Completed the first stage of making an uber-nerdy hacker cyberdeck computer. I had bought the RISC-V version of the uConsole a few years ago, which was neat, but not especially powerful or useful.

I upgraded it with an RPi CM5 module and an RTL-SDR add-on from https://hackergadgets.com/. I decided the CM5 module needed a fan and heatsink, which required cutting a hole in the backplate.

Finally got it all put together. Next step is to figure out how to get the damn thing to boot an OS lol

Story Set Up:

One day you get a strange envelope in the mail. No obvious significance of the return address, it's just a shipping depot. In the large bubble envelope you find... your childhood journal. An old tattered notebook full of drawings and writings you remember well. Who could have sent it? A relative?

But there is another much more serious issue. One you are reluctant to even confront.

You never lost your old childhood journal. It's right there on the shelf.

There are *two* copies.

The May issue of Clarkesworld is now online and features stories by Louis Inglis Hall, Tia Tashiro, Nick Wolven, Sheri Singerling, Grace Chan, Raahem Alvi, and Zhao Haihong.
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/issue_236

Subscriptions available at:
https://clarkesworldmagazine.com/subscribe/

Digital subscriptions were sent out this morning. Print edition will be available later this month.

I went out with my #astronomy club on Saturday night and ended up staying up literally all night doing #astrophotography. I'm still working on processing everything that I captured because I kind of went hog wild and set up 4 telescopes (if you count my Seestar S30).

I stayed up all night because I wanted to try to capture a pic of comet C/2025 R3 (PANSTARRS). I was only able to capture for like 20 minutes before the sunrise blew out all the images, but I did manage to get luminance and RGB.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@Sarahp/116415333742451453

"We'll just 'AI' spam books, movies, and music" always conveniently ignores how much of everything there already is and how little of it gets any traction.

I was too long to setup so I captured just a dozen frames before sunrise, but here is the PanSTARRS comet this morning

#astronomy #astrophotography