hey if any @qgis folks are using QGIS 4.0 on linux mint debian and wondering why the icons are all text - open up a terminal and do:

sudo apt install qt6-svg-plugins

...and relaunch QGIS. Hey presto! All the icons are graphics again.

#FOSS4G #gischat

Thunderstorms Make Trees Glow

Scientists have long hypothesized that the high electrical charge of thunderstorms could produce an opposite charge in the ground that would discharge from the forest canopy. But this phenomenon, known as a corona, had never been observed on actual trees. A new study, however, has observed this ghostly ultraviolet (UV) glow from the tips of sweetgum leaves and loblolly pine needles during thunderstorms.

Catching these coronae in action required a new kind of UV detector that was ultra-sensitive to the particular band of UV-light emitted by coronas, hot fires, or mercury lamps. Since the latter two weren’t present during the team’s field observations, they were able to conclude that the light they detected came from coronae.

The group observed that corona discharges were transient, jumping from leaf to leaf and branch to branch across the forest canopy. For any creature capable of detecting that glow by eye, it must be incredible to watch the treetops lit by their own ever-shifting auroras during every thunderstorm. (Image credit: W. Brune; research credit: P. McFarland et al.; via SciAm)

📣 El PSOE y SUMAR quieren blindar legalmente el secreto en los precios de los medicamentos colándolo en una ley sobre discapacidad.

La maniobra ha quedado expuesta y ya hemos avisado por carta formal a diputadas y diputados de las comisiones implicadas.

Ya lo intentaron en la Ley del medicamento. Ahora, lo hacen insertando la reforma en una norma que nada tiene que ver con la materia y cuando el Tribunal Supremo va a decidir si esos precios deben ser públicos.

🔗 https://civio.es/novedades/2026/03/18/psoe-y-sumar-quieren-blindar-legalmente-el-secreto-en-los-precios-de-los-medicamentos-colandolo-en-la-ley-de-discapacidad/

OpenAI acquiring Astral is sending shockwaves through the Python and AI programming communities.

I believe it opens up a 4th way to solve a historic problem: how to fund open source.

https://wsvincent.com/openai-acquiring-astral/

Wander: A tiny, decentralised tool to explore the small web.

Each click takes you to an independent personal website.

If you like it, please join the network. It just takes uploading two files to your web server.

Try it here: https://susam.net/wander/

Read more: https://codeberg.org/susam/wander#readme

#web #technology #programming #html

RE: https://mastodon.social/@civio/116255255268949205

Nos enteramos de esta maniobra gracias a alguien que nos avisó por redes. Sin ese mensaje, una enmienda para blindar por ley el secreto de los precios de los medicamentos habría pasado desapercibida, escondida en una ley de discapacidad.

Vuestra atención no solo nos importa: a veces nos salva.

Gracias a vosotras que nos leéis y seguís nuestro trabajo.

Fortran ist nur Legacy? Nicht ganz.

Mit Martin Diehl sprechen wir über moderne Fortran Standards, HPC, OpenMP, MPI, Coarrays und warum hinter NumPy, SciPy und LAPACK oft Fortran steckt.

Plus: Compiler, LLVM, Community und Tooling.

🎧 https://engineeringkiosk.dev/episodes/259

#Fortran #SoftwareEngineering #ScientificComputing #HPC #Podcast