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In der Nacht zum Sonntag ist es vielfach wolkig, stellenweise neblig. An der Nordsee gibt es später leichte Schauer. Die Tiefsttemperaturen liegen an der See bei etwa 15 Grad, sonst zwischen 9 und 13 Grad. Der Wind weht schwach, an der See anfangs frisch aus Nordwest. /LL
Après quelques répis la lutte pour la Plaine reprend dès septembre, car la CCRC de Jacques Dubay s'acharne encore et toujours à vouloir détruire La Plaine sous les routes et le béton, avec mensonges,…
Andrew Engelbrecht, a previous #SysAdmin at the #FSF, created Open Alert Viewer, a #libre phone and desktop app that makes receiving network and server alert notifications on your phone and desktop easy. Check it out here: u.fsf.org/483
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"At some point in Israel’s starvation of Gaza, hunger stopped being just physical, and started to erode the mind. You would see people wandering aimlessly, not even asking for food anymore. Children stopped playing. Conversations became quieter, slower. People forgot certain tastes. The memory of sweetness faded. – Mahah Hussaini Israel is doing its evil […]
Truck. Look like pakis... Tried doing a u turn on the Florida turnpike... Started from the right lane. People in a minivan had maybe 3 seconds to react at least 75-80mph... The entire minivan roof was sheared off as it wedged under the trailer.
News reports say the driver's where from California. No names given either.
@Otto Pureblood They may have been Sikhs. Whatever they were, pakis or pajeets, they need to do their driving on that new silk road and fuck off, out of America.
Ah, and how many 3rd world people were killed by Americans? Of Course none. Not even in Car crashes. You also have no schoolshooters. You are a country of terrorists 😀
@Skeletor You're such a piece of shit. Do we kill third world people? How many third world people did that family kill? Shit bird, the US government may be in the terrorist business but the average US citizen is not.
It's a pity that you're such a clueless low IQ idiot, that you can't even make the distinction. Go home faggot, this is a white man's country. Fuck off. Did the Germans terrorize you to live in their country, you fucking parasite? Whites need to kick you cockroaches out of their nations for good.
Probably caused by the inability to cope with cognitive dissonance, which is quite normal to people with low intellect. Maybe also some "fiight/fright" response. Evolution was mean to you, right? You should learn to control your amygdala, maybe medication (or was it meditation?) can help.
CNN se concentre sur les deux victoires majeures remportées par Vladimir Poutine lors de sa rencontre avec Donald Trump en Alaska, ainsi que sur le fait qu'il n'y a pas eu d'accord de cessez-le-feu pour l'Ukraine .
Comme le souligne CNN, le président russe a remporté deux victoires majeures. D'abord , après avoir été considéré par beaucoup comme un criminel de guerre, il est redevenu un interlocuteur à part entière sur la scène internationale. Ensuite, il a réussi à gagner du temps.
Donald Trump a applaudi Vladimir Poutine à plusieurs reprises lors de leur rencontre sur le tapis rouge de la base aérienne américaine en Alaska. Comme le rapporte le Guardian, le Kremlin a rapidement diffusé aux agences internationales une photo du président américain applaudissant son « homologue russe ».
Le fait que le président américain ait applaudi le président russe – recherché par la Cour pénale internationale pour crimes de guerre – a suscité
de vives réactions. L'historien de la Guerre froide, Sergueï Radchenko, originaire de Russie, a écrit dans un message sur X (anciennement Twitter) : « Dans mon livre, j'ai soutenu que les Russes ne souhaitent rien d'autre que la reconnaissance américaine. Eh bien, maintenant, ils l'ont. »
La Maison Blanche « censure » les applaudissements de Trump pour Poutine
Les applaudissements de Trump ont été filmés en direct sur la chaîne YouTube de la Maison-Blanche. Cependant, quelques minutes plus tard, lorsque la Maison-Blanche a publié la vidéo de l'accueil sur les réseaux sociaux, la séquence avait été modifiée : elle commençait exactement une fraction de seconde après que Trump eut terminé ses applaudissements.
