Sam the Octopus @troubleMoney@computerfairi.es

@m1st ah, well, I shall have to give lots of scritches *offers arms for octo-scritches*

@m1st ah cool, I'll have to have a chat with it about that at some point

how is kitty today?

CAN WE FIX IT?

hmm... we're going to have to order in some parts, the branded ones aren't cheap, might be able to get it back to you in a week?

me, an hour ago: hm... I should look into server monitoring stuff

"so, you've got grafana for dashboards but that needs to talk to prometheus or loki or munin or something else and that talks to something or another and then there's a query language that's different for each thing and you have your data sources..."

me: I JUST WANT TO KNOW IF MACHINE THAT GOES BRRR IS STILL GOING BRRR

@oraluchiaru 5, 5 options

I forgot we added that one

there's "local" as well, which only goes to people on this instance

@oraluchiaru under the bit where you type your toots there's a little globe icon, if you click that you'll get 4 options for post privacy

global goes to everyone, unlisted doesn't show in public timelines like local or federated but is viewable on your user page and to your followers, followers only is well followers only, private only goes to those you mention in that specific post (like a DM)

@oraluchiaru apparently the fediverse as a whole has like, half a million users or something

it being spread across lots of instances does make it feel nice and smol though

@masklayer kellogg's chunchy nuts

EA JORTS

@viomi from personal experience, is it set +x?

'cause that's caused no end of problems for me

@mavica it's a lot more up to date than the old stuff, but still roughly the same principle, tracking time in multiple locations

"you can't just tell the time by counting things!"

"haha caesium atom go brrrrr"

@mavica do that for 3 or more satellites and you can trianguate your position from that

@mavica we still use time to figure out location today as it happens

that's how GPS and all the other satellite navigation systems work

all the satellites have an atomic clock on board (best explanation for how those work I can give is caesium atom go brrrr) and broadcast the current time over radio

radio travels at the speed of light so the time difference between what you receive and what time it is for you divided by the speed of light is how far you are from the satellite

@mavica no problem, it's nice nerding out about this stuff without seeing the light slowly die behind someone's eyes

@mavica and that's pretty much all I remember off the top of my head about that early stuff

there's a book called Longitude by Dava Sobel which is an excellent read about all this

@mavica oh yeah, Harrison wasn't trained as a watchmaker

he was trained as a carpenter, and just went and made massive breakthroughs in horology and navigation

@mavica he had a hard time getting paid the prize money though

remember that celestial method that people were trying to make work earlier?

yeah, the main dude pushing that idea was on the panel that determined if anyone won the prize, and he was very miffed that this carpenter had managed to solve the problem before his celestial method could

@mavica I won't pretend to know the full details, because this is somewhat beyond me, but he was using bimetallic strips as springs for temperature compensation, caged roller bearings, all of this is stuff still used today in watchmaking

oh, and he made it look good as well, dude was just fucking styling on people at this point