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zrb

@zrb@astrodon.social

Software engineer in astronomy. Interested in high-energy astrophysics, leftist theory, and permaculture gardening.

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winter, to random
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they are literally out here telling me to put olive oil and ethanol in people's eyes please make it stop

zrb,
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@winter if you give everyone five contact lenses per eye they'll ablate away on contact with chemical weapons and also keep your eyes warm like a little wool coat

jacqueline, to random
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why does the receptionist at my local hair salon have a monitor dedicated to a four up security camera display

zrb,
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@jacqueline hair security is no joke, what if someone steals all the hair

zrb, to fediverse
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Just a bit confused about @vernissage and @pixelfed; will be an entirely new federated image sharing server supporting ? Alongside ?

I’m all for more choices in open source, as long as they’re interoperable; I’m just unsure of the differences between these platforms.

djsundog, to random
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disrupting existing models by violating the law and/or ethics isn't an industry, it's a grift, and grifters can get in the trebuchet.

zrb,
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@ecsaln @djsundog for stealing someone else's words you must now get in the trebuchet yourself

opethehowdyman, to Sony
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Eclipse 2024
I captured these outside of Indianapolis
‭Psalms 19:1 NLT‬
[1] The heavens proclaim the glory of God. The skies display his craftsmanship.
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zrb,
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@Radical_EgoCom @opethehowdyman hey I just wanted to let you know, respectfully, this reply is kinda cringe.

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@Radical_EgoCom @opethehowdyman the original poster is sharing how their witnessing the eclipse evoked a sense of wonder, and how that reminded them of their personal experience with their religion. I don't think it's constructive to throw the thesaurus at them and assert how something being a natural phenomenon is mutually exclusive with it being divine.

Of course, I might have mischaracterized your post. I apologize if that's the case.

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@Radical_EgoCom you presuppose that divinity is supernatural. Anything can be divine if you believe in an omnipotent deity. The original poster is quite clearly saying "wow, look at this beautiful specimen of God's creation". Even I, an atheist, can see that.

I'm just trying to tell you, it was not necessary for you to chime in with "um actually, it was just an eclipse and you're silly for thinking you can attach any emotional or metaphysical weight to it". That is cringe.

zrb, to tea
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I've been drinking every morning for months and I just learned last week that apparently you're supposed to aerate it with a bamboo whisk? Reportedly this step is highly important to produce the desired texture and flavor.

I just want to enjoy my morning grass water, but now I gotta go buy a DLC attachment for it I guess

zrb, to random
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Heard what sounded like two distinct sonic booms immediately after totality started on the southern shore of Lake Erie. Some friends in Portland, Indiana verified they had heard the same thing there, too.

zrb, to random
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the simplicity and insanely fast performance of is like a breath of fresh air after working with GitHub for so long

zrb, to random
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Even though only has about 1/1000 the mass of the Sun, it stores the majority of the angular momentum in our solar system. Not only that, but the entire dang planet, ~11 times the radius of Earth, whips around once every ~9.8 hours.

The effects of tides and Coriolis forces must be impressive. I wonder what it would be like to fly through the surface cloud layers in person.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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Avian flu jumped to cows and now people.

zrb,
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@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs rare image of avians infesting a cow (colorized)

jacqueline, to random
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between codeberg, sourcehut, and disroot, and ecosystem of stuff-that-isn't-github is just so good. different service providers fitting different niches, all backed by some good software and lovely people. i hope they're all able to keep it up!!!

zrb,
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@jacqueline I was interested in trying out , but after a good two hours reading docs and trying to figure out their decentralization model I'm just more confused than when I started. Plus, call it superstitious, but any project that embraces .eth is a project I'm fine staying away from.

I'll just self-host and call it a day. Figuring out how git-email works will be my next project.

Plus_Ultra, to random
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IMMERSION

I may have bought a pair of drinks that suspiciously resemble something else. xD

zrb,
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@Plus_Ultra how were you able to get your spacemouse to work in game? With vJoy?

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@Plus_Ultra oh, well thanks anyway! 😅

I've been trying to get mine to work as a 6-dof joystick on Linux but the proprietary driver makes it quite difficult 🕹️

skyfaller, to Podcast
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I just tried to sync a with an mp3 player from a Mac and was utterly defeated. This used to be so easy!

gPodder seems to be recommended by internet forums, but I couldn't get it to sync.