This is a collage of the collective west, her politicians and what is considered, her press, losing their collective excrement. They are mad that there may be a possibility that Russia and the US can normalize relations. Many of us would love that, but it is doubtful if that will ever happen.
The Empire of ZOG, of which all the collective nations belong, will never allow that. In the mind of the empire's elitists, all peer rivals, especially Russia, needs to be its prison bitch. That won't happen either. If there can be no peace, between us then war it is until all life begins to cease. Those seem to be acceptable conditions, do they not?
The Russians always had a significant support from Americans. Many Americans sill regard strength as a virtue and we have more in common today with the hardy Russians than any of the globalist, power hungry, leftists in the EU. Russians should however, be wary of all US politicians, since they are inherently corrupt and dishonorable. The deep state uniparty in the US Congress are paid by their masters, to forever hate whichever nation that does not submit to their will. This is real and must be acknowledged.
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Donald Trump a applaudi Vladimir Poutine à plusieurs reprises lors de leur rencontre sur le tapis rouge de la base aérienne américaine en Alaska.
Journalist Marwa Muslim, once a fearless voice of truth, returned in agonizing silence—no longer words, but a decomposed body to Baptist Hospital in Gaza. Beside her lay her two brothers, who were also killed by the Israeli occupation forces.
🧵#DocumentaryFilms I've enjoyed this month - in no particular order.
A rich and little-known part of Canadian history unfolds through the stories of the first Chinese women to come to Canada and of subsequent generations of Chinese Canadian women. It is an amazing tale of courageous women who left behind their families, knowing they would never see them again and of girls who were shipped off to the New World to marry men they had never met. These are the women who fought against the many forms of racism they faced in Canada while, at the same time, challenging sexism within their own communities. By passing on language, culture, and values to their children, these women defined what it means to be Chinese Canadian. Beautiful old photographs from family albums, the recollections of seven women who grew up in Canada in the first half of the 20th century, and the memories of narrator and director, Dora Nipp, whose grandfather came to Canada in 1881 to build the railway, create a remarkable story of stunning impact.
A rich and little-known part of Canadian history unfolds through the stories of the first Chinese women to come to Canada and of subsequent generations of Chinese Canadian …
This #documentary tells the story of a #Chinese #cemetery in #VictoriaBC that became a #NationalHeritage site. For Chinese #pioneers who died in Canada, Victoria's Chinese Cemetery at #HarlingPoint was a temporary resting place until their bones could be returned home. (Traditional Chinese belief says that the soul of a person who dies in a foreign place wanders lost until their bones are returned home.) This film traces the rich history of the #VancouverIsland cemetery from controversy and neglect to its revival as a #historic site. Told by those closest to it, the story of Harling Point is a metaphor for #Canada , a country still working on making a home for all who live within its borders.
This documentary tells the story of a Chinese cemetery in BC that became a National Heritage site. For Chinese pioneers who died in Canada, Victoria's Chinese Cemetery at …
Julia Kwan’s feature-length #documentary Everything Will Be captures a significant moment of time in #VancouverBC #Chinatown, with the influx of condos and new, non-Chinese businesses. The film follows a year in the life of several #Chinatown denizens, including a 90-year-old #Chinese newspaper street vendor and a second-generation tea shop owner, as they navigate this #community in flux.
Julia Kwan’s feature-length documentary Everything Will Be captures a significant moment of time in Vancouver’s Chinatown, with the influx of condos and new, non-Chinese businesses. The film follows …
In this feature #documentary Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang (Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square) aims his camera at the astonishing story of 21 #AmericanSoldiers who opted to stay in #China after the #KoreanWar ended in 1954.
Back home in the United States, #McCarthyism was at its height and many Americans believed these men were brainwashed by Chinese communists. But what really happened? Using never-before-seen footage from the Chinese camps and interviews with former #PoWs and their families, They Chose China tells the fascinating stories of these forgotten American #dissidents.
In this feature documentary, Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Shuibo Wang (Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square) aims his camera at the astonishing story of 21 American soldiers who opted to stay in …
When Phillip Wong died by suicide, his family thought that silence would end their pain. But his sister, filmmaker Michelle Wong, needed to make sense of her brother's death. What drove him to end his life at age 36?
