Notices by Len (hyperlynx@aus.social)

@mattblaze mate, I vote for progressive candidates, donate big chunks of my money to progressive causes. I recycle. I do everything I fucking can to do things right.

I have no more energy left to get outraged at problems on the other side of the world I can do nothing to help. I am burned out.

So if you or anyone else posts untagged, unCW'd, unfilterable politics about causes I can't do a damn thing about other than get upset about, you go on the naughty list.

And I get this shit bubble up in the trending page?

In conclusion: fuck you too, buddy!

@clarity
PLEASE DELIVER FOLLOWING MESSAGE FROM PRIME MINISTER TO PREMIER STALIN LOL

PERSONAL AND SECRET LOL

I PROMISED TO TELL YOU WHEN OUR ARMY IN EGYPT HAD GAINED A DECISIVE VICTORY OVER ROMMEL LOL GENERAL ALEXANDER NOW REPORTS THAT THE ENEMY’S FRONT IS BROKEN AND THAT HE IS RETREATING WESTWARDS IN CONSIDERABLE DISORDER LOL APART FROM THE TROOPS IN THE MAIN BATTLE, THERE ARE SIX ITALIAN AND TWO GERMAN DIVISIONS IN THE DESERT TO THE SOUTH OF OUR ADVANCE ALONG THE COAST LOL THESE HAVE VERY LITTLE MECHANICAL TRANSPORT OR SUPPLIES, AND IT IS POSSIBLE THAT A VERY HEAVY TOLL WILL BE TAKEN IN THE NEXT FEW DAYS LOL BESIDES THIS, ROMMEL’S ONLY LINE OF RETREAT IS ALONG THE COASTAL ROAD, WHICH IS NOW CRAMMED WITH TROOPS AND TRANSPORT AND UNDER THE CONTINUOUS ATTACK OF OUR GREATLY SUPERIOR AIR FORCE LOL

@hellomiakoda oh, you're in the USA. Right, perfectly understandable.

Aside from that, I found that the more I learned about airplanes the less scared of them I became. What really did it for me was learning that - at the worst case - if all the engines go out then you have a glider, and can still safely land. And that pilots must learn to do that as part of qualifying.

Funnily enough, I have found the opposite with helicopters: the more I learn about them the more scared of them I become!

...anyway, that's just me, phobias aren't rational things anyway, and in any case I think your fears about US ATC are well-founded :/

@hellomiakoda why's that?

@liztai what makes you think people wouldn't believe you?

@Infoseepage appreciated! Damn. Time for me to shop for a new provider, then 😞

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXUWzGj7Oos

Incredible stuff. Training film for an ancient surface-to-air search radar team.

Featuring:
- a crew member whose sole job it is to read the azimuth off of a scale that's physically on the base of the antenna
- reading the contacts off of an oscilloscope
- telephoning the contacts to a central room be plotted on a physical chart.

@Infoseepage okay. Link?

@Infoseepage that's very concerning. I'm a Proton customer, and maybe I ought not to be.

Do you have a link to an example?

@skinnylatte yeah! I use it to automatically put my photos on my NAS.

A bit bummed that the package for the NAS isn't getting any further updates, and that they just announced they aren't doing Android support any more, though 😞

@danderson I have to say, I bounced off Elite Dangerous when I tried it. If I got to do this kind of thing, I think I'd probably give it another go. Though it sounds like you'd need to already have played for quite a while first to have the resources and know-how. If there was on-the-job training I think I'd sign right up. It sounds like fun!

I must not reply. Replying is the mind-killer. Replying is the little-death that brings total obliteration.

I will face the bad take. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the take has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain.

Wait. Is Arkansas the trigonometric opposite of Ansas?