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After having been sent a vacuum fluorescent display (VFD) based clock for a review, [Anthony Francis-Jones] took the opportunity to explain how these types of displays work.
Although VFDs are generally praised for their very pleasant appearance, they’re also relatively low-power compared to the similar cathode ray tubes. The tungsten wire cathode with its oxide coating produces the electrons whenever the relatively low supply voltage is applied, with a positively charged grid between it and the phosphors on the anode side inducing the accelerating force.
Although a few different digit control configurations exist, all VFDs follow this basic layout. The reason why they’re also called ‘cold cathode’ displays is because the cathode doesn’t heat up nearly as hot as those of a typical vacuum tube, at a mere 650 °C. Since this temperature is confined to the very fine cathode mesh, this is not noticeable outside of the glass envelope.
While LCDs and OLED displays have basically eradicated the VFD market, these phosphor-based displays still readily beat out LCDs when it comes to viewing angles, lack of polarization filter, brightness and low temperature performance, as LC displays become extremely sluggish in cold weather. Perhaps their biggest flaw is the need for a vacuum to work, inside very much breakable glass, as this is usually how VFDs die.
Sur les rives de l’Aber Benoît, dans le Finistère, en région Bretagne, le froid hivernal de ce début d’année 2026 transperce jusqu’aux os, surtout ceux des ouvriers qui opèrent en extérieur alors que le thermomètre affiche – 1° C. Sur l’exploitation ostréicole de Prat-Ar-Coum, dans la commune de Lannilis située à trente kilomètres de Brest, le jour n’est […]
More than 15,000 former members of the UK's armed forces have successfully applied for a digital version of their veterans ID card since its launch in October, according to the Government Digital Service (GDS). …
Il semblerait que la fourchette 65%-75% soit le mieux pour prolonger la durée de vie d'une batterie lithium-ions.
Ah et conseil : n'utilisez pas de charge rapide. Ça fait chauffer la batterie et réduit sa durée de vie.
Si vous avez le temps, utilisez un petit chargeur USB ou même le port USB de votre ordinateur (souvent de faible puissance). (Permalink)
Pour gagner de la place sur mon NAS, j'ai commencé à recompresser certaines vidéos volumineuses en AV1. Ce codec vidéo est vraiment extraordinaire. En gros, je peux - au bas mot - virtuellement doubler le nombre de films que je peux stocker dessus.
Dans cette page vous trouverez la ligne de commande ffmpeg que j'utilise pour ça, ainsi que des exemples concrets de recompression, avec la taille résultante et le temps d'encodage. (Permalink)
Suite à l'annonce de sa grosse restructuration le 21 janvier, l'action Ubisoft a perdu un tiers de sa valeur en quelques heures. Elle valait plus de 100 euros en 2018, elle en vaut moins de cinq aujourd'hui.
Voilà, c'est official, le nouveau Fable sortira cet automne. Rappelons que ce reboot de la franchise, tombée en disgrâce depuis une bonne décennie, sera un jeu de rôle/action en monde ouvert édité par Microsoft et développé par Playground Games, qui a hérité du bébé à la mort du studio original, Lionhead. Lors du Xbox Developer Direct, ils ont ressorti tous les poncifs du genre, notamment l'inévitable « this game is all about choices and consequences » et l'inclusion d'un PNJ-vedette (ici Richard Ayoade de la série télé The IT Crowd), mais le jeu semble relativement mignon et soigné. Surtout, les fans affamés de la franchise peuvent se permettre un peu d'optimisme, puisque Peter Molyneux n'est plus aux commandes (il est parti sur le city builder Masters of Albion, qui sort en avril). A.
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Enoch Burke has once again been jailed after once again refusing to follow a court order by once again lingering around the entrance of the secondary school he was fired from.
The fired school teacher and staunch evangelist was sent back to Mountjoy Jail this week for yet again ignoring the High Court’s instructions to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School in Co Westmeath, Ireland.
Dubbed by a court judge as a “baleful and malign presence”, Mr Burke is believed to have spent a combined 550 days, including two Christmases, in jail, as well as a combined €225,000 (£198,118) in fines.