Weaving together intimate conversations with those closest to Phillip, as well as her own candid reflections, Wong embarks on a personal journey. Gently peeling away layers of silence, she uncovers her brother's story of gambling addiction and his lonely spiral into desperation, isolation and depression.
Filmed against the backdrop of the noisy casinos of Las Vegas and the quiet town of St. Paul, Alberta, the documentary lays bare the grief of family and friends. Sifting through feelings of guilt, sadness and shame, the once-fragmented family begins to discover a new closeness. This heart-wrenching film is a sister's uncompromising search for the truth and healing--for herself, her family, and others struggling with addiction.
When Phillip Wong died by suicide, his family thought that silence would end their pain. But his sister, filmmaker Michelle Wong, needed to make sense of her brother's …
This feature-length #documentary reveals the unspoken truth about #war - it never really ends. #Archival images and personal stories portray the lingering devastation of war. Filmed on location in #Russia #France #Bosnia and #Vietnam the film features individuals involved in the cleanup of war: de-miners who risk their lives on a daily basis, psychologists working with distraught soldiers, and scientists and doctors who struggle with the contamination of dioxin used during Vietnam. Based on the Gelber Award-winning book by Donovan Webster, this film conveys the fact that war doesn't end when the fighting stops.
This feature-length documentary reveals the unspoken truth about war - it never really ends. Archival images and personal stories portray the lingering devastation of war. Filmed on location …
In their predominantly white high school in #Halifax , a group of #BlackStudents face daily reminders of #racism ,ranging from abuse (racist graffiti on washroom walls), to #exclusion (the omission of #BlackHistory from textbooks). They work to establish a #CulturalAwareness #YouthGroup , a vehicle for building pride and self-esteem through #educational and #cultural programs. With help from mentors, they discover the richness of their heritage and learn some of the ways they can begin to effect change.
In their predominantly white high school in Halifax, a group of black students face daily reminders of racism, ranging from abuse (racist graffiti on washroom walls), to exclusion …
At the height of the golden age of reggae, some of #Jamaica ’s brightest stars left their homeland behind to shine their light in an unlikely hub of #Caribbean creativity: #Toronto.
Sounds & Pressure: #Reggae in a Foreign Land follows the journeys of these icons. Through rare archives and infectious beats, this captivating five-part #anthology series takes you from #Kingston to #KensingtonMarket to see and hear how reggae made roots in #Canada against all odds.
Sounds & Pressure: Reggae in a Foreign Land follows the journeys of these icons. Through rare archives and infectious beats, this captivating five-part anthology series takes you from …
When a child reveals who they truly are on the inside, how does a parent set aside their own expectations to help them become their most authentic self? Sheona McDonald’s #documentary captures a season of change as a #mother and #child navigate the complexities of #GenderIdentity together.
When a child reveals who they truly are on the inside, how does a parent set aside their own expectations to help them become their most authentic self? …
Renee Thompson is trying to make it as a top fashion model in New York. She's got the looks, the walk and the drive. But she’s a black model in a world where white women represent the standard of beauty. Agencies rarely hire black models. And when they do, they want them to look “like white girls dipped in chocolate.”
The Colour of Beauty is a shocking short documentary that examines racism in the fashion industry. Is a black model less attractive to designers, casting directors and consumers? What is the colour of beauty?
This short #documentary highlights how the mechanism of #discrimination prevents foreign-trained #doctors from practicing in #Canada – even after they've received their #Canadian qualifications. Every year, scores of these doctors are turned down for the residencies they need in order to practice – and many of those residencies stay vacant. Through interviews with #medical professionals and #HumanRights advocates it becomes clear that #SystemicRacism is to blame. Strikingly, several doctors interviewed for this film would not speak on camera, fearing repercussions from the medical establishment. What is the real problem: the incompetence of foreign-trained doctors or the #injustice of the system?
