Mastodawn

@sarahdalgulls you could quietly remind them that Microsoft's terms clearly state that CoPilot is "for entertainment purposes only"

If only we worked for entertainment purposes only

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zool 20h ago

@adamsteer speculative on my part as i've never done fieldwork!

And when the environment is challenging and snap decisions needed for safety i can very much see that point, remote participation would have to be passive while the work is active, but could still inform / offer dispassionate context to a debrief?

The setting in which this came up was "classic" geological field sites, the kind students are brought to survey not because new knowledge is expected to be found, but to compare what they see to others who went before, take a little bite of history...

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zool 1d ago

@adamsteer forgive me if i've already floated this with you... years ago on Software Underground's Slack were some fascinating convos about remote participation fieldwork

The idea being people who couldn't afford travel, or who had accessibility needs ruling them out of in-person participation, could come along for the ride, avatar-style. PoV cameras and feeds of all the data and some ability to suggest decisions, where to observe, what to collect

Yeah you could do a lot of that drone-based (as well) but still need pilots onsite. Part fieldwork teaching experience, part remote participation (bandwidth allowing, it would probably have to be Starlink)

Bet there's already something like this in your back catalogue

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zool 1d ago

Ran into the research organiser whose datacentre i originally moved here to work for, all those years ago - took me far too long to recognise him after 15 years... people in retirement relax so much

Told me i looked as if i were thriving. When i feel like i'm marginally above functioning, at best a kind of functioning+

Imagine what actual thriving might look and feel like! Perhaps i should be cautious not to thrive too hard all at once

zool 1d ago

Saw another lovely thing in the #Pianodrome, a semi-secret gig by S!nk, their house band, making a live recording of a soundtrack to accompany a screening of "Battleship Potemkin". One of a series of silent movie soundtracks they were commissioned to make years back and are now recording, with a luckily invited audience to lend them a receptive atmosphere

Learning now there's a whole genre of Battleship Potemkin soundtracks, including one by the Pet Shop Boys!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battleship_Potemkin#Soundtracks

Enjoyed the experience. I've never sat so still trying to be silent! The trio rattle around switching instruments, not always the piano in the mix. There's a wee bit of electronics. The score sometimes dominates the film, sometimes the other way round, sometimes gels perfectly

They're doing it again tomorrow and still have space free, if you're interested PM me for the link :) #Edinburgh

Battleship Potemkin - Wikipedia

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zool 1d ago

@mikerspencer the various air-fried carbs were meh IMO, and no quicker than the oven would have been. if the power-saving is the concern then the Remoska is just fine, if something won't cook at 180 degrees then i probably can't be arsed eating it

Good

#AirFryerRefusal

zool 1d ago

An Easter-themed family lunch, my mum and son are initiating themselves into The Way of the Air-Fryer but i am resisting

Just can't see a middle way between no air-fryer, and dementedly air-frying all the things for weeks, months, air-fried cabbage, air-fried cheese, air-fried pickled radish, etc, it is better not to start

I contributed a slow-cooked stew of halal lamb, apricots in it, didn't even taste before bringing it, in the worst case we drizzle its juice over all the air-fried things

zool 1d ago

Chad

1d ago

It's no secret that I've been struggling, and 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

zool 1d ago