ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

#Bluewalker3 has returned to it's post deployment brightness.

We offer a possible cause of the dimming and a brightness model to explain it in the following paper:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.01601

Think about this the next time you're gonna tell a #infosec job seeker that the key to getting a job is showing "passion".

#brisbane a nice sunset #australia

Protip:

When designing a user interface, imagine some old woman using it, say Margaret Hamilton, and she's clicking your app's buttons and saying to you, as old people do,

"Young whippersnapper, when I was your age, I sent 24 people to the ACTUAL MOON with my software in 4K of RAM and here I am clicking your button and it takes ten seconds to load a 50 megabyte video ad and then it crashes

I'm not even ANGRY with you, I'm just disappointed."

Hi folks who #studied a #CompSci degree, can you please tell me what #programming language you learnt in the first year?

#programmingLanguage #studyingComputing #java #python #C #procedural #oop #learning #education

Would you be okay with a fediverse-wide hashtag search (public posts only)?

Generational Poll. What generation are you? Please boost for more responses.
The system only allows me 4 options (sorry!).
Just let me say, all generations are great! 😀
This is just for fun and curiosity.

#SilentGeneration
#Boomer
#BabyBoomer
#GenX
#Millenial
#GenZ
#GenAlpha

Happy 40th birthday internet! Who knew all this time later we would have misinformation everywhere and Elon trolling everyone on Twitter. That went well 😂 Happy new year!

If you and your company use #curl or libcurl, consider a support contract with me to get that smooth uninterrupted and optimized use of it.

https://curl.se/support.html

Does anyone know if the guy who came up with the phrase, "One Hit Wonder," ever came up with any other phrases?

What is the best time to exercise?

#Poll #EvanPoll

I am 100% not shitting you when I say scientists named mastodons after their teeth which they thought looked like nipples. “Mastos” as in breast. “odont” as in tooth.
We’re on a website that, in Greek, literally means “Booby Tooth.”

Carna, Connemara

#LandscapePhotography #Seascape #Photography #Connemara #Mastodaoine #Ireland

I'm sure that Lastpass setting the delete account div to display: none was a perfectly coincidental defect

Things I had success doing when my city was spending zero dollars on bike infrastructure:

1. Creating & printing a bike map
2. Removing "No Bikes" signs
3. Installing public bike racks
4. Organizing cyclists
5. Planning bike lanes-- some got included in long-term plans
6. Convincing the city to ask the DOT for a "complete streets" approach on a state road
7. Putting "Complete Streets" in long term plans.

Tips are shared here:
https://mark.stosberg.com/effective-bike-advocacy-in-the-face-of-declining-city-budgets/?mtm_campaign=masto&mtm_kwd=bikes

#BikeAdvocacy

Got a hypothetical question for #physics scholars and / or #scifi enthusiasts:
The characters in "Interstellar" discuss managing time dilation which makes 1 hour gravity affected time equivalent to 2 years of reference time. (that's a 1 : 17532 ratio!)

What is the gravitational field strength needed to cause such a time dilation ratio?

What would be the mechanical effects of such gravitational acceleration?

I attempted to make a calculation but the numbers made spreadsheet throw a conrod.

Sick of people calling everything in crypto a Ponzi scheme. Some crypto projects are Pump-and-Dump schemes, while others are Pyramid schemes. Others are just middlemen skimming off the top. Others are just standard-issue fraud.

Stop glossing over the diversity in the industry.

Hi there, #Fediverse. I'm giving people until January 1 to talk me out of organizing a forum for Mastodon instance moderators. Here's the basic idea so far: https://toot.cat/@StephanieZvan/109553303241961412 Hosting hasn't been settled.

Who am I to think I can do something like this?

- I've been helping organizations write and enforce codes of conduct for the last decade.
- Yes, I've been harassed for it, and I have resources for coping.
- My focus is social, not technical.
- I like teaching, but I don't coddle nonsense and misdirection.
- I know and respect that people with the most insight into moderation will have a wide variety of preferences for receiving credit for those insights.

I'm happy to answer questions. People who take that as an opportunity to ask insincere questions often wish they hadn't.

#MastoAdmin #MastoMods

Getting ready to start a new year like