John Young @jsy1001@qoto.org

First of two planes transiting solar disk during June 8th imaging session. Invididual frames 1 ms Ha < 0.7 Å in Lunt 40 at f/10. #astrodon

Quote of the day (from @pluralistic )

"We’re in the polycrisis, a widening gyre of climate emergency, inequality, infrastructure neglect, rising authoritarianism and zoonotic plagues.
But that’s not the bad part."

So what is the bad part?

THE BAD PART IS THAT THE PEOPLE WHO ARE IN A POSITION TO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT ARE ALL TELLING YOU THAT THERE IS NOTHING THEY CAN DO ABOUT IT, YOU'RE ON YOUR OWN.

Trying to write but it’s noteasy.

Does #lightning occur only on Earth?

Spacecraft in our Solar System have detected lightning on other planets, including Mars, #Jupiter and Saturn, and lightning is likely on Venus, Uranus, and Neptune.

In the featured #Juno photograph, an optical flash was captured in a large cloud vortex near Jupiter's north pole.

#planets #astrophotography
https://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap230625.html

The rogue 2FA app that steals scanned secrets is now ranked 18 on the German App Store for the productivity category. No wonder! The app disguises as a Microsoft app. It is the top hit when you search for "Microsoft Authenticator" and the developer has updated the screenshots in the ad card to highlight the word "Microsoft". Surprisingly, the product page of the app shows different screenshots with the word "Microsoft" removed.
The app now has 1.2K reviews, as opposed to 18 when we first addressed the app.

#privacy #security #2FactorAuthentication #iOS #infosec

Designing Pythonic library APIs

https://benhoyt.com/writings/python-api-design/

Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://benhoyt.com/writings/python-api-design/

#programming #python

Google just emailed me to let me know that "Album Archive" is going away and my data will be deleted in a month.

Album Archive is apparently the dumping ground for images that were in _other_ products Google has already killed, such as Google+ and Hangouts.

They're killing the place where images from killed products went. It's just beyond parody, incredible.

Geneva Airport post-security. 🤣 #SecurityTheatre

This is probably the best thing I ever posted on Twitter. The memory is pretty dear to me; I'm sharing it here so it still exists somewhere if that place collapses.

The construction of ESO's Extremely Large #Telescope keeps progressing! We've started a new series of video updates, and in this first episode we show you how the gigantic steel frame of the dome is taking shape.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfWBnDBB0f0

#astrodon #astronomy #space #universe #scicomm

While you have to give credit to The Guardian for running Simon Evans' rebuttal to Rowan Atkinson's wibble about electric vehicles last week, it does beg the question of why they ran his opinion piece without proper fact-checking it in the first place.

Because you can be sure that Atkinson's genial celebrity status will ensure his views remain far more widely read & disseminated than the rebuttal.

#ClimateCrisis

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jun/08/fact-check-why-rowan-atkinson-is-wrong-about-electric-vehicles

Liberated from Facebook. Credit to originator (unknown).

Happy medieval joke day. (Isn't it? It is now?

#Medieval #Tapestry #Joke #Saxon

👀 Incredible scenes coming out of New York City.

This is the view from George Washington Bridge as smoke from wildfires in Canada blankets the Northeast US.

Air quality in NYC is the worst in the world right now. The Air Quality Index is unimaginably high at over 400 in some areas, meaning there is a high risk of adverse health effects.

#NYCsmoke #smoke #wildfires #NYC #BladeRunner #NYwx

High-speed harms as a service.

https://doctorow.medium.com/ayyyyyy-eyeeeee-4ac92fa2eed

#SEO #TheFirstTimeIAteAnEgg

My husband had to wait for 6 years to capture this view of #TheNeedles.

Taken as the #moon set at 4.30 am last summer. This shot is only possible a couple of times each year. He almost had it in 2016 but it was slightly too breezy and the telephoto lens couldn't keep in focus.

It causes controversy as some think it's fake, I promise you that it is not. It involved much research, persistence and luck with the weather! It's the cover shot on our 2024 calendar #IsleofWight #photography

We are an insane species.

By diverting waste from our excessive consumption of meat into fuel to fractionally greenwash our addiction to flying, we end up clearing more tropical forests to source palm oil for pet food.

So much idiocy in a single paragraph.

The epitaphs written to this “civilisation” will not be kind.

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-65727664

Hello friends, today we’re launching https://cooperative.computer !

It’s like dGaaS (De-Googling as a Service). Nextcloud files storage, contacts and calendar syncing and a Matrix account all for £3 per month.

- No ads
- No data mining
- No BS

AND THAT’S NOT ALL! Don’t like it? Change it! Cooperative.computer will eventually be its own cooperative where the members decide how it’s run.

Come talk to us on Matrix today! Operators are standing-by. https://matrix.to/#/#general:cooperative.computer

@tanweerdar

I think I miss an imagined version
Of cricket, where there are no failures
Nor unkind words, where there is no
Permanent core of self-doubt
Writhing around my heart, and where
Team bonds are forever strong.

It doesn't exist, of course, this
Perfect model of the game I used
To love, where to pick up a ball in
January to start hardening my hands
Was as natural an act as breathing,
So I stand at the boundary and dream.

#MastoPrompt #Writhing #Poetry #Cricket

‘Light shining through a wall’ experiment ALPS starts searching for dark matter @DESYnews – World’s most sensitive instrument of its kind is to produce axions. Key contributions from @mpi_grav and Leibniz University Hannover researchers.

➡️ https://www.aei.mpg.de/1031052/licht-durch-die-wand-experiment-alps-startet-suche-nach-dunkler-materie

#lightupdarkmatter #ALPSII