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Marsh Deer live most of their lives in #wetlands of #Argentia #Peru #Bolivia #Brazil #Paraguay eating wetland plants. They are #vulnerable from #palmoil #agriculture and #mining. Fight for them and #Boycott4Wildlife palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/โ€ฆ via @palmoildetectives



The Diaspora Garrulous Grand Council

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TOPIC: Have any good recipes? Care to share? We would love to hear about your unique culinary creations!

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Cheers!
Muse

in reply to Muse

Today's discussion and links:

We started off talking about weather, cocoa shortages, and good quality carob.

We moved on to discussing local festivals. Here are the links:

rbb24.de/panorama/beitrag/2024โ€ฆ

Anke Engelke was mentioned because the Montreal Just for Laughs Festival has closed.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anke_Engโ€ฆ

This led to discussion about amusement parks.

We finally had a chat about odd recipes, or rather what seem like odd recipes.

upload.wikimedia.org/wikipediaโ€ฆ

presse.frutarom.eu/Content/326โ€ฆ

loveandlemons.com/spanish-riceโ€ฆ

We then spoke about eyesight and how roads are named!

in reply to Muse

We had a few more side topics, but these were the highlights!


This is so much fun to watch!

The Original Star Trek Theme Performed on a Theremin



People from University of Western Australia caught some of the coolest footage of a rare deep sea squid! It's only 44 seconds long, so give it a look, then go "ooooh, aaaaah!"

Rare Deep Sea Footage of a Dana Octopus Squid With Bioluminescent โ€˜Headlightsโ€™ on Its Two Arms



This is pretty good.

Can The Lord of the Rings Ever be Remastered?
youtu.be/zkNFZkUHeKQ?si=uke50Aโ€ฆ



The Mindset Of A Linux From Scratch User #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/VWP95cMw7Gc
in reply to Brodie Robertson

All of a sudden I've got an urge to go back to Gentoo as a daily-driver.


Libreboot Developer Trolls The FSF... Once Again #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/fjQWRq2xjG0
in reply to Brodie Robertson

I usually go to videos.lukesmith.xyz for all of his old stuff, but his site wasn't loading for me, so searched on his Odysee, and ta-da!


Why is The Wayback Machine so important for preserving our digital culture? According to new analysis from Pew Research Center:
โŒ 38% of webpages that existed in 2013 are no longer accessible
โŒ 23% of news webpages contain at least one broken link
๐Ÿ”— pewresearch.org/data-labs/2024โ€ฆ


Surprise observation this afternoon: Homotropus sp. An ichneumonid wasp, about 5-6 mm long.

There are only 8 observations world wide.

inaturalist.org/observations/2โ€ฆ

#iNaturalist #Hymenoptera #entomology #insects #wasplove



So now SpaceX, with no working spacesuit, and years behind on it's multi-billion dollar moon lander, is lobbying NASA to go to the Hubble Space Telescope.

"A successful private mission could improve Hubble's ability to point at celestial objects and, by boosting its orbit, extend its life by years... however, an accident could leave the multibillion-dollar telescope broken โ€” or, even more tragically, tethered to the dead bodies of the astronauts sent to repair it."

npr.org/2024/05/16/1250250249/โ€ฆ

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in reply to Mastodon Migration

Starlink is killing Hubble

Something about this plan to move Hubble, didn't make sense. If the space telescope still has 10 years of useful life, why this risky SpaceX mission to boost it's orbit now?

Well it turns out the main thing threatening the utility of Hubble is... wait for it... SpaceX Starlink satellites, which orbit just above Hubble constantly "photo-bombing" the images. Within a few years there will be so many Starlinks that Hubble will be useless.

nytimes.com/2023/03/02/scienceโ€ฆ

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Does anyone actually know any researcher who uses ResearchGate as their "professional network"?

Genuine question, not being snarky

theplosblog.plos.org/2024/05/rโ€ฆ

This entry was edited (1 year ago)


Mesmerising microbes: bacteria as youโ€™ve never seen it before โ€“ in pictures

โ€œAs a side hustle he manipulates and photographs the microbial world; his images are collected in a book, Beautiful Bacteria. Taking bacteria from substances such as wastewater, dental plaque or kimchi, Danino lets them multiply in a petri dish, adding dyes. The results are artworks differing from the digital enhancements often made in scientific photography to make images more informative.โ€

theguardian.com/artanddesign/gโ€ฆ

#News #Photography #Photo #Photos #Image #Images #Microbiology #Biology #Science #STEM #Bacteria #Microbes #Microbes @science @biology @microbiology


in reply to Jen Sorensen

Can we get an comic of the ICC issuing arrest warrants and them getting denouced by some world leaders, and said world leaders not even reading why the arrest warrants were issued?


Marsh Deer live most of their lives in #wetlands of #Argentina #Peru #Bolivia #Brazil #Paraguay eating wetland plants. They are #vulnerable from #palmoil #agriculture and #mining. Fight for them and #Boycott4Wildlife

palmoildetectives.com/2024/05/โ€ฆ



Are you an introvert?

