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This fucking bird will shred your hand like confetti. Do not approach.
picture of a "do not feed the birds" sign, which looks like the bird has pecked holes in a persons hand (or that they are feeding the bird) within the red "do not do this thing" barred circle symbol

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Someone posted a joke about cursors but then I realized I didn't actually know why we call them cursors.

We get it from slide rules. Cursor is Latin for "runner".

Annotated image of a slide rule, the movable part labeled "Cursor (indictor/runner)"

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Andromeda over the Alps apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231113.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2023 November 13 – Andromeda over the Alps

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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Andromeda over the Alps

Image Credit & Copyright: Dzmitry Kananovich

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The night sky over a snowy mountain is shown, with the dark sky dominated by a large spiral galaxy -- the Andromeda galaxy.

APOD: 2023 November 13 – Andromeda over the Alps

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD
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Sibshops
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Sibshops
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How did they get it so big? Or is it taken from a telescope really far away?
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Michael Porter
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The idea that we are looking 2 million years into the past is very cool. The fact that the galaxy is tilted from our point of view makes the left side (in this picture) about 150,000 years older than the right side.
Zoomed-in portion of the Andromeda Galaxy picture, showing just the galaxy. The galaxy is disc-shaped, but the disc is tilted almost edge on from our point of view. This means that light from the far edge of the galaxy has to travel 150,000 light years farther to reach us, so when we look at the galaxy that edge is somewhat older than the near edge. Inhabitants of Andromeda itself would experience the same thing - those in the near bit would also see those in the far bit as they appeared 150,000 years ago. If they are looking in *our* direction, all they’ll see on Earth is some hairy folks, banging rocks together… Labels with red arrows pointing to the respective edges, saying “This bit is 150 000 light years farther away…” “...than this bit” and a caption at the bottom stating “When you look at the Andromeda Galaxy, you are seeing it as it appeared over 2 million years ago (+150 000 years if you are looking at the left bit)”

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Cultivate a mindfulness practice. Here's some info on how to get started: psychologytoday.com/blog/the-c…

How to Practice Mindfulness Meditation

Mindfulness is important. How do we develop it?
Karen Kissel Wegela Ph.D. (Psychology Today)

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Linux World Of Brazil Is Bigger Than I Thought #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/ayYbEWEbUcY

Linux World Of Brazil Is Bigger Than I Thought

I'm a boring mono linguist, I only speak English so I was very curious to know what the FOSS world is like in other communities for example where Georges is ...
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#linux #YouTube

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That's a good one
Image of a YouTube Comment: Brodie, honestly I could not watch this video. You look and sound like a constipated used car salesman
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Bill Sideris
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Bill Sideris
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Honestly that's the best part about watching your vids.
I want to be marketed towards only using wayland only stuff.

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I've been working on the command-line API client, ap, for the #ActivityPub book I'm writing for O'Reilly Media. It's a Python program that implements commands like `ap inbox` (read the inbox) and `ap reject follower` (reject a pending follower).

github.com/evanp/ap

Originally, I was testing it live, just running it against onepage.pub. This weekend, I buckled down and wrote real unit tests with unittest.mock. It's been amazing; what a great tool.


GitHub - evanp/ap: command-line ActivityPub API client

command-line ActivityPub API client. Contribute to evanp/ap development by creating an account on GitHub.
GitHub
#activitypub
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Each dot moves around a square but a general pattern controls the phase of the movement, giving the illusion of standing waves.
Give it a repost if you like it. #creativecoding #p5js
#CreativeCoding #p5js

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Watched the last episode of TechOverTea by @BrodieOnLinux , with Georges Stavracas, a great lead dev in Gnome, Wayland, you name it. The amount of shiite and harassment he, and many other FOSS people have to suffer is simply staggering. And no, it's not 'them', it is from the 'free and opensource community'. It's by us. Think about that and let it sink in. We have to do better for them and act, no coffee talk. As a true community.
youtu.be/cOzTz6GQ64E?feature=s…

#foss #gnome


GNOME Developers Suffer Constant Harassment

GNOME is by far the biggest target of harassment in the FOSS space but it's by no means unique to GNOME this happens to basically every project with any noti...
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#foss #gnome @Brodie Robertson
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Brodie Robertson
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@AtPlume I totally understand not liking it and being incredibly critical of the technical descisions that are made, the refusal to do anything but CSD for one is simply a bad idea. This I fully support, what I don't like are people who extend that into character assassinations and go after the people behind the project.