This short documentary highlights how the mechanism of discrimination prevents foreign-trained doctors from practicing in Canada – even after they've received their Canadian qualifications. Every year, scores of …
This feature #documentary offers a shocking look at the living and working conditions of #Haitian agricultural laborers in the #DominicanRepublic. Each year, some 20,000 #workers cross the border to cut sugar cane, lured by promises of good money. Instead, they toil up to 14 hours per day and live in unhealthy, cramped camps without running water, electricity, medical or educational facilities.
This feature documentary offers a shocking look at the living and working conditions of Haitian agricultural laborers in the Dominican Republic. Each year, some 20 000 workers cross …
#Hopscotch is universal. #Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they all like to talk about school, what they want to be when they grow up, who they will marry, how many children they will have, their hopes for a better life for themselves and their family.
But all too often, through poverty, perversion, spite, ignorance or superstition, adults shatter these dreams by denying girls the right to an education, entering them into forced labour, subjecting them to mutilation, sexual abuse and other injustices.
Soni, Kamlesh, Mou, Yui, Dalal, Esmeralda, Fatou, Adiaratou, Safi and Maude range in age from 8 to 14. Some are frail, some strong; all are beautiful. Whether they live in #India #Thailand #Yemen #Peru #BurkinaFaso or #Haiti , they all speak of having much of their #childhood stolen from them. Because they are girls. With subtitles.
Hopscotch is universal. Girls around the world trace squares on the ground, then hop through them, trying hard to reach the end. Girls share other interests too; they …
This #documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a #poverty stricken father from Central #Mexico along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern #Ontario to pick tomatoes. For 8 months a year, the town's population absorbs 4,000 #MigrantWorkers who toil under conditions, and for wages, that no local would accept. Yet despite a fear of repercussions, the workers voice their desire for dignity and respect.
This documentary from Min Sook Lee follows a poverty-stricken father from Central Mexico, along with several of his countrymen, as they make their annual migration to southern Ontario …
For years, Julius Arile and Robert Matanda thrive among the bands of warriors that terrorize the North #Kenyan countryside. Stealing cattle, raiding and running from the police is the only life they know. So when both warriors suddenly disappear from the bush, many assume they are dead or have been arrested. Instead, they trade in their rifles for sneakers—in the hopes of making it big as professional #MarathonRunners.
For years, Julius Arile and Robert Matanda thrive among the bands of warriors that terrorize the North Kenyan countryside. Stealing cattle, raiding and running from the police is …
In this feature #documentary , a #Chilean #filmmaker returns to the motherland for the first time in 23 years. Time is passing. A generation of young Chileans has grown up with no knowledge of the facts surrounding the #MilitaryCoup of September 11, 1973. In his suitcase, The #BattleOfChile his 3-part #cinéma vérité chronicle of the #political tensions in #Chile in 1973 and of the violent #counterrevolution against the democratically elected government of #SalvadorAllende. His documentary toured the world but was never seen in Chile. Discreetly, he shows it to his friends and a small group of students. After the screening, the young people are in a state of shock. They have an urgent need to know the truth, for it is they who must build the Chile of tomorrow. In #Spanish with English subtitles
In this feature documentary, a Chilean filmmaker returns to the motherland for the first time in 23 years. Time is passing. A generation of young Chileans has grown …
Raised in a refugee camp in the #WestBank while her mother was in an Israeli prison, Walaa is determined to become one of the few #women in the #Palestinian Security Forces—not easy for a #girl who breaks all the rules. Following Walaa from the ages of 15 to 21 with an intimate POV, What Walaa Wants tells the compelling story of a defiant young girl who navigates formidable obstacles, disproving the negative predictions from her surroundings and the world at large.
On the night of a family wedding in a village in #India , Ranjit’s 13-year-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit takes on the fight of his life when he demands the men be brought to #justice. With tremendous access to all facets of this story, To Kill a Tiger charts the emotional journey of an ordinary man thrown into extraordinary circumstances—a #father whose love for his #daughter forces a social reckoning that will reverberate for years to come.
