These guys actually tracked down a copy of Archie (including the source code) and now have a public Archie server back online!
Archie was the Internet's first search engine (before the web existed). I remember using it in the early 90s.
It's pretty funny how usable 90s tech is: imagine, a search engine that just gives you direct links to file downloads without any other nonsense involved!
I was rewatching some Star Trek TNG and some Voyager.
Voyager is OK but Chakotay and his pseudo native stuff are annoying, and good god neelix is just annoying AF, the Jar Jar binks of ST, Kess kind of sucks, Tom Paris is pretty tedious. too. . . #startrek#voyager#TNG
okay, I know that the Kazon stripped them of all their technology, but surely they didn't stop to dig out the subdermal universal translators from some 150 odd crew members???
so how come they can't understand these particular aliens???
I don't understand why Tuvok has to make his meditation block-structure with his eyes closed? it doesn't seem like that's a great way to build a balanced structure?
Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent.
There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators erased from public memory. Leonora Carrington and Dorothea Tanning met similar resistance; Andre Breton and Dalí both also being misogynistic megalomaniacs who vanguarded surrealism from women; Henry Miller writing to Anaïs Nin that her stories were garbage and should be disregarded, only for her to discover whole sections copied word for word in his novels years later, all while she financed his existence.
Francoise Gilot finally gets an exhibition after this hack successfully ruined her chances of success as an artist while she lived, and her name is still omitted.
Rebecca Solnit suggests that the fact that the question "what is your mother's maiden name?" is often used for security measures is a meaningful indicator of the extent of women's erasure. What's in a name? A lot. If one's claim of one's own name meant nothing then colonisers wouldn't need to strip them from the colonised, and men wouldn't need to erase them in marriage, from history books and from reportage.
「 Voyager was the first unmanned mission to include distributed computing, partly because the sheer number of tasks to be executed with precision during the high-stakes planetary fly-bys would exceed the capabilities of any single computer that could be made flyable. There was a social engineering angle to this as well, in that it kept the various engineering teams from competing for resources from a single computer 」
A thing that makes the #Voyager bugfix so compelling: at no point has "throw more GPUs/nodes/buckets/bandwidth at it" been a solution. Not at any budget.
Ihr #StarTrek liebenden Pay-Streaming-Verweigerer da draußen, höret meine Worte:
Auf #Tele5 beginnt, nachdem #Voyager geendet hat, gerade wieder #DasNächsteJahrhundert bzw #TheNextGeneration oder #TNG mit Staffel 1 Folge 1.
Noch für 5 Tage lässt sich die erste Folge in der Mediathek nachträglich ansehen und, wenn ihr am Ball bleibt, nach & nach alle Folgen der Serie nach Ausstrahlung im TV.
Viel Vergnügen!
Ich gebe es mir auf jeden Fall (nochmal) 🤗
The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing another glitch. Instead of sending science and engg. data, it is sending a 0101 bit pattern.
The problem has been narrowed down to the flight data system (FDS), which is not communicating properly with the telecom unit (TMU). A reboot did not help.
Stay tuned as NASA engrs work out a fix for this 1970's era computer, which has performed magnificently during its long 46-year journey to the planets and to outer space. https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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Confirmation today from the Voyager 1 team that the transmission received on Sunday contained science data from 2 of the 4 operating instruments - the plasma wave subsystem and the magnetometer. The other 2 instruments - the cosmic ray subsystem and the low energy charged particle instrument - require recalibration, which will be done in the coming weeks.
The delicate software operation is working as expected.