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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 05/10/2026
Accelerator Energies xkcd.com/3306/
Comic. [Chart with track length on x axis: 10cm, 1m, 10m, 100m, 1km, 10km, 100km; collision energy on y axis: 1eV, 1keV, 1MeV, 1GeV, 1TeV, 1PeV, 10^18eV, 10^21eV, 10^24eV, 10^27eV. Scatterplot increases in a mostly linear shape with points for first cyclotrons, ADA, cosmotron, bevatron, BEPC-II, J-PARC, CEBAF, RHIC, tevatron, large Hadron Collider. An outlier near the top of the chart is Daytona Speedway.]
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Paul Byrne @theplanetaryguy.com · 02/10/2026
This will never stop blowing my mind. A 12-year sequence of real telescope images of a star 133 lightyears away. And around it, four planets slowly orbiting. Four real exoplanets, each more massive than Jupiter, imaged as they move around their host star.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/09/2026
Summer xkcd.com/3299/
4-panel comic. (1) [Person swings from tree over water.] (2) [In the middle of the swing, the tree’s leaves have turned brown.] (3) [When the person lets go, the tree is bare of leaves and everywhere is covered in ice or snow.] (4) [The person landed on the ice looks behind at Person 2 with shoulder-length hair standing on the snow.] PERSON 2: Summer over already, huh? PERSON 1: It seemed extra quick this year.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 08/09/2026
Handedness xkcd.com/3293/
Comic. [Two people considering diagrams on whiteboard] PERSON 1 with ponytail: The W bosons produced by the collider beam will mostly be left-handed. PERSON 2: So we should send in a *right*-handed batter.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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energiesmedia.com
In Minnesota, one wind turbine stopped producing only electricity and started making something else using nothing but wind, water, and the air around it
Farmers in Minnesota will finally save money on imported fertilizer thanks to a wind turbine that generates green ammonia using wind, air, and water.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/07/2026
Latitude and Longitude xkcd.com/3273/
Comic. [Latitude and longitude lines squeezing Earth.] [caption: Bad news: NASA accidentally shrank Earth’s latitude and longitude lines in the wash.]
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
They'll start(or have already started)to influence reddit and other forum's content/responses because they know that today's search is moving towards LLM chatbots. And these models ingest internet content to provide an opinionated answer out of the facts.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Foundation has a better story than Dune.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 29/06/2026
The Large Hadron Collider is shutting down but when it comes back it will become more powerful than you can possibly imagine! 💥 Looking forward to the High-Luminosity LHC (technically more *luminous,* in the sense of having way more proton collisions, rather than necessarily more powerful) in 2030!
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/06/2026
Side Effect xkcd.com/3261/
5-panel comic. (1) Two people standing, one with a ponytail and the second with white beret] PERSON 2: This new topical medication makes me extra sensitive to sun exposure and gravitational waves. (2) PERSON 1: Oh yeah, that’s a common... wait, what was that last part? PERSON 2: Here comes one now! (3) [Person 2 stretched taller] (4) [Person 2 squished shorter] (5) [Person 2 stretched taller again] PERSON 2: *Wheee!*
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 17/06/2026
Messi xkcd.com/3260/
Comic. Lionel Messi: World Cup Goals per game. [Graph with x axis as year and y axis as number of goals per game, ranging from 0 to 3. Data points: 2006 (~1/3), 2010 (0), 2014 (~1/2), 2018 (~1/4), 2022 (1), 2026 (3) with parenthetical (so far). Behind the line connecting the points is a grayed out curve showing the trajectory.] [caption] At this rate, by 2040 Messi will be scoring hundreds of goals per game.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 09/06/2026
Planetary Science xkcd.com/3255/
Comic. [Article titled “Evidence for liquid water on the surface of a terrestrial planet in the habitable zone,” with unreadable text but including pictures of a beach and of people playing on a beach.] [caption] Planetary science journals have asked astronomers to please stop submitting their vacation photos.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 12/05/2026
Crystal Gazing xkcd.com/3243/
Comic. [Person who looks like a wizard, dressed in robe with tall pointy hat and with long beard, standing in front of chart, proclaiming to another person.] PERSON 1: By gazing into my crystals of zircon, I have divined the date of the hour of fire marking the limit of this world’s existence. 4.54 billion years ago, the beginning was nigh! [caption] Geochronologists are just reverse prophets of doom.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
OpenAI
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
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The Island at the Edge of the World
YouTube video by Aidin Robbins
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
worldhistory.substack.com/p/how-ancien...