Enoch Burke. (@DrHaroldNews/Twitter)
He continues to insist that the arrests are over his views on what he describes as “transgenderism”, despite High Court Justice Brian Cregan frequently reminding him that it is over his refusal to abide by the court’s instructions.
So how many times has Enoch Burke been arrested since he was fired from his teaching position in 2022? Here is a full timeline.
June 2022: Enoch Burke’s confrontation with head teacher
In August 2022, Enoch Burke was suspended from his teaching position at Wilson’s Hospital School following a June confrontation with the school’s head teacher over a transgender student’s pronouns.
During a Church service at the boarding school, senior staff announced that the student had begun using they/them pronouns, asking participants to respect the student’s identity.
According to the Irish Independent, Mr Burke, a member of the infamous Christian fundamentalist Burke family, interrupted the service to declare his refusal to use the correct pronouns for the students.
He then pursued and “loudly” questioned the school’s principal, Ms Niamh McShane, over the school’s stance on what he routinely dubs “transgenderism”.
Despite the school’s Board placing him on administrative leave pending the outcome of a disciplinary process, Mr Burke returned to the school grounds the next day, telling staff “I am here to work” and “I am here to attend a meeting”.
August 2022: High Court grants injunction ordering Enoch Burke to stay away from school grounds
Following the incident, a High Court granted Wilson’s Hospital School a preliminary injunction ordering Mr Burke to stay away from school grounds pending the disciplinary judgment.
Solicitor Rosemary Mallon BL sought the injunction on behalf of the school over fears that his refusal to stay away from the school would negatively impact students starting the academic year. A substitute teacher was hired to teach his classes.
High Court justice Siobhán Stack ruled that he could not return to the school’s premises, nor could he teach any classes or students, until the matter returned to the court the following week.
However, Mr Burke ignored the order, attending the school on two separate occasions in early September of that year.
September 2022: Enoch Burke is arrested and jailed for the first time
A further court order was requested by the school over Mr Burke’s refusal to follow the High Court’s instructions, stipulating that he would be jailed for contempt of court should he continue to return to the school.
Justice Miriam O’Regan granted the order and, on 5 September 2022, Mr Burke was arrested and remanded to Mountjoy Prison in Dublin after failing to appear at the High Court earlier that week.
On 7 September, during an enforced appearance before the Court, justice Max Barrett said he would remain in jail until he purges his contempt or until further order of the court.
Mr Burke responded saying he could not purge his contempt by holding his Christian beliefs in contempt, according to RTE. He remained in jail until December 2022.
January 2023: Enoch Burke is fired from Wilson’s Hospital School
Mr Burke was formally dismissed from his teaching role on 20 January 2023 following a disciplinary hearing earlier in the month. Despite this, he continued to return to the school grounds.
After breaching the injunction multiple times in just a few days, he was arrested on trespassing charges. Justice Brian O’Moore ruled that he was to be fined €700 (£611) every day until he purged his contempt. It was said in court that the fine, which amounted to almost €5,000 a week, “should persuade Mr Burke to end his utterly pointless attendance at a school which does not want him on its property”.
During this time, Mr Burke returned to the school gates nearly every single week day for over six months. By February 2023, Mr Burke’s actions had become so frequent that Fred Phelps Jr of the notorious Westboro Baptist Church said that he thought the former teacher had “gone too far”.
The Burke family. (Twitter/@spillaneda)
September 2023: Enoch Burke is jailed for a second time
On 9 September 2023, after breaching the order yet again the previous month, Mr Burke was sent back to Mountjoy Prison for a second time.
Now facing fines of over €140,000 for refusing to purge his contempt, Mr Burke yet again refused to abide by the court order while at a December 2023 hearing. This was the first time Mr Burke spent Christmas in jail.
At this point, Mr Burke’s family had begun regularly interrupting court hearings related to Mr Burke. Footage taken at the time shows members of the Burke family being forcefully dragged outside by Gardaí whilst screaming about “transgenderism”.
