dismal weather but good sound ( haze and rain ! ) rare footage of the last Lockheed Tristar departure from Ostend , some 24 years ago 30/06/1999 CKS N104CK American International Airways CKS 358 to Gander 9.24AM

Non hushkitted DC-8 and rare hushkitted Boeing 707 Sounds still great ! Ostend Airport 2001

impressive speed , fast , noisy , rolling take off , in a hurry !! NOISY !! TMA 707 OD-AGO departure , runway 26 Exhilarating show !! Quality Airport Ostend Year 2001 ( June )

So many Christian leaders want their ministries to become more sustainable. How can we get there? Join EMI staff member and Creation Care series host Rob Quail for a webinar on how we apply creation care principles and sustainable design to EMI Projects. Rob will walk us through the research done by the EMI creation care working group on various holistic sustainability assessment tools already in existence, how we have applied some of them on previous projects and the application of a new tool, developed in-house by EMI, on a recent project trip to Belize.

The sustainability appraisal is intended to inform strategic planning, particularly as it relates to long-term cost efficiency, energy use, and the expansion of campus facilities. Join us to learn how the sustainability assessment can serve your ministry or how you can partner with EMI in this service.

Together we design and build projects that bring hope to communities around the world.

Intro to Creation Care - EMI Series #1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7h4j63HTfk

Landscape Architecture - EMI Creation Care Series #4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugNcG4clSKs

Why clean power is about people, not sacrifice //

We tend to talk about energy as if it’s a niche technical problem; something for engineers, utilities, and climate wonks to argue about at conferences. I’ve been guilty of this myself, spending time discussing reactor designs when I should have been talking about the people and institutions that actually do the reacting. Megawatts, grids, emissions targets, and levelised costs all matter, but they’re not the whole story, and simply not part of the broader story that appeals to most people. Energy isn’t just an input into the economy; it’s the thing that sets everything else in motion. It’s the backbone of civilisation. It’s the foundation of modern human flourishing. Hence, energy is life.

This becomes obvious the moment you look at the data. Wherever reliable electricity shows up, a familiar pattern follows, of higher literacy, lower child mortality, higher incomes, better health outcomes, and more education for women. That’s not ideology, but correlation after correlation, across countries and decades. Energy access doesn’t always guarantee prosperity, but the absence of it certainly guarantees poverty.

It’s also worth remembering something that news headlines rarely emphasise: by almost every measurable metric, including life expectancy, child survival, poverty reduction, and education, the world is far better than it was a century ago. That progress didn’t happen by accident, but because we learned how to produce vast amounts of cheap, reliable energy, and because human societies reacted by building everything else on top of it. The mechanism isn’t mysterious. Energy powers clean water systems, hospitals, vaccines, heating, lighting, refrigeration, agriculture, and the internet. Take energy away, and modern life quickly starts to fall apart.

And yet. Hundreds of millions of people still have no access to electricity at all. Billions cook with solid fuels that damage their lungs. Even in rich countries, people die every winter because they can’t afford to heat their homes properly. These aren’t lifestyle choices, but the consequence of political choices that enable energy shortages.

Psychologists have known for decades that humans are bad at judging risk. We overestimate dramatic, low-probability dangers and underestimate slow, high-probability harms, through a mix of availability bias and negativity bias. This bias has real consequences. Nuclear accidents loom large in the public imagination, even though, measured per unit of electricity produced, nuclear energy is far safer the alternatives.

As I have said before, the uncomfortable consequence is that fear of nuclear energy has often caused more harm than nuclear energy itself.

Does anyone want to tell Linus Torvalds? No? I didn't think so. //

The report on Product Security Bad Practices warns software manufacturers about developing "new product lines for use in service of critical infrastructure or [national critical functions] NCFs in a memory-unsafe language (eg, C or C++) where there are readily available alternative memory-safe languages that could be used is dangerous and significantly elevates risk to national security, national economic security, and national public health and safety."

In short, don't use C or C++. Yeah, that's going to happen.

