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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.

#MastoAdmin #Fediblock




@atpfm @siracusa I couldn't stop thinking about this after listening to the latest episode (surely I can't be the first to do this?)

Introducing EarSightโ„ข




"Aphrodite the Light Bringer | Tiny Epics"

youtube.com/watch?v=_EFJKPP7QNโ€ฆ



One of the people at the community learning centre insisted on taking a photo of me on Thursday with my mostly completed painting. It still needs a signature, but at least in this picture I'm holding it. So, everyone knows who nearly broke her wrists painting such fine detail on those penguins! This is entitled "Tux and Sprinkles". Any guesses on which is Tux and which Sprinkles?
#myart #penguins
@Simon Ashcroft @Christoph S @clarice overhere @Kenny Chaffin
in reply to Muse

Awesome pic.. well done...
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
in reply to Muse

Thank you @clarice overhere and @Corinne Howell! Lavender handspa...hmmm! โค

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.



"These Kaleidoscopic Masterpieces Are Invisible to the Naked Eye | Short Film Showcase."

youtube.com/watch?v=qxkbSk--EUโ€ฆ



"...150000 asteroids in Gaiaโ€™s 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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mastodon - Link to source
Solar Anamnesis
@unnameduser ๐Ÿคฏ wow it does!


in reply to Brodie Robertson

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

in reply to Da_Boom

@Da_Boom There's nothing wrong with doing pacman -S, pacman -Sy is the issue and shouldn't be run


"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_omโ€ฆ



"Larger than Life."

KPNO/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/R.T. Sparks, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.



Thinking about multi-server aggregations and recommendation systems on decentralized online social networks like the #Fediverse.

Here we see an exploit: someone has created hundreds of fake accounts on different servers to spam the same tag.

#spam

in reply to Nathan Schneider

@ntnsndr Thanks to the server admins and mods handling this stuff. ๐Ÿซก

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:

โ€œDuke will never be a leader in #biodiversity like it was beforeโ€ - Kathleen Pryer

dukechronicle.com/article/2024โ€ฆ



I'm wondering where this will go.

The Guardian: Alexei Navalny's Death

in reply to Muse

I'm hoping his death will stir up a turn over in power in Russia. But how bloody that would be is anyone's guess.
in reply to Muse

Never trust the Russians


Yup.

his death will stir up a turn over in power in Russia


Nope,



This blog about The Firehouse Five Plus Two and a missing Disney Cinderella song is AMAZING!

Firehouse Five and the Cinderella Surprise

in reply to Muse

I knew the guy who used to play piano at the end of Main Street. (Not a personal friend, but knew him from his job and he remembered my name.)


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-zGMA98โ€ฆ

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



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



๐Ÿ”„ 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.

fosdem.org/2024/schedule/eventโ€ฆ




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-adโ€ฆ

in reply to Boris Mann

Phew, yeah. The only thing worse than blog comments are social media replies.


The Age of Realistic AI-Generated Video Is Here. OpenAI unveiled their prototype video generator called Sora โ€” I literally cannot believe what Iโ€™m seeing. Just stunning stunning videos. kottke.org/24/02/the-age-of-reโ€ฆ
in reply to kottke.org

To be fair, two-legged horses and all other marvelous things we could see in a lot of those videos are not very realistic, I am afraid ๐Ÿ˜…
in reply to kottke.org

yeah but also itโ€™s awful and ugly and will only ultimately be used to deceive and manipulate people.


A rare photo of the last steam-sheep before electrification.


Democracy On, Not Just Around, the Internet ash.harvard.edu/publications/dโ€ฆ


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...

#CuidadosDigitales

publico.es/sociedad/tiktok-radโ€ฆ



We could be wrong, but the FOSS Force crystal ball tells us weโ€™ll see a production-ready version of Cosmic DE released by late April, just in time for this yearโ€™s LinuxFest Northwest: System76 Says Cosmic Desktop's Alpha Release Is Almost Here - FOSS Force fossforce.com/2024/02/system76โ€ฆ


Metro Exodus hits 10 million sales - and there's more to come gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/metrโ€ฆ

#FPS #MetroExodus #PCGaming



More details on the Manjaro Orange Pi Neo gaming handheld gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/moreโ€ฆ

#Linux #HandheldGaming #Manjaro #SteamDeck

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux ๐Ÿง๐ŸŽฎ

some things I'm surprised with that they seem to get it right (trackpads, although terrible position), while other things I'm surprised they get it wrong (I really don't understand the need for a 1920x1200 screen. 800p is great and just more efficient)
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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




Arriving home in the highlands on the Caledonian sleeper never stops being magical. Sipping coffee and eating porridge in bed - bliss .


Neverwinter Nights: Enhanced Edition gets performance improvements, HDR-bloom, bug fixes and their script compiler is now open source gamingonlinux.com/2024/02/neveโ€ฆ

#RPG #Gaming #OpenSource #Linux




FlatOut is free on GOG tap in gog.com/en/game/flatout


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



Wowzers, that Mastodon CVE recently was quite something:

โ€ข You can inject a post that is attributed to any remote user
โ€ข You can overwrite the server's copy of any remote user
โ€ข 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-2024โ€ฆ



hey everyone i made a funny meme. please remember to give attribution to me if you use it. i made it all by myself and want full credit

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