Marcos Dione

I said I was not perfect, but that post in particular I was focused on security and privacy. In any case, I don't go telling people to fsck off when I'm pointed out, but then I don't have 3.5k followers.

2026-07-06 20:49:51 UTC

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have you considered goiog to other .nl cities? I know it's January and I have never been to .nl in winter, but if it's like Venezia, it could be still full of tourists, which could give a wrong idea about the country...

2026-06-28 14:59:34 UTC

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so this is the server side. Do I have to install and/or configure anything on the client side?

2026-06-19 21:05:19 UTC

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all cool, but the question still stands: where or how do you dispose of the waste.
@npub1san…jgxu @npub1r3c…leyj @npub1ucv…5a8g

2026-06-15 15:15:09 UTC

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"consented castration"?

2026-05-21 15:01:52 UTC

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FramaSoft tiene unas gratis. Creo que el único prob es que están en Francés :-[

2026-05-18 11:25:38 UTC

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perpendicular question: how do we get the ️🐱 emoji? I ask because in France/français you can't say the word for female cat because it's mostly (and now only) used to refer to the vulva/vagina, but I don't know any other language where that works.
Edit: BTW, congrats for jumping all the hoops! I know how hard it can be for simple stuff, I can't eve begin to imagine to do so for something so changing.

2026-05-12 12:23:04 UTC

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wait, you painted the walls on the same day, or both appliances failed on the same day?

2026-05-11 11:34:08 UTC

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nice castle, where is this?

2026-04-30 20:52:31 UTC

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next time use a local VM to which you disconnected the network before running some code that promises getting root, but half of the thing is an opaque compressed blob.

2026-04-30 20:34:24 UTC

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well, let me correct you. Yes, you as a user cannot load the module with `lsmod`, but the way the kernel has worked for many years, it will happily load it for you the moment some program you run, still as a user, requires some of its functionality, which is exactly what the exploit must be doing[1].
Lotsa details f.i. here: https://duasynt.com/blog/linux-kernel-module-autoloading
[1] I tried reading it, but the fsckers decided to play golf with char count and it's unreadable.

2026-04-17 07:23:41 UTC

PSA: Please don't forget your `--fail` option to #curl when developing scripts and cron jobs.
#SysAdmin

2026-04-03 19:52:01 UTC

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this once helped me to battle #uefi
https://web.archive.org/web/20251012065253/https://www.happyassassin.net/posts/2014/01/25/uefi-boot-how-does-that-actually-work-then/
It's a long read, but let me do magic while live updating from CentOS 6 to 7 in a thing that the clients installed on prem, in the bowels of their DCs, most of the time w/o internet.
I hope it helps you too.

2026-03-19 13:20:49 UTC

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hint: they say Disney got inspiration there, but it was more probably Neuschwanstein.

2026-03-19 13:16:03 UTC

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... you probably didn't do the old town, then :)

2026-03-19 12:07:29 UTC

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if you can, go to Segovia, best without looking pictures first.

2026-03-18 16:55:11 UTC

I did more than 1Mm on my #ebike and all I got is this lousy two digits odometer.
#BikeTooter
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/116/251/220/696/499/915/original/3267ead5b0df130e.jpg

2026-03-17 14:47:18 UTC

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oh, that's close by! Worth a visit?

2026-03-16 15:10:48 UTC

I have been suggested that the company I'm working is not doing well. Than and a push for AI is telling me it's maybe time to move on.
What am I? Currently I'm doing #Python, #SysAdmin, GitHub/GitLab admin (yes, both), some Kafka, used to do some Postgres (now we have a DB team), Ansible and more.
In the past aka CV: https://www.grulic.org.ar/~mdione/
What do I want? No AI, no gambling, no blockchain. In #Marseille or remote. I can invoice abroad, but I would rather be an employee.
#FediHire #job
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2026-03-04 15:21:52 UTC

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f-droid has OpenTracks https://f-droid.org/packages/de.dennisguse.opentracks.playstore/ I use it for leisure bike trips, but can categorize all kinds of activities.

2026-02-20 17:44:37 UTC

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what I'm saying is that you express yourselves in a way that most people, as I heard, and me in particular, find aggressive, and as I understand, is what drives people away. I'm suggesting you to revise the way you communicate.
For instance, you say I'm lying. I don't think I lied. I just gave an opinion on the way you communicate.
I think you used words too negative like "atrocious". https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/atrocious You don't find that aggressive?

