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@scalzi I’m afraid I’m old enough to have seen Star Wars when it debuted… and the fact that it was labelled as Episode IV was always in my mind… so it was Star Wars (A New Hope) for me. (Of course, it was not Star Wars here; it was “La Guerra de las Galaxias”, which is even more powerful 😉)

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@ahimsa_pdx@disabled.social OK, in both cases they are light reflected from interplanetary dust essentially in the disc where planetary formation happened in our solar system. The main difference is that you can see that reflected light either at an angle from the sun, and then it’s zodiacal light, or back reflected directly from the sun behind the observer. In any case, it’s always material (mostly) in the plane of the ecliptic, which means you have the constellations of the Zodiac in that shine, regardless of mode.

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@hotcoffee@toot.community @daringfireball@mastodon.social What a great phrase… I also immediately thought of the infamous iPad Pro press ad when Nilay talked about flattening people… One of the astronomy Ph.D. students of my cohort used to say that “software people are always trying to socialize their problems”, and at the time I saw part of his point, but now I realize how right he was.

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

RE: @jbz@indieweb.social

This guitar-rocking Tyrannosaurus Rex was my favorite from this stack. And the fact that you could lasso it from the stack was magical at the time.
#HyperCard #ClipArt #TwoBitArt

indieweb.social

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@sue 🤦🏻‍♂️

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@daringfireball@mastodon.social «Nextpad++ doesn’t feel like an alien. It feels like Vincent D’Onofrio’s alien-bug-in-human-skin character from Men in Black.» So true, @gruber@mastodon.social … is the same feeling I had with Word 6 for the Mac and the other Office apps of the time, times 100.

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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Hat tip to @TagHunt@infosec.exchange for the link! #BrowserFingerPrinting #WebPrivacy

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@jaj@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social you’ll enjoy this, then… https://eupolicy.social/@hpod16/116538344713848285

eupolicy.social

Hannah Grace: "Excited to announce that the @EUCommission@ec.soc…" - EUpolicy.social - A Mastodon server for the EU bubble

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@marcoarment@mastodon.social @pxlnv@mastodon.social the great mistake was allowing software not to be sold as a product, but licensed. That is the original sin from which everything else flows down.

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

I guess that if the options are _publish or perish_, the incentives to mislead are too great. However, some attempts are more newsworthy than others…

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/may/07/french-professor-florent-montaclair-accused-award-prize

theguardian.com

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

Wow. Just wow. Although the last paragraph was already damning of the current lack of influence of the current board…

https://www.science.org/content/article/trump-fires-nsf-s-oversight-board

#NSF #NSFOversightBoard

science.org

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

If you’re looking for a system internals person for macOS, iOS, and iPadOS, who has worked at Apple, and has many CVEs on privacy fixed accrediting their name, you cannot go wrong by hiring @rosyna@mastodon.social, see their CV: https://paradisefacade.com/about

#FediHire #AppleInternals #macOSInternals #APE #Haxie

paradisefacade.com

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@ianbetteridge you stuck the landing of this piece, well done! «The technology that displaces the worker and the proposal that makes that displacement politically tolerable are products of the same class of actors, emerging in the same news cycle. That is not a coincidence of timing. It is the shape of the new economy that they want to see emerge. The Roman grain dole didn't give the plebs more power. It made them manageable. What is being proposed now by the tech bros carries the same structural logic: not the reversal of dispossession, but baking it into the structure of society. The question of who owns the machines — and who should — still goes unasked.»

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 10mo ago

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@Gargron@mastodon.social that’s a very difficult step to take, and the fact that you’ve taken it speaks really well about you. Thanks for so you’ve done so far, for contributions still to come, and all the best!

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@jeffzugale you rule!

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@matt_birchler@mastodon.social is that thing reviving the Green Goblin? Because that sure looks like Willem Dafoe…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@map thanks for the resource, very useful. And I see now that both can be used… thanks again!

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@brucelawson so, you can be automatically eligible to die for the US, but not to vote. Got it.

