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Terminal colours are tricky in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I'm not sure what you mean by "tty".

Televisions or computer displays? They didn't (well, normally, probably some television out there that can do it) -- if you plug an Apple II into a television or a display, it's just gonna be light-on-dark.

Hardware dumb terminals, like VT100s? I've never seen one configured that way, but it might be possible that some supported running in light-on-dark mode. There are escape codes that will throw the terminal into showing reverse mode, and that was used for stuff like highlighting text, but I don't know if there was an option invisible to the remote end to reverse colors. Like, you could set some of the default terminal modes at boot, stuff like terminal speed and such, but I don't know if there's a persistent flag that would always override what the remote end was using.

kagis

https://vt100.net/docs/vt510-rm/DECSCNM.html

Screen Mode: Light or Dark Screen

This control function selects a dark or light background on the screen.

Default: Dark background.

https://vt100.net/docs/vt100-ug/chapter3.html

Screen:

Changeable from Host Computer? Yes (DECSCNM)

Saved in NVR and Changeable in SET-UP: Yes

So on the VT100, there was a flag you could set that would be saved in nonvolatile memory that would persist across terminal boots, but it also could be flipped by the remote end, wasn't invisible to it. If you used escape sequences that fiddled with the color mode, I'm not sure if it'd retain that.

Virtual terminal programs? xterm has -rv/+rv, which flips the foreground/background color, and pretty much all virtual terminal programs have some way to configure the 8/16 ANSI colors they use. If you're talking changing how they interpret 8-bit color codes or 24-bit color codes, I don't believe that I've typically seen some sort of mapping system in virtual terminal software -- like, normally one configures software emitting those color codes on a per-program basis; normally, software that uses one of those will also have configurable color options. Like, Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, which uses IIRC 8-bit color, has a default set of colors, a set of alternate themes, and can be configured on a per-color basis. Ditto for emacs. Most console software uses the ANSI colormap, so remapping that in virtual terminal software handles most cases. Use of either 8-bit or 24-bit color by console software is fairly rare, so that's tolerable today, though I imagine that if use becomes really common, that maybe virtual terminal software will try to add some sort of high-level mapping of colors.

SSH client for iPad? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today -1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I don't use iOS. But I have used Android, and what I found that a larger irritation for me than the client -- I use ConnectBot, and do local Linux stuff in Termux -- is the on-screen keyboard. While there are various people who have taken a stab at the situation, the basic problem is that nearly all Android users are using on-screen keyboards for stuff like sending SMSes to their friends. Maybe the more verbose are doing things like posting text to the Threadiverse. Few of them need things like some of the more-exotic keys -- control, alt, modifier keys, etc.

Even on onscreen keyboards that have support, if you want to hit something like "control alt shift 5" in emacs on a remote Linux machine, it's just awkward on many onscreen keyboards, need to toggle between multiple keyboard layouts just to hit that combination. Then you've got things like brackets and pipes and curly braces and such that are used by shell environments. Yes, it's...usable in a pinch, but it's an irritation if you're going to be doing much in the environment.

And even if you're just mostly sticking with alphanumerics, it's still a bit exasperating to use an onscreen keyboard to operate a primarily-text-based environment.

A tablet like yours might actually have the space for a larger onscreen keyboard, but IME, keyboards tend to be designed for the more-commonly-used phones than tablets.

If you are willing to carry one and don't presently have one, and you expect this to be the primary route to use the Linux machine, use it via the terminal, I'd consider getting a physical Bluetooth keyboard with at least all of the keys that a "60%" keyboard has, and preferably more like a "TKL"/"tenkeyless" keyboard.

https://www.keyboard.university/100-courses/keyboard-sizes-layouts-gdeby

Just makes the experience a lot more pleasant.

is it possible to make an instance on lemmy that is a mirror of reddit, basically what ever posts there are on reddit can be mirrored on separate that instance, this allows for backup &less censorship in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Note that this only mirrors posts, not comments. That's what OP was asking for, but I want to make it clear that it's not just going to provide a user with proxied access to everything on those Reddit posts.

Some people here also really don't like the practice of mirroring them, which I suspect is why OP's post was downvoted as of this writing. I'm fine with the mirroring -- though I don't find that it's resulted in a lot of discussion on those mirrored posts last I looked -- but different strokes for different folks.

