"This work presents a photometric model of the Starlink satellites based on the Bidirectional Reflectance Distribution Function (BRDF) using millions of photometric observations. ... In addition to assessing the light pollution and guiding the development of response measures, accurate photometric models of satellites can also play an important role in areas such as space situational awareness."
Some enterprises, in the wake of #xz, are focusing on their metrics for #opensource dependencies they ingest..... rather than investing money, developer time, or other resources* to directly support maintainers.
But as I mentioned to a friend recently:
If downstreams do not provide at least as much support as a motivated attacker would, we're likely to continue to get these kinds of outcomes - & to be deceived, as attackers shape their efforts to trick the metrics.
"The March 2024 issue of the Malaysian Bird Report is now available for download.
There are field reports on anting behaviour in birds, the Bornean Frogmouth, prey taken by the Black-thighed Falconet, diet of the Blue-crowned Hanging Parrot and courtship of the Rufous-backed Dwarf Kingfisher. For those interested in raptors, Hans Peeters describes in great detail mimicry in birds of prey."
#observations in my neighborhood:
I live in a typical Florida HOA, with ~450 homes. I live in a majority #Republican area, in a top 5 wealthiest zip code of the county. I walked and biked every street in the 'hood this weekend; there's only one house with a "Let's Go Brandon" sign, it's small and tucked away under a short palm. This house has two older Japan-made cars (I checked, they are not USA-made). so I guess this guy doesn't like Biden's Build Back Better Agenda.
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There was an unintended outcome of tagging ALL observations from every Agile sprint—rather than only tagging observations that related to the current sprint's research focus…
As time passed, some of the qualitative data became quantitative as the sample size grew.
The first day of using #snac2 is coming to an end. Here are my observations:
It benefits greatly from ZFS and its compression. Performance is much better compared to an equivalent VM with OpenBSD.
Enafore and Phanpy work well. I appreciate Enafore's ability to hide replies and boosts (which Mastodon allows natively and also reflects in the API results). As for Phanpy, I like its interface. Of course, not everything works since the Mastodon API is only partially implemented, but the essentials are there. I especially like its integrated interface for threaded replies and notification display.
The "everything is a file" approach is very interesting. Even queues are treated as files, making it easy to monitor what's happening.
There are no character limits, and Markdown is natively supported - which is rendered correctly by Mastodon as well.
I believe that with larger numbers, Mastodon can show significantly better performance, mainly due to the separation of queue management and the web interface, as well as caching with Redis. I'm not sure how it would behave with 100 users connected simultaneously, reading everything from files and directories (perhaps better than I imagine), but this project isn't designed for large numbers. It doesn't aim to compete with Mastodon but to demonstrate that, without dependencies and high hardware requirements, one can successfully manage a node in the Fediverse.
In short, a decidedly positive experience that I will continue to delve into in the coming days.
Congratulations for the very good result, @grunfink !
A long and nice post on observing this pair of birds raising chicks over several seasons in Singapore.
"This pair of birds are so happy with this situation that they came back repeatedly and to this date, has successfully raised 5 chicks in total. In this post, I note the interesting events and observations throughout the breeding season."