ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Shot, Chaser

Comet ZTF and Mars

Image Credit & Copyright: Donato Lioce

https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230213.html #APOD

My book was sent to production!!!! It’s DONE! 🥳🥳🥳

Y’all I’m a published author!!!!

Pre-order a print copy of Design for Developers today!!!

#webdev #design

https://www.manning.com/books/design-for-developers?utm_source=stimac&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=book_stimac_design_4_19_22&a_aid=stimac&a_bid=5f6ba095

Just annual reminder that you’re not too old to take up a sport or a hobby or learn a language or rollerskate or learn martial arts or join a debate club or learn an instrument and play in an orchestra. Adults can do that too. It’s totally allowed.

A meter-wide asteroid (only the 7th object detected in space before reaching Earth) just disintegrated harmless over the English Channel. #Sar2667
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RT @BNODesk
WATCH: Meteor lights up the sky in northern France
https://twitter.com/BNODesk/status/1624968247035428864

RAAF Roulettes doing some training flights over our part of the world. Noticeable because they are flying low, and we seldom see aircraft here.

Today, you will probably see ads for Bud Light, Doritos, and Jesus. The latter will be funded by a shadowy group of theocratic billionaires like the guy who founded Hobby Lobby and sued to prevent his workers from accessing basic healthcare
https://youtu.be/k1idNZnX0F8

Of course Elon Musk is sitting with Rupert Murdoch at the Super Bowl. Of course.

Behold the tale of a Facebook data scientist fired because he refused to run a little test that his bosses demanded ...

... in which he'd update Messenger so that it drained some users' batteries faster

The data scientist accurately noted that this was unethical as hell -- it could literally endanger people who rely on their phone as a lifeline

As @pluralistic notes, it's part of why "feudal security" -- trusting a big tech firm to keep you safe -- never really works: https://medium.com/@doctorow/when-facebook-came-for-your-battery-feudal-security-failed-c8c1e3beb279

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I did not have “multiple nations shooting down high altitude balloons” on my 2023 bingo card!🎈

Happy Sunday.

Pancakes are happening 🥣

This powerpole in AKL does not look happy

-0.21942814877743394 + 0.7482210980097642i at zoom 9.4665965055e+07.

Oh no!

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But ... but ... I actually want HTTPS, and I don't trust native apps... :S

I'm convinced that nginx servers are like sourdoughs in that they all came from someone's special starting config that they use each time they need to make a new one.