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  • Check out the movie Pirates of Silicon Valley.

  • dark rule 2
  • Gavlan wheel? Gavlan deal.

  • What little luxuries are worth the splurge?
  • I never used to think about the quality of my underwear until I got some from Saxx & Pair of Thieves. Now I can't imagine going back.

  • Black Bean Brownies?

    EDIT: Just made some. Verdict? The bean brownies taste just like the real thing. Mouthfeel is good, too.

    I've seen a few recipes for black bean brownies that people swear by, but also many complaints too. Have any of you tried these before? If not, would you?

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    New Hair Loss Drug Approved by FDA
  • Minoxidil stimulates bloodflow around the follicles and pushes them into the growth phase. It's usually applied topically.

    Finasteride reduces the amount of DHT inside the body, as the hormone can attack hair follicles causing scarring. It's taken orally. Some have complained of serious, permanent side effects after using this medication.

  • What desktop computer would you recommend for maximum freedom?
  • I don't see any mention of Coreboot or Libreboot, though.

  • What desktop computer would you recommend for maximum freedom?
  • As far as I'm aware, you can't buy a prebuilt computer that ticks all of those boxes. System76 has Coreboot-supported laptops, but they don't offer it with their desktops because it's nearly impossible. And you can just forget about Libreboot, since it barely runs on anything. Neither is exactly ideal for modern systems, though...

    The best you can do is build your own, but even then, it still requires the Intel FSP. Installing your own distro would be as simple as plugging in a flash drive with the installer when you're done.

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    Doomed Titanic sub CEO tried to sell cut-price tickets, saying it was ‘safer than crossing the street’
  • There already are regulations; he just didn't like them. Dude was breaking the law, and he was proud of it.

  • Facebook and Instagram to restrict news access in Canada
  • Happy to see Meta booted from the industry, but I'm a bit concerned about Google no longer indexing news articles here...

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    Skyrim gog or steam version
  • Yup, just get SE. Mods need to be updated to work with the Anniversary Edition, and a lot of authors haven't done that yet. You'll need to downgrade SE, but there's an easy tool to do just that.

    If you wanted to buy Special Edition for Steam, GMG (key seller with great reputation) has it on sale for roughly US$9.

  • Skyrim gog or steam version
  • I'd recommend the Steam version. But don't bother with AE; Special Edition has better mod support.

  • Where have Subreddits relocated? A directory of Subreddits' new homes
  • Great idea, but there's too many empty and unused communities cluttering the front page.

  • A Pulsar With Planets
  • PSR B1257+12 (nicknamed Lich), has at least three known planets (Draugr, Poltergeist and Phobetor) orbiting in a close orbit around it.

    Love the names.

  • If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel - A tediously accurate map of the solar system
  • If you like this website, you'd probably enjoy Scale of the Universe too.

  • liana flores - rises the moon
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    soliciting a new round of community suggestions
  • A community for interesting facts like r/todayilearned.

  • AMD reveals initial open source openSIL code to replace AGESA Firmware
  • Security by obscurity doesn't work. AMD knows this well, and wants to have more eyes scrutinizing the firmware.

  • Return to Lothric Dark Souls 3 event June 13-27
  • Ooo, I'll download it now and make a new character. I'd missed out on Return to Drangleic for DS2. 😔

  • What's your go-to comfort food?
  • Poutine. Fries, gravy and cheese curds are three things I'll enjoy forever.

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  • These findings are limited, and further investigation before we can say for sure.

    Motivated by the possibility that a cooling delay caused by crystallization can be directly detected for this white dwarf we employ a variety of methods to constrain the age of the system; however, our empirical age anomaly of +3.1±1.9 Gyr is ultimately too imprecise to reach statistical significance, preventing us from making strong constraints to models of white dwarf crystallization.

  • The Elder Scrolls Skyblivion Release Year Announcement Trailer
  • Right? They have a sister project too called Skywind, a remake of Morrowind—which just recently turned 21 years old!