I don't currently subscribe to any of the mirrored communities, but there are a couple subreddits that I occasionally still check for post content, without logging in. I suppose that if a Threadiverse instance were mirroring them, I wouldn't do that, but I'm not all that concerned about total separation from Reddit to that degree.

Terminal colours are tricky in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

It was due to neccesity too that light on dark was used in CLI environments, due to the way CRT work, not because it’s superior or whatever.

No, you can run dark-on-light material on CRTs just fine. Literally all of the screenshots I have in the above post with dark-on-light are of computer systems that were sold with CRTs. The transition to LCDs didn't come until something like twenty years after the transition from light-on-dark.

Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode is Out Now! in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Ironvest.com (nee blur.com, nee abine.com) also provides a "masked card" service (which can be independently useful, as it can have a bogus name and address, useful if you don't want someone harvesting that). Used to be with cash payments that vendors couldn't build that kind of database. That being said, they charge an annual fee for their service, and your bank may provide free temporary numbers. And not every vendor will accept their masked cards (or those prepaid cards from stores), I assume because those vendors want to link them to your identity. There are legit reasons for vendors to want to do that, like to reduce fraud, but if you don't want your name in vendor databases, it's a way to avoid it.

Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 7 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

That was Nissan. I don't think that it was ever established that they were, just that their click-through privacy agreement had the consumer explicitly give them the right to do so.

kagis

They apparently say that they put it in there because the data that they did collect would permit inferring sexual orientation (like, I assume that if they're harvesting location data and someone is parking outside gay bars, it's probably possible to data-mine that).

https://nypost.com/2023/09/06/nissan-kia-collect-data-about-drivers-sexual-activity/

On Nissan’s official web page outlining its privacy policy, the Japan-based company said that it collects drivers’ “sensitive personal information, including driver’s license number, national or state identification number, citizenship status, immigration status, race, national origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, sexual activity, precise geolocation, health diagnosis data, and genetic information.”

“Nissan does not knowingly collect or disclose consumer information on sexual activity or sexual orientation,” a company spokesperson told The Post.

“Some state laws require us to account for inadvertent data collection or information that could be inferred from other data, such as geolocation.”

Dwarf Fortress - Adventure Mode is Out Now! in c/games@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Is your concern that Steam might be compromised? If you're willing to trust PayPal, they'll use them as a payment processor.

Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

Yep. I’m stuck driving cars from the mid-2000s at the latest because it’s a deal-breaker for me.

There are still a bunch, but ultimately, that supply is going to dwindle as wear and tear and such takes effect.

On some cars, you can disconnect the power to the cell radio module. I've read some posts about people doing that on newer Toyota Corollas.

kagis

Not the post I'm thinking of, but an example:

https://old.reddit.com/r/GRCorolla/comments/1f1vl94/for_those_of_you_looking_to_disable_the_dcm_and/

I remember they said that you used to be able to just pull out a single fuse in the fuse box to kill power to the telematics module, but with newer models there's some second fuse-box that's not very user-accessible in the guts of the car that controls it, and getting power away from the module on those is a more-elaborate task.

Also, I've read that on multiple Corollas -- someone else in this thread mentions this also applying to Subarus -- one of the speakers and the microphone is routed through that module to provide it access to the microphone and the sound system, so if you disconnect them without additional work, you're going to lose one of your speakers and the car's built-in microphone.

EDIT: I also have no idea how firmware updates get pushed to your car. It might be that updating firmware is part of the regular service, or it might be that they rely on over-the-air access to your car's cell modem. But either way, I could imagine pulling the thing meaning that they can't update your car's firmware, which could be a cost.

YouTube star MrBeast joins bid to buy TikTok in US in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 4 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

First, I think that the concern is national security, not privacy. I don't expect that it'd necessarily have a privacy impact one way or another.

Second, if you're located in Europe -- I notice you're on a .de home instance -- I'm not sure whether this would have any direct impact for EU users if just the US operations are sold.

A massive battery fire in California could cast a dark shadow on clean energy expansion in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 42 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (6 children)

A massive battery fire in California could cast a dark shadow on clean energy expansion

Fire may be a risk for grid-scale battery storage, but I'm not sold that it's a fundamental one.

The article points out that this isn't intrinsically tied to battery storage -- one can store the batteries outdoors so that heat gets vented instead of trapped in a building if one battery catches fire, and that the reason that these were indoors is because the facility was one repurposed from non-battery-storage.

