Another interview with a person from Session. 👇
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Session's Co-Founder Thinks You Don't Need to Ditch WhatsApp Completely
Kee Jefferys on why privacy messaging should be an option, not a replacement.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Nextcloud community meetup page is broken..
We keep on running into a lot of quality issues with @nextcloud
I wonder if their QA team is really up to speed with the new demand.
hi! At the moment the page is up: help.nextcloud.com/t/berlin-ne…
If it is still down for you, there might be an issue on your end.
Thanks for reporting!
🐻 Berlin Nextcloud community meetup
Berlin Nextcloud community meetup We’d like to restart the Berlin Nextcloud meetup like we used to have at c-base before the pandemic.Nextcloud community
Palm Oil Free Makeup, Cosmetics and Perfume
Here are some palm oil free makeup, cosmetics and perfume brands that do not use rainforest-destroying palm oil. If you are ever in doubt look for the prefixes: LAUR, STEAR, GYLC and PALM in the in…Palm Oil Detectives
Vouch looks to prevent AI slop in open source projects.
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Mitchell Hashimoto Launches 'Vouch' to Fight AI Slop in Open Source Ecosystem
New tool helps open source projects manage the scourge of AI slop.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
An update on Linux Mint's release schedule.
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Linux Mint Wants Fewer Releases Each Year (For Good Reasons)
Lead developer says frequent releases leave little time for development.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
moving out to MX Linux
the Mint is too laggy for my old laptop 😭
How parakeets make new friends in a surprisingly human way
Monk parakeets ease into new friendships, slowly approaching strangers to avoid aggressive encounters. Researchers watched how birds shared space, groomed each other, and escalated to deeper social bonds over time.ScienceDaily
fantastic news! the first kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Pukenui / Anchor Island:-
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First kākāpō chick in four years hatches on Valentine's Day
The first kākāpō chick of the breeding season has hatched on Pukenui Anchor Island.www.doc.govt.nz
Share to Fedi Button Builder
Someone asked me if there was a share button for Friendica. I didn't really surprise me that I couldn't find one. I'd written one a while back for Mastodon, but it wouldn't connect to Friendica. I figured out why and rewrote my script so it can be extended to theoretically share to any Fediverse platform.
This is all done with JS on the client side. There's no proxy or connector service. I also set it up so you can load a minified script from a CDN.
Right now it only supports share buttons for Mastodon, any ActivityPub platform that uses the same post composer setup as Mastodon, and Friendica.
In fact, I shared this post you're reading right now using a button from the link below where you can configure buttons and grab the code you'd need to drop into your website.
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I was specifically interested in share buttons you can put on a personal website so visitors to the site can easily share your content to their fedi accounts, not for me to share content to my own fedi accounts.
And I wanted it to look and work as closely as possible to how pressing a Facebook or X/Twitter share button works. Once someone has visited your website and told it to remember their instance they don't have to enter it again, so later when they hit the share button on your site it's as frictionless as sharing to any of the centralized social sites.
@Random Penguin Nods, "This sounds like what Fedishare (abandonware sadly) does, but they do it via extension rather than being on the web page to get around the instance issue. In the extension settings, you set what instance your on for whichever Fedi services you use, limited to one instance per service (programmer's choice?), and if you're on a web page you want to share, you simply click on the Fedishare button in your toolbar followed by clicking on the service, and you get a pre-filled new post ready for final touches and posting or scheduling.
Not quite the same as having a button on a web page mind you, but it works pretty well, I've been using it for a few years across my various accounts here.
Mount Rainier rises beyond the trees.
A small patch of grass stands quietly in the water in front of me.
I stood there for a while watching the ripples move around it and just taking it in.
#PNW #MountRainier #AlpineLake
My talk and the new ETHBoulder conference is now up—"From Determinism to Determinism in Online Governance": x.com/ethereumboulder/status/2…
More or less the written version is here: nathanschneider.info/2026/02/c…
If Anthropic is right and AIs should be treated as people, then when given positions of power they should be held accountable and limited in the normal way. Wouldn't you agree?
They certainly act more like people than traditional computer software. Including making the same mistakes.
What's to say they won't make the same mistakes as human governors?
You are being judged ...
