#Starship preparations point to possible tower catch attempt on Flight 5

https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2024/06/starship-preparations-tower-catch-flight-5/

Beware. Obvious #joinmarket scam.

Did you know?

Today is summer solstice, the moment when Earth's north pole has its maximum tilt toward the Sun.

It is not the beginning of the summer season in the northern hemisphere, as wrongly reported by media. Meteorological summer does start on June 1st.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Season

Bitcoin Core v27.1 is out

https://github.com/bitcoin/bitcoin/blob/master/doc/release-notes/release-notes-27.1.md

**Notable changes**

Miniscript

#29853 sign: don't assume we are parsing a sane TapMiniscript

RPC

#29869 rpc, bugfix: Enforce maximum value for setmocktime

#29870 rpc: Reword SighashFromStr error message

#30094 rpc: move UniValue in blockToJSON

Index

#29776 Fix #29767, set m_synced = true after Commit()

Gui

#gui812 Fix create unsigned transaction fee bump

#gui813 Don't permit port in proxy IP option

Test

#29892 test: Fix failing univalue float test

P2P

#30085 p2p: detect addnode cjdns peers in GetAddedNodeInfo()

Build

#29747 depends: fix mingw-w64 Qt DEBUG=1 build

#29859 build: Fix false positive CHECK_ATOMIC test

#29985 depends: Fix build of Qt for 32-bit platforms with recent glibc

#30097 crypto: disable asan for sha256_sse4 with clang and -O0

#30151 depends: Fetch miniupnpc sources from an alternative website

#30216 build: Fix building fuzz binary on on SunOS / illumos

#30217 depends: Update Boost download link

Doc

#29934 doc: add LLVM instruction for macOS < 13

CI

#29856 ci: Bump s390x to ubuntu:24.04

Misc

#29691 Change Luke Dashjr seed to dashjr-list-of-p2p-nodes.us

#30149 contrib: Renew Windows code signing certificate

A student used a camera disguised as a shirt button linked to AI software via a router hidden in his shoe, and which recited exam answers through an earpiece. He has been arrested... I'd say bravo :D

https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/turkish-student-arrested-using-ai-cheat-university-exam-2024-06-11

Czech pirates got one seat, but as far as I could see that's the sole pirate representative, unfortunately...

https://www.lemonde.fr/en/international/article/2024/06/09/2024-european-elections-results-explore-our-map-and-view-the-make-up-of-the-future-parliament_6674304_4.html

Impressive it is! Still able to perform a landing burn with a melted flap!

Dry stone walling requires a bit of science and a lot of patience. You have my respect!

Looking for a job sucks. I spend more time writing cover letters than coding, this makes me brainless...

Not voting is super easy. You can always says it is because of "them". We all live in a system: if you want to change it, you have to play by the rules. It is not easy but that's the game, and if you don't want to play, just stop complaining.

My kids do prefer video games over doing homework, not a surprise. I'll definitely buy them Exographer as soon as out: play while learning physics. There should be more kinda this one!

https://abylightstudios.com/game/exographer/

Today, France used its FR-Alert system to send an extrem alert message to all phones within the coming Olympic Games area to warn people about... the opening of the platform to get a QR code... 🤦‍♂

Avoiding Tunnel Vision on Linux – How to route around unsafe DHCP options.

https://www.procustodibus.com/blog/2024/05/avoid-tunnelvision-on-linux/

So, How Big Were the Death Star Files?

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/in-honor-of-may-the-fourth-lets-talk-about-the-internet-in-space/

« At the heart of it is a service cloud, hosted, that allows you to issue those identifiers to your users in your organization »

It doesn't seem to be decentralized if user must go via a hosted service. It looks more like PGP as a service with data stored on blockchain. Fancy but neither efficient nor decentralized, is it?

“We’ve Become Addicted to Explosions” The IDF Unit Responsible for Demolishing Homes Across Gaza

https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2024/04/29/weve-become-addicted-to-explosions-the-idf-unit-responsible-for-demolishing-homes-across-gaza

+1 Arch Linux everywhere 🚀

European countries would also need to have "real" armies to go to war but are too broke to pay for it.

« ASICs Optimized for Heat, not Efficiency, will Decentralize #Mining »

https://braiins.com/blog/asics-optimized-for-heat-not-efficiency-will-decentralize-mining

« AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities »

https://www.quantamagazine.org/ai-starts-to-sift-through-string-theorys-near-endless-possibilities-20240423/