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If you haven't heard of it, Sean Carroll's Mindscape podcast is worth a listen: engaging discussions about wide-ranging topics, but typically focusing on science and/or in conversation with scientists.

https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/

#science #podcast #physics #chemistry #space

@kohn@chaos.social Generally, for these kinds of things, I assume the translation group is just having a laugh, but even if that's true, the anime itself looks wild.
What is this from?

@loveisgrief@mastodon.online I've actually tried this, and it's ok, but I still regret the squeeze bottle.

@lanodan Blender's open movie projects did a lot to both focus efforts and attract attention to the project from artists and developers. IDK what the equivalent would be for Inkscape: vector graphic design seems pretty niche and not very splashy @cwebber@octodon.social

Not really a "life pro tip", but I've found that not eating right when I get home does help me get things done after work. Something about sitting down and eating just feels like the day winding down, so it's harder for me to get up and take care of stuff.
#productivity

I'm watching several episodes actually. "Hated in the Nation", the part where they make the fatal mistake of plugging in the abandoned drive and getting hacked. Just seems like an obviously bad idea for anyone technical.

so I've decided to give "The Expanse" series of books a go. I think it would have been cheaper to buy them all at once, but maybe I want to hold open the possibility that I get so mad at one character that I hold off reading the next book for years, and don't want them around it in the interim

@namark I was thinking there's a continuous stream. I get quickly out of my depth thinking about the physics of that, unfortunately

I just re-watched the "San Junipero" episode of #blackmirror. I still don't get why Kelly ultimately decided to join Yorkie. I figured that she was ultimately just like "screw this getting old and dying stuff", but Kelly was pretty angry before she left Yorkie that last time.

@namark IDK. I could imagine a shared-key scheme where all communications are encrypted with a stream cipher and your initialization vector is pulled off a well-known generator (maybe time-based). Not even saying it's not something you couldn't do some cryptanalysis on and figure out at least that there's a packet structure, but it doesn't seem hard to obfuscate enough so that you wouldn't see the signal unless you already knew there's a signal to see and what the scheme is. If the whole point was to make your comms look like noise to other potential intelligent life, it seems, at best, medium hard to achieve.

I think the question is really what ET's communication medium is. I'm not sure what our radio telescopes pick up now and whether we could distinguish a comms signal that looked random from random noise. Maybe they occlude stars to communicate over interplanetary distances but we don't see because we're not in the right orientation to see the occlusion?

is it possible there's a bunch of alien communication going on, but it's all encrypted so that it just looks like noise in our measurements?
#seti #aliens #cryptography

there should be a lower threshold for these installment plans

it may just be my perception, but weather forecasts seem to be much better than they were when I was younger.

@cwebber@octodon.social what's wrong with Mozilla advertising? where does it say they encourage DRM now?