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It is 53 years since I last saw a fresh Preliminary Science Report of astronauts at the Moon. ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citation...

Looking at purchases from last year. 96GB DDR5 "only" €272 😭

10 countries possess nuclear weapons. 3 are either threatening to, or actually are, carrying out genocides. A 4th runs a mass concentration camp system. A 5th has engineered a man made famine against its own people & jails people for 3 generations. 2 others often threaten war on each other

ah fek!

I think I reached a new level in Aliexpress packing recursion today: an item in a bubble wrap bag, in a cardboard box, in a bubble envelope, in a packing plastic bag (with address labels etc), in a outer plastic bag (with address labels etc). I might be missing a level.

A take on scrip.

Parkside/Lidl 20V battery to USB-C PD adapter from Aliexpress lasted half a second before a capacitor exploded. Bad luck or poor design? Don't know. In the queue for repair and we'll see how it fares with new caps. I wish Parkside would make an official USB-PD adapter for their battery packs :/

My little vibe code project for today. Efficient EO product download where your AOI runs along a network of LineStrings and the provider allows only 'simple' polygons w/o holes. Solution: auto cut little channels so that the AOI polygon becomes technically simply connected.

Bare metal programming with RISC-V guide (2023) popovicu.com/posts/bare-m... from Lobsters via #gcufeed@libera.chat / gcu.info/gruik/

I lost my #GoPro #MAX2 lens cap, so I 3D printed a new one. Just a cylinder with a cap, but does the job. OpenSCAD script: $fn=120; H=14; D=32-0.2; // -0.2mm for tightness difference() { cylinder (d=D+2.0,h=H); translate([0,0,2]) cylinder (d=D,h=H); }

I bought myself a silicon wafer on a whim. No idea what these ICs do. Looks like each has one rather large pad, maybe for a RFID antenna?

This is cool. Some of the more famous vector graphics arcade games 1977 - 1985. I remember playing some of these. Vector graphics (where the cathode ray beam traces polygons and characters) was quickly replaced by the now ubiquitous raster graphics from mid 1980s on. www.youtube.com/watch?v=swry...

I need a SpaceX/Starlink expert to fact-check me. Starlink loses a 1-2 satellites of the 8,800+ currently in orbit on a regular day. Once they hit their target of 42,000 they'll be losing 5-10 a day or ~2000-3600 a year? www.businessinsider.com/starlink-tra....

A drone image I acquired earlier today (2025-11-06) while trying out some experimental survey equipment near Menlo just north of #Galway city. In foreground is Menlo Castle (in ruins) and the Corrib River. University of Galway campus and Galway city is in the back ground.

Why is every question I ask ChatGPT a "really good question"? I mean if I get much more of this I might start having notions about myself.

Dublin! I'll be meeting folks and hand-signing books this Saturday, 11:30 at Dubray Books on Grafton St! @dubraybooks.bsky.social

I was looking through some night time photos from the International Space Station (ISS) recently. This image from 2022 caught my eye: what (I think) you can see here is the phased transition from the old sodium vapor street lamps (orange) to LEDs (white). Image ISS066-E-122202 2022-01-19T21:16:26Z

The chances of a credit card transaction succeeding first time seems inversely proportional to how excited I am about the purchase :/

Always nice to see transport companies use sensible date formats!

I recall as an student at UoG (then UCG) in the 1990s there were two research turbines at the engineering building at Nuns Island using the canal waters as a power source. Seems we have come full circle.

nothing more annoying than "add another €8 to your shopping cart to qualify for free shipping". Off now to spend another 30 minutes trying to find something I probably don't need :/

"wget is not a crime" ('Jason Bourne' 2016 movie). I didn't spot that on my first viewing.

The 'Manchurian Candidate' movie comes to mind here.

This is depressing 😕 youtube.com/watch?v=4f9z...

An AI-enabled urinal? ... Hey y'all I think I know what triggers the Robot uprising.

Recently, I came across the web-based, interactive, & #opensource Optical Simulation tool #OPTICO 🔬 that allows students to virtually play around with mirrors, lenses, etc. 🚀 - You should try it out #openscience #openeducation #optics #photonics #microscopy 👉 www.optico.app/en/start-en/

The Russian Doll packaging of AliExpress: gadgets in cases in boxes in bubble wrap in padded envelopes in plastic bags all bagged together in outer bag. (Multiple small orders all consolidated into one local courier shipment). Impressive logistics if a little wasteful on packaging.

"Give me a ping Vasili, one ping only"

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New GPS/GNSS spoofing pattern unlocked. "red sea petal spoofer" perhaps? Thanks @tombike.bsky.social for tip.

I believe the Kaliningrad and St Petersburg (and more?) spoof-jammers have increased their reach significantly. The area around Baltic Sea presently affected by electronic warfare directed at GNSS/GPS-receivers is enormous, larger than before. Bbl with a timelapse. Nb, this is reach at 10-30k ft.

"The boss has organized a day out at the zoo. Everyone meet at the lions cage."

The dryin' is mighty! 🌞

Good read. And remember ... It all started with Putin deciding that the Russian Constitution, and the term limit contained within, didn't apply to him. Pay attention. thenextmove.substack.com/p/space-unit...

Rar! #Béziers

There are a lot of *interesting* hot takes on Pope Leo XIV. Many of them are bemoaning an "American Pope" b/c of Trump. I understand. I feel you. But PLEASE... take a moment to look at the man's history. He is NOT the American that Trump & Vance wanted as Pope.

You know that seagull that keeps showing up in shots of the chimney? #Vaticats #Vatigulls

Very 8 bit, but it's kinda annoying that it's 17x17 tiles.

What happened here?! No sign of mechanical damage. Water ingress? Over heating?

Learned about this yesterday during @gaconf.bsky.social! Ubisoft have made their #Colourblind Simulator available (open source) so other devs make their games more accessible to those with colourblindness news.ubisoft.com/en-gb/articl... #GAconf

Some facts about our upcoming gothic horror game, Eyes of Hellfire! ☘️ It's set in #IRELAND 😱 It takes place in the infamous HELLFIRE CLUB 🤝 It's a co-op game! 📅 It's coming to Early Access THIS YEAR! store.steampowered.com/app/1724030/... #gamedev

Exclusive: The FAA is probing a breakdown in air traffic control protocols that nearly led to a collision between a Delta flight and military jets in Washington, DC. cnn.it/4jujZTL

The man is human pollution, America's id. The international community is going to rally against this country to make sure we're hurt for decades because of all of this and we'll have deserved it.

The Trump-Putin non aggression pact of 2025 will contain a secret clause that assigns Poland to Russian sphere in exchange for US keeping Alaska. #ArtOfTheDeal