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Wednesday, April 8, 2026

This repository stores transcript and analysis files generated from the official NASA YouTube live streams that covered the Artemis II mission.

The goal of this project is to preserve, organize, and make understandable the spoken content transmitted during this historic mission, so that even people who were not watching live can later understand what happened, what was discussed, and what technical situations occurred throughout each transmission window.

US President Donald Trump says he has agreed to a two-week ceasefire with Iran, paving the way for a temporary cessation of US-Israeli strikes in exchange for the reopening of the Strait of Hormuz. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi says Tehran has also accepted the truce, adding that safe passage through the Strait of Hormuz during the two-week period would be possible in coordination with Iranian armed forces. Pakistan’s Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif, who mediated the ceasefire deal, says the agreement between Iran and the US, along with their allies, also includes “Lebanon and elsewhere” and is effective immediately. He also confirmed that talks between Iran and the US will begin in Pakistan’s capital, Islamabad. Dozens of Democratic lawmakers condemn Trump’s threatening rhetoric towards Iran, calling for his removal from office despite the announcement of the ceasefire deal. The US oil benchmark plunged more than 17 percent after the ceasefire announcement while major stock markets in Japan and South Korea opened strongly.

Monday, April 6, 2026

Should you tape a broken toe?

The go-to for a broken toe is typically a fracture shoe, not taping it, Dr. King says. “We tape fingers more than we tape toes. Usually, a fracture shoe is what works best. But occasionally, a doctor may determine that taping is the right step.”

However, don’t try doing it at home without seeing a doctor first. Taping a suspected broken toe can actually prevent healing by pulling apart the bone fragments, Dr. King says. If your doctor recommends taping, then your provider will show you how to tape a broken toe correctly. Typically, you tape the little toe to the fourth toe, and the uninjured toe acts as a splint.

How long does a broken toe take to heal?

You’ll have much less pain after four weeks and should be walking normally again after eight weeks, Dr. King says. At 12 weeks, your broken toe should be fully healed. You can get back to regularly exercising, including running and jumping.

Toe injuries are pretty normal. But if it looks like your toe is broken, it’s best to have a doctor check it out. That way, you can be sure it heals properly, and you can get back to doing your everyday activities pain-free.

Sunday, April 5, 2026

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The 2019 Trump–Ukraine political scandal arose primarily from the discovery of U.S. president Donald Trump's attempts to coerce Ukraine into investigating his political rival Joe Biden and thus potentially damage Biden's campaign for the 2020 Democratic Party presidential nomination. Trump enlisted surrogates in and outside his administration, including personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Attorney General William Barr, to pressure Ukraine and other governments to cooperate in supporting and legitimizing the Biden–Ukraine conspiracy theory and other conspiracy theories concerning U.S. politics.[1][2][3][4][5] Trump blocked payment of a congressionally-mandated $400 million military aid package, in an attempt to obtain quid pro quo cooperation from Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Contacts were established between the White House and government of Ukraine, culminating in a phone call between Trump and Zelenskyy on July 25, 2019.

The White House corroborated allegations raised by the whistleblower. A transcript of the Trump–Zelenskyy call confirmed Trump requested investigations into Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, as well as a conspiracy theory involving a Democratic National Committee server, while urging Zelenskyy to work with Giuliani and Barr on this.

Former acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said one reason why Trump withheld aid to Ukraine was Ukrainian "corruption related to the DNC server", referring to a debunked theory that Ukrainians framed Russia for hacking into the DNC system.[12] Trump has publicly urged Ukraine and China to investigate the Bidens.[13] The Trump administration's top diplomat to Ukraine, Bill Taylor, testified he was told aid to Ukraine and a Trump–Zelenskyy White House meeting were conditional on Zelenskyy announcing investigations into the Bidens and alleged Ukrainian interference in the 2016 U.S. elections.

Trump was impeached on charges of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress,[18] but was acquitted by the Senate.

Instead of using equity to fund sales and marketing spend, General Catalyst provides structured growth capital tied directly to customer acquisition and recurring revenue. The goal is to let startups like Chainguard preserve equity while using outcome-based financing to scale efficiently.

Microsoft is running one of the largest corporate espionage operations in modern history.

Every time any of LinkedIn’s one billion users visits linkedin.com, hidden code searches their computer for installed software, collects the results, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers and to third-party companies including an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm.

The user is never asked. Never told. LinkedIn’s privacy policy does not mention it.

Because LinkedIn knows each user’s real name, employer, and job title, it is not searching anonymous visitors. It is searching identified people at identified companies. Millions of companies. Every day. All over the world. This is illegal and potentially a criminal offense in every jurisdiction we have examined.

LinkedIn loads an invisible tracking element from HUMAN Security (formerly PerimeterX), an American-Israeli cybersecurity firm, zero pixels wide, hidden off-screen, that sets cookies on your browser without your knowledge. A separate fingerprinting script runs from LinkedIn’s own servers. A third script from Google executes silently on every page load. All of it encrypted. None of it disclosed.

Every time you open LinkedIn in a Chrome-based browser, LinkedIn’s JavaScript executes a silent scan of your installed browser extensions. The scan probes for thousands of specific extensions by ID, collects the results, encrypts them, and transmits them to LinkedIn’s servers. The entire process happens in the background. There is no consent dialog, no notification, no mention of it in LinkedIn’s privacy policy.

This page documents exactly how the system works, with line references and code excerpts from LinkedIn’s production JavaScript bundle.

See https://browsergate.eu/how-it-works/

Saturday, April 4, 2026

Friday, April 3, 2026

Woodpecker uses docker containers to execute pipeline steps.

.woodpecker/build.yaml

steps:

  • name: build image: debian:stable-slim commands:
    • echo building
    • sleep 5

.woodpecker/deploy.yaml

steps:

  • name: deploy image: debian:stable-slim commands:
    • echo deploying

depends_on:

  • lint
  • build
  • test

.woodpecker/test.yaml

steps:

  • name: test image: debian:stable-slim commands:
    • echo testing
    • sleep 5

depends_on:

  • build

.woodpecker/lint.yaml

steps:

  • name: lint image: debian:stable-slim commands:
    • echo linting
    • sleep 5

Codeberg is a non-profit, community-led effort that provides services to free and open-source projects, such as Git hosting (using Forgejo), Pages, CI/CD and a Weblate instance.

nanochat is the simplest experimental harness for training LLMs. It is designed to run on a single GPU node, the code is minimal/hackable, and it covers all major LLM stages including tokenization, pretraining, finetuning, evaluation, inference, and a chat UI. For example, you can train your own GPT-2 capability LLM (which cost ~$43,000 to train in 2019) for only $48 (~2 hours of 8XH100 GPU node) and then talk to it in a familiar ChatGPT-like web UI. On a spot instance, the total cost can be closer to ~$15. More generally, nanochat is configured out of the box to train an entire miniseries of compute-optimal models by setting one single complexity dial: --depth, the number of layers in the GPT transformer model (GPT-2 capability happens to be approximately depth 26). All other hyperparameters (the width of the transformer, number of heads, learning rate adjustments, training horizons, weight decays, ...) are calculated automatically in an optimal way.

Thursday, April 2, 2026