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kleinbl00  ·  1540 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Why the world is waiting for Betelgeuse to go supernova

Dude you get email alerts for supernovas? That are PGP signed?

I shoulda linked to the MIT article that told me about it but MIT's paywall pisses me the fuck off so fuck those guys.





am_Unition  ·  1540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Well I haven’t gotten one goddamn email yet, so I don’t really know. Yes, yes, I need a supernova to test their email system

kleinbl00  ·  1540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

this brings me joy

am_Unition  ·  1540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Joy package 2: I just attempted to re-subscribe with the same email address I was pretty sure I had already used a decade ago, and

    An attempt was made to subscribe your address to the mailing list

    snews-alert@lists.bnl.gov. You are already subscribed to this mailing list.

    Note that the list membership is not public, so it is possible that a bad

    person was trying to probe the list for its membership. This would be a

    privacy violation if we let them do this, but we didn't.

    If you submitted the subscription request and forgot that you were already

    subscribed to the list, then you can ignore this message. If you suspect that

    an attempt is being made to covertly discover whether you are a member of this

    list, and you are worried about your privacy, then feel free to send a message

    to the list administrator at snews-alert-owner@lists.bnl.gov.

This is fantastic. I want to be maximally anonymous on a neutrino influx alert mailing list, absolutely, yes.

I'm still intermittently lol'ing, but I guess we can call off the testing scheme requiring a supernova?

am_Unition  ·  1540 days ago  ·  link  ·  

I'm glad! And I do apologize that you're suffering through the process of teaching me geopolitik, I swear that either A) I'll eventually get back to more science schtuff around here or B) we'll all be dead :D!

Edit: See look, you just taught me that you're not teaching me geopolitik, because that's a uniquely German geopolitical strategy. You, right now, but usually you're not rubber duckin', ya know?

kleinbl00  ·  1539 days ago  ·  link  ·  

Did you just realize you're the duck