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AkaSci@fosstodon.org ("AkaSci 🛰️") wrote:

Good news from the Voyager 1 spacecraft that has been stuck sending a 0101 pattern since Nov 2023.

The team has long suspected the root cause to be a corrupted area of memory in the FDS computer. On Mar 1, they sent some commands to make the FDS skip around sections of memory. The data stream rcvd 45 hours later looked different and was decoded to contain a read-out of the entire FDS memory!

Hopefully, they can now identify and fix the offending memory words.
🤞
https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
14/n

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• 1. Graphic of the Voyager 1 spacecraft with a starry background 2. High level schematic of Voyager computers and telecom systems (remote)

collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth") wrote:

One of the best things I've ever done for myself is keep a "Warm Fuzzies" Notion doc, where I drop in screenshots of nice messages people have sent me or nice things they've said about my work.

I've been keeping mine about six years, and I wish I would've started a lot sooner. You'd be amazed how much you forget, and how much it'll still mean to you way down the line. Highly recommended.

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

a Regular Army soldier… 6th Cavalry has a storied history, from the 1850s on https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/6th_Cavalry_Regiment

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chaser@mastodon.au ("The Chaser") wrote:

Families in Gaza begin work on suspicious photoshop pic in hopes to get the media worrying about their wellbeing
https://chaser.com.au/world/families-in-gaza-begin-work-on-suspicious-photoshop-pic-in-hopes-to-get-the-media-worrying-about-their-wellbeing/

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

NGIZero@mastodon.xyz ("NGI Zero open source funding") wrote:

Join us for the webinar Open source CPU and SoC design : The flow, the challenges and a perspective with Charles Papon on April 11, 2024, 13:00-14:30 CET.

Through the lens of the SpinalHDL, VexRiscv and NaxRiscv projects, Papon will discuss open CPU design, deploying it on hardware, lessons learned and challenges.

For more info and a link to the BBB room see https://nlnet.nl/webinars/. No need to subscribe, the room is open.

#openhardware #RISC-V #webinar

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Happy (Engineeres’) Pi Day!

because 3.14 is good enough to get work done
;^}

fribbledom ("muesli") wrote:

Happy Pi-Day everyone!

Reblogged by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):

rayckeith@techhub.social ("Ray C. Keith") wrote:

I USUALLY VOTE FOR WHOEVER PROMISES TO CUT THE MOST TAX

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nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Runes of Ardun is now available on Android! https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.symbolicsoft.ardun

keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri") wrote:

No bloody idea why my name is the most misspelled ones. 70% of times a non-italian person type it, it became "Lucca". Maybe for the city in Tuscany? Who knows

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• A package I received, with my name misspelled: "Luca" become "Lucca" (remote)

Reblogged by collinsworth@hachyderm.io ("Josh Collinsworth"):

hbuchel@hachyderm.io ("Heather Buchel") wrote:

Speaking of getting a blog post out 🙃

I had some thoughts about what I'd tell my younger self as I started my career as a web developer that wanted to advocate for accessibility and thought I'd share.

What would you have told yourself?

https://heather-buchel.com/blog/2024/03/letters-to-an-accessibility-advocate/

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

a long time since I last saw goofy CW antics on my timeline

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RikerGoogling@botsin.space ("Riker Googling") wrote:

how to use civility to stop the borg

Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

bkardell@toot.cafe wrote:

New on the blog: How We Fund the Web Ecosystem

On Tuesday (March 12th, 2024), @robin and @Meyerweb and I organized, led and scribed a session during W3C breakouts day about how we fund the web ecosystem…

https://bkardell.com/blog/HowWeFund.html

mbrubeck@mefi.social wrote:

Every story in human history has one of these six basic plots:

1. An ordinary person wakes up in another world and has to save the kingdom.
2. He is the strongest fighter... but is his power really a curse???
3. These giant robots can be piloted only by children with unusual abilities.
4. Rival gangs rule the streets of Neo-Tokyo.
5. A clueless guy is obligated to live with multiple beautiful women, for reasons.
6. A shy/awkward girl learns to make friends.

Reblogged by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):

q3k@hackerspace.pl ("q3k :blobcatcoffee:") wrote:

In 2024, $.32 gets you a Cortex M0, 4kB RAM, 16kB flash and a built-in 24MHz oscillator. All in a package that's terrifyingly close to being accidentally swallowable.

https://www.lcsc.com/product-detail/Microcontroller-Units-MCUs-MPUs-SOCs_PUYA-PY32F003L24D6TR_C5128436.html

(index finger for scale - blurred so i don't get comments about fingerprint opsec)

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fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

We have to stop playing to morality Olympics with the social media platforms we use. It's creating weird factions that only benefit the big tech companies that own everything.

