Jenn Dolari @dolari@driveinsaturday.org

Last November, NASA's Voyager 1 sent home garbled data, and engineers traced the problem to the flight data subsystem (FDS). The problem turned out to be a single chip in the FDS memory. They couldn't repair the chip but could move the affected code into sections and store them in different parts of the FDS system. They tested the new system this week, sending signals to the Voyager 1, 22.5 light-hours away. It worked, and Voyager 1 is back.

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/04/22/nasas-voyager-1-resumes-sending-engineering-updates-to-earth/

Happy 27th anniversary to Winamp!

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The first version of ⚡Winamp⚡ was released as freeware on April 21st, 1997!
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Winamp, it really whips the llama's ass!

#SilentSunday

The boss has been pestering me to attend a leadership conference so I, completely jokingly, said, "A true leader would never sit in an audience being told what to do" and now half this office is in existential crisis

can a visor see farts

f'reals

#art #artist #artists

puberty blockers are primarily used to delay precocious (early) puberty in *cis* children so they can go through puberty at a more normal age. that’s the purpose they were originally developed for. so removing access to puberty blockers for under-18s on the basis of state sponsored transphobia would primarily affect cis children. are you really that transphobic that you would knowingly hurt cis kids with early puberty just to hurt trans kids who don’t want to be forced through a wrong puberty?

puberty blockers are a well-tested, safe remedy for trans kids/youth.

their effects are fully reversible if the kid/youth later decides that they’re cis.

if they’re trans and want access to cross-sex hormones before the age of 18, that will give them the *right* puberty.

after which they won’t have to go through life physically and emotionally scarred by a *wrong* one, wracked by gender dysphoria, which often ruins sex and other enjoyable aspects of bodily life like swimming in public.

Every warning sign has a backstory

I can assure you, that instinct never goes away 😂

We already have 1,000 would-be Mozarts who instead of learning music and honing their skills are doing shit jobs for shit wages. They're spending their time just surviving instead of blessing the rest of us with music we'd love.

What these would-be Mozarts need is basic income.

#StarTrek