VegaLyrae

It shouldn’t matter as long as the sites are developed only with open standards.

We already have webcompat for anything truly broken.

Not sure why it happens.

Just using it on fedora as installed from the repos.

I tried it and made a few things for around the house.

It’s fine, but it’s Invasive, and so cloud connected that I got really fed up with it.

I would pay them the same price for an offline only version.

It’s a very sticky watermark. If you open and save a file in educational, the watermark cannot be removed even if you open it in paid commercial version later.

I spent a lot of time in free cad and am now trying Bricscad. I wanted to use Alibre because it’s way cheaper but it’s windows only and I couldn’t get it running in Proton or Wine.

I like freecad a whole lot, but I couldn’t stand the number of crashes any longer :(

I couldn’t find any other sane priced software that wasn’t Cloud-integrated (looking at you, dassault).

Without saying anything about politics, environment, or source:

Why, for the love of Satan, does this graph have only 2 data points per source?

Why use a line chart 📉 for that?

This is clear bar chart territory 📊.

Oh boy, what can’t we put ads in?

Can we get MtDew Green Lights with Coca-Cola Red lights?

The spacebar on laptops is free game, just asking for it.

It really is a shame that I can still buy bedsheets that aren’t branded with a corporate advertising campaign.

A clear enclosure so they can watch but not touch.

Yes, typically with two entirely separate disks, not just partitions on the same physical disk.

I wasn’t worried about it being proprietary until I saw the founder reasoning for not having the source be open under a nonpermissive licence.

https://obsidian.rocks/why-isnt-obsidian-open-source/

I decided to go with logseq because of it.

It also syncs with all my devices using my own servers, instead of needing to trust obsidian/logseq.

If trans people die after being denied by the sexologist, then the safety is illusory.

We cannot exist when we are merely tolerated.

Some of the states actually do give a fuck about us and it’s important to call that out along with the states that want us dead.

Yes her map is good, I just wish it didn’t show “states with a possibility in 2 years” in such a dark red color as it is misleading when compared to like… Actual bad states.

Yeah I’m only really familiar with Quebec

So Canadá is going to let trans people get treatment with informed consent model, right?

Right?

Some of our states are really good for trans people. A map of which regions yo avoid would be far more helpful than a blanket warning.

Who could have guessed that may-issue permits could be (gasp) abused!

I thought the police would be even and fair in their determination of who should get one, just like they are in all their other activities.

I am an engineer that has worked in the space industry my entire career, and here are my thoughts:

GOES and METEOR weather satellites transmit images publicly that are NOT real time, but are downlinked, processed, and uplinked for public broadcast. This is pretty simple and saves a lot of processing power on the spacecraft side. That’s important because the biggest constraints on spacecraft processing are: power budget, radiation hardiness, and thermal.

I was able to find an image of the actual satellite in assembly. From this we can guess that there is probably not more than a square meter of solar on-board, so we can give it a round 1300W of power. I couldn’t find any orbital parameters(If Gunter doesn’t have it, who does?), but given it’s main task is as an imager, we can assume LEO, and so this 1300W isn’t going to be constant since the spacecraft will most likely be eclipsed part of the time.

Generous 1000W average solar flux, generous 25% panel efficiency, 250W/h.

So lets look at rad hard processors. They have to be either shielded or run multiple and do voting, though even that isn’t fully acceptable as some SEU (single event upset) can cause permanent damage and leave you down a voting member. The latest and greatest RAD5545 advertises 5.6 giga-operations per second (GOPS) at 20 watts, so if we assume (artlessly, and likely incorrectly) a linear power usage, the 80 TOPS of the WJ-1A should need some 280kW. So we know they aren’t using a typical rad-hard CPU topology for their AI models. I see that Corel/Google advertise 2 TOPS per watt on their edge TPUs (Tensor Processing Unit).

So assume a large ASIC (application specific integrated circuit) at the same efficiency of 2TOPS/W, with 4x multiples for voting and we get a far more reasonable 160W. Still a LOT of power on orbit for such a small spacecraft, but actually possible.

So for thermal limits, do they run the TPU only on the dark side in place of their on-board heater? The have some white panels that might be radiators, but it’s hard to say.

Hard to say from these fluff articles. I really want to hear:

• What’s the efficiency on the TPU?
• How did they make it rad-hard, and how long do they expect it to last?
• What models do they run on the edge?
• What is their downlink budget? Can they pull full imagery if they want it or are they limited to ML analysis only?

I expect to see more ML in space, but to be honest I did not expect it to be in such a small form factor.

The worst part is how confusing it was for older people, who were worried the whole app was going to not work.

Signal was upset that “oh well some people can’t figure out what’s SMS and what’s encrypted”, but that was kind of… good? You could give parents, grandparents, etc an SMS app that was easy as the old one, and secure with the right people.

Don’t get me started on the chat color fiasco. No signal, I SHOULD NOT CHANGE COLOR. I assign colors to people to distinguish them, I don’t change who I am based on who I talk to.

Robot vacuums are something non-tech people love, then they use the app and they don’t love it anymore haha.

Shout out to Valetudo, which saved the day on our chinese roombas.

I am not quite happy with how the current iteration of the documentation no longer supports DIYing the firmware, it is actually still possible and you don’t have to use dustbuilder.

Yeah I’m not super happy with Signal’s level of openness, but I also wouldn’t call it proprietary. It is open source and I could run my own server if I really wanted to, but that would just make it harder.

At the time we were moving from a walled garden to one of 3 encrypted OSS solutions, and I had all of them until we naturally coalesced on one.

SMS at the time didn’t work due to not having cell service, and while we “have” RCS now to solve that issue, I don’t know anyone who uses it.

Yes, this is correct.

I could not have used SMS for most of the day since I worked on the top floor of a multi-level basement. I had wifi and a VPN though.

At the time I moved to signal, Google Message, or chat or whatever was being replaced with Allo and Duo and everyone was pretty un-jazzed about the whole thing.