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Firefox Finally Abandons Mercurial For Git #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/g8p0PCFIXlc

Firefox Finally Abandons Mercurial For Git

If I told you that Firefox wasn't using Git for there source code management you'd probably be surprised but they've been using Mercurial with a bit of Git o...
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#linux #YouTube
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Sertonix
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I would love to see them using a diffierent git forge than github but it seems that this is not happening 😥
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Brodie Robertson
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Brodie Robertson
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@sertonix That would be nice and now that everything is on git it would be easier to move but I wouldn't expect it to happen
@Sertonix

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This is like reading an analyst report that says water is wet and fire burns things. Wild that it's taken over a decade for mainstream analysts to say this out loud.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk is a 'charismatic' CEO, but yet to deliver on big promises, analysts say
in reply to Dare Obasanjo

Eugen Rochko
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Eugen Rochko
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Pretty sure the charismatic thing is a few years out of date at this point too.
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Passenger
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@Gargron
His followers think he's charismatic (pronounced identically to "his mother thinks he's handsome.")
@Eugen Rochko
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Javi A.
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@Gargron not to mention he has been failing to deliver his own promises for almost a decade now. Since 2015 he has been announcing full autopilot for Tesla "before the end of the year". Every year.
@Eugen Rochko
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Anil Dash
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@Gargron Only ever charismatic to people who’ve never met an actual funny person.
@Eugen Rochko

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Spock socks rock!

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@Kenny Chaffin One superb fairy wren landing on another...on a stick!

by Peter Cornell 2023

@Kenny Chaffin

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It's time for our biweekly indie game stream (although our schedule has been all over the place due to conflicts), and @gregoryaveryweir is playing the card-based RPG Black Book for the next couple of hours. It's bound to be good fodder for chatting about game design, so come join us! twitch.tv/gregoryaveryweir/ #IndieGame #FutureProofGames #IndieDev #twitch

GregoryAveryWeir - Twitch

Future Proof Plays: Black Book (CW: blood, suicide)
Twitch
#indiedev #twitch #indiegame #Futureproofgames @Gregory Avery-Weir

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Let’s see what it’s like using Apple Music nowadays…

Spotify’s insistence of pushing for discovery instead of my heavy rotations (rearranging my playlist ordering, constantly showing the Now Playing screen after I disable it, making AI DJ impossible to disable, etc.) has been soooo annoying as of late ☹️

iOS alert asking for confirmation of deleting Spotify
in reply to Adam Bell

Eugen Rochko
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I haven't used Spotify in a while but Tidal is annoying in the same way. Stuff like My New Arrivals or Suggested New Albums rarely seems related to my actual music taste. That's actually the one thing I remember being better on Spotify.
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Adam Bell
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@Gargron yeah, Release Radar was really good (and Discover Weekly), but I only perused those every so often
@Eugen Rochko

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So that’s how libraries are born ✨

by @nathanwpyle #books 📚

“Go forth my little seedlings and find a place to plant and grow. So, even if I’m far away the people there can know.” Comic by Nathan Pyle
#books @Strange Planet by Nathan W. Pyle

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Welcome ☕️
Comic by War and Peas. 1. Robot approaching professor, "Professor, I finished all my assignment. What do I do now?" 2. Professor answers, "I dunno. Do whatever you like." 3. Robot: "But I don't know what I like." 4. Professor takes a sip from her coffee cup: "Welcome to the club, kid."

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Listung im Friendica-Verzeichnis

Mal ne vielleicht blöde frage: Aber wie / wann gelangt man eigentlich auf dir.friendica.social

@Friendica Support

Friendica Directory

dir.friendica.social
@Friendica Support
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Crazy-to-Bike
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Crazy-to-Bike
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Das hier ist aktiviert:

Aktiviere diese Einstellung, wenn du von anderen einfach gefunden und gefolgt werden möchtest. Dei Profil wird dann auf anderen Systemen leicht durchsuchbar. Außerdem regelt diese Einstellung ob Friendica Suchmaschinen mitteilen soll, ob dein Profil indiziert werden soll oder nicht. Dein Profil wird auch in den globalen Friendica Verzeichnissen (z.B. dir.friendica.social) veröffentlicht werden.

