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Ferocious solar storm could give US rare view of northern lights
  • i think a lot of people get misled by all the pictures.

    The aurora tends to look very grey and washed out to the naked eye.
    Unless they're moving fast enough they're easily mistaken for thin hazy grey cloud.

    Most of the pictures you'll see are with long exposure settings to get the colours to show much more vivid than they actually appear.

    I guess this might be different with these strong aurora - I didn't look last night but I'm right in a city anyway.

  • someone tell them
  • People need to stop being such noobs, getting software from repo.
    It's crazy to trust precompiled software force fed to people by evil-big-foss corporations.
    Real pros check every line for malware each time there's an update and compile from source.

  • If you were alone in the woods, would you rather come across Windows or Linux?
  • Either way, assuming I can find a large stick or rock, I'd have enough patience to do a manual physical uninstall and get back to my solitude. So I think I'd be pretty ambivalent.
    I guess smashing the shit out of windows would be slightly more satisfying - but that's not really the main reason I'm alone in the woods.

    And yes - before you ask the obvious follow-up - I have smashed the shit out of a thinkpad in the past, they're not as tough as people say they are; it's mostly false bravado. Don't be afraid to stand up to the bully (ymmv).

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    Scotland launches campaign "give cycle space", reminding that those riding bike are real persons
  • In rural Scotland (at least in Fife , Perth +Kinross) I noticed a lot of
    60mph-40mph - 20mph - 40mph-60
    sort of slow down buffer zone type things around villages.

    Much better than 60 - 30-60 we normally have in England.
    And noticeably quieter too.

    I hope they carry on with that.
    I think Wales did 20mph in all rural villages.

    Fuck England.

  • Like getting 9 women pregnant and expecting a baby in 1 month
  • We have a problem with testing.

    "Management" identifies problem "testing" adds word "lead".

    Issues job advert, recruits, problem solved?

    . . . third "testing lead" in 2 years . . . "it's so hard to recruit"

  • Does anyone know why SteamOS is based on arch rather than Debian?
  • Volvo probably trying to cast off their reputation for being "safe ang boring" and take on a more edgy image.
    Ditching Internal combustion in favour of steam power is also a major shift for them.

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