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DenOfEarth

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BirdSite expat, formerly at/o__________oo Proponent of #science, #climate, books, music, kindness, acceptance. Ally. Hello #WeirdCarMastodon and the gang.

Profile pic is of a small electric car. Banner pic is a field of yellow tall grasses on the shore of a very blue lake.

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hilljam, to random
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this gif has been our muse as we finish up this new 80s kids song

@shannoncurtis 🔥

this is a gif of chris kattan, jim carrey, and will ferrell bopping along vigorously to music in a car

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@hilljam @NigelTufnel @shannoncurtis

That was the technology of the era.

I once recorded a bit of music I liked on my home stereo, then brought the cassette on my knockoff Sanyo walkman to Downtown Records (since bulldozed and now a Holiday Inn) to ask the owner by sharing my headphones with him. He knew immediately.

He didn't say a word, just plucked a record, put it on the turntable, and gave me his headphones, top shelf Sennheisers.

It was Art Of Noise - Beat Box

I still have the LP

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@hilljam @NigelTufnel @shannoncurtis

And here it is.

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@airwhale @hilljam @NigelTufnel @shannoncurtis

Absolutely a unique and mind-blowing sound.

Around the same timeframe,
Jean-Michel Jarre's Zoolook?
Also very creative and sampling-heavy.

nyrath, to random
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An old classic "what if" question is What scifi novel or movie would you like to live in?

Adult me is skeptical of most of them, they all have drawbacks.

Child me instantly knows my heart's desire.

DenOfEarth,
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@nyrath
I don't care how dystopian it was - Blade Runner.
And I would live not in Deckard's apartment,
but JF Sebastian's.

ZeKik, to random
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Oops! 🎶

I did it again! 🎵

(No QR code since I was reprimanded for being so careless last time — apparently they contain quite a bit of confidential information, so no bueno!)

DenOfEarth,
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@ZeKik Bon vol! And rent a nice manual sedan when you get there ok?

capetaun, to random
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Me everytime I try to explain what is Mastodon

DenOfEarth,
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@capetaun
Click link to Mastodon: FULL CONTENT
Click link to Instagram: LOGIN OR SIGN UP

Wanna see content on Instagram? NOPE. Log in or sign up.

Basmitharts, to random
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Morning everyone.
Let's do a movie today.

What is the coolest actor/car combination in a movie?

DenOfEarth,
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@Basmitharts
Uma Thurman in her electric Citroën DS?

nyrath, to random
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Stirling E. Lanier, “Hiero’s Journey” & The Long Rumoured 3rd Book, “Hiero’s Answer”

https://reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/1cd6eux/stirling_e_lanier_hieros_journey_the_long/

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@nyrath
I remember that! Per Hiero Desteen, the intrepid yet helpful explorer!

bruces, to random
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*The mooks are here.

https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/DeepMind.com/Blog/ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants/the-ethics-of-advanced-ai-assistants-2024-i.pdf

DenOfEarth,
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@bruces
"Artificial Insanity" - term that should get more use

shoq, to random
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I guess I’d need a keyboard and monitor switcher to use both LInux and Windows simultaneously on two boxes, right?

DenOfEarth,
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@ZeKik @shoq
I prefer Ubuntu Mate for its menu-style launcher, in case that's any help.

Edit to add distrowatch link:
https://distrowatch.com/table-mobile.php?distribution=ubuntumate

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@ZeKik @shoq

I switched to Mate when Ubuntu decided to make Unity the default launcher - a bunch of icons on the left. Bleh. Mate stayed with Gnome 2, which i preferred. I like menus and submenus, even if it's what I already have in Windows.

Arguably if you prefer the bunch of icons style, may I suggest good old Windows 3 Program Manager?

DenOfEarth,
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@shoq @ZeKik
My experience as Kiki says of being "deformed" by the Windows experience stems from a run-in I had years ago with the PIF Editor.

My PIF will never be the same...

DenOfEarth, to random
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Just heard this on the radio.

If it doesn't make you want to drop everything and go join (or start!) a Brazilian cover band, I give up.

O Telefone Tocou Novamente (1970)
Jorge Ben Jor

https://youtu.be/blYrXr-CwOA

Lotje, to random
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Last year, the manufacturer of the facial moisturizer I've been using for most of my adult life changed that product's formula. I'm not thrilled but I've been using the new stuff anyway. Just found a bottle of the old stuff stashed away somewhere. Pretty sure all my neighbors heard the squeal.

