I should watch The Ballad of Buster Scruggs again. They were all great, but "The Mortal Remains" really stuck with me… the lighting is 💯

And they’re only getting bigger and more centralized. 🤷‍♂️

SETI@home was tongue in cheek. Even there with data rates it’s better in invest in a bigger/better GPU pipeline instead of chunking it.

Maybe the most telling thing is Tesla and xAI continue to build converged data centers to keep the GPUs on a local high speed, low latency fabric…

I appreciate Tesla trying to make use of “idle” hardware, but the number of useful workloads where you have intermittent nodes connected via Wi-Fi/cellular, and with limited storage is very small.

Unlikely this becomes some EC2-like inference service.

SETI@Home? 😎

I flubbed a timelapse of beaut green arc to the West that was very dynamic.

Cold fingers and a crappy tripod mount for my phone. Out of focus. In a rush I didn’t have time to grab my SLR.

Ah, the weird feels of liking this post.

Thank you for your service. 🫡

That came out great!

I wonder how it’d look on a 3 color (black/white/red) E Ink display.

They are paving the way to Apple TV and Apple TV Pro. I only watch my TV in a professional capacity, thank you very much.

If you’re in the Chicagoland area, I have just the film series/theater for you…

I saw it back in probably 2007 (on DVD), and then again a couple of years ago (streaming). There was a good crowd for a 10pm Saturday night screening.

Updated the meme. ♻️

I’m long AMD and NVIDIA, but still find it crazy.

Necessity is the mother of invention, so I imagine we'll see a lot more effort put into this given recent image generation advances.

Canon dabbled (and failed) at this a while ago, but there are groups working on means of cryptographically signing images: contentauthenticity.org

For GPS, you can spoof it with an SDR to make your GPS chipset think it's where ever you want, but more common (in conflict areas) is to deny/jam GNSS.

It does look nice. I’ve had luck buying them early, and not updating the software until a jailbreak is available. They make great self-contained E Ink displays.

… than a few 300 character posts.

I’m a fan of efficiency, so stuff like dark skies ordinances make a ton of sense (why waste energy lighting up the sky?).

It’s a tricky balance. I’m a supporter of Earth-based astronomy, but also recognize the benefits to connecting people.

One thought is that as launch costs drop, it’ll make more sense to build observatories on the moon. Not saying we declare Earth-based stuff a loss, but it’s more nuanced…

It might be a misunderstanding, but a phone won’t transmit if it can’t hear a tower.

(A peek behind the scenes of LTE/4G)

The tower broadcast info tells the phone how to talk to it, so until that info (MIB/SIB1/SIB2) is decoded by the phone, it doesn’t know when/how to say something.

Users with a carrier that supports the non-terrestrial stuff (like Starlink DTC with T-Mobile) will be interesting.

I’m not familiar enough with it to know if they don’t anything to prevent access from a plane.

There is a window when you’re climbing where you will be handing off fast, and ramping up transmit power.

With recent LTE modems, I’m not sure of the battery life impact. It’s definitely lower power to not listen at all (in ✈️ mode), but not sure how that stacks up in the grand scheme of things.