Notices by Thomas 🔭🕹️ (thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io), page 9

What a weird failure mode ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

@zen I assume the image is from 2021

@gsuberland I’m hoping for a “we will do for communication what Mozilla did for AI”

A few days ago sound just no longer came out of our soundbar with the Apple TV.

Debugged it, ruling out stuff by using different cables and even different Apple TV, no dice.

It turns out the HDMI1 port on the soundbar is defective, but only for sound, not for the image. 🥴

The second book is Astrotopia by Mary-Jane Rubenstein https://www.maryjanerubenstein.com/

This book explains why and how the billionaire techbros are using religious language: "The world is ending! The only way you can save yourself is to come with me to Mars!" And also hilarious! I didn't know I could laugh out loud while reading awful things about environmental limits and billionaires. #ProfSamLectureTour

@moopylonster in really dark skies with you can see it with just your eyes! It’s just a sort of fuzzy patch though

@moopylonster andromeda

@moopylonster from my Arizona driveway :)

@nina_kali_nina I mean this is how you save power and make things really performant on devices like this

@nina_kali_nina @osnews My favorite CASIO thing is the handwriting-recognition calculator watch from 1983 (AT-550), it has an analog watchface that's also a touchscreen sensor and can recognize numbers and math symbols

@nina_kali_nina @osnews

*lights cigarette*
*takes lungful*
*exhales slowly*

@MLE_online that one sentence really stood out ot me

"No AI slop here! I'm merely exploring generative music and video!"

@jordgubben @jornane Possible but you have to consider that "AI" is being pushed by specifically by people who relentlessly preach about the cult of "meritocracy" and "rugged individualism".

If you reply to me and expect an answer, maybe don't call what I said a "bad faith argument".

What do you want me to say?

"Yes, I posted this to specifically upset you personally even though I didn't actually mean it!"

Or, you know, maybe if it makes you feel angry—figure out why.

Anger is an emotion that just tells you something might be wrong. You should take it as sign to think about why you have the feeling. It might be that there is something the matter with your beliefs or what you're doing.

Moonset

@DocBohn let’s do easier things first, like a pill that grows you a new kidney

@tef pivot to yak shaving video

It's still amazing to me what's possible with modest equipment purely due to the availability of extremely sophisticated personal computers.

To make an image like this, I combine often dozens of hours of total exposure time in hundreds of images to average them out (this reduces noise and improves visibility of faint structures).

The coolest thing here is I think the Cosmic Keyhole.

Here's me with my smol 2" telescope (left) vs Hubble (right).