today's leftovers
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10 weird things about SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites [Ed: Misleading history; GNU/Linux started in the mid-1980s]
According to a SpaceX resources page, Starlink satellites run on the open-source operating system Linux.
Linux was created in 1991 by Linus Torvalds, a Finnish software engineer, in order to be a free, openly-shared operating system that could be tailored for users' specific computer hardware.
By its very design, Linux is easy to customize, making it ideal for specific use cases like Starlink satellites. In addition, Linux-based operating systems can draw upon a worldwide repository of open-source programs and tools, enabling rapid prototyping of new hardware and software.
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Steam Replay gives you an overview of your 2022 gaming habits
Steam Replay is Valve's new highlight page going over a bunch of fun stats about your gaming year, something made popular by the likes of Spotify Wrapped and similar events from numerous other places.
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Day 66: individual transform properties
From now on you can transform elements with the translate, rotate, and scale properties.
Let’s say you apply several transforms to an element, and on :hover and :focus you only want to change one of them, for example, scale.
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Using Blender as a video editor
Clicking Video Editor in the Blender splash screen will take you to a timeline where you can do basic video editing. It’s a bit different from other packages I’ve used, but I’ve cut together and exported a few things for work on it, and have been pleasantly surprised.
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Connecting Commercial 433 MHz Sensors To MQTT And Home Assistant With RTL-SDR
The idea is simple: virtually all of those sensors – many of them rated for outdoor use – use the unlicensed 433 MHz spectrum that can easily be captured using cheap RTL-SDR (software defined radio) USB dongles. With the data stream from these sensors captured, the open source rtl_433 project enables automatic decoding of these data streams for a wide range of supported sensors.