On the night of a family wedding in a village in India, Ranjit’s 13-year-old daughter is abducted and sexually assaulted by three men. Ranjit takes on the fight …
Parade: #Queer Acts of #Love & #Resistance is a bold and unflinching documentary that charts the rise of Canada’s #2SLGBTQI+ rights movement through powerful first-person testimony and rarely seen archival footage. From drag shows and community organizing to police raids and protests on Parliament Hill, the film honours the elders and #activists whose defiance helped shape a more #inclusive society. Director Noam Gonick brings audiences to the frontlines of a decades-long struggle, reminding us that the rights hard-won through #grassroots #resistance are far from guaranteed. At once enraging, hopeful and celebratory, Parade is a vital reminder of queer resilience and a rallying cry for renewed #solidarity today.
Parade: Queer Acts of Love & Resistance is a bold and unflinching documentary that charts the rise of Canada’s 2SLGBTQI+ rights movement through powerful first-person testimony and rarely …
In the fall of 1985, a small group of #Haida people stood on a muddy #logging road on #LyellIsland —and refused to move. What followed was a landmark act of peaceful #resistance that helped spark a nationwide reckoning around land, #sovereignty and #environmental #justice. Drawing from over a hundred hours of electrifying #archival footage, The Stand immerses us in the tension, #courage and quiet #humanity of that moment.
Directed by Christopher Auchter (Now Is the Time), the film honours the #Elders , #activists and supernatural spirits who helped shape a new future for the #HaidaNation — and for all of #Canada.
Every Saturday, Katherine and her mother, Frances, share a cherished routine: thrifting, browsing the hardware store and working side by side on their intricate miniature-house projects. From England to Hong Kong to Calgary, and finally to Whitehorse, Yukon, they’ve built a full and joyful life together defying the lifelong doubts others cast on what a child with an #IntellectualDisability can achieve.
Directed by Jessica Hall, Saturday is a tender tribute to the filmmaker’s sister and mother, blending present-day moments with intimate home movies that trace their #immigration journey and family history. With warmth, creativity and quiet resilience, the film celebrates Katherine’s independence and the powerful bond between mother and daughter. It offers a moving sense of hope—for every child whose unique qualities are seen, supported and nurtured.
Every Saturday, Katherine and her mother, Frances, share a cherished routine: thrifting, browsing the hardware store and working side by side on their intricate miniature-house projects. From England …
Once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a propaganda stunt, #filmmaker Tamara Segura returns to her native country to untangle the painful legacy of her father’s #alcoholism and the lasting impact of the #CubanRevolution. Through intimate interviews and personal archives, Seguridad reveals a family’s hidden struggles and an era’s deep scars.
Once named “Cuba’s youngest soldier” in a propaganda stunt, filmmaker Tamara Segura returns to her native country to untangle the painful legacy of her father’s alcoholism and the …
Told entirely from a #ChildsPerspective, Ninan Auassat: We, the Children is a powerful and immersive #documentary that reveals the dreams of a new generation ready to take flight. Renowned for her intimate and compelling films, director Kim O’Bomsawin takes us deep into the world of #IndigenousYouth , capturing the stories of #children from the #Atikamekw , #EeyouCree and #Innu Nations over a period of more than six years. Without adult narration or expert commentary, the film offers an unfiltered look at #childhood as it unfolds, from everyday life to defining moments on the path to #adulthood. It’s a bold cinematic statement—one that gives space to a generation eager to be heard. Their voices ring out, not just as personal stories, but as a call to action, demanding recognition and the chance to thrive on their own terms.
Told entirely from a child’s perspective, Ninan Auassat: We, the Children is a powerful and immersive documentary that reveals the dreams of a new generation ready to take …
Η ομάδα του March to Gaza ζητά την βοήθεια μας σε αυτή την προσπάθεια.
Με την συμμετοχή στα πληρώματα, στις ομάδες εργασίας ή και με την απλή οικονομική στήριξη μέσω crowdfunding, μπορούμε να στηρίξουμε αυτή την σπουδαία πρωτοβουλία.
