Hey everyone, I need some help to keep my head above water for Februrary. The job search has been rough, and while Iโve been pushing hard to get back on my feet, but Iโm at a point where I need some help to get through this stretch.
Iโve set a goal of $1,400 on Ko-fi to cover my essential living costs. This includes my rent, utilities, and bills. Anything remaining will go toward food and basic necessities.
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Sunday's Long Run: 25km @5:35
My new video is out: youtu.be/ZnUnN1sHMro
#running #runnersofmastodon #marathon #marathontraining
Alex Pretti was an American hero. He saved lives. He protected people. He cared deeply about his community, unlike the murderous thugs who killed him.
The very last thing he did was try to help a woman who had been pepper-sprayed and violently shoved to the ground by ICE.
He was a Good Samaritan โ and they murdered him for it. Now theyโre trying to rewrite his history. They want to smear him. To dehumanize him.
Donโt let them.
not sure whether to laugh or cry at Elisabeth Bikโs latest revelation on Pubpeer
pubpeer.com/publications/20A6Eโฆ
PubPeer - MediVerse : Challenges And Development Of Digital Health Tra...
There are comments on PubPeer for publication: MediVerse : Challenges And Development Of Digital Health Transformation Towards Metaverse in Medicine (2022)pubpeer.com
"The toolbox isnโt particularly varied. President Trump is using all the instruments: the reported quotas for ICE arrests; the paramilitary force made up of thugs drunk on their own brutality; the spectacle of random violence, particularly in city streets; the postmortem vilification of the victims. Itโs only natural that our brains struggle to find logic in what we are seeing. There is a logic, and this logic has a name. Itโs called state terror."
Even when thereโs no accountability, the record matters. Credit to the Wikipedia editors maintaining this page.
Orange lilies
#photo #photography
#orange #flower #green #plant
#summer #NaturePhotography
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
Sony A7II โข Laowa 100mm f2.8 CA-Dreamer Macro 2X
#Photography #Photographie #Photo #Foto #SonyA7II #Bourgogne #Niรจvre #CaptureOne #Plant #Plante #Nature
youtu.be/UrMnOp2N9Kw?t=2518
(00:41:58~) "... We imagine that someday billion cars on a road will be autonomous... every single car will have autonomous vehicle capability..." 
Is nVidia dreaming of regulations that would take cars without autonomous AI off the road?
Palm Oil Free Chocolate, Candy and Confectionery
Buying chocolate, candy or lollies as a gift or just want to indulge yourself? Then enjoy your chocolate fix without eating rainforest-destroying palm oil! If you are ever in doubt look for the preโฆPalm Oil Detectives
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๐Alex J. Pretti๐ age 37, of South #Minneapolis was gunned on in cold blood by #ICE thugs today. He was Brandishing his phone recording ๐ง.
No criminal record. Worked for the VA as an ICU nurse. Legal gun owner. Homeowner. Upstanding member of his community. He was a hero in his career, and went out like a hero trying to protect the women the ICE officer pushed down.
A TRUE hero all around, he didnโt deserve this. RIP #AlexPretti
๐ฆ Reposted from Feminist News
palmoildetectives.com/2026/01/โฆ
Jaguars vs Cows: JBS Fuelling Biodiversity Collapse in Brazilโs Forests
Global Witness report finds JBS, the worldโs largest meat company, is directly linked to deforestation in the Amazon and Pantanal putting jaguars at riskPalm Oil Detectives
#News: Two more Sumatran #elephant calves dead as #palmoil plantations devour their last forests. Only 2,400 remain in the wild. Act now before they are gone forever! ๐ง๐๐ #BoycottPalmOil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social asianews.network/two-more-sumaโฆ
asianews.network/two-more-sumaโฆ
Two more Sumatran Elephants die in Indonesia amid growing threats from deforestation - Asia News Network
Two more Sumatran Elephants die in Indonesia amid growing threats from deforestation Asia News Network (ANN) is the leading regional alliance of news titles striving to bring the region closer, through an active sharing of editorial content on happenโฆRizal Harahap and Theresia Sufa (Asia News Network)
Look out.
#grickledoodle #wizard #magic #cat #pets #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humor
Grickle (@grickle@mstdn.social)
Attached: 1 image Look out. #grickledoodle #wizard #magic #cat #pets #cartoon #art #drawing #funny #humorGrickle (Mastodon ๐)
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Isn't this feathered boy AWESOME!
youtube.com/shorts/RdwzX206lz8
- YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
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Here. Have a thermal video of my cat leaving behind a warm butt print.
May it distract you from both the cold and the ICE. #caturday
daringfireball.net/2026/01/iosโฆ
The iOS 26 Adoption Rate Is Not Bizarrely Low Compared to Previous Years
A change to how Safari reports the OS it is running on led many in the media to lose their minds.Daring Fireball
sukh (@InterfaceEngineer@mastodon.world)
Attached: 1 image @jsnell@zeppelin.flights @mfessler@mastodon.social it isnโt a โscrew upโ, itโs intentional. Their support site apparently has been updated since to explicitly list out the devices - basically 18.7.sukh (Mastodon)
I am taking down the paywall for this one, as I believe it remains relevant as a reflection on the limits of the authoritarian assault โ and the need to push back against the idea that America is inevitably and irresistibly marching towards a Trump dictatorship.
