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noybeu, 4 days ago to microsoft

🚨 noyb has filed two complaints against #Microsoft (365 Education) for violating children's data protection rights!

👉 The company shifts responsibility for #GDPR compliance to local schools...

👉 ...and places tracking cookies without consent

Read all about it here:

https://noyb.eu/en/microsoft-violates-childrens-privacy-blames-your-local-school

destevez, 4 days ago to random

New blog post: Decoding ERMINAZ. Here I speak about the comms of the upcoming AMSAT-DL ERMINAZ satellites, for which I've recently added support to gr-satellites. These use the OSDLP stack from Libre Space Foundation QUBIK and will transmit SSDV images. https://destevez.net/2024/06/decoding-erminaz/

thomas_appere, 4 days ago to China French

Ma version du 1er panorama acquis par la sonde Chang'e 6 🇨🇳 depuis le bassin Aitken, près du pôle sud de la Lune, sur sa face cachée.
Horizon redressé et niveaux de couleurs ajustés.
https://www.flickr.com/photos/thomasappere/53770070719/in/dateposted-public/

#moon #change6 #china #cnsa #clep #spaceexploration #panorama #imageprocessing #space #science

CopernicusECMWF, 4 days ago to random

📽️A new series of videos developed by CoCO2 project, coordinated by ECMWF, illustrates the evolution of methane (CH4), carbon monoxide (CO), and carbon dioxide (CO2) in our atmosphere over one year with a high level of detail.

Read more here 👉 https://atmosphere.copernicus.eu/coco2-project-videos-show-our-planets-greenhouse-gas-cycle?utm_source=socialmedia&utm_medium=ma&utm_id=news-coco2-2405

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alanboyle, 4 days ago to space

That was fast! After a couple of days of taking samples and taking selfies, China's Chang'e-6 probe lifted off from the moon's far side and is due to rendezvous with an orbiter to stash those samples for the trip back to Earth. https://cosmiclog.com/2024/06/04/chinese-probe-collects-moon-samples-and-lifts-off/ #Space #ChangE6 #China #Moon

osma, 6 days ago to random

While in the current political discussion climate this theme is easy to forget, the current @EUCommission has been pursuing a very privacy-hostile #ChatControl policy for digital communications, which the current EU Parliament has opposed. As you pick your candidate for #EU2024 elections, pay attention to their track record on digital, consumer, privacy questions. This matter is not settled yet, nor will it be the last such matter.
https://edri.org/our-work/be-scanned-or-get-banned/

emilymbender, 6 days ago to random

This is a decent summary of the octopus thought experiment from Bender & Koller 2020, with two glaring exceptions, right at the start:

1. We were NOT talking about "AI". That's a paper about language models, and even though other people are (now) talking about LLMs as if they were AI, we weren't and never would.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/06/01/wtf-is-ai/

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PhilStooke, 6 days ago to maps

Here is a 'finder chart' (a term borrowed from astronomy. Don't tell anyone) for the Chang'e 6 landing site. #maps

JV_Honza, 6 days ago to random Czech

Mapky s místem přistání čínské sondy Chang'e 6. Mapky jsou v ortografické projekci se středem projekce v místě přistání (41.64°S, 153.99°W).

Mapku jsem aktualizoval s přesnějšími souřadnicemi místa přistání. Podle UMSF jsou jeho souřadnice 153.98545 W, 41.63839 S, ale zatím nejsou oficiální.

http://www.unmannedspaceflight.com/index.php?showtopic=8325&st=45&p=263910&#entry263910

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PhilStooke, 7 days ago to maps

Departing from the current theme today: it appears the Chang'e 6 landing has been successful, so here is an updated lunar sites map:

https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/tebyydtb4cqyv1ubr6dxp/moon-site-map.png?rlkey=cqdpr8hf2ubsdobldlmeedu22&dl=0

(53 MB download, PNG file)

#maps

astro_jcm, 8 days ago to chile

Soon the telescope platform at ESO's Paranal Observatory in #Chile will look very different at night: all four of the 8.2 m telescopes of the VLT will be equipped with lasers! This is one of the ongoing upgrades of the GRAVITY+ instrument, which will allow us to study black holes, stars and planets like never before.

Find out more in this great article by current and former ESO communication interns Elena Reiriz Martinez and Tom Howarth: https://www.eso.org/public/blog/gravity-leap-vlti/

#astrodon #astronomy #technology

stim3on, 8 days ago to space

Zooming in on a peculiar white rock in Neretva Vallis

This is a combination of three SuperCam RMI images and one Mastcam-Z image taken by the #Perseverance mars rover.
The images were taken two days ago on Sol 1164.

