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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.

Wow! #Aurora #SpaceWX

Very faint aurora visible from the NW suburbs of Chicago. If your eyes adjust, they was a *slight* green glow naked eye visible, even with a full moon and suburban light pollution. #Aurora #SpaceWx

Ah, the weird feels of liking this post.

Thank you for your service. 🫡

Movie poster for 28 Days Later (2002)

Spilling over into November for #ScaryMovieMonth (🤫I won’t tell if you don’t) with our 6th movie: 28 Days Later (2002).

#NowWatching #FilmSky

That came out great!

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

Movie poster for The Howling (1981)

Our fifth movie of #ScaryMovieMonth is Joe Dante’s The Howling (1981).

#NowWatch #FilmSky

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.

Movie poster for Sinners (2025)

For our fourth (we saw Donnie Darko in the theater last night) movie of #ScaryMovieMonth we’re taking a bite of Sinners (2025)

#NowWatching #FilmSky

Movie poster for Weapons (2025)

For our second movie of #ScaryMovieMonth we’re running with Weapons (2025). 🏃‍♂️

A power strip plugged into itself, symbolizing NVIDIA’s money getting passed around in the AI bubble.

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.

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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.

Movie poster for Willy's Wonderland (2021)

Our first movie for #ScaryMovieMonth is Willy's Wonderland (2021). Had the Pizza Time Players on my mind.

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.

The antennas used on cell towers are directional, and typically angled slightly down (where the users are). There will be lobes of the antenna pattern that go up into the sky, but at a lot less power than horizontal.

The fuselage of the aircraft will also help attenuate the signal.

They are some odd jumps in reasoning (like interference on the ground meaning we need more satellites), but one thing about cellular is that your phone (UE) it won’t transmit if it can’t hear a tower (eNodeB in LTE).

When at cruise altitude, it’s hard to hear terrestrial networks.

The Apple C1X modem doesn't support mmWave (to get those Gbps over the air), so it's def not "Pro".

Share your favorite black and white movie

I always enjoy Dr. Strangelove (1964), if only for the “Gentleman, you can’t fight in here! This is the war room.” line.

If I want to get weird, Pi (1998) is fun.

I like what I've heard from the new album... rubbing salt in the wound from snoozing on tickets to see them at Cobra Lounge (which is like the size of a large living room) in Chicago last week.

Just had to vent, sorry @npr.org