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Visually spectacular "sculpted" supercell thunderstorm near Woodrow on high plains of eastern Colorado earlier today (6/8/24). This storm featured a blue-green & ground-scraping shelf cloud (& dust storm beneath) so wide I could not fully capture even with wide angle lens! #COwx
#cowx


Facebook bots invading forums where people are trying to have conversations with other people is a genuinely evil development.

theconversation.com/ai-chatbot…



How to Identify that Light in the Sky apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240609.ht… #APOD
#APOD


The Linux Kernel Keeps Dropping Hardware Support! #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/OHLyrvM_xSE


What Happened To The Linux XZ Vulnerability? #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/KQjKMtL11L8
in reply to Brodie Robertson

absolutely mind boggling the amount of work that is needed to review everything a malicious maintainer has ever touched in a repo. Great cleanup, though.

Choose maintainers wisely, or suffer… would be my takeaway from this.

Great vid!



in reply to Jen Sorensen

Perhaps they need a Homeland of their own, not part of the US, obviously. Texas, Florida?
in reply to Jen Sorensen

One of my new favorite phrases is, "You can't fix stupid, but at least the red hats make them easier to avoid."


Waking up here for today's #GovernableSpaces event in SF lu.ma/governable-spaces-sf


Our blurry boys the other day. They'd been to the vet and had their worming treatment a few hours earlier so were feeling a little out of sorts. They were back to their usual hilarious selves by morning though.

#cats #caturday #CatsOfMastodon #blackcat



Bad and naughty iPhones get put into The iPhone Wiggler

youtube.com/watch?v=8reaJG7z-i…



“The universe is expanding, and faster now than it did in the past. Scientists don't know why, but the leading explanation is that the universe contains something that has a repulsive gravitational effect - it pushes the universe apart instead of pulling it back together. This phenomenon is called dark energy.”

- NASA, image by the Euclid European #Space Agency telescope ✨

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

"or, we've biffed a bit of math or observation somewhere along the extremely long chain of reasoning it takes to get to this conclusion."

But, the universe is certainly mighty weird, and is under no obligation to be sensible



NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut William Anders nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-adm… #NASA #HumansInSpace #Apollo8 #Astronauts #GeminiXI #WilliamAAnders


NASA Administrator Remembers Apollo Astronaut Williams Anders nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-adm… #NASA #HumansInSpace #Apollo8 #Astronauts #GeminiXI #WilliamAAnders


Here's a list of everyone standing for election who has a Mastodon account:

candidates.democracyclub.org.u…

Only 11 candidates so far.

If you know of any others, please add it to their candidate page.

If you know of anyone standing, please encourage them to join the Fediverse.

#UKPolitics #GE2024



Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies

Image Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ivo Labbe (Swinburne), Rachel Bezanson (University of Pittsburgh), Processing: Alyssa Pagan (STScI)

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240608.ht… #APOD

#APOD
in reply to (moving) APOD

every time i see such GX Clusters, i get very very angry about humans... hundrets of trillion stars, if only in every millionth system is one life form it would outnumber every human in our universe. and humans feel themself soooooooooo important. this makes me sick.

but anyway - this is a woderful image! ❤️





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Pandora's Cluster of Galaxies apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap240608.ht… #APOD
#APOD


in reply to Brodie Robertson

I've given KDE Plasma 6 a try and I am positively impressed. It is much faster and more responsive than I was expecting.



_I feel the pain! I once had to teach STEM students how to not pad their writing with three buck words, and periodic sentences._
in reply to Muse

@Bob Lai I've heard people complain about film editing as being like watching paint dry. I actually enjoy it. So much creative energy goes into good editing.
in reply to Muse

It's so much more than simply throwing a bunch of related shots together. You can establish a mood, focus the viewer's attention, tell a complete story.

A book on Final Cut Pro by Diana Weynand (this was several years ago, so the lesson/content may have changed) included a scene from the series Leverage. Consisting of multiple takes, the student has to learn how to sync the audio with the video, but also incorporate different camera angles as characters speak and react to one another. It's fascinating.



Today we have @ReneRebe on the podcast to talk about a project he has been working on for a very very long time but hardly anyone even knows it exists, T2 SDE, one of the few remaining standalone distros #Linux #Podcast

Video: youtube.com/watch?v=8lvKw4Iced…

Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/sho…

in reply to Brodie Robertson

that was a fun one! Thank you so much for having me on the show 😉


Someone over at Github fucked up a little, just a little bit of CSS injection x.com/gf_256/status/1799197013…


Sols 4209-4211: Just Out of Reach science.nasa.gov/blogs/sols-42… #NASA #Blogs


‘Tis the season I lose my kitchen for a week. But that also means I get to hang out with the great WKAR-PBS folks who make Serving Up Science so much fun. Season 5 should be a good one 🌶️




NASA Selects Contractor for Lifecycle Services Support nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-sel… #NASA
#NASA


Proton Experimental gets updates for Guild Wars 2, Squad, Sleeping Dogs and more gamingonlinux.com/2024/06/prot…

#Linux #SteamDeck #Proton


in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

* Which really happened to Valve / Steam years ago, oopsies: github.com/ValveSoftware/steam…
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

one day, I don't know how, I "ran" a markdown file with notes about luks and cryptsetup

one note was about preparing the disk to the installation, on how to clear the disk with `dd`

it just cleared the data header of luks, and since that day I learned to always have backup of the luks headers



NASA Crew Flight Test Astronauts to Call White House, NASA Leaders nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-cre… #NASA #HumansInSpace #CommercialCrew #CommercialSpace #InternationalSpaceStationISS #ISSResearch #KennedySpaceCenter


What Are You Looking At? nasa.gov/image-article/what-ar… #NASA #KennedySpaceCenter

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

It ain't Real Broke until you have to drop into the root console and manually mount the boot device
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NASA Exploring Alternative Mars Sample Return Methods nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-exp… #NASA
#NASA


NASA Crew Flight Test Astronauts to Call White House, NASA Leaders nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-cre… #NASA #HumansInSpace #CommercialCrew #CommercialSpace #InternationalSpaceStationISS #ISSResearch


Don't have time to write it up properly at the moment, but there's a pretty big bundle of tinyBuild games live - looks good too: humblebundle.com/games/tinybui… (partner link)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Still grumpy that I helped crowdfund "no time to explain" and they shipped a broken version for macOS that didn't properly implement mouse grab, ignored bug reports and moved on to making their next game. I think I am done giving them money unless something big changes 😕


NASA Invites Media to Rollout Event for Artemis II Moon Rocket Stage nasa.gov/news-release/nasa-inv… #NASA #SpaceLaunchSystemSLS #Artemis #Artemis2 #HumansInSpace #MarshallSpaceFlightCenter #MichoudAssemblyFacility

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