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

fraser@m.universetoday.com ("Fraser Cain") wrote:

Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

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• Voyager 1 (remote)

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

#Meta announces Meta Horizon OS for 3rd party headset makers including Lenovo. It's also opening the Quest App Store.

Meta is no longer a social media company with its own cloud infrastructure. It's a cloud services company.

The next logical step, imo, is to open up its cloud to 3rd party social platforms as a PaaS.

https://about.fb.com/news/2024/04/introducing-our-open-mixed-reality-ecosystem/

Gargron ("Eugen Rochko") wrote:

The blogging platform #Ghost is working on adding #ActivityPub integration. That means, among other things, being able to follow Ghost-powered blogs and comment on articles right from your Mastodon account. The website they made to explain their plans is really nice! This is what momentum looks like.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill") wrote:

Recently, we saw an embarrassingly ham-handed (and false!) allegation against OpenTofu. While the specifics were new, the tactic is nearly as old as computing: this is FUD -- the "fear, uncertainty and doubt" made famous by IBM when used against the upstart Amdahl. Today on Oxide and Friends, @ahl and I are going to talk about this latest FUD -- as well as FUD's storied history in our industry. Bring your own examples, and join us today, 5p Pacific!

https://discord.gg/cEEnJhT2?event=1232017174307012658

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

Today's case in point: determining whether I had access to Apple News, and then cancelling the free trial I was railroaded into.

You'd think you could just find your account info *IN* the app you're trying to access and/or cancel. You'd be very wrong.

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

Few things make me as explosively grumpy as trying to do something that seems like it should be extremely simple with my Apple account.

(Because it takes 15 minutes doing multiple searches and signing in at least 2–3 times across multiple apps and websites every single time.)

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

Why did no writers stand up and scream that the Rebel Moon story is execrable shit and that no one should spend millions turning it into a movie?

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/22/i-am-stumped-by-the-logistics/

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• Rebel Moon movie poster (remote)

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

breadandcircuses@climatejustice.social ("Bread and Circuses") wrote:

More like Earth Day 2024, am I right?

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #Greenwashing

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• Editorial cartoon titled: Earth Day, 2035. A man in a business suit, either a politician or a corporate CEO, poses in front of a billboard showing beautiful green trees. Photographers and news media gather around to take his picture. Everyone is smiling. But behind that billboard, we see industrial smokestacks, heaps of trash, polluted waters, and the stumps of clearcut forests. (remote)

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

PsyArXivBot@botsin.space wrote:

Generating random partial correlation matrices with an application to redundant variables and bridge centrality http://osf.io/qds8r/

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

BrianJopek@mastodon.world ("Brian Jopek") wrote:

I love watching righties lose their shit over stuff like this. I mean, it’s absolutely fucking glorious.
#RubyBridges

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• A meme with a photo of a young Ruby Bridges escorted from school by FBI agents in the 1950s. The meme says “If this sweet Black baby was old enough to go through it, your sweet white baby is old enough to read a picture book about it. Ruby Bridges. Learn her story” (remote)

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

brembs ("Björn Brembs") wrote:

Not that this is news, but it never hurts to heap on the mountain of evidence:

"The findings suggest that the number of citations alone may not be a reliable indicator of research quality."

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38207163/

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

JFC "[Ephraim] Hunter made it to the second floor of the home, causing [Mayor] Bass to hide in a safe area designed to protect against intruders, akin to a panic room."

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-22/mayor-bass-home-break-in-suspect-previously-convicted-of-violent-assault

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

internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:

Move over Mickey...Let's give a round of applause to Tigger, who also moved into the public domain this year, thanks to his debut in 1928's "The House at Pooh Corner" 📚🐯 Read, remix, and share for free! https://archive.org/details/the-house-at-pooh-corner

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• Illustration of Winnie the Pooh meeting Tigger for the first time, from The House at Pooh Corner (1928). (remote)

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

on this date in 2016 I posted:

"on the 'A' Train at 59th Street, musical cues everywhere..."

;^}

Reblogged by nadim@symbolic.software ("Nadim Kobeissi"):

djb@cr.yp.to ("Daniel J. Bernstein") wrote:

My initial assessment of https://eprint.iacr.org/2024/601 is that (1) the "halved dimension" is actually what people normally call the "dimension" for NTRU; (2) Section 4 is understating what the usual attacks accomplish; (3) all 2024/601 exponents are above the usual exponents.