Trotzdem ist mein Profil nicht zu finden 🤷‍♂️

Wie lange dauert das denn, oder muss man noch was anderes dafür tun?

in reply to Crazy-to-Bike

tom
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Meinst du konkret das Verzeichnis oder auch die „Standard-Suche“, wenn ich zum Beispiel bei meiner Mastodon-Instanz auf suchen gehe?
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Crazy-to-Bike
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@tom

Ich meine explizit das Verzeichnis unter dir.friendica.social

Wobei es auch interessant ist zu wissen, inwieweit man über die Standard-Suche von anderen Instanzen aus gefunden werden kann.

Von meinem eigenen Profil auf Mastodon wird dieses Profil hier gefunden, aber das ist ja nicht der Maßstab 🤣

@tom
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tom
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Als Single-Instanz kann ich sagen, folgen und gefolgt werden ist da noch elementarer auf einer großen Instanz. Auf der Single-Instanz bist du diesbezüglich halt dein einziger Multiplikator. Mit dem friendica Verzeichnis habe ich keine Erfahrungswert, war aber mit meinen Testinstanzen immer relativ zügig bei crawlern und Statistik-Seiten bekannt. Kann Friendica Relais? Das wäre sonst noch eine Option.
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Crazy-to-Bike
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@tom

Ja, kann Friendica.

Damit habe ich mich aber noch gar nicht beschäftigt.

@tom
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Crazy-to-Bike
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@tom

Was für Relays nutzt man denn da so am Besten für deutschsprachig?

@tom
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Crazy-to-Bike
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@tom

Hm, ich habe mal von hier relaylist.com/ 8 Relays eingetragen.

Es werden mir unter Administration --> Seite --> Relays nur 4 angezeigt 🤷‍♂️

@tom
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tom
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Kann sein, dass du für manche Relais erst freigeschaltet werden musst und deshalb nur die 4 erscheinen. Ich schau morgen nochmal welche es da so gab. @dominion müsste eins haben und @Tealk ebenfalls.
@Tealk @dominion :verified_root:
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Crazy-to-Bike
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@Tealk @tom @dominion :verified_root:

ich musste jetzt feststellen, dass diese Relays für einen extremen Anstieg der Serverload sorgen. Vielleicht waren, obwohl im Backend nur 4 Relays angezeigt wurden alle 8 aktiv, die ich über die Konsole hinzugefügt habe und vielleicht sind mehr als 1-2 Relays zu viel des Guten, aber die Load ging auf fast 100, als ich vorhin in kurzer Zeit viel geliked, geteilt und ein paar Posts geschrieben habe.

Nach Entfernen aller Relays dümpelt die Load wieder bei < 1.

@Tealk @tom @dominion :verified_root:
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tom
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@Tealk @dominion Im Zweifel tatsächlich Fluch und Segen. Reichweite vs Auslastung. Ich hab bzgl Auslastung bei Friendica allerdings keinen Erfahrungswert. Abhängig wird es sicher auch von der Größe der Relais sein.
@Tealk @dominion :verified_root:
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Crazy-to-Bike
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@tom

Bezüglich Load und Loadanstieg habe ich auch keinen Vergleich, da ich auf Mastodon ja nicht auf einem selbst gehosteten Server war.

De facto ist die Nutzung von Mastodon in Apps aber deutlich flüssiger als Friendica. Das betrifft das Nachladen in der Timeline als auch das Liken und Teilen. Bei Mastodon kann ich im Sekundentakt liken und teilen, bei Friendica kommt da in den Apps "Es ist ein Fehler aufgetreten" und auch die Load steigt an (wenn auch bei Weitem nicht annähernd so wie mit den Relays).

Vielleicht ließe sich mein Server noch in der Perfomance optimieren, aber ich bin mir nicht sicher, ob das nicht auch an Friendica selbst liegt.

