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zrb

@zrb@astrodon.social

Software engineer in astronomy. Interested in high-energy astrophysics, leftist theory, and permaculture gardening.

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zrb, to random
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the simplicity and insanely fast performance of is like a breath of fresh air after working with GitHub for so long

zrb, to random
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Even though only has about 1/1000 the mass of the Sun, it stores the majority of the angular momentum in our solar system. Not only that, but the entire dang planet, ~11 times the radius of Earth, whips around once every ~9.8 hours.

The effects of tides and Coriolis forces must be impressive. I wonder what it would be like to fly through the surface cloud layers in person.

ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs, to random
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Avian flu jumped to cows and now people.

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@ItsTrainingCatsAndDogs rare image of avians infesting a cow (colorized)

jacqueline, to random
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between codeberg, sourcehut, and disroot, and ecosystem of stuff-that-isn't-github is just so good. different service providers fitting different niches, all backed by some good software and lovely people. i hope they're all able to keep it up!!!

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@jacqueline I was interested in trying out , but after a good two hours reading docs and trying to figure out their decentralization model I'm just more confused than when I started. Plus, call it superstitious, but any project that embraces .eth is a project I'm fine staying away from.

I'll just self-host and call it a day. Figuring out how git-email works will be my next project.

Plus_Ultra, to random
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IMMERSION

I may have bought a pair of drinks that suspiciously resemble something else. xD

zrb,
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@Plus_Ultra how were you able to get your spacemouse to work in game? With vJoy?

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@Plus_Ultra oh, well thanks anyway! 😅

I've been trying to get mine to work as a 6-dof joystick on Linux but the proprietary driver makes it quite difficult 🕹️

skyfaller, to Podcast
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I just tried to sync a with an mp3 player from a Mac and was utterly defeated. This used to be so easy!

gPodder seems to be recommended by internet forums, but I couldn't get it to sync.

@jacqueline do you have any ideas for how we might sync podcasts to a from macOS? (I'm not asking you to support the crappy $6 mp3 player I'm messing with now, but I don't have a Tangara to play with yet.)

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@jacqueline @skyfaller @hailey Along those lines, how difficult would it be to sync progress of podcasts / audiobooks with a server running ?

I understand that the point of is to be an offline device, but keeping listening sessions sync'ed with the server would be very convenient!

(would I need to learn C++ to implement that? I'm more of a 🦀 person myself but I could certainly try!)

ailurux, to random
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15 minutes until i need to leave: "yeah i have time to watch a 17 minute long youtube video"

zrb,
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@ailurux I knew it, you're spying on me through the tangara I bought in order to make dank posts out of tidbits from my life

truly diabolical

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Do NOT trust this new startup company promising to deliver a new Linux-based handheld device. They have funding from blockchain companies, they promise way too much, their goals are high, and some of the promises can't even be delivered. How do they plan on allowing players to play Fortnite? What does an 'immutable distro' have to do with hackers? So many questions...

If I didn't know any better, this could be a scam or something that will leave the limelight soon enough and the people will run off with the $10 million they secured in funding.

https://www.theverge.com/24090470/playtron-gaming-os-linux-handhelds-exclusive

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@alextecplayz

"our anti cheat system. We are planning to generate signatures for each version of our OS"

so if I'm understanding this correctly, the intention is in fact a locked down OS. Will you not even be able to install your own programs if that makes the system-level signature different, lest it could possibly be cheating software?

I haven't used an immutable distro, so perhaps these problems have solutions. These marketing claims just feel a bit disingenuous to me.

zrb, to random
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"Parts of High Plains Aquifer, including the well-known Ogallala aquifer, have a point of no return — some farms and communities have already crossed it — and the damages that ensue can come with little warning.

[...]

The trouble is not limited to Kansas, experts say. There are thin spots on the aquifer all across the plains, particularly in states south of Nebraska, at risk of the same water crisis."

https://ambrook.com/research/sustainability/high-plains-aquifer-ogallala-kansas-irrigation

hannah, to random
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My second gutenberg post-processing project is now in the “smooth reading” phase! It’s The Cloven Foot, a victorian “sensation novel” of murder and romance by M. E. Braddon, and you can read it here to catch any last errors before it gets put on PG: https://www.pgdp.net/c/project.php?id=projectID5f5d19e4dd173

zrb,
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@carithlee @hannah that phrasing reminds me of https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-5140

gwynnion, to random
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People's failure to understand that fascism is a fairly banal worldview reflects a refusal to understand how common and ordinary looking it is and how well it hides behind our modern high tech lifestyles.

