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Four timesteps from the final 7 seconds before #Venus vanished behind a distant roof structure today: each image 1/3.2 second at f/2.8 and ISO 400 with maximum digital zoom yielding an equivalent focal length of abou 3 meters, pictures in full resolution and cropped, no further processing. The spectral #dispersion is clearly visible; unfortunately Venus 'hit' the structure from the side, so cutting off the red and leaving only the green/blue upper part as in #AtmosphericalOptics

Check out today's Metacurity to stay up-to-date on the critical infosec developments you should know, including
--The interim head of CISA uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT,
--Koreans to be notified of possible data breaches,
--Operations at Russian security systems outfit were disrupted by a cyberattack,
--EU-India security deal omits hackers-for-hire,
--Threat actors exploit a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR,
--Mustang Panda can steal logi…

The interim head of CISA uploaded sensitive documents to ChatGPT
Koreans to be notified of possible data breaches, Operations at Russian security systems outfit were disrupted by a cyberattack, EU-India security deal omits hackers-for-hire, Threat actors exploit a high-severity vulnerability in WinRAR, Mustang Panda can steal login data from browsers, much more

In tragedy-torn Uvalde, it's a scandal-ridden incumbent or 'the AK Guy' (Teo Armus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2026/02/28/uvalde-texas-brandon-herrera-tony-gonzales-affair-congress/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p11#a260228p11

Three memos that describe four interviews conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in 2019
contain explicit but unsubstantiated claims that 🔥Donald Trump sexually abused a woman when she was a minor in the early 1980s with the assistance of Jeffrey Epstein,
according to a Guardian review of those documents.
💥The Department of Justice did not release those records when it uploaded millions of pages of files related to Epstein beginning in December.
The existen…

Today's Mastodon bug, images don't load for me at all (not even my own) but I can upload images and other people see them fine.

Google releases new tools for its Gemini AI assistant that let users upload chat history and context from other AI apps, making it easier to switch from them (Natalie Lung/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

CNN employees and viewers have serious concerns about whether Ellison will uphold CNN's editorial independence amid severe political pressure (CNN)
https://view.newsletters.cnn.com/messages/17722120321108aa883dc7fda/raw

https://theonion.com/rising-conservative-star-just-guy-wearing-nazi-armband-1849855062/

Rising Conservative Star Just Guy Wearing Nazi Armband And Crying
AUSTIN, TX—A star who has experienced a meteoric rise in right-wing circles, 28-year-old conservative phenom Mason Finley is known solely for wearing a Nazi armband and crying, sources confirmed Tuesday. “Finley amassed millions of conservative viewers on his Discord channel, where the up-and-coming young GOP figure uploaded videos in which he is seen sobbing alone in a room as he sits with a swastika strapped to his arm,” said Republican strategist Gary Woodfall, claiming that despite be…

There is someone who has taken a lot of old films and used AI to colorize them badly and "boosted" the frame rate from 24 to 60fps and then uploaded this trash to the Internet Archive.
I hate this. Films shot in b&w have an aesthetic that is destroyed by colorizing them. Video games might look better with more frames per second but movies don't. We didn't accidentally settle on 24fps, it was trial and error. A film shot in 60fps looks bad. A movie that has been ar…

I’m trying to upload a 37 MB video (a size mastodon is normally fine with) and it just won’t upload. I went viral yesterday and now I can’t make a post for one week I guess :P