“Documents with sensitive details about the meeting between President Trump and Russian President Putin were left behind on a public hotel printer.” - Chiara Eisner apple.news/AUS7RXIWyRXuZdOxhzV…
"Le 4 novembre 1936, l’attente était grande pour le discours inattendu de Durruti à la radio CNT-FAI, diffusé dans toute l’Espagne par les radios barcelonaises. Le même jour, la presse rapportait l’arrivée au pouvoir de quatre anarchistes du gouvernement madrilène : Federica Montseny, Juan García Oliver, Juan López et Joan … L’article Durruti parle est apparu en premier sur Le Libertaire."
Every time I think about spending money I remember I can go to a foreign country where products are better and the dollar stronger so I never spend anything
I never really grasped what it was all for, why I was born, why I got educated, why I work so hard what was the purpose? Blowing all my cash and dying in a Hong Kong dive bar, of course
On the way to school, a boy is confronted by an enormous man whose hand grabs hold of his school bag and tosses it into the air. The hand pushes him towards a huge padlock, then forces him to enter through the keyhole: the schoolboy is imprisoned in a hazardous lock factory. Like the other children inside, he finds himself forced to operate a high-speed punch press. Struggling to follow the movements of the machine, he cuts off a finger. He tries to run away, but is recaptured.
Back at the factory he starts to cough up blood after inhaling iron particles that will prove lethal: the child dies on the job. Coldly, the hand picks up his body and drops it in the box the padlocks are shipped in, symbol of his murdered innocence.
How can we live with forced child labour? This #India / #Canada co-production is inspired by #Article32 of the United Nations Convention on the #RightsOfTheChild , which particularly upholds the child's right to be protected from economic #exploitation. An #AnimatedFilm without words for 12- to 17-year olds.
#Korean #animator Dahee Jeong crafts a #surreal world where people exist solely as garments—bodiless, faceless, going through the motions of daily life. As a shirt and a pair of pants step out of the closet and assemble into a human-like figure, they join others in a city of fabric-bound beings, performing everyday tasks with eerie familiarity. Through delicate #animation and a silent, #poetic approach, the film questions identity, routine and the meaning of #existence in a #society where appearances are everything. Society of Clothes is a co-production with #MiyuProductions and #BetweenThePictures.
Korean animator Dahee Jeong crafts a surreal world where people exist solely as garments—bodiless, faceless, going through the motions of daily life. As a shirt and a pair …
As a child in Vietnam, Thao’s mother often rescued ants from bowls of sugar water. Years later they would return the favour. Boat People is an animated documentary …
“Overseas military strikes certainly won’t solve drug overdose deaths in the U.S., which are far better addressed through public health measures,” said Stephanie Brewer of @wola-org.bsky.social RE: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:vtwv2…
I wish Scheinbaum would really screw up the whole damn thing for these psycho "warriors" and cartels by ENDING the failed, racist, bloody, costly nonsense of that bullshit war on drugs. As you say, public health measures work far better, more humane.
I believe the “great reset” is an economic strategy to terrorize everyone into thinking the world is going to end so they can charge more for meat and produce
I'm of the opinion that this can all be collapsed down to a single rotor/stator without changing the wiring schematic. I'm having difficulty visualizing it, but I think it can be done. Obviously a rotor/stator implementation is great because you can stack them.
They say that of Holtz/Toepler machines which of course is rotor/stator design, but they say it's also needed for Wimshurst machines. But a Wimshurst is much more sensitive so it has a tendency to (appear to) self-start.
AFAICT, the only difference between a Holtz/Toepler and a Wimshurst is the Wimshurst has more stages. My point is that I think a Wimshurst machine (with all of it's stages) can be flattened into a rotor/stator design and still retain the same electrical diagram.
hmm idk, if you look at the diagonal wires in the middle, every tick moth ends or that wire get disconnected from previous capacitors and connect to new capacirors
Well, you have one disk which passes the entire circumference of the other one in 180 degrees of rotation, and it passes all of the brushes in 360 degrees.
So to achieve the exact same circuit with only a rotor and stator, you would take the 360 degrees of one disk and compress them into 180 degrees by adding another N lower sectors which are electrically connected to the N upper sectors.