2026-02-20 17:38:32 UTC

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yes, and there was the other issue with ssh keys back in '07-'08. And yet I trust them and the upstream developers more than a plain (that is, not including GrapheneOS or LineageOS) or OEM Android system.

2026-02-20 17:35:48 UTC

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This is not the first time I read something you wrote and thought "why, having such an amazing project, do they write like this?".
I'm even following you, I like what you do!
Except the way you communicate.

2026-02-20 17:33:58 UTC

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> The desktop Linux software stack has atrocious privacy and security compared to the Android Open Source Project.
Why did you chose the word "atrocious"? You don't find that aggressive? Don't you find aggressive the toot you deleted? Not even a "sorry, that's not what I/we meant" or anything...

2026-02-20 17:28:03 UTC

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Linux "classical" distros come from a position where the soft available to them are pre curated by the companies and or communities building them, so the need for such things are no so pressing.
Andorid distros face applications that mostly not curated (except for 3rd party repos like f-droid, which are also pre curated by the communities), so they have other threat models. Personally, I find them too extreme, but currently is the best option on phones.

2026-02-20 17:16:50 UTC

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a Linux distro has a different threat model than an Android "distro".
This is exactly what people mean when they say that GrapheneOS people (and in particular this [official?] account in this case) are quite aggressive disparaging all the other ecosystems.
Don't get me wrong, I liked GrapheneOS while I had it (I had to return the Pixel device I was using it on), but I don't like this behavior.

2026-02-03 12:55:22 UTC

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parece que es un desastre de sitio hecho con IA. Cuando menteré de eso ni me acerqué. Uds lo probaron?

2026-02-01 15:49:16 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/115/996/161/089/459/047/original/a5b065ba0e88a36a.jpg

2026-01-19 14:55:24 UTC

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I tried to see if I could provide some help with French, but I see some confusing things like `4Parking`. Any docs that mention what are these, and how exactly to translate? For instance, `ATM` can be translated as `Distributeur Automatique de Billets`, but everybody just call them "distributeur".

2026-01-07 21:26:26 UTC

RE: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115850320786991662
Added to #OpenStreetMap:
https://www.openstreetmap.org/node/13438554988
#note1wdx…zy7x

2026-01-02 10:15:27 UTC

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Edit: https://mastodon.social/@miermont/115824487397112134 asked it better.
The NC part I get it, but what about the building and giving away for free? I used to be good on licenses, but I left that circle like 15ya...

2025-12-26 10:23:47 UTC

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I found a good explanation here: https://vdaluz.com/blog/understanding-unix-load-average/
If you want to split between CPU, IO and memory waiting processes (memory can be slow if you're thrashing in and out of swap), you can use pressure instead: https://docs.kernel.org/accounting/psi.html

2025-12-15 12:55:35 UTC

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sorry, I was posting when someone rang the door, and I posted instead of waiting. The edit includes all I wanted to put.

2025-12-15 12:31:46 UTC

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@johncarlosbaez/115719512715850824
All I got from his is:
"The Earth is only slightly more dense than a flea."
:-P
#note1fwv…am76

2025-11-02 22:49:48 UTC

I almost started bashing (#python'ing?) my head against the desk because I only read this for the first time ever:
> The functions `debug()`, `info()`, `warning()`, `error()` and `critical()` will call `basicConfig()` automatically if no handlers are defined for the root logger.
I run my code with `pdb` and reached `logging.basicConfig()`'s line `if len(root.handlers) == 0`. It failed, so someone called one of those functions before I called `basicConfig()`. Fixed by `basicConfig()` ASAP.

2025-10-24 11:03:04 UTC

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Do you run Windows on your work/fun machines?
I'm asking because all polls I have seen in the Fedi about it gave Linux a big majority, but maybe because it was launched and spread on mostly Linux only circles?
So, do you think if you asked the same question, you would get a different answer? :)

2025-10-15 12:54:52 UTC

"The Free Software Foundation (FSF) has launched the LibrePhone Project, an initiative to create a fully free and open-source mobile operating system that eliminates proprietary firmware and binary blobs".
https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/10/15/0312206/fsf-announces-the-librephone-project
Their Fedi account has not published anything yet.
#Linux #phone

2025-10-09 10:51:51 UTC

So @npub15f7…m7wr made a bad move, people pointed at the bad move, and they haven't backpedaled. Let's see if we can send them another message.
Boost at will.