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

Todo esto dentro de una administración que supuestamente tenía como principios la no discriminación… fantástico.
#Chile #BioBioRadio #Discriminación
https://www.biobiochile.cl/especial/bbcl-investiga/noticias/articulos/2026/04/02/patriarcal-y-sin-empatia-elemental-la-historica-condena-por-maltrato-a-jueza-en-el-poder-judicial.shtml

BioBioChile - La Red de Prensa Más Grande de Chile

En una sentencia histórica, el Segundo Juzgado de Letras del Trabajo de Santiago condenó al Fisco de Chile por los...

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@jamesthomson s/he always gives a two, right?

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@jeroenbosman@akademienl.social they should do Open Source next…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@ianbetteridge great article! Really insightful, had never thought there could be any relationship between Peter Thiel and the ‘60s… and it also tracks with TESCREAL ideology, as they are the ones that can make the hard decisions, as they are enlightened to the future of humanity.

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@badastro@mastodon.social Bad Astronomy for the win! Congrats!

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@map funny that sounds like Tokyo Now… what does なうmean in this context?

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 9mo ago

RE: @TidBITS@mastodon.social

This might resolve some issues you might be having with apps remembering their proper windows!

mastodon.social

TidBITS: "TipBITS: How to Ensure Mac Apps Open on the Right…" - Mastodon

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@jbz «Within five years, the companies that stopped hiring juniors will be the ones posting breathless LinkedIn articles about their “talent pipeline crisis” and wondering how it happened. The rest of us will know exactly how it happened. We watched them do it to themselves in real time.»

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@Cdespinosa don’t let anyone tell him that, or he will not sign on it. Or maybe yes, if he can name the treaty after him…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 14mo ago

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@climagic@mastodon.social The expectation for a machine is that it does better than humans. But preferably not on deception…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@amt @rmi @jwz interesting, I’ll have a look at those… BTW, is not nix an immutable OS distribution? How does nix-darwin play with the system?

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@neffo @kenshirriff looks more like the grand-(x100)-mother of Solo’s L3-37…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 4mo ago

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@justkwin@toot.community I think @futurebird@sauropods.win would find this quite interesting…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@cafechatnoir@mastodon.social @seachanger@alaskan.social pinging @WeirdWriter@caneandable.social, who put in beautiful, powerful words how that experience of “semantic ablation” affected his writer friend. At least, it seems to be recoverable, but at what cost…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@b0rk@social.jvns.ca counting experiments with MkLinux [1] on a PowerMac 8200/120 as 1990s… then Mac OS X Public Beta [2], although technically none of them were considered Unices at the time… [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MkLinux [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mac_OS_X_Public_Beta

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@erik@mastodon.infrageeks.social @NanoRaptor@bitbang.social now I want to know more about it… and the first and third, at least 😉

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 9mo ago

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@soapdog don’t have a link to the Newton OS Human Interface Guidelines? #macOS #macOSTahoe #NewtonOS #HIG #HumanInterfaceGuidelines

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@shana I think the reverse take is more powerful: some loops can be avoided if you have a closed mathematical form for them. And as someone else noted when quoting this post, for loops imply an ordering, the mathematical operation does not. Plus, loops are just one form: generators are another, and the fact that \[\sum_{i=0}^{m} f(i) = \sum_{i=0}^{n-1} f(i) + f(n) + \sum_{i=n+1}^{m} f(i) \] means that generators are really another option.

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@louie love it!

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 6mo ago

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@jwz I started with Fink (maybe around 10.1) and happily moved to Macports around 10.5 or 10.6… however, I ended up using Homebrew in new machines and been happy since… specially because major macOS version changes are typically easier to manage. What are your main reasons to stay on Macports, stricter security, ports not yet on Homebrew…?

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 5mo ago

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@stroughtonsmith@mastodon.social interesting phrase of play…

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Dr. Juande Santander-Vela @juandesant@mathstodon.xyz

· 7mo ago

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@brentsimmons having said that, the index was very good before, and now it is not available many times.

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