Stephen Brooks 🦆 @[email protected]

The whole wiggler is built and installed apart from final clamp to reduce that gap between the halves

It's the Autumn equinox, which means the South Pole gets a sunrise
[photos]
RT https://twitter.com/NOAAResearch/status/1440694578617597964

Rocket umbilical release test w/sound
[video] #space
RT https://twitter.com/NASAGroundSys/status/1440655327918051336

The waluigi of programming languages [diagram]

RT https://twitter.com/typesanitizer/status/1440521906210230275

Sunrise at the rocket construction place thingy
[photo]
RT https://twitter.com/NASASpaceflight/status/1440649859128696854

Switching off text wrapping in newer versions of #Thunderbird:

[menu] -> Preferences -> General tab, scroll right to bottom -> Config Editor... -> Set mailnews.wraplength = 0

If I select Gnome it works but KDE Plasma doesn't :/

Automated warehouse thingies
[video] #amazon
RT https://twitter.com/PatrickMoorhead/status/1420033280641052682

I casually said "bitcoin doesn't scale" at the end of a tweet and got all these nerds writing small novels on why I'm wrong

After adding some required firmware and trying again, it now gets to:

[ OK ] Started Simple Desktop Display Manager

...and then stops responding to anything except the shutdown button.

US opening up to vaccinated Europeans from November https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-58628491

Currently installing Debian 11.0 from the duck's head #Linux

Great when you try to open one of those screw-off caps with a bottle opener and it shatters the neck filling your beer with delicious powdered glass

The Moon and Jupiter are quite close in the sky tonight. Both good through binoculars and I could just make out Ganymede and Europa to the left of Jupiter #space #astronomy

Smelt a distinct burning smell, was worried about my new PC but actually the neighbours were having a barbeque

Made some of these lego blocks; got one reject but the rest fit together https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2626413

A spider was living inside the build plate of my 3D printer, using the light to attract moths

If Undertale had a sequel called Deltarune, I guess the third one will be called Elder Tuna

https://xkcd.com/2511/

I'm now seeding it and a Debian 11.0 install disc, just in case you need to rebuild civilisation