Vielleicht teste ich doch mal noch Mastodon auf dem eigenen Server... 🤔

@Tealk @dominion :verified_root:

@Tealk @tom @dominion :verified_root:
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tom
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@Tealk @dominion Tatsächlich sind die vorhandenen Apps für mich ein Grund, auf der Mastodon Schiene zu bleiben, damit ich die Mastodon Apps nutzen kann. Kennst du @gotosocial ? Auf dem Weg zur Beta, mit Mastodon Apps zu nutzen und überschaubarer Aufwand bzgl Hosting. 👍
@Tealk @GoToSocial @dominion :verified_root:
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Crazy-to-Bike
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@tom

Nein, kannte ich bislang nicht.

Friendica kann man mit Tusky und Fedilab schon nutzen. Aber wie gesagt: Da kommen immer wieder Fehlermeldungen, wenn man schnell liked oder teilt, und das Laden ist mit gewissen Wartezeiten verbunden.

Kann natürlich auch an meiner Instanz liegen, dass die trotz nochmal neu aufsetzen nicht optimal performant läuft. Allerdings wüsste ich nicht, wo da noch viel rauszuholen wäre.

@Tealk @dominion :verified_root:

@Tealk @tom @dominion :verified_root:
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tom
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@Tealk @dominion Ok das würde mich auch nerven. Kenne ich so weder von Gotosocial noch von Mastodon. Bzgl Gotosocial finde ich super, das der Betriebsaufwand minimal ist. Läuft auf ner Mini VPS absolut performant und theoretisch reicht es, ein binary zu starten, that’s it. Wahlweise kann man es seinen Bedürfnissen anpassen und einen Reverse Proxy davor schalten und separate Datenbank anbinden. Ist aber kein Muss.
@Tealk @dominion :verified_root:
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Tealk
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@tom @dominion
ich würde auch erst mal mit einem kleinen relay anfangen oder mit dem größten und dann schauen wie sich das verhält.
@tom @dominion :verified_root:
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alfredb
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@Crazy-to-Bike :Friendica: Das würde mich auch interessieren. Ich warte immer noch auf mein Erscheinen. 😉
@Crazy-to-Bike

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This is the irony of the re-emergence of Harmful Algal Blooms on Lake Erie - more #Walleye. More algae means more #zooplankton (and #benthos) which ultimately feeds these fish. They have also been eating Yellow Perch (another desirable, targeted planktivorous fish), and driven down their numbers considerably.
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Some people want more fish.
Some people want less harmful algae.
Can't have both.
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The push and pull of lake management.
#Eutrophication #HABs #fishing #Erie

cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/wal…

A person on a ship platform cleans a plankton net against a bright green expanse of water. A water sampling profiler sits on the deck of the ship. The CCGS Limnos on Lake Erie. Photo by Fisheries and Oceans Canada, CC BY 2.0
Bright green goo of a thick zooplankton sample scooped on a spoon. Photo Fisheries and OceansCanada, CC BY 2.0
#habs #eutrophication #zooplankton #fishing #walleye #benthos #erie

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The stupid image of me as bob ross got turned into a puzzle in a game 💀

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Steam Workshop::GamingOnLinux Liam as Bob Ross

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Hundreds of Ancient Roman Forts Found in Old CIA Spy Surveillance


So Something Good From An Unexpected Source

#Science #CIA #Archaeology #RomanHistory #Syria #Iraq #Dartmouth #ScienceAlert


Hundreds of Ancient Roman Forts Found in Old CIA Spy Surveillance : ScienceAlert

Declassified satellite images from an old CIA spy program in the Cold War have been used to discover 396 undocumented Roman forts and fort-like buildings.
Carly Cassella (ScienceAlert)
#science #archaeology #Syria #CIA #RomanHistory #Iraq #Dartmouth #ScienceAlert

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Early preparations. Bury.

