tobychev @tobychev@qoto.org
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
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"...a power outage at #SpaceX’s California facility caused a loss of #GroundControl, meaning that the mission control team was briefly unable to command the #spacecraft."
Single outage brought GROUND CONTROL down?! On the ground where power grids & diesel generators at a nearby home improvement store are! Have they never heard of battery backups and generators?! They have no idea what 3 points-safe₁ means, nor failover₂, and have no business trying to send so much as a spatula to #space.
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"``I grow jasmine in a pot to see something beautiful amidst the slum where I live and to mask the stench of waste,`` said Ramani, a 32-year-old [textile worker] from Dindigul, who tends to a garden of flowering plants in old paint cans. [...] ``It's something of beauty I created, something I own and enjoy - unlike the clothes I make at the factory,`` she explains."
via @tansy
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What's it like to live in a country where the president is held accountable? https://www.politico.eu/article/court-ex-president-nicolas-sarkozy-corruption-france-human-rights-supreme/
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"In light of the continuing proliferation threat of Pakistan’s long-range missile development, the United States is designating four entities for sanctions pursuant to Executive Order (E.O.) 13382, which targets proliferators of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery." - State Dept.
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Up until the age of 27 I thought the word knackered was spelt NAKED. Day to day this wasn't a huge problem. But sometimes I would text people and say something like "I'm not going out, I am totally naked. You can come round here if you like?"
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Don Pettit is one of the astronauts currently on board the International Space Station. He's also a serious shutterbug and amateur astronomer. To take advantage of his current lofty perspective, he rigged up a special star tracking mount that he could use to take long-exposure astrophotos from the ISS. The homemade orbital sidereal tracker rotates at a 90-minute period to match the pitch rate of the ISS, allowing him to take 30-second exposures.
https://www.reddit.com/r/astrophotography/comments/1h9dovl/time_exposure_from_iss/
"With so much of its identity wrapped up in rejecting “the Left,” Modern Conservatism always had a reactionary quality. As the commitment to ultimate values was never balanced by an equally strong commitment to limiting principles that could have moderated political action, where was the restraint against further escalation and radicalization supposed to come from?"
@tzimmer_history on the radical core of Modern Conservatives
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/the-modern-conservative-tradition
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Are there any PhDs in law/social sciences/public policy out there in the fediverse who would like to help hammer global, regional, and local AI Policy into shape? The AI Policy Lab at Umeå University is looking for a staff scientist/policy analyst for a full-time, permanent position. #getfedihired #academicchatter
Last day to apply is January 15th!
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A new report from Human Rights Watch recalls that the first Trump administration's family separation policy met the definitions of "enforced disappearance" and "torture."
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Another extremely eyebrow raising pardon is a woman who had 5 years of house arrest left on her sentence for committing the largest local government embezzlement in US history, over $53M stolen.
You'd think being the person known for stealing the most ever from a small government shouldn't get special treatment. There's certainly more deserving individuals for sure.
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I was going to write a singular positive post about Biden taking a break from protecting war criminals for a day to finally getting around to pardoning average people. And for sure he totally did the typical pardon of several "non violent drug offenders" which is great. But also, oh god he pardoned some real monsters who earned every minute of their sentence and then some.
At least one of the kids the Conahan jailed committed suicide as a result.
https://www.citizensvoice.com/2024/12/12/biden-commutes-sentence-for-kids-for-cash-judge/
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Wer transportiert eigentlich Donald Trumps Klimaleugner-Ideen nach Deutschland? Wie fließen die Gelder und bei welchen Parteien landet beides? Achtung: Die Antwort ist wenig überraschend! (by @correctiv_org)
"This feeling strengthened after the fall of the Berlin Wall, when both the good and bad of Soviet culture disappeared and the GDR turned from the most prosperous of all the Russian satellite states into the poorer half of a newly reunified Germany. In a 2019 poll cited by Amberger, 60% of Germans in the former GDR said they saw themselves as second-class citizens. Many Germans in the western part of the country regard their eastern neighbors in the same way"
https://newlinesmag.com/argument/the-former-east-germany-is-fertile-ground-for-the-far-right/
via @kaiarzheimer
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So a crazy thing happened. In a crime thriller film called Les chambres rouges (Red Rooms, 2023) there is a scene where the hacker protagonist is attempting to purchase a snuff film in online auction. The auction happens via IRC or IRC-like chatting environment and to my surprise there's actually me @rolle and my wife @mustikkasoppa who are one of the bidders.
1) The nickname of my wife is mistakenly written as "mustikasoppa" (with one k) but if I recall correctly she has used a mistakenly written nickname in the past
2) We are both operators and on the same IRC channel as we've been for the past 17 years
This is not a coincidence. One nickname can be made up by accident but not two with these features and definitely not in a French movie. My wife's nick "mustikkasoppa" is Finnish and means "blueberry soup".
Our IRC logs are more or less public because of open source and statistics so I presume the scene has been made with chatgpt which has scraped our nicks from the Internet so that they ended up in the movie. We still chat via IRC every day together.
The era of AI... Do your background check, folks. I'm glad this wasn't a dramatized documentary film but a complete fiction. However my wife and I are real. Mixed feelings.
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It turns out that one of the enablers of COVID was actually our increased carbon footprint.
https://www.bristol.ac.uk/cabot/news/2024/virus.html
#covid #covid19 #CarbonFootprint #CO2 #climate #ClimateChange
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Droughts in Brazil and Vietnam Are Driving up Global Coffee Prices.
Climate change is projected to drastically reduce suitable coffee-growing regions by 2050. #ClimateChange
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/03122024/todays-climate-droughts-coffee-prices/
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Non violent climate activist Gaie Delap, aged 77, is facing imprisonment in the UK again due to home tagging wristbands not being made small enough for her, and an ankleband not being safe due to her health.
In other news #StormDarragh has smashed the UK, killing two and leaving 200,000 without power.
Make this make sense.
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Street Complete v60 was just released, with 3 new quests and a lot of work behind the scenes and fixes!
Not sure what this account will be about, mostly boosting things I find interesting.
Joined Nov 2022
