Scientist. Engineer. Family man. Nerd. Acute case of not having enough time. Apologies for the bad jokes in advance. Born in Africa, grew up in the Middle East, made a family in Europe, now living in North America #fedi22#Ukraine#rugby#science#anime#linux
Good. Maybe this unwise, greedy cyber dude can be swapped for a few Ukrainian POWs...
If the Russians actually wanted someone like him on their side. #NAFO
@KraftTea to me it seemed from the story that he didn’t actually manage to contact any Russian so they don’t know who he is and won’t give up anything in exchange. But still a good catch
For dinner tonight pizza from scratch, I’ve found the technique of cast iron pan then broil gives good results. For dessert crème caramel. Not the healthiest but one of the pizzas had tuna on it, at the request of the children. Got high marks from the family. #cooking#food
This news is disheartening. Denmark is lucky to have the coexistence advocate Özlem Cekic, who has dedicated her life to bringing people together through dialogue.
Every year she hosts a multi-cultural Ramadan dinner event, where she invites people who are normally in opposition to one another to share a meal.
This year, she brought Danish jews and muslims together at an event where both Imam Naveed Baig and Rabby Jair Melchior were invited as speakers.
@randahl I’d like to comment that this could imply that Danish Jews should not be attacked because their opposition to Netanyahu. They are not Israeli representatives. Attacks against them or any other Jews anywhere is antisemitism. Period
@randahl I agree and I didn’t mean they were actually attacked (though it would appear she was). I meant to say that your post might be read as making that connection, not that you meant that to be the case. It’s hard to be clear about everything in just a couple of sentences, but I try to
Made hamantaschen today, two kinds. Poppy seed, because it’s the best. Also made Dulce de lèche with lemon in the pastry. This turned out very well. No prizes for guessing which over the kids liked more. Also, I welcome suggestions about what to do with a lot of extra Dulce de lèche, I made way too much. Happy Purim! #baking
Recently there has been a lot of chatter about the British royal family. My response for this is as always, if it’s not news hastening the death of the monarchy I am not interested #royals
Given the high recent elimination of Russian fighter jets by #Ukraine the likeliest reason (no not F16s) is that the increase in air defense capabilities has reached a point where it can be stretched to the front line. To be more precise it has reached a level where the risk to residential and strategic areas is smaller than the gain from moving the air defense towards the front lines. I also want to say FrankenSams probably have a hand in that
I have no doubts whatsoever that Sweden's #Gripen is the best aircraft type for Ukraine's immediate needs - as good as F-16 in flight and avionics, much more maintainable, designed for dispersed operations by a tiny crew, and able to use the European long range Meteor air-to-air missile. But does #Ukraine still have capacity to take it on, given most of the air force is in one way or another training for the F-16? https://www.kyivpost.com/post/28718
@osma that’s a good question. Whenever questions like this come up I say the same thing, give Ukraine all the information they need to decide and then trust their answer. If they say they can manage it I believe them
With some help and encouragement from me, my girls made a simple comic, their first. Tools: Lego and @inkscape They did try doing the lettering by hand but they learned how difficult that is. So digital it is. #comics
Short thread about a 3 options for support the US could give #Ukraine if the aid doesn't get approved. Without Congress approval the president can't reduce stockpiles of ammo or equipment and send it on but maybe, with some pressure on the military, some items could be declared obsolete and removed from the stocks so they can be 'sold' to Ukraine or Europe and sent on
Option 2: Deploy air defense on the border with #Ukraine, since there's a shortage of these just take them from Saudi Arabia. By extending an umbrella over part of Ukrainian territory it'll free up scarce resources for Ukraine to bolster other areas to protect cities, infrastructure or possibly the front line. It would be easy to say that the deployment is just there to protect NATO territory
The most impactful option is just a decision. To allow #Ukraine to use the Western supplied equipment to attack into the territory of Russia. This will help with defense by deterring Russian artillery and S300 strikes on border regions. But most importantly it would allow Ukraine to cross into Russia from the North East and circle Luhansk from the North. Just doing it once and successfully capturing some territory back would force Russia forces to stretch even more and expend resources defense.
The scale of the Uyghur genocide is so vast but so difficult to report on that I think many of us have forgotten entirely about it. The last boost was a reminder.
It has been taking place for over a decade with the government of China systematically locking up and torturing and sterilizing and organ harvesting and killing and using as slave labor millions of people. Most of it out of the eye of worldwide media and with little discussion on social media and seldom a protest anywhere.
Trudging through the W5YI Report archives in @dlarc looking for #hamRadio license stats and found a more general-interest story on #MaxHeadroom on 1987-12-15.
> WHO WAS THAT MASKED MAN?
> Another case of overwhelming a transmitted TV signal took place Sunday night, November 22 when a video pirate wearing a "Max Headroom" mask broke into the local feed signals of Chicago TV superstation WGN-TV and non-commercial WTTW-TV.
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American physicist and chemist Katharine Burr Blodgett was born #OTD in 1898.
She was the inventor of a technique for making non-reflecting "invisible" glass, a material used in virtually all camera lenses & many other optical devices. She was also responsible for developing an instrument that can measure film thicknesses to within a few angstroms. She did research on methods of removing ice from airplane wings. She is also credited with the development of a new type of smoke screen.
@gutenberg_org to me she’s familiar from the Langmuir-Blodgett trough, which was not mentioned. Frankly I’m surprised I remembered this stuff from my nanotechnology days
My wife loves Krembo (a kind of tea cake) and I don’t, to put it mildly. But surely it’s better if I make it myself and don’t use the cheapest ingredients? Conclusion: biscuits were great, so was the filling (actually just Italian meringue). The chocolate was a bit of a miss, it was too runny, I think I should have melted the coconut oil before mixing with the chocolate. Oh, and she approved. #baking
