SmokeInFog

Their ongoing interaction was set in motion between 25 and 75 million years ago, when the Penguin (individually catalogued as NGC 2936) and the Egg (NGC 2937) completed their first pass. They will go on to shimmy and sway, completing several additional loops before merging into a single galaxy hundreds of millions of years from now.

The James Webb Space Telescope takes constant observations, including images and highly detailed data known as spectra. Its operations have led to a ‘parade’ of discoveries by astronomers around the world. It has never felt more possible to explore every facet of the Universe.

The telescope’s specialisation in capturing infrared light – which is beyond what our own eyes can detect – shows these galaxies, collectively known as Arp 142, locked in a slow cosmic dance. Webb’s observations (which combine near- and mid-infrared light from Webb’s NIRCam [Near-InfraRed Camera] and MIRI [Mid-Infrared Instrument], respectively) clearly show that they are joined by a blue haze that is a mix of stars and gas, a result of their mingling.

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And here's a followup video on the James Webb Space Telescope YouTube channel: A Tour of Arp 142

Changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.35.2 [2024-06-22]

• A new option, window_logo_scale to specify how window logos are scaled with respect to the size of the window containing the logo (#7534)
• A new option, cursor_shape_unfocused to specify the shape of the text cursor in unfocused OS windows (#7544)
• Remote control: Fix empty password not working (#7538)
• Wayland: Fix regression in 0.34.0 causing flickering on window resize on NVIDIA drivers (#7493)
• Wayland labwc: Fix kitty timing out waiting for compositor to quit fucking around with scales on labwc (#7540)
• Fix scrollback_indicator_opacity not actually controlling the opacity (#7557)
• URL detection: Fix IPv6 hostnames breaking URL detection (#7565)

From today's Development Blog update:

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And just as exciting is the announcement of our very own Valheim board game! Our friends at MOOD Publishing – who have also developed board games such as Deep Rock Galactic and Battle of Gods – have done an incredible job with this, and we really couldn’t have left the task in more capable hands. You can find out more about the board game by signing up to its Gamefound page, and there might even be something extra in it for you if you do…

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High-temperature fusion plasma experiments conducted in the Large Helical Device (LHD) of the National Institute for Fusion Science (NIFS), have renewed the world record for an acquired data amount, 0.92 terabytes (TB) per experiment, in February 2022, by using a full range of state-of-the-art plasma diagnostic devices.

The International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (ITER), which is currently under construction in France through the international collaboration of seven parties, is expected to generate approximately 1 TB of data per experiment in 10 years, and LHD is currently the only experiment in the world that produces data closely aligned to ITER.

The promotion of "Open Science," in which large-scale research data assets are utilized and shared across society, was adopted as a joint statement at the G7 meeting held in Sendai, Japan in 2023. NIFS started full-fledged efforts toward Open Science by establishing the "Open Access Policy" in February 2022 and the "Research Data Policy" in October 2022.

Since 2023, all the data obtained from LHD experiments are open to the public immediately after acquisition and analysis is completed. All computing program source codes for data analysis are also openly available.

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cross-posted from: https://midwest.social/post/13128061

archive link: https://archive.ph/JlyLf

SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

His son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. “The family is devastated,” he said. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.” William Anders, a retired major general, has said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked.

The photograph, the first color image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for the way it changed how humans viewed the planet. The photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement for showing how delicate and isolated Earth appeared from space.

NASA Administrator and former Sen. Bill Nelson said Anders embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration.

“He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,” Nelson wrote on the social platform X.

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archive link: https://archive.ph/JlyLf

SEATTLE (AP) — William Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic “Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.

His son, retired Air Force Lt. Col. Greg Anders, confirmed the death to The Associated Press. “The family is devastated,” he said. “He was a great pilot and we will miss him terribly.” William Anders, a retired major general, has said the photo was his most significant contribution to the space program along with making sure the Apollo 8 command module and service module worked.

The photograph, the first color image of Earth from space, is one of the most important photos in modern history for the way it changed how humans viewed the planet. The photo is credited with sparking the global environmental movement for showing how delicate and isolated Earth appeared from space.

NASA Administrator and former Sen. Bill Nelson said Anders embodied the lessons and the purpose of exploration.

“He traveled to the threshold of the Moon and helped all of us see something else: ourselves,” Nelson wrote on the social platform X.

