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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
@davidaugust@mastodon.online
2026-09-10 19:47:25

"Compliance with…law hasn’t been a defining feature of…Trump administration. Nonetheless…law matters, & federal law is ill-disposed to aggressive ICE presence at voting locations. 18 U.S.C. § 592 states…no federal officer may keep "troops or armed men" at an election site except to repel armed enemies of…United States…same title of U.S. code prohibits voter intimidation (18 U.S.C. § 594). So too does…Voting Rights Act…&…National Voter Registration Act…"

ICE at the Polls: Not the Hottest Election Threat
A broad range of views on democracy to help break the stalemate caused by partisan conflict.

@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

@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 …

@grumpybozo@toad.social
2026-09-11 03:17:22

#TIL: There are conspiracy theorists who think Locks of Love is a scam and they have access to video cameras. @…

social justice tutu (@racerxmachina.bsky.social)
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@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…