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breaking news:

there is a guy with a kitten in a harness outside of cheese and crack and literally nothing more important than this has happened in weeks

Today's delightful nerd deep dive reading was this post on how to make your own soldering flux from pine resin:

https://northcoastsynthesis.com/news/homemade-traditional-resin-flux/

Homemade traditional resin flux

Pine resin and rosin, and how to make your own solder flux from them

North Coast Synthesis Ltd.
A watched bubble never pops.
@emaytch I’d really love to get my hands on an affordable tape drive.
@emaytch It’s been a while since I priced it but maybe Amazon AWS Glacier or Backblaze B2?

The world's first Trillionaire is a mass murderer.

No, he didn't build a factory that negligently poisoned the air and water. Nor did he hide studies showing his product was carcinogenic. He didn't accidentally or negligently kill people as a side effect of making his fortune. No, it's way more evil than that.

Musk cut off food and medicine to millions of people on purpose, causing hundreds of thousands of them to suffer and die. He didn't even do it for profit, or do it in secret. He did it openly and gleefully, for no other apparent reason except to hurt people.

https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hundreds-of-thousands-of-deaths/?hl=en-US

USAID shutdown has led to hundreds of thousands of deaths | Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

The Trump administration’s decision to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) has resulted in hundreds of thousands of deaths from infectious diseases and malnutrition, according to Harvard Chan School’s Atul Gawande.

Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health

"Latin letters do not hold hands. Arabic letters do.

To understand why every machine since Gutenberg has wrestled this script and mostly lost, you need one structural fact: Arabic is cursive always."

This piece is an exhilarating, eye-opening, outrageous, and very funny tale of the difference between latin letters and Arabic letters, and why printing presses and screen renderers have such a hard time with it.

https://lr0.org/blog/p/arabic/

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
Saw this on Lemmy….
OCEANIA HAS ALWAYS BEEN VERY CLOSE TO A DEAL WITH EURASIA