I’m starting to realize that Mastodon may have ruined other social media for me. Just deleted Reddit - even the (relatively) low levels of dbags and other annoyances there are just more than I need in my life anymore.

Why put up with all the illiteracy, infantilism, and general idiocy when I can just enjoy myself and learn things on the Fediverse?

Visiting @anildash and @haubles.

#Plushtodon #Merchtodon

In Slate, I explained why the Key Bridge collapse probably won't worsen traffic congestion -- despite most people assuming otherwise.

https://slate.com/business/2024/03/baltimore-bridge-collapse-what-will-traffic-be-like.html

Feuer in Rechenzentrum legt Hoster und deren Kunden lahm

Ein Feuer in einem französischen Rechenzentrum hatte tagelange Ausfälle bei Hostern und deren Kunden zufolge. Plusserver hat drastische Maßnahmen ergriffen.​

https://www.heise.de/news/Feuer-in-Rechenzentrum-legt-Hoster-und-deren-Kunden-lahm-9667385.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege&utm_source=mastodon

#Hosting #Rechenzentrum #Security #Stromversorgung #news

NEW: Facebook snooped on Snapchat users' encrypted network traffic to study how they behaved, unsealed court documents reveal.

This was part of a secret program called "Project Ghostbusters," and even inside the company, it was very controversial.

“I can’t think of a good argument for why this is okay. No security person is ever comfortable with this, no matter what consent we get from the general public. The general public just doesn’t know how this stuff works,” Pedro Canahuati, Facebook's then-head of security engineering, wrote in an email.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/03/26/facebook-secret-project-snooped-snapchat-user-traffic/

According to #Ingenuity's Chief Engineer Travis Brown (2h interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t4XpLZqc6ao), the plan for the heli after #Flight72 was to meet #Perseverance somewhere close to Bright Angel, a future science target for the rover. The rover would take some pictures of the heli from close range to document changes on the hardware that had occurred over the course of 3 years.

Brown also mentioned that Ingenuity's budget was running dry

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#MarsHelicopterCrash #NASA #Mars2020 #Solarocks #space