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Cake day: June 2nd, 2023

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  • I recently got one of my kids a Kobo Clara Colour and it’s great! The Clara is the smaller sized screen, they have a normal sized model as well.

    Two awesome things. One, can borrow from Libby directly. Two, with a small edit to a file on the Kobo, you can sync it to Calibre Web so all those books appear magically as books in your account on the Kobo for wireless browsing and downloading!

    So if there’s something my kid wants but can’t find on Libby, I can add it in Calibre Web for them.



  • I have some ports wearing out (from kids tripping on the cable) plus the screen bezel has been broken for a long time. Will be nice to get some new bits! Plus get some of the port options that weren’t available when I got mine, like SD card reader or ethernet port.

    I also wanted to upgrade the guts some time back but I’ll hold out for this announcement and see what the new stuff looks like (or get a discount on the old stuff).

    Then I’ll have yet another machine to use as a server (the old mainboard) 😅


  • I’ve been running the same Framework laptop for years and years, after using YouShop to freight forward it. It is their original model, when there was only one option. At a certain point they started blocking people freight forwarding, and I haven’t been able to get replacement parts.

    This morning I got an email telling me they are finally supporting NZ, so I can get those parts! And apparently they are announcing their next gen stuff in a couple of weeks.



  • Well I am a step closer to the answer. Here a similar photo taken on the Artemis II mission with the same identifying features: https://images.nasa.gov/details/art002e009212

    In this fully illuminated view of the Moon, the near side (the hemisphere we see from Earth), is visible on the right. It is identifiable by the dark splotches that cover its surface. These are ancient lava flows from a time early in the Moon’s history when it was volcanically active. The large crater west of the lava flows is Orientale basin, a nearly 600-mile-wide crater that straddles the Moon’s near and far sides. Orientale’s left half is not visible from Earth, but in this image we have a full view of the crater. Everything to the left of the crater is the far side, the hemisphere we don’t get to see from Earth because the Moon rotates on its axis at the same rate that it orbits round us.

    Long story short, like 3/4 of what is in this photo is the near side of the moon.

    As a side note, the coloured image on the left of the OP appears to be this image that reddit detectives have decided was edited by OP. No one has found that coloured version on any NASA release.


  • I’m half confused. Light source - the sun, just take it when the moon is in it’s new moon phase (side facing earth is dark, side facing sun is light).

    But the moon is tidally locked to earth, we always see the same side, so what is taking the photo?

    Artemis II visited while the far side was dark, so I guess this is an old tweet otherwise why would NASA be releasing it now?

    Happy to be told I’m dumb if I got something wrong…



  • Given that anyone can make a donation, I’m not keen on having my details publicly available. It’s one reason I picked this service.

    Happy to add another service if it let’s me not have my identity on a public page. Happy to do bitcoin or something if someone can tell me how to turn it into money!






  • Cadbury was considered quality chocolate in NZ, regularly topped the most trusted brands in NZ lists. Then they tried to replace cocoa solids with palm oil (perhaps 20 years ago), and what feels like overnight they were outed and now are hardly ever mentioned. A local brand took over the quality chocolate spot, and eventually Carbury had to shut the NZ factory.

    I like to think people learn about it when studying marketing / branding degrees.