John Young @jsy1001@social.cleverlibre.org

Marvellous news: ALMA is back observing, after months of downtime following a cyberattack https://www.eso.org/public/announcements/ann22017/

Time to remember the magnificent cover from the 25th of December, 1947, “Edition Nöel” of the “Journal de Tintin”. Yes, it’s not a photo, nevertheless notice the absence of any #publiclighting, the #starrysky, the grey snow (it’s night, but that does not mean absolute darkness - natural #darkness is brighter than many could imagine). One might speculate that there’s no moon either, since there are no shadows. We are missing this possibility due to #lightpollution from millions of useless lights.

#YourBestAstroPic2022

It's time to vote.

There are 40 spectacular #astrophotography #pictures that were submitted to the #YourBestAstroPic2022 friendly contest.

Please everyone click on the hashtag

➡️ #YourBestAstroPic2022 ⬅️

and boost (or re-boost) any #photography you like (feel free to favorite but it doesn't matter).

On December 29, the most boosted #astronomy #photo will win.

#nightscape #night #sky #space #Astrodon

Ok this rules. E-ink retro Mac running on Pi. #pi #rpi #raspberrypi #retro #mac #macse #eink #retropc #retromac #diy https://www.yankodesign.com/2022/08/12/paper-thin-retro-macintosh-comes-with-an-e-ink-display-and-runs-on-a-raspberry-pi/ #3dp

It's really cool that Twitter shuts down in stages over two months so that the Mastodon servers aren't overloaded all at once, very thoughtful of them!

Awesome article by @ghuntley how opensource is becoming more fracturwd due to VSCode. Also shows how Microsoft's love for opensource has hidden agenda
https://ghuntley.com/fracture/

What happens when you twist your lens' focus ring while shooting long exposures of fireworks

#photography

Twitter blocks links to Mastodon, making a really good case for Mastodon https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodon-twitter-account-over-elonjet-tracking/

If you have a poster printer, and a very long light curve of an interesting eclipsing system, then you can print out your data without sacrificing any detail! Here's a Masters student I am working with and the combined light curve she's generated. Seeing it plotted out in its glory is absolutely fantastic! Lots of dusty eclipses FTW.

Cameron Desautels: git: Quick Multi-Line Commit Messages https://camdez.com/blog/2022/12/13/git-quick-multi-line-commit-messages/

S. Winfrey wrote the following post Mon, 12 Dec 2022 20:37:12 +0200

In 1933, Nazis led torchlit mob into the square and looted the library of the adjoining -Universitat. 40,000 people cheered as they burned over 20,000 books by mainly Jewish, communist, liberal and social-critical authors. Many years later, a panel of glass was set into the ground to mark the spot. It’s a window. Leaning over you can look into a room below. The room is white, lined from floor to ceiling with plain shelves—an empty library. The sort of world we’d live in if the fanatics had won.

Happy WEAVE First Light day, everyone! 12.5 years of my life have led to this: https://www.ing.iac.es/PR/press/weave_LIFU_first_light.html

Mastodon and the Fediverse are at their best when you are following lots of people, not only because you see their posts, but because you also see the posts they share. Seeing lots of shares makes it much easier to discover stuff.

➡️ For tips on finding people to follow click here: https://fedi.tips/how-to-use-mastodon-and-the-fediverse-basic-tips/#HowDoIFindPeopleToFollow

Following people is how discovery works on here. There's no computer algorithm pushing stuff to you, instead there are millions of human beings manually sharing stuff they find interesting.

@arth This is a great explanation of git commands and data flow. I've uploaded the image with an alt-text description.
#Alt4You

High quality liberated E-Books of classic literature for free read:

📚 https://standardebooks.org

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#EBook #EBooks #library #libre #literature #reading #openAccess #noDRM #publicDomain #openSource

This strip came out in 1995. What would Calvin’s dad have to say about technology in 2022? 😬🫠 #CalvinandHobbes

we need BBC One's The Repair Shop, but for lab equipment.

JAY: What 'ave we got here mate?
ME: It's a Pfeiffer Hi-Cube turbomolecular pumping station. I'd love to see it get past 30,000 rpm again, like it did for my dear departed colleague <sniff>
NARRATOR: Forrrtunately Angus Cruickshank, one of Kurrt Leskerrr's top field technicians, is standing by
JAY: Wotcher, Angus?
ANGUS: Och now here's a dear little turbo. Bearings, do we think?

Astounding wave #clouds surge over #Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains https://wapo.st/3UHDECP

#wywx #khwaves #KelvinHelmholtz

(Photo: Rachel Gordon)

a debugging manifesto

By popular demand, I have scanned my copy of Draft #1 of #Kernighan and #Ritchie's C Programming Language book. Here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1OvgKikM8vpZGxNzCjt4BM1ggBX0dlr-y #ComputerHistory #UNIX #CLang