DenOfEarth,
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@Lotje
Mandatory:

DenOfEarth,
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@Lotje
Also I'm bemoaning the loss of the best crackers ever, which are no longer being produced after decades of enjoyment... 😲🥺😭😭

MarSolRivas, to random French
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Assez faim pour manger la nappe 😐

DenOfEarth,
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@MarSolRivas
Perhaps you should just take a nappe.
Après tout, qui dort dîne... 😬

steventdennis, to random

Time to forget your troubles with 🧵! This amazing Northern California home on a private ocean cove is decked out with a redwood exterior and a fir interior. I love it. One of the best bedrooms, living rooms, kitchen and views I've ever seen. $8M. https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/97-Stone-Crop-Reach-Annapolis-CA-95412/2055277514_zpid/

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@MagentaRocks @mjausson @steventdennis

That was my guess as well. That is some pretty serious fencing, with the angled barbed-wire top! Maybe to keep coyotes out of the chicken coop? Bit of an eyesore, I would have put that somewhere downhill if possible.

Aaron_DeVries, to random
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Whenever I see "there is a planet in the habitable zone, but it's a gas giant" I always think gas giants can have rocky moons so it's still a viable candidate for habitability.

Finding a gas giant isn't a downer. I would even go so far as to say a large gas giant in the habitable zone potentially increases the possibilities of a habitable world. Even accounting for radiation belts. The number of moons they can have ups the dice rolls.

DenOfEarth,
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@isaackuo @Aaron_DeVries

Wasn't there something a while ago about how our own moon and its effect on tides was instrumental on the variety of life in Earth?

Consequently, have any of the Solar System's gas giants' moons been found to have moons of their own?

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@isaackuo @Aaron_DeVries

Ah yes of course, not only the sun but the host planet would surely cause some significant tides.

I did not realise that it would be improbable for a moon to have its own moons orbiting it. Do you think it might have any Lagrange moonlets instead?

Not that they would cause any tides, but just out of interest.

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@isaackuo @Aaron_DeVries @nyrath

Very cool! I am particularly stunned by Iapetus' equatorial ridge, which I never knew about.

I wonder if it was an inspiration for Kim Stanley Robinson's early work, A Short, Sharp Shock, in which a man with amnesia awakens on a world which consists only of a narrow strip of land around the center of a planet, separating two oceans.

The local people's creation myth was of a snake encircling the world.

nyrath, to random
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New Moon: Lutecia in orbit

https://www.artstation.com/artwork/9xLWN

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@nyrath @maxthefox @isaackuo @sudnadja @RogerBW @michael_w_busch

One of my favourite twists on such things came from A Talent for War by Jack McDevitt.

In-universe, FTL takes days or weeks, and requires fairly large engines in telltale bulges visible on the hull.

[spoilers]
Later, a lost ship, legendary for its almost mythical ability to show up in battle, is found, and while the bulges are empty, it still works, and FTL is nearly instantaneous. They speculate that it uses alien FTL instead.

DenOfEarth,
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@tkinias @nyrath @isaackuo @cstross @maxthefox @sudnadja @RogerBW @michael_w_busch

IIRC the algorithm for Dark Star was roughly

for each p in set(planets in range of Earth)
{
if (is there life?) and
(is it or could it become sentient?) // then
blowitup()
}

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@n1vux @nyrath @sudnadja @RogerBW @michael_w_busch

I rather liked Elizabeth Moon's writings. I discovered her books midway into that series and looked for the first few utterly in vain as they were out of print. That was the 90s, maybe I should try again.

geekmomprojects, to random
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Well @#$&!!! My bot blew up again during testing. 😡😡😡 This time I managed to turn off the power before the LiPo caught fire. Looks like one of the drive motor ESCs blew (hard) taking the receiver with it. The LiPo took a bit of damage but appears to be a bystander. Now I'm not sure if I'm going to have a functioning robot by Thursday. I have (different) backup parts arriving tomorrow, so if I can jury-rig something there is a shot, but I don't know... UGH...

DenOfEarth,
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@geekmomprojects
Dang! Maybe more cooling would be in order? Though I imagine there's not much room for fans or heat sinks. Worst case: evasive smoke countermeasures!

geekmomprojects, to random
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My combat bot, "Footloose" is coming together. I had a lot of problems with the shuffling mechanism due to the 3D printed cams deforming over time. Amazingly, I found a business that could laser cut an aluminum set for me with a 24 hour turnaround, and the locomotion is now much more stable. Weapon is working, (and fun to test!) Now I'm going to add a wedge in the front and figure out how to shave off about 20g overall to make weight. Almost there...

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@geekmomprojects
Bonus points for making it look so cute for the sneak attack.

"Aw hey there little buddy! Are you
FLIP
AUGH!

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