But even aside from that, the energy industry works with a lot of very flammable materials all the time -- natural gas, oil, coal, flammable fluids in large transformers. While there's the occasional fire, when one happens, we don't normally conclude that the broader electricity industry isn't workable due to fire risk.

Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 5 points 4 days ago

It might not tell you that it's Subaru's connectivity system (absent context), but I bet that if they'd written it that way, it'd at least let you know that it's probably not SpaceX's satellite Internet service program.

Millions of Subarus could be remotely unlocked, tracked due to security flaws in c/technology@lemmy.world
[–] tal@lemmy.today 8 points 4 days ago (2 children)

Apparently they capitalize it, so the article author kinda screwed it up:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(disambiguation)

STARLINK, a brand of automotive connectivity systems by Subaru

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Autumn dessert (lemmy.today)
 

UI: ComfyUI

Model: STOIQNewrealityFLUXSD_F1DAlpha

A delicious slice of pumpkin pie. The pie is topped with whipped cream that is sprinkled with cinnamon and nutmeg. There are delicious chocolate chip cookies and a delicious scoop of vanilla ice cream placed next to the slice of pie. The ice cream is topped with crushed candy cane sprinkles.

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Ozymandias (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works
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Inspired by this post trying to illustrate a poem, I wanted to see if Flux could understand poetic language in Ozymandias. I plugged the whole poem in. I think it did an okay job!

Ozymandias, by Percy Bysshe Shelley:

I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed;
And on the pedestal, these words appear:
My name is Ozymandias, King of Kings;
Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal Wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”

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Dark Fantasy-Themed Tarot, Major Arcana. Flux, ComfyUI. (lemmy.today)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by tal@lemmy.today to c/imageai@sh.itjust.works
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Thelsim did a couple of Tarot-style cards a while back. I also just finally got Flux set up in ComfyUI -- had started a long time back, and dropped it.

Flux is a ComfyUI model that's pretty popular over on Reddit, both for the quality and because it uses English-style prompts rather than just a list of comma-separated prompt terms. I remembered Thelsim's project, wanted to see if I could turn out a full set of photographic-style Major Arcana in the first day using it. Turns out...yes! Usually when running Stable Diffusion, I'll generate maybe 20 images and pick the best, but this typically had something reasonable on the first try. It's certainly not flawless -- there are quirks in the image, but for anyone else thinking about playing with Flux, I wanted to put this out there, because I was unexpectedly happy with it, especially given that I've no experience at all with it. I would totally try and get it set up if you have a local generation setup!

Text was added with a script and ImageMagick, not in ComfyUI.

To get some kind of consistent appearance, I appended to each prompt "The theme is magical fantasy horror. The colors are blue, white, red, orange, and black. The photograph was taken with a Nikon D850." I also used "Photograph...at night" on each.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/67cd880f-ed36-4074-b12b-3e509b0dafa2.png

Photograph of the Grim Reaper at night in a dark, gloomy field. The Grim Reaper is riding a white horse. The Grim Reaper is holding a simple black scythe. The Grim Reaper's hood only contains blackness. The sky is full of stars. The Grim Reaper is
wearing black gloves. The Grim Reaper is facing the camera.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/2f0c296e-da19-4f31-8f35-cac07ce372dc.png

An photograph of a huge angel in the clouds playing a medieval trumpet at night. The angel is blowing into the trumpet. The angel is in profile. The zombies are climbing out of their graves in a graveyard. The dead are rising. There are snowy
mountains in the background.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/b99ac2e5-a285-45f9-abc8-4267ae10398a.png

Photograph of a stern-looking young woman wearing a white blindfold and a toga sitting on a throne at night. The woman's right hand is holding a set of scales aloft. There is a longsword lying by the woman's feet. The woman is facing the scales.

Should really have a sword in one hand, scales in the other, but I wasn't able to quickly get that working; probably need more experience with Flux.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3ed8cbe7-e97b-4f67-849e-19bd798caaae.png

Photograph of an angel at night. The angel is pouring glowing liquid from one large goblet in their left hand into a goblet in their right hand. The angel has a halo.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/18a9c09b-dcc1-46da-87d8-a0c09c851170.png

Photograph of a man wearing armor riding a Roman war chariot at night. The chariot is pulled by two galloping horses wearing barding. The horse on the left is white, and the horse on the right is black. The chariot is charging the camera. The
photograph is an action shot. The man is holding reins.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/4558e24b-0b45-433f-8548-6bb1873bb2d1.png

Photograph of the Devil at night. The Devil is crouching on a pedestal. There are two nude demons sitting at the base of the pedestal. The demon in the lower-right quadrant of the photograph is male. The demon in the lower-left quadrant of the
photograph is female. The Devil is holding a flaming torch in his hand.

