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nyrath

@nyrath@spacey.space

Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.

In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

nyrath, to random
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I am fooling around with making a classification system for man-amplifiers, mecha, robots, teleoperated remotes, and the like.

https://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/manamplifier.php

jovikowi,
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@nyrath

Super awesome page!

The net in the image "CTL:BCI
Brain-computer interface", I have experience with that system if you're curious.

Under your classification / stats system, how do you see the E-frames from ExoSquad fitting in? Particularly Marsala and Nara's 2-seater? It doesn't have fully parallel interfaces like in Pacific Rim, but is more like a wired F-14 or something.

https://exosquad.fandom.com/wiki/Rapid_Assault_E-frame

isaackuo,
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@nyrath

What a fun page! Great work, as always!

Of course I've got to reply to stuff as if it were USENET or something:

"John Reiher noted that the AMP suit from Avatar (pictured above) has a problem. The thing can't walk unless it can shift its center of gravity from one foot to another. If you play with the toy version of the mecha, you quickly discover that if it lifts a foot it will fall over. Its hips are too wide."

The AMP works fine. You just dynamically shift left/right.

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jovikowi,
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@nyrath

"Fails" seems like a pretty strong word. But expanding the system to handle multi-seat craft (how do the Borg fit in, individually and as a ship?) sounds like a lot of fun to explore and think about!

cstross, to random
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Welp, that misfeature didn't last long before they began walking it back!
https://mastodon.social/@br00t4c/112576388963417270

arstechnica, to random
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SpaceX’s Starship took a beating, but held on for first return from space

"I think we should try to catch the booster with the mechazilla arms next flight!"

https://arstechnica.com/space/2024/06/spacexs-starship-took-a-beating-but-held-on-for-first-return-from-space/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

skrishna, to space
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Starship hit the water, mostly intact, I think the flap made it, and landing burn initated successfully. Wow. It looked like a soft landing. I’m…shocked. I was very prepared to call this flight a failure, or a mixed success. I need to go back through the data, but...I think this was definitely a success.

#space #spacex #starship #spaceflight

fraser, to random
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Today, SpaceX's Starship mega-rocket was launched into space again; this time, everything worked as planned. The Starship/Superheavy stack lifted off from Texas, with Superheavy detaching and softly splashing down in the Gulf of Mexico. The Starship continued into orbit and then successfully re-entered the atmosphere. Onboard cameras showed damage to the heat tiles during re-entry, but it was able to make its flip maneuver and also land softly.

https://twitter.com/SpaceX/status/1798732434026172509

JamesGleick, to random
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(Credit to Tom Gauld) https://mastodon.social/@claasgefroi/112569959558506923

nyrath, to random
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Artwork by Fetterly for the Boeing Aircraft Corp.

jovikowi,
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@nyrath @isaackuo

Flex Tape ad from 2035.

isaackuo,
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@nyrath

Whatever's going on here is not intuitive. It is MUCH easier to apply a patch to the inside, rather than the outside. There's clearly a person on the inside, so that person should be the one applying a patch.

Coincidentally, the general appearance looks vaguely like my latest version of what Cutty's spacecraft looks like. I've been writing it up over the last few weeks, struggling with various details.

isaackuo,
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@nyrath

That doesn't look like what's going on, but that does remind me of how Cutty detects leaks.

Basically, the sphere isn't a single layer of material. It's a foam of somewhat large cellulose bubbles. So, when a puncture happens (either from the outside or inside), the punctured bubble deflates and its walls are pushed inward by the neighboring bubbles.

Cameras visually inspect the bubbles for signs that a bubble has been punctured.

cstross, to random
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Starship made it through the atmosphere, and executed a successful landing burn over the Indian Ocean! Got a bit scorched (I bet they reinforce the heat shield over those flaps before the next test flight) but it made it down to the surface for a controlled splash-down!

cstross, to random
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We are going to end up with half a million low-orbit comsats turning the night sky into a streaky blur because everyone uses Starlink or similar for broadband because the telcos have allowed their terrestrial cable infrastructure to decay, in the interests of maximizing profit. And of course the satellite broadband will be slow and buggy because overloaded.
https://mastodon.social/@verge/112565885370238705

cstross, (edited ) to random
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That was an impressive Starship/Superheavy flight so far! Booster managed to decelerate to roughly walking pace before it hit the water in the Gulf and tipped over (as planned). Now to see if the Ship can make a controlled re-entry ...

