Mars Express updates software, extends lifetime until 2034


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Mars Express

Mars Express mission operators at ESOC successfully sent a new software patch that would allow the spacecraft to operate in its third decade.

#operations #space #science #esa #europeanspaceagency
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Horace: We are but dust and shadow. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


The rampant federal fraud that DOGE is largely ignoring

nbcnews.com/news/amp/rcna20686… %1$s&aoh=17473781803484&csi=0&referrer=google.com

My husband is in awe of how much happier our home is now he’s paying all the bills and I take care of everything in the home, we know our places and happily handle our responsibilities. What we may lack in income we gain in overall happiness. When I was working AND taking care of everything at home I was uptight and resentful. It was a meme that saved us btw, it said something like “you’re a traditional man yet you ask your wife to pay half the bills” it struck a cord with him.
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@ThewTheKooky @meryllelogram it took my fathers transformation to fully understand how my mothers indoctrination into feminism ruined our family, and his life. He gave us everything, working hard to provide, he was an alpha male thank God but boy did she hate him for that and ultimately she destroyed my brothers potential for being great men by making him out to be the bad guy. I woke up to it, sadly my 5 siblings are still under her spell. I’m now the kind of wife I wish he had had, grateful.

American acknowledgment of more behind-the-scenes confrontations with the Houthis dailyyemen.net/2025/05/15/amer…

This NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope image features a sparkling cloudscape from one of the Milky Way’s galactic neighbors, a dwarf galaxy called the Large Magellanic Cloud. Located 160,000 light-years away in the constellations Dorado and Mensa, the Large Magellanic Cloud is the largest of the Milky Way’s many small satellite galaxies. This view of dusty […]

WFTU Statement on the 77th Anniversary of Palestinian Nakba Day #WFTU labortoday.luel.us/en/wftu-sta…

EDITORIAL: Class-Oriented Trade Unionism is Necessary to Permanently Defeat Monopolists as National “Right-to-Work” Bill is Reintroduced #WFTU labortoday.luel.us/en/editoria…

Le sexe, le genre et Judith Butler - by Nicolas Casaux


#politique #sexe #genre #wokistan

La littérature de la négation du sexe affirme inlassablement que “la distinction physique entre les hommes et les femmes n’est pas absolue” (Whittle [1999] 2002, p. 7) et qu’on ne peut pas “tracer de ligne de démarcation stricte entre les sexes” (Hines 2020, p. 709). En réalité, la plupart des phénomènes empiriques présentent des cas limites. On ne peut pas “tracer de ligne de démarcation stricte” entre, par exemple, le jour et la nuit ou le chaud et le froid, mais personne n’en conclut pour autant qu’il n’existe pas de distinction significative entre ce que ces concepts désignent, qu’ils n’ont aucun sens, ou qu’ils ont été créés par “le pou­voir”. Les phénomènes empiriques présentent généralement des délinéations imprécises. Mais les concepts humains fonc­tionnent toujours parfaitement malgré des contours flous.


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Horace: We are but numbers, born to consume resources. wordsmith.social/protestation/…


