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#News: ๐Ÿง๐ŸŒป Researchers create high-protein #vegan burger from #sunflower flour that's packed with iron and zinc. It's delicious. The future of #food is blooming! ๐Ÿ”๐ŸŒฟ๐Ÿ˜‹ Be #Vegan #AnimalRights #ClimateChange #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social sciencedaily.com/releases/2025โ€ฆ




Annual hard rubbish week in Healesville. We just dragged out two decrepit bookshelves, close to a dozen broken plastic storage boxes, and a whole bunch of cardboard boxes--IN THE RAIN! Yes, I am wet!

hard rubbish
Not our rubbish, but could be.

in reply to Muse

Here people try to dump all kinds of stuff (including junk) upon the Salvation Army. They've gotten more and more strict about what they will accept. But some folks just leave stuff at the door and drive away - it's not like the Salvation Army employs surveillance.
in reply to Muse

@Greg A. Woods We have a Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Melbourne as well!


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in reply to Andrew Pam

On our last trip to Sabah (Northern Borneo), despite extensive traveling done throughout about a month of time, I did not see one single rice paddy.

Itโ€™s all palm oil now.



More people are using window tiling to keep their screens organized and focused:

itsfoss.com/rise-of-window-tilโ€ฆ




Wanted: Alysa Liu's gold medal skate, except as politics

in reply to nullagent

if any other country amassed its fleet around us like the US is doing to Iran, it would feel like war already



At the strange little ice cream shop down the street.

"Do you have birthday cake ice cream?"
"No! It's winter."
"???"
"We only have that one in the summer, you know, birthday season."

Birthday Season?

Has anyone ever heard of this?



I was reading some of these colorful yellow and blue Penguin classics from the 60s, and I realized that I had a hard time putting events in relation to each other in my head(how much time passed between the Muqaddimah and the Prince? for example, is what brought that question)

I made myself a personal historical timeline of sort.

wiki.xxiivv.com/site/history

* I know it's an extremely narrow version of history, don't @ me X)

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EUROVISION 2026 is coming! And already the competitors are lining up! This song may not be to everyone's taste, but it is hilarious! It reminds me of something out of The Phantom of the Paradise!

youtu.be/SPpL_ZuRTZY



Gerade eine Stunde geforscht, warum die Admin-Seite unter #Friendica nicht erreichbar war. Unterseiten wie /admin/tos liefen einwandfrei.

Ein paar Issues auf Github zeigten, dass andere das Problem schon hatten. Gab dort aber keine finale Lรถsung.

Als ich dann log/friendica.log angelegt und schreibbar gemacht habe, war die Admin-Seite wieder da.

Hach, wie ich solche Basteleien liebe.

@Friendica Admins



Google announced that as of September 2026, it will no longer be possible to develop apps for the Android platform without first registering centrally with Google. This registration will involve:

- Paying a fee to Google
- Agreeing to Googleโ€™s Terms and Conditions
- Providing government identification
- Uploading evidence of the developerโ€™s private signing key
- Listing all current and future application identifiers

keepandroidopen.org/

#android #opensource #keepandroidopen

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The little red Chabo bird is fascinating.. No idea where he slept last night.. the other younger bird that sleeps up in the tree survived too.. maybe I can develop a breed that can survive in people's trees and avoid a lot if upkeep.. it think Fukuoka Masanobu had a bunch of JiDori birds living in one of his orchards.. I guess with enough birds you can still get eggs (ummm and other meals) even if foxes, weasles, martens, and Tanuki raccon dogs get a one every once in a while.
#Chabo #ใƒใƒฃใƒœ #็Ÿฎ้ถ #็ƒ้ชจ้ถ #ใ˜ใฉใฃใ“ #JiDokKo


What Is Agency and What Is Depression?


[h2]What Is Agency and What Is Depression? [...][/h2]


Around two years ago I told a room full of students studying education that scientists developing new materials was perhaps a bigger niche than computer programming for them to be promoting to their future students.

Scientists Create Biodegradable Packaging Film That Matches Plastic Performance


Biodegradable packaging film represents a breakthrough in sustainable materials. Researchers at Georgia Institute of Technology developed a thin film using cellulose, chitosan, and citric acid. These natural ingredients come from plants, mushrooms, and food waste. The new material blocks moisture and oxygen as effectively as traditional plastic.

in reply to Muse

I like the "bio" bag and overall concept. I'm wondering if those sandwiches are as hermetically sealed as they look - or maybe there's tear strip. I've seen some packaging here which is easy to open, non-resealable. Looks promising.
in reply to Muse

Hmmm.... this is possibly just slightly more environmentally friendly sounding than what we already have: cellophane.


