The Soviet Venera probes are my favorite missions to another planet. They managed to successfully land on a planet that is 460C and 93 bars on the surface, and survive there collecting and sending data for 2 hours! A remarkable feat of engineering.

I’m no expert but it looks like Syria is shaping up to be similar to Afghanistan, where a religious fundamentalist government does not directly partake in terrorist attacks but condones groups’ operations on its territory. The US military will probably “bring freedom” there at a more significant scale sooner or later.

Hope the devs of Bisq and Robosats and similar DEXs don’t comply, but if they do it’s fork time. View quoted note →

A proposal to inject AI-enabled censorship into 3D printer firmware. We likely have at least 4 years until something like this is mandated at a federal level, but it’s important to keep the 3D printing pipeline open source until then.

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Senator threatening Valve for not censoring speech on the Steam platform. If you view the 1A as an obstacle, you’re at least as bad an un-American authoritarian as the “Nazi”s you’re worried about.

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US Senator Mark Warner comes less than a week after an ADL report accusing Steam of

New spacecraft re-entry shield material. Pretty tough! View quoted note →