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..and of course Earth. This view captured by an astronaut on @Space_Station shows the Sarychev volcano in Russia's Kuril Islands, northeast of Japan, in an early stage of eruption on June 12, 2009. solarsystem.nasa.gov/earth
#NASASolarSystem
in reply to NASA

someone knows where this white cloud around the top of the ash cloud comes from? Looks very smooth.
in reply to NASA

It's making me sad that your images don't seem to include alt text for those of us who don't experience the world visually.



"Jeypore. Jey Sings Observatory" by Photoglob Company (1890).

Photoglob Co., publisher, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.



This is your crazy cousin from Australia that the family doesn't like to talk about.
Tawny Frogmouth owl.
tawny frogmouth
(okay, they aren't technically owls but that's their name!)



#Moonray the #Dreamworks in house #render is now available for free and is #opensource too, after while of code cleaning, this is an other render #engine. I lost the count of #renderengine.
Now only the add-on for Blender 😀
openmoonray.org/
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On the difficulty of ranking Steven Spielberg's movies (also includes several rankings of his movies). "Spielberg has dipped into every genre, flexed every cinematic muscle, and made too many classics for too many varying tastes." polygon.com/23631001/best-stev…


Friends. I may not get my sock box back. After her rage sleeping the other day, Alea the Black Cat has now decided it's A Good Place To Be. Pray for my hot dog socks - they're now subjected to black fur.

#AleaTheBlackCat #CatsOfMastodon #MastoCats #ArtistLife



In 2020, we announced the confirmation of H2O on the Moon, but we had remaining questions – how does the water behave? How can we access it? A new map of water distribution on the Moon provides hints about how water may be moving across the Moon’s surface. go.nasa.gov/3JkIEJL
#NASAMoon


You definitely want to update Microsoft Office.

MDSec beat me to it on CVE-2023-23397, it's supppper easy to exploit + works with remote images disabled - turns out the spec (which is open) has a function to specify a sound when an Outlook email arrives - which loads via UNC and sends NTML password hash for AD account to internet = no click cred theft, PoC in wild.

#CVE202323397 mdsec.co.uk/2023/03/exploiting…

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If you're looking for something gorgeous to listen to, please take some time with the Machines in Between podcast series—I was thrilled to be part of it.

Get it here: machinesinbetween.com/

in reply to Nathan Schneider

looking forward to checking it out- I grew up near Lancaster and still have a lot of people there!



A hard truth for websites who want people to log in before they can read their free content: "Not reading is easier than reading 8212; and *way easier* than logging in." theverge.com/2023/2/28/2361880…
#8212
in reply to kottke.org

Pepperidge Farm remembers when disabling javascript was a switch to ditch all the pestering crap. Now without JS, many sites just fail.


Celestial Globe by Robert de Vaugondy (1754).

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.



PSA: CentOS x86 SIG proposed to address "significant delay between the release of new x86-64 ISAs and the adoption across the entire CentOS distribution."
lists.centos.org/pipermail/cen…
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Privacy compliance made easy with Nextcloud Enterprise's Compliance Kit. Our customers are guided through the process of meeting privacy regulations. Download our free GDPR Overview document to learn more!

nextcloud.com/gdpr/



#Help wanted: Could you please fill in and circulate (#retoot #reblog ) the following survey on #Mastodon and #fediverse ?

warwick.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/…

This survey is part of a #research project led by @__nate__ and me and it is aimed at understanding the reasons that motivated people to using Mastodon, their expectations in doing so and their current experience using it.



It's great to get compliments on @joss

"The JOSS process is absolutely brilliant, and the tooling around it is impressive. This is the first publishing framework that actually makes the paper better with very tight and continuous reviewer/editor feedback."

github.com/openjournals/joss-r…

"Thanks for your time and effort. This has been the best experience I've ever had in submitting a paper due to the tooling you're using and the very open and friendly review process."

github.com/openjournals/joss-r…

@JOSS


Meet Dr. Noah Petro — the Artemis III project scientist

No stranger to exploring the Moon, Dr. Petro is the project scientist for our Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which has been orbiting the Moon since 2009. nasa.gov/lro
#NASAMoon



Meet Dr. Barbara Cohen — the Artemis IV project scientist

Dr. Cohen is the principal investigator of NASA’s Lunar Flashlight mission as well as an instrument aboard the Peregrine Mission 1 with @nasa’s Commercial Lunar Payload Services program. nasa.gov/clps
#NASAMoon



#Docker is deleting open source organizations and asking them to pay $420 annually to continue.

blog.alexellis.io/docker-is-de…

Venture Capital is a !@%#$+ disease. Build companies the old fashioned way. Build a product that people want to buy, then sell it to them. Hire people when you have enough profit to afford them.