2025-10-08 19:31:38 UTC

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then they enshittify by literally giving you shitty flavors unless you pay.

2025-09-28 07:55:28 UTC

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"Google AI appears to just make a guess and pick one" <-- I think these comparisons anthromorphosize these AIs, which is not the best way to portray them. It's a table of statistics and what seems to either be a random generator or a thing so complex that it's indistinguishable from one.

2025-08-24 20:51:58 UTC

#SilentSunday
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/115/085/719/365/593/462/original/291a402adad64590.jpg

2025-08-21 14:21:38 UTC

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is it normal that there is not so much snow in MarCh, do you happen to know?

2025-08-18 13:40:15 UTC

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there's a quote that says (paraphrasing, I can't remember the right words): "societies should be measured by how they treat their poorest and more vulnerable". I would like to see a study based on such metric.

2025-07-30 08:21:48 UTC

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unlimited sounds like a lot :) how much are you storing now and how much time does those cover?

2025-07-04 09:46:47 UTC

What is #Europe waiting for? Instead we're arming ourselves because of the Emperor and the Nazi, while, at least in #France, cutting social support.
https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/07/03/2341234/norway-reached-969-market-share-for-evs-in-june
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

2025-06-29 12:22:04 UTC

"But not very informative. He claimed one thing, then he seemed to forget. and then started to claim something else. But always with just the ring of truth in it. -- McCoy". Now to see if he's talking about an #AI :)
#StarTrek TOS

2025-06-21 12:42:50 UTC

Only 30 years to inflict an almost fatal injury to the planet, or at least for all species that depend of lower temperatures, like ours.
#ShowYourStripes
https://mastodon.world/@davidho/114721170672515420
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/114/721/408/199/907/871/original/83edc709821be798.png

2025-06-10 15:41:37 UTC

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it seems permanent. I just open the tab again and nothing's lost, no login, nothing. The client is linked to the Android one via a QR code just like WA (and Signal?).

2025-06-10 15:24:59 UTC

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You say: "That “authorization key”, used to encrypt messages between a client and a server, is negotiated once on each device [...] got assigned to at registration time, pretty much for the lifetime of the client on that device."
I wonder what happens with the web client, specially if you somehow get rid of T's data on the browser. I use it daily and TBH for some stuff it's better than Linux and Android native client.

2025-06-06 09:18:30 UTC

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it's a (yes, bad) joke, OK? hence the ":-P".

2025-06-06 08:55:38 UTC

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that last one used to mean asexual :-P

2025-05-15 08:28:49 UTC

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... and I keep complaining of mastodon's default 500...

2025-04-29 22:20:06 UTC

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¿Qué es una imposición de pliegos?

2025-04-20 22:47:35 UTC

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yeah, "my body, my choice" should be enough, but it's already taken :)

2025-04-20 17:37:07 UTC

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"my body, my gender"?

2025-04-17 02:06:26 UTC

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sorry, `systemctl daemon-reload`. I always write it wrong the first time :) But if a reboot didn't help, then I'm out of ideas. #systemd

2025-03-21 05:30:00 UTC

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yes, I know. I'm just asking in the context of refunds.

2025-03-20 22:39:05 UTC

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what about those not going because of fear of being seemingly randomly detained?

2025-03-20 08:28:33 UTC

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yes, that too. I think we have to solve the problem from both ends. Stop depending in cars is one way.

2025-03-19 21:51:33 UTC

I started watching Simon Clark's YT videos a few weeks ago. This week he came up for a very thorough explanation (with sources) about how 95%+ clean energy is doable, mostly because dirty energy sources have lots of losses, and that we have actually provided a good chunk already (not far from 20%). Definitely worth a watch.
https://youtu.be/6c94vRmbM6Y
#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #RenewableEnergy

2025-03-10 16:33:18 UTC

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I xan't quite see how is this fundamentally different from Temux, do you have an idea?

