detwaft

joined 1 year ago
[–] detwaft@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

They’re guessing, and no doubt fishing for clicks.

X-rays from flares travel at the speed of light and hit us in about 8 minutes. Solar energetic particles (related to flares) take minutes to hours. A coronal mass ejection usually takes about 3 days. At the moment we have no way of predicting them before they happen, so X-ray flares have no early warning because nothing is faster than the speed of light. We can see a CME erupt and know if it’s heading our way.

There are a couple of good sized sunspots at the moment that are facing towards us so the chances of something happening are decent, but we don’t know if and when and how much.

[–] detwaft@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I’m only an amateur but I’m happy to give it a go

[–] detwaft@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

Linking to reddit? Blech.

[–] detwaft@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

IMAP supports TLS, what’s Proton’s excuse for enforcing their own delivery protocol?