ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

The Earth's "magnetic north" is the place that the north end of the magnetic needle in your compass points towards. But the north pole of any magnet is only attracted to the south pole of another magnet, because that's how magnets work.

Which means the north pole is actually a south pole.

Good morning.

struggling with git issues this morning... Fortunately looking over the git cheat sheet from @b0rk got me out of the hole 😄

https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/112288027169476498

The fact that some people can't distinguish between etymology and entomology bugs me in ways I can't put into words -- Anon

You've just been Ohhhh Big Stretched 🐶

Spectacular timelapse capturing an entire night from sunset to sunrise over the ALMA Observatory on the Chajnantor Plateau in the Chilean Atacama Desert.

Video Credit: ESO/C. Malin (christophmalin.com)

Moved in to our building 3 years ago.

I have never been able to clean my whiteboard.

For 3 years, I have been trying every single internet tip and trick. Buying cleaning products etc…

Yesterday I finally bit the bullet and emailed our maintenance staff to say: “I need a new whiteboard, I've essentially tried everything and now there's just no white space left".

About an hour later, someone turned up and with kindness slowly removed the protective film I’ve been writing on for 3 years…

🧙 This is massive
The Future of MySQL is PostgreSQL:
Today, at Postgres Conference 2024, we introduced a PostgreSQL extension we are developing, which enables MySQL applications to run on PostgreSQL without any code changes by supporting the MySQL wire protocol, SQL syntax, and procedural language.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40094160
https://nextgres.com/res/20240419-The-Future-of-MySQL-is-Postgres.pdf (edited)

#meme

A month later, #NASA released a public statement taking responsibility. “The hardware was expected to fully burn up during entry through Earth’s atmosphere” https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-04-16/nasa-says-space-junk-that-crashed-into-florida-home-was-from-iss

#SpaceDebris #ISS

A better view of the wild solar prominences during Monday's eclipse.

(Quick hand-held shot with Nikon Z9 + Nikkor 800mm f/6.3 PF)

If you look really closely, you can also see a bowl of petunias.

#WhenYouGetIt
#DouglasAddams
#HHGTTG

The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit.

They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine, seen from 420 km (261 miles) above: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/with/53645140833 #space #eclipse #space #astronomy

Just a plot of all objects in the universe...

Peter Higgs has died at the age of 94. He proposed the particle that explains why matter has mass 60 years ago, filling in the last piece of the standard model of particle physics. The Large Hadron Collider was built to search for "Higgs boson" after decades of lower-power accelerators were unable to detect it. It was finally discovered in 2012 earning Higgs and his collaborators a Nobel Prize in Physics.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68774853

Does your public library use Overdrive/Libby for ebooks or audiobooks? ⚠️

In the US and Canada, the answer is probably yes. And you should speak to your library staff and commission about it.

Libby is now owned by a private equity firm & making sketchy changes: https://buttondown.email/ninelives/archive/the-coming-enshittification-of-public-libraries/

The latest development is that their overbroad privacy policy allows them to sell your borrowing history to advertisers: https://infosec.exchange/@longobord/112243098104196246

Thank you @karawynn and @longobord!

#Privacy #Libraries

It was absolutely stunning
#SolarEclipse2024