My Arch/Manjaro (and any other Arch-based distro) repository continues to receive more packages from AUR. But this post is not about that. I’m writing this because I published the scripts I’m using to build the packages for userrepository.eu. You can get them at Github.
A couple of days ago, I decided to use my VPS spare CPU cycles to help out the Folding@home (F@h) project. If you haven’t heard of F@H, here is a description from their website: Folding@home (FAH or F@h) is a distributed computing project for disease research that simulates protein folding, computational drug design, and other types of molecular dynamics. As of today, the project is using the idle resources of personal computers owned by volunteers from all over the world....
Há uns tempos atrás, criei um repositório no Github com uma lista de bloqueio para adblockers com regras específicas para a plataforma Nonio, baseada numa outra lista feita para com suporte apenas para o uMatrix. Esta lista manteve-se inalterada até há 17 dias, quando o Pedro Fonseca submeteu um pull request com regras para o site d’O Público, fechando também assim o bug #3. Nas duas semanas e pouco seguintes, recebei mais alguns pull requests no repositório, melhorando bastante a lista de bloqueio....
Astrophysicists Szabolcs Marka at Columbia University and Imre Bartos at the University of Florida, have identified a violent collision of two neutron stars 4.6 billion years ago as the likely source of some of the most coveted matter on Earth. This single cosmic event, close to our solar system, gave birth to 0.3 percent of the Earth’s heaviest elements, including gold, platinum and uranium, according to a new paper appearing in the May 2 issue of Nature....