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Moon dust. Regolith is pretty dark against the suit or skin.
Re:Ask HN: “lofi” File Share for personal, team usage on Sunday September 04, 2022 @11:28AM (#32714057)
Hetzner has hosted NextCloud, starting at ~5€/month for 1TB. Just works.

https://www.hetzner.com/storage/storage-share

Re:Japan to start jailing people for online insults on Thursday July 07, 2022 @08:26PM (#32021497)
It was more like „you’re such a wiener“. The most harmless way of referring to a penis. Pimmelgate made it to Wikipedia.
Re:Large-scale ‘sand battery’ goes online in Finland on Thursday July 07, 2022 @07:38PM (#32021121)
It’s not a truck.
I found the visual programming provided by the BBC micro:bit very approachable. Try it in the online simulator, then get a board for $10.

This provides a drag and drop interface for loops and variables and makes LEDs blink nicely.

Also makes it super easy to switch to the js or python representation of the visual program.

Tried it with a 7 year old. She got it I think.