Full resolution: https://www.gigapan.com/gigapans/234928

Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU/LANL/CNES/IRAP/Simeon Schmauß

#NASA #Mars #Mars2020 #Solarocks

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EugeniaLoli, 8 days ago to illustration

I felt a bit experimental and concept-driven with this #watercolor painting last night, I'm happy with the outcome. I just wish I had access to the rest of my art supplies. Most of them are still in boxes since our move, because we have no space for them yet in our new home. So I'm stuck with the same Daler Rowney paints since last September.

#watercolour #gouache #illustration #traditionalart #mastoart #fediart #blackbird #crow #orange

PhilStooke, 9 days ago to maps

And this map shows the radius in kilometers as it varies over the nucleus. Read the paper here:

https://articles.adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-iarticle_query?1991A%26A...248..656S&defaultprint=YES&filetype=.pdf

(let me know if the link doesn't work).

Unfortunately for us, it's all hogwash! This paper:

Belton, M.J. et al., 1991. The spin state and homogeneity of Comet Halley's nucleus. Icarus, 93(2), pp.183-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/0019-1035(91)90207-A

gives a different rotation state, so the images show different parts of the nucleus than we expected, and Halley has long axis rotation. #maps

65dBnoise, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to space

That white-ish rock (https://mastodon.social/@65dBnoise/112527256691375965) has quite an interesting texture. Seen here with #Perseverance's telescope.

Processed SUPERCAM_RMI
looking ENE (57°) from RMC 52.4312
Sol 1164, LMST: 12:00:08

Original: https://mars.nasa.gov/mars2020-raw-images/pub/ods/surface/sol/01164/ids/edr/browse/scam/LRF_1164_0770272141_159EBY_N0524312SCAM01164_0010I6J01.png
Credit: #NASA/JPL-Caltech/LANL/CNES/IRAP/65dBnoise

#Perseverance #Mars2020 #Solarocks #Space

kristiedegaris, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to Scotland

Drystone today in a rather lush garden. Working on a retaining wall built from Yorkshire sandstone. Building on a curve with really straight edged stone is always a challenge. As is my mosquito/midge allergy during Scottish summers.

The basic principle of a retaining wall is that the wall's depth should be roughly the same as its height. So a 1m high wall extends back 1m into whatever it is retaining.

#Scotland #Drystone #traditional_knowledge

underdarkGIS, 9 days ago (edited 9 days ago) to random

#ChatGPT Data Analyst vs movement data

Today, I took ChatGPT's Data Analyst for a spin. You've probably seen the fancy advertising videos: just drop in a dataset and AI does all the analysis for you?! Let's see ...

http://anitagraser.com/2024/05/30/chatgpt-data-analyst-vs-movement-data/

#AI #MovementDataAnalysis #LLMs #MobilityData #GISChat

EugeniaLoli, 9 days ago to illustration

Cottagecore in space: while the spaceship reboots... A scanned version of my watercolor illustration.

#watercolor #watercolour #gouache #illustration #traditionalart #mastoart #fediart #astronaut #spaceship #scifi #scifiart #sciencefictionart #whimsical

dlr_next, 9 days ago to random German

Guten Morgen zusammen - wie immer mit einem aktuellen Bild der Sonne via Satellit SDO, hier mal wieder mit irdischem Suchbild zum Größenvergleich.

PhilStooke, 9 days ago to maps

The shape model of the nucleus of Comet Halley was made by digitally manipulating a gridded ellipsoid of about the size of Halley (16 by 8 by 8 km) until its shape matched every image in the data set. There are no images suitable for stereoscopic viewing to add to the shape. This map shows the locations of limbs (edge of sunlit disk, dark lines) in the images and terminators (sunrise/sunset lines, gray areas). Uncertainties are quite large. #maps

JV_Honza, 10 days ago to random Czech

Curiosity nyní přejíždí koryto říčky, která kdysi protékala údolím Gediz Vallis, a přejíždí na západní stranu údolí.

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PhilStooke, 11 days ago to maps

That let Abergel calculate the viewing direction for each image. I used that to estimate a shape represented by this set of images. Numbers define individual Vega images. Giotto basically zoomed in on a single view. The camera's mirror didn't survive to view the departing view. These grids can then be overlaid on images to try to locate features. There aren't many features to locate! #maps

fdroidorg, 11 days ago to fdroid

We have a new blog post about the Mobifree project and our role in it.

In short, it's a human-centered, ethical alternative, that champions privacy over profit and believes in collaboration, sustainability and inclusiveness.

https://f-droid.org/2024/05/24/mobifree.html

#FDroid #mobifree

ArchaeoBasti, 11 days ago to random

#500CharAbstracts: 🏺 Jeremy Smoak & Alice Mandell explore the monumentality of inscriptions in Jerusalem’s urban spaces and thereby also texts themselves. These convey memories within a larger political or social narrative than architecture.

This article is part of a broader book about monumentality across ancient civilisations published 2019 at Transcript: Size Matters.

#openaccess

🔗 https://doi.org/10.14361/9783839445389-018