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How Ancient People Saw Themselves
The art of the ancient mirror
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
crates.io/crates/ooran...
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crates.io: Rust Package Registry
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
phys.org/news/2025-10...
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The key to why the universe exists may lie in an 1800s knot idea science once dismissed
In 1867, Lord Kelvin imagined atoms as knots in the aether. The idea was soon disproven. Atoms turned out to be something else entirely. But his discarded vision may yet hold the key to why the univer...
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 24/10/2025
History Of #Linux Project: a timeline with cards and images to illustrate how Linux came to be github.com/MarkGotLasag...
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
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Tying Knots in Particle Physics
Knots emerge in various fields of mathematics and physics today. We show that knots indeed appear as stable solitons in a realistic extension of the standard model of particle physics that provides th...
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 23/10/2025
Shielding Chart xkcd.com/3158/
Comic. Confusion matrix showing renditions of different combinations, colored yellow, tan, or gray. [Air: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Lead: gamma rays G, neutrons T, alpha particles G, light G, Sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust T, radio G, sharks G] [Water: gamma rays T, neutrons G, alpha particles G, light T, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Vacuum: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound G, heat T, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G] [Oven mitts: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound T, heat G, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks Y] [Armor: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords G, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks T] [Biohazard suit: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles G, light G, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust G, radio Y, sharks Y] [Faraday cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio G, sharks Y] [Shark cage: gamma rays Y, neutrons Y, alpha particles Y, light Y, sound Y, heat Y, swords Y, toxic dust Y, radio Y, sharks G]
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 22/10/2025
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AMD’s CDNA 3 Compute Architecture
AMD has a long history of vying for GPU compute market share.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 21/10/2025
Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset? What the latest What If? video in collaboration with @minuteearth.bsky.social! www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8F7...
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Can you drive west to lengthen the sunset?
YouTube video by xkcd's What If?
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Zoom Earth @zoom.earth · 22/10/2025
Tropical Storm #Melissa is brooding in the Caribbean Sea south of Hispaniola 🌀 It’s future is very uncertain right now, but the NHC are forecasting continued strengthening, possibly to a major hurricane. Residents in Jamaica, Haiti, and the Dominican Republic need to watch this one.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 20/10/2025
Planetary Rings xkcd.com/3156/
Comic. Two-column table. Column A lists planets: Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune. Column B has checkmark boxes for whether the planets have rings: the outer planets’ boxes are checked, and Earth has a red check. [Earth with a ring with an array pf points around it. An arrow labeled “Geostationary Satellite Bel”t points to the ring.] [caption] Astronomy fact: A century ago, Earth didn’t have rings, but we have one now! It’s where all the satellite dishes are pointed.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 17/10/2025
blog.pixelmelt.dev/kindle-web-d...
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How I Reversed Amazon's Kindle Web Obfuscation Because Their App Sucked
As it turns out they don't actually want you to do this (and have some interesting ways to stop you)
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 04/08/2025
Netmaker uses WireGuard to create secure, scalable virtual networks (VPN) that connect data centers, clouds, and edge devices including home routers. It's highly customizable and can be configured for a variety of use cases, from small businesses to large enterprises. #linux
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GitHub - gravitl/netmaker: Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks.
Netmaker makes networks with WireGuard. Netmaker automates fast, secure, and distributed virtual networks. - gravitl/netmaker
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I still have my (many) reservations about ocean alkalinity enhancement. But I'm very happy to see this sort of study about it, looking at how it may affect plankton. Also, the title is brilliant. 🧪🌊 Link: aslopubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
Timeline of the AlkalOcean mesocosm experiment (14 d, D1–D14) highlighting the days where the three grazing incubations were conducted (Exp1 on D1, Exp2 on D4, and Exp3 on D8), and a summarized scheme showing the experimental workflow including mesocosm sampling, incubations, and sample processing.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Fastfetch is just as beautiful as neofetch!
