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Wind Blowing Out of Uranus Makes It Hard to Probe, NASA Complains: Scientists have found that a "rare intense wind event" during NASA's Voyager 2 flyby of Uranus in 1986 may have seriously messed with our understanding of the planet.
https://jwz.org/b/ykdM
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
sigh… okay, so that did not work right ;^{
time to stop & take a long break
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh yeah: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
So you might be wondering: now that I’m over mainstream media, where do I get my news?
Answer: mainly from BBC Sounds, the app from the BBC, which delivers high quality radio reporting from all over the world, for free. It’s not perfect, but... [3/3]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
3) The Democratic brand is toxic. FALSE. As Democratic “strategists” (euphemism for “unemployed gasbags”) bloviate on cable news about why their party lost, I’m reminded of a famous quote from the great political humorist Will Rogers: “I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat.”
The mainstream media have been amplifying the lazy critiques of this circular firing squad… [2/3]
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
on “mainstream media” gaslighting the public
(from The Borowitz Report)...classics of the gaslighting genre.
- Donald Trump won in a landslide. FALSE. As of this writing, Trump’s popular vote margin over Harris is only two percent...
2) Kamala Harris lost because she ran a terrible campaign. FALSE. No campaign is flawless, but Harris… had to mount hers in a mere hundred days and… in a year when incumbent parties were swept out of power around the world... [1/3]
Mastodon FeedReblogged by kornel ("Kornel"):
rail_@bark.lgbt ("rail :neofox::therian:") wrote:
Many of you might already know that due to historical reasons, Japan uses two incompatible power systems with mismatched frequencies
That has its consequence in railways too
Meet Tokyo Central station. As you can see, western and eastern Shinkansen lines terminate here. They're not connected with each other and use different electrification depending on which part of the country the line goes to – 25kV 50Hz or 60Hz
Normal-speed lines use 1.5kV DC electrification
This small infodump was brought to you by @aroma who brought my attention to that detail
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
How cloud computing became a global monopoly - Investors' Chronicle https://www.investorschronicle.co.uk/content/7ee67f8b-8f54-56f8-ae2e-ea649ee698ae
Mastodon Feedfromjason ("fromjason.xyz ❤️ 💻") wrote:
Computational Power and AI - AI Now Institute https://ainowinstitute.org/publication/policy/compute-and-ai#h-what-is-compute-and-why-does-it-matter
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
Kill the bird.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
ianwelsh@mstdn.social ("Ian Welsh") wrote:
"The last time a government seriously slashed government workers, under Clinton, all that happened is that contractors were hired to do the work: and contractors cost more. Nor has there been any real increase in federal employees in decades."
https://www.ianwelsh.net/doge-will-wind-up-costing-the-government-more-money/
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
It's a bird!
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
oh yeah
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
the power of the President to adjourn the Houses of Congress has never been exercised:
“Article II, Section 3:
… may, on extraordinary Occasions, convene both Houses, or either of them, and in Case of Disagreement between them, with Respect to the Time of Adjournment, he may adjourn them to such Time as he shall think proper”
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artII-S3-1/ALDE_00013550/
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
yup:
“By tapping Gaetz to be the highest law enforcement official in the land, Trump has done us the favor of stripping away whatever plausible deniability remained about his intentions. It’s a show of dominance directed more at Republicans than Democrats, meant to make them abase themselves by acquiescing to a nomination they know is indefensible.”
Mastodon Feedjsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein") wrote:
a powerful voice:
Mastodon Feedpzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:
My respect for Mike Tyson just shot upwards.
https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2024/11/15/thats-beautiful-man/
Mastodon FeedReblogged by nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi"):
soatok@furry.engineer ("Soatok Dreamseeker") wrote:
A while ago, I announced that I was going to build #E2EE for the Fediverse, so that we might have private direct messaging.
Then I stumbled over the lack of available tooling for Key Transparency in a federated environment. So I started working on a specification for a Public Key Directory server.
I'm happy to announce that I finally have all my ideas on paper.
https://github.com/fedi-e2ee/public-key-directory-specification/tree/main
This specification is not complete. It still needs:
- Additional rounds of copy-editing, to ensure terms are consistent and easily understood.2. Peer review, especially from cryptography experts.3. A reference implementation.4. Machine-verifiable security proofs of the security of the protocols described.5. More peer review.6. Third-party testing of the reference implementation.7. Other people's ideas.
That last one is optional, but if anyone identifies an opportunity to make this project more successful, I'd love to hear it.
Mastodon Feednadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:
I'm not exactly convinced (yet!) that Bluesky will end up meaningfully replacing X, but I could be wrong, and it's not a bad platform! So, consider following me there in case you use it. I'll try to use it more. https://bsky.app/profile/nadim.computer
Mastodon FeedReblogged by jakedel@mamot.fr ("S. Delafond"):
rhertzog@hachyderm.io ("Raphaël Hertzog") wrote:
Saying hi to the fediverse (with my brand new account) from the #minidebconf #toulouse where we had a pleasant first day of mini-debcamp. Picture is from early in the morning when it was not yet crowded and with a majority of persons involved in @freexian (and a #debian project leader on the right).
Mastodon Feedslightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:
#perfnow slides will be up at some point, but the TL;DR is toot-sized: the web is losing, in part because the frontend discourse has been captured by charlatans and fabulists. It's hurting users, and drawing attention away from urgent problems that are keeping the web from competing.
The #webperf community is a rare island of sanity where still evidence beats bluster. We owe it to our future selves to help clients reject the lemons the JS-industrial-complex keeps trying to pass off as gems.
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
heatherhorns_lite@plush.city ("spiders") wrote:
PSA: You're not allowed to mock people for asking a question instead of using Google now. Maybe they want a quick and correct answer, you know?
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
exchgr@mastodon.world ("elle mundy") wrote:
the derplomat https://journa.host/@w7voa/113483735579256708
Mastodon FeedReblogged by slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell"):
lcamtuf@infosec.exchange ("lcamtuf :verified: :verified: :verified:") wrote:
I keep coming back to this, but *hug your content creator today*.
The internet has a bystander problem. We discover insightful content on the web, we assume the author already received the spoils - and we move on.
To offer a personal anecdote, I'm the author of afl-fuzz. It's been used by tens of thousands of folks - for hobby, for work, to elevate academic careers. I fielded hundreds of bug reports and feature requests - and perhaps two or three personal "thank you" notes.
Today, I'm running lcamtuf.substack.com. Some articles get 50k+ views. It works the same: there are far more folks keen to point out errors or post contrarian takes on HN.
I'm not fishing for compliments for myself. It's just that, the next time you come across a useful OSS project or an interesting blog, drop the author a note. No one else does.
Mastodon Feedinternetarchive@mastodon.archive.org wrote:
New update from @brewsterkahle on how the Internet Archive is learning from recent cyberattacks.
🔗 https://blog.archive.org/2024/11/14/learning-from-cyberattacks/
Mastodon FeedSo far I've only made it halfway through "A", but I can confirm my suspicion that this book is the 1863 edition of the Monster Manual.
"Burned alive for building a clockwork robot" is a surprisingly recurrent theme.
Mastodon Feedpixplz ("Schools are superspreaders") wrote:
"I'm leaving Twitter and joining Bluesky"
Mastodon Feeddavidgerard@circumstances.run ("David Gerard") wrote:
Ed Zitron yelling abuse at CEOs for twenty-three minutes
Mastodon Feedluckytran@med-mastodon.com ("Dr. Lucky Tran :verified:") wrote:
So... now would be a really bad time to risk having another pandemic start *stares in bird flu*
