Nick Kosmatos

Working for Intracom Telecom in Patras, doing telecoms software R&D for Ericsson. I'm an open minded person, amateur photographer and aspiring astrophotographer

[Nick Kosmatos @NKosmatos]

I dare you, I double dare you, find me a better and more uplifting #drumandbass set than the one from Rampage 2018 :-)
https://t.co/dfHt9JHrdi

By the one and only #DnB legend, DJ Andy C @ANDYC_ram with one of the best MCs out there, Tonn Piper @TonnPiper !!!

cc @WeAreRampage

[GOG.COM @GOGcom]

Download the offline installer of any of your games on GOG, save it to a disc and it's yours forever.

You don't need a storefront's permission to play what you bought.

[Nick Kosmatos @NKosmatos]

So true...so sad :-(
Corporate greed and profits are eating away everything.
Brave New World!

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

[Suraj Sharma @suraj_sharma14]

Bro I'm so sick of pretending this isn't weird.

The internet spent 20 years creating tutorials, open-source projects, blog posts & answers for free.

AI companies turned all of it into products worth billions.

And now the same people who created that knowledge are being told they're replaceable.

We built the library.

Someone else started charging admission.

[こたうち さんさん @kotauchisunsun]

「円周率に出てくる数字ってランダムらしい」
という話を聞いて、円周率1万桁の数字の出現率をヒストグラムにした動画。
実は10年前に作ったやつ。Processingで作った記憶。

[Bluntly Put Philosopher (BPP) @SocraticScribe]

Two crossed polarizers block all light. Add a 45° filter between them, and light suddenly slips through! Why? The middle filter acts as a quantum measurement device, forcing photons to "re-prepare" their state and rotate their vector to pass the final block.

[KiTaSuMbA - Gerasimos Grammatikopoulos @KiTaSuMbA]

Πείτε με παρεμβατικό και ότι χώνω την μύτη μου αλλά όταν είδα αυτό το λάστιχο σε αυτοκίνητο έξω από το ιατρείο, έγραψα και άφησα αυτό το μήνυμα.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

😂

[Chaca-Khan 🦋 @chacakhan]

Κατεπείγουσα έρευνα της Ευρωπαϊκής Εισαγγελίας για τα €120 εκατ. για διαδραστικούς πίνακες από το Ταμείο Ανάκαμψης που η Κεραμέως μοίρασε στα 3 σε COSMOTE, VODAFONE, WIND. Πλέον καλούν μάρτυρες & ξεσκονίζουν τους διαγωνισ��ούς & τις καταγγελίες.
https://t.co/ZMCZmwBH3R

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Most people aren't greedy assholes. It's the 1% at the top who have an addiction to money, and they don't care who is affected - because they no longer see the struggling masses as human. They see you as a burden.

[Joe Weisenthal @TheStalwart]

The FT says that Amazon employees are doing random unnecessary task automations to consume tokens and to show their bosses that they're using AI more https://t.co/wZ204CKi32

[Andy Saunders - Apollo Remastered @AndySaunders_1]

This is incredible. The new @NASA image release from #Artemis includes a sequence of 'Hello World' still photographs.
I've been processing / animating them and here's what the original didn't show us:

Satellites, including their solar arrays, lightning storms
and dancing aurora!

[Slashdot @slashdot]

Nobel Prize-Winning Physicist Predicts Humankind Won't Survive Another 50 Years https://t.co/X7DTj4nrv4

[A.S.Karditsas @askarditsas]

Επιβλητική νίκη παραμονής επί του Προμηθέα!
https://t.co/5LofBD7HjY

[NASA @NASA]

Artemis II Moon mission complete!
✅✅✅✅✅✅

- Space Launch System rocket launched crew into space
- Orion spacecraft kept astronauts safe
- Flew around the Moon, observed its far side
- New human spaceflight distance record
- Crew safely returned to Earth
- Inspired the WORLD

[NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman @NASAAdmin]

Artemis II has reached its maximum distance from Earth.

On the far side of the Moon, 252,756 miles away, Reid, Victor, Christina, and Jeremy have now traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and now begin their journey home. Before they left, they said they hoped this mission would be forgotten, but it will be remembered as the moment people started to believe that America can once again do the near-impossible and change the world.

Congratulations to this incredible crew and the entire NASA team, our international and commercial partners, but this mission isn’t over until they’re under safe parachutes, splashing down into the Pacific.

[NASA @NASA]

“I’m the space plumber, I’m proud to call myself the space plumber.”

Mission specialists like @Astro_Christina train for all roles so they can jump in wherever they’re needed. Sometimes that means fixing vital machinery, like the spacecraft toilet.

[Robert Graham @robertgraham]

These beeps started in 1924.

Back then, people could get "astronomical time" by telescopes looking at the stars. You knew when it was 12am by the exact time when a certain star appeared overhead.

The Greenwich Observatory would calculate this time daily, and have a ball drop at a precise time, so ships could easily calibrate their clock. In 1852, they'd distribute this time across the telegraph network that had been strung throughout Britain.

With the invention of the radio, and people buying radios for their homes, the BBC. would broadcast these 6 "pips" before the hour, so everyone could easily synchronize their mechanical clocks.

The British Empire covered 24% of the world's surface (and roughly same percent of population). While it wasn't too difficult for anybody to setup their own telescope to tell precise time, the spread of the BBC World Surface across the empire became the standard by which people would set their mechanical watches and clocks.

Remember: mechanical devices drifted and needed resetting every few days. Back in those days, your watch and your friend's would be off by around 5 minutes. Nobody really knew precisely what time it was.

The rise of the robust power grid changed things. The power grid has a steady 50 Hz (60 Hz in America). Wall clocks stopped being mechanical but were electrical instead, simply turning in time with the power grid. As long as the power grid didn't drift, neither did they electric clocks. They were only reset because of power outages or daylight saving changes.

Nonetheless, the BBC pips had become an iconic feature of the BBC news service.

In 1990, they added music and video to this. But still, this isn't for effect that happens at any time. They still mark the hour, you can still set your clocks by them.

Of course, nowadays, all your clocks are set by the Internet via the NTP protocol. Your Apple Watch always has the correct time and you aren't sure why. You and your friend always have the phone and watch show the identical time.

[Nick Kosmatos @NKosmatos]

Firestarter is 30 years old today!!!

I still remember buying and listening to the single while studying in the UK, but I'm not sure if I bought it from Virgin opposite the Sheffield town hall or from HMV near the Cathedral.

Good times :-)

https://t.co/RPS1Bhqkhx

@the_prodigy

[Nick Kosmatos @NKosmatos]

O tempora, o mores!
:-(

[Nick Kosmatos @NKosmatos]

Ευτυχώς που δεν έχω τις δυνάμεις του Thanos…