‘She was right and they were wrong’: the female astronomers hidden by science’s male elite
"Eighty-five years ago, several dozen eminent astronomers posed for a photograph outside the newly constructed McDonald Observatory near Fort Davis in Texas. All were men – with one exception. Half-concealed by a man in front of her, the face of a solitary woman can just be made out in the grainy black and white image.
"This is Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, whose impact on our understanding of the cosmos was profound. She showed stars were primarily made of hydrogen and helium, contradicting the scientific orthodoxy of the 1920s, which held that they were made of an array of elements. Her claims were suppressed and her work obscured, like her image on the McDonald Observatory photograph..."
‘She was right and they were wrong’: the female astronomers hidden by science’s male elite
As a new play examines the work of Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, we celebrate the women whose crucial discoveries were ignored or suppressedRobin McKie (The Guardian)
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As some of you may recall, it was this October that I decided to relaunch my website and try to give the pottery a go.
A month later, our postal service decided to strike. Things were going well till then, but today I accept the fact any holiday sales are lost, and we won't be getting our Christmas box from home.
If you can boost this post and follow so that more people can see my work, it'd mean a lot at this stressful time.
#art #pottery #raku #MastoArt #MastodonArt #ArtAdventCalendar
Nobody knows how two pair-bonded Siberian tigers released into the wild found each other again. (I vote for the theory that they have huge territories and Boris stumbled on Svetlaya's scent markings.)
#Caturday
Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.
#comic #cartoon #technology #tech #privacy #surveillance #consumer #cooking #internet #internetofthings
How to Install Friendica on Your Synology NAS
Trustworthy expert guide to your Synology NAS.Marius Hosting
@zeitverschreib [friendica] dang!
Well, I can tell you that it seems to not be authing to the DB but dunno
@silverwizard After a re-install I still see problems with the db connect:
2024-12-14 22:26:04 9 [Warning] Aborted connection 9 to db: 'friendica' user: 'friendicauser' host: '172.23.0.5' (Got an error reading communication packets)
2024-12-14 22:22:38 3 [Warning] Aborted connection 3 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'unauthenticated' host: '172.23.0.4' (This connection closed normally without authentication)
2024-12-14 22:23:08 7 [Warning] Aborted connection 7 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'unauthenticated' host: '172.23.0.5' (This connection closed normally without authentication)
2024-12-14 22:26:05 64 [Warning] Aborted connection 64 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'unauthenticated' host: '172.23.0.5' (This connection closed normally without authentication)
172.23.0.4 is the Friendica container
172.23.0.5 is the CRON container
Something's very wrong.
I just tried to run the same setup on a Pi 4 and get the very same messages:
Version: '11.4.4-MariaDB-ubu2404' socket: '/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' port: 3306 mariadb.org binary distribution
2024-12-14 23:09:21 7 [Warning] Aborted connection 7 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'unauthenticated' host: '172.21.0.5' (This connection closed normally without authentication)
2024-12-14 23:08:52 3 [Warning] Aborted connection 3 to db: 'unconnected' user: 'unauthenticated' host: '172.21.0.4' (This connection closed normally without authentication)
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I'm one-half of Future Proof Games, creators of Rosette Diceless (https://rosetterpg.com), Exploit: Zero Day (https://exploitzeroday.com/), The Majesty of Colors (https://majestyofcolors.com), and Ossuary (http://fpgam.es/Ossuary).Twitch
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I'm one-half of Future Proof Games, creators of Rosette Diceless (https://rosetterpg.com), Exploit: Zero Day (https://exploitzeroday.com/), The Majesty of Colors (https://majestyofcolors.com), and Ossuary (http://fpgam.es/Ossuary).Twitch
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I'm one-half of Future Proof Games, creators of Rosette Diceless (https://rosetterpg.com), Exploit: Zero Day (https://exploitzeroday.com/), The Majesty of Colors (https://majestyofcolors.com), and Ossuary (http://fpgam.es/Ossuary).Twitch
My Fears Whenever A Doctor or Nurse Prescribes An New medicine
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She was given compassionate clearance for a couple of drugs that treated her perfectly. When they finally made the market, and became big sellers ( for the same reason ) they got pulled because of potentially deadly interactions with commonly prescribed stuff. One in particular was Propulsid. She lost access to that one, and they never found another that was as efficacious. But in her case, it was not going to be an issue because the interaction was known and avoided.
