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sweettea writes:The All Systems Go! conference happened last week in Berlin, devoted to systemd / container / image-building topics. Several cool talks focused on immutable distributions: their usages and virtues, particularly NixOS. NixOS is the foremost immutable, reproducable, and atomically upgradable Linux distribution, and a powerful building block for building easily deployable services.Andreas Herrmann, the first Bazel community expert, talked about the value of a reproducible build of your software and the merits of using an immutable distribution like Nix to make your builds better. Xe Iaso's talk on writing your own NixOS modules for your own build dependencies to ensure your software is reproducable. Lots more talks, but mostly systemd-related: check out the list of talks and the recordings!

cmdrklarg writes:https://www.sciencealert.com/nasas-parker-probe-flew-through-a-massive-solar-eruption-and-caught-it-all-on-camera

Strange Mathematical Pattern Found in The Cells of The Human Body

NotSanguine writes:The University of Michigan issued a press release concerning new research on the growth (or lack thereof) of large-scale structures in the universe.From the press release:

AnonTechie writes:Phys.org

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upstart writes:Gene required for root hair growth, nitrate foraging found in grasses:

upstart writes:Powerful Nerf Blaster Aims To Fire 100 Darts Per Second:

Meeting Announcement: The next meeting of the SoylentNews governance committee is scheduled for Friday, September 22nd, 2023 at 20:30 UTC (1:30pm PDT, 4:30pm EDT) in #governance on SoylentNews IRC. Logs of the meeting will be available afterwards for review, and minutes will be published when available.The agenda for the upcoming meeting will also be published when available. Minutes and agenda, and other governance committee information are to be found on the SoylentNews Wiki at: https://wiki.staging.soylentnews.org/wiki/GovernanceYou, the community, are always welcome to observe and participate, and you're invited to the meeting.Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/09/most-notorious-illegal-shadow-library-sued-by-textbook-publishers/

owl writes:https://nicole.express/2023/have-you-read-atari-today.html

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Sometime back I posted about Motor Trend (and prior hot rod magazines) converting their long time '57 Chevy project car to electric power. Now they have a followup article with lessons learned at https://www.motortrend.com/features/ev-conversion-classic-cars/ (had some trouble loading that page, found a copy at, https://archive.ph/l1o6H ).Their title is,

DannyB writes:Intelligence Community Feels It Might Be Time To Start Stuffing Surveillance Gear Into People's Pants

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upstart writes:Novel electrical therapy rebuilds muscles lost through natural aging:

upstart writes:Multispectral Imaging Shows Erased Evidence Of Ancient Star Catalogue:

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I *just* realized that an editor on SoylentNews, janrinok (AKA JR), has very recently attained a huge milestone on our site:8,000 stories!I can speak from personal experience that this represents a HUGE sacrifice of time and energy.He showed me the ropes in how to post a story.(There is FAR MORE than meets the eye to be an editor!)There was also the fact that in the early years of SoylentNews, he was simultaneously taking care of his severely ill wife.(She, sadly, passes away a few short years ago.)He endured some exceedingly heart-wrenching periods doing this.I have witnessed him posting stories even though he was beyond the point of exhaustion.So much so that his doctors *demanded* that he stop *everything* and take a break for many months.So it may not appear to be a huge milestone, please take my word for it. It is!Read more of this story at SoylentNews.

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/unity-promises-changes-to-install-fee-plans-as-developer-fallout-continues/

chromas writes:Digital Trends:

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/a-phone-call-to-helpdesk-was-likely-all-it-took-to-hack-mgm/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/ai-hype-reaches-coca-cola-with-new-y3000-flavor-co-created-with-ai/

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Freeman writes:https://hackaday.com/2023/09/11/cheap-lcd-uses-usb-serial/

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/health/2023/09/the-spectacular-downfall-of-a-common-useless-cold-medicine/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/09/private-ai-summit-with-senate-titans-of-tech-garners-controversy/

coolgopher writes:As reported in New Atlas and many other places, the 2023 Ig Nobel winners have been announced.The Ig Nobel Prize celebrates the most trivial and ridiculous things our best and brightest have studied. The 2023 award winners are now world-class experts that have advanced mankind's knowledge on big questions. Questions like "how much do horny anchovies influence ocean water mixing?" Or "if a group of people stand in the street looking upward, does the size of the group influence how many unrelated passers-by also decide to look up?" Or that old chestnut, "do we need toilets that analyze our excreta and identify us by taking photos of our anuses?"Just a couple of examples to raise the level of excitement...

upstart writes:Mistranslation Of Newton's First Law Discovered After Nearly 300 Years:

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upstart writes:Free Download Manager Site Compromised to Distribute Linux Malware to Users for 3+ Years:

Unity's new "per-install" pricing enrages the game development communityFreeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/09/game-developers-unite-against-unitys-new-per-install-pricing-structure/

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hubie writes:Researchers have built their own computer game to test the impact of meters which give players a morality score for the decisions they make while playing:

hubie writes:People in power who are guilt-prone are less likely to be corrupt:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2023/09/intel-confirms-thunderbolt-5-name-120gbps-tech-arrives-in-2024/

hubie writes:A new study out of the Complexity Science Hub concludes that social disintegration and violent conflict played a crucial role in shaping the population dynamics of early farming societies in Neolithic Europe:

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janrinok writes:Brain injury from contact sports doesn't just affect professional athletes:

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Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/cars/2023/09/this-autonomous-cargo-train-wants-to-fix-the-problem-of-underused-rails/

Freeman writes:https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/09/how-china-gets-free-intel-on-tech-companies-vulnerabilities/

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