(Yes I recognize some business require huge up front capital and aren't possible without VC. They're the exception not the norm.)



Any Rubik's Cube can be solved in 20 moves or less. The "meet in the middle" algorithmic trick can help a computer program solve a Cube in minutes or hours instead of millenia. kottke.org/23/03/the-algorithm…


The #OpenMP API can help in solving the portability problem in the embedded systems field. Have a look at the following blog.

openmp.org/blog/embedded-syste…

Enjoy #EmbeddedWorld23, if you are there this week.

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Sci-fi submarine sim Barotrauma floats out of Early Access gamingonlinux.com/2023/03/sci-…



"Astronomy" illustration from: "Oeconomus prudens et legales. Oder Allgemeiner Klug- und Rechts-verständiger Haus-Vatter" by Florinus (1705).

Florinus, Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.



Did you try your hand at this year’s #NASAPiDay challenge? Check your answers here: go.nasa.gov/3yDXyWT
#NASA


The #Artemis dream team just added two new members!

Congratulations to @NASAGoddard's Dr. Noah Petro and Dr. Barbara Cohen for being appointed to coordinate lunar science for the first and second crewed lunar landing missions in more than 50 years.

nasa.gov/feature/nasa-appoints…
#NASAMoon



.@nasa and @Axiom_Space have signed a mission order for the third private astronaut mission to the space station, targeted to launch no earlier than November 2023. go.nasa.gov/3JRbdAl
#ISS
#iss @NASA


A slice of the Barbotan Meteorite that fell on July 24, 1790 in France.

Steve Jurvetson from Los Altos, USA, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/2kFjV15

#meteorite



I told him he couldn't have my oatmeal, so he sniffed my coffee, which I told him he couldn't have, so he laid down where he could reach the bowl and waited until he thought I was distracted. Twice. When I called him out, he moved. He's holding my coffee hostage. His name is Trouble.
#CatsOfMastodon


.@Axiom_Space revealed a spacesuit prototype that our @NASA_Astronauts plan to wear near the Moon’s South Pole on @nasa’s #Artemis III mission.

The spacesuit will give lunar explorers extra mobility, protection, & the latest technology. Discover more: go.nasa.gov/400qG6e
#NASAArtemis #Artemis

in reply to NASA

Now this awfully ugly #darkmode hype even reached #spacesuit #design - Scientifically total nonsense, but hey it looks sooo cool!
Or is this design just for the „dark side of the moon?“🤣 👩‍🚀 🙄 🌚 #Nasa


Hot off the press! 🗞️

In our latest issue of NASA History News & Notes, NASA historians discuss the Space Shuttle Columbia accident, how the Agency was transformed in its wake, and the legacy it leaves today.

Download the PDF: go.nasa.gov/3yAYVph
#NASAhistory



Live now: @Axiom_Space and NASA reveal the spacesuit prototype for @NASA_Astronauts to wear near the Moon’s South pole on #Artemis III.

Remarks & suit demo – 10:30am EDT (1430 UTC)

Student Q&A – 11:15am EDT (1515 UTC) twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1YqKD…
#NASA



The artist who walked on another world!

On his birthday, we remember astronaut and artist Alan Bean! Bean walked on the Moon for Apollo 12, commanded the Skylab 3 crew 50 years ago in 1973, and after retiring from NASA, devoted his time to painting his spaceflight memories.
#NASAhistory



Comet 21P/Giacobini-Zinner on September 9, 2018.

Alexander Vasenin, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#comet



Why Is There an Empty Picture Frame in Joe Biden's Oval Office? "I have the answer! And it takes us down a bit of a rabbit hole." kottke.org/23/03/why-is-there-…


Dr. Taylor Hutchison is an astrophysicist and NASA postdoctoral fellow. She focuses on studying extremely distant galaxies, and is working with Webb data as part of several collaborative science programs.

Read more about Dr. Hutchison: go.nasa.gov/42irRjw
#JamesWebb



Dr. Jane Rigby is an astrophysicist, Webb’s Operations Project Scientist and Dr. Hutchison's fellowship mentor. She uses Webb and other telescopes to study how galaxies and the black holes at their centers evolve over time.

More on Dr. Rigby: go.nasa.gov/3mW57Wl
#JamesWebb



Nebraska state senator Machaela Cavanaugh is 3 weeks into filibustering an anti-trans bill. "If this Legislature collectively decides that legislating hate against children is our priority, then I am going to make it...painful for everyone." apnews.com/article/filibuster-…

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