Mr Burke wouldn’t be released again until June 2024. During this period, he was allegedly kept isolated from fellow inmates for refusing to stay silent about his Christian fundamentalist beliefs.
June 2024: Enoch Burke is released from jail and reimprisoned for a third time
Just a few weeks after his release from jail in late June 2024, Mr Burke once again returned to the school grounds, entering one of the school’s buildings on one occasion. He was jailed for a third time in September.
Asked again whether he would abide by the order during an October 2024 hearing, Mr Burke once again refused. He was later released in December 2024
November 2025: Enoch Burke, now owing €200,000 in fines, is arrested for a fourth time
By November 2025 Mr Burke had been intermittently in jail for just over 500 days and accumulated over €200,000 in fines.
A High Court judge ordered on 18 November 2025 that he be remanded yet again to Mountjoy Prison for misconduct for refusing to stay away from the school. He once again spent Christmas in jail.
During this time, Justice Cregan described Mr Burke as a “baleful and malign presence” and an “intruder, stalking the school, its teachers, and its pupils”.
January 2026: Enoch Burke is released and jailed in less than a week
In the space of just days, Enoch Burke was released from, and sent back to, Mountjoy Prison for yet again breaching an almost three-year-old court order to stay away from Wilson’s Hospital School.
He was arrested on 19 January and jailed after Justice Cregan said he was satisfied that Mr Burke had once again breached the High Court’s order.
The former teacher has spent approximately 550 total days in prison, has been jailed on five separate occasions, and faces fines of over €225,000 (£198,118).
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Right-wing rage baiters are up in arms following the release of the first Masters of The Universe movie trailer due to one fleeting scene showing He-Man’s, erm, pronouns.
The film follows Mr Adam on his mother’s homeland of Earth, living a seemingly ordinary human life, though he soon realises he must return to his planet of Eternia in order to reconnect with the Sword of Power and become the icon most know him as: He-Man.
Enter Thirty Seconds to Mars frontman and controversial Dallas Buyers Club star Jared Leto as villain Skeletor, whom He-Man must defeat with the help of the remaining warriors on Eternia.
On Thursday (22 January) Amazon MGM Studios dropped the first trailer for one of 2026’s most anticipated movies, featuring Galitzine as the scantily-clad fierce fighter in waiting. It’s a cinematic spectacle wrapped up in two short minutes, featuring explosions, spacecrafts, monsters and of course, an abundance of sword fights.
Yet despite the visual feast, rage baiters have fixated on one brief moment where Adam, still enduring his average Joe human life, has his name and pronouns, he/him, written on a placard on his desk at his office job.
Though it’s obviously a tongue-in-cheek nod to Adam’s future title of He-Man, some have let the joke go way over their heads.
“Now they’re making a Masters of the Universe and giving He-man pronouns. These people won’t stop until they ruin everything,” wrote one author on a book about “Christian values” on X, formerly Twitter.
“They’re giving He-Man pronouns,” another user responded, drolly pointing out the obvious joke. Mercifully, the smart reply has received more than 150,000 ‘likes’ on the platform.
“New Masters of The Universe movie is going to be woke garbage,” another winged.
Another lamented the film for featuring “forced diversity”, as a fourth promised that there is “no chance” they would be “wasting [their] money on this pathetic c**p,” adding, and we quote: “Go wike go broke.”
Thankfully, hundreds of other social media users are pointing out the very clear joke in including He-Man’s pronouns in the trailer.
‘He-Man. His name is He-Man. They’re not giving him pronouns in 2026. He literally is a sword-wielding pronoun. That’s the gag here,” one user wrote.
“They have ruined He-man by giving He-man pronouns do you even hear yourself his name is literally a pronoun please calm down,” a second urged.
In addition to Nicholas Galtzine and Jared Leto, Masters of The Universe will star Camila Mendes, Alison Brie, Idris Elba, Morena Baccarin, Jóhannes Haukur Jóhannesson, Sasheer Zamata, James Purefoy, and Charlotte Riley.
Masters of The Universe will be released on 5 June 2026.
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