The soil testing equipment on Curiosity makes a buzzing noise and the pitch of the noise changes depending on what part of an experiment Curiosity is performing, this is the way Curiosity sings to itself.
So some of the finest minds currently alive decided to take incredibly expensive important scientific equipment and mess with it until they worked out how to move in just the right way to sing Happy Birthday, then someone made a cake on Curiosityโs birthday and took it into Mission control so that a room full of brilliant scientists and engineers could throw a birthday party for a non-autonomous robot 225 million kilometres away and listen to it sing the first ever song sung on Mars*, which was Happy Birthday.
This isnโt a sad story, this a happy story about the ridiculousness of humans and the way we love things. We built a little robot and called it Curiosity and flung it into the star to go and explore places we canโt get to because itโs name is in our nature and then just because we could, we taught it how to sing.
Thatโs not sad, thatโs awesome.
*this is different from the first song ever played on mars (Reach For The Stars by Will.I.Am) which happened the year before, singing is different from playing
โIt just means you have to work double as hard as most people!โ
Well maybe I donโt WANT to work double as hard as abled people!! Maybe I deserve a BREAK!! Maybe Iโve been working MORE THAN double as hard for MY WHOLE LIFE and itโs led me to immense burnout & caused me to develop several MORE disabilities!! Maybe I should be ACCOMMODATED so I donโt have to KILL MY BODY AND BRAIN over trying to do what abled people can do!! Maybe I DONโT have to work double as hard!! Maybe if thereโs the option to let me NOT work double as hard, I should have it, because Iโm already working double as hard JUST TO SURVIVE!!
Why do you think disabled people deserve less rest than mentally & physically abled people?
Hey. If people aren't aware, Microsoft admitted they know who you and where you are at all times and will give your info to the police.
They have a Global Device Identifier (GDID) Tracker that functions as a fingerprint for your PC that can surpass VPNs, proxy servers and countries. Although it can't survive a clean reinstall of Windows (it can survive updates), because Microsoft forces you to go to the internet and log in into a Microsoft account, they will be able to get to you.
Microsoft kept it secret and it was only found out when the FBI tracked a hacker thanks to the information Microsoft gave them.
You should be paying attention to this, and possibly consider moving away from Windows. If a government, especially the US government, doesn't like you for some reason, this could be seriously concerning.
This article specifically notes:
For journalism, activism, or domestic abuse situations, skip Windows and use Linux routed through Tor instead of a commercial VPN. A GDID doesnโt care which VPN you use, only that itโs still the same Windows installation.
GDID is the persistent Windows ID that helped FBI trace a Scattered Spider hacker despite VPNs. Here's how it works and how to limit it.
Other important quotes:
What has researchers uneasy is everything else the case reveals. Costin Raiu, a well-known malware researcher, asked on the Three Buddy Problem podcast how much of this exists on other platforms, and whether it is linked more permanently to hardware. Matthew Hickey, another security researcher, called Windows โsurveillance softwareโ.
Two things back that up:
Thereโs no consent screen. A GDID gets assigned when you sign into a Microsoft Account. Appleโs advertising identifier needs an App Tracking Transparency prompt and a visible reset; Androidโs works the same way. GDID has neither, and a Windows reinstall only gets you a new number Microsoft can still get back to the same account.
Then thereโs activation. Massgrave, the group behind Microsoft Activation Scripts, notes that Windows setup sends hardware info to Microsoft and gets identifiers back, the same tokens later used for Store access and licensing: โItโs impossible to prevent Windows from getting a GDID without breaking activation and UWP app[s].โ Anyone who lost a license after swapping a motherboard has already met a smaller version of this.
Here's the complaint filed to the court, the primary source for the case mentioned in the article. You can find mentions of GDID on page 30 of the document or 34 of the PDF.
You can get and use windows 11 without logging in with a microsoft account, as of five days ago. I am a local user on my computer. Don't ask me how to do it, because my computer repair guy did it when he reinstalled windows, but there are tutorials out there. Refuse to connect to internet until you're set up and can use the computer freely.
did you, a normal and well adjusted person, just like me, ever think "oh darn, i sure wish there was more reference pictures of whale carcasses on the internet so that i can draw them in any angle my normal human heart desires"
fret no more gentle soul. ive got you.
woe, 3d scan of a whalefall be upon ye:
Here is a 3D photogrammetric reconstruction of a young whale that came to rest at the bottom of the ocean near Davidson Sea Mount off of Mon
i did not know that the Monterey Bay Aquarium team apparently made a digital reconstruction from the footage from the Davidson Seamount whalefall captured by Nautilus and Hercules!
i will not question how i became a person who's day gets infinitely better upon the knowledge of a 3d scanned whale corpse existing freely on the internet, but im so happy it exists!
all that i ask for is that someone does a digital model of a brine pool of any kind. im in love with brine pools and there are like a total of 3 good high quality images of them online. someone get on it before i, a dude from a completely landlocked country with no affiliations to marine biology, somehow get in a submarine.
oh yeah, i learned about the existence of the model thanks to this article!
did you, a normal and well adjusted person, just like me, ever think "oh darn, i sure wish there was more reference pictures of whale carcasses on the internet so that i can draw them in any angle my normal human heart desires"
fret no more gentle soul. ive got you.
woe, 3d scan of a whalefall be upon ye:
Here is a 3D photogrammetric reconstruction of a young whale that came to rest at the bottom of the ocean near Davidson Sea Mount off of Mon
i did not know that the Monterey Bay Aquarium team apparently made a digital reconstruction from the footage from the Davidson Seamount whalefall captured by Nautilus and Hercules!
i will not question how i became a person who's day gets infinitely better upon the knowledge of a 3d scanned whale corpse existing freely on the internet, but im so happy it exists!
all that i ask for is that someone does a digital model of a brine pool of any kind. im in love with brine pools and there are like a total of 3 good high quality images of them online. someone get on it before i, a dude from a completely landlocked country with no affiliations to marine biology, somehow get in a submarine.
oh yeah, i learned about the existence of the model thanks to this article!
One of the guys I worked with told us a story about how, when they were doing archaeology surveys in the woods they ran into a bigfoot hunter. Bigfoot guy asked if they had seen signs of bigfoot, and he was like "Sorry, nothing like that. We're archaeologists, so we're looking for human stuff." and the bigfoot guy was like "Oh! I saw some Native American cairns on my way out here. I can give you a general location." and when he was like "Yeah dude, that'd be sick. We're actually looking to document those." the bigfoot guy was like "Yeah, they looked pretty cool. I didn't touch them though, because Native Americans built them, not bigfoot."
identifying a maladaptive coping mechanism is so bitter sweet like thatโs great now i know what i need to stop doing. but thatโs literally my something
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