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Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say
  • Wow nice! If this was with the phone on a tripod or generally stationary that might be more than one trail, looks like 3 lines grouped up.

    You can also see the Andromeda galaxy above it which is awesome for a phone!

  • Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say
  • The ISS is visible from any single point you're standing on for up to about a minute when passing directly overhead and then the next orbit isn't close enough for you to see.

    Some comm and weather sats here and there but really nothing crazy. It was even fun to have individual shots with a streak on it cause it was a relatively rare occasion.

    Now there's just no hiding from it. Yes, the process of stacking images averages out the streaks in the final image, but for the average person with a wide lens taking a milky way shot during summer camping it's basically impossible to not have like 5 streaks on it.

  • Starlink is increasingly interfering with astronomy, scientists say
  • I started doing amateur astrophotography last year with a camera, lens and startracker.

    The way it works is you take dozens or hundreds of photos of the same thing, then combine them into one final image, a process called "stacking".

    To gather faint light, each photo is a long exposure gathering light for 30 - 120 seconds.

    I have therefore taken over 20.000 long exposure shots of the night sky, pointing at different things, using wider and narrower lenses and NOT ONE SINGLE CLICK came without a Starlink streaking across the frame.

  • Lebanon’s health minister says 8 killed, 2,750 wounded by exploding pagers
  • Damn. This must be one of the most terrifying cyber attacks of all time. Like, Mr. Robot level of breach and execution.

    In that show they rig the UPS batteries of server buildings to blow up, this is basically the same idea on a smaller scale.

    Either that, or they compromised the manufacturer of the pagers and put small explosive devices in there. Truly legendary and insane.

  • Trump says all we need to do is turn on a "giant faucet" to solve California drought
  • Jon Oliver has a piece on that issue. IIRC Farmers have to use all the water they are allocated or they could lose the rights to it, so they have to plant crops that require a lot of water. It's a policy issue that the farmers had to adapt to

  • Seems to be mixing up places more often now
  • No he pronounces nuclear correctly, like that one time he said "my nuclear button is much bigger than his" about Kim Jong Un on national television marking the first public threat of nuclear war by the US in decades. Ah, the old days were fun. /s

  • 100-Plus Tons of Dead Fish, and Their Smell, Swamp a Greek Port City | The mass deaths of the fish were most likely caused by climate change. The vacation area and businesses have been suffering since
  • Ah, the city of Volos, who elected the same mayor three times in a row.

    The mayor, Achileas Beos, of course denied any responsibility and blamed everyone else.

    He's also a nightclubs owner and sports team owner convicted and jailed for setting up match results for betting schemes, has publicly beat up a bunch of people and threatened to beat up a bunch more and when confronted about it by the media said "So what, you want us to behave like fa***ts?".

    Last year, under the same guy's watch, there was a massive flood and the response to it was abysmal, he did the same thing, blamed everyone and yet people of Volos still support him. If the election was today he'd still mayor tomorrow.

    Greece will be greecing forever more

  • anyone who uses Linux on apple silicon or another arm device
  • I dunno if that counts, but I was given a Macbook Air M2 from work that I didn't need and I've been happily running macOs on it for simple daily use.

    Whenever the situation requires Linux I fire up one of 3 distros I have as a VM and they work like a charm. I pass-through one of the USB ports to the VM and it's basically an M1 with Linux at that point in terms of performance (well not really, but it's very smooth, no complaints).

    Might wanna go that route instead, just run macOs natively and your favorite distro as a VM.

  • They All Got Mysterious Brain Diseases. They’re Fighting to Learn Why.
  • I don't see USA mentioned anywhere in that comment. I assumed it was a joke about the "overly polite Canadian" stereotype.

    YOU assumed it was about the states cause you know the average American is batshit crazy

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