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How to configure Synology Active Insights

Synology Active Insight service is a dedicated web portal that seamlessly monitors the health, performance, and security of multiple hosts under your Synology Account. In this article, we shall discuss How to configure Synology Active Insights. Active Insights provides proactive monitoring with real-time alerts and self-help steps to troubleshoot any anomalies that arise. Please see Fix AirDrop…

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**URGENT** HELP SAVE THE USGS BEE LAB!

PLEASE circulate this as widely as possible, as soon as possible.

Hi all, you may not know me but I am a native bee researcher in the eastern US. People like me work to study and protect the 3600 species of native bees in North America, many of which are in severe decline.

We just received devastating news, that unfortunately was not surprising. The Trump administration's proposed 2026 budget is set to defund most of the ecological research happening at the USGS, and that includes zeroing out the budget for the USGS Native Bee Inventory & Monitoring Lab.

Don't know them? Maybe you've seen stunning photos like this:

These gorgeous and evocative focus-stacked photos of native bees on black backgrounds - all of which are public domain - come from the USGS Bee Lab (here's their Flickr). Through these, they've helped bring the beauty and importance of native bees to the public's attention. Hundreds if not thousands of news articles, videos, and publications use these photos.

But that is just one tiny slice of what the USGS Bee Lab does for pollinator conservation. Its primary role is much bigger; they provide technical support, research collaborations, and financial & grant partnerships to federal and state agencies, academic institutions and researchers, and much more, so we can study, manage, and protect North America's wild pollinators. They conduct research of their own that has led to species rediscoveries, and produce invaluable resources that have greatly advanced our understanding of wild bees and our approaches to studying and conserving them. They also provide the essential and irreplaceable service of bee identification. For those who don't know, identifying bees is hard. Sometimes Really Hard. And this lab is one of just a handful of places in the entire country who can identify some of the toughest groups of bees, and who sit on the forefront of breakthroughs on taxonomy and identification that the rest of us in this field rely on. Without this service, agencies and researchers trying to survey and monitor bees in order to track population declines, manage land, and get policy changed are stuck with a lot of nameless bees, severely limiting the usefulness of that data.

Tens of thousands, if not hundreds of thousands, of bee specimens pass through this lab annually, plus the thousands in permanent storage, from long-term monitoring efforts by state and federal agencies, and researchers like myself. They operate at a greater capacity than basically any other institution doing this kind of work. Few if any bee researchers in the eastern US, or even the country, have not benefitted from this lab's work, and those benefits are passed on to you through being able to protect pollinators and the services they provide both in agriculture and ecosystems.

This lab is headed up by scientist Sam Droege, who has dedicated decades of his life to this cause, and whom I consider not just a research partner but, humbly, a friend. I am utterly indebted to him for helping me get my start in this field, and for the support and kindness he has shown me and every other young professional who is passionate about pollinators. The Lab operates with an insanely small budget already, and a very limited staff, yet the impact they have is exponentially outsized. Losing the USGS Bee Lab would be a devastating blow to pollinator conservation in this country, at a time when native bee species are sitting on the precipice, and sustainable agriculture is non-negotiable for our future.

You can read more about the Bee Lab here. The Lab is not well-publicized, but it's a lifeline for the many dedicated people who work to try and protect pollinators and the environment at large.

SO WHAT CAN YOU DO?

Sam Droege has sent out a request for help, and has encouraged us to post on social media. This is what he wants you to do to help us save the Bee Lab.