2025-03-07 13:26:44 UTC

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TBH, it's been a long long while since I last compiled my own kernel, so only 50% flagelations for me :)

2025-03-03 12:06:27 UTC

OK #OpenStreetMap people, I need your help.
Less that a year ago (I think) I might have boosted or tooted about an OSM based trip planner where you wrote the place's names as hashtags and the system used them as waypoints for your trip. Now, for the life of me, I can't find it, because Mastodon is not a repository of knowledge, only a spreader.

2025-02-12 12:50:34 UTC

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es lo mismo que d8ce el alt text :) tampoco lo entendí. Viniendo de sudamérica, crecí con traducciones mexicanas. El español de españa me parece cute, pero a veces "no les entiendo una goma".

2025-02-12 11:39:35 UTC

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los qué cuánto?!?!?
-- uno que leyó otras traducciones

2025-02-11 07:57:22 UTC

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If I want to automate installing and configurin Mastodon on a serer, I would rather not have to install a compiler there.

2025-02-11 06:53:18 UTC

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that's more "recompilable" than "reconfigurable" :) But yeah, I guessed that much.

2025-02-11 06:28:03 UTC

Oh, I thought the 500 char limit in #Mastodon was configurable. Now I wonder what software are running on the instances of people who post long toots. For the moment, I found this sight fork:
https://github.com/hometown-fork/hometown/wiki

2025-01-25 09:04:05 UTC

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nice. source?

2025-01-19 16:31:40 UTC

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Seems to be US only :)

2024-12-20 20:52:32 UTC

What to try #linux? Ask around, specially friends, what distro to try. Download a live CD and try it that way. If you have old HW sitting around, try installing there first. If not, try dual booting. Test the waters before you jump. If you get into any trouble, seek help from the distro's community; many have "instant chat" like IRC or others. Mastodon is possible, but it's slower because of the async'ty and pasting config files is awkward. Good luck!
PS: if the jargon si too much, just ask.

2024-12-18 14:11:17 UTC

@npub106g…uas2 in your post about lazy #uv you seem to have omitted one detail: where are the per-tool venvs set up?
I tried commenting on your blog post, but for some reason disqus is not working for me. Probably a too strict ad blocker :(

2024-12-17 12:21:56 UTC

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I do the same for my own #nextcloud. It also makes it easier to backup (and restore) the db.
Because you have backups, right? :)

2024-12-15 20:46:49 UTC

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computers used to be my only hobby. Now I have like 3 or 4 more. And I'm a parent. And computers don't give me as much joy as before. It might come back...

2024-12-15 19:14:20 UTC

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I'm also at the point of being pragmatic. I think I'm loosing that energy to learn _everything_. Today I was even considering switching to docker based self hosting...

2024-12-15 17:12:07 UTC

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I suggest you fold and use alternative methods like maybe #kdeconnect to transfer files to the desktop.

2024-12-15 16:05:55 UTC

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I have the impression that the new file path pattern is forced by newer versions of #Android (or at least coercively suggested, #Google style). I have used A* on and off since 2009 and they way the platform went from a computer in your pocket to an appliance that hides all internals is clearly aimed to more public, but leaves us geeks scratching our heads.

2024-12-01 09:15:48 UTC

Just switched to #KDE #KDE6 on #Debian sid while also nuking my 20yo config dir to start from afresh. Biggest surprise was that by default (???) it's magnified to 125%, so `systemsettings` -> Display & Monitor -> Scale -> 100%. Big thanks to both teams!

2024-11-28 12:37:27 UTC

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your calendar is not enough? I have like 10 daily alarms...

2024-11-28 08:44:45 UTC

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... and here I was wondering why the street lights seemed so dim... Congrats :)

2024-11-26 08:47:55 UTC

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I might have mentioned several times that all logs will disappear in 15 days. Well, it's been 10 days, so I spent a good part of the morning trying to save the record. The apache logs was easy: made a semi-permanent copy on my desktop. #Mastodon record was more difficult. In the end I managed with the `mastodon.py` client and disabling 2FA, but boy was this a ride...
1/2

2024-11-21 09:11:05 UTC

I hadn't seen this in my feed so here it is:
Five local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerabilities in the Linux utility "needrestart" -- widely used on Ubuntu to manage service updates -- allow attackers with local access to escalate privileges to root
https://it.slashdot.org/story/24/11/21/0057206/ubuntu-linux-impacted-by-decade-old-needrestart-flaw-that-gives-root
EDIT: needrestart is also available on Debian, maybe other Linuxes.
#Ubuntu #security #Debian #Linux

