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Cass @cass.social · 20/08/2026

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Cass @cass.social · 22/05/2026

Yeah, I just went through this Monday. Their self confidence is also amazing.

Conversation with customer support:

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Cass @cass.social · 06/01/2026

One source, maybe not the origin, but close. Maybe someone threw a physics text at these yahoos and that’s why they’re hyping data centers in spppaaaaaace and kardashev now. www.cs.uml.edu/~bill/cs516/...

A slide from the linked presentation titled “Boil the Oceans” with the text:

it has been shown that 1 kilogram of matter confined to 1 liter of space can perform at most 1051 ops per second on at most 1031 bits of information
A fully-populated 128-bit storage pool would contain 2128 blocks = 2137 bytes =
2140 bits; therefore the minimum mass required to hold the bits would be (2140
bits) / (1031 bits/kg) = 136 billion kg.
That's a lot of gear.
To operate at the 1031 bits/kg limit, however, the entire mass of the computer must be in the form of pure energy. By E=mc, the rest energy of 136 billion kg is 1.2x1028 J. The mass of the oceans is about 1.4x1021 kg. It takes about 4,000 J to raise the temperature of 1 kg of water by 1 degree Celsius, and thus about 400,000 J to heat 1 kg of water from freezing to boiling. The latent heat of vaporization adds another 2 million J/kg. Thus the energy required to boil the oceans is about 2.4x106 J/kg
* 1.4x1021 kg = 3.4x1027 J. Thus, fully
populating a 128-bit storage pool would, literally, require more energy than boiling the oceans.

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Cass @cass.social · 29/03/2025

Damn. It could at least tell you that the “task failed successfully” Or my favorite:

Windows 10 installer screen saying “something happened”

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Cass @cass.social · 23/01/2025

I kinda regret not going mono when I had the opportunity — but clear skies tonight! First all year here.

A small telescope & astro camera on a tripod set up in the daytime

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Cass @cass.social · 29/11/2024

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Cass @cass.social · 01/10/2024

Every time I hear/read “females” …

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Cass @cass.social · 12/09/2024

Since they inexplicably gave me video, here’s Eddy getting into some grass for @darthbluesky.bsky.social

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Cass @cass.social · 17/06/2024

If you see this, post a photo you took at sunset. (New Brighton State Beach, Capitola 01/2018)

Sunset at New Brighton state beach, a family playing in the surf, eucalyptus trees on top of the cliffs over the shoreline.

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Cass @cass.social · 20/05/2024

M81 is a pretty small target for a RedCat 51, but does let you get the neighboring galaxies in the frame. #Astrophotography

Wide field astrophotography image of the sky around Ursa Major containing Bode’s Galaxy (M81), the Cigar Galaxy (M82) as well as NGC 2976 and NGC 3077

An annotated version of the previous image in the post

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