I noticed recently that /c/acecombat is currently without any moderators, and so would like to request for either myself or one of the other active community members (like @Gaxsun@lemmy.zip) to be made a moderator in case we need to clean anything up. Thanks in advance.

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A chimeric citrus that should have greatly improved hardiness. Are there other fruits where this could have merit? They will need to be graft compatible and have species with differing hardiness. Also, they would need to have fruit that develop from different parts of the meristem than the rest of the plant. This is true with citrus but I have no idea for other plant groups.

I haven’t checked graft compatibility for all of these but here are some preliminary ideas of species that could have their cold hardiness improved with this technique:

Peaches: apparently only minor hardiness differences for some varieties, so likely not with the effort.

Almonds: early blooming might be problematic. Hardiness difference with other stone fruit is about 10F, so there is some benefit here.

Avocados: apparently quite narrow graft compatibility, only grafts with closely related species from similar environments. I couldn’t find much information on their environmental tolerances but it does not seem promising.

Black sapote or other tropical Diospyros: so many species here and most are not well tested, but apparently black sapote (hardy to 28F) is graft compatible with the very hardy American persimmon (-25F). This is a stunning 50 degree difference although it seems unlikely a chimera would be quite this hardy. What would happen with a chimera between an evergreen and deciduous species? Would dormancy, important for frost protection, be disrupted? American persimmon is also fairly heat and drought tolerant. This is the most promising yet, though having never tried black sapote, I don’t know if it’s worth the effort.

Tropical figs? Are any worth eating?

Mulberries—a few more tropical varieties exist

Any others that come to mind?

Could this technique also improve drought and heat tolerance?

“It’s a good organization, it’s well-meaning, but it's not well-equipped,” Barrack told The National in an interview. “Because who are they going to fight? We’re gonna arm them so they can fight Israel? I don’t think so. So, you’re arming them so they can fight their own people. Hezbollah.”

US President Donald Trump delivered a fascist rant Tuesday to the 80th session of the United Nations General Assembly in which he proclaimed “America First” should be the world’s organizing principle, threatened war and aggression the world over, and lionized the criminal actions of his administration at home and abroad.

He attacked both America’s ostensible allies and states long in Washington’s military-strategic crosshairs in a meandering speech that lasted almost triple his allotted time.

Trump reveled in displaying his disdain and contempt for international law, making clear that Washington will accept no restraints on the ruthless assertion of its imperialist interests, whether through trade war, assassinations, regime-change operations or global war.

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Chinese-origin tech workers are abandoning the American dream and returning home, where state-led incentives and ambition are plentiful.

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Hello, I am a guy that makes a funny rhythm game called Project Heartbeat. I'm based in Spain.

Recently, I got a home server, and decided to throw in a status report software on it that would notify me through a telegram channel whenever my game's server is unreachable.

Ever since then I've noticed my game's server is seemingly unplayable at times, which was strange because as far as I could tell the server was fine, and I could even see it accepting requests in the log.

Then it hit me: I use cloudflare

Turns out, the Spanish football league (LaLiga) has been given special rights by the courts to ask ISPs to block any IPs they see fit, and the ISPs have to comply. This is not a DNS block, otherwise my game wouldn't be affected, it's an IP block.

When there's a football match on (I'm told) they randomly ban cloudflare IP ranges.

Indeed every single time I've seen the server go down from my telegram notifications I've jumped on discord and asked my friends, who watch football, if there's a match on. And every single time there was one.

Wild.

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If you see a message in a different language, you can now simply long-press and tap ‘Translate’. Choose the language you want the message to be translated from or to, and download it to be saved for future translations. This works for 1:1 chats, groups, and Channel updates too.

We're rolling out message translations to Android and iPhone users gradually from today, in a few select languages to start with more to follow. Android users will find it available in six languages: English, Spanish, Hindi, Portuguese, Russian, and Arabic. For our iPhone users, the feature will launch in 19+ languages.

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There’s no such thing as a complete vacuum. Even in the cosmic void between galaxies, there’s an estimated density of about one hydrogen or helium atom per cubic meter. But these estimates are largely theoretical—no one has yet launched a sensor into intergalactic space and beamed back the result. On top of that, we have no means of measuring vacuums that low.

At least, not yet.

Researchers are now developing a new vacuum-measurement tool that may be able to detect lower densities than any existing techniques can. This new quantum sensor uses individual atoms, cooled to just shy of absolute zero, to serve as targets for stray particles to hit. These atom-based vacuum measurers can detect lower atomic concentrations than ever before, and they don’t require calibration, making them a good candidate to serve as a standard.

Turn the volume down.

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