Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

Had a dream where I was hacked through a YouTube video and the hacker installed SuSE Linux on my computer?!

Domino's still lets me pick up pizzas but has a "contactless carry out" table where the staff put the pizza out (you have to phone them to tell them you're waiting)

Hospital ship coming to NYC RT https://twitter.com/SpaceXFleet/status/1243946998530703360

Was going to play a game but ended up just trying out different VR environments

Important shipping notice RT https://twitter.com/IanCutress/status/1243131663749709825

Imagine a human-brained robot supervisor supervising robot-brained robots that pick up the Amazon boxes 95% of the time but sometimes fall over or get stuck on walls

A lot of our infrastructure requires a humanoid to operate it. So the physical equivalent of remote access to a computer would be remote control of an android to perform tasks at a remote site

Synchrotron radiation coming off the 42MeV particle in CBETA #physics #accelerators
RT https://twitter.com/Muon1/status/1242892023767732232

The Half-Life flashlight in VR works really well. Also the fact that guns load mechanically is interesting (although unfamiliar to me!)

Superconductivity (at 5K) observed in meteorite grains RT https://twitter.com/BrookhavenLab/status/1242437265844064258

Cherry blossoms are appearing in Japan: RT https://twitter.com/ChihiroMacavity/status/1242386564904173569

It's very good. Graphics are impressive even on "low". I like the option to have continuous movement. I keep hitting the pause menu by accident because it's the left-hand grip control though.

I started up #HalfLifeAlyx on my system and it looks good. Radeon RX580 maybe only just adequate but it's playable. Although judging from the orientation of these screenshots have I got my headset on squiffy?

Looks like two layers of tea towel makes an effective filter but unfortunately quite difficult to breathe through - informative discussion linked here RT https://twitter.com/SamWangPhD/status/1242145646360121344

Future particle #accelerator timelines #physics RT https://twitter.com/Mike_Banks/status/1242007138068725760

Interesting Gabe Newell interview (Half Life, brain interfaces, video game development) https://www.ign.com/articles/gabe-newell-opens-up-about-valves-past-present-and-unexpected-future-a-ign-first

Here they are all lined up #geese

These are the #geese

It's a warm day, I opened the kitchen door to the garden. But there's one bird that sounds like a car alarm and one that sounds like a mobile ringtone!