AMSAT-OSCAR 7: the Ham Satellite That Refused to Die
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AMSAT-OSCAR 7: The Ham Satellite That Refused To Die
When the AMSAT-OSCAR 7 (AO-7) amateur radio satellite was launched in 1974, its expected lifespan was about five years. The plucky little satellite made it to 1981 when a battery failure caused it …Hackaday
Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm
AI search startup Perplexity hopes to buy TikTok’s U.S operations.Kylie Robison (The Verge)
Boston Dynamics' Atlas can run and cartwheel like a human now - and it's stunning
Atlas has breakdance moves too. See for yourself.Artie Beaty (ZDNET)
What could possibly go wrong? DOGE to rapidly rebuild Social Security codebase.
A safe and proper rewrite should take years not months.WIRED (Ars Technica)
Ich darf mal ins Archiv meiner Stifte von 2020 greifen.
Those of you desiring to set their clocks: An excellent standard to set them to is displayed in your browser window if you navigate to
Select "Δt" for an estimate (with error boundaries) how far off your local computer clock is.
This is straight from "Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt", which is the German one of the government offices from all over the world that are cooperating to keep time for humanity.
Unfortunately, this is not accessible, far as I can tell.
Portrait of Yosemite Falls
One thing you will never see on a busy summer day in Yosemite Valley is the frozen beard that develops over night as the mist from the falls gets blown against the granite and freezes against the side of the cliffs that make up Yosemite Valley.
Another thing that you may never see in the summer is an empty hiking path to the base of Yosemite Falls.
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#PortraitOfYosemiteFalls #BillGallagherPhotography #YosemiteFalls #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt
Portrait of Yosemite Falls by Bill Gallagher
Portrait of Yosemite Falls Photograph by Bill GallagherPixels
Hab ne neue Serie gestartet: #Tesla Fans im Faktencheck.
Darin nehme ich mir nun regelmaessig einen Youtube-Kanal aus der Blase vor und aktiviere den "Flood the zone with facts"-Filter.
Da kommt noch einiges. Viel Spass und gerne teilen. Danke 🙏
Tesla Fans im Faktencheck #1 - "Tesla Fakten"
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Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk
From Australia to Europe and the US, demonstrators rallied against carmaker’s dismantling of US federal governmentDara Kerr (The Guardian)
Protests hit Tesla dealerships across the world in challenge to Elon Musk
From Australia to Europe and the US, demonstrators rallied against carmaker’s dismantling of US federal governmentDara Kerr (The Guardian)
Hard to overstate how much of an own goal all of this is.
Policy uncertainty is spiking as a direct result of erratic Trump moves.
Goldman has now downgraded Q1 growth projections from 1.8% almost weekly to 0.6%, as a direct result of this policy uncertainty due to erratic Trump moves.
Turkish opposition rallies in defence of jailed Istanbul mayor in mass protest
Hundreds of thousands gather for Ekrem İmamoğlu outside Istanbul centre in move to keep momentum after clashes with policeRuth Michaelson (The Guardian)
Neuer Vorschlag für Waffenruhe im Gazastreifen
Israel und der Terrororganisation Hamas liegt ein neuer Vorschlag für eine Waffenruhe vor: 50 Tage soll sie dauern und weitere sollen Geiseln freikommen. Doch noch ist keine Einigung in Sicht. Israel weitet indes seinen Bodeneinsatz im Gazastreifen aus.
From #GeoffreyColon via #LinkedIn
The future is collaborative in a sea of ignorant hustle individualism where you must eat or be eaten at all costs.
Language from many these days when trying to educate others is riddled with fear, being cast out and being dropped off on a deserted island. A lot of this shows these people don’t care about anybody but yourself.
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The future is collaborative in a sea of ignorant hustle individualism… | Geoffrey Colon
The future is collaborative in a sea of ignorant hustle individualism where you must eat or be eaten at all costs. Language from many these days when trying…Geoffrey Colon (www.linkedin.com)
Be cautious of taking courses or requesting manuals from people who post stuff like:
“You’re gonna be left behind.”
“You will never catch up.”
“You’re not hustling hard enough.”
“If you don’t adapt you will die.”
This shows that it’s on you the individual to make the choice or that you won’t find the future.
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But better language is:
“I’ll make sure you aren’t left behind.”
“We can all evolve as humans to learn.”
“Let’s conquer as a group.”
“If we can’t adapt, let’s change the rules of the game.”
We need more collective journeys, less “I’m a solopreneur building the first trillion dollar business alone.”
We’re all in this together.