Then to have an neutralizer which contacts over 360 degrees of rotation, you would have the lower N/2 sectors routed to brush contacts in the upper 180 degrees of travel, and the higher N/2 sectors make brush contacts in the lower 180 degrees.
So I think in theory you can do it, now making something that actually works (without a 24 layer PCB) is a different problem.
I'm not sure a drawing would help that much, I'm not trying to propose a sane design, I'm more just trying to argue that anything which can be represented by 2 counter-rotating plates can be also represented by a single rotating plate against a stator.
If you deconstruct a Wimshurst machine into a series of statements as the following:
At position 0: PlateA-Sector0 lines up with PlateB-Sector0, PlateA-Sector1 lines up with PlateB-Sector1, etc... PlateA-Sector19 lines up with brushA, PlateA-Sector4 lines up with brushB, PlateB-Sector8 lines up with brushC, PlateB-Sector15 lines up with brushD.
At position 1: PlateA-Sector0 lines up with PlateB-Sector23, PlateA-Sector1 lines up with PlateB-Sector0, etc... and so on like that...
Then you can instinctively imagine that there is some tortured PC board design which would satisfy all of these criteria with only a rotor and stator, using some concentric rings of brush contacts and plates and a horrifying mess of layers to bridge different parts of the boards together...
Exactly how that would look doesn't matter so much, it's more just a mental exercise to prove that a Wimshurst does not definitively require counter-rotating disks...
Now that we're convinced it's *possible*, the goal is to design something that actually makes sense.
The drawing is actually kind of wrong, because it's implying that the combs neutralize the plates which they don't, they're just skimming off excess charge once the voltage of the system starts to get too high.
What's happening is you have two imbalances playing off of each other as follows:
Backside (bigger circle) being negative at the upper-right and positive at the lower left pushes electrons on the frontside to the lower-left, creating the green circle.
Frontside being negative on the lower-right and positive on the upper-left pushes electrons on the backside from lower-right to upper-left, creating the orange circle.
Putting this into a rotor and stator model is fairly simple, all you need to do is imagine separating the disks so they are not in proximity. Since we still need to push the electrons over the neutralizer, we put a stationary plate across from it and wire that to a brush in the same place on the other disk.
Now that the two disks are separated in physical space, all we need to do is flip one of them and integrate the two into the same physical disk and we have made a rotor-stator Wimshurst.
Following the paper drawing I did, if you flip the left side disk top-to-bottom, it reverses the rotation so that now the two are rotating the same direction, and it flips the polarity so that now the two are identical. So you can obviously just eliminate it and wire the one disk to itself, and when you do, you arrive right back at the Toepler-Holtz machine.
But since a Wimhurst is really just two Toepler-Holtz's siamesed together, it's self-evident that you can achieve the same* effect using two actual Toepler-Holtz machines with the appropriating brushes of each one chained to the fixed disk of the other.
*One slight difference of the Wimhurst is the fact that the disks are close enough to act as a big capacitor which might help with self-starting, but it seems obvious enough that a Toepler-Holtz machine can have its appropriating brushes connected to a small Leyden jar which is not discharged, then use a stationary comb to transfer energy to the main storage bank.
In the 2nd drawn picture, most of the stator is not shown, just the two little square plates representing the parts of the stator which have sectors on them.
Careful with this because when you look at the plate and neutralizer brush, it looks like it won't swap the polarity. The reason it does is because the neutralizer only touches for a second while the sector is over the plate, so at that point it's neutral, and when the sector moves away from the charged plate then it is not neutral anymore.
I'm winging it. At this point, sectors are the foil on the rotor and plates are the connected foil on the stator. The neutralizer and appropriating brushes are terms used in the official diagrams...
That took me way too many attempts to clear. (It's a subhuman‐tier score, but I'll come back to it later. I want to unlock 世界はそれを愛と呼ぶんだぜ already. )Thank you for reading my blog post.
The Sun: the number of children being trafficked into Britain for prostitution is rising. In Britain, the number of children brought into the country for prostitution is growing, writes The Sun.
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"When you are paying by the "pull of the handle," the vendor's incentive is not to solve your problem with a single pull, but to give the appearance of progress towards solving your problem."
