Mastodawn

My therapist said I need to find things to keep me busy, so I created the @cdnspace Artemis II dashboard.

I reverse-engineered the Unity Engine powering the NASA AROW visualization and found an absolute treasure trove of data to display.

Little did I expect that it's now being seen by anywhere from 200 to 600 people at any given time with 130,000 people having looked at it in the last 24 hours. People are even building projects around my API.

Yesterday, I received a message on LinkedIn from someone working in Mission Control in Houston... and they're using my dashboard! He even sent me a photo, but I can't share it until after the crew has splashed down.

Mind blown, and an absolute pick-me-up. The best part? It's being served from my basement.

https://artemis.cdnspace.ca/

#artemis #artemis2 #artemisII #nasa #csa

Artemis II Tracker — Live Mission Control

Real-time mission control dashboard tracking NASA's Artemis II crewed lunar flyby. Live telemetry, DSN comms, orbit visualization, and crew activities.

Canadian Space

Van Ganz Apr 1

Police State UK Mar 30

"It is poor civic hygiene to install technologies that could someday facilitate a police state."

~ Bruce Schneier

Van Ganz Mar 31

Liam Proven Mar 31

RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/115722360006034040

This is an extremely worrying conclusion to me.

Van Ganz Mar 30

Walter van Holst Mar 30

Now that the Knesset has voted for a death penalty that effectively will only be applied to Palestinians, now is as good a time as any to sign the EU Citizen's initiative calling the European Commission to suspend the EU-Israel Association Treaty: https://citizens-initiative.europa.eu/initiatives/details/2025/000005_en

Initiative detail | European Citizens' Initiative

European Citizens' Initiative

Van Ganz Mar 29

Team KeePassXC Mar 27

🚨 Warning: New FAKE website offering FAKE KeePassXC downloads! Do not fall for it. The correct domain is https://keepassxc.org without hypens!

Van Ganz Mar 29

Mastodon Migration Mar 29

One for the history books...

Van Ganz Mar 21

GrapheneOS Mar 20

GrapheneOS will remain usable by anyone around the world without requiring personal information, identification or an account. GrapheneOS and our services will remain available internationally. If GrapheneOS devices can't be sold in a region due to their regulations, so be it.

Van Ganz Mar 21

Eric Schultz Mar 21

A small set of people are merging changes to various Linux components to make sure every application knows your birth date.

This is being done rapidly by people with questionable justifications and being merged with no youth and few marginalized people involved.

https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/accountsservice/accountsservice/-/merge_requests/176#0b07c0cc4d49be119f65cdb2037440f56eed647a

user: Add BirthDate with polkit-gated GetBirthDate and SetBirthDate methods (!176) · Merge requests · accountsservice / accountsservice · GitLab

Summary Add a BirthDate field to the user account interface. For non-homed users, the value is stored...

GitLab

Van Ganz Mar 21

John S Russell Mar 20

This is going to be hard to hear, but:

Bryan Adams released "Summer of '69" in 1985. A similar nostalgia-based song released now would be harkening back to the distant and bygone year of 2010.

Van Ganz Mar 17

Cassandrich Mar 17

RE: https://social.coop/@kc/116243778222284443

Blocking Facebook's entire v6 block was what worked for me. The vast majority of abuse comes from their bots.