Mais uma cientista brasileira notรกvel, Dra. Mariangela Hungria, microbiรณloga do centro de pesquisa de soja da #Embrapa, passou dรฉcadas estudando bactรฉrias que retiram nitrogรชnio do ar e o alimentam atรฉ as plantas.

O resultado: o Brasil passou da importaรงรฃo de fertilizantes nitrogenados para se tornar o maior exportador de soja do mundo โ€“ usando micrรณbios em vez de produtos quรญmicos.

Seu trabalho ganhou o Prรชmio Mundial de Alimentaรงรฃo de 2025. Mas o prรชmio real รฉ a reduรงรฃo de 40% no uso de fertilizantes sintรฉticos em toda a agricultura brasileira.

Nรฃo se trata apenas de soja. Trata-se de um modelo diferente de agricultura: fazer parceria com a biologia em vez de dominรก-la.

As mulheres do Sul Global tem muita coisa para ensinar ao mundo!

gov.br/mcti/pt-br/acompanhe-o-โ€ฆ

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Interesting. 4K is mostly a lie.

youtube.com/watch?v=yN0H_WfWOpโ€ฆ

in reply to Eugen Rochko

@sundogplanets I've started watching his other stuff now, too. It's really interesting and insightful.

E.g., Elon Musks satellites interrupting telescopes on earth. Prof. Sam Lawler's presentations/writings have been about.

youtu.be/WntZu73iwUA

in reply to Eugen Rochko

letโ€™s not get started on screen size and viewing distance ๐Ÿคซ



Instead of defending the use of LLMs for polishing up your writing, we could be advocating for unpolished writing. Blog posts with spelling errors and awkwardly repeated words. Emails that sound a bit less warm and professional because you forgot the preamble of "Apologies for the late reply, hope you're well! Thanks for the thing last week".

If there's no budget for a human editor, why should the text meet a "professional" (middle class, formally educated) standard? Dyslexic people can just write how they write and people can deal with it. Autistic people can just say what they mean to say and not waste energy on the double empathy gap.

We can learn to read for a more inclusive world, instead of wasting the planet's diminishing resources masking our differences.




"ิฑึ€ีก ิณีฅีฒีฅึีซีฏ" by Yervand Lalayan (1902).

archive.org/details/yervand-laโ€ฆ

#armenia



#Rainforests in #Africa are poorly studied compared to the #Amazon yet demand for #palmoil and #mining is growing threatening #forest animals. Take action! #Boycottpalmoil ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿฉธ๐Ÿคฎ๐Ÿ™Šโ›”๏ธ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/09/โ€ฆ
palmoildetectives.com/2021/09/โ€ฆ



The worldโ€™s solar capacity reached 1,419 gigawatts in 2023, way beyond any predictions. 1 gigawatt = power for a medium sized city


I've been working on a little something for the past few days, and it's finally usable ๐Ÿ˜

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introducingโ€ฆ. gopher.tal!
codeberg.org/notchoc/gopher.taโ€ฆ
it's a lightweight (~3.2kb) gopher client that tries to be as unsurprising as possible

features:

  • clickable and tab-focusable links
  • keyboard scroll and screen resize
  • support for gopher-search
  • special port numbers (still gotta speak gopher)

would you be better off using w3m/bopher? probably

is this still a web browser written in assembly? hell yeah!

#gopher #uxn #uxntal #uxn-networking

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in reply to notchoc

heyo, could someone on Manjaro/Arch help to test this? you'll need my uxn2 fork at codeberg.org/notchoc/uxn2 then run like uxn2 -N gopher.rom gopherpedia.com


With big eyes ๐Ÿ‘€and a special gliding flap called a patagium, Smoky Flying Squirrels glide easily in S.E #Asian #rainforests ๐ŸŒณ Sadly, #PalmOil is a threat. Fight back and #BoycottPalmOil ๐ŸŒดโ˜ ๏ธ๐Ÿ”ฅโ›”๏ธ #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/02/โ€ฆ


Hallo Server Admins, ich habe mir bei Hetzner so eine Storage Box geholt. Darauf mรถchte ich tรคgliche Backups meiner MariaDB Datenbank machen. Die Frage ist nur, wie am besten? Je mehr ich im Netz zu diesem Thema suche, um so verwirrter bin ich.

