Reach for the Stars @antares@qoto.org

The thing about virtual conferences is, even though I think I should *try*, I just can't justify clearing my schedule. So it just ends up being conference on top of normal work, which either means (1) 12 hour days (I did this for CSCW 2020); or (2) not really doing the conference (this is how it's shaking out this year 😢 ) #CSCW2022

My story on the sports-betting measures on their way to losing big in CA: https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sports-betting-measures-on-their-way-to-losing-big-in-california-11667974029
#prop26 #prop27

I am unbelievably proud of my friend, Maxwell Frost, who just made history as the first Gen Z-er elected to Congress! He’s just 25 years old! 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

#Midterms #GenZ #VoteBlue

Well. That's enough status updates. Instead, please enjoy this photo of city hall as Karl rolls in.

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/07/1134688501/lunar-eclipse-this-week-november-2022

Looks like there’s going to be a Total Lunar Eclipse tonight from the perspective of U.S.

Last one till 2025.

Physicist Lise Meitner was born #OTD in 1878. She discovered fission in uranium with Otto Frisch, and was the first person to understand both its mechanics and its implications.

Image: Atomic Heritage Foundation (photographer unknown)

Ten servers diverged in the fediverse,
And sorry I could not join them all,
And be one tooter, long I stood
And looked down one as I could
To where it bent in the federated feed;

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence;
Ten servers diverged in the fediverse, and I,
I took the one less tooted by,
And that has made all the difference.

Mastodon right now.

(Yes those are all birds)

Did you know that if you capitalize each word in a multi-word hashtag, #ScreenReaders can read them as words, but if you leave them lowercase, they can't? Well, now you know! So, for #accessibility, please capitalize words when there's more than one in a hashtag.

What is the future of Twitter?

#photography #fotografie #PhotoMonday #FotoMontag #landscape

Golden-Gate-Bridge, San Francisco

If you're worried about the uptime of various Mastodon instances let's cast our minds back to the time that Twitter was so bad at this that it was made into a children's book as a joke: https://www.macbarnett.com/billy-twitters-and-his-blue-whale-problem

Me: There's a concern that, with so many #MachineLearning PhDs being snapped up by industry, there won't anyone to train the next generation of researchers.

Colleague: I guess they'll just have to use .... unsupervised learning.

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.