Quotes

  • Otto Kuusinen: As long as the working class wages only an economic struggle, the bourgeoisie does not see in that any great danger for itself; but when the working class organises politically, i.e., creates a political party which expresses its will as a class, the bourgeoisie begins seriously to fear for its rule. That is why reaction deals its main blows against the political party of the working class. At the same time, trying to undermine the party from within, capitalist propaganda endeavours to persuade the workers that they can do without their own party. One of the manifestations of bourgeois influence on the working class is the anarchist and anarcho-syndicalist denial of the leading role of a political party.
  • Democritus: Not from fear but from a sense of duty refrain from your sins.
  • Democritus: Many who have not learned wisdom live wisely, and many who do the basest deeds can make most learned speeches.
  • Democritus: Fools learn wisdom through misfortune.
  • Democritus: Strength of body is nobility in beasts of burden, strength of character is nobility in men.
  • Democritus: Neither art nor wisdom may be attained without learning.
  • Democritus: It is better to correct your own faults than those of another.
  • Democritus: Good means not (merely) not to do wrong, but rather not to desire to do wrong.
  • Democritus: Fame and wealth without wisdom are unsafe possessions.
  • Muammar Gaddafi: We will not surrender. We will defeat them by any means. We are ready for the fight, whether it will be a short or a long one. We will be victorious in the end. This assault is by a bunch of fascists who will end up in the dustbin of history.
  • Democritus: By convention sweet is sweet, bitter is bitter, hot is hot, cold is cold, color is color; but in truth there are only atoms and the void.
  • Democritus: We know nothing accurately in reality, but (only) as it changes according to the bodily condition, and the constitution of those things that flow upon (the body) and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Medicine heals diseases of the body, wisdom frees the soul from passions.
  • Democritus: Immoderate desire is the mark of a child, not a man.
  • Democritus: Men have fashioned an image of Chance as an excuse for their own stupidity.
  • Democritus: In a shared fish, there are no bones.
  • Democritus: Education is an ornament for the prosperous, a refuge for the unfortunate.
  • Democritus: The animal needing something knows how much it needs, the man does not.
  • Democritus: Moderation multiplies pleasures, and increases pleasure.
  • Democritus: If your desires are not great, a little will seem much to you; for small appetite makes poverty equivalent to wealth.
  • Democritus: No power and no treasure can outweigh the extension of our knowledge.
  • Democritus: In fact we do not know anything infallibly, but only that which changes according to the condition of our body and of the (influences) that reach and impinge upon it.
  • Democritus: Of practical wisdom these are the three fruits: to deliberate well, to speak to the point, to do what is right.
  • Democritus: 'Tis not in strength of body nor in gold that men find happiness, but in uprightness and in fulness of understanding.
  • Democritus: He who does wrong is more unhappy than he who suffers wrong.
  • Samuel P. Huntington: The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.
  • Marjori Palmer: One of the most morale-damaging aspects of the inflation was the "sack of Germany" that occurred at the height of the (1923) inflation. Anyone who possessed dollars or sterling was king in Germany. A few American dollars would allow a man to live like a millionaire. Foreigners swarmed into the country, buying up family treasures, estates, jewelry and art works at unbelievable low prices.
  • Lionel Robbins: It was the most colossal thing of its kind in history: and next probably to the Great War itself, it must bear responsibility for many of the political and economic difficulties of our generation. It destroyed the wealth of the more solid elements of German society: and left behind a moral and economic disequilibrium, a breeding ground for the disasters which have followed. Hitler is the foster child of the inflation.
  • Lenin: There is no trace of utopianism in Marx, in the sense that he made up or invented a 'new' society. No, he studied the birth of the new society out of the old, and the forms of transition from the latter to the former, as a natural-historical process. He examined the actual experience of a proletarian mass movement and tried to draw practical lessons from it.
  • Che Guevara: Many will call me an adventurer - and that I am, only one of a different sort: one of those who risks his skin to prove his platitudes.
  • Democritus: The first principles of the universe are atoms and empty space; everything else is merely thought to exist.
  • Bertolt Brecht: Lenin is enshrined In the large heart of the working class.


Decentralized Game Streaming with Nginx and RTMP


Want to stream to your friends, but don't want to give your video to some centralized service? Here's how.

Thinking about streaming, but uncomfortable with the likes of Twitch and Mixer? Fortunately, they're not the only game in town. Here's how you can set up your own streaming server, with nothing but open source tools.

Before You Begin

Caveats


Unfortunately, this method does have some disadvantages. It's relatively easy to set up, but it has no web interface; your viewers will need VLC (or some other video player that can watch RTMP streams) to watch your stream. It also has no built-in commenting facilities. You can use something else like Mumble, a self-hosted IRC server, or your favorite chat program for that.

Also, if you're running the server on your own network, keep in mind this will give your audience your IP address. Whether this is anything to worry about depends on how much you feel the need to stay anonymous from your audience.

And of course, it won't have any of the inbuilt social features a centralized service brings. You'll need to tell your audience about your stream somehow.

With that out of the way, let's get started!

Installation


You'll need a machine running Unix of some sort; Ubuntu contains all the packages you'll need for this, and it's what this guide will focus on. It can be your gaming machine, a spare computer, or a VPS in the cloud.

Once you have your server machine set up, you'll need to install nginx, as well as nginx's RTMP module. On Ubuntu, you can do it with this command:

sudo apt install nginx libnginx-mod-rtmp

Once you have nginx installed, you should be able to start and stop it with the service command:
sudo service nginx start
sudo service nginx stop

If you're running the server on a machine you use for other things, you may want to stop Nginx from starting whenever you boot the computer.
sudo systemctl disable nginx

Configuration


Now that you have nginx installed, it's time to set up RTMP.

