@RebaRabbit tbh public vs unlisted mostly doesn’t matter in terms of spamming up people’s timelines over here, unlisted just removes the post from the local and federated timelines (and the latter is disabled everywhere around here) and from tag timelines (if you’re testing tag stuff, you probably do want the post to be visible there)

(GTS instances also don’t show unlisted posts from the web UI, and it is useful to know, but not rly relevant for timeline spam reduction)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rW4-286wA

@enfaeutchie assuming miles per hour (as bri'ish people are want to use) then 12,242 mph 'winds' are not only hypersonic, but they're fairly close to orbital speed in LEO. at this speed, wind would stop being wind and instead become a blast front as it encountered air around it and formed a shockwave

from a rough calculation based on wind speed, the dynamic pressure of such a 'wind' would be about 18 megapascals. this is likely enough to do some very bad things to the human body, since only 0.5 MPa is generally lethal. 18 MPa is also very close to the compressive strength of low-grade concrete, so brick and mortar construction probably wouldn't stand a snowflake's chance in hell, let alone wooden structures (this is purely on the wind speed alone, rhe overpressure from the rapidly propagating blast front would do even more damage)

hope this helps u prepare for a windy day coming to a soon-to-be-flat-area near you

PSA: nasty vulnerability in firefox found and fixed, update asap (UAF w/ possible code exec in web animations API, for the techies in the crowd). fixed versions include:

• 131.0.2
• ESR 115.16.1
• ESR 128.3.1

to check your currently installed version:

1. open the 3 bars menu in the top right of the firefox window
2. open Help -> About Firefox

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/security/advisories/mfsa2024-51/

#VulnPSA #firefox

@KaydeArcane I actually have not done a tunic rando yet, was def going to though

@ticky note to self: don’t do that

@tenna this is exactly why the “no metrics” stuff is so important around here imo - put everyone on a level playing field! the dick-measuring contest of Numbers on other sites makes you look as someone else’s numbers and go “oh they’re too famous for me. i can’t talk to them”, which like. no. fuck off with that shit! social media should encourage you to go talk to people you think are cool, that’s the Whole Got Damn Fuckin Point!!!!

@nora @spdx_wl @meow that’s hilarious LMAO

@spdx_wl neither do my linux notifications, which means now half of my screen was getting covered even without the image size issue LMAO

oh, good, akkoma-fe collapses the CW

about to test something, I apologize in advance for what might happen to some of your timelines

@gcugreyarea @zlchxo and one who just downloaded it, it’s been on my list for a while

don’t think i got around to posting this one while cohost was still up. little treat for the league.

• Fujifilm X-T30
• XF 18-55mm f/2.8-4 R LM OIS

• 1/56 | f/4 | ISO 320 | 37.4mm

#photography #eggbug

🐅 i have a strong preference for cyberpunk that doesn’t use the orientalist neon urban density aesthetic, number one because that shit rules and is more apt for like a future fantasy, and number two because there’s so much more you could say about gentrification. like where’s the suburban #cyberpunk

@froggebip same here, yeah, I tend to follow everyone on sight around here

RE: https://lilypad.frogge.cafe/@froggebip/statuses/01J9MSNP9BH6A85HDSJC9P3QG5

something i love a lot about old steam ships is the telegraph system they have for the engine throttles. there's no big digital computer system running commands to the engines, it's just people taking simple commands from a system of wires and pulleys. it makes me wonder how such a system could possibly exist in the microcosm...

the oldest superfreighter in the Syndication logistics fleet, the Guidestar (though enthusiasts like to call it "Big Boy"), houses a gigantic pressurised water reactor in its stern that's tapped to generate electricity and boil water for its equally enormous drive engines. it takes a lot of people to keep it running - a third of the crew, maybe more like two fifths! - and as one can imagine, it's hard to coordinate all those people without some simple way to give orders

the Guidestar resolves this with a set of electromechanical throttle telegraphs that signal how much thrust they want on the main drives to the engineering crew. it's hooked up via a triple-redundant electronic relay since running mechanical cables down the length of a kilometre-long ship could cause problems for some reason.

since its construction, the Guidestar's received many upgrades, including an autonomous reactor management system - but it only touches the critical components, control rods, water flow pumps, fuel channels, a lot of stuff that was already motorised. it'll keep it from melting, but it won't operate the main drive - that's left to the valve jockeys.

valve jockeys, as they're sometimes affectionately called, are skilled operators with decades of experience working with nuclear reactors, mostly aboard the Guidestar where they live and work. some say it's the radiation that compels them into their lives of service; others, that it's the superfreighter itself. rumours abound of whispers in the corridors, odd dreams about steam and steel... but they're only rumours, of course. everyone knows ships can't talk.

#themicrocosm

@Sofsh hmm, yea, it indeed doesn’t work