@jacqueline do you have any ideas for how we might sync podcasts to a from macOS? (I'm not asking you to support the crappy $6 mp3 player I'm messing with now, but I don't have a Tangara to play with yet.)

zrb,
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@jacqueline @skyfaller @hailey Along those lines, how difficult would it be to sync progress of podcasts / audiobooks with a server running ?

I understand that the point of is to be an offline device, but keeping listening sessions sync'ed with the server would be very convenient!

(would I need to learn C++ to implement that? I'm more of a 🦀 person myself but I could certainly try!)

ailurux, to random
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15 minutes until i need to leave: "yeah i have time to watch a 17 minute long youtube video"

zrb,
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@ailurux I knew it, you're spying on me through the tangara I bought in order to make dank posts out of tidbits from my life

truly diabolical

alextecplayz, to Steamdeck
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Do NOT trust this new startup company promising to deliver a new Linux-based handheld device. They have funding from blockchain companies, they promise way too much, their goals are high, and some of the promises can't even be delivered. How do they plan on allowing players to play Fortnite? What does an 'immutable distro' have to do with hackers? So many questions...

If I didn't know any better, this could be a scam or something that will leave the limelight soon enough and the people will run off with the $10 million they secured in funding.

https://www.theverge.com/24090470/playtron-gaming-os-linux-handhelds-exclusive

zrb,
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@alextecplayz

"our anti cheat system. We are planning to generate signatures for each version of our OS"

so if I'm understanding this correctly, the intention is in fact a locked down OS. Will you not even be able to install your own programs if that makes the system-level signature different, lest it could possibly be cheating software?

I haven't used an immutable distro, so perhaps these problems have solutions. These marketing claims just feel a bit disingenuous to me.

zrb, to random
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"Parts of High Plains Aquifer, including the well-known Ogallala aquifer, have a point of no return — some farms and communities have already crossed it — and the damages that ensue can come with little warning.

[...]

The trouble is not limited to Kansas, experts say. There are thin spots on the aquifer all across the plains, particularly in states south of Nebraska, at risk of the same water crisis."

https://ambrook.com/research/sustainability/high-plains-aquifer-ogallala-kansas-irrigation

hannah, to random
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My second gutenberg post-processing project is now in the “smooth reading” phase! It’s The Cloven Foot, a victorian “sensation novel” of murder and romance by M. E. Braddon, and you can read it here to catch any last errors before it gets put on PG: https://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID5f5d19e4dd173

zrb,
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@carithlee @hannah that phrasing reminds me of https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5140

gwynnion, to random
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People's failure to understand that fascism is a fairly banal worldview reflects a refusal to understand how common and ordinary looking it is and how well it hides behind our modern high tech lifestyles.

Fascism doesn't have to have 1930s pomposity and daily military parades.

It can look like America, right now, today, depending on who and where you are. America already has military jingoism, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, unchecked paramilitaries, and theocrats denying our rights.

zrb,
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@gwynnion the most infuriating dismissal: “calling everything you don’t like ‘fascism’ isn’t an argument”. The most striking (and terrifying) realization I had when reading about pre-Nazi Germany was the eerie familiarity of their political situation to today.

Politics isn’t some abstract thing that happens to other people somewhere far away.

seachanger, to random
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ok going down the old train art rabbit hole, how’s everyone else’s work day going

Layered vertical landscape with train drawn at the bottom, large white mountain dominates and night blue sky behind, abstract fields in front. Text on bottom advertises the California Zephyr

zrb,
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@seachanger the last time I rode the Coast Starlight it crashed and derailed (right before our lunch appointment, too!) We never even got to see the coast!

I've been looking for an opportunity to get back on long-distance Amtrak ever since; maybe the Empire Builder is the move

chirpbirb, to random
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babascript

zrb,
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@chirpbirb babushkascript

jacqueline, to random
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rust could be the best thing ever done with a computer for all i know. i just find it hard to get excited about things with institutional backing from such glamorous organisations as ‘palantir’ and ‘the united states’

zrb,
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@jacqueline ah shit ah fuck, I use rust how did I not know this

SallyStrange, to random
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Good morning. I like putting pretty landscape pictures on my desktop computer background.

If you wouldn't mind me using your landscape photos this way (and in no other ways), please reply with a landscape pic you took.

Here's one I took back in 2020.

zrb,
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@SallyStrange also https://astrodon.social/@zrb/109432928390418192

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