How do we know it's spiral shaped though? I probably sound like a flat-earther, but the way we prove the Milky Way is spiral shaped is by traveling outside it and observing its structure and shape (good luck with that).
It's not my area, so I had to search. It's very difficult to find real data instead of nice drawings. When I was young, the Milky Way was a normal spiral galaxy, but like 5 years ago I notice it was reclasified as a barred spiral galaxy. So, there may be some surprises in the future.
IIUC The idea is that we can get the directions of the stars and estimate their distance and graph them in 3D. It looks like a part of a disk with stripes. If we compare with other galaxies and numerical model, the part we see looks like a part of a barred spiral galaxy.
Yes this seems like a robust solution that is very close to what I want.
I think that in this case DropBox can be replaced with RClone that syncs to a few different clouds in a loop once every say 10 sec - from a bash script or something.
The thing is it’s not only about not uploading your data open to the cloud provider.
It’s also about not installing a black box non open source app that is running in the background at all times.
Some users' profiles are set to private and un-indexable by search engines. I like this feature of Facebook. It stops bots scraping mine and others' profiles.
> Seems like the "Spectre secret" is a massive risk given that compromising it once without detection would compromise EVERY PASSSWORD THAT USER USES, even ones that didn't exist when the secret was stolen.
All password managers have a single point of failure: the master password. This is why 2FA is crucial. Spectre/Master Password doesn't have 2FA, but you can turn it on with all the accounts you have so there is at least that.
Yeah I can't tell you how many Twitter/X profiles say 'this is my [xth] account' or some variation thereof. I think the record I have personally seen is '18th' or '19th' (today I blocked someone who's profile stated they were on Try # 14)
Most people just launch another burner email (I don't think they're checking IP addresses or SIMS, at least not in the USA)
> Thanks for allowing us to serve you for 24 years. The time has come to say goodbye. We will miss you. Keep building amazing things!
OG hosting service. RIP MT. I remember a few sites putting 'hosted by MT' in the footer as a sort of badge of honor, sans affiliate links and all, people just wanted to show their love of the service. I never had an account with them, and found them quite expensive.
But I imagine that extra money paid for top quality support, which the web hosting space is sorely lacking. 'Just let me talk to a human'.
Some context, this has been in the works for over a year:
