When I was young I saw the night sky with the milky way clearly visible. I never got the chance to see it again.
I travelled to the top of a remote mountain free of any light pollution or air pollution. It was a dark night with new moon. The sky was completely clear. I still had good eyesight at that time.
The starry night sky was magnificent and mesmerizing.
It would have been a lot more colourful to your kid eyes too.
This is a weirdly universal statement for an anecdotal experience. If one were to go to an actually remote location, many miles from any city, I don’t know of any reason that the stars wouldn’t be visible.
Weather (clouds), moonlight.
And the fact that I have responsibilities as an adult, and it is not easy to go to an actually remote location at the right time.
Going to a dark site is not as easy as “just drive an hour from your home.”
Take a look at this: https://science.nasa.gov/solar-system/skywatching/how-to-find-good-places-to-stargaze/
I went from living in a 9 or 10 to a 3 on that scale, and it blows my mind every time I look up at night. I literally did not believe my own eyes the first timei saw it all.
You really do feel connected to the past realizing this is the same sky we’ve had the entire time we’ve been on this planet.
Except then you learn that even this “unchanging” sky changed A LOT from the distant past to today!
Like sure most stars where always visible in the sky (always being relative to homo sapiens looking up at the sky and being able to communicate with each other verbally) but their position might have been different…
Most of the stars we see are several thousand light-years away from Earth. That means we are seeing the stars’ past as well.
So you went to stargaze on a cloudy night and your takeaway is that nobody can see the stars anymore? Yeah, that’s a bizarre conclusion.
If you want to purposefully misunderstand what I said, feel free to do so.
I’m not really sure how else to understand it, tbh. Unless you meant things you don’t see anymore, which wasn’t really the point of the thread.
Having spent too much time in OS security, I wish people building today’s products could realize and internalize just how their project is a house of cards built on top of a house of cards, security-speaking. We’ve normalized a seriously insane amount if sketchy shit that the critique of a modern product core to many linux OS distributions was seen as just old people ranting … and the shady shit continued.
One day we’re going to run into a series of deep-seated security exploits that will blow our mind and cause a chernobyl of damage, and we may not even link it to a particular weak link among SO MANY weak links; but that’s what we’re looking at. And the fact that we’re ignoring common-sense, best-practice rules to develop core apps is leaving a hole in the proverbial fence that we’re ignoring as well.
God help us.
So, basically, you’re saying
systemdis bad, we should stop using it. Right?/s
Systemd turned me into a newt!
A newt?
He got better
The world’s population is getting significantly sicker and we’re blaming the victims for “lifestyle diseases” as a way of dismissing the problem. But research needs money and time, so there will always be better and stronger evidence for money-making remedies instead of the slow and complex research into why people are increasingly experiencing disease.
We’re hurting ourselves, and each other, and because disabled people are excluded from huge parts of society, we’re also covering up the evidence. It’s only when we’re wounded that the reality is clear, but by then it’s too late - you’re just written off as someone who made bad choices.
The value of good frontend engineering.
I recently stumbled upon this blog post that describes it better than I could
That the solutions that benefit all beings are always the best. Even if they require more effort. Also, that there are never just two solutions to any problem. The human experience is not binary, there are infinitely many solutions to all problems.
Ghosts
Do you? Tell us more.
Brunhild says I shouldn’t talk to you
Damn Brunhild, that’s just like her.
She still owes me $10, the jerk.
Does anyone else hear every electronic device and feel a wave of comfort when the power goes out?
Only some things. Like a TV or a speaker. Even when nothing is playing or they’re muted, there’s like this high pitched whine coming from them. A busted GPU in a PC makes a similar sound, though louder (coil whine). I sometimes feel like Quark that time he kept hearing shit in the shuttle with Odo and it turned out to be a bomb; hearing a faint thing no one else does until I pinpoint the source and turn it off.
Do you hear your phone too when its doing nothing?
It makes a sound before text messages or calls come in, sometimes other random clicking hissing sorts of noise? I almost always pick it up before any sound plays or vibration happens as a result. Constant sound? Not that I notice, but I’m around it 24/7
I don’t hear most of it consciously but I do feel the wave of comfort. It happens allot more now that I live rural. Lose power bout once a month for an hour, or two. It is just enough that you’re still comfortable temperature.
I think it is mostly the Fridge. That thing loud AF and is always making noise.
You have a 6th sense…
Starting to wonder, I’m talking about hearing even electricity in the wires. It’s hard to exactly explain it, but it’s like a pressure on my eardrums and sensation in my head. It’s not a distinct sound like a refrigerator, just a presence. There’s different pitches for different devices too, oven burners are a low hum where led lightbulbs are a shrill whine.
Can you feel my wifi?
Yep: and it’s pretty, pretty disgusting.
The hidden walls and the dwarfs in them
that we don’t have freedom (in the us specifically here) there is a party that is pretty well known for it’s “individualistic, and freedom centric approach”
I call bullshit though. Have you seen how much red tape surrounds everything? How much shit you have to get through in order to simply, do something. You want to build a house? Just wait until you find out about how many different possible ways that can be different. You want to run a business? Well you better believe that shits a mess also. Taxes? Simple? There are numerous variants. Federal, state, sales, property, estate, etc…
You want to do something trivial and supported by ALL of society? Even that is arguably more difficult than it should be. You can genuinely talk to people who have actual degrees in business (or at the very least, work in business) about business, and they will not be able to understand a single word you say. Because you aren’t speaking the way that they speak, which is quite ironic considering how business is supposed to work.
You wanna go outside? You are probably being surveilled, and the likelihood of you ending up in the hands of law enforcement controlled AI recognition software is above 0.
Having been a linux user for 4 going on 5 years now. It’s honestly kind of appalling, how much bureaucracy that everything has these days.
How stupid we humans are for coming up for all kinds of biases based solely on where other people were born at, more than their parents. Not only country wise, some people can get super defensive against people born 20-30km away within the same country and state.
To a lesser extent, more people should be aware of Dyogenes of Sinope, aka Dyogenes the Cynic’s antics. A man that “saw through” society’s bullshit and was willing to live and act according to what he preached: owning nothing, living in poverty, giving no fucks to societal norms of the time and being truly honest to everyone in their faces, behaving “like a dog”, kynos, which is the root of the word cynic.
Which dynamics (political, economical, privacy-wise) will lead to a less enjoyable future for all of us.
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