If you run a Mastodon server, especially if it's small and only lightly moderated, I would STRONGLY suggest enabling 'Approval required for sign up'. It means that your server is MUCH less likely to become the next source of spam in this wave we're seeing.
Happy #caturday Prince Lamp!
#catsofmastodon #cats #oneorangebraincell #catcontent #catstodon #cat #3dprinting
"Aphrodite the Light Bringer | Tiny Epics"
youtube.com/watch?v=_EFJKPP7QNโฆ
Aphrodite the Light Bringer | Tiny Epics
Want the PERFECT book (of perfect GIFT for a friend) to get started learning about GREEK MYTHOLOGY? Be sure to get a copy of Edith Hamilton's mythology now! ...YouTube
#myart #penguins
@Simon Ashcroft @Christoph S @clarice overhere @Kenny Chaffin
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"These Kaleidoscopic Masterpieces Are Invisible to the Naked Eye | Short Film Showcase."
youtube.com/watch?v=qxkbSk--EUโฆ
These Kaleidoscopic Masterpieces Are Invisible to the Naked Eye | Short Film Showcase
Struck by the beauty and symmetry of diatoms, modern-day microscopist Klaus Kemp recently revived the Victorian art of diatom arrangement. In this short film...YouTube
"...150000 asteroids in Gaiaโs data release 3, from the inner parts of the Solar System to the Trojan asteroids at the distance of Jupiter, with different colour codes. The yellow circle at the centre represents the Sun. Blue represents the inner part of the Solar System, where the Near Earth Asteroids, Mars crossers, and terrestrial planets are. The Main Belt, between Mars and Jupter, is green. Jupiter trojans are red"
ESA/Gaia/DPAC, CC BY-SA IGO 3.0, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, via Wikimedia Commons.
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I mean let's just admit it, we've all run partial upgrades at some point.
Sometimes I need software now, and don't have time to wait for a full upgrade.
That said yeah, it probably shouldn't be in the book
"The Busiest Part of the Sky - Our Black Hole."
Dylan O'Donnell, deography.com, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Milky Way over SOAR."
NOIRLab/AURA/NSF, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
"Der Omphalosgedanke bei verschiedenen Vรถlkern, besonders den semitischen" by Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher (1918).
archive.org/details/roscher_omโฆ
Der Omphalosgedanke bei verschiedenen Vรถlkern, besonders den semitischen : Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive
Der Omphalosgedanke bei verschiedenen Vรถlkern, besonders den semitischen.Von Dr. Wilhelm Heinrich Roscher.Leipzig, 1918.Bei B. G. Teubner.Github.Internet Archive
"Larger than Life."
KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.T. Sparks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
@ntnsndr Thanks to the server admins and mods handling this stuff. ๐ซก
It feels like at a technical level maybe new accounts shouldn't contribute to tending topics.
More on the exceptionally stupid closing of the #Duke herbarium:
โDuke will never be a leader in #biodiversity like it was beforeโ - Kathleen Pryer
dukechronicle.com/article/2024โฆ
โTo kill a programโ: Duke to close herbarium after over 100 years of operation
The Duke Herbarium is the second-largest private university herbarium in the U.S. and is home to more than 825,000 plant specimens, including some specimens almost 200 years old.The Chronicle
I'm wondering where this will go.
The Guardian: Alexei Navalny's Death
Alexei Navalny death: dozens reportedly arrested in Russia protests as Biden blames Putin โand his thugsโ โ live
US president joins world leaders in outrage at Putin criticโs death in Russian prison as EU says he was โslowly murderedโ by regimeNicola Slawson (The Guardian)
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This blog about The Firehouse Five Plus Two and a missing Disney Cinderella song is AMAZING!
Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise
Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise
My goal was to preserve some never-before-heard recordings of an incredible Dixieland jazz band made up of mostly Disney employees, the Firehouse Five Plus Two. But along the way, I accidentally diโฆcabel.com
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Today we have @TheEvilSkeleton back on the show so that means it's time to talk about the cool things going on in GNOME land #Linux
Video: youtube.com/watch?v=LvX-zGMA98โฆ
Audio: podcasters.spotify.com/pod/shoโฆ
#207 Let's Be Positive About GNOME | TheEvilSkeleton
Today we have The Evil Skeleton back on once again to talk about flatpaks, the future of the Linux desktop and some other random topics as tends to happen on...YouTube
Rockaway Beach, Pacifica, California (2016)
Bronica S2, Fuji Acros film
I've always liked the tonality of the rocks in this image. Acros does such a wonderful job in that regard. You can also clearly see each row of waves as they approach the shore in all of their frothy inevitability. I can almost hear them.
#believeinfilm #blackandwhite #fujifilm #darkroom #beach #california #fediphoto
๐ Updates on Roundcube + Nextcloud!
Anna shares updates on Roundcube development and maintenance from @fosdem: current status, future ideas, challenges, a new dedicated employee, and new approaches to security.
