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Cake day: June 16th, 2023

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  • Browser: Firefox, gonna name stuff i don’t see mentioned yet


    ‘Multi Account Containers’ + ‘Container Tabs Sidebar’ + ‘Switch Container’ + ‘Temporary Containers’ + ‘don’t care about cookies’ ‘Consent-o-matic’
    basically allows you to easily have multiple accounts on websites while also making sure everything stays contained to its own bubble, and anything I don’t have a dedicated container for gets a temporary container that deletes the cookies after a bit in order for me to both not care about cookies and also not get any cookies. at this point mostly because I don’t like accidentally having an account on a non-contained instance

    ff2mpv - easily launch videos in mpv, requires a bit of setup

    Image Search Options - finding the source of most drawings, spotting which anime a clip is from etc

    Yomichan for quick access to locally installed dictionaries (for Japanese in this case)
    Toggle Clipboard




  • I’m sorry for the level of discourse I’m about to engage in, but Zuckerberg knows Jiujitsu, I think if Musk had any actual training in any skillful way of fighting we would’ve seen it - the dude probably knows Zuckerberg knows jiujitsu, maybe he was just hoping that he would ignore the challenge? lmao

    [Musk] has talked about being in “real hard-core street fights"

    dude’s gonna break his back if he doesnt back out last minute







  • Well I think it’s kinda hard to imagine a free service that doesn’t do either data collection or advertising or both (read: you are the product), it makes sense through openly being a field that has a lot of money circulating around it

    The only other viable model I can personally think of is subscriptions, I find it hard to imagine that only forcing big corporations to pay to use your service, or that having it be donationbased would work with the amount of manpower and serverspace these products from within Silicon Valley typically host where they need millions maybe billions every month until they stop existing


  • Advertisers are likely to be much more willing to bank their ad dollars with Zuckerberg than smaller rivals.

    I’m fine with any most thing that shows you cannot enable harm-to-discourse as much as Musk has. I would sooner them come to Zuckerberg than crawling back to Twitter because it didn’t have an alternative. Twitter is very much a walking corpse right now, but something else coming along to snatch the could-be advertisers secure that it can stay in its fucking pit. (unless various sus governments still somehow see use in keeping it propped up)


  • Common center of mass means they spin around each other, currently the moon orbits earth, but long long in the future, even though the moon is smaller, it will have waned the pull of the earth to an extent where you both go around in the same circle, this happens quicker with objects the more equal in size they are



  • I fucked up a little so I understand the confusion, stars are typically in capital letters, A, B, C.
    though clear distinctions are also made here. B, C, D implies a hierarchy of orbits, A is the primary gravitational pull in its system
    Aa, Ab, (etc.) is used when two (or more) stars have a common center of mass

    Real implications of this example:
    Kepler-16A and Kepler-16B have a planet that orbits both (but to be clear they do not having a common center of mass), so it is Kepler-16b, and I didn’t look it up but I assume it’s not 16ABb because there aren’t any A or B planets to differentiate it with
    Polaris Aa and Ab are orbiting around a common center of mass, and Polaris B orbits them from further away
    Castor has 6 stars, here’s an image
    Aa and Ab are still the main center of mass in this system

    as an added bonus, black holes do not have a naming convention yet, Sagittarius A* is just in the Sagittarius A region and * is to indicate an exciting or interesting object

    and to my knowledge, it is theoretically possible for a planet to orbit an Aa star without orbiting an Ab star but I don’t think we know of any, I assume it would be named like Aa b


  • The name HD 189733 b is derived from the naming convention used for astronomical objects. Let’s break it down:

    • HD: HD stands for Henry Draper Catalogue, which is a stellar catalog containing information about thousands of stars. It was compiled by Annie Jump Cannon and her colleagues in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
    • The number represents the specific star in the Henry Draper Catalogue. In this case, HD 189733 refers to the star around which the exoplanet was discovered. The number of the star has no meaning outside of that it was the 189733rd catalogued one in HD’s catalogue
    • The letter “b” is used to designate the first known planet orbiting the star. (a is for stars) If additional planets were discovered in the same system, they would be labeled with subsequent letters in alphabetical order (e.g., HD 189733 c, HD 189733 d, and so on).

    Therefore, HD 189733 b signifies the first planet discovered orbiting the star HD 189733. This naming convention allows astronomers and researchers to identify and differentiate between different planets and their host stars in a systematic manner.

    TOI 849 b is TESS Object of Interest’s 849th discovery of interest. The numbers are essentially arbitrary outside of that numbers before them have already been taken.