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Pesquisadores da Universidade Northwestern detectaram um vento do buraco negro supermassivo Sagittarius A*, no centro da Via Láctea. Essa descoberta, após mais de cinquenta anos de busca, revela uma nova faceta da interação do buraco negro com seu ambiente.

🔗 https://omniletters.com/vento-buraco-negro-via-lactea-2/

#buraconegro #via #lactea #astronomia #pesquisa

Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog Jun 13

176 chili peppers: A beautifully written and illustrated guide to chile
https://www.notesfromtheroad.com/desertmexico/chili-peppers.html
#via:metafilter #capsicum #scoville #pepper #chile #chili #heat #food #+

Chili Peppers of the World: Cultivars, Species, and Heat

An illustrated guide to chili peppers of the world, organized by Capsicum species and cultivar, with notes on origin, heat, form, domestication, and global food history.

Notes from the Road

Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog Jun 11

Arabic typography: Detailed article about the complications of rendering Arabic text correctly, rooted in history
https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/
#via:lobsters #typesetting #typography #culture #arabic #fonts #+

An interactive introduction to the terrific experience of rendering Arabic typography and its technical debt

This post was discussed in Lobsters and HackerNews

La Vita Nouva

Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog Jun 10

Working with Mythos: A poetic, slightly awed account of using Anthropic's newest LLM to build complex software products
https://www.oneusefulthing.org/p/what-it-feels-like-to-work-with-mythos
#programming #via:waxy #claude #mythos #llm #ai #+

What it feels like to work with Mythos

Claude Fable represents another big jump in AI

One Useful Thing

Omni Letters - Brasil Jun 5

Astrônomos detectaram pela primeira vez o vento do buraco negro supermassivo Sagittarius A*, no centro da Via Láctea. A descoberta, que conclui uma busca de 50 anos, foi divulgada na revista The Astrophysical Journal Letters.

🔗 https://omniletters.com/vento-buraco-negro-via-lactea/

#buraconegro #via #lactea #astronomia #descoberta

Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog Jun 5

IP KVMs: Roundup of hardware to remotely access a PC
https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2026/i-tested-every-ip-kvm/
#via:hackernews #hardware #homelab #ipkvm #kvm #+

I tested every IP KVM in my Homelab

Since the PiKVM came out in 2017, there's been an explosion of IP KVMs. I've tested almost every one. But what are they good for? You can use Remote Desktop, Screen Sharing, or VNC to remote control a computer from anywhere on a LAN. And if you don't have a private VPN, you could use RealVNC, Raspberry Pi Connect, or wire up Tailscale or Pangolin for fully remote access. Those solutions are great, and so is SSH if you don't need a full desktop.

Jeff Geerling

Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog Jun 5

GPS numbers station: Navigation satellites have been broadcasting encrypted data for over a decade. Really neat analysis.
https://www.benthamsgaze.org/2026/06/02/the-quiet-numbers-station-decoding-nineteen-years-of-gps-cryptography/
#cryptopgraphy #steganography #via:lobsters #military #security #cool #gps #+

The Quiet Numbers Station: Decoding Nineteen Years of GPS Cryptography

The Global Positioning System (GPS) relies on its primary L1 frequency to broadcast precise timing and orbital data, allowing receivers on Earth to calculate their exact location. Because the L1 C/A signal transmits at just fifty bits per second, every bit of this navigation data must earn its place

Bentham’s Gaze

Some Bits: Nelson's Linkblog Jun 5

Fedora Silverblue hacking: Nice notes about working with an immutable OS while also heavily tinkering and customizing
https://bxt.rs/blog/using-fedora-silverblue-for-compositor-development/
#via:lobsters #immutable #desktop #overlay #fedora #atomic #linux #+

Using Fedora Silverblue for Compositor Development | Ivan Molodetskikh’s Webpage

How can you use an immutable distro to develop and test system components? I describe my workflows and argue that it’s even better than a traditional system.

Omni Letters - Brasil Jun 4

Pesquisadores descobriram um gap de brilho na população de estrelas M-dwarfs no aglomerado NGC 6397, próximo da Via Láctea. A descoberta, feita com o telescópio espacial Euclid, indica uma subpopulação de estrelas com comportamento inesperado.

🔗 https://omniletters.com/gap-brilho-ngc-6397/

#astronomia #estrelas #telescopios #ngc6397 #via

WIST Quotations Jun 3

A quotation from Samuel Butler

The limits of vice and virtue are wretchedly ill-defined. Half the vices that the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) English novelist, satirist, scholar
The Way of All Flesh, ch. 52 (Pryer) (1903)

More about this quote: wist.info/butler-samuel/787/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #samuelbutler #abstinence #binary #condemnation #extremism #moderation #Prohibition #via media #vice #virtue

Butler, Samuel - The Way of All Flesh, ch. 52 (Pryer) (1903) | WIST Quotations

The limits of vice and virtue are wretchedly ill-defined. Half the vices that the world condemns most loudly have seeds of good in them and require moderate use rather than total abstinence.

WIST Quotations