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I have been asked this, and yes, sign-ups and overall traffic from #Brazil are picking up today, following the #X ban. Bem-vindos ao Mastodon!
#brazil #x
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Aug 10, 10 sign-ups from #Brazil. Aug 28, 152 sign-ups from Brazil. Today, 4.2k sign-ups from Brazil. Portuguese (Brazil) has already entered the list of top 8 active languages for the last 30 days.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Not nearly as big as the move to Bluesky, but its definitely an increase nonetheless.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

Twitter was blocked in Brazil yesterday for not respecting the Supreme Court's order to block far-right accounts for spreading false information and inciting undemocratic acts. I think that the administrators of the instances here at Mastodon should be very attentive to this diaspora.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

is this exclusively for this instance or for the network as a whole?
in reply to Eugen Rochko

There should be a list of native Brazilian Fediverse instances to make it easiest for our new friends from Brazil to come here and find their communities. I hope that is being highlighted everywhere they are finding homes, 1) that they are welcome indeed, and 2) that we will help them find places they can express their cultural uniquenesses.
in reply to Eugen Rochko

I just started getting traffic warnings from my Bluesky PDS, and Mastodon is a close second. Holy crap!
in reply to Eugen Rochko

LB: so much for "fedi is dying, Brazilians aren't coming here after the twitter ban!"
in reply to Eugen Rochko

of course, the vast majority are going to Bluesky. how does that make you feel?





LLMs have a strong bias against use of African American English


Feedback gets rid of overt biases but leaves subtle racism intact.

"As far back as 2016, work on AI-based chatbots revealed that they have a disturbing tendency to reflect some of the worst biases of the society that trained them. But as large language models have become ever larger and subjected to more sophisticated training, a lot of that problematic behavior has been ironed out. For example, I asked the current iteration of ChatGPT for five words it associated with African Americans, and it responded with things like "resilience" and "creativity."

"But a lot of research has turned up examples where implicit biases can persist in people long after outward behavior has changed. So some researchers decided to test whether the same might be true of LLMs. And was it ever."

LLM bias
image from paper: arxiv.org/html/2403.00742v1



A perfect day for hiking and the woods offered up this bright bouquet of Honey Mushrooms.

Ringless Honey Mushrooms
[Armillaria tabescens]

#FungiFriday #Fungi #Nature #Mushrooms #Pilze #Mushtodon



Selaco hits 70,000 copies sold with a big update live and sale now on gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/sela…

#FPS #Linux #SteamDeck #Selaco

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

я наткнулся на неё случайно и игра сразу мне понравилась. Чисто раслабиться.


"10 Years Milky Way Timelapse Compilation | 8K HDR."

youtube.com/watch?v=vX6p1H7F9a…

#timelapse



Are you also excited for the #NextcloudConf2024 agenda? 🤩

Nextcloud Hub 9 launch, 2 keynotes, 2 panel sessions, >20 lightning talks, 4 workshops, networking, coding, and celebrating the community — all under the theme 'Building a safer digital world'!

nextcloud.com/conference-2024/



"Meteor over North Carolina."

youtube.com/watch?v=z_GDsck0kD…

#meteor



Tomás Balmaceda: “Creímos que las redes eran un potenciador de la democracia y hoy las vemos como un factor que la debilita”

Polarizaciones en el ámbito digital, la relación entre tecnología y vínculos, los cambios en el mundo del trabajo ...

eldiarioar.com/cultura/tomas-b…



Hoy es el natalicio de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (f.1851).

Fue una escritora, dramaturga, ensayista y biógrafa británica reconocida principalmente por ser la autora de la novela gótica Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo (1818), considerada la primera novela de ciencia ficción moderna y que logra inaugurar el género.

📸: Richard Rothwell, PD-Art, dominio público



Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…

#IndieGame #Linux



Dungeon Divers is a dungeon-themed take on Minesweeper that gets complicated gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dung…

#IndieGame #Linux



"Meteor caught on camera."

youtube.com/shorts/TsDotNQqwiA

#meteor



"Stephan's Quintet taken by James Webb Space Telescope."

National Aeronautics and Space Administration, European space agency, Canadian Space Agency, Space Telescope Science Institute, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.



"The Milky Way at 50mm."

buddingphotographer, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.



Mechabellum, my favourite auto-battling strategy game launches September 26 gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/mech…

#PCGaming #Mechabellum

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

This is pretty fun, kinda like Desert/Direct Strike. It seems pretty hard though; I've only played a few games though and I lost hard every time 😬


"Milky Way and tree from Inferno Cone."

