For if you missed it, @Tobias hidding in plain sight at #FOSSDEM2026 giving a talk about #friendica.
friendica - hidden in plain sight since 2025
Two new Proton launches that might interest you.
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Proton Launches Workspace and Meet, Takes Aim at Google and Microsoft
These two launches ought to keep Big Tech on their toes.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
This map shows the cost of charging an EV at home across the U.S. Home-charging is significantly cheaper in all 50 states than fueling a car with gasoline.
Source: Yale yaleclimateconnections.org/202… #energy #uspol
What’s cheaper: Fueling your car with gas or electricity?
Here’s the answer for every U.S. state.Karin Kirk (Yale Climate Connections)
Living in Australia, this is a little different from the way people here think about it.
Buy a EV with range which only needs charging on weekends. Let the solar panels do that for you during the days when you are home. The grid needn't see a watt.
You're paying the bank about US$1000 a year for four years for the panels. So about US$19 per 'tank'. After that it is $0 for at least 10 years. That's ignoring any benefit from the reduction in home electricity use as seen by the grid meter.
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Seeing Forest As Merely A Carbon “Commodity”: Dangerous Greenwashing
Commodifying forests as merely an investment for ‘carbon credits’ has many dangerous loopholes that human rights to indigenous peoples, take action!Palm Oil Detectives
Sinu Parakeet Pyrrhura subandina
Help find the Sinu Parakeet. With no confirmed sightings since 1949, these vibrant parrots may already be extinct, victims of relentless palm oil expansion.Palm Oil Detectives
It’s that time of the year again! The course “introduction to cloud as infrastructure: the effects of the new business of computing on practice”, takes off April 22 for 8 weeks for the 5th time!
If you can trek down to delft, you are welcome to join. Course capped at 40 students, priority goes to Master students. Please help spread the word!
#cloudsarenotanoption
#programmableinfrastructuresproject
@tudelfttbm @tudelft
Bear Cuscus Ailurops ursinus
The Bear Cuscus also known as the Sulawesi bear cuscus is an unusual and charming marsupial, named for their thick, dark, bear-like fur. Found only on the island of Sulawesi and nearby islands, thi…Palm Oil Detectives
Someone at the gym remarked on my "strange phone" this morning.
I think I might be the only person with wired earbuds, I hadn't noticed until today. For the past 15 years, I've used this little audio recorder as music player, I see a lot of people scrolling feeds between their sets instead of taking a moment to actually breath. Honestly, I think this is a better way to enjoy music while working out.
sony recorders have the highest quality mics out there.
I have the PCM-M10 and you'd be hard pressed to find anything of that quality at that price point today.
Anyone know if there's a way to turn off noddy mode on the newer Firefox builds please?
I don't want to be told "Looks like there’s a problem with this site", I want it to say "500" or "connection refused", etc.
Y'know, like it used to, when it was more useful.
(Please don't tell me not to use Firefox, it's in my workflow for this project and I don't have time to stand up a new toolchain right now.)
You’ve likely never heard of the curious Red #Colobus, #WestAfrica’s rarest #primate 🐒🐵🙉 Researchers now know that protecting them and the #rainforest will protect all other rare #species. Fight for their survival! #Boycott4Wildlife @palmoildetectives
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Is #mastodon becoming an echo chamber? This post from @carnage4life has me questioning our community. The Mastodon team is finally getting some traction, the product improvements are increasing, The #UX is improving, yet people posting on multiple platforms are making comments like this. It's confusing.
I *know* people here don't want this to be a classic social media-clone but we'd *like* journalists to be here right? They aren't coming with examples like this!
As this conversation is spiraling a bit I want to make a few things clear:
1. I'd like Mastodon to be MORE inclusive and bring in more voices
2. Some people don't seem to want that
3. This is core problem to solve: How do we let more in, but not "pollute" your feed?
4. The solution is NOT "gatekeeping", revelling in the fact that AI journalists aren't welcome
5. This is the same reason we lost "Black Twitter" when it came over in 2022
Yes, a lot of you don't want AI posts in your feed (or pick any other topic) but the solution isn't to keep "AI People" from joining Mastodon, any more than it is keeping marginalized communities off of Mastodon.
@Gargron That is a personal choice and one which I totally respect. But I do think Mastodon should be big enough, and open enough, to allow an "AI community" to form, even thrive.
Too many people in my replies don't seem to agree with that.
@Gargron I just came back to my Mastodon account and one of the first things I see is people who have an interest in something being compared to puppy-killers by the "head" of Mastodon.
