@sundogplanets the stuff of nightmares: “But to expand the technology, Reflect Orbital envisions operating over 50,000 satellites by 2035.”

Americans aren’t the only people inhabiting this beautiful planet and the Earth isn’t flat, surely people and institutions from other countries can pick up a fight and resist this monstrosity - considering it would affect everyone. Right, right?

@Sheril
There are days when I'd very much welcome us not being part of it. Those days become increasingly frequent.

@weirdunits that’s just a 1200 baud modem

omg...
Ihr kennt doch Low-Background Steel, also Stahl aus versunkenen Schiffen und Flugzeugen bevor die ersten Kernwaffen getestet wurden, der deswegen weniger strahlt als aller seitdem hergestellte Stahl und daher für spezielle Anwendungen - wie Geigerzähler - heiß begehrt ist.
Im englischen Wikipediaeintrag dazu gibt es einen neuen Absatz:

"In 2025, technology experts such as Rajiv Pant and John Graham-Cumming began to use low-background steel as a metaphor to describe the practice of archiving web content that existed before 2022 in an effort to preserve information that was produced by humans without "contamination" from large language models such as ChatGPT."

Siehe https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Low-background_steel

@FrancescGali sí, ahir mateix vaig deixar un projecte perquè el cervell no volia activar-se.

Vielleicht hat hier jemand eine gute Idee: Unser 19jähriger würde gern etwas Geld verdienen, allerdings ist es sehr schwierig, einen Schülerjob außerhalb von Service, Verkauf, Reinigung oder Sozialem zu finden. Er ist Autist und brennt in Situationen mit vielen Menschen schnell aus. Dafür kann er gut mit Computern umgehen. Vielleicht gibt es ja irgendwas, wo er gebraucht werden kann? Seine Verzweiflung, dass er nicht so kann, wie andere, geht mir gerade sehr ans Herz ... #schülerjob #dresden

@TheBreadmonkey
To answer your question, Ben, under capitalism everything is a scam.
Hey, we're just doing business here.

@slims Yeah I think you're getting bad luck! Around Berlin, Hertha fans are annoyingly present and there's hardly a surface in the city without their stickers.

@Thorin @eff

Until an AI notetaker can reliably demonstrate the ability to discern sarcasm, hyperbole, humor, exaggeration, and about 47 other things humans do in speech and both annotate the transcript and parse the change in meaning - they're worse than useless as they can and will misrepresent reality. In my actual personal I've-seen-it-happen experience. The replacement for a recording needs to be getter not worse.

@sundogplanets The other problem is that, for this to work at all, you might need a heliostationary orbit, creating kind of a traffic jam over the poles.

Think Kessler syndrome on steroids.

Even as the Govt. wonders why people (and pension trustees) don't wan't to invest in UK firms, the Financial Conduct Authority concludes that just over 40% of all take-overs in the UK are preceded by 'suspicious trading' in the two days before announcement; given that such insider trading could also be happening before that period, the figure of 40% is most likely an underestimate.

People think the UK share market s rigged, and as this shows, indeed it is!

#investment #politics
h/t FT

@sebsauvage
Ha ha !
Oui, je me suis dit la même chose : « ils découvrent, ou bien ? »
Comme quoi, on part de vraiment très loin.

@bernerd thanks. I did get it quite linear and the harmonic suppression is great. However… It’s 12.6 Vrms on the scope so 2.247W. But it’s using almost 12W to deliver that. So heat is going to be a big problem. And no one can hear me on 20m in these conditions.

@personalescrito mir fehlt hier die triggerwarnung, für blut und keine ahnung, knochenbrüche, zähne ausschlagen, gehirnerschütterung

man sollte sowas ohnehin nicht einfach so posten.. es gibt immer genug spinner, die sich mit sowas die morgenlatte runter holen..
meine 2 cts

@storiespettinate @artematiko @fabio tranquilla avevo compreso 🤪

Extra Footy Trams tonight to the MCG, picking up Collingwood fans, to take them to Docklands where your team is actually playing.
It’s a big favour we’re doing you, so don’t steal the hubcaps off the trams for a change. Oh and return our DVD player while you’re at it. #YarraTrams

Vibe buying groceries.

Good rest, simple exercise, and hydration. All will help elevate your basic daily wellness.