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Changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/

0.35.1 [2024-05-31]

• Wayland: Fix a regression in 0.34 that caused the tab bar to not render in second and subsequent OS Windows under Hyprland (#7413)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused horizontal scrolling via touchpad in fullscreen applications to be reversed on non-Wayland platforms (#7475, #7481)
• Fix a regression in the previous release causing an error when setting background_opacity to zero (#7483)
• Image display: Fix cursor movement and image hit region incorrect for image placements that specify only a number of rows or columns to display in (#7479)

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/

0.35.0 [2024-05-25]

• kitten @ run: A new remote control command to run a process on the machine kitty is running on and get its output (#7429)
• notify_on_cmd_finish: Show the actual command that was finished (#7420)
• hints kitten: Allow clicking on matched text to select it in addition to typing the hint
• Shell integration: Make the currently executing cmdline available as a window variable in kitty
• paste_actions: Fix replace-newline not working with confirm (#7374)
• Graphics: Fix aspect ratio of images not being preserved when only a single dimension of the destination rectangle is specified (#7380)
• focus_visible_window: Fix selecting with mouse click leaving keyboard in unusable state (#7390)
• Wayland: Fix infinite loop causing bad performance when using IME via fcitx5 due to a change in fcitx5 (#7396)
• Desktop notifications protocol: Add support for specifying urgency
• Improve rendering of Unicode shade character to avoid Moire patterns (#7401)
• kitten @ send-key: Fix some keys being sent in kitty keyboard protocol encoding when not using socket for remote control
• Dont clear selections on erase in screen commands unless the erased region intersects a selection (#7408)
• Wayland: save energy by not rendering “suspended” windows on compositors that support that
• Allow more types of alignment for placement_strategy (#7419)
• Add some more box-drawing characters from the “Geometric shapes” Unicode block (#7433)
• Linux: Run all child processes in their own systemd scope to prevent the OOM killer from harvesting kitty when a child process misbehaves (#7427)
• Mouse reporting: Fix horizontal scroll events inverted (#7439)
• Remote control: @ action: Fix some actions being performed on the active window instead of the matched window (#7438)
• Scrolling with mouse wheel when a selection is active should update the selection (#7453)
• Fix kitten @ set-background-opacity limited to min opacity of 0.1 instead of 0 (#7463)
• launch --hold: Fix hold not working if kernel signals process group with SIGINT (#7466)
• macOS: Fix --start-as=fullscreen not working when another window is already fullscreen (#7448)
• Add option kitten @ detach-window --stay-in-tab to keep focus in the currently active tab when moving windows (#7468)
• macOS: Fix changing window chrome/colors while in traditional fullscreen causing the titlebar to become visible (#7469)

Here's the official documentation on configuring kitty's modal mappings.

I made this to explore its uses but also because sometimes my fingers trigger the wrong reflex macro and I accidentally change my layout or alter the window size. This guards against that by literally guarding that behavior behind a key combo that puts me into the express context for altering my window/tab layout and arrangement.

To not clutter up your main config, I recommend saving this to its own file and using the include directive to bring it in.

EDIT: learned that you can map the combo that enters the mode to get out of the mode

kitty-mode-window-tab-arrangement (WTA):

map --new-mode WTA kitty_mod+space>kitty_mod+space 

map --mode WTA kitty_mod+space>kitty_mod+space pop_keyboard_mode
map --mode WTA esc    pop_keyboard_mode
map --mode WTA ctrl+c pop_keyboard_mode


# Windows

#navigation
map --mode WTA h    neighboring_window left
map --mode WTA a    neighboring_window left
map --mode WTA left neighboring_window left

map --mode WTA j    neighboring_window down
map --mode WTA s    neighboring_window down
map --mode WTA down neighboring_window down

map --mode WTA k  neighboring_window up
map --mode WTA w  neighboring_window up
map --mode WTA up neighboring_window up

map --mode WTA l     neighboring_window right
map --mode WTA d     neighboring_window right
map --mode WTA right neighboring_window right

map --mode WTA f focus_visible_window

#resize
map --mode WTA alt+h    resize_window narrower
map --mode WTA alt+a    resize_window narrower
map --mode WTA alt+left resize_window narrower

map --mode WTA alt+l     resize_window wider
map --mode WTA alt+d     resize_window wider
map --mode WTA alt+right resize_window wider

map --mode WTA alt+k  resize_window taller
map --mode WTA alt+w  resize_window taller
map --mode WTA alt+up resize_window taller

map --mode WTA alt+j    resize_window shorter
map --mode WTA alt+s    resize_window shorter
map --mode WTA alt+down resize_window shorter

map --mode WTA ctrl+home resize_window reset
map --mode WTA ctrl+r    resize_window reset

#arrange
map --mode WTA shift+h    move_window left
map --mode WTA shift+a    move_window left
map --mode WTA shift+left move_window left

map --mode WTA shift+l     move_window right
map --mode WTA shift+d     move_window right
map --mode WTA shift+right move_window right

map --mode WTA shift+j    move_window down
map --mode WTA shift+s    move_window down
map --mode WTA shift+down move_window down

map --mode WTA shift+k  move_window up
map --mode WTA shift+w  move_window up
map --mode WTA shift+up move_window up

map --mode WTA shift+m swap_with_window
# have to pop_keyboard_mode here to enable answering question
map --mode WTA shift+t combine : detach_window ask : pop_keyboard_mode
map --mode WTA shift+n combine : detach_tab ask    : pop_keyboard_mode


