Check out the guts of a #Soyuz mechanical navigation computer thought to be from the The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project. Apparently this style of nav computer was still used until ~2001.

It's an amazing piece of machinery which you can see for yourself on the #CuriousMarc channel, and read about in detail on Ken Shirriff's blog (@kenshirriff).

https://www.righto.com/2023/01/inside-globus-ink-mechanical-navigation.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmHaCQ8Ul6E

The best part of hanging wall cabinets in my office is getting to use my laser level. A close second is having a buddy over to help.

#tools #laser

A thought for the @ivory team. Since many people are new to mastodon and to federation, I suspect that choosing the “right” instance may not be top of mind for them.

Since changing instances is a bit of a chore, it might be nice for ivory to help in the process.

I know this isn’t really a client/app task, but the app is what people interact with most so they will be tempted to look there for help.

This is obviously not a high priority item, but I wanted to pass along the thought.