When I was about ten, I noticed an infrared sensor in our VCR and became convinced that it was a hidden camera that my parents were using to spy on me.
I wasn’t a bad kid so I wasn’t worried, but I convinced myself that if I sang and danced for the camera, my parents would FINALLY see my talent and help me get on Star Search.
For the next month, I did super weird performances in front of that VCR until I finally acknowledged that they hadn’t provided any feedback on my skillz, at which point I determined that the only logical conclusion was that the camera wasn’t working, so I…
DISMANTLED THE VCR to examine the camera.
Once everything was opened up and pulled apart, I realized I had no idea what I was looking at so I just screwed everything back together with a bunch of loose, rattling parts inside.
About a week later, I remember watching my dad trying to play a VHS tape to no avail and silently thinking “this is YOUR fault for not seeing my full POTENTIAL, daaaaad!”
Here's an amazing story about an ingenious man who's using cheap hardware and free software to try to identify an elusive orchid pollinator:
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/928691/3a0ef3ad5b394bc8/
#pollinators #orchid #flowers #insects #raspberrypi #plants #plantscience
Even if you took away the waves, the ocean surface would not be flat. That’s partly because Earth’s gravity varies across the surface, pulling water around and creating huge lumps and holes up to 100m high/deep. But then temperature, salinity, atmospheric pressure and currents add extra dynamic bumps on top of this of a few tens of cm. Tracking these lets us measure ocean currents from satellites, which is an astonishing feat.
#ocean #satellites #OceanPhysics
Apple just released Safari 16.4.1, macOS Ventura 13.3.1, and iOS/iPadOS 16.4.1, with two fixes that may have been under active exploitation.
Update your things!
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213720
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213721
https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT213722
Bit more info, via BleepingComputer;
@TechCowboy ported the #Atari8bit #FujiNet Reversi from #AtariBASIC to #Apple2 #AppleSoft BASIC. Since it speaks the same protocol, it can play with Atari users, just fine. :) #retrocomputing #retrogaming :)
Who wants a baby rabbit? I opened the garage door, went back inside for a sec, in hops Peter looking like butter wouldn’t melt.
You know what? That's just awesome.
New NASA Director Swears Oath on Carl Sagan Book Instead of Bible:
https://futurism.com/the-byte/nasa-director-sagan-swearing-in
Little fresh #chiptune from me from the fabbo new chipmusic disk Chipo Django 2 by Raubenage & Bitshifters released at @revisionparty 2023 - go grab it on Pouet here -> https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=94151 #amiga #atari #archimedes #demoscene
I just published a new blog post: Preventing Secrets in Code. If you like this post, come see my talk at @bsidessf later this month! Same topic, more fun!
https://shehackspurple.ca/2023/04/10/preventing-secrets-in-code/
The universe is wild.
This streak on a Hubble photo, originally thought to be an imaging glitch, is actually a 200,000 light year trail of new stars formed by the wake of a black hole that was ejected from the galaxy at the top right.
For reference, that streak is about twice the diameter of the Milky Way!
More details: https://hubblesite.org/contents/media/images/2023/010/01GWQ1F36Y4JK6Y4K8AWMZ86AF?news=true
"I have nothing to hide."
"Can I have your email password?"
Weird observation, this clock has it’s second pointer calibrated almost accurately… and i wanted to go to Switzerland to see accurate clocks…
It’s only the beginning.
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RT @williamlegate
🚨 Twitter faces fines in Germany exceeding 3 YEARS of the revenue it’s expected to generate worldwide from Twitter Blue, due to its failure to remove pro-Nazi content
https://www.forbes.com/sites/emmawoollacott/2023/04/05/germany-threatens-twitter-with-50m-fine-for-failing-to-tackle-illegal-content/amp/
https://twitter.com/williamlegate/status/1644341020975415296