Notices by Alasdair Allan (aallan@mastodon.social)

This is the most glorious thing I have seen in some time. WiFi at 35,000ft, tunnelled through the "first name" field of an air miles account. https://robertheaton.com/pyskywifi/

🧵🪡https://www.threads.net/aallan

A playable version of #DOOM on an #LEGO brick using a @Raspberry_Pi #RP2040 by @ancientjames. Uses an accelerometer and tilt for movement, and a capacitance touch sensor to shoot. Subframe sampling to make the tiny monochrome LCD give 8 gray levels (not 3 like I originally thought!). This is miraculous stuff. ? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o76U0JPrMFk

The fascinating takeaway from this piece isn't the news that #Musk's interactions are so down. Somewhat anecdotally, it seems like most folks are. Instead, it's the news that #Twitter only had two (now just one!) principal engineer(s) left. That's pretty scary (for Twitter). Essentially, that one person is probably the only person still at the company with detailed knowledge of how all the moving pieces fit together, they're the last bastion of institutional knowledge. https://www.platformer.news/p/elon-musk-fires-a-top-twitter-engineer

Both in #Europe,and here in the #UK, people could face blackouts this winter. This winter will be a brutal test for Europe’s grid. The Visual Storytelling team at the Financial Times has done some excellent work to explain how the European grid, the most interdependent grid in the world, actually works in practice. #Electricity #Blackouts #WarInUkraine #Winter https://ig.ft.com/electricity-sharing

@hacks4pancakes It's not just the security folks though. I used to be an astrophysicist, and right now the #astrotwitter community are decamping en masse to #Mastodon, and other academic communities are following the STEM lot. I mean, I guess you could trace a causal link. A lot of us ex-academic folks ended up in canary-like roles, so they're taking their lead from us? But I honestly think that we've reached the tipping point. Twitter will eventually be sold to Yahoo for a couple of million.

Host your instance of @Mastodon on a @Raspberry_Pi in the cloud☁️ at @beasts. #Mastodon #TwitterMigration #RaspberryPi https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/host-your-own-mastodon-instance-on-a-raspberry-pi/

"The engine that drove #Twitter was the people. Nothing more. Nothing less." by @Pwnallthethings. #RIPTwitter #TwitterMigration https://www.pwnallthethings.com/p/twitter-was-special-but-its-time

Musk has used "Vox populi, Vox Dei" to justify reinstating Trump on #Twiiter. But the quote is from a letter from Alcuin to the Emporer Charlemagne urging him to resist such ideas, "Nec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit." Which translates as "And do not listen to those who keep saying, 'The voice of the people is the voice of God', because the tumult of the crowd is always close to madness."

If you're a #journalist here on #Mastodon, @daveleeFT has set up an independent way to get verified called #PressCheck, https://www.presscheck.org.

If you're a person here on #Mastodon that isn't a journalist you can see if someone is a #Verified journalist, and is who they say they are, by going to their profile on PressCheck, or looking for a green "VERIFIED BY PRESSCHECK.ORG" link in their profile here on Mastodon.

Better than a blue tick? Yes, because it's run by someone in the industry.

If you missed this morning's launch of the uncrewed #NASA #Artemis1 test flight to the #Moon ? you can watch it on YouTube. The video here picks up at just over 3 hours into NASA's coverage, at T-30 seconds until launch. https://youtu.be/CMLD0Lp0JBg?t=11795

If you want to see first #Earth ? views from the #NASA #Orion spacecraft on its way to the #Moon ? you can see them live at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxMqWHCTqGM. Live broadcast starting now(ish) at 15:45 GMT. #Artemis1

So @Raspberry_Pi just spun up a @Mastodon instance. I talk about why we're doing it, and (the fun bit) how we did it. Because it's running on a Pi in the Sky☁️ on a #RaspberryPi 4 with #IPv6 only networking hosted at @beasts. #RaspberryPi is now part of the #TwitterMigration. https://www.raspberrypi.com/news/an-escape-pod-was-jettisoned-during-the-fighting/

Now @Raspberry_Pi has its own @Mastodon instance, and because we’re committed to supporting platforms that support us, we’re putting our money where our mouth is. We have become a platinum sponsor of #Mastodon. In case you don't know Mastodon is a non-profit corporation based in Germany supported by both its sponsors and patreons. #TwitterMigration https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors

Currently writing a blog post about the new
@Raspberry_Pi instance we spun up last night. I'm taking about why, as a company, we're doing it. What it means, and (the fun bit) how we did it. Because it's running on a Pi in the Sky☁️ on a #RaspberryPi 4 with #IPv6 only networking hosted at @beasts. We're part of the #TwitterMigration, and taking a step back, the social and technical bits of that are actually sort of fascinating

@Gargron @arturo182 @oskay Many thanks!

@arturo182 @oskay I wonder if @Gargron could be enticed to comment? What's the policy on "commercial" posting, for instance, new product announcements?