This weekโs piece:
steady.page/en/democracyamericโฆ
The Limits of Violent Authoritarianism
Trumpโs authoritarian desires are boundless. But the past year proves that his ability to impose them on America is not.Steady
The idea that protests and public opinion are meaningless in the face of the Trumpist assault, that authoritarian regimes are impervious to public pressure, is still widespread.
But it is wrong. And it perpetuates the regime's assertion of inevitability.
traditional mathematical proofs can be hard to reason about. i propose a new method of proof: proof by compiler optimisation.
consider this proof that n * 1 = n and n ^ 0 = 1 for all reasonable values of n.
![compiler explorer screenshot.
the left pane displays the following rust source code:
#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
pub fn main() -> u8 {
for i in 0..=u32::MAX {
if i * 1 != i {
panic!("oh dear!");
}
if i.pow(0) != 1 {
panic!("oh no!");
}
}
0
}
the right pane displays the following compiler/assembler output:
main:
xor eax, eax
ret](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1402398 "compiler explorer screenshot.
the left pane displays the following rust source code:
#[unsafe(no_mangle)]
pub fn main() -> u8 {
for i in 0..=u32::MAX {
if i * 1 != i {
panic!(\"oh dear!\");
}
if i.pow(0) != 1 {
panic!(\"oh no!\");
}
}
0
}
the right pane displays the following compiler/assembler output:
main:
xor eax, eax
ret")
Compiler Explorer - Rust (rustc 1.92.0)
#[unsafe(no_mangle)] pub fn main() -> u8 { for i in 0..=u32::MAX { if i * 1 != i { panic!("oh dear!"); } if i.pow(0) != 1 { panic!("oh no!"); } } 0 }godbolt.org
Well, this is a fascinating rant.
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Linux freedom is great, unless you hate freedom.
itsfoss.com/signs-linux-is-notโฆ
15 Signs Linux Is Not For You
If you recognized yourself in a few of these points, that doesnโt mean Linux isnโt for you. In fact, you can count it as an invitation. It just means youโve spent a long time in an ecosystem that treats you more like a product than a participant.Roland Taylor (It's FOSS)
Choosing the VPN That's Right for You
VPN stands for โVirtual Private Network.โ When you connect to a VPN, all data that you send (such as the requests to servers when browsing the web) appears to originate from the VPN itself, rather than your internet service provider (ISP).ssd.eff.org
![A sunset view from the coast, looking over rocks in the distance. [Fuji X-T5 / Fuji 35 1.4]](https://keybored.me/photo/preview/640/1402292 "A sunset view from the coast, looking over rocks in the distance. [Fuji X-T5 / Fuji 35 1.4]")
Beyond Cute: All Animals Can Become Social Media Sensations
In the age of cutesy #mammal sensations like pygmy hippo #MooDeng the chubby, pink-cheeked pygmy #hippo baby โ many people believe that social media shares are correlated to cuteness. They arโฆPalm Oil Detectives
With jet black plumage ๐ค and bright green ๐ wattles, male Western Parotia #birds ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ฆ of paradise gleam like scaly armour when they dance ๐ถ Resist against their #extinction in #WestPapua when you #Boycottpalmoil ๐ด๐ซ #Boycott4Wildlife
palmoildetectives.com/2026/01/โฆ
Western Parotia Parotia sefilata
Western Parotias AKA Arfak Parotias are stunning bird-of-paradise of West Papua known for their mesmerising dances. Palm oil and mining ecocide are threatsPalm Oil Detectives
Sumatran Tiger Panthera tigris sondaica
The Sumatran tiger Panthera tigris sondaica is a critically endangered big cat, with less than 600 of their species alive in the wild today. Once living in Java and Bali, they are now only found inโฆPalm Oil Detectives
ARC Raiders has a new content-filled roadmap for early 2026 gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/arc-โฆ
#Proton #Linux #SteamDeck #SteamOS #ARCRaiders
ARC Raiders has a new content-filled roadmap for early 2026
Embark Studios have released a fresh roadmap for ARC Raiders covering the next few months, and it sounds like it's adding a whole lot to the game.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
Protecting Indiaโs Tigers Saves One Million Tonnes of CO2
#Indiaโs fifty year long Project #Tiger has been a successful conservation project. A new research study finds that protecting tigers and their rainforest home has additional benefits to #carโฆPalm Oil Detectives
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •Well, not that Ubuntu was better in the past (proportionally), I would say that it is even better right now despite their flaws! (However the logo surely was way better back then).
However, probably they have to remember how Debian was then, after all its their base.
Flounder
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