The best photo of a #takahē I've ever seen.
(The big blue ball. That one.)
(seen on Bluesky but I couldn't find the post linking to it when I scrolled back looking for it.)
Astronomers have observed the exoplanet Beta Pictoris b almost long enough to catch a full orbit!
In this new video, the planet (the blue dot) orbits around its host star. The bright star is blocked by a coronagraph (the black disk) so we can see the faint light from the planet.
It was made by interpolating between 30 frames of data taken over 17 years from the Gemini Planet Imager, VLT/NACO, and VLT/SPHERE.
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/08/watch-an-exoplanets-17-year-journey-around-its-star/
Credit: Jason Wang & Malachi Noel https://jasonwang.space/orbits.html
#florespondence #nature #plants #flowers
Trapped!
I love the expression on this warning sign on a laundromat washing machine.
LLM hallucination is currently seen as a problem for developers
But the products that succeed in this era won't be the ones that somehow suppress all hallucination.
They will be the ones that successfully pass on the cost of hallucination to users
Checking to see what mentioning a bookwyrm user @KelsonReads@bookwyrm.social from Takahe does without following
I don't know who needs to hear this, but never give your Social Security number to an anime waifu. https://kotaku.com/tax-season-deadline-dating-sim-video-game-1850253777
as chrome gets older and more exposed to the elements it will be eventually partially composed of rust
not that it matters to me, a firefox user
thinking about how "well, the wayback machine has it archived" shouldn't have to be the best possible end result for websites that are a vast trove of collective knowledge when corporate interests take them under
Hmm, Takahe and Akkoma think they're following each other, but I don't see any of my Akkoma posts here.
#Macstodon 1.0 RELEASED! 🎉
(happy #MARCHintosh !)
Macstodon is a Mastodon client for vintage (pre-OSX) #Macintosh computers.
New in 1.0 (there's so much stuff that it's finally time to bump the major version):
- Profiles!
- User interactions! (follow/mute/block and notes)
- Preferences - customize the number of toots to load at launch and on refresh!
- Junk characters removed!
- Open links in browser, download attached media!
- Icons for interactions!
- Many, many bug fixes!
System Requirements:
- A 68020+ or PPC Mac
- System 7.1 through 9.2.2
- At least 4 MB of free memory (8-16 MB recommended)
- 32-bit addressing enabled
- Internet Config installed
- an SSL-stripping proxy such as WebOne running on another machine
You can download it from GitHub: https://github.com/smallsco/macstodon (don't forget to read the Read Me file, it contains important setup instructions!)
#RetroComputing #RetroProgramming #VintageMac #68K #PowerPC #Apple #Mac #MacOS #ClassicMac
Still Dangerous
I’m not sure this fence is entirely stable.
Update: Here’s another section of the fence that I don’t think I’d want to lean on!
Photo album on Flickr: Del Cerro Views
Originally posted on Instagram
#cliffs #del-cerro-park #imported-post #ocean #signs #termites
If you're sad about Lance Reddick, his widow asked for people to donate to MOMcares, a Baltimore-based charity that provides prenatal and postpartum care to under-supported Black women who've been through the NICU wringer. It helps unborn babies, it helps Black maternal mortality rates, it should appeal to pretty much everyone. Go! www.momcares.org
Are you a #Fediverse developer?
There's a new initiative by @gabek (the lead developer of the Fediverse livestreaming platform @owncast) called FediDocs. It aims to provide an easy-to-find set of documentation for how to federate with a Fedi platform, in order to promote better federation between platforms.
The FediDocs website is still very new and empty (https://fedidocs.org/about/) but if you are a Fedi developer please contact @gabek about contributing info on federating with your project.
What?
LEFT-PAD PROBLEM is evolving!
LEFT-PAD PROBLEM evolved into DOCKERHUB PROBLEM!
https://mastodon.social/@bagder/110029589346386740
EDIT: Of note: https://www.docker.com/blog/we-apologize-we-did-a-terrible-job-announcing-the-end-of-docker-free-teams/
It looks like Takahe can follow Pixelfed, but replies/mentions don't make it back.
How many symbols do you need to type on a keyboard to make a heart?
Less than three.