It did look like Flux understands directives relative to the portion of the image here ("quadrant"). I wasn't able to get the same technique going with Justice, though.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/80bd8ca8-047a-4e0c-9d61-28b331646bf1.png

Photograph of an emperor at night. The emperor is holding a scepter.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/e7a1f5f6-c2a3-41e2-9b47-fd9c56c8fd31.png

Photograph of an empress at night. The empress is holding a scepter.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/1a6c7729-a5e3-49b8-bc93-d7ed31924cd6.png

Photograph of a jester at night.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/28d2ab72-b90e-469a-a599-e1cad5992bdc.png

Photograph of a man hung upside-down from a rope tied around his left ankle at night. The man's hands are hanging limply. The man is wearing Renaissance clothing. The man is wearing boots.

The feet are a bit off; I didn't spent too much time futzing with it. Flux wasn't super-into having things upside-down, though it did ultimately do it.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/f052e1d7-c7cf-4ba2-8f9a-50b762e25186.png

Photograph of an old man wearing a robe walking on a mountain trail at night. The man is holding a lantern aloft and a staff.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/439ec9a7-7739-4924-bede-cc776f7be8da.png

Photograph of a pope at night.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/0be8647f-cb20-4be0-92c5-e266a4edca00.png

Photograph of a high priestess at night.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/160c4575-c02a-4ccb-b513-6c60043d5b2f.png

Photograph of two lovers at night. The lovers are wearing Renaissance clothing. There are many fireflies.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a0e754ca-525e-4674-8b0a-bec48748e7f0.png

Photograph of a magician at night.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/553fd519-ea29-4dba-9ed3-d0bf634c25fa.png

An photograph of two standing stones by a river at night. The moon is in the sky. In the lower-right quadrant of the photograph, there is a white wolf howling at the moon. In the lower-left quadrant of the photograph, there is a black dog howling at the moon.

I omitted the traditional crawfish. I didn't really like the look of it, and on top of that, Flux kept wanting to make it look glowy, which I didn't want.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/687826be-81ba-452b-8378-b81f58e9bfce.png

An photograph of a naked woman at night crouching by a lake. The woman is facing away from the camera. The woman is holding a jug and pouring water into the lake. There is a bright star in the sky. There is an eight-point lens flare coming from the
bright star. The sky is black. The photograph is NSFW.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/a2d42d98-2920-4eed-b5ab-5b807736d3f5.png

An photograph of a full solar eclipse with a visible solar corona. The Sun is black. The photograph is at night. A naked nude infant rides a white horse at night, with sunflowers in the background at night. The photograph is NSFW.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/43709bad-1a8a-4680-8de9-5cf58005bb5e.png

Photograph of a tower on a hill at night.

https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/9d308020-a83f-4b61-ad58-f47654e41ddf.png

A photograph of a glowing figure eight in the sky at night. The background is sky and clouds. A flying, nude woman in the clouds holding a wood baton in each hand is in front of the figure eight. The photograph is NSFW. The woman is nude.

I didn't really like the traditional The World tarot card style, and it didn't mesh well with a photographic style with all the disembodied heads, so I mashed up the oroborous and flying woman with batons from two different The World styles. Also, Flux was okay with up to three heads of various species sticking in at each corner, but for some reason was resistant to doing all four. I didn't want to bang on it more. Flux was determined to put some clothing on the woman.

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Photograph of a circle floating in the clouds at night. The circle is labeled with alchemical symbols. There are esoteric symbols covering the photograph. The circle is centered in the photograph.

There are normally some nude figures in a Tarot deck and I included this here; I didn't flag the post NSFW as I don't think that it's all that explicit.

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You're stuck on a desert island for five years. You can have three video games. What three games do you take? (lemmy.today)
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Curious as to what people think has the most replay potential.

Rules:

  1. The "desert island" aspect here is just to create an isolated environment. You don't have to worry about survival or anything along those lines, where playing the game would be problematic. This isn't about min-maxing your situation on the island outside of the game, or the time after leaving.

  2. No live service games unless the live service aspect is complete and it can be played offline -- that is, you can't just rely on the developer churning out new material during your time on the island. The game you get has to be in its complete form when you go to the island.