The next step for the booster will be to come in over the pad, hover, and for the mechazilla to catch it with the chopsticks. (But maybe not on the next test flight.)

skrishna, to space
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Successful controlled splashdown of the Super Heavy booster!! That is a HUGE accomplishment.

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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Alien (1979): The Leviathan's bridge & computer room, early art by Elliot Scott

With the "Snark", the "Leviathan" was one of the early names of the USCSS Nostromo.

ScienceAlert, to random
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Japanese Company Plans to Build a Tower Into Space by 2050
https://www.sciencealert.com/japanese-company-plans-to-build-a-tower-into-space-by-2050?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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LukaszOlejnik, to random
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Advertised Microsoft Windows Recall feature that constantly makes screenshots of the screen. It's using OCR to recognise and transcribe text. It is always on and works by default. To disable it run this command in a terminal:
Set-ItemProperty HKLM:\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\PolicyManager\default\WindowsAI\DisableAIDataAnalysis -Name Value -Value 1
https://gist.github.com/dfeldman/5a5630d28b8336f403123c071cfdac9e

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cstross, to random
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Friends don't let Friends buy ASUS PCs this year.
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/112563484995335592

fraser, to random
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Planetary scientists are hoping for a mission to Uranus, which hasn't been explored since Voyager 2 flew past the planet in 1986. Although this mission would deliver enormous scientific information about the ice planet and its moons and rings, a new paper suggests it would also serve as a gravitational wave detector. They propose that slight Doppler shifts in communication to the probe would detect gravitational waves from the early Universe and types of dark matter.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.02306

fraser, to random
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After countless delays, a Boeing Starliner finally blasted off from Cape Canaveral, carrying NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams into orbit. With the safe launch completed, the capsule will spend 25.5 hours catching up and rendezvousing with the International Space Station on June 6th. This launch finally gives NASA multiple ways of sending its astronauts to the station, in addition to the SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/boeing-crew-flight-test/

ai6yr, to random
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Had a bad day? At least YOU didn't run over a nuclear powered measurement device and potentially scattered Cesium-137, Americium-241, Beryllium, all over the place! 🤪 https://mastodon.tds.xyz/@whoopsie/112564414971748177

TheSpaceshipper, to random
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Homeworld 3 (2024): Hiigaran Interceptor, art by David Cheong

ifixcoinops, to random
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Wanna guess what I'm making?

18+ ifixcoinops,
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🐿 People who start the game
🦝 People who sniff around the options menu and then start the game

Broadly,
🐿 Straightforward people who want to get on with doing the thing they wanted to do in the first place.
🦝 FIDDLERS. They FIDDLE with things. They can't help it. Fiddling with the thing's settings or whatever is an integral part of their enjoyment of the thing.

People who get interested in Game Dads or retro emulation in general tend to be 🦝, because these machines are fiddly by nature, and kinda self-select for 🦝.

EVERYBODY ON THE FEDIVERSE IS 🦝. Fedi's filter bubble isn't its leftiness or its gen-x'ness, it's SCRAPYARD-FINGERED FIDDLERS.

By an overwhelming majority, most people are 🐿.

By an overwhelming majority, 🦝 find it hard to remember that most people are 🐿.

GossiTheDog, to random
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For those who aren’t aware, Microsoft have decided to bake essentially an infostealer into base Windows OS and enable by default.

From the Microsoft FAQ: “Note that Recall does not perform content moderation. It will not hide information such as passwords or financial account numbers."

Info is stored locally - but rather than something like Redline stealing your local browser password vault, now they can just steal the last 3 months of everything you’ve typed and viewed in one database.

video/mp4

GossiTheDog,
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Three Copilot+ Recall questions that keep coming up.

Q. Can you alter the Recall history?

A. Yes. You can change the OCR database and change the screenshots as the logged in user or as software running as the local user. There is no audit log of changes.

Q. Are they snapshots, as Microsoft says, or screenshots?

A. They are just screenshots, jpegs.

Q. What is to stop apps on your machine accessing your Recall covertly?
A. Nothing. There is no audit log of access.

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