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I get that it's not simple for people with serious life-threatening conditions, @Mark Wollschlager That all must have been difficult for you and for her. Thanks for sharing.
In my mom's case it was mostly a cluster of non-fatal conditions: osteoporosis, neuropathy, urinary incontenence, high cholesterol, blood pressure... and a few other annoying conditions and side effects. In the end, none of those took her - it was the UTI's she kept getting due to lack of mobility, dehydration from not drinking enough water, etc. because that's just the way life is in the nursing home. When she was living at home, it would take us almost an hour to sort her pills for the week, because her doctors threw meds at everything. I realized it was a problem when I saw she was simultaneously taking diuretics AND pills to stop urinary incontinence, which would effectively cancel each other out!
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Day 13: A Martian sunset.
My kid asked me to make him a stained glass piece. He's super into space, so I decided to make him a Martian sunset.
Did you know that Martian sunsets are blue?
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #StainedGlass #LeadedGlass #MyWork #FensterFreitag #WindowFriday
Weird, probably a bug in Safari indeed.
Well not really a problem of course. I was just wondering how that happened.
This article cites academia as accounting for 9% of carbon emissions. There needs to be a change in mindset to reduce the carbon footprint of academic research. Air travel is something many academics could cut back on. Can we do this online? Do we need to fly the candidate over? Is attending this conference really necessary? Could you tie together a few visits having flown somewhere? Culture change is needed.
fifteen years ago, microsoft stated that OEMs pay around 5% of a given computer's RRP for a windows licence key: arstechnica.com/information-te…
over the course of my life, i've bought maybe four new windows laptops (the rest have all been second hand), at an average price of, i dunno, let's say A$1200 each
assuming that figure is still accurate, that would mean that despite donating to projects like KDE and mozilla a few times, i have actually provided more funding to windows development than i have to linux desktop development. i would need to donate a total of around A$240 to the various linux desktop projects i use, modulo taxes
and that's not even including the 30% cut MS takes whenever i buy a digital or new physical xbox game
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OEMs pay Microsoft about $50 for each copy of Windows
Microsoft has revealed that, for a $1000 PC, it has always charged the OEM …Emil Protalinski (Ars Technica)
however! i have:
- wasted several minutes of compute time by asking bing chat about the maximum velocity of a bullet travelling through cheese
- downloaded gigabytes of SDKs and patches and windows XP update rollups and documentation archives and obsolete visual studio installers from the microsoft archive
- downloaded terabytes of xbox game updates
- used the bing image generator AI to create unintelligible "memes"
- uploaded, then downloaded, then deleted gigabytes of xbox game clips from the free tier of onedrive
- briefly ran a searx instance that scraped bing in a violation of the ToS
so i've cost them SOME amount of money at least. probably not enough to outweigh the several hundreds i've both directly and indirectly given them. but hey
AND!! i convinced my wife to switch from windows to linux
and when she publishes her 30,000 page tome chronicling the entire written histories of philosophy and politics and theology... and it becomes the New York Times Book of the Century... and millions of people open it to the first page and see the acknowledgement that it was typeset with LibreOffice Writer on a Fedora Linux system... along with the required APA citation for the use of GNU parallel... microsoft will realise that while they may have won in market share of people who follow the culture... but not the people who create the culture.
Cat at the Window
Shot on 35mm Fomapan 200, developed in Rodinal
#35mm #analoguephotography #filmphotography #35mmfilm #blackandwhite #grainisgood #believeinfilm #monochrome
Wallace and Gromit BBC 1 Ident for Christmas 2024!
