The ESA Proba-3 mission, launched on Dec 5, 2024, consists of 2 spacecraft - the Coronagraph Spacecraft (CSC) and the Occulter Spacecraft (OSC), which will fly together in a 19.7 hour orbit. The OSC's 1.4m disk will eclipse the Sun, while the CSC, 150m away, will observe the Sun’s corona for 6h per orbit.

The 2 spacecraft will autonomously maneuver themselves using thrusters and align to within 1 mm accuracy, using radio links, cameras, lasers and other sensors.

https://www.esa.int/Enabling_Support/Space_Engineering_Technology/Proba-3/Proba-3_Flying_two_spacecraft_is_harder_than_one
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❝Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.❞

Hell of a research abstract there, via @gwagner:

(And please see downthread!)

https://fediscience.org/@gwagner/114690366530883451

@mmeier if you can get tinkerbell to only reply for machines you want it to, you can set dnsmasq to have a short delay on dhcp responses (--dhcp-reply-delay). Client will only accept the first response...

Double monchers

@mike_k was there yesterday. Beautiful. Certainly wasn't expecting it this early in the season tho...

Consumer networking devices come in two varieties: Altar to a Dark God and Aromatherapy Machine.

And $7 small coffees...

Ah yes. Kiama Downs. $2 million homes, 0 cellphone coverage. #darkages

Psst. Hey. Wanna buy a bun?

@jessebot have you seen https://lilygo.cc/products/t-lora-pager it's just too tempting

cat cafe

I've just typed up the details on my wireless #grocy #barcode scanner project:

https://github.com/tjhowse/wireless_grocy_barcode_scanner

What makes LLMs work isn't deep neural networks or attention mechanisms or vector databases or anything like that.

What makes LLMs work is our tendency to see faces on toast.

So you don't have to sit through an unnecessarily long video: King Krasnov declared protests against Tesla sites & vehicles that cause damage to be terrorism. Most insurance companies don't cover acts of terrorism. So now cars damaged in or by protests are no longer covered, where as previously they were. #Trump #Musk #Tesla #USPol
From: @devopscats
https://toot.cat/@devopscats/114572529365871743

I wrote a program to lipsync the shipping forecast in a terminal window, and I have no regrets.

holy fucking shit https://mastdatabase.co.uk/blog/2025/05/o2-expose-customer-location-call-4g/

I've largely finished my first pass on my first browser extension: A tool that populates a #woolworths shopping cart directly from an instance of #grocy

https://github.com/tjhowse/woolies_cart_filler

It works great! Now I can click one button and schlerp my shopping list from grocy straight into the cart. Saves a lot of clicking.

I'm working through getting it added to the Firefox extension directory thing. For now you've gotta use about:debugging to load it as a temporary extension.

#firefox #grocery

@tj omg. I was just about to start on something similar! I've already written a handful if scripts to update prices in Grocy based on the barcodes and Woolworths website. This is a perfect compliment. Thanks!

@hacks4pancakes oh, if you have a Steam account, don't update it to Australia. We have higher prices for no good reason and some of the dumbest games ratings.