Analysis: "Netflix’s Removal of Palestinian Films adds to the Erasure of Palestine"

"Netflix faces calls for a boycott after it removed its “Palestinian Stories” collection this October. This includes approximately 24 films."

juancole.com/2024/12/resistanc…

#Palestine #Censorship #NetflixCensorship #USPol .

"Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang province.

There is no isotope irradiation test function module in the original design architecture of the pressurised heavy water reactor (PHWR), People's Daily reported. It said this meant that the Qinshan project team needed to create a special device that could seamlessly embed the isotope irradiation test function and is compatible with the existing design of the reactor, as a core irradiation test platform. It noted medical isotopes are mostly short-half-life isotopes, which require the rapid loading and unloading of irradiation test targets during the normal operation of the reactor.

"After repeated adjustments, the project team and the design institute finally designed a prototype of the device concept," People's Daily said. The isotope irradiation test platform reportedly has the ability to automatically load and unload isotope irradiation targets online.

"During the debugging and verification process of the device, it underwent thousands of action tests, which fully verified the reliability of the device," People's Daily said. "On 3 April 2023, the National Nuclear Safety Administration officially approved Qinshan Nuclear Power to use the irradiation test device to conduct yttrium-90 irradiation tests. On 23 April, the project team continued to work for nearly 120 hours during the overhaul of Qinshan No.3 Plant, successfully completing the device installation, cold commissioning and system identification operations. On 14 December, with the first yttrium-90 target successfully unloaded from the reactor, the hot test of the device was successfully completed."

The report noted that this marks the official completion of the first commercial reactor isotope research and development platform in China.

"The platform has successfully realised the research and development and production of short-half-life medical isotopes for domestic commercial reactors, opening up a new path for the localisation of medical isotopes and the development of radioactive drugs," it added. "In the future, Qinshan Nuclear Power will continue to deepen the production of reactor-irradiated isotope irradiation, and contribute to the independent and controllable supply of medical isotopes and the expansion of diversified applications of nuclear technology in China."

China National Nuclear Corporation's Qinshan comprises seven reactors, making it China's largest nuclear power plant. Construction of Phase I of the plant - a 300 MWe pressurised water reactor (PWR) which was the first indigenously-designed Chinese nuclear power station to be built - began in 1985, with the unit entering commercial operation in 1994. Qinshan Phase II is home to four operating CNP-600 PWRs, built with a high degree of localisation. Units 1 and 2, comprising the first stage of Phase II, began operating in 2002 and 2004, respectively. Units 3 and 4 entered commercial operation in October 2010 and April 2021. Phase III consists of two 750 MWe pressurised heavy water reactors supplied by Atomic Energy of Canada Ltd and commissioned in 2002 and 2003.

In April this year, CNNC announced that the Qinshan plant has started mass production at one of its PHWRs of carbon-14, which is used in medical and scientific research and in fields including agriculture and chemistry as well as in medicine and biology. Apart from very limited production in experimental reactors, it was previously imported."

#Nuclear #News #China

world-nuclear-news.org/article…

Qinshan plant set to increase production of isotopes

Testing has been completed of a device for carrying out irradiation tests of various radioisotopes - such as yttrium-90 - at the two pressurised heavy water reactors that make up Phase III of the Qinshan nuclear power plant in China's Zhejiang provin…

^{World Nuclear News}

Adelantados a su época: Comprimidos de Lactobacilina: Tratamiento de las Enfermedades Gastro-Intestinales

Visto en El Museo del Objeto, CDMX

#MODO #Mexico #CDMX

I did some testing with zlib-ng, which Fedora and Arch are already using as a replacement for the original zlib and Debian plans to as well, and I'm not happy with what I found.

[...] With the original zlib, you will always get an identical output stream given the same input stream and compressor parameters [...] I expected that zlib-ng would often produce a different output steam than the original, but what I found was a lot more non-deterministic than just that.

With zlib-ng, feeding the data into the compressor in e.g. 1024-byte chunks always gave me a different output stream than using 4096-byte chunks [...] In fact, every chunk size I tried gave a different output. And that's with fixed size chunks, which is not a given if you're handling e.g. a stream of input.

Even using the same buffer size, I cannot get an identical compressed output stream with Python and Java any more [...]

lists.debian.org/debian-devel/…

#ReproducibleBuilds

Hmm I don't know, that might be more difficult than solving a typical captcha.

To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good it.slashdot.org/story/24/12/16…

To Log Into WordPress, You Now Have To Agree Pineapple on Pizza Is Good - Slashdot

WordPress co-founder and CEO of Automattic Matt Mullenweg is trolling contributors and users of the WordPress open-source project by requiring them to check a box that says "Pineapple is delicious on pizza.

^{it.slashdot.org}

Another week, another new & unsettling recipe for making a computational sausage. Today it was this massive text file enumerating how every button and axis from every known gamepad is reported on every known platform in order to map them to a standard taxonomy:

github.com/mdqinc/SDL_GameCont…

I guess I should have known that ultimately it must boil down to this...

SDL_GameControllerDB/gamecontrollerdb.txt at master · mdqinc/SDL_GameControllerDB

A community sourced database of game controller mappings to be used with SDL2 Game Controller functionality - mdqinc/SDL_GameControllerDB

^GitHub

Not directly NVDA related, but something many of us can relate to: "Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision" abc.net.au/news/2024-12-15/onl…

#Shopping #OnlineShopping #News #Accessibility #A11y #ScreenReader #Blind

Why online shopping isn't so fun for those who are blind or have low vision

Next time you're scrolling for bargains online, consider the half a million Australians who don't find shopping on the web fun or simple, writes Nas Campanella.

^{Nas Campanella (ABC News)}

I have written literally millions of words on @tedium , and yet this one boilerplate line on every page of the site is the best thing I’ve ever written.

#SEO

Was browsing Amazon for a book on British Fungi earlier (just browsing, fuck them).

Now I'm not sure what material this book is made of, or how previous owners have used it, but the product warning seems a bit alarming.

suddenly hacker news starts discussing my three year old blog post on HTTP/3...

news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4…