If this sounds familiar, it's because CISA has been preaching on this point for years.

Rust is one component of it. Adopt it, forbid the "unsafe" keyword, and in theory you end up with code far less prone to memory mis-use errors.

However, when one looks at today's hardware, MELTDOWN / SPECTRE and similar are all about memory misuse / mishandling within CPUs. And it's interesting to consider what can be done about that. There have been articles here on El Reg on the topic of the need to get rid of C in the hardware sense too. C / C++ and today's libraries for them all assume that its running on a Symmetric Multi Processing hardware environment (for multicore hardware). But, the hardware hasn't actually looked like that for decades; SMP is a synthetic hardware environment built on top of things like QPI, or HyperTransport (or newer equivalents), and these cache-coherency networks are what is causing MELTDOWN / SPECTRE faults which the CPU designers are seemingly powerless to fix. Apple's own silicon has recently been found to have such faults - they're unfixable in M1, M2, and they've not disabled the miscreant feature in M3 even though they can.

So, it looks like we should be getting rid of SMP. That would leave us with - NUMA.

We've had such systems before - Transputers are one such example. //

Shared Memory is, Today, no Different to Copied Memory

The classic "don't copy data, send a pointer to data if you want it to be fast" is maxim that should have died decades ago. It was only ever true in actual SMP environments like Intel's NetBurst of the 1990s.

Today, for one core to access data in memory attached to a different core, pretty much the same microelectronic transactions have to take place as would be required to simply copy the data.

Ts'o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possible

A team of neuroscientists at Carnegie Mellon and the University of Pittsburgh have discovered that when the prize gets too big — like Olympic gold — the brain becomes overly cautious, slowing down the neuron activity that prepares the body for motor movements the body usually does smoothly and without hesitation. //

But even before these findings, scientists had figured out that overthinking destroys an athlete’s normal fluidity.

Some adults over 40 have shoulder pain, but nearly all have “abnormal” joints. //

The authors argue that the findings suggest clinicians should rethink MRI findings, changing not just how they’re used, but also how they’re explained to patients. The language in particular should change given that “abnormalities” are ubiquitous—thus normal—and shouldn’t be described in terms that indicate a need for repair, like “tear.”

“While we refer to these findings as abnormalities, many likely represent normal age-related changes rather than clinically relevant structural changes,” the authors write. “Adopting more precise and less value-laden terminology—such as lesion, defect, fraying, disruption, structural alteration, or degeneration—may help reduce patient anxiety and the perceived need to do something or fix something by avoiding language that implies trauma or a requirement for repair.”

Contrary to what password managers say, a server compromise can mean game over.

The front cover is a shot of the 2.55 gigawatt Oconee plant in South Carolina. These three reactors were built for 356 million dollars between 1967 and 1974. That is $1141 per kilowatt in 2024 dollars. Oconee can produce reliable, on-demand, zero pollution, very low CO2, electricity at less than 3 cents/kWh in today’s money. These plants and their sisters have operated for over 60 years, harming exactly nobody from radiation. They are licensed to operate intothe 2050’s.

Between 1970 and 2025, technological progress should have reduced the real cost of nuclear power. Instead the current cost of nuclear plants in Europe and North America is more than $15,000/kW, more than 13 times the cost of Oconee. Thanks to its insane energy density, nuclear power should consume far less of the planet’s precious resources than any other source of electricty while producing nearly no pollution and very little CO2. Instead nuclear is a prohibitively expensive flop.

This little book explains why this auto-genocidal tragedy happened, and what we can do about it. Nuclear’s problems are entirely man-made. What is man-made can be man-unmade. If we adopt the regulatory reforms that this book lays out, the providers of nuclear power will be forced to compete with each other and new entrants on a level playing field, in which case the inherent cheapness of fission power combined with technological advances will push the cost of nuclear electricity back down to its should-cost.

