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Keeping it chill.

JPL is testing a new robotic arm, called Cold Operable Lunar Deployable Arm (COLDArm), that could help future @nasa missions explore extremely cold environments, like the unexplored regions around the South Pole of the Moon.
go.nasa.gov/3HcO1vs
#NASAJPL



LIVE NOW: Following today's close flyby of the Moon, our experts are giving an update on the #Artemis I mission.

The @NASA_Orion spacecraft is expected to splash down in the Pacific Ocean on Dec. 11. twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1BRKj…
#NASA



New achievement unlocked! After taking 15 rock cores and one atmospheric sample, I now have my third sample type: “regolith” (loose, sandy material). This specialized, hollow drill bit is another great tool for #SamplingMars.

Read more: go.nasa.gov/3B6KV8c
#PerseveranceRover

in reply to NASA

just have you seen the movie, "Life"? Just asking....


5,220!
That’s how many worlds beyond our solar system we’ve confirmed so far. Super-Earths, Hot Jupiters and mini-Neptunes abound, though none of these types are found in our own planetary neighborhood. Some may be Earth size but none are Earth-like. exoplanets.nasa.gov
#NASAExoplanets
in reply to NASA

VERY COOL! A recent "Infinite Monkey Cage" (BBC) podcast also had a lively discussion on this. bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0dcn51y


Please Die Later #shorts #Gaming #CultOfTheLamb youtube.com/shorts/GlWmeXXycsE
in reply to Brodie Robertson

wait a video with light coming out of your window? what is this about brodie :blobthinkingeyes:


As @NASA_Orion prepares to bid the Moon adieu, the #Artemis I mission says, "Goodnight, Moon!"

Check out this video of @AstroMarshburn reading aloud from the children's book during a past “Read Along, Draw Along” event hosted by Crayola and HarperKids.
#NASA



"capitalism breeds innovation"

* every smartphone trying to copy apple

* every social media platform becoming the same

* every web browser trying to be chrome


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Looks like Death Stranding Director’s Cut has a repeatable bug where using the right stick on Steam Deck on the map will cause the Deck to do a full reboot 😬

Went to report the bug and someone else already did: github.com/ValveSoftware/Proto…

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Sometimes it won’t reboot the deck but will crash, sometimes it will exit with an error. Either way the game seems completely broken.
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I fixed it. Set right joystick to Joystick Mouse and it no longer crashes or reboots the Steam Deck. Wat
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

TECHNOLOGY!!! Always hilarious when it’s something so trivial yet so annoying
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

that’s so weird! I’ve been playing it through GFN, just cus it looks and plays really well that way. Would be interesting to see what actually is being triggered to cause that though.


Ride along with NASA as we explore the solar system at solarsystem.nasa.gov
#NASASolarSystem


One day in the solar system: Here are a few views captured – today – by @nasa spacecraft. 🛰📸🧵

This is the Moon and the distant crescent Earth as seen today by the @NASA_Orion spacecraft during the #Artemis I mission. nasa.gov/artemis
#NASASolarSystem



These are hills on Mt. Sharp in Gale Crater, Mars as seen today by the @MarsCuriosity rover. Curiosity's robotic "hand" appears in the foreground. mars.nasa.gov/msl
#NASASolarSystem


Guide To Arch Linux User Repository Safety #Linux #ArchLinux youtu.be/-Wj_GsfwTak
in reply to Brodie Robertson

You say that saying a source package is more secure than its precompiled version is nonsense. I really disagree. Without checking line by line the source code, I can at least check that the PKGBUILD is getting the source code from the actual repo. I can't say the same for the bin file. It may have been built from a random dude's branch from a private fork that includes who knows what.
in reply to primalmotion

@primalmotion You can say that about a bin actually, most bin packages are downloading that bin from the repo as well.
in reply to Brodie Robertson

True... but I'm a simple man and I prefer to make sure I get the source anyways 😀
in reply to Brodie Robertson

Any thoughts on getting a Peertube account?

You can upload videos automatically, through CLI, so it doesn't have to increase the amount of per-video faff.



On flight day 19 for our @NASA_Orion spacecraft, four limiters responsible for downstream power switched off due to an issue with a power conditioning distribution unit.

The system is healthy, and there was no interruption to any critical systems: go.nasa.gov/3HaKBco
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



Part of an ancient river delta in Jezero Crater, Mars, as seen today by the @NASAPersevere rover. mars.nasa.gov/mars2020
#NASASolarSystem


The Sun as seen today in ultraviolet light by @NASASun's Solar Dynamics Observatory in Earth orbit. sdo.gsfc.nasa.gov/
#NASASolarSystem


The Pacific Ocean as seen today from @Space_Station eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ES
Learn about @NASAEarth's many missions to observe our home planet: nasa.gov/earth
#NASASolarSystem


We are all connected by water. As we get closer to launching SWOT, we’re focusing on #TrackingWorldWater and want to hear from you! 🌊

Share a photo, video, or questions about the mission and we might share it on the launch broadcast. Submit today ➡️ go.nasa.gov/3usJ368
#NASAEarth



Today we're celebrating retired NASA astronaut and @USCG commander, Bruce Melnick! Along with being the first Coast Guard Aviator to participate in NASA's space program on STS-41 and -49, he was also the first Coastie in space!
#NASAhistory


About 670 million light-years away in the constellation Eridanus, two galaxies are caught in a celestial embrace. The merging galaxies are distorted by gravity and twisted into a colossal ring, leaving their cores nestled side by side.
go.nasa.gov/3iFph4p
#NASAExoplanets
in reply to NASA

I wonder what it looks like today, 670 million years later?
We can only speculate...
in reply to NASA

The showstoppers in the foreground are brilliant but I just sat with this open staring at all that’s going on in the distance. Takes my breath away that we can see this.


