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Is the destruction of Twitter and Reddit a conspiracy or am I just paranoid? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Somehow I don't think Errol Musk knew that much about the geology. Allegedly he bought the shares on a whim without first visiting the mine, which was in a different country.

Is the destruction of Twitter and Reddit a conspiracy or am I just paranoid? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Mines can absolutely become suddenly unprofitable. You don't know how much good stuff is in the ground until you dig it up.

Is the destruction of Twitter and Reddit a conspiracy or am I just paranoid? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

The mine went bankrupt in '89, just a few years after Errol bought shares in it. The boss was someone else.

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Anyone remember this? (feddit.de)
 

I vaguely remember a video about history of weapons that goes like "rock, fast rock, pointy rock, (...) spicy rock dropped from big metal bird" (nuke) but I can't find it again. Does it ring a bell for anyone here?

Even though they're bigger, Generation 2 Starlinks are fainter than Gen1 in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

SpaceX wants new regulations regarding satellite brightness.

Their own satellites (at least the second generation ones) fulfill the requirements set by the astronomers at the Rubin Observatory, +7 mag (10x darker than the original ones). Meanwhile the satellites of the competitors OneWeb and Amazon can't fulfill them without major design changes, because the altitude the satellites orbit at makes a significant difference.

If the recommendations of the Rubin Observatory report were turned into regulations now, Starlink would barely be affected (they'd just have to stop the gen1 sat production a little early) while the competition would be set back several years.

Starlink v2 reached the brightness reduction target recommended by astronomers in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Mirror film. The antenna have a highly reflective film coating that reflects all light from the sun in a specific direction in space, away from Earth. The parts of the satellite that aren't flat enough for the mirror film do use the dark paint.

Subscribed communities copyer in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Does it cause issues if domain and tld match?

WhatsApp and the domestication of users in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

For people who previously used SMS and had their contacts saved in the phone's pre-installed contact app, WhatsApp could use all those contacts out of the box.

Hey could we defederate with exploding-heads.com/ in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

If per-user instance filters are implemented, perhaps instances could have "default blacklists" for new users for stuff like exploding-heads or lemmygrad that most people don't want to see, with the option to manually un-block them if someone does want to see that.

Here's a cold war meme for once in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (3 children)

Brilliant Pebbles. A space-based ICBM interceptor program from the 80s.

The one part of Reagan's Star Wars that would totally have worked if they'd deployed it, but the Soviet Union didn't last long enough...

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Reddit already predicts a murder plot (i.redd.it)
 

https://www.reddit.com/r/HonzukiNoGekokujou/comments/14aua5i/p5v5p6_prepares_the_steel_chair/

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Testing if the video player works... (onelineplayer.com)
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USSF Alan Shepard engaging a Chinese spaceship in lunar orbit animated by theo bouvier

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Here's a cold war meme for once (cdn.discordapp.com)
 
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Mars Space Force (cdn.discordapp.com)
 

https://twitter.com/NosuSuishin/status/1476128322455105536

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Cool Starship art (pbs.twimg.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/867022

https://twitter.com/NosuSuishin/status/1441361000117137417

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How credible is this starship combat art? (pbs.twimg.com)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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https://twitter.com/NosuSuishin/status/1441361000117137417

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1960s US decision chart (cdn.discordapp.com)
 
Trans women have no advantage in elite sport, new report finds in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Emphasis on medically transitioned.

Some people seem to think that lgbt activists want to make it so that any male athlete could just put on a wig, say "I'm trans now", steal medals from women and then detransition the next day. (As depicted in that Futurama episode.)

Letting trans people who have medically transitioned for several years compete is a very different beast from letting anyone who claims to be trans compete.

Satellites keep photobombing space images. Astronomers need a fix in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

The bright line is Starlink satellites immediately after deployment.

Starlink satellites do have stealth features to make them less bright, but those are only active in normal operational mode. Immediately after deployment and while dodging space debris, they are more visible.

Describe a game in 5 words or less, and see if anyone can guess it. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago (6 children)

Really big map, mostly empty

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Rule (i.redd.it)
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0 comments fedilink
 
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Subscribed communities copyer (feddit.de)
submitted 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I made a little thing to more easily move to another instance:

A way to quickly grab a list of your subscribed communities.

Go to your list of subscribed communities, /communities/listing_type/Subscribed/page/1 and create a bookmark with the following code as link:

code

javascript:(function() {
    const currentHostname = window.location.hostname;
    const table = document.getElementById('community_table');
    const anchorTags = table.getElementsByTagName('a');
    const communityUrls = [];

    for (let i = 0; i < anchorTags.length; i++) {
      const title = anchorTags[i].title.substring(1);
      const parts = title.split('@');
      const community = parts[0].trim();
      const domain = parts[1] ? parts[1].trim() : currentHostname;
      const communityUrl = `https://${domain}/c/${community}`;
      communityUrls.push(communityUrl);
    }

    const urlsText = communityUrls.join('\n');

    navigator.clipboard.writeText(urlsText)
      .then(() => {
        alert('Community URLs copied to clipboard!');
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        alert('Failed to copy Community URLs to clipboard:', error);
      });
})();
Clicking this bookmark will automatically copy a list of all your subscribed communities and format the links so that you can pop them in the search bar of another instance to subscribe to them from another account. It can only scrape what's on screen, so if your subscribed communities list is several pages long just click the bookmark for each page.
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Reddit's backend seems to be entirely down now (postimg.cc)
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