Darkstar @darkstar@mastodon.nl

Astrocat reporting to duty

science fiction: in the future, robots will do everything a human can!

robots:

Meme I'm stealing
https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1814417

Prompt rewetting of drained #peatlands reduces #ClimateWarming despite methane emissions

Peatlands are strategic areas for climate change mitigation because of their matchless #carbon stocks. Drained peatlands release this carbon to the atmosphere as#CarbonDioxide (#CO2). Peatland rewetting effectively stops these CO2 emissions, but also re-establishes the #emission of #methane (#CH4).

PDF:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15499-z.pdf

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-020-15499-z

Saving #ocean life within a human generation is 'largely achievable' say scientists

The oceans are important sources of food, water and clean energy and key for tackling #GlobalWarming as they store heat and carbon, but many marine species, habitats and ecosystems have suffered catastrophic declines.

#ClimateChange, which is hitting areas such as the coral reefs, is further undermining the oceans’ productivity and rich wildlife, researchers warn.

https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/saving-ocean-life-within-a-human-generation-is-largely-achievable-say-scientists/

#ClimateCrisis

Start all of your commands with a comma (2009)
https://rhodesmill.org/brandon/2009/commands-with-comma/

(submitted by Tomte)

#humor #infosec #lockdown

This cartoon seems even more relevant

Boeing 787s must be turned off and on every 51 days to prevent 'misleading data' being shown to pilots https://www.theregister.co.uk/2020/04/02/boeing_787_power_cycle_51_days_stale_data/

Eine der besten Zusammenfassungen, die ich bisher gesehen habe! #sehenswert #COVIDー19 #mailab

UNBEDINGT ANSEHEN!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z0gnXgK8Do&feature=youtu.be

in the future, basically all websites will be full of unblockable ads and/or implemented entirely in ultra-fucked webassembly/opengl, and the tech-savvy will browse the web entirely through cat & mouse proxy servers running headless browsers to OCR the inaccessible content back into old-fashioned normal HTML and illegally redistribute it through peer-to-peer networks

Proof that when #cats knock things over it’s intentional!
https://i.imgur.com/jZKtHK2.gifv

Ons leven staat op zijn kop. En dat blijft ook nog wel even zo. Het is een vraag die velen - zeker na de persconferentie van gisterenavond waarin de

University: Please use MS Teams to lecture. We paid for it, and it's very enterprise.

Me: M'kay, let me try this. Some of these WebRTC based thingies are OK.

MS: No screen sharing for you. But video and audio work fine. Err. Audio works mostly. Please install our giant ball of Electron. It totally be better then the browser, because, uh, it's /our/ browser.

Me: oh ffs. Installs jitsi-meet on server.

Today: 1 screen sharer, 20 audio, text messages.
1G RSS ~800 kb/s

#TeachingFromHome

We need to know whether our hospitals are safe. If we can't even prevent retaliation against healthcare workers for warning of hazards during a pandemic, "whistleblower protection" is a cruel myth. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2020-03-31/hospitals-tell-doctors-they-ll-be-fired-if-they-talk-to-press

Rules about isolation can easily be twisted to suppress workers organizing.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2020/03/31/oh-its-ironic-union-busting/