Working with #AI as gambling: another thought-provoking reflection by @pluralistic
Fun fact: Behavioural scientists discovered that if you put a treat-dispensing lever in a rat cage, well, the rats will press it - but if you let it dispense treats arbitrarily they'll press it *more* than if every press yields a reward. Unpredictability causes obssessive behavior.
If you read this article by @pluralistic you'll probably understand why I thought of that little bit of trivia right now.
When LLM users describe their experience with their chatbots, the results are so divergent that it can sound like they're describing two completely different products.
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When using XFCE in conjunction with light-locker (the default lock screen utility), it normally takes some seconds to resume from suspend as it loads up the light-locker prompt. However, I've found that if I let the prompt load up, but then close the lid without entering the password and let it enter suspend again, light-locker is almost instantly ready the next time I resume. Is there any way to do this automate this behavior when I close the lid of my laptop?
And apparently, you can tell light-locker to lock immediately with light-locker-command --lock: manpages.debian.org/buster/lig…
I guess, you might want to try out, if it works at all, before you start editing files. If it works with this, then I'd expect it work when you put it in into the file, too:
Is there a way to change the command executed by xfce4-power-manager when it wants to suspend? I assume it runs xfce4-session-logout --suspend, but I would like it to run
xfconf-query -c xfce4-power-
When LLM users describe their experience with their chatbots, the results are so divergent that it can sound like they're describing two completely different products.
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
My next nonfiction book is "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," out from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux on October 7:
My ebooks and audiobooks (from Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
The Booksmith is so excited to be welcoming Cory Doctorow back to San Francisco for the release of Enshittification at Public Works. More to come, but grab a ticket and join us!About the bookEnshittification: its not just youthe internet sucks now.
Cory Doctorow is an activist, journalist, and bestselling science fiction author. His books include The Lost Cause, Red Team Blues, The Internet Con, and Picks and Shovels. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hal...
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I love this description, so true: "part of the seductive joy of coding is that it can put its practitioners into a kind of autohyptnotic fugue state where they don't notice the passing of time, a state that is also a feature of pathological gambling)"
🧵 Bis vor Kurzem war Katherina Reiche (CDU) Top-Managerin der Gaswirtschaft – jetzt ist sie Wirtschaftsministerin unter Friedrich Merz.
Dass sie bis April noch Vorstandsvorsitzende bei der Eon-Tochter Westenergie war und gleichzeitig in den Aufsichtsräten der Energieversorger DEW21 und RheinEnergie saß, ist natürlich kein Problem...oder?
Great listen on the Research Saturday podcast hosting @hrbrmstr on some fantastic work by GreyNoise identifying early, pre-disclosure CVE scanning signals. Huge props to boB for being a researcher that so eloquently speaks to the defender experience.
Also big thanks to both boB and host Dave Bittner for emphasizing the critical role of humans in defending and researching: going from gut feeling to hypothesis, and moving forward from there.
Bob Rudis, VP Data Science from GreyNoise, is sharing some insights into their work on "Early Warning Signals: When Attacker Behavior Precedes New Vulnerabilities.
Take a satirical, no-holds-barred look at how the Democratic Party went from Andrew Jackson’s “common man” roots to the modern political force it is today. F...
Something (to me) feels off about Sweeney's face, weird uncanny valley type feeling when I see it. Taylor doesn't have this problem but is probably secretly trans. Tough call.
@HLC I think she’s cute in a next door neighbor kid kinda way. She’s got a nice bod, but her looks are nothing outstanding IMO. I’d take her over Tyler in a hot minute, though.
Hemos podido contar nuestras experiencias y opiniones en este reportaje de eldiario.es que detalla la crisis actual de EREs y cierres masivos de estudios en el país.
Trabajadores de estudios ya desaparecidos y otros en pleno proceso de ERE denuncian que las grandes compañías no tienen reparos en absorberles para luego no alimentar a la empresa con nuevos encargos
. (It's a subhuman‐tier score, but I'll come back to it later. I want to unlock 世界はそれを愛と呼ぶんだぜ already. )Thank you for reading my blog post.
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