Ooh, found another unexpected gem while digging through my DSLR: my first telescope picture of Jupiter and the Galilean moons!
Had to go back to the original image date with Stellarium and double-check if this is really what it shows, but yes, it's (left to right) Jupiter, Ganymede, Io, and Europa. Callisto is probably too close to Jupiter and lost in the glare.
(Yes, I know Galileo already pulled this off 400 years ago, cut me some slack 😉)
@ewolff If the CMOS battery is truly dead, then the embedded controller (which in more recent PCs has replaced the RTC chip of ye olden days) has probably lost power as well and may be stuck in some odd state, so I'd definitely try a new battery (just a hunch, though). The other most common failure mode of old(er) electronics are leaking electrolytic capacitors, any signs of that?
@ewolff Did you also put in a new CMOS battery? And disconnect all power sources and let it sit for a few hours before re-powering it, that sometimes also fixes residual nonsense values stuck in some registers.
@scottjenson IMHO the one thing LLMs are okay for is generating a few leads if you're stuck on [whatever]. But that only works if you already have enough background knowledge about the subject matter (just like you do have here) to recognize which leads are dead ends or plain nonsense. 🤷
I totally forgot to have a closer look at my DSLR - I tried a few pictures with that one as well, but they didn't seem to capture the comet. Turns out it was just the crappy display on the camera - with some contrast curve tweaking, it's actually way better than the phone camera picture!
@purplepadma Paging @JanetSiegmund and @astrojanet 😁
For the record, all this nonsense is based on a decades-old NIST guideline which NIST itself has recently invalidated. And if you still stick with that sort of policy, then you only have yourself to blame if all your users have passwords like October2024 etc. 😑
OK, so I ran into another crappy webservice that has an absolutely batshit ridiculous password policy including "You cannot use any of your previous 13 passwords." 🤨
My first thought was this means they have to be storing unsalted passwords, but that's not necessarily true - you could salt and hash the new password with each stored salt from the old ones, and compare individually.
But it still means they keep 13 times as many passwords stored as they would actually need. 🤦
Hah, wooo, 1k followers! Look mum, I'm an influencer!
Hello everyone, welcome, and I really appreciate it that you're all here for my mental hiccups 😁👋
@enno Wenn in der Wissenschaft von Dauerstellen die Rede ist, dann meint damit niemand eine "lebenslange Jobgarantie", sondern nur unbefristete Stellen (so wie in praktisch jedem anderen Job auch).
Die Realität insbesondere in Deutschland ist aber, dass es praktisch keine unbefristeten Stelle ausser den vollen Professuren gibt und die 90-95% der restlichen Wissenschaftler sich mit Kettenverträgen über 1-2 Jahre durchhangeln müssen, üblicherweise incl. Umzug in neue Stadt zu jedem Vertrag.
It really cheeses me off that since Game of Thrones, a lot of authors and scriptwriters seem to think it's a mark of quality to constantly kill off all likeable characters in their stories. 🤬
@enno Nah, sorry, da muss ich widersprechen. Das "normale" Studium ist größtenteils kostenfrei, das ist richtig, aber die Promotion nicht, die ist einfach ein (teilweise auch recht aufreibender) Job - und Voraussetzung für eine spätere Dauerstelle.
Und wenn der Staat nicht in Wissenschaft investiert und promovierten Leuten eine langfristige Perspektive bietet, dann geht mittelfristig alles an Grundlagenforschung den Bach runter, weil kein ROI 🤷
@isotopp @NanoRaptor @foone Purely by volume (467,850 mm³ for a VHS, 165 mm³ for a MicroSD card) you could fit 2890 uSD into a tape. Let's say 2500 to account for connections and management circuits, and we get roughly 5 Petabyte per MacroSD (assuming we stuff it with 2TB cards) 👍
I've previously found it pretty hard to get an Android phone to cough up the password for a previously connected WiFi network. However, more recent phones have added a convenient "QR code" button to quickly connect another device, and if you scan that with any QR scanner that just shows the plaintext, then you get the password as well 😁
@Giantwallaby Yes indeed! Not yet comparable to the 2000 € chrome-plated Italian espresso monster machine a friend pulled from the TUM dumpster once, but who knows 😉
Pulled a sizzling tray of bacon from the oven yesterday for dinner, and the kid quips from the side: "Excuse me while I salivate in the sink." 🥓🤤
@jens My PiHole at home usually blocks YouTube and friends for all the kids' devices. However, after one of the laptops has been in the library WiFi, it suddenly knows how to YouTube, even after being back home for several days (i.e. long beyond any reasonable TTL).
@jens Yeah, I'm battling that particular Kraken right now, too. 🙄
(It's DNS. It's always DNS. 😑)