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1. Iván Rivera :veritrek: (brucknerite@social.brucknerite.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 07:08:56 UTC Iván Rivera :veritrek:

   A veces pienso en un argumento antrópico inverso: si estoy vivo precisamente ahora y no en cualquier momento del pasado o el futuro, es porque ahora era el momento más probable para nacer. Es decir, que es en este tiempo cuando hay más humanos de los que nacer. Por tanto, en un futuro relativamente cercano (poned entre 100 y 1000 años, aunque la cuenta se puede afinar) habrá bastantes menos. El motivo de esto se deja como ejercicio para el lector.

   • Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 07:08:53 UTC Ricardo

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     @brucknerite estos razonamientos del _juicio final_, incluyendo los artículos mencionados en el hilo, se parecen mucho a los de la idea de que vivimos en una simulación. Todas estas ideas usan alguna variante del concepto de _observador típico_ El problema es que ninguno de nosotros es un observador típico, para serlo, hoy por hoy deberíamos estar en un área rural de la India o China. Sin embargo aquí estamos, en Europa, América o incluso alguna isla del Atlántico y con educación superior y ...

   • Ricardo (rgbes@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 07:27:02 UTC Ricardo

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     @brucknerite nada impide que Moon Watcher hubiera razonado igual. Se están empleando razonamientos estadísticos que creo no son aplicables: nuestra experiencia es nuestra, es única, no puedes hacer estadística con un punto. En principio podrías tratar de imaginar cómo sería el humano típico, pero como aún no tenemos todos los datos hay que crear un modelo para el futuro; ahora, si tu modelo de futuro parte de pensar que este momento es típico, ya estás incluyendo el resultado en tu hipótesis...

   • Iván Rivera :veritrek: (brucknerite@social.brucknerite.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 07:27:04 UTC Iván Rivera :veritrek:

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     • Ricardo

     @RGBes Exacto, y «huelen mal» también, quizá por el mismo motivo. Aunque ahora mismo no veo claro del todo cómo el hecho de no ser un observador típico (aunque tampoco improbablemente atípico, no somos Amancio ni Elon) cambia las cosas en este caso. Nada impide, en principio, que un observador que viva en las afueras de Mumbai ahora mismo razone igual…

2. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 14:25:33 UTC Robert McNees

   Every story the Universe tells is a history.

   Danish astronomer Ole Rømer was born #OTD in 1644. His observations of Jovian moons confirmed light propagates at finite speed. This profound conceptual shift opened the door for work by Huygens, Fresnel, and Maxwell.

   Portrait: Jacob Conring / Wikimedia Commons

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   • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 14:30:10 UTC Robert McNees

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     The speed of light is, to the best of our knowledge, the upper limit on the speed with which any causal influence can propagate in Nature.

     Looking at the stars, we are not seeing things as they are. Even looking at a person standing in front of you, there is a short delay between light leaving them and reaching your eye.

     We see everything as it was and nothing as it is. Every story the Universe tells is a history.

   • kites (kites@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 25-Sep-2023 14:52:18 UTC kites

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     @mcnees this might be a naive question, but intuitively wouldn't we expect to observe a difference in transit time when Earth was moving away from Jupiter vs towards Jupiter? In other words, when Earth is on the left vs the right in the diagram? I'd expect the observed transit time when Earth is on the top vs bottom to be similar to each other.

   • DocHolliday (wmshakesp3are@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 06:22:21 UTC DocHolliday

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     @mcnees not to mention Fig Newton.

3. Paul Cutler (prcutler@hachyderm.io)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 02:55:41 UTC Paul Cutler

   • Castopod :oss: :podcasting2:

   A big thank you and shout out to the team at @Castopod for migrating my podcast from self-hosted to Castopod.com. Seamless transition and the RSS feed didn’t even change!

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4. John Spurlock (js@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 02:55:30 UTC John Spurlock

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   Someone offered to take a look at implementing the ActivityPub "replies" collection in Lemmy (the increasingly popular Reddit alternative)

   https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2004#issuecomment-1694726517

   A Reddit-type post for a podcast episode makes a bunch of sense, perhaps even more than a Twitter-like post thread

   As soon as they implement this, it will automatically be supported by the existing podcast:socialInteract tag with no spec changes necessary

   cc @benjaminbellamy

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5. Castopod :oss: :podcasting2: (castopod@podlibre.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 02:55:16 UTC Castopod :oss: :podcasting2:

   Hey, Castopod v1.6 was just released! 🚀📦

   [EDITING IMPROVEMENTS]
   👀 You can now preview and share your episode before publishing it!

