Had to trim the terrace plants in prep for leaving, and now I'm drowning in both Italian and Thai basil. Might be time for pesto...

Building a smart watering system based on ESPHome. Unfortunately, the cheap hygrometers don't have a built-in amp for the data out, so they're pretty much useless when you don't have the controller placed directly next to the plants. :/

The second half of the world championships course for the road race tomorrow, i.e. the circuit in Glasgow, looks completely bonkers:

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The Inner Ring | World Championships Preview

Apparently there's a corner every 350m on average, and more than 40 corners overall. That's more accelerations per lap (of 10 laps) than overall in many road races.

Dank u wel, Bram! ❤️ :vim:

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Looks like there's a pretty decent level of security review for packages going into SUSE's rolling distro:

oss-security - Mozilla VPN: CVE-2023-4104: Privileged vpndaemon on Linux wrongly and incompletely implements Polkit authentication

@Alex Gleason How does mostr handle edits towards the nostr side? I assume it simply ignores them? (Forgive me if this is documented somewhere.)

The current heatwave was no problem whatsoever so far. Even been working physically all day yesterday and no biggie. Until, just at the right time to maximize losses, our fridge and freezer just died on a Saturday night around 9pm. I guess this means cooking for the whole week today...

While everyone's talking about the AI apocalypse, many people don't realize just how close we are to eternal youth, which would have absolutely massive implications for humankind. One team even seems to have managed to induce the reversal by chemical means (i.e. no gene therapy needed):

Chemically induced reprogramming to reverse cellular aging | Aging

Aging | doi:10.18632/aging.204896. Jae-Hyun Yang, Christopher A. Petty, Thomas Dixon-McDougall, Maria Vina Lopez, Alexander Tyshkovskiy, Sun Maybur...