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nyrath

@nyrath@spacey.space

Star map and Atomic Rocket geek. The hard-science SF writer's tech support. The website is at
http://www.projectrho.com/public_html/rocket/

Refugee from the decline and fall of Google Plus.

In my long and misspent youth I did the artwork for various TTWG such as Ogre, WarpWar, GEV and such.

This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.

cstross, to random
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Welp, I knew Microsoft's CoPilot+ Recall was going to be a privacy disaster but I didn't expect it to turn into an enterprise computing catastrophe for Microsoft quite this fast!

But this can't be a one-off. Any large enterprise that has to comply with a regulated privacy environment—HIPAA in the USA, GDPR in the EU, banking/insurance/finance globally—must be considering a ban on Microsoft installations on laptop/desktop computers right now or be breaking the law.

https://infosec.exchange/@SecurityWriter/112558224281615019

eugenialoli, to windows
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The mass exodus from to (and ) due to and continues. More and more articles, more and more youtube videos about it, or posts on forums. People are switching. If it continues like that, Linux should have 10% desktop marketshare by the end of the decade (and yes, that's a lot).

michael_w_busch, to random
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Today on the arXiv:

Kohout et al. 2024, "Impact disruption of Bjurböle porous chondritic projectile" - https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.00379 .

Reanalyzing the fall of a ~400 kilo ordinary chondrite that came down in a solid block and impacted sea ice in a frozen bay in Finland in March of 1899.

mishamouse, to random
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my company uses secure channels to send highly confidential documents (which include, for example, clients’ financial information and unredacted social security numbers) to third-party attorneys. what if those attorneys have recall-enabled machines? i can tell you from experience that many of them are not tech-savvy enough to even realize they have it… what if they have a data breach?

so yeah, this is very scary, even if the company disables it on our local devices. https://ourislandgeorgia.net/@Wolven/112553748377817912

klausman, to random
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@nyrath
Walking tour of the R/P FLIP. I always thought it was a nice illustration of what spaceships under thrust vs. coasting (or spinning rings when not under thrust) might look like on the inside. Given that the ship in the vid is now >60 years old, it's a bit grungier than stricly needed, but still fascinating.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shPATcV9Dzw

isaackuo,

@klausman @nyrath

It's interesting, but the pathological design features, to me, indicate the monumental impracticality of designing a spacecraft interior to "work both ways".

With a classic "tumbling pigeon" design, you could have most of your gravity depending "stuff" in the tail, leaving the nose for stuff that can go unused during a thrust maneuver.

With my favored dumb-bell configuration, and thrust parallel to rotation axis, gravity just unceremoniously works all the time.

isaackuo,

@nyrath @jovikowi @klausman

About the only thing missing would be artificial gravity on a Dzhanibekov effect spacecraft. Whoops, hope you like the flips!

I mean, it's funny but it's also what the Leonov and the Omega Class Destroyers should have been doing. Flip! Flip! Flip!

isaackuo,

@jovikowi @nyrath @klausman

There are some concepts which rotate cylindrical "cars" within a torus, but your "everything is hammocks" approach takes it down another level!

I like it.

isaackuo,

@nyrath @jovikowi @klausman

I don't think it would generally be too stressful to the spacecraft - just potentially dizzying to the crew.

In the case of a long tube with a much lighter bar sticking out, the tube will basically just spin like you'd expect a baton to spin.

But the bar sticking out will "flip" every once in a while from pointing out one direction and pointing out the opposite direction.

So, the circular room you're in will do a 180 once in a while.

I think.

cstross, to random
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What I want to see from WWDC '24: Apple unveils a replacement for Stage Manager in iOS 18.

The new Strange Manager rotates your desktop through a non-euclidean space warped by blasphemous geometries; eldritch transition effects include Transform into Ravens and Fly Away, Eaten by Shoggoths, Tentacles, and The Horror, The Horror.

https://wandering.shop/@cstross/112558227088949951

angusm,
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@cstross

visionOS: new version allows you to use your Apple Vision Pro to peer into blasphemous forbidden realms, with predictable effects on your sanity.

watchOS: transforms your hands into bunches of tentacles or lobster claws (turn Digital Crown to choose). If symmetry is important to you, wear an Apple Watch on each wrist.

MacOS: improved Handover feature allows you to transfer eldritch horrors seamlessly from your portable device to your desktop, or vice-versa.

