(I included the "astronomer" and "not astronomer" categories, because I am pretty sure the people who I interact with here skew pretty heavily toward astronomers so the yes's might dominate just because of that)
I'm still trying to find out how this new AMD Radeon machine needs an Nvidia driver update app. Looks like anyone with ideas got stuck in the reply guy box and not saying a word. Or possibly nobody knows, or possibly people know but aren't saying. I got past binary options oooh must be 30 years ago.
Again, I wish search engines worked. Wasn't so long ago that they did. Mibs 2 years ago?
Cute girl: So. Before we proceed. How do you feel about Marx? Me (nervous): Umm look I guess I'm a socialist but I don't really know enough about the political theory behind it Her: ... Me: I'm sorry Her: ... Her: Marks. Can I leave marks on your skin
Scene: a room at my small liberal arts college in the early '90s. My friends Spence and Topher, boyfriends, lazing in bed together.
Spence: "You need me." Topher: "You know, it's true, I really do. Maybe I don't say that enough out loud, but I want you to know that I feel it often." Spence: "..." Topher: "..." Spence: "No, I mean you kneed me. Just now. In the balls."
It's becoming more and more common that I can't search-fetch a post. Reposting it from another place brings it here and then I can search and find it.
I'm guessing this is because more sites are enabling authorized fetch and Friendica hasn't yet implemented it ... for search specifically? Otherwise I shouldn't get the reposts either?
Not pushing anyone to do anything, it's not a weird corner case, I'm sure the relevant people are aware and it's in the backlog, and a fix will arrive in due time.
One interesting thing I'm seeing this minute are the active people who follow me back. I recognize many names, as I read their posts (I can't say toots, and I been on Mastodon since the first year). TBH, I'm not sure being on this instance makes any sense, but someone once said, "One cannot make love to all the women in the world, but one must try." I feel that way about platforms.
@CppGuy@clacke read somewhere that one of the best paid Spotify artists was some obscure German that specialises in βmood musicβ for the various playlists like chill, workout, focus etc. Essentially itβs fancy elevator music but by being on all these playlists the tracks get played LOADS
@CppGuy I know Dua Lipa because she was on Barbie. I know Billie Eilish because kid liked one of her songs and because people made parody memes.
Ava Max was in Barbie too (and so was Eilish, but I had already heard her), but she wasn't on this top list.
They're all great, and I've listened to them more since, but I wouldn't have known of them if they didn't reach me in some incidental way.
Taylor Swift is everywhere and impossible to have not heard about. She's even in the news, because men older than me aggressively don't like her for angry old man reasons.
But what I listen to most is Queen, Mike Oldfield and Daft Punk.
π¨π¨π‘β¨ Tras 5 meses enviando datos sin sentido, ‘‘la #Voyager1 ha enviado datos de ingenierΓa correctos y estΓ‘ a punto de volver a enviar ciencia!! Β‘Enhorabuena al equipazo del JPL que lo ha hecho posible! Β‘Gracias por volver a hacer lo imposible en una sonda de 47 aΓ±os! π‘β¨ https://x.com/NASAJPL/status/1782454277895749857?t=6hsshK1lx_s3YfZPj6rlng&s=09
Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back.
An #OTD thread from last year, about the scientific contributions of Julius Oppenheimer.
A lot of "common knowledge" about black holes β infinite redshift, the slow progress of an infalling observer from the point of view of a distant spectator β can be traced back to an influential paper Oppenheimer wrote in 1939. https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110245056828062741
Have you thought *at* *all*, for even a minute, about the business model of OpenAI?
In one sentence: "We will take every actual human-created content, the golden egg, from everyone, without permission, and then we will use it to sell plausible made-up shit, simultaneously choking out the creation of all new human-created content, the goose."
Ponzi was *vastly* more sophisticated than this.
I've long regarded extractive capitalism as corrupt, but I had no idea they were all so stupid.