The Indians who sold Manhattan were bilked, all right, but they didn’t mind—the land wasn’t theirs anyway //

By now it is probably too late to do anything about it, but the unsettling fact remains that the so-called sale of Manhattan Island to the Dutch in 1626 was a totally illegal deal; a group of Brooklyn Indians perpetrated the swindle, and they had no more right to sell Manhattan Island than the present mayor of White Plains would have to declare war on France. When the Manhattan Indians found out about it they were understandably furious, but by that time the Dutch had too strong a foothold to be dislodged—by the Indians, at any rate—and the eventual arrival of one-way avenues and the Hamburg Heaven Crystal Room was only a matter of time.

Emergency access allows users to designate and manage trusted emergency contacts, who can request access to their vault in cases of emergency.

Security is constantly evolving. Today, a new in-depth security report is available, continuing the Bitwarden commitment to transparency and trusted open source security. The audit, conducted by the prestigious Applied Cryptography Group at ETH Zurich, proactively tested Bitwarden core cryptography operations against the hypothetical event of a maliciously compromised server. All issues identified in the report have been addressed by the Bitwarden team and have been included in the attached cryptography report for full transparency.

Bitwarden was selected for analysis by ETH Zurich primarily due to its open source architecture, where code is available to the public on GitHub for inspection, auditing, and contribution. With this model, the world's leading academic researchers and professional minds, like the ETH Zurich Applied Cryptography Group, can stress-test Bitwarden infrastructure and code with penetration testing and security audits.

In the Age of Discovery, maps held closely guarded secrets for the kings, adventurers, and merchants who first acquired them.

"No matter who you ask, the most important factor is length. Length is more important than complexity and randomness," Comparitech consumer privacy advocate Paul Bischoff told us in an email.

Of course, adding a random character into a long passphrase doesn't hurt either, Bischoff noted... //

Using gibberish passwords and relying on a password manager is still better than qwerty123, of course, and Bischoff says that goes for browser-based password management, too. You're still taking matters into your own hands, of course, as Chrome updates have been known to break Google Password Manager, and password manager apps aren't 100 percent secure either.

Whatever you do, don't let yourself be caught with a password on Comparitech's list, and if it's your responsibility to set password complexity rules, make sure you're setting good ones.

Voidtools' Everything is a great File Explorer replacement //

WinDirStat is a tell-all we all need
A cold hard look into the storage //

ShutUp10++ is an absolute must-have
This is where I take control back from Windows //

Autoruns gives you a very deep look under the hood
Autoruns often feels like my secret weapon

The Lockheed L-1011 competed primarily with the DC-10. Whereas McDonnell Douglas had produced two successful jet airliners and built an extensive customer base, this was Lockheed's first jet-powered airliner. However, while McDonnell Douglas was able to get its aircraft out the door in a swift fashion, Lockheed faced several delays with its program, primarily centered around issues with the Rolls-Royce RB211.

Both aircraft were largely developed out of a request from American Airlines for a twin-engine widebody smaller than the Boeing 747. Both companies developed trijets due to restrictions on twin-engine operations over water, and Lockheed put extra effort into the Tristar's technology. It featured an advanced autopilot, an autoland system, and an automated emergency descent function. This was undoubtedly the most advanced subsonic airliner of its time. //

Charles
I think when the 767 came on the scene, that's what really killed the tristar. //

TJCrewChief
I had a friend that was a 747 and L1011 pilot for TWA. He just loved the Lockheed L1011.

He extolled the fly ability and called it a " Pilots Airplane."

The Federal Highway Administration has given interim approval under the national Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices (MUTCD) for the optional use of green colored pavement in marked bike lanes to boost visibility and alert drivers to where bicycles are expected to operate.

If there’s one state that’s leaned into this trend, it’s Florida. Transportation agencies there have adopted MUTCD-aligned design and installation requirements for green-colored pavement markings on bike lanes and multi-use paths.

Under the MUTCD rules, green is not just decorative. It’s a legitimate traffic control device meant to communicate a reserved space (usually for cyclists) and to increase conspicuity.