Canon AE-1 Program
Kodak UltraMax 400
Canon FD 50mm/1.8

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm

A Christmas tree made out of wires and fairy lights in front of three restaurants on a dark, rainy evening. The tree is reflected on the wet pavement.
#35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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Heute den Beitrag über @Gargron in der ZEIT gelesen - das war Motivation genug, meine verbuggte #tuba auf #linuxmint wieder auf Vordermann zu bringen und die Fäden hier nach längerer Zeit wieder aufzunehmen. Neuer Versuch also!

zeit.de/2023/47/eugen-rochko-m…


Eugen Rochko: Eine Mammutaufgabe

Ein besseres soziales Netzwerk als Twitter zu schaffen – dafür hat der deutsche Informatiker Eugen Rochko Mastodon programmiert.
Johanna Jürgens (ZEIT ONLINE)
#linuxmint #tuba @Eugen Rochko

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Si te interesan la educación y la cultura libre te invito a sumarte al grupo de Telegram de Clementina. Allí hablamos sobre software libre, hardware libre, soberanía tecnológica clementina.org.ar/

Clementina

clementina.org.ar

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GNOME Developers Suffer Constant Harassment #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/cOzTz6GQ64E

GNOME Developers Suffer Constant Harassment

GNOME is by far the biggest target of harassment in the FOSS space but it's by no means unique to GNOME this happens to basically every project with any noti...
YouTube
#linux #YouTube
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Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈
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Fabian【ファビアン】🏳️‍🌈
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It's most important to talk about this.

Lemme tell you a story. Back in, it might be 2008ish i was already fully on linux, KDE 3.5 I think. I met someone online I liked, she was using Windows live messenger. I tried with Kopete, a multi messenger. It wasn't working all that well. To the point where I jumped in IRC and just threw all my anger at the devs. How crappy it is, how they can't even make the texting work, they pointed me to the bug tracker. That angered me even more. 🧵+

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Fossery Tech :debian2: :krita:
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Fossery Tech :debian2: :krita:
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Many Linux users are lifeless individuals who want conflict and force their opinion on other. "You have to use KDE." "You have to use Arch." etc.
There isn't really a solution for this other than telling every toxic community member to do something with their lives lol

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Steam Deck (LCD), reviewed by a portables enthusiast gamingonlinux.com/2023/11/stea…

#SteamDeck #Steam

Steam Deck (LCD), reviewed by a portables enthusiast

The handheld gaming space has always been one steeped in both nostalgia and potential. Then Valve came along with their first entry in it, and reminded me of exactly why I love it in the first place.
Pengling (GamingOnLinux)
#Steam #SteamDeck
in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

Andreas M. Heitmann
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I own several consoles (XBox 360, Series X, Playstation 3, 4 Pro, Switch etc.) and I am absolutely enthusiastic about the #SteamDeck !

It's PC-Gaming like it's a console. And better.

I totally love this device ..! 😀

#SteamDeck

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Snow covered Langdales from Blea Tarn

I took this on Thursday, the snow cover took me by surprise. A heavy shower had just moved across the Langdale fells and then the sun came out - it took me a moment to realise that the reason the mountains were so bright was because of the snow.

#silentsunday #photography #landscapePhotography

In the foreground there is a calm lakeland tarn (small lake) with autumnal trees to the right. In the background of the picture snow covered mountains can be seen lit up under a patch of blue sky whilst the rest of the sky is cloudy.
#Photography #landscapephotography #SilentSunday
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New #ISEPpapers! The #protist #Aurantiochytrium has universal subtelomeric rDNAs and is a host for #mirusviruses: Jackie Collier et al. cell.com/current-biology/fullt…

#protists #microbes #protistology #microbiology #viruses #virology #genomics

graphical abstract of the paper showing features of the microbe's genome
#microbiology #protists #genomics #viruses #virology #microbes #iseppapers #protist #aurantiochytrium #mirusviruses #protistology

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Dendritic patterns in sandstone paving. Although they look like fossilized plant material they are actually formed as minerals crystallise between sandstone layers.
Canary islands, Spain.

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Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231112.ht… #APOD

APOD: 2023 November 12 – Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
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#APOD

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Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain

Image Credit & Copyright: Göran Strand

apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap231112.ht… #APOD

A mostly full moon is seen over a snowy sloping hill. An airplane and contrail are seen just about the Moon.