Open /etc/nginx/nginx.conf as root, and add this at the bottom:

rtmp {
    server {
        listen 1935;
        chunk_size 4096;
        application stream {
            live on;
            record off;
        }
    }
}

This tells the RTMP module to listen on port 1935, the default RTMP port, and not to record the video. (If you do want it saved, you can record as you stream with OBS.)

Now save it and restart the server to pick up your changes:

sudo service nginx restart

Streaming


On your gaming machine, you'll want to install OBS Studio. If you're on Windows or Mac or it's not in your Linux package manager, you can get it at obsproject.com.

Once you've installed it, open the settings (File > Settings). In the Stream settings, switch the service to Custom. For the server, enter in your server URL, rtmp://<hostname>/stream. (If your server is on the same machine, this will be localhost; if it's somewhere else on your local network, it'll be <hostname>.local.)

Leave the stream key blank, and you don't need any authentication. Now if you apply the settings and hit Start Streaming, it should go live!

Watching The Stream


Note
If you've got your server set up with a domain name, you can skip finding the IP and just use that instead.


First you'll need to find your server's external IP address. Unless you're running it on a VPS, DuckDuckGo can tell you this if you do a web search for "what is my IP".

Give the stream URL to your audience. rtmp://<ip>/stream

For the audience


To watch the stream, you'll need VLC. If you're on Windows or Mac or it's not in your Linux package manager, you can get it from videolan.org/vlc.

Then hit Media > Open Network Stream..., and paste in the stream URL. If nothing's gone wrong, after a few seconds of loading you should be able to see the stream!

in reply to Silver Winter Wolf

Discover the world of movies and pop culture with Stream TV—your streaming partner for the latest films, celebrity insights, and pop trends. Stream TV

O tal boer trumpista diz que quando fez publicações antissemitas tava sob efeito de morfina.

Meteu o "tava doidão" na cara dura, fez que nem Bolsonaro quando cometeu crime eleitoral na internete "sob efeito de medicamentos".

Essa ideia do genocídio branco na África do Sul daqui a pouco vai descambar pra genocídio branco nos EUA e na Europa, teoria da substituição e "Eurábia"; aliás, tudo o que essa gente do Trump e Elon Musk já acreditam e defendem aos quatro ventos.

E não dá pra esquecer a ligação da quadrilha do Bolsonaro com esses grupos neonazistas e supremacistas! Tava estampado nas lives e na iconografia do grupo. Ele nem usava apito de cachorro: era uma vuvuzela.

Lembro da comoção que foi anos atrás quando nos deparamos com imagens de adultos de fraldas na linha global... um dos eventos canônicos do tempo em que eu estava ainda me habituando ao Mastodon.

Deixando de lado as brincadeiras, achei esse artigo esclarecedor.

medium.com/@rubigabriele52/age…

!Friendica Admins

Because various people have asked for it, I’ve mirrored all the GitLab Bookface and Postbox repositories to GitHub:
github.com/randompenguin1?tab=…

The canonical location is still on GitLab, that's where I'll still be making the actual commits. The Bookface wiki is also still on GitLab (it apparently doesn't get included when mirroring to GitHub). And the actual Releases are still on GitLab because GitHub apparently only mirrors the version tags.

My projects website page, however, is hosted at GitHub because I ran into problems setting one up on GitLab: randompenguin1.github.io/

Honor to Represent Africa: Ugandan Para Swimmer Now Vice Chair of IPC Athlete's Council en.sputniknews.africa/20250515…

Imagine having a bicycle with a closed chain guard. One day the chain falls off & you realize it's assembled with tamper-proof screws.

Now imagine the manufacturer wanting to make unscrewing that screw a felony carrying a 5-year prison sentence & a $500K fine.

They'd be booed out of business, if not institutionalized.

None the less, that's EXACTLY how DMCA 1201 works.

Despite @pluralistic & others' efforts I feel this isn't clear to the general public.

#tech #business #enshittification

China ready to strengthen military-to-military relations with Russia: spokesperson eng.chinamil.com.cn/CHINA_2091…

An essential interview with Ibn Warraq, an Indian man who was raised as Muslims, became a scholar and has been writing about Islam and Mohammed for decades.

As apostate and critic of Islam, his life is constantly under threat.

youtu.be/psHAiQyAeIw

NASA’s X-59 quiet supersonic research aircraft successfully completed a critical series of tests in which the airplane was put through its paces for cruising high above the California desert – all without ever leaving the ground. “The idea behind these tests is to command the airplane’s subsystems and flight computer to function as if it […]