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https://www.electricaltechnology.org/2018/08/electrical-shock-hazards-its-effects-on-human-body.html When working with or nearby electrical installations an electrical shock, arc flash or arc blast can occur and a current can go through the body, due to the following situations: Direct contact with live parts of the installation (exposure to live parts) Contact with parts that normally are not live, but as a consequence →

In Greece the standard mains power voltage is 230 V and frequency is 50 Hz. The power plugs and sockets are of type C and F. This is same that are used in Finland, so I did not need any traver adapters (that often have questionable safety). This is interesting wiring at hotel – proper →

https://www.linuxjournal.com/content/arduino-command-line-break-free-gui-git-and-vim Love Arduino but hate the GUI? Try arduino-cli. This article explores a new tool released by the Arduino team that can free you from the existing Java-based Arduino graphical user interface. There have been a couple attempts to break out Arduino to the command line, but most failed to get wide support. However, now →

European’s own satellite navigation system has been down for days. It shouldn’t cause any serious issue but must be annoying for anybody that has something to do with this 10 billion Euro EU project. I saw first notes on this on following article (Note that the Galileo system is still very new and not as →

This week seems to have many news related to 50 years of Apollo 11 spaceflight. Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC. Moon is not just history. Today, a new rush of enthusiasm for lunar exploration has swept up →

For World Emoji Day, the Unicode Consortium redesigns its site to be more user-friendly | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2019/07/17/for-world-emoji-day-the-unicode-consortium-redesigns-its-site-to-be-more-user-friendly/ The World Emoji Day is on Wednesday, July 17. For it Apple and Google had announced plans to bring an expanded set of emoji to their respective platforms. The Unicode Consortium, the nonprofit organization responsible for determining which →

Is 5G completely safe and secure? Is 5G radiation more or less dangerous than currently used 2G/3G/4G? Just read this article and advice also other people to read (including two earler articles referenced). It tries to cover both the sides that say 5G is safe and 5G could potentially dangerous. But does it succeed in →

Looks like Facebook & WhatsApp CDNs have been at least partially down. For example Facebook images are not showing. Just fee days ago Cloudflare was down. And also Google has taken a bite? Is it an outage season in US that affects peole all over world? Who broke all the social networks? So far there →

Scandinavia’s first 5G phone was sold to a Finnish customer today in Helsinki. Telecom operator Elisa CEO gave the ZTE Axon 10 Pro 5G smartphone to the customer. Source: Yle news https://yle.fi/uutiset/3-10860384 →

https://www.monkeyuser.com/2019/bug-free/ Fix your software to be bug-free! →