Daher meine Frage an das Fediverse: Wie ist das beste Vorgehen bzw. welche Lรถsungen sind fรผr einen Anfรคnger bei diesem Thema zu empfehlen?

@Friendica Admins #followerpower #askfedi #fragdasfediverse

in reply to ibims

Ich empfehle mariabackup, um eine Kopie einer Datenbank zu erstellen und dann scp, um die Kopie auf einen externen Server zu รผbertragen.
in reply to Michael ๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ฆ

Das neuere mariadb-backup (ein Percona Xtrabackup fork) ist in der Tat sehr viel mรคchtiger als mariadb-dump und insbesondere bei grossen Instanzen mit mehr als 100 GiB Daten sehr empfehlenswert, da es z.B. full-table-locks minimiert und so die Zeit reduziert in der die Instanz nicht geschrieben oder gelesen werden kann. Ich kann das auch nur empfehlen, wenn man sich ein neues MariaDB-Backup einrichtet.


A retired British primary school teacher with a British passport and a valid visa was shackled, chained and detained for six weeks by ICE in the US while on holiday.

theguardian.com/us-news/2026/fโ€ฆ



Found in tree hollows of #Sulawesi #Indonesia, tiny #primates ๐Ÿต๐Ÿง Gursky's Spectral #Tarsiers are #carnivores with their food, #insects ๐Ÿชฒ๐Ÿฆ— being poisoned by #palmoil and #pesticides โ˜ ๏ธ Fight for them! #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife

palmoildetectives.com/2026/02/โ€ฆ



Activismo adolescente y pedagogรญas feministas: pensar lo digital como territorio

Congreso de Ciberfeminismo visibiliza cรณmo adolescentes producen conocimiento feminista en Instagram. ยฟCรณmo fisurar un territorio corporativo donde "sus dueรฑos" deciden quรฉ amplifica el algoritmo? Lo digital es territorio en disputa, pero las plataformas corporativas son territorio de ocupaciรณn

Mientras contamos narrativas otras diseรฑemos pedagogรญas para habitar infraestructuras propias

๐Ÿ”— chiapasparalelo.com/noticias/2โ€ฆ



Good morning.

Got a call from LBC in London asking if I could come on the radio in 20 mins to talk about the Tangerine Tyrant saying he's going to release all the US UFO files.

Reluctantly agreed, because it's yet another bullshit distraction from some other files.

Good news: presenter was the very sensible Matthew Wright & he agreed that it's all distraction & conspiracy theory wibble.

Better news: he effusively mentioned Space Rocks during the intro ๐Ÿ––๐Ÿ™‚๐Ÿค˜

#SpaceScience #Astronomy



No, opposing LLMs isn't "purity culture." I've seen this now from quite a few different people, and I disagree vehemently. It is good, actually, to have moral principles and hold to them, even when people with more money than you find said principles annoying.




The beautiful and elegant #Oncilla is a #wildcat ๐Ÿฑ found in #SouthAmerica. They are #vulnerable due to #deforestation for #gold and #palmoil ๐ŸŒดโ›”๏ธ and are hunted for their fur ๐Ÿ˜ญ #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #BoycottGold4Yanomami @palmoildetect.bsky.social palmoildetectives.com/2021/08/โ€ฆ


It's the last of the #cats I've photographed last year, that looks more or less calm ('cos it's sleeping, or, at least, pretending). ๐Ÿ˜บ All of the rest look somewhat unamused or grumpy. ๐Ÿ˜พ Maybe I've caught them in inappropriate moment or they just were in bad mood that day. Anyways, it's #caturday, and some more to go, I guess. ๐Ÿˆโ€โฌ›

#photo #photography
#spring #city #outdoors
#street #StreetPhotography
#CatsOfMastodon #CatsOfFediverse
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa



Serial rainforest destroyer #Mondelez ๐Ÿ˜ฑ uses โ€œsustainableโ€ #palmoil from #RSPO yet the continue with #palmoil #deforestation, #humanrights abuses and ecocide. Resist the greenwashing and #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetect.bsky.social ๐ŸŒŽ๐Ÿ˜จ๐Ÿ”ฅ๐ŸŒด๐Ÿšซ wp.me/scFhgU-mondelez?utm_sourโ€ฆ

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