<turns it back off again>
@Gargron It already allows that. The culture simply isn’t permissive of it. But that has nothing to do with the technology.
Mastodon is a system which attracts certain audiences because of its values and choices. Those are different to other systems. That’s perfectly fine. That’s good.
We don’t need to seek an audience with the same make up as other services. We need to work on systems that have the values we care about. Nothing more.
@mattwilcox @Gargron But that is a slippery slope. I realize this might seem contentious but I believe it's is exactly the same mechanism that chased away black twitter in 2022. If we celebrate our culture, to the point that we are happy we are excluding others, it can cut both ways.
"Being inclusive" is like being "ethical" it only matters when things get hard.
@Gargron As a general observation, I think asking for "civility" is often the equivalent of a "code smell":
Sure, there are cases where it may be appropriate in the current context. However, I suspect that more often than not, it's a sign that one is brushing aside some oppression-related complaint (often from a position of relative power in the situation).
I think it's a good idea to always pause before writing about "civility", and let the matter bounce around in one's head for a while.
Off on holiday for a week so won’t be anything on @gamingonlinux next week.
See you on the other side 👋
An #AnalogPhoto from my trip to #Japan in 2025.
Location: #Higashiosaka ward, #Osaka
The #film is expired #Kodak #Vision2 250D, camera: #NikonF65, lens: #Nikkor AF-S #35mm f/1.8G
#photo #photography #FilmPhotography
#autumn #city #outdoors
#street #StreetPhotography
#darktable
#creativecommons #ccbysa
Leopard Panthera pardus
Of all the great cats prowling the wild, few inspire as much awe and fascination as the leopard Panthera pardus. Sleek, powerful, and enigmatic, leopards are found across a staggering range—from su…Palm Oil Detectives
Keel-billed Toucan Ramphastos sulfuratus
Keel-billed Toucans have dazzling rainbow-coloured bills and are iconic to South America. Threats include hunting, palm oil and meat deforestation. Take action!Palm Oil Detectives
What if AI Just… Stopped?
#OurModernTimes #AI #Internet #ComingFinancialCrash #Scammers #Grifters #Thieves #SuperVillains #HumanitysLoss
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Floating cities of logs: can the ‘lungs of Africa’ survive its exploitation?
The Congo River basin is one of the planet’s most biodiverse ecosystems. But it is also home to a growing population and relentless trade in timber and charcoalHugh Kinsella Cunningham (The Guardian)
Algae has a yum 'umami' flavour and a superb nutrient profile, especially for #vegans. It doesn't cause #deforestation either! Replacing #palmoil with #algae makes sense for rainforests #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #Together4Forests
Half Asleep Chris is my top favourite YouTube subscription! This "Cats vs Dominoes" episode is promotional of his new book. Just remember that it's a book for kids published by an educational publisher! But let me say, the sounds of everything falling in turn throughout the house is very ASMR!
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( Hailstone function in Rejoice )<br><br>n^7 @Hailstone<br> .#[url=https://social.nouveau.community/tags/n]n[/url] .\n<br><br> done [n^2]/[n^2 done] [Halt]/done<br><br> @Parity <br> [a^2 Parity]/n^2<br> even [odd n]/[even n]<br> @Parity.A->N [n Parity.A->N]/a<br><br> [Even]/even [Odd]/odd<br><br> @Even ( n = n/2 )<br> [a Even]/n^2<br> @Even.A->N [n Even.A->N]/a<br> Hailstone<br><br> @Odd ( n = 3n + 1 )<br> [a^3 Odd]/n a<br> @Odd.A->N [n Odd.A->N]/a<br> Hailstone<br><br>@Halt<br>(cc @neauoire)
done [n^2 continue]/[n^2 done]<br>[Halt]/done []/continue<br>refactoring that to just
done [n^2]/[n^2 done] [Halt]/done<br>feels like a holdover from Factran just dropped way in my brain. I am so used to every condition needing a dual countercondition I just reflexively wrote ever rule in pairs (including my math operations).
Implemented a little program to print the binary value of a number:
n^92
[.1 B0]/n^128 .0 @B0
[.1 B1]/n^64 .0 @B1
[.1 B2]/n^32 .0 @B2
[.1 B3]/n^16 .0 @B3
.\s
[.1 B4]/n^8 .0 @B4
[.1 B5]/n^4 .0 @B5
[.1 B6]/n^2 .0 @B6
[.1 B7]/n .0 @B7
I've been thinking about some stuff, maybe you have come across this before or have some insight.
But I was thinking of allowing negative(signed) amounts.
So like n^-4 n^4 would yield 1/1, or identity [].