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Gokuraku Paradise Theater (1994-10) : BNN (Bug News Network) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
See the TEXT download for a plain text listing of the disc contents.The disc filesystem is HFS Standard.If you find something of interest on this disc please...Internet Archive
Just opened up my laptop to change the RAM and found a surprise spicy pillow in progress.
I guess my partner is buying me a new battery for my birthday.
(Yes, I'm also going to give it a clean.)
Find a construction site that's driving piles and ask them if they want to destroy a computer. ;)
Send video.
Meanwhile, yours is the second problematic HP laptop I've encountered today, and I'm not in the PC support business. I now know a fellow in Italy who would like to join you in a hammer party. The difference being that he asked me about it before buying it and I told him he'd be sorry. He pinged me to say he should have listened.
Latest observations from the CryoSat-2/SMOS merged satellite product show thicker ice north of Greenland compared to last year, but also thinner ice near Svalbard and the Barents Sea. This spatial pattern could have implications for the coming melt season.
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Arctic: Sea-Ice Thickness/Volume
My visualizations: Arctic Climate Seasonality and Variability Arctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentration Arctic Sea Ice Volume and Thickness Arctic Temperatures Antarctic Sea Ice Extent and Concentrat…Zachary Labe
Has Just Stop Oil really stopped throwing soup?
Just Stop Oil says it will disband but does this mark an end to the chaos caused by its climate protests?Justin Rowlatt (BBC News)
Yes, SIR! Whatever you say, SIR!🫡
“White House Correspondents’ Association cancels comedian headliner for annual dinner
The decision comes after White House deputy chief of staff Taylor Budowich attacked the association for planning to spotlight Ruffin, who has been critical of the administration” politico.com/news/2025/03/29/w…
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Beeping, "ding" noises, various one off sound effects, forget that. Give me ambient-grade chord progressions for work that's going well. Switch to a minor key for degraded performance. Other programs can chime in with complementary instruments if they're working at the same time. Give me broken chords or discordance on error. What Linux really needs is an audio library with some real symphonic ambition.
Had a mail server that used to crash for reasons unknown every few days. As part of diagnosis, I made a monitor that would check status every 5 minutes and either play chirping burds if everything was healthy, or breaking glass if it wasn't, so I could do other things but be aware of the status.
When I started a site that did paid access, I added a cash register sound whenever a credit card was successfully charged, and our CFO used to sit in the datacenter on a stool giggling every time it went off.
I do cloud now, but there was something to be said about sitting right next to the stack. You could hear when things changed. Maybe I need to make something subtle that tells me about wifi traffic...
@tbortels you're familiar with Natalie Jeremijenko's dangling string, written up by Mark Weiser, from the Xerox PARC days?
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(I had to dig up that URL by grep'ing a tarball of my 90s blog because web searching does not work anymore. Yeesh.)
like the Huygens probe sonification as it descended through the atmosphere of Titan..
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NASA - Huygens Probe Mission - Decent Camera
This movie, built with data collected during the European Space Agency's Huygens probe on Jan. 14, 2005, shows the operation of the Descent Imager/Spectral R...YouTube
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📷 Fujifilm XT-5
#fujiFilm #fuji #sooc #photography #fotografie #730Project #dailyPhoto #obxPhoto #architecturephotography #architecture #urbanphotography
That's Right!
Not a SINGLE house would have the invaders.
THAT is what you get for being an asshole.
some MPs had been “semi-witting or witting” dupes of foreign powers attempting to interfere in Canadian politics. While heavily redacted, the NSICOP report pointed a finger directly at foreign-funded Canadian news media
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h/t @Npars01
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#CDNPoli #Canada #Politics #Media #PostMedia #NewsMedia
Here’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our media
Postmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politica…canadiandimension.com
the worst traitors of all may actually be in our own news media. “While allegations of interference involving elected officials have dominated public and media discourse, the reality is that misinformation and disinformation pose an even greater threat to democracy,” wrote Justice Marie-Josée Hogue in her long-awaited report on the subject that was released this past week in no fewer than seven volumes. “Some spread disinformation about candidates and elected officials who express views that diverge from their own interests. Their goal is to try and prevent these candidates from getting elected, and to affect policy choices and positions.”
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#CDNPoli #Canada #Politics #Media #PostMedia #NewsMedia
Here’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our media
Postmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politica…canadiandimension.com
Postmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politically. We are thus in effect paying foreign-owned media to feed us propaganda
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#CDNPoli #Canada #Politics #Media #PostMedia #NewsMedia
Here’s one easy trick to combat foreign political interference in our media
Postmedia has largely replaced local news coverage with paid content, including a long-running campaign for the Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers, and under new CEO Andrew Macleod ordered its editors to hew even harder to the right politica…canadiandimension.com
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I was excited to go to the @fediforum on Tuesday.