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

Sometimes, it is a strain to find respect for a person who spends $100,000 on a really bad truck.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/22/a-moral-concern/

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• When we first heard about the gas pedal on the cybertruck, we were like, who cares. They're cybertruck owners. Then Tina was like, "What if they end up crashing into a normal, real person? One who isn't a huge douche?" So anyway guys, yeah. Recall time for sure. (remote)

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

We need civilization & governments & laws, because humanity kind of sucks.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/04/22/mondays-are-for-disillusionment/

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• Cute little monkey (remote)

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

johnonolan@mastodon.xyz ("John O'Nolan") wrote:

Excited to share that Ghost is going to federate over ActivityPub and become part of the largest open publishing network in the world 🎉

https://activitypub.ghost.org

Reblogged by fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤"):

secretgeek@mastodon.cloud ("Leon Bambrick") wrote:

Google is a strangler fig, in the long term its only goal is to kill the World Wide Web.

First they help you find good content, so people visit and use and enjoy and participate in good web sites.

Then they insist on scraping every piece of value they can, and presenting it to the user such that they never have to visit the websites at all.

Then the websites die, having been choked to death by the strangler fig, and people blame the websites for dying, not the strangler who bled them dry.

fromjason ("fromjason.xyz 🖤") wrote:

96% Of Hospitals Share Sensitive Visitor Data With Meta, Google, and Data Brokers | Techdirt https://www.techdirt.com/2024/04/22/96-of-hospitals-share-sensitive-visitor-data-with-meta-google-and-data-brokers/:

> Hospitals, it should be clear, aren’t legally required to publish website privacy policies that clearly detail how and with whom they share visitor data. Again, because we’re too corrupt as a country to require and enforce such requirements.

But, but, but, TikTok.

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

marcelias@mas.to ("Marc Elias") wrote:

You might think that even in today’s highly polarized election environment there would be a bipartisan consensus to protect election workers from intimidation and harassment. If you thought so, you would be wrong.

My latest.
https://www.democracydocket.com/opinion/republicans-are-suing-for-the-right-to-harass-election-workers/

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

GottaLaff ("Laffy") wrote:

#Israel’s head of military intelligence offered to resign, the most senior official to do so after the Oct. 7 attacks. -NYT

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

nicholas_saunders wrote:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2024/04/22/california-solar-duck-curve-rooftop/

Holy fuck.

"In recent years in California, the duck curve has become a massive, deep canyon — and solar power is going unused."

Ya don't say. Still, #BuryTheLede tho. Headline incongruent.

#wapo #greenenergy #decarbonization #climatechange

#solarpower #solar

#duckcurve

Headline makes it sound like energy prices are negative. BS.

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

RDBinns@someone.elses.computer ("Reuben Binns⁉️") wrote:

Spoons have enormous potential for humanity, but also pose risks, such as being left out on the table and dripping honey on things that shouldn't have honey dripped on them.

That is why we need to re-engineer our spoons to be aligned with human values like keeping our surfaces clean, saving excess honey, and promoting flourishing.

I'm thrilled to announce I've received $1 billion in series A funding to solve this problem at scale.

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• Picture of two jars of honey with spoons in them with curved handles to allow the honey to run back into the jar (remote)

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

why the f*ck did the Israelis elect Pharaoh to power?

#Passover2024

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

petersuber@fediscience.org wrote:

#Meta says that its #Llama #AI tools are "the best #OpenSource models of their class, period."

From @kylelwiggers: "There’s only one problem: the Llama…models aren’t really “open source”… Open source implies that devs can use the models how they choose…But…Meta has imposed certain licensing restrictions…Llama models can’t be used to train other models. And app developers with over 700M monthly users must request a special license from Meta."
https://techcrunch.com/2024/04/20/this-week-in-ai-when-open-source-isnt-so-open/

#LLMs #Licensing

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

baking dessert for tonight’s dinner at the home of some friends. contents? pretty much everything I try to minimize these days: sugar, wheat flour, butter…

😈

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

bigjsl@aus.social ("John Lindsay") wrote:

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• e0e7196078be3d14.jpeg (remote)

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

mjgardner@social.sdf.org ("Mark Gardner") wrote:

All this time I’ve been giving it away

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• standing in front of a drinks cooler labeled with the sign “ SPITE $1.50” (remote)

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

kcarruthers wrote:

Yes well Russia has been persecuting Ukrainian AND Russian Christians: Evangelicals with ties to "The Family" met Mike Johnson and Zelenskyy ahead of Ukraine vote

https://www.salon.com/2024/04/19/evangelicals-with-ties-to-the-family-met-mike-johnson-and-zelenskyy-ahead-of-ukraine-vote_partner/

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• Speaker Mike