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'I invite you now to, if you would like to, close your eyes and just imagine yourself sitting on the surface of Mars and listening to the surroundings,' says Dave Gruel, camera suite lead for the Perseverance rover.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2021/feb/24/listen-to-the-first-sounds-recorded-on-mars-video

Dont worry, it is just temporary

- every sysadmin since 1946

#BOFH excuse #403:

Sysadmin didn't hear pager go off due to loud music from bar-room speakers.

i bet there are plenty of good people in texas, the kind who definitely do not deserve to suffer through any of what's happening right now, but the story of "survivalists" who didn't prepare for one of the most common service failures ever is just too funny

You can say whatever you want, but Windows 98 is the best looking OS of the world.

I wonder how much would it take to compile Cyberpunk 2077

Challenge:
I'd like to ask you people to boost this post to see how long it'd take for it to reach someone else from my town (Westervoort, The Netherlands).
Of course, that implies that I'm not the only one here that uses Mastodon, but hey, part of the challenge :)

Starting on the 18th of August 2020 :)

GO!

What dynamic DNS service would you recommend (privacy, reliability, security)?

My favorite is afraid.org atm. Change my mind 😊

#askfediverse

Looks like #CancelDisneyPlus is trending because Disney fired an antisemitic racist. Hm. 🤔

Stuck? Ask for help. Talk to someone.

https://same.energy

---minimal visual search engine

> So in moving it to GitHub, we’re finding that a lot of things are just nicer because a large paid staff of engineers is working on it every day. And I grew up during the heyday of the Free Software Foundation, so I know this is a trap, but I’m tired and don’t have the energy to be a server admin for something that’s held together with scotch tape and prayers when I’m really supposed to be writing OpenGL code.
> —Ryan C. Gordon

https://discourse.libsdl.org/t/sdl-moving-to-github/28700/3

source: https://old.reddit.com/r/retrobattlestations/comments/97u55b/ready_to_play_simcity/

I hold everyone else responsible

The #gemini protocol is really awesome! Very happy I checked it out thanks to #distrotube. Started setting up my website as a capsule: gemini://gem.rickylinden.com