malcircuit

malcircuit, 1 month ago to solar

I feel like I just accidentally invented the perfect #solar #astrophotography gadget for doing daytime polar alignment.

I mean, I guarantee someone has done something like this. I just figured I would have to make a custom 3d printed mount, not literally attach two random things with a screw.

Dovetail rail with a phone clamp attached at a right angle with a screw

malcircuit, 3 months ago to astrophotography

Did the überstack of all of the M81 data I have from the past several weeks. It worked out pretty well! So much cleaner.

#astrophotography

malcircuit, 5 months ago to random

My hunch is that in the future when engineers and scientists actually figure out how to build an AGI, they will look back at this period and laugh at everyone who thought ChatGPT was anywhere close to being truly intelligent

malcircuit, 10 months ago to random

I've been such a crotchety anti-capitalist cynic this week lol

I'd like to be an optimist, but the world doesn't make it easy

malcircuit, 11 months ago to random

One thing that was never emphasized enough in history class is that historical events keep happening as you get older and that it's quite stressful

malcircuit, 10 months ago to random

It seems like the right hates LGBT people, and especially trans people, but that's masking a deeper truth:

They are terrified of us

If it's possible to question and break free from the most "basic" and "obvious" assumptions about gender and sexuality that our society is implicitly structured around, what other assumptions are wrong?

We are the vanguard of a better society, which is why they are fighting to put us down. And they wouldn't be fighting so hard unless we had a chance of winning...

malcircuit, 10 months ago to random

I really love how the web has become completely unusable without an ad blocker

malcircuit, 9 months ago to random

STOP DOING OSes

• Machines were not meant to have more than one function

• YEARS of OSes, yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for sharing CPU time between multiple programs

• Want to run a different program anyway? We had a tool for that: It was called EEPROMS

• "Yes, please install a program for me. Oh, there's a software update available" — statements dreamed up by the utterly deranged

"Hello, I need drivers installed to use this hardware"

They have played us for absolute fools

malcircuit, 7 months ago to random

I just remembered that we were compelled to recite the Pledge of Allegiance every day in school and I'm becoming increasingly horrified and incensed the more I think about it.

Talk about fucking brainwashing our children

malcircuit, 5 months ago to random

I'm not afraid of owning and maintaining a house.

I'm afraid of a 30 year mortgage.

malcircuit, 6 months ago to random

Hi there, cutie :blob_blowing_kiss:

malcircuit, 4 months ago to random

Trans people are menace to society? Absurd.

Trans people are job creators. Electrologists, hair removal professionals, makeup and clothes salespeople, doctors, nurses, surgeons, hair stylists, therapists, and countless others are supported economically from someone transitioning.

If anything, we should be giving tax breaks, subsidies, and government grants to trans people, and encouraging as many people as possible to transition to spur economic growth.

malcircuit, 2 months ago to random

Fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck fuck

Number 6 literally stopped me in my tracks because it's exactly how I feel all the fucking time.

https://youtu.be/bO6Nua9jkBQ?t=969

Having a job has always felt more like a threat than an opportunity to me. Especially as I've been getting paid more over time, and the implied increase in responsibility that goes along with that.

The more successful I've been, the more I start to panic that I'm going to fuck it up and lose it all.

malcircuit, 1 year ago to random

It's always a good start to the day when you wake up from a dream that's so intense and pointed that you just start crying immediately 😭

malcircuit, 4 months ago to random

Sometimes I wish I could have my memory selectively wiped so I can enjoy video games as much as I did when I was a kid.

Or maybe that's just me missing a time when I could spend the entire day completely immersed in something with no thoughts or concerns about the consequences of doing that.

Maybe I just miss a time when I lacked metacognition.

malcircuit, 2 months ago to astrophotography

Currently browsing Google Scholar to see whether it's possible to measure and model light pollution at a specific location in such a way to be able to calibrate it away.

Probably more trouble than it's worth (like most of my ideas), but I'm intrigued by the possibility.

#astrophotography

malcircuit, 2 months ago to random

"Artificial Intelligence" is intelligence in the same way "artificial flavor" is flavor: a poor substitute for the real thing that's used to make a cheap, low-quality product more palatable.

malcircuit, 2 months ago to astrophotography

This is the fruit of four-ish nights worth of images from my telescope. Behold, M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy.

Actually a little disappointed in it, to be honest. Light pollution really limits what I can do. I feel like I need 10x as much data to get a clear image. Also thinking that I'm probably not processing the data as well as I could. There's like infinite settings in PixInsight and I don't have any idea what most of them do.

#astrophotography

malcircuit, 1 month ago to astrophotography

Sombrero Galaxy (M104) in monochrome luminance from my astronomy club's meetup last night.

Only about 1.25 hours worth of data, so not very detailed, but still cool.
#astrophotography

malcircuit, 1 month ago to astrophotography

All I want to do right now is take pretty pictures of things in the sky, but it's cloudy 😭

#astrophotography

malcircuit, 16 days ago to solar

Holy crap!

The sun kicked out a X8.79 flare at about noon CT today! THAT'S HUGE!!!

If there was a CME associated with that one, we might be getting another major geomagnetic storm in a few days.

#solar #astronomy

malcircuit, 14 days ago to random

Either I need a dose increase, or I need to take a vacation from stimulants (caffeine and my ADHD meds) for a day or two. I've been really out of it lately. It's like none of this stuff works anymore.

Need to remind my brain of what no dopamine actually feels like until it stops complaining.

malcircuit, 13 days ago to random

Sci-fi: What if humanity built generation ships? That'd be cool, right?

Actual human history: You mean a designed, self-contained, indefinitely stable, culturally and ecologically sustainable society where everyone cooperates to work toward a far-off goal they will probably never see achieved?

Sci-fi: ...

Actual human history: dies laughing

malcircuit, 12 days ago to LEGO

Because I'm depressed and have little energy to do anything else, I've started building this bad boy #lego

malcircuit, 3 days ago to LEGO

Putting together some #Lego and finally getting around to watching Fallout