Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

Did some stress testing of a design, and found a situation where a dead short of an output could exceed the rated power of a resistor.

After a few minor changes, that vulnerability no longer exists.

Always design your systems so that people can connect inputs to inputs, outputs to outputs, outputs to ground, and outputs to power.

It's just so much more friendly that way.

This is another part of the #Soul #Nebula I imaged earlier this year, specifically #IC1848 8 hours H-alpha, 8 hours [OIII] and 8 hours [SII] , click to see the full image #astrophotography #astronomy #space

@peterdrake

There are about a dozen really bad actors, once you block those servers you cover the bulk of the content. Works well. The main reason we **dont** block servers was at the LGBTQ's communities request. At the time Milo was on Gab and they used accounts here to follow him so they could see when he doxxed someone and use it to warnt he community (as was the norm at the time and a big deal). In fact its why we added the subscribe feature, specifically so they could follow people without being identifiable as doing so.

Its one reason we dont block, its like putting blocks in a web browser, it hurts the victims too.

@zleap @meeper @nova @sarvo @waifu

Ok Timeline. The #twittermigration thing is now over, okay? Can we go back to actual content?

#fromTwitter May 5, 2017

Got my new 4145B Semiconductor Parameter Analyzer up and running. It was a really pain finding triaxial cables that weren't more expensive than the unit was.

It's really neat to be able to characterize diodes and transistors with this.

Something that I liked about Twitter was the lack of hierarchy. Hierarchy and elitism are some of the worst aspects of #academia, and social networks provide us with a strategy to break the cycle of privilege that perpetuates inequity. I’m looking forward to seeing how we can do the same on here! #Inclusivity #TwitterMigration

You see, this is exactly the problem. We're trying to take the Fediverse out of the ghettos while people like this defend their slice of hell.

It is, in fact, all about reach. This is a SOCIAL NETWORK.

There are people who do not want the Fediverse to grow. They want it to remain obscure on purpose because it's the only way they'll ever be relevant. We need to steamroll over these retards.

RT: https://chudbuds.lol/objects/f97ad017-1c1a-4902-88a3-99756e3f7d05

Place your bets on Tuesday's #FalconHeavy launch. Success is defined as payload reaching intended orbit.

one of my biggest website pet peeves is when they break forward/back functionality

like you wanna skip back a page and you just keep ending up on the page you're already at

if you design websites like this, fuck you

It was more exciting than I expected to see my name in the credits of Dr. Strange and the Multiverse of Madness today.

Good quote here in this Wired article on what #Twitter can learn from #Mastodon:

"As with this latest surge, those who arrive on Mastodon servers are joining an experiment in whether communities can function better with self-moderation, and by self-organizing into like-minded groups. The answer, it seems, is that they can—but not without some trade-offs."

https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-twitter-masatodon/

Greetings! I'm an #astrophysics PhD student who mostly works with N-body simulation of galaxies (i.e. code in Python all days and some nights).

Sometimes pretend to be a fan of #foss and #reproducibleresearch and package some obstinate astro codes for #guix to run on our server (in a private repo though, I'll submit the patches to the upstream, I promise :)

Never been on the birdsite (can't really stand against the wave of random notifications) but always wanted to have a sort of microblogging acc to post random fancy pictures from my work, and #qoto looks like a very nice place to land.

#introduction