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"Remnants.." 📸🌱🌊
#blackandwhite #believeinfilm #monochrome #bnw #nature #photooftheday #photography #lake #blackandwhitephotography #nostalgy #naturephoto #darktable
The rest of the world doesn't get the BBC 1 idents. So, sometimes it takes awhile to find them.
@Joyce Donahue
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Incredible. Apple Intelligence summarized BBC news to claim Luigi had shot himself. This not only had not happened but was not something BBC reported.
AI news summaries are a terrible idea because "just making up shit" is basically an unsolvable problem in LLMs
bbc.com/news/articles/cd0elzk2…
BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline
Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.Graham Fraser (BBC News)
Nextcloud is Cloudwards’ #1 choice for Best Personal Cloud Storage! 🎉
The experts at Cloudwards tested the top DIY cloud storage solutions and again Nextcloud rises to the top:
"The best private cloud storage is Nextcloud. It offers the flexibility for you to set up the system you want, and works very well for businesses with more complex needs."
See what the experts like most about Nextcloud 👇🏽
cloudwards.net/diy-cloud-stora…
Home Cloud Storage: Local Cloud Providers for Home 2024
You can store your files in the cloud through a number of providers. For the DIYers, though, creating a home cloud storage may be the way.Igor Kurtz (Cloudwards)
Meta y Amazon donan un millón de dólares cada uno para la ceremonia de toma de posesión de Trump
Mark Zuckerberg ya se ha reunido en privado con el futuro presidente y Jeff Bezos lo hará en los próximos días
Mujeres periodistas, aunque más expuestas a acoso laboral y sexual, piden menos protección que hombres
🚨 ALERT. ALERT. 🚨
Testing new patron notification functionality today!
This is not a drill!
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This is a drill.
@LilFluff I'd love to have been in the room when they decided what to name that drill!
I dunno, Bob. Whaddya think of “The Stanley FATMAN cordless drill?”
Hrmm... that's good, Sara, but I kinda wanted to call it the Stanley MAX cordless drill.
Hey guys, I think I know how we can get what both of you want.
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan project VKD3D-Proton v2.14 out now with various performance improvements gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/dire…
#Linux #Proton #SteamDeck #OpenSource #Vulkan
Direct3D 12 to Vulkan project VKD3D-Proton v2.14 out now with various performance improvements
VKD3D-Proton v2.14 is now available bringing various improvements to the Direct3D 12 to Vulkan layer that's used by Valve's Proton for running Windows games on Linux.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Turok: Origins announced and it's now a third-person shooter with co-op gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/turo…
#TurokOrigins #Turok #PCGaming
Turok: Origins announced and it's now a third-person shooter with co-op
Turok: Origins was announced by Saber Interactive and this time it's a third-person shooter, with an optional co-op element where three people can team up to take on the dinosaurs and some new alien threat.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
I love seeing cacti decorated with holiday lights this time of year, here in Tucson, AZ! Here’s my art of a festively decorated Enlightened Saguaro. You can read about my process creating this art on my latest blog post paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/…
#ArtAdventCalendar #SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #blog #blogging #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #cactus #Saguaro #festive #holiday #lights #ChristmasLights
A Festive Cactus
—and a Peek into My Art ProcessPaula Borchardt (Paula Borchardt - Visual Storyteller)
Day 13 #ArtAdventCalendar: The vampire squid (Vampyroteuthis infernalis), literally the ‘vampire squid from hell’ is a small deep sea cephalopod found throughout temperate and tropical oceans with two long retractile filaments, located between the first two pairs of arms on its dorsal side, unlike either octopuses or squids. 🧵1/2
#cephalopod #linocut #sciart #mastoArt #printmaking #VampireSquid #squid
If you haven't boycotted Facebook and their shit services yet, it's about time now.
Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to Trump fund
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Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to Trump fund
It appears to be the latest attempt by the Meta boss to build a closer relationship with the incoming president.Liv McMahon (BBC News)
GE-Proton 9-21 released for Linux / Steam Deck bringing more game fixes gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/ge-p…
#Proton #LinuxGaming #Linux #SteamDeck #GEProton
GE-Proton 9-21 released for Linux / Steam Deck bringing more game fixes
GE-Proton 9-21 has been released as the community-maintained version of the Proton compatibility layer for running Windows games on Linux Desktop and Steam Deck.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Slay the Spire 2 gets a first trailer - coming to Early Access in 2025 gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/slay…
#SlaytheSpire2 #SlaytheSpire #Godot
Slay the Spire 2 gets a first trailer - coming to Early Access in 2025
Slay the Spire 2 is coming to Early Access in 2025 and we have the first official trailer to get you ready for more deck-building.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
The Illuminate have returned in a massive Helldivers 2 update out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/the-…
#Helldivers2 #Gaming #LinuxGaming #PCGaming
The Illuminate have returned in a massive Helldivers 2 update out now
Helldivers 2 just dropped a colossal update that sees the return of the Illuminate faction, a bunch of powerful aliens that like to destroy colonies and take over the minds of your fellow humans.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Silicon Valley falling in line into high-visibility corruption.
“The donation, confirmed by the company, is a departure from past practice by Zuckerberg and his company”
wsj.com/tech/mark-zuckerbergs-…
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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN co-op spin-off announced gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/elde…
#ELDENRINGNIGHTREIGN #SteamDeck #ELDENRING #PCGaming
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN co-op spin-off announced
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN was announced by FromSoftware and Bandai Namco Entertainment for 2025. It's a co-op spin-off and it sounds pretty exciting.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Core Keeper developer announced KYORA that looks suspiciously like Terraria where "every pixel is yours to shape" gamingonlinux.com/2024/12/core…
#KYORA #IndieGames #Linux #SteamDeck
Core Keeper developer announced KYORA that looks suspiciously like Terraria where "every pixel is yours to shape"
Terraria 2? Well, they can't call it that of course, but it sure looks like it. Coming from developer Pugstorm and published by Chucklefish, KYORA looks quite delightful.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Space Catitude 🚀
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Norm
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •"How did humans get along for millennia without wifi-connected kitchen appliances?"
That's the question of the century.
Matthew M :risc_os_verified:
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •ƧƿѦςɛ♏ѦਹѤʞ
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •#WTF #privacy #surveillance #consumer #security #comsec #thirdpartyparasites
Nicole Parsons
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •The Internet of Things isn't benign.
1. Manufacturers aren't satisfied with making & selling just cars & appliances anymore.
It's an additional revenue stream from selling your privacy to 3rd parties, foreign & domestic.
2. It uses up internet & cellular bandwidth & electricity at a prodigious rate. Brownouts & blackouts get more frequent.
It's driving up utility rates everywhere.
That artificially inflated demand is misused as justification to thwart a fossil fuel...
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zetabeta
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •owning and driving a car was fun many years ago. but these days cars have full data collection something, therefore cars feels ichy and scary, basically not fun.
something needs to be done for this surveillance capitalism in cars.
Jen Sorensen
in reply to zetabeta • • •Federico
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Anne Ominous
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •excellent comic
i've definitely reached a point where i will do anything i can to avoid 'smart' appliances.
prolly gonna move toward actively destroying them within a few years 🤣
RhesusPieces
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in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Semitones
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •I have a Roomba app on my phone that tells me when my "dumb Roomba" got stuck.
Ideally I'd put that Roomba on its own vlan to separate it from the other networked devices, but I don't have the hardware or the skills to do that.
But what tradeoff am I making with the app? What data can it collect? How would I even know? Is it in the terms and conditions or is it secret data harvesting?
Internet Rando
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in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Mark R DeLong
in reply to Jen Sorensen • • •Things Work Very, Very Well In This Country
Mark DeLong (3 Quarks Daily)Jen Sorensen
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