This rainy week has been challenging for #offgrid baking, it takes 25% of my battery to bake a #sourdough loaf, but I've managed to make 2. This one ran the battery down to 9%. #solarpunk

ah, switched opencamera to camera2 api and now I have noise reduction, low light, ISO, exposure settings so can finally take half-decent night time photos.. too late for the aurora. #fdroid

My phone is hopeless in the dark, I did see it a bit on another skygazer's there.

Long time ago, I remember my dad setting off in the dusk, driving north out of Tennessee to Virginia on country roads, toward the mountain, intently looking North to the horizon in hopes of catching an #aurora this far south. I don't think he saw it.

Just back from my own drive (to the same mountain range), where I saw ... a hint of pinkness to the sky. A faint vertical line. One or twice, a flicker of movement.

Not enough, but something. Tempted to drive to Dayton tomorrow.. looking North.

#aurora Dayton Ohio

#starlink train was amazing! my 1st one. With my hand at arm's length it just fit in betwen thumb and forefinger.

waiting in the yard to catch starlink train, then driving to a mountain with a north view into Virginia for (low probability) aurora spotting

#starlink sky train passing overhead at 9:30 here, looks perfect viewing opportunity if the clouds cooperate

also, if the solar storm does deorbit any, it will be those same just-launched ones

internetting some good internet this evening.. it still exists

after spending 3 days translating a shell script to haskell and integrating it into #gitAnnex, it didn't work the 1st try

but it did work after a single bug fix!

This raises an interesting question. If a GPDR request to delete personal data causes a removal of attribution required by a license, does that nuke the material too, despite it not being personal data itself

It's an appealing line of thought in the stackoverflow case, but not so much if I consider a GPDR request against say, Debian to remove all my contributions. I should not be able to retroactively destroy Debian.

Anyone have insight on the legalities?

https://mas.to/@osma/112415585768324853

hammer destroys mind control screen -> mind control screen destroys all, the endless cycle

#stackoverflow #slop

On my second day of rewriting my prototype shell script in haskell #gitAnnex

learning about git merge-base

How is there another git command I've never even heard of lol.

Here's a big #offgrid site: 5 megawatts of solar (plans for 25, think 100 acres of panels), with 3 megawatts of batteries, to charge EVs and electric semi trucks (at 1.2 megawatts).

It's wild that this is (apparently) economical now. There are surely better arbitrage opportunities with a grid connection, to charge the batteries from the grid and sell back to the grid as well as selling EV fast charges.
But interconnection lag be damned, we need this now.

https://electrek.co/2024/05/06/wattev-opens-us-first-megawatt-charge-station-with-1-2mw-speeds-and-solar/

This reminds me of when I rewrote all of debhelper from shell to perl in a couple days way back when.

Last week I prototyped a git remote helper in a shell script, and now I'm rewriting that in #haskell as part of #gitAnnex.

I don't do this often and I wonder if it was a mistake, probably I should have written the prototype in haskell and then integrated it into git-annex. It's kind of amazing how a lot of complexity is melting away and also how I'm adding So Many Types and also throwing in a lot of robustness improvements.

And NASA scrubbed launch. Unsurprisingly... #Boeing

Shout out to the scammers who have a fake SpaceX youtube stream of the Boeing #starliner launch. Deepfake Elon scamming for bitcoin and dodgecoin has 100,000 (apparent) viewers to NASA's 19,000.

honorable mention to "In this image we can see a poster. On the poster we can see some text and a picture of a ship."

in awe of some truely horrible image descriptions I've seen on here today

the best one of all consisted of: "image/jpeg"

#til that my aunt's husband's father came up with the jingle "snap crackle pop, rice crispies"

#Amazon has made a statement about how they will prevent the Bell riots.

All hail our AI overlords.

Thanks Amazon, I definitely wanted to quiz chatgpt on AI trick questions rather than search product reviews for actually useful information.