werner58 @werner58@qoto.org
Joined Nov 2022
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@republic2809 One of the very last, this thing could send SMS (if you had the patience to key them in...) to the 2G network that would very soon make it endangered.
The card slot is not for credit cards but for special PAYG magstripe cards - in the '90s, there was a bit of a collecting craze about them.
@ashdragon@mastodon.social @jerry
Apparently that's the pitch for "post.news" by the former CEO of Waze, Noam Bardin. Currently in closed beta. It looks like it will be targeted at journalists first and foremost.
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The Artemis Orion spacecraft trajectory over its 25-day mission is shown below.
Between Nov 25 and Dec 1, Orion will be in a Distant Retrograde Orbit (DRO) around the moon.
On Nov 21, Orion will be approach within 100 km of the lunar surface and fire its thrusters to steer it towards the DRO. Orion will enter DRO after another burn (DRI) on Nov 25.
OPF = Outbound Powered Flyby
DRI = DRO Insertion
DRD = DRO Departure
RPF = Return Powered Flyby
Source: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/20180001259/downloads/20180001259.pdf
Go #Artemis
High school never ends.
@bert_hubert For problems on this timescale, I used to say "the United Federation of Planets will take care of that"...
I'm not _that_ optimistic anymore, but I still trust our descendants' ability to take care of themselves probably better than ours
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Orion's solar arrays enter their naruto run configuration in preparation for the perigee raise maneuver to circularize the orbit prior to TLI burn.
@nyrath With little 🐌 icons for the acceleration of ion drives
birdsite drama
Latest Kara Swisher piece on the antics over there. Come for the journalism, stay for the sick gifs.
Personally I hope that Space Car Guy gets hit by a hefty dose of reality, but I'm afraid she might be right.
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Everyone on Twitter right now:
Estragon: Well, shall we go?
Vladimir: Yes, let’s go.
(They do not move)
@AkaSci "This program posts news to thousands of machines throughout the entire civilized world. You message will cost the net hundreds if not thousands of dollars to send everywhere. Please be sure you know what you are doing."
;)
Is this the clownish new Twitter Blue Check
@caffeneko nice
@freemo Well, that's not 19th century English...
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Automattic is one of the most important companies on the Internet.
They make Tumblr, WooCommerce, Amismet, LongReads, WordPress—among others.
WordPress alone powers ~44% of the world's websites.
More interesting: despite being such a large, dominant company, few people hate Automattic.
Why is this? 🧵
@jerry But I was told in no uncertain terms that on the Internet, nobody knows you're a dog...
Joined Nov 2022
