An anonymous reader quotes MSPoweruser: Google Chrome always had a bit of a love-hate relationship when it comes to managing FTP links. The web browser usually downloads instead of rendering it like other web browsers. However, if you’re using FTP then you might have to look elsewhere soon as Google is planning to remove FTP support altogether. In a post (via…
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Growing Food From Scraps
Did you know that 1/3 of all the food globally is wasted? Yes, it is! 1.3 billion tons gets lost or wasted or not consumed. And only a small percentage of that waste can be diverted for composting. Compost will help lessen these waste but did you know that there is a better way to save food?…Continue Reading
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Two sweet Indian white-eyes
These birds live in open woodland on the Indian subcontinent. They forage in small groups, feeding on nectar and small insects. Source: https://earthsky.org/todays-image/bird-photo-2-indian-white-eyes…
How To Plant Tomatoes
Learn how to plant tomatoes from one of the best homesteaders around! Follow thee steps and your vine will be ripe with juicy tomatoes in no time. How To Plant Tomatoes Tomatoes are the quintessential summer fruit, perfect for sandwiches, salads, cooking, and canning. The smell and taste of a real, home-grown tomato is something…Continue Reading
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Can Britain’s Top Bookseller Save Barnes & Noble?
James Daunt fought Amazon and rescued the country’s biggest bookstore chain. Now comes Chapter 2. From a report: Barnes & Noble has been sliding toward oblivion for years. Nearly 400 stores have closed since 1997 â” there are 627 now operating â” and $1 billion in market value has evaporated in the last five years. This week, Elliott Advisors, the private…
Chernobyl and Why Some TV Shows Should Be Unbingeable
An anonymous reader shares a column [Editor’s note: the link may be paywalled]: Few television shows in recent years have been as compelling, yet as difficult to watch, as Chernobyl. The story of the hours and days following the 1986 nuclear reactor meltdown, and the many awful ways that radiation can kill, was expertly told. But it was the antithesis of…
UK’s biggest moon exhibition captures centuries of lunar love
From Japanese painting of the harvest moon to Buzz Aldrin’s “Snoopy cap”, the UK’s biggest moon exhibition at London’s National Maritime Museum is bound to please Source: https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg24332420-400-uks-biggest-moon-exhibition-captures-centuries-of-lunar-love/?utm_campaign=RSS%7CNSNS&utm_source=NSNS&utm_medium=RSS&utm_content=home…
Albireo, beloved double star
Albireo is known best for the striking color contrast between its two stars – the brighter gold star and the dimmer blue star. Source: https://earthsky.org/brightest-stars/albireo-finest-double-star…
C++20 Is Feature Complete
Long-time Slashdot reader mejustme shared this report from Hackaday: If you have an opinion about C++, chances are you either love it for its extensiveness and versatility, or you hate it for its bloated complexity and would rather stick to alternative languages on both sides of the spectrum. Either way, here’s your chance to form a new opinion about the language….
How Sydney Destroyed Its Trams For Love of the Car
An anonymous reader shares a report from The Guardian about the questionable decision in the 1950s to get rid of Sydney’s trams in favor of private cars. From the report: In the late 1950s Sydney ripped up its tram network, once one of the largest in the world. Nearly 1,000 trams — some only a few years old — were rolled…