APOD: 2023 November 12 – Gibbous Moon beyond Swedish Mountain

A different astronomy and space science related image is featured each day, along with a brief explanation.
apod.nasa.gov
#APOD
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Naturfotograf Michael Estwik
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Naturfotograf Michael Estwik
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that is such an amazing shot. I remember when he first published it, five years ago.

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#buynothingday
Save money--buy nothing!
#buynothingday
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Bob Lai
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Black Friday is a massive bait-and-switch. You queue up in the cold and dark waiting for a chance to grab a item which is 'on sale' (it's not, really) and in 'limited supply' (also not real).

If a big-screen TV normally costs $1200, but Ugly Box Store is selling it for $600, the manufacturer is still making a profit, only now has the added entertainment of watching people gouge each other's eyes out trying to score 'big savings.'

in reply to Muse

Sheila Nagig
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Sheila Nagig
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I've often speculated that the ruling class/moneyed interests amused themselves by getting us to fight with each other. You can't get much more disgusting than fighting over consumer goods when you could buy them any other day and save yourself the bruises, even if it means paying full price. I just really don't get materialism. It's like the energy drink paradox in which the more you drink the more exhausted you get. It's a psychological negative feedback loop. It brings out the worst in us too.

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For decades corporate Australia has drooled over US Black Friday. This looked so much better than Melbourne Cup Day! Finally, it has worked its way into our culture, even though most Australians have no idea that it is a post Thanksgiving shopping spree event in the US.

This weekend it was already awful on the roads and near shopping centres. On Saturday mornings I often like to go to Eastland Shopping Centre, not so much for the shopping as for the plaza area where the local library and Kyoto Cafe are situated. I pick up a book or bring a book, read, have lunch, maybe pick something up from the shops (like socks yesterday), then head home.

Silly season has hit big and early this year. So many dangerous drivers on the road. I'm going to have to skip my weekly treat until January, because I refuse to be near the mayhem. sigh!

in reply to Muse

𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
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𝕕𝕚𝕒𝕟𝕖𝕒 🏳️‍⚧️🦋
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Can't wait until it opens... I'll be there for a few hours before work every day! Coffee, cats, and books!
in reply to Muse

Kenny Chaffin
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Kenny Chaffin
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Silly Season.....maybe Crazy Season....people....more crazy people!

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Please look at these incredible illuminated manuscript cookies katie made yesterday
Twelve cookies hand decorated with fanciful medieval creatures such as a hunting squirrel and two rabbit knights

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Libreboot Trolls FSF With New Canoeboot Project #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/ru2D6brF2H0

Libreboot Trolls FSF With New Canoeboot Project

A while back I talked about some fun drama between libreboot's developer Leah Rowe and a couple of FSF people and Leah is back to mess around again with a ve...
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#linux #YouTube

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On a walk into the sunset with Strange-cat.

(Vertical pic.)

#caturday #cats #catsofmastodon

A countryside scene. An orange, white and black cat is walking along a Yorkshire dry stone wall. Her tail is up and lightly curled, curious but relaxed. On either side of the wall and into the distance are green fields. In the far distance, there are some shadow grey hills - with an orange glow of a sunset behind.
#cats #CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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This is Australia's native bronzewing pigeon. They sparkle! They also have this gorgeous deep "hoot" they make, which sounds like an owl.
bronze wing
by Didgemack

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📢 The University of Virginia is launching a fully-funded PhD in Media Studies. Applications for Fall 2024 are now open!

🔭 This interdisciplinary research degree investigates texts, audiences, industries, and tech in relation to economic, political, and social systems of power.

💸 Funding covers tuition, fees, health insurance, and an annual stipend of $30K for up to 5 years.

📅 Deadline:
December 15

📝 Details:
mediastudies.as.virginia.edu/a…

#mediastudies #commodon #communication #academicchatter

#academicchatter #commodon #communication #mediastudies

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We should all be demanding that our governments invest in open source like this.

Gnome Receives €1M from German Government omgubuntu.co.uk/2023/11/gnome-…


GNOME Receives €1M Investment from Sovereign Tech Fund

Heard of the Sovereign Tech Fund? I hadn’t, but the GNOME project has bagged itself a whopping €1 million investment from them. GNOME plans to use the cash to “modernize the platform,...
Joey Sneddon (OMG! Ubuntu!)

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