I'm not really sure if it's a good idea or not, but it's something that's like RIGHT THERE, I feel like it might go to fun places, has a way to indicate the "lack of something".
Just thought I'd share that idea with you, not sure if will implement or not, seems maybe more of a curiosity. I don't know how this will impact matching X)
From the perspective of counter machines, signed counters can work. But it breaks down pretty badly if you allow it in Fractran's encoding scheme.
It means allowing fractions in the bag (2-1 = 1/2), it also opens a can worms around what [...]/x^-1 means. When I was messing with recipe books, I quickly found I needed <0, =0, and >0.
>= as your comparison operator can handle a case stock Fractran cannot: 0 items in the bag. It's pretty easy to do something like [...]/x^0 when x^0 is not compressed to the same "location" (in this case 1) as y^0.
I think until I have a clearer idea of what a negative count match "means", I'm not going to push further, but have you come across something that works that way with counter machines I could use to try this idea? Or do they always have all the different comparison operators to handle that sort of things?
I was just looking if petri nets and that sort of stuff had ways to handle the lack-of-something and there isn't much written about that.
not f(x) and h(x). This is why for my check on the hailstone function I phrased it like this:done [n^2]/[n^2 done] [Halt]/done<br>I have to construct a token representing a choice, the destroy it to represent its negation. With a "not" in Fractran, I could have written:
[Halt]/n^0<br>However, due to Fractran's encoding, this is the same as
[Halt]. *^0is always True.
This is also true of Petri nets. They are all about tokens flowing through a system. It creates a contradiction in the model if a transition can assert you "don't have any tokens".
How can you have a token representing the lack of tokens?
@atax1a yup, and that kinda lead me down the rabbit hole of Type-4 grammars (which there seems to be exactly one citation for so). @june had built a little bit-oriented stack machine. And it could only make decision on 1 as 0 wasn't "in the language". However, I discovered you could expand the language using an encoding scheme such as 1 -> 10 and 0 -> 01.
Basically, you always have to encode unmatchable information into the system by expanding your symbol set.
2^0 = 3^0 = 5^0 = ... = 1 and then everything implodes.
okay thanks for all this, it makes it all pretty clear, I don't need negative exponents, too much noise to an otherwise OISC 😀
I've been implementing a tropical arithmetic evaluator and I had to make a GDC() implementation and it looks so cute
wiki.xxiivv.com/etc/rejoicerep…
0 is doable with only >=, but negatives are a clusterfuck that introduced special cases and 2 or 3 way logic. Open topics for anyone looking to extend Rejoice.
RE: social.treehouse.systems/@danc…
April 1st is over.
However, we really do want to port Haiku to the RK356x.
In fact, there is progress on porting Haiku to arm64 and it seems to be making good progress: discuss.haiku-os.org/t/arm64-p…
We have NO PLANS to deprecate our ALARM-based Linux distro. 🙂
Arm64 port for Haiku
Hi there, I have start to work on an arm64 port for Haiku and the end goal is full RPI5 support. It will be interesting to see how far we can go.So far I got a minimal arm64 desktop image working in qemu: A screenshot from qemu.Haiku Community
We want to port Haiku to the RK356x platform 🙂It's a long term plan but once Haiku port for RK356x is done and ready, we'll:
- Deprecating our ALARM-based Linux distro in favor of Haiku.
- All new PineTab2 will ship with Haiku instead of traditional ALARM-based Linux distro.
- Existing users will still remain on ALARM, however there'll not be any updates (user will receive "there is nothing to do" when they tried to update it)
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry and invention, its famous football club, and its vibrant nightlife. Many people who walk the busy streets of the Toon, are unfamiliar with its dark side: real life witch trials, public execution and dissection, and of course, the vampire rabbit.
Unlike the former two very dark tales from Newcastle, the Vampire Rabbit is of a lighter order. More of an interesting conversation piece for those who seek it out or come across it by accident...
The Vampire Rabbit of Newcastle upon Tyne - The Haunted Palace Blog
Newcastle upon Tyne is best known for its proud history of industry, its football club, and its vibrant nightlife.Lenora (The Haunted Palace Blog)
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How our food choices cut into forests and put us closer to viruses
As the global population has doubled to 7.8 billion in about 50 years, industrial agriculture has increased the output from fields and farms to feed humanity. One of the negative outcomes of this t…Palm Oil Detectives
Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging | Native Americans | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/20…Braiding knowledge: how Indigenous expertise and western science are converging
Researchers are weaving Native practices with western methods to revive ecosystems and reclaim food sovereigntyLela Nargi (The Guardian)
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