2024-11-16 16:19:57 UTC

This is an experiment. Please boost.
http://mastoddosnt.ddns.net/
Here's the idea: This post is going first to my followers, then, if they boost it, to other people. This domain has been registered for only this experiment. I should see in my web server's logs when mastodon instances start crawling the site for info. Then maybe also some curious humans.
I just want to play with my monitoring a bit :)

2024-11-16 10:40:53 UTC

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is that #munin?

2024-11-15 14:49:47 UTC

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Hola! Capaz deberías agregar en qué zona estás... del planeta?

2024-11-13 11:32:39 UTC

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Stability, prepackaged software, easy upgrade path.

2024-10-28 17:33:47 UTC

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those tasks are empty packages that depend on many (all?) packages with i10n (and maybe l18n?) for those languages; and because there's the concept of manual vs automatic install: if you select such a task for install it becomes manual, but it dependencies are automatic. If you remove all manual packages that depend on an automatic package A, A is removed because it's considered no longer needed.

2024-10-28 17:21:30 UTC

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Those are installed by default!??! It's been ages since I installed any Debian (you just need to do it once :) but I'm pretty sure they're not?

2024-10-21 13:27:36 UTC

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TBH at first I thought it was wielding a light saber :)

2024-10-20 15:41:43 UTC

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link?

2024-10-05 16:22:36 UTC

Made 6h+ on a car to come to Cervinia and try my luck at #aurora #photography. Will have to climb some 500m is the blue light to get to a good position. I wanted to rent an ebike or a hotel room, but it's all closed. Apparently nothing happens in autumm.
Meanwhile, coffee and picking food and hopin for clear skies and not to freeze to death. Good hunting!
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/255/737/879/751/855/original/2369a9e54cd89fba.jpg

2024-09-30 08:55:17 UTC

#Utilitarianism #TrolleyProblem #philosophy #comics
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/util
https://cdn.masto.host/enosmtown/media_attachments/files/113/225/663/419/171/721/original/84c3f40fd6d251e9.png

2024-09-21 23:08:02 UTC

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yes, in fact, I am asking that level of detail. I could try to read Feyman's explanation that was li ked above, but it might probably require more math than I can follow now. That's somethimg I like about Angela Collier's videos. She explains things in a way that at least gives me the illusion that understand :)

2024-09-21 09:47:46 UTC

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olráit, I tried... :)

2024-09-20 20:33:39 UTC

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what happens to the parts of the secondary waves that are not in the tangent? Are they lost? Do they interfere and cancel each other? Are they experienced from another point of view? If the light I see in the tangential wavefront is almost the same intensity of the original light, does it mean that the points in the secondary waves all have the same intensity? It seems I'm getting into territory way beyond what I 'know'.

2024-09-20 20:28:29 UTC

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seems like Huygens' explanation is also geometric. It goes from the wave aspect of light to a frozen wavefront where every point in it also emits a wavefront, and the combination of those are the wavefront we experience. That recursive explanation sounds fishy; again, I should read/watch about that Huygens' whatever (he never seem to say exactly what, just "according to Huygens"... what, a theory?).

2024-09-20 20:24:19 UTC

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let's go back to "how the reflection from each point on the mirror combines to give the angle of reflection". In the image and video says that each point where the original rays touch the mirror surface emits light in 'arcs' (bubbles, really), and it's the combined tangential wavefront that becomes the image we see. Bu it's taking a geometrical approach that in my head is equivalent of just saying "the angles are the same".

2024-09-20 17:33:47 UTC

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uff, I think I need a source-mirror-eye-retina schematic to understand how we don't see scattered light? My head is sinning around incomplete schematics...

2024-09-20 16:15:12 UTC

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ok, assume I understand the Huygens whatever (will have to find a video about that). How does it apply to a dot light source? There's a whole circular reflection, but only a single reflection, if you know what I mean. Is it a matter of just taking the limit to a 0 with image?
It's been a long time since I could do it myself, mostly because of lack of time and of exercise. Maybe I should create a patreon account, send some money to Angela, and ask for a video :)