Zachariah

Zachariah , 15 days ago to Nothing in Migrate from Apple?

If/When it gets easier to do Google-free Android, then I’d want to switch from iPhone. I’m a huge FOSS fan, but too much Android functionality depends directly on Google technology. I distrust Apple a bit less than Google.

Also, it would help if DSLRs or mirrorless cameras did Live Photos. It means so much to me to have a mini-video at the time every photo is taken.

Zachariah , 16 days ago to Astronomy in Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

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Zachariah , 16 days ago to Astronomy in Planet Nine: Is the search for this elusive world nearly over?

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/c72ccb79-714a-4662-866c-f633c340ffce.jpeg

Zachariah , 21 days ago to Blind Main in Video call app - cross-platform & Siri/Voiceover friendly

Threema is very similar to Signal but doesn’t require a phone number. It does cost $/£/€ 5 though (but it’s one-time, and makes it less likely you’re true product).

Not sure about all the features you mentioned.

Zachariah , 26 days ago to zerowaste in Tesco's Laser-Etched Avocados to Save on Packaging Waste - Core77

Do they have small stickers on them?

Zachariah , 27 days ago to memes in stone age meme

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Zachariah , 28 days ago to Not The Onion in [META] Help!

I knew it!

Zachariah , 1 month ago to Earth, Environment, and Geosciences in Giant Tonga Volcanic Eruption Could Disrupt Weather For Years to Come

Usually, the smoke of a volcano – and in particular the sulphur dioxide contained inside the smoke cloud – ultimately leads to a cooling of Earth's surface for a short period.

This is because the sulphur dioxide transforms into sulphate aerosols, which send sunlight back into space before it reaches the surface. This shading effect means the surface cools down for a while, until the sulphate falls back down to the surface or gets rained out.

This is not what happened for Hunga Tonga.

Because it was an underwater volcano, Hunga Tonga produced little smoke, but a lot of water vapor: 100–150 million tonnes, or the equivalent of 60,000 Olympic swimming pools. The enormous heat of the eruption transformed huge amounts of sea water into steam, which then shot high into the atmosphere with the force of the eruption.

All that water ended up in the stratosphere: a layer of the atmosphere between about 15 and 40 kilometers above the surface, which produces neither clouds nor rain because it is too dry.

Water vapour in the stratosphere has two main effects. One, it helps in the chemical reactions which destroy the ozone layer, and two, it is a very potent greenhouse gas.

There is no precedent in our observations of volcanic eruptions to know what all that water would do to our climate, and for how long. This is because the only way to measure water vapour in the entire stratosphere is via satellites. These only exist since 1979, and there hasn't been an eruption similar to Hunga Tonga in that time.

Zachariah , 1 month ago to Firefox in Here’s what we’re working on in Firefox

Hopefully about:config will be available for AI stuff if it’s not just in the regular settings.

Zachariah , 1 month ago to Astronomy in NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Finds Most Distant Known Galaxy

Over the last two years, scientists have used NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope (also called Webb or JWST) to explore what astronomers refer to as Cosmic Dawn –  the period in the first few hundred million years after the big bang where the first galaxies were born. These galaxies provide vital insight into the ways in which the gas, stars, and black holes were changing when the universe was very young. In October 2023 and January 2024, an international team of astronomers used Webb to observe galaxies as part of the JWST Advanced Deep Extragalactic Survey (JADES) program. Using Webb’s NIRSpec (Near-Infrared Spectrograph), they obtained a spectrum of a record-breaking galaxy observed only two hundred and ninety million years after the big bang. This corresponds to a redshift of about 14, which is a measure of how much a galaxy’s light is stretched by the expansion of the universe

Zachariah , 1 month ago to Not The Onion in Texas GOP platform calls for ban on same-sex parenting because being gay is "abnormal"

GOP are abnormal

Zachariah , 1 month ago to Fuck Cars in This, but unironically

I’m so glad someone made this photo. I’m always telling people I should do a photo like this, and now I don’t have to.

Zachariah , 1 month ago to World News in Venus volcanoes might still be active

The discovery of volcanic lava flow in two different regions of Venus is published in Nature Astronomy. It supports previous evidence that Venus is still geologically active, and also suggests that volcanic activity may be greater and more widespread than previously thought.

The difficulty in confirming volcanism on Venus is the planet’s dense atmosphere which obscures much of what is happening on the surface.

But scientists were able to get a picture of activity by comparing images from when the Magellan spacecraft conducted global radar mapping in 1990 and 1992, with new images from 2023.

Zachariah , 1 month ago to retrocomputing in Sealed Windows 2000 Advanced Server floppy disks

Booting from CD wasn’t a feature for at least a couple years after the drives because common. Usually you’d use a boot floppy that had drivers for the CD drive.

Zachariah , 1 month ago to Ask Lemmy in What song should I play for my bathroom neighbors?

Earth 2: Special Low Frequency Version

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Kontakte by Karlheinz Stockhausen

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