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While we were not watching, the Voyager 1 spacecraft underwent another surgery.

In August, V1 switched thrusters used for orientation control, because the fuel tubes in the thrusters had clogged up with residue.

To perform the switch, the thrusters had to be warmed by turning on its heaters while turning off another set for an hour.

All very tricky and risky operations, performed from 22.8 light-hours away on 1970’s era hardware.

Kudos again to the Voyager team.

blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/2024/09
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Using Servicenow this morning I can guarantee you the last thing this enshittified fortress of mediocrity needs is a turbocharged version of clippy

'Guys how can we make our product worse?'

ServiceNow introduces a library of enterprise AI agents you can customize to fit your workflow venturebeat.com/ai/servicenow-

My messages are sharing location data? With third parties? Google I think you need to sit down for a cup of tea and no biscuits.

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I don't know why, but I really enjoy watching Thomas pottering about parts of Germany in his Trabant.

youtu.be/4qhGV_4TKX4

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I keep seeing Stellaris on sale on Steam, and read it as 'Stellantis', which I imagine is a management sim where you take storied automotive brands and run them into the ground

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News puff pieces about AI can get in the fucking sea.

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We monitor traffic to www.bbc.co.uk & www.bbc.com per country & got alerts that daily requests from Angola have dropped off loads recently.

Looking at the Angola traffic split by network AS. AS36907 traffic looks suspicious! Spidey sense triggered...the "before" traffic was *way* too consistent.

Digging in to the logs, looks like they removed their Fortigates on 6th Sept. which'd been sending 343k req/day for www.bbc.co.uk/ , every single day!

Gotta love being on the internet!

#WebStats #BBC

I don't blame him. Modern life can kill.

Millennial Quits Job and Leaves City Life to Build Tiny House in Woods - Business Insider
businessinsider.com/millennial

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