EricFielding.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Geophysicist at lab in Pasadena, California. Statements and opinions posted by me are my own and not those of my employer. he/him. Header image is […]
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Update. "Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency. White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted."
https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-seeks-end-climate-research-premier-u-s-climate-agency
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"President Donald Trump’s […]
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@GossiTheDog I could have had a V8, I mean iPad.
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@radleybalko.bsky.social Yes, it could have been very different if she were not white.
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@radleybalko.bsky.social The police are allowed to enter private property in hot pursuit of a suspect. Going out with a gun is foolish.
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Sentinel One: Chris who? Follow us on Twitter, the White House is a crucial collaborator. https://www.sentinelone.com/blog/an-official-statement-in-response-to-the-april-9-2025-executive-order/
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@mattblaze Yes, it is simply not adequate for classified information. The lack of certification of who is receiving a message is an obvious flaw in Signal that was demonstrated last month. It is designed for privacy, not for securing information.
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@sundogplanets Those long ears!
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@sundogplanets The baby goats are beautiful! Can I borrow one?
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Why Saskatchewan? As I posted earlier:
1. Most of the land is southern Sask is flat, large monoculture farms, that large machines completely denude at least once a year. It's the ideal place to find space debris.
2. Due to the orbits that have been chosen […]
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@hacks4pancakes We don't need cybersecurity experts, we can just use Signal. 😩
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@rasterweb I think they might have a lot of questions if you arrive at the border check with a completely erased phone if they happen to ask you to show it.
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@rasterweb Yes, you can restore all your data and apps to an iPhone that has been fully erased, if you have done the full backup with a backup password. It is like getting a new phone. An iPhone is not really usable without connecting it to an Apple Account, though, so you would also need to […]
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@sundogplanets It is good if the first flight of your rocket does not blow up your launch pad. By the 8th flight test, rockets are not supposed to blow up.
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@cubicgarden @prehensile I was surprised to see this article mention Threads first as a user of ActivityPub, with Mastodon only mentioned later as another use. No mention of the whole Fediverse.
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@cryptadamist @Nonilex @GhostOnTheHalfShell @Daojoan @pluralistic It seems that the only public details about this transaction are what Elon announced, and I agree that we can’t trust what he says. The Guardian article provides some more background for people like me who have not been following […]
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@Nonilex @GhostOnTheHalfShell @cryptadamist @Daojoan @pluralistic Here is an article about the transaction in The Guardian. It seems that the former Twitter content was already a big source for xAI training, so they were working closely together. Now Elon has paid off the debts of the Twitter […]
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@mattblaze @ahltorp Yes, the leaves of plants reflect the near IR light. The details of exactly which wavelengths they reflect can provide additional information on the health of the plant, but this requires a spectrometer not a regular camera sensor. There are some satellites and airborne […]
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@futurebird I suspect they are complaining indirectly about the “kind” of tourists visiting, not the number.