¡Mañana en #CDMX! 📣En el encuentro de la red Tierra Común y la Red F<A+I>R (Feminist AI Research Network), vamos a estar participando del Foro "Soberanía Tecnológica en México"

📌Desde las 9 hs. Casa Rafael Galván, Zacatecas 94 (Roma Norte)

Más info➡️sursiendo.org/2022/12/encuentr…

#cdmx
in reply to Sursiendo

por favor, @sursiendo si se da material, me lo podrías pasar? es un tema que me interesa mucho. gracias


concurrency is when you frost a cake while the next cake is in the oven

parallelism is when you have two people frosting cakes


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Some massive star clusters shine bright for our Fermi telescope’s gamma-ray eyes due to the numerous fast-spinning pulsars they are likely to contain. This sky map highlights three of our galaxy’s largest globular clusters plus a few notable binary star systems. #StarrySights
#NASAUniverse


An observatory that will capture light from Earth’s outer atmosphere is set to launch in 2025 with a new name – The Carruthers Geocorona Observatory – in honor of Dr. George R. Carruthers, who designed & built the first lunar telescope, flown on Apollo 16. go.nasa.gov/3XRVMNb
#NASA
#NASA
in reply to NASA

I'm 53 and this is the first time I've heard of him. You're doing good nasa, but you can do better. Should have named the web telescope after him.


Galileo from @ProSieben, one of Germany’s most popular television programs released a new episode covering #Nextcloud as a major challenger against Microsoft’s cloud services.

Watch for @fkarlitschek in the episode and read about it in our blog!

nextcloud.com/blog/galileo-pre…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

great to see Public television coverage about my favorite cloud solution since 2018 (or so)


Four astronauts took Monday off following a weekend of spacewalk activities. The rest of the Exp 68 crew worked on electronics, life support, and spacesuit maintenance. blogs.nasa.gov/spacestation/20…
#ISS
#iss


Content warning: spritely vs plan9


comparing goblins to plan9's distributed programming, the main advancement seems to be garbage-collected datastructures.

this doesn't really do a lot to address what i think is plan9's actual biggest flaw, which is how you have to set up all the namespaces and such. if you want to make a change to your namespace in a reproducible way, usually you end up editing your boot script and rebooting.

all the messing about with creating vats reminds me a lot of the plan9 init dance.


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Content warning: spritely


just got around to checking out spritely goblins and to be honest...

it really doesn't seem to do much of anything right now.

sure, you have tranactions, but that doesn't seem to be strictly enforced, and such doesn't seem to be majorly useful over just writing code in a functional style.

1/


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Marvel's Midnight Suns - Steam Deck
youtu.be/69g7N0celto
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
@mdiluz I can definitely see this working better after a lil patch or two but it’s still better than expected and fun!
@Marc


The nitrogen in your DNA was once inside a small star. 🧬 That star shed its outer layers at the end of its life, forming a planetary nebula and freeing its nitrogen to become part of our solar system. #MondayMotivation
#NASAUniverse



You can also track the #Artemis I mission in our "Eyes on the Solar System" real-time 3D simulation: eyes.nasa.gov/apps/solar-syste…

[Video embedded in original tweet]
#NASASolarSystem



The (Amino) Truth is Out There 👽

#OTD in 1970, Dr. Cyril Ponnamperuma at @NASAAmes and coauthors reported they had positively identified extraterrestrial amino acids in the Murchison meteorite. It was the 1st conclusive proof of chemical evolution beyond Earth. #AlienAminoAcids
#NASAhistory



We have retrieved signal with @NASA_Orion after an expected loss of signal when the spacecraft flew directly behind the Moon.

You can see Earth in the distance. That's us. #Artemis
nasa.gov/artemislive
#NASA



.@NASA_Orion is only 1,550 miles away from the Moon right now.

The spacecraft will fly about 79 miles above the lunar surface at 11:42am ET (16:42 UTC).
#NASA

#NASA


LIVE NOW: @NASA_Orion is harnessing the Moon’s gravity to accelerate back toward Earth.

The spacecraft is expected to fly about 79 miles above the lunar surface at 11:42am ET (1642 UTC). #Artemis twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1yoKM…

[Video embedded in original tweet]
#NASA



Content warning: package managers


what's up with me having to manually decide how often to refresh the package index in so many package managers?

emacs gives me error messages until i run package-refresh-contents, xbps has me pass -S.

all of these give weird "not found" errors if you don't refresh the index enough, with no indication of what you need to do.


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.@NASA_Orion is closing in on the Moon, about 5,058 miles above the lunar surface. Orion is traveling at a velocity of 3,933 miles per hour. #Artemis
#NASAArtemis #Artemis
in reply to NASA

I really wish you would specify a reference frame when you give these speeds.
in reply to NASA

We need a Space Force to look for speeding vehicles and give them tickets 😀


Let’s go supergiant spotting!

This new #StarrySights image shows NGC 2002, an open star cluster 30 light-years across.

At its center, you can spy red supergiants – massive stars that are fusing helium after exhausting their hydrogen fuel: go.nasa.gov/3isScZs
#Hubble



Saints Row IV gets a free upgrade to Saints Row IV: Re-Elected and store cross-play gamingonlinux.com/2022/12/sain… #Gaming #Linux #FPS

in reply to Tobia Alberti

Possible; Eugen seems to be always one or two steps ahead — mastodon.social and mastodon.online were updated to 4.0 when it was still in alpha, if I remember correctly. Quite the move for such large instances.

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