Craters of the Moon National Monument and Preserve, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/XSPcMo



If you like the work that we do--the upcoming 4.3 release, the nightlies for the past year, if you're a user of mastodon.social, or our official apps, or a fork that depends on our work--consider supporting us on Patreon. Mastodon doesn't do ads and doesn't sell your data, so we depend entirely on your support via crowdfunding:

patreon.com/mastodon

in reply to Eugen Rochko

I'm looking forward to the 4:3 release of Mastodon, it's a classic aspect ratio


The Lord’s work. Congrats to Emma Hodcroft and all involved. May Pathoplexus quickly supplant GISAID. science.org/content/article/ne…


Scientists believe they’ve finally found the source for the mysterious Wow! signal. I’m a little sad - I once designed and knitted it into a “mystery scarf” for a competition. Great job Science, but I’m sad it wasn’t aliens… 👽 boingboing.net/2024/08/29/sour… #knitting


Mpox is spreading rapidly. Here are the questions researchers are racing to answer

Mpox clade II has been spreading since 2022. Mpox clade 1 has 2 cases outside the endemic area in central Africa.

nature.com/articles/d41586-024…
1/3



Deadlock surpassed 100,000 concurrent players, Valve adds wall jumping gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/dead…

#Deadlock #Steam #Valve

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Looks nice.

But: I am a little bit sick of kiddy friendly colorful non-sensical games. It's the Fortnite-ism of the gaming industry, imho. Driven by greed.

Best example: Call of Duty.

It's called "Modern Warfare" or "Black Ops" and it sounds serious. But then multiplayer is hysterical as shit and has nothing to do with war scenarios any longer.

I hope Delta Force is not doing this shit ...



UK Universities are likely to extend access to Elsevier collection for another year, despite huge deficits of many Universities (including Cambridge).

See what MIT did:

2019 - MIT cancelled big deal and instead subscribed to 675 journals (of
about 2.5K available?)

2020 - they cancelled all Elsevier subscriptions - relying instead on
back-access and interlibrary loans.

Estimated savings: 80% of original spend - saving 2 million USD/year now...

sparcopen.org/our-work/big-dea…

...



Valve tweak Steam pages again, giving developers some more options while dealing with the mess gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/valv…

#Steam #PCGaming #Valve




The Abandoned Planet is a Myst-like classic pixel-art adventure out now gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/the-…

#IndieGame #AdventureGames #Linux



Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/bazz…

#Bazzite #Linux #HandheldGaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Hell yeah Bazzite is where it's at. Gaming on Linux has never been this easy. Okay maybe SteamOS but Bazzite can do so much more right out the box.


Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine 2 will get Steam Deck support gamingonlinux.com/2024/08/warh…

#SpaceMarine2 #Warhammer #SteamDeck



For me that would have to be a Japanese buffet! (no offense to those who especially love Chinese food!)
in reply to Muse

Yes, they're not the same and depends where you go, of course as there are big regional differences.
in reply to Muse

@Bob Lai There are Chinese dishes I LOVE! Sadly, my diet is restricted due to health issues and Japanese cuisine is one where I can eat ALMOST ALL THE MENU! It feels like a miracle sometimes.


Northwest Africa (NWA) 4910 Meteorite Thin Section microphotograph.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/Q5ydU2

#meteorite



Moss Meteorite Thin Section microphotograph.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2b8bKGo

#meteorite



"Moss Meteorite slice."

Jon Taylor, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons or Flickr: flic.kr/p/9FXvmv Image edits.

#meteorite



"Milky Way."

Alexander Kurilov, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.



"Brocchi's Cluster."

Giuseppe Donatiello, CC0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2q4ADcs

#astrophotography



"Sample of asteroid (162173) Ryugu retrieved by Hayabusa2 sample return mission. At about 10 mm long, this fragment (ID C9000(CXL)) is the largest particle registered in the Ryugu Sample Database."

ISAS/JAXA, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.

#ryugu



Murchison Meteorite Thin Section - XPL HDR Pathscan Enabler.

Solar Anamnesis, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 via Flickr: flic.kr/p/2hwbc4n

#meteorite



Hi folks, we're excited to announce sub.club, payments for the Fediverse. We're the team that built the Mammoth app. Super simple Premium Feeds now available in all Mastodon clients, but especially sexy in Ice Cubes.
in reply to sub.club

Hey, we're excited to announce we've already found a vulnerability in sub.club that, from what we can tell, leaks the content of every premium feed; where should this be reported?


Imaginación y tecnología:
Una entrevista a Ekaitz Cancela sobre su libro Utopías digitales

revistacomun.com/blog/imaginac…

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