This is verbatim:

What is Happening: ·       The USGS Bee Lab is at risk of being permanently closed due to cuts in the 2026 Federal Budget and looming federal RIF’s ·       Specifically, the Ecosystem Mission Area (EMA) budget, which funds the USGS Bee Lab and the Eastern Ecological Science center has been zeroed out ·       Thousands of layoffs to hit Interior, National Parks imminently - Government Executive What you can do ·       Write to your representatives, the White House, and the Department of the Interior that they should restore the funding for the USGS Bee Lab ·       Send digital or physical letters, write emails, post to social media What you should be highlighting: ·       Personal anecdotes about how the Bee Lab has impacted you or your organization ·       How important the research the Bee Lab is conducting is to your state Contact Information: 1.      Representatives: Find Your Representative | house.gov 2.      Senators: U.S. Senate: Contacting U.S. Senators 3.      White House: Contact Us – The White House 4.      Interior: feedback@ios.doi.gov Send a copy of the letter to droegesam@gmail.com Pass this email around.  Post your response to social media

IT'S OK if you are not a scientist and have not directly interacted with the Bee Lab. Have you seen the lab's photos? Are you concerned about native pollinator declines? Are you aware of any pollinator conservation initiatives or policies in your own state - those almost certainly have drawn, directly or indirectly, from work the Lab has done. Speak about American food production and agriculture, how the Lab's research and collaborations are essential to safeguarding pollination services (this might help reach across the aisle).

Sam urges that these letters, emails, phone calls, etc, must happen quickly - within the next couple days. This information went out on May 8th and that is the day I am posting this. So please, don't wait.

If 'save the bees' has ever meant anything to you, this is the agency that is playing one of the biggest roles in this country in making that happen. Please, contact your representatives, and pass this call to action along however you can. Thank you.

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[ENG] Love and Deepspace PC tutorial

When I wrote the original tutorial, I didn't notice the emulator was available in English too! It can be downloaded on their official website.

https://www.mumuplayer.com/en/games/simulation/love-and-deepspace-on-pc.html

Mumu is an officially licensed emulator for Love and Deepspace. What the emulator does essentially is to host the game on a computer. Other games can also run on this emulator, such as MLQC, Nikki series, Arknights, Genshin etc...

Availability: Windows, Mac

Recommended configuration: CPU 4-core + RAM 4G+ System i5+ Graphics Card GTX750Ti+

Game size: 20-30 GB

The instructions on the website appears to be quite clear, I am assuming it's more or less the same as the Chinese one. I suggest looking up if your computer supports VT first before downloading the emulator.

It should be fairly straight forward once VT is enabled in BIOS. If the instructions on the mumu website is unclear, find a tutorial on google/youtube for your PC type, try looking up "how to enable virtualization in bios".

Any questions feel free to drop me an ask with images ദ്ദി(˵ •̀ ᴗ •́ ˵ ) ✧

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tbh we make fun of mattress on the floor too much. it's not the best, but it's perfectly functional for sleeping and if i had a limited furniture budget i would absolutely be spending it on other things

the real problem is that my mattress is currently on the floor in the living room next to the cat tree, so my cat keeps vaulting off my legs in the middle of the night to scramble up the cat tree just that little bit faster :/

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Fortune

[gales-big-naturals]

Getting violently angry with Microsoft Onedrive because it’s easier to laser focus on that than be generally angry with everything in the entire world

[dyna-myght]

🥹I finally got one. I got a vinyl of Pink Floyd’s The Wall. I’m legit so happy w this.

[stupidpop]

My mom's reaction to my new computer

[yelenaa-romanova]

Girls don't want boys. Girls want a new gaming pc with endless storage and fast internet and a fancy neon-lit set up.

[druidgroves]

purchased a new desk as a christmas present 4 myself im so excited

[androideql-deactivated20210312]

i deserve a new monitor and ssd, why not

[malhare-archive]

[Boots up my new, clean slate pc] [Downloads Steam] [Downloads every fnaf game]

[chronal-anomaly]

How does this

Become this

Become this???

[shawcl]

got myself a second portable monitor to work from home bc my laptop's so small and??? it could’ve been so simple the whole time????

[mistress-light]

I'm just so happy with the 4k footage. ;A;

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ignoring that it’s not super straight look how nicely I just so happened to place my gamer strip lights