@sundogplanets I've noticed the forecast here is often not very accurate when there is smoke.

@sundogplanets 🤞

Clampmaxxing #woodworking

I'm using Apache on the server side. And I'd like to change as little as possible. Most importantly I don't want to rely on any third party service like cloudfare to filter or serve requests. I also don't want to add any stupid captchas. I'd welcome any suggestions. Again, the key is to change as little as possible. 2/2

I need some help: I'm self-hosting the documentation to a scientific software package https://rebound.hanno-rein.de. This is for a small audience and it's a small, static website. Yet, crawlers have recently been hammering my server with stupid requests that make it very slow for normal users. The requests come from residential/VPN IP ranges and usually only include one request per IP. I want to block them, or slow them down. But I don't know how. 1/N

RE: https://sueden.social/@me_/116715832898810488

When something is not available in the EU you probably don't want it anyway. Like chlorinated chicken, hormone-treated beef, large pickup trucks, and easily available firearms.

I got another interview request regarding SpaceX orbital data centres. Clearly this is just hype for the IPO. So I’m a bit conflicted about whether I should agree to the interview or not. I don’t have anything good to say about the idea, but at this moment any publicity seems like good publicity. Any thoughts @sundogplanets?

Guess who saved another 14 Cisco VoIP phones from the dumpster. I don't know yet what to do with all of them... if anyone knows a small town who is in need of a telephone network...

@nixCraft Find a way to say yes. No.

#EnvironmentCanada is planning an update to their website. As anyone might guess, information density is down, contrast is down. Size is up from 350KB to 1.7MB. #enshittification

I just gave an interview with a journalist raising concerns about Kessler Syndrom and complaining about megaconstellations in general. And less than 5 minutes later, I see a post about a starlink satellite being involved in a "fragment creation event".

@sundogplanets

Not worth my time. 💩

I'm working on an update that improves how one can access particles in my REBOUND N-body code. The particles are stored in an array, but their position is not guaranteed to stay the same throughout a simulation. So pointers or indices don't always work. Ideally I'd like the refer to a particle with a string. I want to make it both efficient and have a nice syntax in both c and the python wrappers. So it's tricky. And the devil is in the detail...

I've finished our walk-in closet over the weekend and I'm very happy how it turned out! And after edge-banding over 30m of plywood with ash, I'm getting rather good it at.

I hate ads..

A surprisingly good write-up of our recent paper on the formation of the Solar System:

https://www.universetoday.com/articles/the-intruder-that-knocked-our-planets-askew

Today’s harvest: beets, kale, and almost 4kg of carrots.

🍁🍂

🔭 It’s a clear night, so my ASTC02 students are outside collecting data with our fleet of telescopes.

My university now offers burner/loaner phones for people travelling to the US. Funny times.