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Random Astro package of the week is gyoto. Gyoto is a framework for computing geodesics in curved space-times. The gyoto utility program uses this framework to compute images of astronomical objects in the vicinity of compact objects (e.g. black-holes). Such images are distorted by strong gravitational lensing. The gyoto program takes a scenery description in XML format, computes this scenery using relativistic ray-tracing,
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Blog post: What Guix could offer in computational medical environments?

French national agency for secure drug and medicine (ANSM) requires for a medical device to have unambiguous identifications:

1. reference of the product
2. reference of the maker
3. serial number

Well, through my lenses applied to software, it reads:

1. identifier ()
2.

and 3. is redundant. 😁

Well, a quick summary of a 30min talk I gave past week.

Thanks my previous colleague Sam from APHP to give me the opportunity to brainstorm on this topic. 🤩

https://simon.tournier.info/posts/2025-06-04-aphp-guix.html

With all the distros of Linux and versions of Godot and my knowing little about either, i've a curious situation & wouldn't know who to turn to for help. So initially I'm here on Masto. 🤗
Suddenly every time I load any version of Godot 4 it crashes upon starting new project. I say 'suddenly' but it could be since Mint updates. Its the Debian 12 version of Mint. Might anyone be experiencing similar?

Random Astro package of the week is iraf-xdimsum. XDIMSUM is a package for creating accurate sky subtracted images from sets of dithered observations. While the observations need not be in the infrared, the dominance of the variable sky background in infrared data requires the dithering and recombination of many short carefully sky subtracted exposures to produce deep images.

https://github.com/iraf-community/iraf-xdimsum

is the missing tool for . It enhances security by intelligently managing when it should be used.

It integrates with the fprintd daemon and a dynamic PAM module to prevent login issues.

Set to be included in 22.2, it enables authentication for login screens, sudo commands, and admin tasks.

The tool is Free software under the GPLv3+ license and provides an for easy installation.

Fing with screenshot showing fingerprints acquisition

So I don't really understand this at all. I just (somehow) realised the time on my computer is wrong by 4 minutes.

I was thinking that the RTC keeps time until the button battery dies.

I have a OS and have the time-zone set correctly but it is just 4 minutes out 0_o

WHY??!?!?

edit: Just had to install NTP lol

Random Astro package of the week is iraf-wcstools. WCSTools is a set of software utilities, written in C, which create, display and manipulate the world coordinate system of a FITS or IRAF image, using specific keywords in the image header which relate pixel position within the image to position on the sky. Auxiliary programs search star catalogs and manipulate images.

This package contains the IRAF package.
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systems are not just something for power users. My 78 year old mother has used a desktop system for 20 years since she retired from an MS Windows office job. No, she hasn't done the install herself. No she hasn't fixed major problems herself. But, also she never did those things with Windows either. FAI will reimage a machine faster than you can debug some stupid problem. A bootable live USB can be enough fallback to get you in remotely to fix something fully broken.