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TIL: Apple Broke Time Machine Again on Tahoe
Link: https://taoofmac.com/space/til/2026/02/01/1630
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848699
Alexander Venner,
currently studying at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy,
picked his way by hand through the data collected by a now-retired NASA space-based telescope called Kepler,
which was used to examine the sky for exoplanets during a survey of 500,000 stars that ended 8 years ago.
Datasets like these are huge, and often combed through with search algorithms,
but the PhD student managed what others did not by rolling up his sleeves, so to speak.
“It was completely missed,” Mr. Venner told Science Magazine about his discovery, presented at the Rocky Worlds conference in Groningen.
“The best way to detect it was to actually just look."
At just 146 light years away, it’s close enough for Kepler to have recorded the presence of such a small planet,
and for the most powerful telescopes of the day to record it in great detail.
Scientists look for exoplanets by centering a telescope on a distant star and waiting to see a dip in the star’s light,
indicating there’s something orbiting the star large enough to reduce the light signal—a planet.
This is called the transit method.
The first man to ever identify an exoplanet this way concluded shortly after there must be millions of them.
Indeed, the number of known planets beyond our solar system has passed 6,000,
-- yet those which are Earth-like in orbit and mass number merely a few dozen.
Most known exoplanets are large and hot,
making for easy detection because of the larger dips in light described earlier.
Smaller, Earth-sized, rocky worlds orbiting within their star’s habitable zone are not only of the greatest interest to scientists, they’re also much harder to spot, since they’re cooler and smaller.
Search algorithms passed over its faint signal in the Kepler data.
Venner came across the data through the "Planet Hunters" project
which recruits citizen scientists and volunteer enthusiasts to search through data from Kepler and other planet-hunting telescopes to look for signals left behind by larger surveys.
The exoplanet orbits a
"K-dwarf star" designated
#HD137010.
This planet is called
#HD137010b
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/citizen-scientist-spots-earth-like-planet-now-astrophysicists-will-focus-most-powerful-telescopes-on-it/
Getting ready for some ICE-y weather around here.
#resist
This year, I will write a GUI for my Emacs clone https://lobste.rs/s/vldzbz #emacs
https://kyo.iroiro.party/en/posts/this-year-a-shitty-gui/
United States plans for Gaza amount to a “theme park of dispossession” for Palestinians, argues Drop Site News Middle East Editor Sharif Abdel Kouddous.
Abdel Kouddous told Al Jazeera’s The Bottom Line that the draconian measures planned for the two million shell-shocked Palestinians in Gaza are an Orwellian labyrinth of biometrics, bureaucracy and “a lab for government surveillance” – all meant to drive them out.
#misskey写真部 #photography
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When you're being mean to me, this is who you're being mean to. 
1-Click RCE to steal your Moltbot data and keys
Link: https://depthfirst.com/post/1-click-rce-to-steal-your-moltbot-data-and-keys
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46848769
お月様めっちゃキレイ！
Folks in Minneapolis are setting up 'block party' style traffic blockades in order to prevent ICE from brutalizing and murdering people.
Check out their account on BlueSky (does not require log-in). Look here: https://bsky.app/profile/minneapolis-spring.bsky.social
"Twin Cities rapid responders have set up a "filter blockade" at 34th and Cedar and are calling for volunteers and donations. This is a new tactic developing over the last week: community is allowed to pass, but ICE agents are stopped/slowed before they can terrorize our neighbors.
These blockades are a beautiful experiment in improvised community defense. They are easy to start with just a couple friends, and whatever you have lying around.
Let's make the Twin Cities impassible to ICE and all supporting forces."
出勤！しゅっきーーん！！
なので早炊きしてこよ。合間合間にやることやってこ…
If you were wondering, a latte does not go with grocery store sushi.
ohayo
misskey.ioに新しい絵文字 
(blob_wakame_dance_atafuta)が追加されたかも。
Skebでは規約とポリシーに記載の通り、運営がユーザーのXのDMを閲覧することはXから権限が付与されていないため技術的に不可能です。
またクリエイターの方がX上で規約とポリシーに違反する募集や投稿を行われた場合、該当の投稿のURLを明示した規約とポリシー確認のお知らせをお送りしています。
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@jenniferplusplus/115993734515733660
This is so correct. Any feasible-in-non-infinite-time review makes assumptions about the developer’s intentions, understanding, likely errors, and many other human factors. None of that holds for LLM generated code, so but extension the review process itself no longer holds.
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おはようございます。
いつか時間が空いたらやろう。。はダメだよ。今やらないと。今予定を入れないと。じゃないと何も始まらないよ。
RE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@IFComp/115990676993021995
The new #IFComp rule forbids authors from using genAI to produce any text or art assets in their entries, or having players interact with AI systems during play. Authors can use AI for things like research and coding assistance if they want, but everything players directly experience must now be wholly human-produced.
I am on the comp advisory committee, and was one of many folks taking part in this discussion, guided by player surveys. I feel happy with where it ended up. #InteractiveFiction
I'm having a problem
BREAKING: The two federal immigration agents who fired on Minneapolis protester Alex Pretti are identified in government records as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and Customs and Border Protection officer Raymundo Gutierrez.
https://www.propublica.org/article/alex-pretti-shooting-cbp-agents-identified-jesus-ochoa-raymundo-gutierrez?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
#News #Minneapolis #AlexPretti #Immigration #Protest #CBP #BorderPatrol
RE: https://mastodon.world/@webstandards/115983218320325021
Last 4 tickets. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
Classic hotel thing: I check in, go up to my room and the air conditioning is set to 19°C.
What the actual fuck?
I know there is an international association for hospitality (large hotel groups) and they have a recommendation for room temperature they give to their members.
And it's too cold for most women, because they only tested it with men 
RE: https://privacysafe.social/@aineias/115997456627797414
Got a good block for y’all
RE: https://fediscience.org/@petergleick/115840252024405576
I'm repeating this. The whole fascist, corrupt, MAGA enterprise would grind to a halt if literally half a dozen Republicans in the House and Senate would find a backbone.
RE: https://mastodon.world/@webstandards/115983218320325021
Last 4 tickets. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.
2026.stateofthebrowser.com
CALLING ALL BLACK COMIC ARTISTS, WRITERS, AND ALL-AROUND CARTOONISTS!
Reply to this post showing off your favorite work so we can get more people reading your creations!
Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site
https://www.404media.co/exposed-moltbook-database-let-anyone-take-control-of-any-ai-agent-on-the-site/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into 404 Media 
@404-media-404media404 Media
Biscuit, why there of all places
@JenMsftJen Gentleman one of our cats likes to sit on the toilet, we call it being the toilet dragon guarding access to the toilet https://social.coop/@afewbugs/115933177755036572
Noch 9x schlafen ...
RAYE - Worth it. (Live at London Hilton on Park Lane)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=uoAzWUHCRpU
今日はガチの
です
Contact established and meeting the person soon to return the wallet. 👌
Huge surprise at the end of last year. Been saying that Balming Tiger, who Mudd the student is part of, are the Kpop equivalent of the Butthole Surfers: this takes us further into that zone. How Locust Abortion Technician would sound with the tech that is casually available now, and a keen understanding of the mechanics of shoegaze without imitating it as a retroactive project. Sort of album I would have wanted to make in my late 20s.
#kpop #balmingtiger #muddthestudent
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) 
＠3/23(日)
東京オフ主催 
:gondola_head: 🌿 
Paul Cantrell
Misty
Sara Joy 
Jim DeLaHunt
v4rd4453n
