(Yes I know it's likely a converted pool but that doesn't make the end result any less weird.)
Wow, this Pixelfed bug is *nasty*. Allowed users to access private posts of remote users they're not following so long as another user on the same Pixelfed server legitimately followed that account.
If you're running a Pixelfed server, definitely upgrade immediately now that the vulnerability is publicly known.
NASA’s Parker Solar Probe will make its 23rd close approach of the Sun tomorrow March 22, 2025 at 22:42 UTC.
At perihelion, it will be at a distance of just 6.1 million km from the solar surface, traveling at a speed of 692,000 km/h, matching its previous record set during perihelion 22 on Dec 24, 2024.
For comparison, the perihelion of planet Mercury is at 45.3 mil km.
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The NASA Parker Solar Probe, 6 days after its 23rd close approach of the Sun, is now transmitting detailed spacecraft status to Earth via the 34 meter antenna of station 35 at the DSN site in Canberra.
Transmit/Receive band: X (~8 GHz)
Downlink data rate: 160.2 bps
Science data will be downloaded in a few days over the higher rate Ka-band link using the 0.6-meter High Gain Antenna (HGA) dish, at data rates of 167 kbps and higher.
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Deep Space Network Now
The real time status of communications with our deep space explorersDeep Space Network Now
Interestingly, the NASA Voyager 1 spacecraft is downloading data to Earth at the same 160 bps rate over X-band as the Parker Solar Probe, but using the larger 70m dish at DSN Madrid and a larger 3.7m antenna on the spacecraft.
However Voyager 1 is 24.9 billion km from Madrid, 157 times farther then the Parker Solar Probe.
Receive power = 10^-22 kW for both spacecraft.
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Man in wheelchair hit by slow-moving train at B.C. crossing
https://www.clearwatertimes.com/news/man-in-wheelchair-hit-by-slow-moving-train-at-bc-crossing-7904514?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Man in wheelchair hit by slow-moving train at B.C. crossing
Barricades down, warning whistles going when man struck in south Surrey, injuries thought to be minorTricia Weel (Clearwater Times)
Komoot Acquired: History Says This Won't End Well
And now things start to make a bit more sense. Earlier this week I posted on the news that Komoot …DC Rainmaker
Writing Wed 26 Mar Cross Bailey Light and Colorverse Eclipse Silence
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"The US Postal Service has been struggling for years" because the Post Master General appointed during Trump's first term, who Biden couldn't be assed to replace*, spent the last 5 years running it into the ground.
It's the classic GOP tactic of:
1. Ruin the thing
2. Yell about the ruined thing
3. Privatize the thing
* Yes, the PMG is appointed by a Board of Governors, not the POTUS, but Presidents find ways to make things happen when they want to.
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Trump, Musk suggested privatizing the USPS. How that could impact your mail
The U.S. Postal Service is facing an uncertain future after the resignation this week of Postmaster General Louis DeJoy and the suggestion by President Donald Trump and Elon Musk of possibly privatizing the mail service.Susan Haigh (AP News)
'Plain sloppiness': Sen. Mark Warner says on Signal chat fiasco
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5340738/virginia-senator-interview-war-plans-signal-leak?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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The image is a meme featuring two side-by-side panels of characters from the animated series "The Amazing World of Gumball." The left panel shows a pink character with large, expressive eyes and a wide, happy smile, with text above that reads: "LOOKING FOR PLAYERS! SYSTEM: THE ONE YOU WANT TO PLAY TIME OF SESSION: SPECIFICALLY WHEN YOU ARE AVAILABLE! PREMISE: SOMETHING THAT FITS ALL YOUR INTERESTS!" The right panel shows the same character with a red face, furrowed brows, and an angry expression, with text above that reads: "20$ PER SESSION." The meme humorously contrasts the enthusiasm of the left panel with the frustration of the right panel, likely commenting on the cost of joining a gaming session.
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it also doesn’t really work?
Even $20 per person will not give you a good per hour rate if you’ve done any prep whatsoever.
I do not understand the economics of paid GMs at this level.