# Tabs

map --mode WTA shift+alt+]     move_tab_forward
map --mode WTA shift+alt+right move_tab_forward
map --mode WTA shift+alt+l     move_tab_forward
map --mode WTA shift+alt+d     move_tab_forward

map --mode WTA shift+alt+[    move_tab_backward
map --mode WTA shift+alt+left move_tab_backward
map --mode WTA shift+alt+h    move_tab_backward
map --mode WTA shift+alt+a    move_tab_backward


# Close others

map --mode WTA ctrl+x>w close_other_windows_in_tab
map --mode WTA ctrl+x>t close_other_tabs_in_os_window
map --mode WTA ctrl+x>o close_other_os_windows



# Layout actions

enabled_layouts tall:mirrored=true,fat,splits:split_axis=horizontal,splits:split_axis=vertical,grid,horizontal,vertical,stack,tall,fat:mirrored=true

map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+7      goto_layout   tall
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+alt+7 toggle_layout tall:mirrored=true
map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+g      goto_layout   grid
map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+w      goto_layout   fat
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+alt+w toggle_layout fat:mirrored=true
map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+v      goto_layout   vertical
map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+h      goto_layout   horizontal
map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+z      toggle_layout stack
map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+y      toggle_layout splits:split_axis=horizontal
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+alt+y toggle_layout splits:split_axis=vertical

map --mode WTA ctrl+alt+, last_used_layout

# control number of main windows
action_alias increase_main layout_action increase_num_full_size_windows
map --mode WTA ctrl+]     increase_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+up    increase_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+right increase_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+l     increase_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+w     increase_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+d     increase_main

action_alias decrease_main layout_action decrease_num_full_size_windows
map --mode WTA ctrl+[    decrease_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+down decrease_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+left decrease_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+h    decrease_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+s    decrease_main
map --mode WTA ctrl+a    decrease_main

# increase main bias
action_alias increase_bias layout_action bias 50 66 75 90
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+]     increase_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+up    increase_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+right increase_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+l     increase_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+w     increase_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+d     increase_bias

# decrease main bias
action_alias decrease_bias layout_action bias 50 33 25 10
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+[    decrease_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+down decrease_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+left decrease_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+h    decrease_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+s    decrease_bias
map --mode WTA kitty_mod+a    decrease_bias

https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.34.1 [2024-04-19]

• Wayland KDE: Fix window background blur not adapting when window is grown. Also fix turning it on and off not working. (#7351)
• Wayland GNOME: Draw the titlebar buttons without using a font (#7349)
• Fix a regression in the previous release that caused incorrect font selection when using variable fonts on Linux (#7361)

(Because of how kitty's documentation is generated (relative anchors, e.g. #1, #2, etc) makes linking to specific changelog entries problematic as new versions are released; old links will not point to the correct entry. Worse, since the URL is the same, new posts to that url will count as a cross-post.)

Changelog: https://sw.kovidgoyal.net/kitty/changelog/#detailed-list-of-changes

0.34.0 [2024-04-15]

• Wayland: panel kitten: Add support for drawing desktop background and bars using the panel kitten for all compositors that support the requisite Wayland protocol which is practically speaking all of them but GNOME (#2590)
• Show a small scrollback indicator along the right window edge when viewing the scrollback to keep track of scroll position (#2502)
• Wayland: Support fractional scales so that there is no wasted drawing at larger scale followed by resizing in the compositor
• Wayland KDE: Support background_blur
• Wayland GNOME: The window titlebar now has buttons to minimize/maximize/close the window
• Wayland GNOME: The window titlebar color now follows the system light/dark color scheme preference, see wayland_titlebar_color
• Wayland KDE: Fix mouse cursor hiding not working in Plasma 6 (#7265)
• Wayland IME: Fix a bug with handling synthetic keypresses generated by ZMK keyboard + fcitx (#7283)
• A new option terminfo_type to allow passing the terminfo database embedded into the TERMINFO env var directly instead of via a file
• Mouse reporting: Fix drag release event outside the window not being reported in legacy mouse reporting modes (#7244)
• macOS: Fix a regression in the previous release that broke rendering of some symbols on some systems (#7249)
• Fix handling of tab character when cursor is at end of line and wrapping is enabled (#7250)
• Splits layout: Fix move_window_forward not working (#7264)
• macOS: Fix an abort due to an assertion when a program tries to set an invalid window title (#7271)
• fish shell integration: Fix clicking at the prompt causing autosuggestions to be accepted, needs fish >= 3.8.0 (#7168)
• Linux: Fix for a regression in 0.32.0 that caused some CJK fonts to not render glyphs (#7263)
• Wayland: Support preferred integer scales
• Wayland: A new option wayland_enable_ime to turn off Input Method Extensions which add latency and create bugs
• Wayland: Fix hide_window_decorations not working on non GNOME desktops
• When asking for quit confirmation because of a running program, mention the program name (#7331)
• Fix flickering of prompt during window resize (#7324)