Plus new EldritchMoji™.

dmm, to Starwars
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@TheWookieman]

#starwars #vader

michael_w_busch, to random
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Re. my repost of @Wolven :

I am now considering how many different computers healthcare data can pass through.

When I get an echocardiogram; the images are displayed on the technician's machine, the radiologist's machine, the cardiologist's machine, & eventually my machine.

At least four possible places where Windows 11's "Recall" screen capturing could leave a copy - and only one of which is prevented by me personally not running Windows.

I can only assume Microsoft ignored all its lawyers.

chgowiz, to classic
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Fell down a rabbit of "how long would it take in Colonial time units" for figuring out travel times around systems in Classic Traveller.

Then I had to go and calculate how long to travel the distance of a jump (3.24 ly).

Hope you have a yahren and enough fuel to keep up a 5G burn for that long...

(Edited to correct my calculations. Teaches me to math before coffee...)

adamasnemesis, to movies
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Somehow in the past week or so I've fallen back in love with the aesthetics and vibe of the Star Wars prequels (especially "Attack of the Clones") as well as the Old Republic games. Nothing else quite looks like them. I want to live in that world...

adamasnemesis,
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Why do I have a sinking feeling that I really just want to live on Pacific Coast Highway in an exact replica of Padmé's apartment?

adamasnemesis,
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It seems a person can get married there. It's expensive for a wedding venue, but since my dream wedding doesn't involve a crowd, that helps to keep costs down, so splurging on the venue might be more financially attainable than I'd expect.

FredKiesche, to random
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Of possible interest to @Nick_Stevens_graphics @nyrath and others. Interview with author of new book on Soviet space program.

FredKiesche,
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@Nick_Stevens_graphics @nyrath https://www.amazon.com/Wrong-Stuff-Soviet-Program-Crashed-ebook/dp/B0CK8D7WPP

androidarts, to random
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A (Sept.) 1985 Yamaha MSX presented with a mouse – a rare conjunction mayhaps. Giving me Amiga tank mouse vibes. The Amiga 1000 came out in July, and originally with only 256KB RAM iirc. Its sound and graphical chipset was more impressive than MSX2 I'd say.

Looks like around 200K¥ for the bundle below. Hard to guess what that is in modern money since something happened to the yen in 1985 (the Plaza Accord).

androidarts,
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Would you like to type a picture into your computer? It's only a few pages of hex.

These seem to be conveniently checksummed in blocks which go together with renderer code... probably of the line drawing and paint bucket variety.

The scan OCR don't seem to have picked the numbers up.

androidarts,
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Epson handheld computer HC-20, from Technopolis #7 1983.

Spotting a modem (top), mini tape(right), receipt style printer (left), and LCD display (center). The computer is a separate module to the modem and side peripheral boxes (cables, paper and a NiCd battery?).

Edit: A twitter user posted pics of the HC-45 (no printer, but a flip-up display).
https://x.com/GriffonPocket/status/1785692974967599215/photo/1

jdnicoll, to random
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Night Lives: Nine Stories of the Dark Fantastic by Phyllis Eisenstein & Alex Eisenstein

In which a collection of science fiction and fantasy stories alerts me to a surprisingly common trope in Eisenstein's fiction.

https://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/one-day
#Booktodon

RJB_Mallacore, to scifi
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Some Babylon 5 art to start your morning.

Enjoy.

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NetMassimo, to sciencefiction
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My review of the novel "Birthright: The Book of Man" by Mike Resnick

https://english.netmassimo.com/2024/06/04/birthright-the-book-of-man-by-mike-resnick/

isaackuo, to space

Quick astronomy question - what sort of surface ices are plausible for a Sednoid 550AU from the Sun?

For an SF story setting, I'm using a Sednoid binary system similar to a scaled down Pluto-Charon system.

Effective temperature around 10K, but I think this is still too warm for hydrogen ice.

I am aware of water ice, CO2, carbon monoxide, nitrogen, methane, ammonia, suflur dioxide ... anything I'm missing or stuff I should discard?

Thanks!

pauldrye,
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@isaackuo Not an ice, but the surface is likely covered in tholins, even that far out -- they're formed by cosmic radiation as well as solar UV.

nyrath, to random
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Cis-lunar space and the security dilemma

https://thebulletin.org/premium/2022-01/cis-lunar-space-and-the-security-dilemma/

eldadoinquieto,
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@nyrath And thinking a little more about it is easy to see player characters of a roleplaying game as members of a Lunar Patrol, trying to mantain peace in the lunar lanes while searching for smuglers.

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