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
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How Android phones became an earthquake warning system
The system uses phones’ accelerometers to trigger warnings ahead of the shaking.
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nixCraft @cyberciti.biz · 22/07/2025
Want to create isometric diagrams for your engineering, architecture, and technical drawings? Try FossFLOW to make drawings for clarity and precision. It is a free software and works offline too github.com/stan-smith/F...
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GitHub - stan-smith/FossFLOW: Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams
Make beautiful isometric infrastructure diagrams. Contribute to stan-smith/FossFLOW development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/07/2025
iNaturalist Animals and Plants xkcd.com/3118/
Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 22/07/2025
research.swtch.com/zip
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research!rsc: Zip Files All The Way Down
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
www.makingsoftware.com/chapters/how...
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MAKING SOFTWARE
A reference manual for people who design and build software.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
www.quantamagazine.org/the-biggest-...
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The Biggest-Ever Digital Camera Is This Cosmologist’s Magnum Opus | Quanta Magazine
Tony Tyson’s cameras revealed the universe’s dark contents. Now, with the Rubin Observatory’s 3.2-billion-pixel camera, he’s ready to study dark matter and dark energy in unprecedented detail.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 11/07/2025
In the past two years, with surprisingly little notice, renewable energy has suddenly become the obvious, mainstream, cost-efficient choice around the world.
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
www.quantamagazine.org/is-mathemati... Good read
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Is Mathematics Mostly Chaos or Mostly Order? | Quanta Magazine
Two new notions of infinity challenge a long-standing plan to define the mathematical universe.
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 02/06/2025
On a fundamental level, because orbits are usually not perfect circles, I understood that places like Titan had seasons (and in some timelines, gray knights). But these new modeling results really show how much its atmosphere spins up and down with the. 🧪 Link: iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3...
Top: Seasonal evolution of the zonally and diurnally averaged zonal wind in simulation from the paper. The stream function of the meridional circulation is represented with dark contours, with solid lines indicating a clockwise circulation and dotted lines a counterclockwise circulation. The altitude scale on the right axis is approximate.
Bottom: Composite image of Titan made with images from the Cassini spacecraft (source: https://science.nasa.gov/resource/titans-mystery-clouds/)
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
#Microsoft is definitely serious about backwards compatibility!
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo news.ycombinator.com/item?id=439698…
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Mozilla Firefox – Official GitHub repo | Hacker News
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Dead Stars Don’t Radiate | Azimuth | johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com/2025/05/17/d...
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Dead Stars Don’t Radiate
Three guys claim that any heavy chunk of matter emits Hawking radiation, even if it’s not a black hole: • Michael F. Wondrak, Walter D. van Suijlekom and Heino Falcke, Gravitational pair…
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Gemini solving driver issues! gemini.google.com/share/7edf8f...
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‎Gemini - PPP Frame Decoding and Analysis
Created with Gemini Advanced
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode | news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397...
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Google is building its own DeX: First look at Android's Desktop Mode | Hacker News
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
I think Samsung should definitely find a way around knox to include the Linux VM news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4397...
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Andi @andimara.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
🚀 We just dropped SmolDocling: a 256M open-source vision LM for complete document OCR! 📄✨ Lightning fast, process a page in 0.35 sec on consumer GPU using < 500MB VRAM ⚡ SOTA in document conversion, beating every competing model we tested (including models 27x more params) 🤯 But how? 🧶⬇️
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 04/03/2025
Tall Structures xkcd.com/3058
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Dr. Or M. Bialik |📚|🔬|🌊|⚒️ @obialik.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
You know how some people like coriander and some can't stand it, but it seems there isn't anyone in between? The thing is, not liking it - is genetic. A variation in one gene affects some people's olfactory receptors, which makes it taste like soap or dirt. 🧪 link.springer.com/article/10.1...
Coriander leaves and seeds, hating them is apparently the worst mutant power.
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Zeik Yeager @zeik2000.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Raspberry Pi 3B: (acting as an exit-node)
Can sustain about 60-70Mbps I guess.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 03/01/2025
Origami Black Hole xkcd.com/3033
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 26/12/2024
Sun Avoidance xkcd.com/3029
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