The venerable Voyager 1 spacecraft is experiencing another glitch. Instead of sending science and engg. data, it is sending a 0101 bit pattern.
The problem has been narrowed down to the flight data system (FDS), which is not communicating properly with the telecom unit (TMU). A reboot did not help.
Stay tuned as NASA engrs work out a fix for this 1970's era computer, which has performed magnificently during its long 46-year journey to the planets and to outer space. https://blogs.nasa.gov/sunspot/
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@StillIRise1963@philip_cardella For me, tactically, some of this starts by talking to other white people about cops. Like... there are some pretty good statistics that show that cops are a racist institution as implemented and they don't keep "everyone" safe by a long shot. Once you start talking about cops, you can talk about institutionalized racism, and who benefits and why and now fascism and Nazism can flourish when it's not called out and dealt with.
Ronald Reagan was a racist who campaigned on racist dog whistles -- source: was alive in the 1980s
Trump & Reagan are the same f'n guy in slightly different packaging at different points on the path to GOP fascism designed to deny freedom to all women, all LGBTQ+, & all POC
so same-y are they that they are both Z-list actors who built on their fake persona to persuade their billionaire donors to let them be the figureheads of fascism!
15 hours later. At the beginning of the main quest they asked me I wanted to join Constellation, so I said no - now I'm just a freelancer.
I shot somebody in a bar in Volli after they pulled a gun on me, which caused a riot - 23 civilians died, I have a 220k credit bounty.. so I fled the system.
Have done 25 side quests found randomly so far, no faction quests. Got a crew of 5 randoms. Upgraded ship so I can transport 6 passengers, too - I am Space Uber.
Friday afternoon reminder to not empty your inbox at the expense of someone else's. I've got work all day and then I am getting back to my "stamp collection," using up some of my stamps before I buy any more of them. Maybe you have a hobby you could get to if you weren't just replying to email? Have a good weekend.
MIT Swapfest walk through for May 19, 2024. Things that caught my eye! Lots of retro computing today, some radios, some Arduino lots of laptops and phono equipment and LPs. #retrocomputing#hamfest#mit#cambridgema#swapfest
I took a new (to me) lens to San Francisco, the Canon FD 50mm/1.4, which I haven't had a chance to test before going (which I in hindsight realized was not very wise). I shot 4 rolls of film on the trip. Eagerly awaiting the scans to come back from the lab...
@Gargron nice things about SLRs is that if you focus through the finder and see aperture blades move, most likely you’re ok. But there’s still that wait when it comes to film, it’s like a scratch card. I like it. Hope your photos turn out as you wish they did.
@coleens_ if you have a moment, can you try logging into https://crank.infosec.exchange (same id/password as the main site) and try uploading it there. I think it may be fastly that is blocking the upload and this will prove or disprove that idea