Fascism doesn't have to have 1930s pomposity and daily military parades.

It can look like America, right now, today, depending on who and where you are. America already has military jingoism, mass incarceration, mass surveillance, unchecked paramilitaries, and theocrats denying our rights.

zrb,
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@gwynnion the most infuriating dismissal: “calling everything you don’t like ‘fascism’ isn’t an argument”. The most striking (and terrifying) realization I had when reading about pre-Nazi Germany was the eerie familiarity of their political situation to today.

Politics isn’t some abstract thing that happens to other people somewhere far away.

seachanger, to random
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ok going down the old train art rabbit hole, how’s everyone else’s work day going

Layered vertical landscape with train drawn at the bottom, large white mountain dominates and night blue sky behind, abstract fields in front. Text on bottom advertises the California Zephyr

zrb,
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@seachanger the last time I rode the Coast Starlight it crashed and derailed (right before our lunch appointment, too!) We never even got to see the coast!

I've been looking for an opportunity to get back on long-distance Amtrak ever since; maybe the Empire Builder is the move

chirpbirb, to random
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babascript

zrb,
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@chirpbirb babushkascript

jacqueline, to random
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rust could be the best thing ever done with a computer for all i know. i just find it hard to get excited about things with institutional backing from such glamorous organisations as ‘palantir’ and ‘the united states’

zrb,
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@jacqueline ah shit ah fuck, I use rust how did I not know this

SallyStrange, to random
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Good morning. I like putting pretty landscape pictures on my desktop computer background.

If you wouldn't mind me using your landscape photos this way (and in no other ways), please reply with a landscape pic you took.

Here's one I took back in 2020.

zrb,
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@SallyStrange I use this one for my own desktop background https://astrodon.social/@zrb/109519879589377664

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@SallyStrange also https://astrodon.social/@zrb/109432928390418192

seachanger, to random
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my biggest complaint about AI is we didn’t ask for it. zero popular movements took to the streets to demand AI. no one sat around kitchen tables lamenting how hard life is without AI.

what people want is health care, housing, climate change solutions, etc We sit around kitchen tables wondering how to pay for college, get loved ones the psych and addiction support they need, or help the people on our streets who need homes

zrb,
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@cairobraga @mike805 @seachanger for U.S. taxes, the IRS offers "Free Fillable Forms", an interactive web version of Form 1040 (and supplemental forms) that includes links to explanations and instructions. You can submit these forms to the IRS directly through their provided web site. This is free for all income levels and covers all tax situations.

Many U.S. states also offer similar free-filing services online for their state taxes as well.

zrb,
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@cairobraga @mike805 @seachanger However, U.S. tax law is so intentionally esoteric (specifically so that rich people don't have to pay taxes) that many people don't feel confident enough to fill out and submit Form 1040 themselves.

It also doesn't help that tax-preparation services, such as #TurboTax and #HRBlock, spend significant amounts of money to openly #bribe politicians and civil servants in order to keep the tax code complicated.

zrb,
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@seachanger @cairobraga @mike805 exactly! I filled out the Free Fillable Forms online and it took me 3 tries submitting it before the system accepted it without errors.

However, I still preferred it over commercial tax software, and it took the same amount of time for me to complete (I went through both methods for comparison).

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axbom, to random
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The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.

Generative video: Hold my beer.

zrb,
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@strypey @axbom return to plaintext and basic HTML websites, they're so much better in EVERY WAY

Remittancegirl, to random
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RIP Alexey Navaly

No one can be surprised by this, but he gave his life, knowingly, heroically for the country he loved beyond his own life.

He could have kept himself safe, but he chose a level of mad courage beyond most people’s imagination. #AlexyNavalny

zrb,
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@Remittancegirl my friend, if I were to praise someone in a post and they were actually a right-wing nationalist, I personally would want someone to let me know so I could edit my post to indicate that I don't support those beliefs.

ailurux, to random
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got float-32 wav decoding working on yesterday! gunna try tackle aac next.

zrb,
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@ailurux did you ever tackle AAC?

zrb,
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@ailurux oof, foiled by Apple once again

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