Thomas Sturm @tsturm@mastodon.cloud

Viral FaceApp Now Owns Access to More Than 150M People's Faces and Names
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20468696
#hackernews #tech

Your smart home’s Achilles’ heel
http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2019/07/18/your-smart-homes-achilles-heel/

An unmanned Russian spacecraft crashed on the moon on July 21, 1969 - while Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were still walking on the surface.

@tsturm Does look remarkably undamaged. Guess that's the difference between bringing your own oxygen and just burning what's in the air.

The only difference I see in these before an after photos is what looks like a securing bar across the central oval hatch has gone missing, possibly removed by crew.

VGR2 hadn't fired its thrusters for *30 years* and they worked perfectly on the first try. (VGR1 did something similar last year.) What a damn legend. https://voyager.jpl.nasa.gov/news/details.php?article_id=114

Good: SpaceX has a potential cause for that dramatic launch failure. Better: they're systematically inspecting the rest of the craft for similar vulnerabilities. This is the correct response, and it speaks well of them.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/07/spacex-near-completion-of-dragon-investigation-has-a-good-path-forward/#p3

Still can’t believe that we get to live here

NASA research shows that a successful mission to Mars would require a ‘class clown’ to resolve tensions, boost morale and unite teams. E.g., Scott’s Antarctic exploration team didn’t have a joker and broke into cliques, but Amundsen’s crew did, which helped with group cohesion.

StarHopper will not go to space today. (But it did catch fire last night.) https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/17/20697603/spacex-starship-starhopper-raptor-engine-static-fire-test-explosion

"Illium" was another name for the city of Troy

"-ad" is a suffix that can be used to mean "the story of"

Therefore "The Illiad" is properly translated as; drumroll please...

Troy Story

Lol

Glad you asked!
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2. Laptop battery lasts longer
3. My privacy isn't invaded by 50 different douchebro Silicon Valley companies
4. Your fucking site doesn't slow down my computer to a crawl and I can actually read your fucking articles

Dropbox is a work requirement for me, but I'm pretty concerned that it's going to be found to have a Zoom (et al.)-level security flaw. It keeps taking on more work, essentially trying to replace base operating system functions.

You build an operating system, you get operating system problems.

I don't normally stare at my phone all the time but in restaurants I do. Because otherwise my eyes keep snapping to the huge TV screens, and the assault on my nervous system is unbearable. It feels especially striking because I haven't watched TV regularly for about ten years now, and it's hard to believe that most people still let it happen to them...

"Previous" and "Next" buttons are the most confusing buttons in forums or news websites. Sometimes they mean "things posted earlier/later", so to continue reading backwards in time, you should click "previous", but other times they mean "last/next page of the list", and to continue reading you should click "next"...

Long books, when read, are usually overpraised, because the reader wants to convince others and himself that he has not wasted his time. E.M. FORSTER

Only 21 Miles to destination at #Fidden on the Isle of #Mull

#sco2019 #Schottland #Scotland #Camping #Mull #Highlands

So friedlich. So peaceful.
#CatsOfMastodon #Cat #Cats #Katze

AI-Based Photo Restoration
https://medium.com/@fedor.kitashov/ai-based-photo-restoration-6e41469ce0d7