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@stargazersmith@social.linux.pizza
2026-08-11 00:49:37

#marswaterhistory

The Odds of Finding Water on Mars
Mars has plenty of water, and almost all of it is in the wrong place. The poles are rich in ice, the equator, where you would actually want to land, has none within reach. That leaves the mid-latitudes, and until now the honest answer about what lies beneath them has been a bit of a shrug. Two new studies from the Planetary Science Institute have changed the shape of that answer. Rather than simply asking whether the data are consistent with buried ice, they have started calculating the odds an…

@penguin42@mastodon.org.uk
2026-07-10 14:07:59

That PC whose fan dropped off the other week has been bodged into working. I used a couple of plastic strips and motherboard mounts to hold them to the board with screws in the right place for the heatsink; but I found it needed more pressure on the fan for it to make good contact with the CPU, especially at the top; so outcomes the wood. This is working reasonably well; although the wedge positioning is a bit touchy to get it right.

A PC case; with a chunk of wood and a wedge of wood pressing down on the CPU heatsink.
A PC motherboard showing the CPU, with a couple of bodged plastic mounts at the sides for where the fan should bolt to
@drbruced@aus.social
2026-07-10 05:36:45

So apparently the Telstra outage was caused by their root NTP server going back in time 20 years, taking the rest of the network along with it. The key question is how did anyone notice the difference?
#telstra #snark

Telstra CEO ‘deeply sorry’ for outage and admits risk of time-keeping failure was known
Vicki Brady grilled at first public appearance since returning from overseas as SA police say call to triple zero failed before death

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-07-11 21:26:49

Also, unlike this one, many of my skeets don’t get here. Something about @… doesn’t pick them all up. Probably bsky is sinking the stuff they determine not interesting or whatever.
I despise algorithmic feeds where I can’t fix my algorithm. @…

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
Repeating what's in my profile… I treat Bluesky as a 2nd platform & mostly am on the #Fediverse. My bridged Mastodon account got "suspended" by Bluesky for no reason I could discern, so my posts there never get here. & while I often retoot my skeets, I don't turn many of my toots into skeets.

@cheryanne@aus.social
2026-06-11 01:31:19

We're in our 60s so we just wasted 2 hours trying to:
1. Renew my expired WWVP online (nothing has changed) ⛔
Name on birth certificate is slightly different from usage name PLUS married PLUS no drivers licence PLUS no passport
2. Apply for husband's WWVP online ⛔
No ImmiCard as he came here with parents as a child on their id document PLUS no passport
Ugh! Off to Access Canberra to get it sorted (hopefully).
*WWVP couldn't help - says it's …

@wraithe@mastodon.social
2026-07-10 13:22:22

This whole thread is great, and makes me think of this “Schlock Mercenary” strip
bsky.app/profile/did:plc:gyyq5

4 panel comic strip featuring “Elf” (a petite light skinned femme human, with short cropped blonde hair who is normally very short but she’s wearing giant armored prosthetic legs and a bikini at the moment), captain Tagon (a tall blonde, fit, competent version of Zap Brannigan) Elf: I'm not talking about bored. I'm really trying to tell you that I really enjoy your company. Narrator: Let's try another flirtation metaphor, shall we? Red-headed RPGer: My sorceress casts Lustful Fireball! 125 cubi…
@roelgrif@mstdn.social
2026-06-11 06:32:54

Goed, maar wel veel te laat, dit.
PRO-Kamerlid dat voorkeurstemmen voor vrouwen hekelde, heeft nu spijt: 'Neem woorden terug’
rtl.nl/nieuws/politiek/artikel

PRO-Kamerlid dat voorkeurstemmen voor vrouwen hekelde, heeft nu spijt: 'Neem woorden terug’
Wimar Bolhuis, die opzien baarde toen hij kritiek had op voorkeurstemmen voor vrouwen nadat duidelijk werd dat het zijn plek in de Tweede Kamer kostte, is vandaag dan toch geïnstalleerd in het parlement. Vandaag neemt het PRO-Kamerlid ook zijn woorden terug. "Mijn bericht was onhandig. Dat had ik niet zo moeten doen en daar heb ik van geleerd. Ik neem die woorden terug."

@Techmeme@techhub.social
2026-07-08 15:55:51

Arkenstone Defense, which is building software to handle back-office work for defense tech startups, emerges from stealth with a $35M seed led by J2 Ventures (Barratt Dewey/Tectonic Defense)
tectonicdefense.com/exclusive-

Exclusive: Arkenstone Emerges With $35M to Build Defense Tech’s Back Office
You know how we say we love the unsexy side of defense? Well, we’re back with some news from the unsexiest place we can imagine—the land of the nitty

@samvarma@fosstodon.org
2026-08-07 15:32:41

Ok so bringing a headphone amp, all set up, when checking out new guitars is pretty genius tbh. @… mas.to/@baronvonj/117052433600

Baron Von J (@baronvonj@mas.to)
Went to my local #GuitarCenter to try out some #Epiphone Les Pauls and SGs. Every fret board felt super dry and the strings all felt nasty. Both fixable things .. but still makes it hard to be excited about any of them. Definitely prefer the thinner SG necks these days. And the position of the pickup switch, too. Though the cable jack location was not very practical with the Mustang Micro I was playing through. And I have to say, bringing a headphone amp with a couple of signal chains saved and…

@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng
2026-08-02 15:30:26

Reinhold Messner's moving message about the recent death of Nirmal Purja and ten others:
What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard.
I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away.
And yet l also know that, for some, …

Reinhold Messner on Instagram: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I also know that, for some, there is a quiet comfort in knowing they were in the place they loved most, doing what gave their life meaning. My thoughts are with all the families, friends, and everyone who loved them. Pls remember a human being is never an object. A life is measured by presence, not by tributes. #thinking #memories #"
97K likes, 854 comments - reinholdmessner_official on August 2, 2026: "It’s a kind gesture, and everyone grieves and remembers in their own way. What matters is being there while that person is still alive. Listening, especially in difficult times. Staying present when someone feels lost. Sometimes the greatest gift is simply to let them speak and to be heard. I know what it feels like to leave someone you love behind in the mountains. A pain so profound it takes your breath away. And yet I …