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The focus isn’t really an issue since at that distance everything is approximately at infinity (think taking a photo of two distant mountains; even if one is further than the other they’ll both be in focus).

As for tracking, it probably took some math to figure out where to point, but actually tracking shouldn’t be an issue. Hubble was moving much slower than the Earth relative to the satellite (hence the blurry background) so the tracking speed should be well within its capability.

Still a really impressive photo though!

Wonderful news, almost couldn’t believe it when I got the newsletter email.

They scrape data indiscriminately; I’m sure any Epstein files publicly accessible on the internet have been added to their databases. Perhaps they’d be filtered out before being used to train models but I’m skeptical they take that level of care with the data.

Absolutely incredible censorship, I haven’t the faintest idea what the word under that small dot could possibly be.

Yep, though it doesn’t have to use much propellant to keep itself oriented as there aren’t really any forces acting on it, so the only thing to correct is whatever rotation was introduced by the last thruster firing. Just a tiny correction once or twice an hour is needed (which seems frequent, but it’s an extremely short firing, in the millisecond range).

Stop putting your balls in my urn!

They’re based in Canada, and given their privacy-focused approach I can’t imagine they’d implement such a feature.

Wouldn’t this just be unenforceable for any Linux distros not directly owned/maintained by a US-based corporation? I don’t really see how they could force a distro to comply, unless they start going after individual maintainers who live in the US.

It might take them a few more centuries than us to develop the tech, but just because we use chemical engines doesn’t mean it’s the only viable method. I’m sure they’d figure something out eventually.

You’re sort of right. The change in distance from the surface is insignificant, but a spacecraft orbiting a bigger planet has to travel further with each orbit so its speed must be faster to avoid falling out of orbit, even if the gravitational acceleration at its orbital height is the same.

Fuck your AI slop

Does it count if my instance is defederated from lemmy.ml so I can’t interact with their communities in the first place?

I don’t see it as necessary. I have full disk encryption set up, which is sufficient to protect my data at rest. Even if I had secure boot set up, a sufficiently skilled agent could physically install a USB sniffer in my keyboard, flash a malicious BIOS to my motherboard, or just install a hidden camera to watch me type my password. And many TPMs have vulnerabilities that I’m sure government agencies are able to exploit.

Wish I could figure out how to unlock the sidequest, oh well…

Because it is.

1. The crew’s suits don’t look anything like that.
2. The “balloons” on the top don’t look anything like that
3. The capsule rides much higher in the water.
4. The capsule doesn’t look anything like that (capsule from Artemis 1 but they didn’t change much).

Delete this AI slop.

I don’t give a crap what Microsoft’s doing with their garbage pile of an OS, but this does imply that the AI hype is finally starting to fail, which is definitely good news.

This is a meme community.

This is definitely AI, but AI is such a vaguely defined term that it’s basically meaningless. Too many people these days mistake it for meaning “a computer that can think like a human” even though it encompasses everything from LLMs to chess playing algorithms to something like Minecraft zombie pathfinding.

That would make sense.

I don’t use Play Services and still get push notifications from Signal, so they’re clearly using an alternative implementation.