Give each other grace. Come together and find ways to fight back.

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liw@toot.liw.fi ("Lars Wirzenius") wrote:

Next month it will be 40 years since I wrote my first line of code. I wrote down some reflections on what I've learned about programming.

https://liw.fi/40/

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

Facebook, Instagram and Threads are openly suppressing political speech and the US Government is seizing control of the largest social media platform.

And the crowd goes wild? What is happening?

NfNitLoop ("Cody Casterline 🏳️‍🌈") wrote:

Huh, I'm interested in distributed social networking. I even wrote a protocol and implementation of one for myself called #FeoBlog

So I was a bit surprised to hear about #NOSTR for the first time today. https://nostr.com/

It has a lot of the same qualities that I'd designed into FeoBlog, but a lot more momentum behind it. I'm reading up on it today, but am curious to hear thoughts from anyone who's looked into it.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

If you're following the #TiktokBan and confused as to why the US Government is forcing ByteDance to divest, check out my latest post.

#Google, #Amazon, #Microsoft, & #Meta (GAMM) own the lion's share of the infrastructure required to run the internet. They control 75% of the cloud market. Two of the 4 own 50% of the fiber optic cables connecting the globe. It's a monopoly similar to the telecommunications industry in the 90s.

The future of the web is consumption.

https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

wow, i did NOT have b14 on my bingo card! wow, i did NOT have n32 on my bingo card! oh nice, i18. wow, i did NOT have i22 on my bingo card!

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

like many amateur photographers, I do occasionally experiment with editing

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

I'm giving up alcohol for…the rest of my life. I tell you, teaching a course on teratology & endocrine disruptors will simply wreck you.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/03/13/you-know-alcohol-is-not-good-for-children-and-other-growing-things/

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xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

for years I assumed that when encountered a completely user-hostile workflow I was doing something wrong. now I have the confidence to know that's often "working as intended"

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s@social.lol ("sam") wrote:

Any Technology Indistinguishable From Magic is Hiding Something https://fromjason.xyz/p/notebook/any-technology-indistinguishable-from-magic-is-hiding-something/

xor@tech.intersects.art ("Parker Higgins") wrote:

tickets are now available for the half-day Crossword Con coming up in NYC. i think these are going to sell out, so if you're interested i'd move early https://www.crosswordcon.com/

jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:

Oscar the Housepanther loves lettuce

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Reblogged by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella"):

servo@floss.social ("Servo") wrote:

Where do you see Servo going in a year, or two, or five? A robust embedded webview, a thriving gateway for the next generation of browser devs, the foundation of Rust’s web platform story?

With your help, we can make it happen!

https://github.com/sponsors/servo
https://opencollective.com/servo

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• “Inside of every web browser is a rendering engine, like Chromium, WebKit, or Gecko. “These primary engines all have their origins in the late 1990s, and are now supported by huge amounts of money from very large tech companies. “Other web rendering engines, like Servo, are not. “Servo is a web engine built to be robust and easily embeddable, with the memory safety and parallel computing support that comes from being written in Rust. “It’s been used in over 32000 GitHub projects alone, with over 1100 contributors. “And now, you can help us make Servo even better by donating to the brand new Servo collective. “For just 10 USD a month, or whatever amount you can sustain, you can help us cover the infrastructure costs and pay developers to work on Servo to make it better, faster. “Every dollar the collective receives, which is more than 94% of every dollar given, will be dedicated to those purposes. “At just 100 USD per month, we can cover the costs of our website and other core infrastructure. “By reaching 1000 USD per month, we can set up dedicated servers for faster Windows and macOS builds, better test coverage and reliability, and new testing techniques. “Beyond 10000 USD per month, we can pay a developer to make Servo their top priority. “The further we go, the more developer time we can fund. “To help us make all this a reality, please visit opencollective.com/servo to learn more and make a donation today. “And thank you.” (remote)

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

He’s here! The prototype, anyway. He’s big, squishy, and friend-shaped. We’ll try to make him as affordable as possible. You’ll have to wait a couple more months to get one, but we might open pre-orders relatively soon.

#Merchtodon #Plushtodon #Mastodon

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• A stuffed toy in the shape of a round Mastodon, beige, with pink cheeks. He looks large in my wife’s arms who is hugging him.