports/cycling/britains-cycling-time-trials-bars-transgender-women-competing-female-category-2023-06-14

Apple really think it is country of its own, enforcing 30% "VAT" on all transaction. Get down to earth, you do not more than designing fancy phones.

Fortune

Apple threatens to remove Web3 social network Damus from App Store if it doesn’t end Bitcoin tipping | Fortune

Jack Dorsey was among those coming to the defense of Damus.

Lizard caught eating a worm. Feels prehistoric.

I recently discovered one of the tree in my garden has another kind tree growing in its core. Nature is amazing.

Bitcoin Core 25.0 is out in the wild

Bitcoin Core

Bitcoin Core 25.0

Bitcoin Core 25.0

« Nemo censetur ignorare legem. » Nobody is thought to be ignorant of the law, fair enough. It should be then humanly possible to remember each and every law, if not there is just too many laws.