The developer of the Graysky client for Bluesky has written up how to embed replies from Bluesky as comments on your blog.
Like I said for Mastodon comments, not going to enable this on my site.
#Bluesky #comments graysky.app/blog/2024-02-05-adโฆ
The Age of Realistic AI-Generated Video Is Here
OpenAI unveiled their prototype video generator called Sora. It does text-to-video and a ton more. Just check out the videos herekottke.org
Democracy On, Not Just Around, the Internet
Schneider, Nathan. 2024. โDemocracy On, Not Just Around, the Internetโ.ash.harvard.edu
TikTok, radiografรญa de la adicciรณn que daรฑa la salud mental de los menores
Un informe de Amnistรญa Internacional desvela que la aplicaciรณn, adictiva por diseรฑo, muestra vรญdeos que pueden ser perjudiciales...
publico.es/sociedad/tiktok-radโฆ
TikTok, radiografรญa de la adicciรณn que daรฑa la salud mental de los menores
Un informe de Amnistรญa Internacional desvela que la aplicaciรณn, adictiva por diseรฑo, muestra vรญdeos que pueden ser perjudiciales para niรฑos y niรฑas con tal de que sigan deslizรกndose por la aplicaciรณn.Eva Ibรกรฑez (Pรบblico)
Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/metrโฆ
Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come
4A Games announced that Metro Exodus has now crossed over 10 million sales, and the good news is they have plans for more games to come.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/moreโฆ
#Linux #HandheldGaming #Manjaro #SteamDeck
More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld
Announced earlier this month, the Orange Pi Neo is a gaming handheld coming out a bit like the Steam Deck but it will be running Manjaro Linux. Recently the Manjaro team gave out a bit more info.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
There's currently an incident involving some kind of Japanese skids who call themselves the "Kuroneko" organization.
They seem to be attempting to commit DDoS attacks on Misskey servers, constantly creating new accounts on compromised instances and spamming advertisements for their hacking services.
Admins who are federating with these compromised servers, while they might not get compromised themselves, may be affected by the sheer amount of traffic volume from their spam.
Admins are advised to #fediblock or temporarily stop sending requests to affected servers for now, if they don't want to get secondhand DoS'd
IMO I never expected them to be Japanese out of all things, kinda funny. They also host VOICEROID and VOICEVOX TTS bots on their Discord apparently. Kinda a weird flex I guess.
But yeah, probably just a bunch of skids.
#fediblock#fediadmin#fedadmins#mastodadmin#misskeyadmin
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets performance improvements, HDR-bloom, bug fixes and their script compiler is now open source gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/neveโฆ
#RPG #Gaming #OpenSource #Linux
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets performance improvements, HDR-bloom, bug fixes
Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition is still amazingly being updated, although not directly by Beamdog with the community now helping out for fun.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
woooo!
Man, maybe we will get a Linux version of the script compiler and not have to do it through wine all the damn time!
nature.com/articles/d41586-024โฆ #Looking Up #public #trust #scientists #PoliticalOrientation #researchers #policymaking
Largest post-pandemic survey finds trust in scientists is high
Study of more than 70,000 people suggests that trust levels vary among countries and are linked to political orientation.Wong, Carissa
if they ever remaster the simpsons hit & run, they should make the time limits on set to kill and alien auto-topsy part 3 even less forgiving
and change nothing else
Alien "Auto"topsy Part III
Alien "Auto"topsy Part III is the final mission of Level 7, as well as the 49th and final mission of the game.Contributors to The Simpsons Hit And Run Wiki (Fandom, Inc.)
Wowzers, that Mastodon CVE recently was quite something:
โข You can inject a post that is attributed to any remote user
โข You can overwrite the server's copy of any remote user
โข You can rekey the server's copy of any remote user, by just listing another key
The full technical write up is worth a read: arcanican.is/excerpts/cve-2024โฆ
Christoph S
in reply to Muse • • •(: aNNa :) blume
in reply to Muse • • •Kenny Chaffin
in reply to Muse • • •Rest those wrists and get back to it! ๐ ๐ ๐
Kenny Chaffin
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in reply to Muse • • •Girl Of The Sea
in reply to Muse • • •Kenny Chaffin
in reply to Muse • • •Muse
in reply to Muse • • •Thank you @Christoph S @(: aNNa :) blume @Kenny Chaffin @fl @fleur @Girl Of The Sea !
@Kenny Chaffin I'm going to have to learn how to make eyes that appear to follow you! Give my paintings a Scooby-Doo vibe!
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in reply to Muse • • •a resting of wrists needs a hand spa (a bucket with lavender & or chamomile ahh heck.. go the whole hog & have a foot spa at the same time too ...
You deserve it.. ;D
Muse
in reply to Muse • • •Thank you @clarice overhere and @Corinne Howell! Lavender handspa...hmmm! โค
My current catchphrase is: It's not realism! It's finely detailed impressionism!
I keep slipping into the extra work because I love textures, and I love bringing extra volume to my characters.
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