Luís de Sousa

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Very impressive reporting on #Russia by the @bbcnews Some people show a great deal of courage to speak out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gawdIcdY00

Inside Putin’s Russia: ‘We’re cut off from the outside world’ | BBC News

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Johnny comes lately quits #Twitter. Better late than never.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/eff-leaving-x

EFF is Leaving X

After almost twenty years on the platform, EFF is logging off of X. This isn’t a decision we made lightly, but it might be overdue.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

The #ComputerScience and Engineering Department of Instituto Superior Técnico - University of Lisbon is carrying out an open search process for possible candidates for openings for #Faculty positions.

https://dei.tecnico.ulisboa.pt/en/news/opportunities-and-call-for-applications/open-faculty-search-2026-2027

#Técnico #Academia #Job #AcademicLife

Open Faculty Search 2026-2027 - Departamento de Engenharia Informática

TécnicoMais

A few weeks ago my students in the Systems Analysis and Modelling subject closed the semester with an award ceremony prising the most accomplished assignment projects. Though perhaps the most abstract subject these #ComputerScience undergraduates tackle, they had a nice opportunity to experience #SystemsAnalysis in a real world context.

https://tecnico.ulisboa.pt/pt/noticias/campus-e-comunidade/tecnico-e-jeronimo-martins-distinguem-estudantes-em-premio-de-merito/

Técnico e Jerónimo Martins distinguem estudantes em Prémio de Mérito 

Sete equipas de estudantes da Licenciatura em Engenharia Informática e de Computadores apresentaram soluções inovadoras para desafios reais do setor AgriRetail.

Instituto Superior Técnico
When in the telly the say the US "produces" over 20 million barrels of "oil" every day they conflate #Petroleum with #NaturalGasLiquids. From the latter it is not possible to synthesise diesel or jet fuel, and only 10% may be blended into petrol.

If you ever tuned to the news from the #UnitedStates you often hear speaking of #EnergyIndependence and a surplus in #Oil production. That, however, is a mere accounting trick.

In reality the #US processes 16.5 million barrels of #CrudeOil in its refineries every day. But its daily extraction rate is 13.5 Mb. Every day the country imports 3 Mb.

Chart table from PeakOilBarrel:
https://peakoilbarrel.com/short-term-energy-outlook-march-2026/

#Petroluem #IranWar

Yesterday I went to see #Kreator for the very first time. It was the first night of this tour and I was not at all expecting such an amazing show, sonically and visually. Besides the stage props, Sami played the whole thing on his beautiful vintage #Ibanez #Destroyer.

Shout out to #Carcass too, they do play good, electrifying music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ckv0m7N7ae0

KREATOR - Krushers On The Road (Episode 1)

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[gdal-dev] GDAL 3.12.3 is released

GEDTM30 Version 1.2 (https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.19673) is out. It comes with several improvements. Enhanced Hydrological Parameters: multiscale terrain variables updated, added a new D8 flow direction variable, and implemented a surface correction algorithm (Yamazaki et al. 2019; https://doi.org/10.1029/2019WR024873) to ensure better hydrological connectivity.
🔗 Full release docs: https://codeberg.org/openlandmap/GEDTM30/releases
📊 New version status: https://codeberg.org/openlandmap/GEDTM30#data-components 🐞
🎯Spotted an issue? Let us know: https://codeberg.org/openlandmap/GEDTM30/issues