Mastodawn

bbdd333 Apr 20

#Palantir

bbdd333 Mar 18

@ai6yr

https://www.stripes.com/branches/marine_corps/2026-03-18/3d-printed-antenna-mast-saves-costs-21105633.html

Junior Marine’s antenna inventiveness keeps costs down and service members in contact

More than 100 3D-printed antenna masts have been produced since the design was developed, saving more than $600,000 and over 60 years in wait time.

Stars and Stripes

bbdd333 Mar 13

The Strait of Hormuz is open for transit

bbdd333 Jan 6

Fire monitoring cams are good for viewing the sunset, too. Off the coast of La Jolla, CA.

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bbdd333 Dec 22

The lapse "resulted in NIST UTC [universal coordinated time] being 4.8 microseconds slower than it should have been," NIST spokesperson Rebecca Jacobson said in an email.

That's just under 5 millionths of a second.

https://www.npr.org/2025/12/21/nx-s1-5651317/colorado-us-official-time-microseconds-nist-clocks

bbdd333 Dec 20

NTP now stands for No Time Protocol

https://lists.nanog.org/archives/list/[email protected]/message/ACADD3NKOG2QRWZ56OSNNG7UIEKKTZXL/

bbdd333 Nov 12

#aurora

bbdd333 Oct 31, 2025

This could have been @ai6yr , but the wine would have been of his own vintage

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/cyclist-falls-ravine-survives-days-drinking-wine-france

Cyclist falls down 130-foot ravine in France, survives 3 days by drinking wine he had in shopping bag

A helicopter airlifted him to hospital, with a rescue doctor calling his survival "a miracle."

bbdd333 Aug 10, 2025

@ai6yr Did you see this from Italy?

A hiker was missing for nearly a year. Then an AI system spotted his helmet. Using AI to analyze thousands of frames taken by drones, a mountain rescue team has found the body of a doctor who had been missing since September 2024.

https://www.wired.com/story/missing-hiker-ai-drone-recovery/

A Hiker Was Missing for Nearly a Year—Until an AI System Recognized His Helmet

Using AI to analyze thousands of frames taken by drone, The Piedmontese Alpine Rescue team has found the body of a doctor who had been missing since September 2024.

WIRED

bbdd333 Jun 14, 2025

Just found this bad boy in the bottom of a box of old cables.