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I wonder what they’ll name this one?

Relevant xkcd

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POV: You are Patnou’s ChatGPT

The only thing I use Facebook for is Messenger and WhatsApp. I recently got all my immediate family members on Signal. Outside of family, there’s still a bunch of group chats with people who haven’t switched over. For anyone I know who uses both, I’ll always message them on Signal whenever possible. Slowly trying to convert my friends, one by one.

we are technically occupying somebodies spot

Well, we’re a third of the way into the event, and it doesn’t seem like they’ve made any effort to complete their template, so… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯… it’s free real estate?

Update: Seems like we might be doing something in the top left corner?

Possibly relevant post: sh.itjust.works/post/18680803

Final comment in the chain: sh.itjust.works/post/18680803/12480662

I came across these discussion threads in the Lemmy and Pict-rs source code:

• Allow resize to be set in config to reduce max image size, pictrs does support this #2416
• Support pre-processing uploaded media #3
• support resizing to a maximum area #6

It seems like automatic image compression might be something which could be configured in the pict-rs settings. Would one of the admins be able to chime in on the feasibility of this?

Yeah, I feel like most users don’t know about the Matrix instance.

it’s difficult to post on a server that’s down

True, although recently there have been issues affecting only the default frontend, with alternate frontends like tesh.itjust.works and mobile apps being unaffected.

TheDude appears to be aware of the situation:

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I saw it. I liked it. It isn’t my favourite Spielberg film, but it was fine. I thought it lacked a little bit in exposition, but the overall plat and pacing was good.

The music was excellent. There was a French Horn blast during one of the action sequences which made me think “that sounds like John Williams!”. But as Williams had announced his retirement after Indiana Jones 5, I wondered who Spielberg got as a composer…

When the credits rolled, it turned out that Spielberg coaxed the nonagenarian out of retirement for another film score :)

“Peace among worlds.”

How the mini-universe works

Barontini used a cloud of 24,000 ultracold atoms—just a few billionths of a degree above absolute zero—to create a hermetically sealed quantum system that mimics a simple “universe.”

Okay, so they didn’t create a new universe. They just sectioned off a portion of the universe we already have, and did experiments on it. Still neat, though.

He’s the person who holds the exclusive rights to use vantablack in art.

Didn’t the person who developed the “pinkest pink” allow everyone to use it… except for the guy who tried to restrict vantablack, as a reciprocal !fuckyouinparticular@lemmy.world?

Edit: LOL, that exact story is one of the top posts on that sub.

named a telescope after Nancy Grace?

No, Nancy (Grace) Roman: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Roman

astronomer who made important contributions to stellar classification and stellar motions

1. Post a question on !ask@piefed.social
2. People answer your question.

I wonder how extraterrestrials would react to the moon landing.

If they’re technologically advanced enough to build radio telescope of sufficient size to detect such weak signals, they’d probably think we were cute. Like how we feel when we observe a crow or a squirrel solve a puzzle or navigate an obstacle course.

or that the idea of turning them off is simply inconceivable (why would I turn mine off and let others make money)

If that’s the issue, it seems like time-of-use rates or smart metering could be an easy solution. If the price of electricity were negative during periods of oversupply, I bet people would figure out how to disconnect their solar panels pretty quickly. This would simultaneously incentivize energy storage projects.

This seems like a good problem to have, no? Just need some batteries or some interuptable industrial processes to absorb the excess.