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Three weeks after Voyager 1 autonomously flipped over to using the S-band transmitter for communicating with earth because of a power overload condition, it appears that it is back to communicating using X-band.

No word from NASA, but presumably the team managed to turn off the heater that caused the power surge and re-enable the X-band transmitter.

Phew 😓

eyes.nasa.gov/apps/dsn-now/dsn
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Taken! I made someone happy!!!
I still have my first computer, an Osborne Executive with all of its original software and manuals. It still worked great when I last booted it up in 1999. We're really trying to not hang on to stuff forever, so it's heading for the electronics recycling in a week unless someone wants it. Free, but I don't think I can deal with shipping it anywhere, so pick-up in Woburn, MA.
(Computer details at en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osborne_)
(Any ideas, @knizer?)

#free #VintageComputer

@neil @stepleton @aaisp Same here. Provided you have SPF, DKIM, DMARC and rDNS set up correctly, and adequately secure against spammers relaying, it will work fine.

Found a brilliant dress that I've told me friends about because it has decent pockets. Not told my husband as it means I can still give him stuff to carry for me.

Aged beer tasting ready to commence. Oldest on the table is from 1971.

#beer #vintage

@mcc
It's DNS, isn't it? It's always DNS.

DNS is the butler of IT.

There's a new article with more details on when the new inactivity reboot is triggered on iOS 18:
404media.co/apple-quietly-intr

This is a cheap & great mitigation! While most people won't have their phone forensically analyzed, many more will have their devices stolen. It protects user data in both cases.

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I've written a short story told from the perspective of an autonomous car.

I'd love your feedback on it.

shkspr.mobi/blog/2023/11/chapt

Disney showed some of the first footage of Tron:Ares at D23 in Brazil. The footage includes light cycles in the real world slicing through cars.

Apparently, bootleg footage is on social media. Damned if I can find it. Anyway, back to work.

Sent congratulations to Governor Trump. Look forward to meet to discuss Ukraine, without Ukraine.

If you’re not at the table, you’re on the menu.

It takes twenty human seconds to delete a folder from a USB key on a Windows machine now and I honestly can't make myself believe that the same people who cannot make a file browser work right will taking us all to AI Hypergod Productivity Heaven.

I'm honestly ready to start buying into something like Roko's Basilisk that includes the idea of basic functionality working right.

@SwiftOnSecurity '...this is the first time I've seen it.'

Well, not really. It's obvious you weren't watching the interviewee on camera, or you would have asked why they are typing.

All the engineers and analysts I've interviewed are on camera or in-person.

The number of first-round interviewees who are pinch-hitting for a friend or for money is non-zero.

If they show up for another interview, or actually walk in for the job, I do look at the contemporaneous screen shot and notes from my interview.

#WritersCoffeeClub 8. Where do you get your books?

I read ebooks exclusively because of my poor eyesight. I've been doing this since roughly 2008, although I began reading ebooks in the late 90s.

I have a Kindle account although I'm weaning myself off it in favour of Kobo and smaller independent ebook stores. ("Do not give money to billionaire oligarchs like Jeff Bezos" seems like a sound principle, especially as Amazon is enshittifying their ebook experience rapidly these days.)

Israeli supporters were in Amsterdam after their club played Ajax. They chanted things like "we'll fuck the Arabs" and "fuck you Palestine", and tore down Palestinian flags. A group of pro-Palestine people then beat the shit out of them. Every politician in The Netherlands and the wider world calls it "anti-Semitic violence".

That's basically the story. Seems like regular football violence to me. It happens almost every weekend.

Been away for a while but maybe gonna try to give mastodon a fair shake again. So uh... here's some recent illustration work as an ice re-breaker....

#illustration #art #drawing #procreate #europe

Amd so it begins: Now have two smart devices on

* P110 wifi switch for two runs of
* @revk 's MQTT USB-to-LED strip

Annoyingly the Tapo dropped off over night, but came back when manually powered it on. Firmware updated? Hope doesn't start needing cloud connection or it's going back....

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