   + your usual bug fixes 🙂

   As always, you may grab Castopod - for free - on https://castopod.org

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   • Castopod :oss: :podcasting2: (castopod@podlibre.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 02:55:22 UTC Castopod :oss: :podcasting2:

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     You may also check the release notes! https://code.castopod.org/adaures/castopod/-/releases/v1.6.0

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6. :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 02:55:13 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

   🕹️ Now playing Karateka 🥋 on Xbox but I still have the original 5¼ floppy disk that I spent hours on almost 40 years ago! 💾

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7. Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 02:55:11 UTC Santa Claes 🇸🇪🇭🇰🎅

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   @benjaminbellamy Clarification: Jobs said this about the RIAA and their concerns. The context above could be interpreted the other way around. =)
8. :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 01:32:25 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

   Now imagine Paul Kafasis, founder of Rogue Amoeba, reading this story in this interview, discovering after 18 years that everything was played out behind his back. 😱
   He had no idea what had happened then!

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   • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 01:32:23 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

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     Adam's and Dave's interview is available here:
     https://blog.castopod.org/the-podfather-2-0-the-pioneers-strike-back/

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   • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 01:32:24 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

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     He wrote an article to express his surprise by telling the story from his point of view:
     https://weblog.rogueamoeba.com/2023/03/24/the-riaa-v-steve-jobs/

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   • Scott (maxburn@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 02:55:04 UTC Scott

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     @benjaminbellamy I just learned this hit DF which is kind of a big deal in the apple community.

     https://daringfireball.net/linked/2023/03/26/riaa-steve-jobs

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9. :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 01:32:34 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

   An American entrepreneur learns 18 years later that he escaped bankruptcy from a French magazine!
   👆️ Behind this slightly exaggerated and clickbait title unfolds a thread with a preposterous twist, a twist that I witnessed… 🧵

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   • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 01:32:33 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

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     • Dave Jones

     I then had to write a long interview on the “Podcasting2.0” revolution🎙️2️⃣, interviewing @adam and @dave.
     No wait. Back up. Let me start earlier. 🧼

   • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 01:32:33 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

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     18 years ago, access to online music gave you no real choice… It was either Charybdis or Scylla, piracy or DRM.
     Quick reminder, DRM are as useless as a paper pan: it's like protecting a safe with a code whose combination would be written with lemon juice on a piece of paper stuck to that safe… 🙃
     But that's not the point.

   • :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸 (benjaminbellamy@podcastindex.social)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 01:32:34 UTC :pci: Benjamin Bellamy 🇺🇸

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     It all started three months ago. I had just finished writing an article on the benefits of open-source software for Podcast Magazine.

10. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Thursday, 28-Sep-2023 00:48:06 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    One of my brothers visited the building where we lived when we were in high school. He took pictures.
    
    The new owners spent a lot of money to make the building look good. I barely recognize it.
11. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 20:22:21 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    #sonOne tells me he'll be part of a public event this year and may be briefly visible on TV. He was selected from a group of voluntarily chosen participants.
    
    One of my brothers is expected to attend another event the same day, possibly also being visible on TV and maybe even interviewed.
12. Stephen Sekula (steve@chirp.cooleysekula.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 17:25:19 UTC Stephen Sekula
    We had a lovely time # hiking the "Cup and Saucer" trail today. 9.3km in just over 3 hours, with lots of scenic views on the way (especially on the cliff side of the trails). Got a little lost and had a lot of fun with @ jodi ! https://chirp.cooleysekula.net/attachment/f41e11138f89f68e2f2da46bdb950ab0d44a865e2695526f46072a1f989360ab/view
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    • ghostdancer (ghostdancer@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 19:15:39 UTC ghostdancer

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      @steve Looks like a beautiful place to visit this time of the year.

13. LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} (lnxw48a1@nu.federati.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 18:15:04 UTC LinuxWalt (@lnxw48a1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
    https://nu.federati.net/url/291693
    
    From what I’ve seen so far, contaminated formula caused two confirmed deaths and several more are suspected.
    
    My nephew’s son is getting formula because of some problems that he had with mother’s milk. I definitely support the FDA improving its inspection process and putting the companies on blast for their penny pinching slipshod production processes.
14. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 14:37:58 UTC Robert McNees

    If there is one physics formula everyone knows, it's E = mc².

    Einstein proposed the famous equivalence between energy and mass in his second special relativity manuscript, which he submitted to Annalen der Physik #OTD in 1905.

    https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/E_mc2/www/

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    • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 15:00:34 UTC Robert McNees

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      The rate at which the energy was radiated as gravitational waves was not uniform — there was a peak and then it fell off.

      But if we estimate most of it being radiated over the last 10ms or so of the merger, that’s a power output of around 2 x 10⁴⁹ Watts.

      That’s about 10 times the luminosity of all the visible stars and galaxies in our universe!

    • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 15:02:59 UTC Robert McNees

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      Anyway, of all the important results Einstein published in his "miracle year" of 1905, the astounding and unexpected equivalence between mass and energy is the one that lodged itself in the popular consciousness.