Terrific explainer by introverteed.com/blogs/news/anโ€ฆ #comic #art

in reply to Sheril Kirshenbaum

This is me, I do a job where I talk to hundreds of people a day, so when I quit, I just want to peace myself out of people.



The Ugly Muppet Toy Pageant 2024


BWAHAHAHAHA!!
Some of the comments are priceless!

Pepe
"What happened to you, mate? Someone try to put you on a barbie?"



Some songs just donโ€™t sound great through mobile phone speakers.

This is one of those songs.

Only the Music (Keeps me Alive)
~ #Dgar

songwhip.com/dgar/only-the-musโ€ฆ

#DgarMusic #DgarRadio #Indie #Music #Bass #NewSong #MusiciansOfMastodon #SingerSongwriter





I recorded a quick demo of the current state of the Wayland-native accessibility stack I'm developing for @gnome (and eventually other free desktops), code-named Newton. In the demo, I run the GNOME Podcasts app on the Newton accessibility stack, using my GTK branch that integrates AccessKit. So in principle, the same app should also work on Windows, and soon, macOS. The demo was featured in the latest edition of This Week in GNOME: thisweek.gnome.org/posts/2024/โ€ฆ This work is funded by @sovtechfund.


I didn't know they were real but I caught myself a wild #Linux From Scratch user so I had to ask the simple question, why

Video Release: youtube.com/watch?v=TkkKNfYKJJโ€ฆ

Audio Release: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/shoโ€ฆ





Free rent, never bored


At the top end of a quiet regional town, an accidental publican is reviving an age-old tradition of refuge and succour for starving artists. All he asks in return is that your gifts are shared with the town thatโ€™s slowly reinventing its identity.

Wow! Sounds like I should visit!

abc.net.au/news/2024-05-18/couโ€ฆ



Slack is now using all content, including DMs, to train LLMs.

They offer a thing they're calling an "opt-out."

The opt-out (a) is only available to companies who are slack customers, not end users, and (b) doesn't actually opt-out.

When a company account holder tries to opt-out, Slack says their data will still be used to train LLMs, but the results won't be shared with other companies.

LOL no. That's not an opt-out. The way to opt-out is to stop using Slack.

slack.com/intl/en-gb/trust/datโ€ฆ



Tried looking up the average height of one story of a building, in the current era of the internet.

I wonder if this is what having a stroke feels like.




EA SPORTS WRC is adding EA anticheat, breaking another game on Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/ea-sโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux #EA #WRC



.@bphmetz explores a #PLOSBiology study which uses in silico rewiring of #GeneticCodes & functional protein data to reveal a positive correlation between #robustness & protein #evolvability. Primer: plos.io/3K8lIP0 Paper: plos.io/4dXt85p


Thinking more on all this #AI shite and search engines. It just makes RSS and social media following more important than ever before right?

Ways to properly follow what you want.

Good thing @gamingonlinux has and RSS feed: gamingonlinux.com/rss/

in reply to Liam

Maybe me but i get this:

Invalid XML: Error on line 16: At line 16, column 14: not well-formed (invalid token)



Developing a dashboard widget with Vue.js! ๐Ÿ˜บ

Our 2-part tutorial helps you create a dashboard widget using Vue.js components, with an end result that may involve #catgifs... find out for yourself!

๐Ÿ˜ป

cloud.nextcloud.com/s/iyNGp8ryโ€ฆ



Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!




hoy en el #DรญaDeInternet
recuperamos este texto de hace 10 aรฑos:

Yo amo Internet, un romance que crece en el dรญa a dรญa
sursiendo.org/2014/02/yo-amo-iโ€ฆ

Cรณmo pasa el tiempo!!

#Softwarelibre #Hackfeminismos



Giant viral signatures on the Greenland ice sheet

doi.org/10.1186/s40168-024-017โ€ฆ

#viruses #GiantViruses #polar

in reply to Frank Aylward

Man, my sister in law was stationed in Greenland for two years and it never occurred to me to have her sample for (my very small) viruses for me on her journeys!


Proton Experimental improves Halo Infinite, Call of Juarez: Gunslinger and more for Steam Deck / Linux gamingonlinux.com/2024/05/protโ€ฆ

#SteamDeck #Linux

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

I've already went though whole CoJ almost pain-free on my Steam Deck. I believe the only problem was the clunky audio in the cutscenes, but not in the main game for some reason.


Fanatical's awesome #Fallout bundle ends in just over a day: fanatical.com/en/bundle/fallouโ€ฆ (partner link)
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

GoG is running a decent offer on them too: gog.com/en/games?query=Falloutโ€ฆ No Atlantic City and overall a bit less value, but great if you only want some of them

in reply to Eugen Rochko

oh wow, he's a big boy! I thought the plushie was much smaller than that!

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