Cool! I have a question about lottery numbers..

According to https://github.com/pgsty/silo it's pgsty/silo now:

> Renamed from pgsty/minio to pgsty/silo, default branch master → main, on 2026-08-06

This is what I use. I had a minio instance that was replaced flawlessly with silo. This is an excellent project and needs more traction. All existing minio users must switch to Silo ASAP.

Neat!

I had switched some projects to SeaweedFS's Docker image. It worked well. This is good to know there is a successor open source project that would require no code changes to use. Will evaluate.

This need to go mainstream.

Have you published any of these stories online? I'd love to read some!

Things are kind of under construction... We would like to publish our stories in book-on-demand format.

This is one of our early translation tests. I publish it here for a while for you: https://media.nimbus.fi/tero/for_hackernews/sleeping_childre... Please don't expect it to stay there forever.

It has the same heroine that is in our debut book: https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nimbus_ja_t%C3%A4hdet Every short story has the same main characters visiting an another star and an another world.

Here's some of the local space that I generated from Gliese/Hipparcos dataset some 20 years ago. I'm trying to port our original LightWave starmaps to Blender: https://media.nimbus.fi/tero/nimbus/local_space.png

We should probably write a blog (blag) post about the hurdles of translating from a small (and not so well supported language) to English. Luckily my wife is way better in English than I am.

It's so that you don't lose your dark adaptation. See: https://www.nps.gov/articles/dark-adaptation-of-the-human-ey...

Obligatory reference to "Remain Indoors" sketch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnd1jKcfBRE

I am hoping for a fossilized X-wing.

Now that would be a great pseudo-documentary. It could be presented as a Time Team episode where they're digging away in various trenches, and then one of them finds a strange piece of metal. Somebody takes it away to analyse in their tent whilst the dig slowly continues.

Then she rushes back to tell them the fragment of metal is some weird unknown titanium alloy, and it makes no sense it would be in a site of 3,000 year old dirt!

Then, in a separate trench they unearth an escape pod from an alien vessel.

And then a holographic Carrie Fisher appears, and George Lucas writes the script without her intervention, and it all goes to shit.

Yeah, we could call it Trench Wars or something. There could be lots of onion soup.

April 1 release date.

"Death Valley" is a recent gentle comedic crime detective series on the BBC (iPlayer), set in Wales and the characters frequently break into Welsh (with English subtitles). It's lovely to hear!

According to the ejection seat manufacturer [1] there is no minimum height or speed at which the ejection seat can be used, so as long as the aircraft is roughly level then the ejection should be survivable.

[1] https://martin-baker.com/ejection-seats/us16e/

The actual report mentions that this was a concern for actually landing the plane (as opposed to touch and go), because there was real possibility that the plane would end up in attitude that can hardly be described as "roughly level".

I would expect if the aircraft were level at 50 ft above the ground, flying inverted, an ejection would not be survivable.

I assume it's what they meant with "as long as the aircraft is roughly level"...

Does the phone make a different kind of noise, so you'd potentially associate that with "get off the ladder quick"!?

Yes. The 2 types of earthquake alerts each have a unique sound that was designed specifically for earthquake alerts. They are available in the supplemental data folder that's associated with the paper (you can also hear one of these by going into the android earthquake settings and clicking on the Demo feature).

Hmm, Earthquake alerts aren't available: Location switch is off.

But I like it that way.

True - but if you erode that trust then your users may go elsewhere. If you keep the ads visually separated, there's a respected boundary & users may accept it.

There will be a respected boundary for a time, then as advertisers find its more effective the boundaries will start to disappear

google did it. LLms are the new google search. It'll happen sooner or later.

Yes, but for a while google was head and shoulders above the competition. It also poured a ton of money into building non-search functionality (email, maps, etc.). And had a highly visible and, for a while, internally respected "don't be evil" corporate motto.

All of which made it much less likely that users would bolt in response to each real monetization step. This is very different to the current situation, where we have a shifting landscape with several AI companies, each with its strengths. Things can change, but it takes time for 1-2 leaders to consolidate and for the competition to die off. My 2c.