  • The Elder Scrolls Skyblivion Release Year Announcement Trailer

    For those of you who aren't familiar with the project, Skyblivion is remake of Oblivion inside the Skyrim game engine. They're remaking all of the assets and overhauling the maps, among other things. It's one of the most ambitious mods of all time, slated to release in 2025.

    This trailer was released back in January, but it seems many haven't heard the good news or even learned of the project yet. With the five year anniversary of the TES VI announcement and nothing to show for it, you'll probably get to play this before Bethesda gives us anything.

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    www.space.com A chaotic star is inching toward a violent death as astronomers watch in real-time

    This might be the first observation of this rare type of star evolving in real time.

    A chaotic star is inching toward a violent death as astronomers watch in real-time

    >Every star ages, but astronomers rarely get to watch it happen in real time. Now, they've gotten a front-row seat to the aging of an unusually chaotic star — and found that it's headed toward a spectacularly violent death.

    >The star, located in the nearby Triangulum galaxy (also known as Messier 33), is in the middle of a transition into a class of highly unstable stars called Wolf-Rayet stars. New observations show that the star has begun beaming a new signal that was not seen when the star was first spotted in 2018.

    >The new signal was detected in the peaks and valleys of the star's spectra, the wavelengths of the electromagnetic radiation it emits, and shows that the star is churning either carbon or iron deep within it through nuclear fusion. The new signal also indicates that the massive star, easily 25 times the sun's mass, has inched closer to its eventual fate of exploding into a spectacular supernova.

    >Gaunt's team is calling the star BELLS 1, an acronym for "broad emission-lined luminous sources, the kind of wide range of emissions radiated by Wolf-Rayet stars.

    > According to NASA, Wolf-Rayet stars like BELLS 1 live fast and die hard, so watching one evolve is a rare and valuable opportunity for astronomers. Only 200 such stars are known to be in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers suspect that 1,000 or 2,000 more may be out there but are obscured by thick blankets of dust.

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    What's your favourite snack(s)?

    Edamame beans, hard boiled eggs and popcorn are my personal favourites.

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    9to5google.com Google releases Android TV 14 Beta, ditches Android 13

    Coinciding with the release of Android 14 Beta 3 for Pixel devices, Google has also launched a preview of what...

    Google released a new version of Android TV, but it can't be installed on Google TV dongles yet. I have to wonder if Nvidia will update their ageing Shield TV line-up?

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    Modest Mouse - Float On

    This is one of my favourite songs of all time. Whenever I'm feeling down, I find myself humming it and feel just a bit better.

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    www.forbes.com ‘Golden Asteroid’ Mission Is Back On Track, Says NASA

    NASA's mission to Psyche—a metal asteroid that could be worth "quadrillions" of dollars—had addressed its issues and is "go" for launch, said an independent review.

    ‘Golden Asteroid’ Mission Is Back On Track, Says NASA

    >Originally scheduled to launch in September 2022, Psyche was scrubbed last year after delays in development and testing of its flight software.

    >Located in the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter, Psyche is 140 miles/226 kilometers wide, rotates on its side and, according to its reflectivity, appears to be made largely of iron, nickel or gold. As such, planetary scientists think it could be a rare example of the core of a planet exposed to space in a cataclysmic collision.

    > It’s even been said that Psyche could be technically worth $10,000 quadrillion. That’s way more than the global economy, which is worth about $105 trillion in 2023 according to Statista.

    >Psyche is now due to launch from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A in Florida atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy between Oct. 5-25, 2023, conduct a flyby of Mars for a gravity assist and arrive at the asteroid in August 2029. It will then spend 26 months in orbit, making observations from different altitudes.

    >Now in an Astrotech Space Operations Facility near Kennedy Space Center in Florida, the spacecraft twill this month begin its final assembly, test and launch operations.

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    No-Frills Battenberg Cake

    My mother loves Battenberg cake but she can't get it in Canada, so I decided to make her some instead. I didn't bake two separate cakes to get the tile pattern, but it tastes just as good.

    This is the recipe we used as the base, substituting caster with fine white sugar. I would totally recommend it! The marzipan, apricot jam and sponge cake work so well together. 😊

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