📷 Photography by Michael Hike
#Photo #Photography #Photographer #wildlifephotography
Astronaut, author, professional football player, and STEM educator Leland Melvin was born #OTD in 1964.
Here he is in the greatest photo ever produced by the US space program.
Image: NASA
So...I need to know more...
President Obama told an interviewer that aliens are real but aren't being kept at Area 51. The interviewer did not....repeat DID NOT...ask any follow-up questions.
A few years back, Obama told Stephen Colbert that there are objects moving around our atmosphere that we don't understand (paraphrasing from memory).
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New Research: Indigenous Communities Reduce Amazon Deforestation by 83%”
Although #deforestation rates in the Brazilian #Amazon have halved, this globally critical biome is still losing more than 5,000km² every year. That’s an area three times larger than Greater London…Palm Oil Detectives
First run after the Achilles injury, it went with a very mild pain, so that's good so far. But the pace was extremely slow and the heat rate was very high 😢
Also my new video is out, which coincidentally overlapped with the injuries that the video was exactly scripted for 😂 like testing my thesis on myself first 😁🥇
#running #runnersofmastodon #marathon #marathontraining
Tapanuli Orangutan Pongo tapanuliensis
Act now and save the Tapanuli Orangutan – boycott palm oil! Fewer than 800 individual animals remain alive due to palm oil and timber deforestation.Palm Oil Detectives
Have you wondered where the claim that autistic people lack empathy came from?
The “jellyfish” study (2011) was influential in this, as it concluded that autistic people lacked Theory of Mind & capacity for moral reasoning.
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In the fictional scenario given to participants, Janet tells a friend it’s safe to swim with jellyfish. She believes they’re harmless. The friend is stung and dies.
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#Autism #Empathy #Neurodiversity #Psychology #TheoryofMind #ActuallyAutistic
Neuroscientists find evidence that autistic patients have trouble understanding others' intentions
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study from MIT neuroscientists reveals that high-functioning autistic adults appear to have trouble using theory of mind to make moral judgments in certain situations.Anne Trafton (Medical Xpress)
Autistic participants were more likely than non-autistic participants to say Janet was to blame, despite her good intentions.
This was interpreted as evidence of faulty moral reasoning or reduced empathy.
But that conclusion rests on three errors of logic built into the task itself, and not on evidence that autistic people care less about others.
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There are now 58 big plushies left (US only), and 22 small ones (US, UK, EU).
I posted this earlier today, but realized it was not a reasonable time for US folks. So here goes: The big #plushtodon is now on sale, 20% off. Only available in the US, shipping locally. There are 87 left and we will likely never make one of this size again. I have some cool new things planned and clearing them out would be a big help. Thanks!shop.joinmastodon.org/products…
Mastodon stuffed toy
Deliberately friend-sized and friend-shaped, with a soft surface material and soft, squishy stuffing, the toy is perfect as a travel companion you can rest your head on, or to fill in for you at business meetings.Mastodon
Bald-headed Uacari Cacajao calvus
With their long shaggy coats and striking bright red faces, Bald-headed Uacaris are true icons of the Amazon rainforest and are found in #Brazil, #Peru and #Colombia. When a #Uacari has a bright re…Palm Oil Detectives
Somehow the sea always is somewhere far away. Even if you live near it. Someone else's sea.
#photo #photography
#spring #outdoors
#sea #seaside
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
Home sweet home. The importance of old trees as habitat, nesting #RainbowLorikeet
Photograph by Gabrielle Pounsett, @gabriellepamela50
Yes decades of “friends of Merri Creek” activities eg rubbish removal, weed removal, revegetation with trees and bushes so “rewilding” return of habitat for insects, birds even some mammals like Kangaroos and Wallabies who turn up for the indigenous grasses.
Long time no see, so I thought I'd share some pictures from last year.
This picture was taken on the edge of one of my favorite backcountry cycling routes in my second home in Styria, Austria.
#styria #austria #cycling #biketooter #alps #mountainbiking #photography
Starlink Is Dropping From the Sky Again and Again. Scientists Warn Earth Is Already Feeling the Effects
For decades, space safety rules assumed satellite reentries would stay rare. By early 2026, with over 70,000 megaconstellation spacecraft planned, that assumption has collapsed.Evelyn Hart (Indian Defence Review)
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