Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world

River Runner Global

Watch the path of a raindrop from anywhere in the world

Uses USGS/MERIT Basin data to visualize the path of a rain droplet to its endpoint.

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GitHub - sdl60660/river-runner at global

Uses USGS/MERIT Basin data to visualize the path of a rain droplet to its endpoint. - GitHub - sdl60660/river-runner at global

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Trump Is Going to Pump Our Bags to Kingdom Come https://archive.ph/kQYMY A guy, stool-bound inside the front door of PubKey, a Bitcoin-themed bar in Manhattan’s Greenwich Village, motioned for my ID. I reached for my wallet. But wait—turns out he wasn’t actually working the door. “We’re just trying to get people,” he told me, chortling. Epic prank, sir! Hence got, I made my way to the bar’s backroom for a panel called “Coin Based: Concepts of a Plan for Nation-State Bitcoin Adoption.” “My how things have changed,” read the online event page. “Ideas that only a few weeks ago were laughed at by pundits and commentators are now on the table.” It was time to decide what exactly the crypto community desires from the Trump administration on a policy level, and a few dozen guys had gathered to listen to a four-guy panel debate potential legislative achievements that could define Trump 2.0. It was off to an annoying start, as expected, but money buys you that right, even digital money. originally posted at

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Is NixOS truly reproducible?

Julien Malka

Is NixOS truly reproducible? | Julien Malka

PhD student working on software supply chain security. NixOS contributor and FOSS developer.

Build reproducibility is often considered as a de facto feature provided by functional package managers like Nix. Although the functional package manager model has important assets in the quest for build reproducibility (like reproducibility of build environments for example1), it is clear among practitioners that Nix does not guarantee that all its builds achieve bitwise reproducibility. In fact, it is not complicated to write a Nix package that builds an artifact non-deterministically. originally posted at

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Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop [LWN.net]

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Chimera Linux works toward a simplified desktop

Chimera Linux is a new distribution designed to be

Chimera Linux is a new distribution designed to be "simple, transparent, and easy to pick up". The distribution is built from scratch, and recently announced its first beta release. While the documentation and installation process are both a bit rough, the project already provides a usable desktop with plenty of useful software — one built primarily on tools adopted from BSD. Chimera Linux was started by "q66" (who previously worked on Void Linux) in 2021 with the goal of creating a modern distribution that could "eliminate legacy cruft where possible" to provide a simple, practical desktop. In service of that goal, the project is based on BSD tools. Chimera's frequently asked questions page explains that unlike other projects that use those tools for licensing reasons, project picked BSD tools for their smaller code size and reduced complexity. Bootstrapping a modern Linux distribution is quite complex, with many packages that depend on other packages; using BSD tools allowed the project to avoid a lot of that complexity. For example, Chimera uses musl as its C library, which cuts out a lot of dependencies from the GNU C library.  originally posted at

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Open Heart Protocol

Open Heart Protocol

The Open Heart protocol lets an anonymous user sends an emoji reaction to a URL. originally posted at

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The Open Heart protocol lets an anonymous user sends an emoji reaction to a URL.

Oracle Linux is the best local VM for MacBooks

Life pro tip: Oracle Linux is the best local VM for MacBooks

No, seriously. It sips battery life. I don't get it either.

> Part of working on Anubis means that I need a local Linux environment on my MacBook. Ideally, I want Kubernetes so that I have a somewhat cromulent setup. Most of my experience using a local Kubernetes cluster on a MacBook is with Docker Desktop. I have a love/hate relationship with Docker Desktop. Historically it's been a battery hog and caused some really weird issues. > I tried to use Docker Desktop on my MacBook again and not only was it a battery hog like I remembered; whenever the Kubernetes cluster is running the machine fails to go to sleep when I close it. I haven't been able to diagnose this despite help from mac expert friends in an infosec shitposting slack. I've resigned myself to just shutting down the Docker Desktop app when I don't immediately need Docker. > I have found a solution thanks to a very unlikely Linux distribution: Oracle Linux. Oracle Linux is downstream of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and more importantly they ship a "no thinking required" template for UTM. Just download the aarch64 UTM image from their cloud images page, extract it somewhere, rename the .utm file to the name of your VM, double click, copy the password, log in, change your password on first login, and bam. You get a Linux environment. originally posted at

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Goodnight Nostr, catch you on the flip side.

Snowdrop OS - my operating system from scratch, in assembly language

Snowdrop OS - my operating system from scratch, in assembly language

Snowdrop OS was born of my childhood curiosity around what happens when a PC is turned on, the mysteries of bootable disks, and the hidden aspects of operating systems. It is a 16-bit real mode operating system for the IBM PC architecture. I designed and developed this homebrew OS from scratch, using only x86 assembly language. I have created and included a number of utilities, including a file manager, text editor, graphical applications, BASIC interpreter, x86 assembler and debugger. I also ported one of my DOS games to it. After all, what kind of an operating system doesn't have games? The Snowdrop OS and the apps are distributed as both a floppy disk (1.44Mb) image, as well as a CD-ROM image. The images contain the following, all programmed from scratch: - a boot loader which loads the kernel into memory - a kernel which sets up interrupt vectors to be used by user apps, and then loads the startup app - user apps, including a shell (command line interface), utilities, test apps, and aSMtris, my Tetris clone Snowdrop OS can also be installed to a hard disk - prompting the user to do so during boot - if it detects one. I hope that Snowdrop can serve other programmers who are looking to get a basic understanding of operating system functions. Like my other projects, the source code is fully available, without any restrictions on its usage and modification.   originally posted at

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