But today I learned that one of the organizers, Kaliya "Identity Woman" Young, is a big ol' transphobe.
Evidence that she's an organizer:
fediforum.org/about/
Evidence that she's a transphobe is in the next toot in this thread.
For a community like the Fediverse to succeed, it needs to be welcoming. It cannot have as a leader someone who poses a danger to a vulnerable constituency.
Edit: She's out: j12t.social/@j12t/114251819679…
Johannes Ernst (@j12t@j12t.social)
In the past day or so, it was pointed out that my FediForum co-organizer has made some public statements that are incompatible with the kind of community we want to bring together at FediForum, and that I personally disagree with.Johannes' Mastodon place
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Oops clicked the wrong button.
I see references to a GIS and a FEG which makes me think it's a dual beam.
US: Be Seen, Be Loud: Rallies Nationwide Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility
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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA
Be Seen, Be Loud: Rallies Nationwide Celebrate Trans Day of Visibility
Trans people, families and allies are rallying across the country on Monday, Trans Day of Visibility, and over the weekend as well. Show up and stand up! It’s never been more important.Assigned
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Lady Izdihar on escapism and revolutionary optimism
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Cosplay & Radicalizing at Comic-Con
"What is escapism, if not imagining a better world?"Let's talk about how we can combine Fandom, cosplay and escapism in general with actual class consciousne...YouTube
FediMeteo Brasil - Atualizações Meteorológicas para Cidades do Brasil
FediMeteo - Obtenha atualizações meteorológicas locais para cidades do Brasil diretamente no Fediverso (Mastodon, etc.).br.fedimeteo.com
Nice! By recommendation from @sknob I set up an account on Bandwagon.fm and, what can I say: first impression’s very good!
I’ve only uploaded one song so far, “Remember Paris” which I released ten months ago.
If you’re interested, here’s the link:
bandwagon.fm/@babumenos
#Music #Pop #PopMusic #NewRelease
I can't share, because NDA, but our led pads have lots more copper...until they don't because physical constraints.
mama muscovy still nexting today .... any time now 🤞
I'm having ISP & wifi issues and might not be online much until a replacement on Tuesday
I appreciate that so many are calling the "replace SSA COBOL systems in months using AI" idea out for the risk and difficulty inherent in replacing such a large and entrenched system.
We should also do a better job of articulating a key danger, which I'm sure the people expecting to pull this off don't understand: COBOL handles numbers and arithmetic in a way designed to maintain precision that is not supported natively by modern languages.
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The problem comes when you treat the people who’s lives will be greatly affected by the results of crashing through such a migration blindly as ‘rounding errors’.
Move fast and break things is maybe ok when the product is a social media platform, not when people’s lives depend on it.
The Big Picture | Substack
The Big Picture provides a deep dive into the cultural, political, and societal issues shaping our world today, from a variety of unique perspectives. Click to read The Big Picture, a Substack publication.buff.ly
29 March 1943 | The Germans shot in #Auschwitz a Polish woman, Janina Klatt. She was a teacher and an underground activist involved in secret teaching and helping prisoners of the camp.
She was arrested in Katowice in November 1942 and after three months deported to Auschwitz.
Not finished listening yet, but thr new Lamp of Murmuur (near as damn it) EP is moody, sensory, and includes a C93 cover, which definitely leans into the overall stylistic theme
Karl Auerbach
in reply to Glyn Moody • • •I worked around early Atlas models when I was working with the DARPA Robotics Challenge (both trials and final.)
Back then they were slow and were run on hydraulics - and we had to wear eye protection in case they sprung a leak.
Below is a photo of me and an Atlas during the prep for the finals. (The prep was held at a road race course in the middle of a US Naval weapons station - why, one might ask, does the US Navy have a road race course? How silly of you to ask: To train the Secret Service how to drive those black SUVs very fast.)
It's amazing the changes a bit more than a decade has brought.
Glyn Moody
in reply to Karl Auerbach • • •Karl Auerbach
in reply to Glyn Moody • • •When we were doing the DARPA thing I think everyone had the thought "These things would make great soldiers".
One of the big issues at that time was power supply, power management, and cooling. The winning designs avoided power-hungry central processors and, instead, used distributed locally-autonomous computation done by low power processors near the various joints, so the central power needs for the master computer were minimized.
I do not know the present day direction of designs to resolve the distributed-vs-centralized processing issue.
My role in the trials was to mess up communications so that these machines were forced to work largely autonomously without being just remote-control drones. Sometimes I could click a mouse on my screen and a robot out in the field would fall down because was not sufficiently autonomous.
BTW, one of the hardest tasks for our generation of robots was getting back up after a fall.