      Happy E = mc² day!

    • John Francis (johnefrancis@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 16:07:48 UTC John Francis

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      @mcnees wow, that's a lot of power. I wonder how much of it ends up converted back to mass as it radiates away and crashes into other...mass.

15. Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 26-Sep-2023 15:18:15 UTC Robert McNees

    Happy 118th birthday to special relativity!

    Albert Einstein introduced special relativity in the paper "On The Electrodynamics Of Moving Bodies," published #OTD in 1905 in the journal Annalen der Physik.

    Manuscript: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/andp.19053221004
    English Translation: https://www.fourmilab.ch/etexts/einstein/specrel/www/

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    • Drew Olbrich (drewolbrich@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 11:04:36 UTC Drew Olbrich

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      @mcnees In this scenario, what would your measurement of the speed of sound be if you and your measuring equipment were made out of sound waves?

    • Robert McNees (mcnees@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 14:34:50 UTC Robert McNees

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      • Drew Olbrich

      @drewolbrich If I was made of sound waves? It would depend on the direction of the other sound wave.

      As a sound wave my speed is fixed by the properties of the medium. So I'm moving at basically 340 m/s through air in some direction. Any other sound wave is, as well. But this is with respect to the medium; it provides a fixed reference frame to refer to. If the other wave is moving in the same direction as me, I'd say its speed relative to me is zero. If the opposite direction? ~680 m/s.

    • Drew Olbrich (drewolbrich@mastodon.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 15:19:34 UTC Drew Olbrich

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      @mcnees Thanks, that makes sense.

      But I'm wondering, what if "made out of sound waves" is interpreted in the most literal way?

      To perform all my measurements, imagine I'm using sound clocks, analogous to photon clocks. Also, all atoms are constructed from sound waves and behave like tiny sound clocks.

      I'm also assuming that the mechanics of this sound-atom world require the sound atoms to length contract in the direction of motion relative to the medium.

16. AntennaPod (antennapod@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:31:31 UTC AntennaPod

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    • CryptGoat

    @cryptgoat Hello! Thanks for your interest. The survey has been open a week and we had an overwhelming interest. We could have done without that last toot indeed, sorry!
    If ever you feel the need to give feedback, please don't hesitate to chip in on our forum 🙂
    https://forum.antennapod.org

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    • CryptGoat (cryptgoat@digitalcourage.social)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:31:37 UTC CryptGoat

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      @AntennaPod
      Survey expired. 🤷

    • AntennaPod (antennapod@fosstodon.org)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:31:38 UTC AntennaPod

      We're looking to improve the way you download your episodes and prepare your listening experience.

      💭 Share your thoughts and experience with us! Let us know if you’d be happy to take part in an interview via this short survey (<5 minutes):
      https://survey.antennapod.org/index.php/657295

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17. 😷 Jan Wildeboer (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:07:30 UTC 😷 Jan Wildeboer

    It’s kind of weird to see a luxury car from the 1990s next to a modern car. That Mercedes was considered a really big car at its time.

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    • 😷 Jan Wildeboer (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:07:49 UTC 😷 Jan Wildeboer

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      (It’s really funny to read the excuses in the replies that people come up with. „It was the smallest Benz!“ - Yes, but compared to other cars of that time it *was* quite big. Not huge, but still a Benz. „Family vans have always been bigger too!“ - yep. And Trucks are even bigger ;) Accept the simple truth. Cars have in general become bigger, especially wider. Parking spaces have grown with that. Cars occupy more and more space in cities and that doesn’t make a lot of sense.

    • 😷 Jan Wildeboer (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:07:49 UTC 😷 Jan Wildeboer

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      Especially that they became wider is a problem, as the width of streets hasn’t grown accordingly. This is a problem I’ve noticed over the years. Cars *are* closer to me when I ride my bicycle on bike lanes that are just marked, not physically separated from car lanes.

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      @jwildeboer But the cars *have* to become bigger, to better protect you against the other cars that got bigger!

      /s

18. 😷 Jan Wildeboer (jwildeboer@social.wildeboer.net)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:31:22 UTC 😷 Jan Wildeboer

    • Wouter Wolff

    @wowolff My neighbour has to park his shiny new car outside as its simply too big for his garage :) His anger attack when he found out was actually quite funny to watch from a safe distance :)

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19. Faintdreams (faintdreams@dice.camp)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:07:22 UTC Faintdreams

    • adaddinsane (Steve Turnbull)

    @adaddinsane

    ::Ponders:

    Could a subconscious rejection of the Heroes Journey be why all 'side character' fan-fic exists?

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20. Unheilbar ™ 🦣 (unheilbar@social.cologne)'s status on Wednesday, 27-Sep-2023 12:07:15 UTC Unheilbar ™ 🦣

    Geiles T-Shirt 😍

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