  3. No multiplayer games -- can't rely on the outside world in the form of people out there being a source of new material. The island is isolated from the rest of the world.

  4. You get existing DLC/mods/etc for a game. You don't get multiple games in a series, though.

  5. Cost isn't a factor. If you want The Sims 4 and all its DLC (currently looks like it's $1,300 on Steam, and I would guess that there's probably a lot more stuff on EA's store or whatever), DCS World and all DLC ($3,900), or something like that, you can have it as readily as a free game.

  6. No platform restrictions (within reason; you're limited to something that would be fairly mainstream). PC, console, phone, etc games are all fine. No "I want a game that can only run on a 10,000 node parallel compute cluster", though, even if you can find something like that.

  7. Accessories that would be reasonably within the mainstream are provided. If you're playing a light gun game, you can have a light gun. You can have a game controller, a VR headset and controllers, something like that. No "I want a $20 million 4DOF suspended flight sim cockpit to play my flight sim properly".

  8. You have available to you the tools to extend the game that an ordinary member of the public would have access to. If there are modding tools that exist, you have access to those, can spend time learning them. If it's an open-source game and you want to learn how to modify the game at a source level, you can do that. You don't have access to a video game studio's internal-only tools, though.

  9. You have available to you existing documentation and material related to the game that is generally publicly-available. Fandom wikis, howtos and guides, etc.

  10. You get the game in its present-day form. No updates to the game or new DLC being made available to you while you're on the island.

What three games do you choose to take with you?

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What "unique" or single-game-genre games have you enjoyed? (lemmy.today)
 

I can think of a handful of games that, despite being games that I've enjoyed, never really became part of a "genre". Do you have any like this, and if so, which?

Are they games that you'd like to see another entrant to the genre to? Would you recommend the original game as one to keep playing?

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New Windows AI feature records everything you’ve done on your PC (arstechnica.com)
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Video games are now a generation-spanning hobby for 190 million Americans, survey finds (www.scrippsnews.com)
 

The average video gamer is now 36 years old — but Gen Alpha and Gen Z are most likely to play games.

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Google unveils Veo, a high-definition AI video generator that may rival Sora (arstechnica.com)
 

On Tuesday at Google I/O 2024, Google announced Veo, a new AI video-synthesis model that can create HD videos from text, image, or video prompts, similar to OpenAI's Sora. It can generate 1080p videos lasting over a minute and edit videos from written instructions, but it has not yet been released for broad use.

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Archie, the Internet’s first search engine, is rescued and running (arstechnica.com)
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Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures | Ars Technica (arstechnica.com)
 

Earlier this month, we wrote that some of Intel's recent high-end Core i9 and Core i7 processors had been crashing and exhibiting other weird issues in some games and that Intel was investigating the cause.

An Intel statement obtained by Igor's Lab suggests that Intel's investigation is wrapping up, and the company is pointing squarely in the direction of enthusiast motherboard makers that are turning up power limits and disabling safeguards to try to wring a little more performance out of the processors.

"While the root cause has not yet been identified, Intel has observed the majority of reports of this issue are from users with unlocked/overclock capable motherboards," the statement reads. "Intel has observed 600/700 Series chipset boards often set BIOS defaults to disable thermal and power delivery safeguards designed to limit processor exposure to sustained periods of high voltage and frequency."

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Jupiter may be the reason why Earth has a moon, new study hints | Live Science (www.livescience.com)
 

It would appear that the so-called "great instability" event that wreaked chaos among the planets, sending the gas giants careening through space until they settled into the orbits we know today, occurred between 60 and 100 million years after the birth of the solar system. This is the conclusion of some careful scientific detective work that has connected a type of meteorite to an asteroid that was once pushed around by those marauding planets.

What's more, scientists believe the migrating planets — primarily Jupiter — could have led to the formation of Earth's moon by destabilizing the orbit of a Mars-size protoplanet called Theia. This destabilization may have instigated a collision with Earth that sent debris into space. It is this debris, scientists believe, that may have formed the moon.

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KUOW - Coming soon: Grizzly bears in the North Cascades (www.kuow.org)
 

Grizzly bears will be reintroduced to North Cascades National Park, federal officials announced Thursday.

Wildlife biologists plan to airlift three to seven bears each summer into the rugged wilderness northeast of Seattle from healthy populations in Montana, Wyoming, and British Columbia. The goal is to build an initial population of 25 bears after a decade, growing to 200 bears by the end of the century.

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