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cool that in 2023 we have the technology for me to pull out my phone and point it up at the night sky and see labels for all the wonderful celestial objects out there right now such as STARLINK-3716, STARLINK-8755, STARLINK-1644, STARLINK-5244, STARLINK-6152, STARLINK-7361, STARLINK-1672, STARLINK-1739, STARLINK-5123, STARLINK-6321, STARLINK-7551, STARLINK-1540, STARLINK-1527, STARLINK-8223, STARLINK-2311, STARLINK-3080, STARLINK-3130, STARLINK-6581, STARLINK-8580, STARLINK-7001, STARLINK-5150,

People often think that ALS research is done for ALS patients. That's not the case. It's too late for us. It's done for future ALS patients. Those who don't care about it yet.

Now we're quickly cooking something for tomorrow, before the power goes down.

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At last. The storm is coming our way. We might lose our roof, but at least it will be a bit cooler.

At the bar, just heard an Eastern-European guy ask for a daiquiri, but he pronounced it DIE-kee-ree. I may start drinking them from now on purely so I can call them that.

Sometimes finding elusive particles is harder than you might think....

[@tomgauld at The New Scientist]

#science
#CERN
#physics

Not necessarily. The only happy parties will be the large cellphone operators. Fuck the few thousand people who have relied on this for years.

If I finally have some spare cash I'll fit our small part of with so many sensors that no drop of rain will go unnoticed.

A frequency reshuffle is planned in my country and my backbone operator might lose their band in a few months. This means I'd go out of business too. This would be really bad for a lot of my customers who have no chance of getting a reliable connection in their godforsaken villages and forest settlements. I went into the business a couple of years ago, as it was the only way to have Internet in our forest house. Guess it's time to start breeding carrier pigeons and switch to

When I had a son, he was born with rights.

I didn't acquire new "parental" rights of my own, I acquired new responsibilities, including to ensure that his rights were respected.

Also to protect him from serious harm, but choosing a name without telling me isn't that. Neither is affirming a gender different from that on the birth certificate.

@neil So my main complaint here (that seems lost to many people in the Fediverse) is about the *system*. Sure, someone who is an adult with means, or sufficiently technically proficient, or happens to be well connected can probably work around the mistakes. And it may or may not have been my persistent prodding to many denials that got ORG out of the adult filter on Three. But everyone else is just stuck with apparently no recourse. It reminds me that "the purpose of a system is what it does" :(

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