Republican lawmakers seek to put PBS and NPR in the hot seat
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5340686/pbs-npr-congress-hearing-marjorie-taylor-greene?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Brazilian Modders Upgrade NVidia Geforce GTX 970 to 8 GB of VRAM
hackaday.com/2025/03/25/brazil…
Brazilian Modders Upgrade NVidia Geforce GTX 970 To 8 GB Of VRAM
Although NVidia’s current disastrous RTX 50-series is getting all the attention right now, this wasn’t the first misstep by NVidia. Back in 2014 when NVidia released the GTX 970 users w…Hackaday
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Fix follower synchronization mechanism erroneously removing followers from multi-page collections by ClearlyClaire · Pull Request #34272 · mastodon/mastodon
Mastodon implements FEP-8fcf: Followers collection synchronization across servers, but requires every identifier to be in a single page. The reasons for only supporting one page are: Mastodon must...GitHub
that is a comedy reference to the ominous Twitter unfollow bug that was disregard as myth for a long time.
Sorry if this was unclear
Travel Guide for Taupo, New Zealand - New Zealand Purple Travel Guide
Taupo residents have discovered the beauty of murals - you can find them all over town. And they also have a McDonald's in in airplane.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
Europeans ! Meta has settled a landmark legal case by campaigner Tanya O’Carroll just days before trial. The settlement reaffirms our right to object to personal data being used for direct marketing
Send a GDPR objection email to Meta to exercise your rights against unwanted direct marketing and data misuse. Here's how:
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Vice President Vance is going to Greenland this week. The itinerary has shifted
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/nx-s1-5340717/vance-greenland?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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@fraggle The milky way turns either clockwise or counterclockwise depending upon what your frame of reference is
If the frame of reference determines the facts (all galaxies turn CW from our FoR), is that a privileged frame of reference, or is there some way I’m not thinking of where all galaxies everywhere are predominantly turning CW no matter what the frame of reference is?
CW/CCW needs a reference frame, so how can all galaxies favor CW from everywhere
Good evening Somerville! I plan to allow the nation to burn unsupervised for a couple hours this evening and instead bring you thoughts and screengrabs from MassDoT's update on "grounding" McGrath Higway. FYI, it is not yet "civics on my porch" weather, but SOON. www.mass.gov/event/somerv... 1/?
Testing the Cda 4.0V LIB series Lithium Ion Capacitors | Details | Hackaday.io
hackaday.ioThere's a new type of Lithium Ion Capacitor (LICs), it has higher voltage 4.0V than the
Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: Why I don't like AI art; and more!
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'A lot of problems for Russia' — How Ukraine's new 3,000km drone could boost Kyiv's war effort
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'A lot of problems for Russia' — How Ukraine's new 3,000km drone could boost Kyiv's war effort
Ukraine last week announced the latest advance in the ongoing drone race with Russia, saying its new variant had the longest range of any in its arsenal and had successfully completed testing.Chris York (The Kyiv Independent)
To be clear, Trump does not have the authority to do this. The constitution explicitly states that "The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof; but the Congress may at any time by Law make or alter such Regulations, except as to the Places of chusing Senators"
That is, federal elections are governed by the states and by congress, not the president.
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Trump signs order seeking to overhaul US elections, including requiring proof of citizenship
President Donald Trump has signed a sweeping executive action to overhaul elections in the U.S. Tuesday's order demands documentary proof of citizenship be added as a requirement for federal voter registration.Ali Swenson (AP News)
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This is clearly pretext for doing what he tried to do several times already: Disregard election results he doesn't agree with.
Anyone who still thinks there'll be anything resembling normal midterms in '26 is deluded.
The fallout from the Signal breach begins : Consider This from NPR
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/25/1240671761/the-fallout-from-the-signal-breach-begins?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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AAAARGH! I'm not at all surprised, but NIST's excellent whitepaper on Inclusive Language (NIST.IR.8366) has been withdrawn:
nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/ir/2…
This was an excellent resource that I reference all the time. I feared it would go away so I made a snapshot a few weeks back that I uploaded here: nygren.org/archived/NIST.IR.83…
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A law professor friend tells me that LLMs have completely transformed the way she relates to grad students and post-docs - for the worse. And no, it's not that they're cheating on their homework or using LLMs to write briefs full of hallucinated cases.
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The hottest use of AI right now? Dora the Explorer feet mukbang; Peppa the Pig Skibidi toilet explosion; Steph Curry and LeBron James Ahegao Drakedom threesome.
230 Protects Users, Not Big Tech
Section 230 provides limited protection for all platforms, though the biggest beneficiaries are small platforms and users.Electronic Frontier Foundation
River otters break out their zoo to play in the snow
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River otters break out their zoo to play in the snow - Boing Boing
A pair of North American river otters at the New Zoo Adventure Park in Green Bay, Wisconsin, decided to take an unauthorized field tripGail Sherman (Happy Mutants, LLC.)
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