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@Friendica Support Friendica currently comes with two themes: frio and vier with frio being the default.

The theme selection does not indicate that. What are others thinking? Would it make sense to add a default tag to frio so that fact is communicated to users?

github.com/friendica/friendica…

in reply to Wilhelm

@Wilhelm If it was just me, I would do away with vier and the cumbersome theme system, but I know @Tobias is still a fervent vier user.
in reply to Hypolite Petovan

@Tobias Had you tried the new frio v1.0? What were your thoughts?

Clearly themes are a question of personal taste and arguing about them is very difficult. I really don't want to get into an opinion war about personal preferences as that will lead nowhere. But if tobias or other vier users could share, what aspects they prefer about vier over frio, maybe there is something to learn / takeaway / improve about frio.

I want to also add 2 cents about UI changes which affect us all and how many (me included) perceive them: e.g. it's so funny with the changes in macOS. When they first hit you, they sometimes look ridiculous. And next it's fascinating how quickly I get used to altered UI and my brain accepts the change as nice and normal after 14 days of usage and getting used to.



This list of The 25 Most Significant New York City Novels From the Last 100 Years includes books by Toni Morrison, James Baldwin, Michael Chabon, and Rachel Kushner. Good discussion about each pick too. nytimes.com/2022/06/22/t-magaz…


Think he’ll actually step down now as Twitter’s CEO? I actually think so, but only because he’s miserable trying to do that job and failing so badly at it.


The US government's huge trove of beautiful watercolor paintings of apple varietals. kottke.org/15/11/the-us-govts-…


Discovery Alert!
A once overlooked giant planet may be spiraling into its fiery hot star! exoplanets.nasa.gov/news/1718/…
#NASAExoplanets
in reply to NASA

, what does NASA predict will happen to the star? Will it simply swallow the planet, with barely a blip, or will it produce a bright flash of energy?


A big congrats to Jason Ekstrand, 2022 Khronie Award recipient! As an active contributor to the @VulkanAPI Working Group since 2015, we're proud to see his hard work see some well earned spotlight! 🎉 col.la/khronie #Vulkan @gfxstrand


Look At Those Beautiful Pixels #shorts #Gaming #KingdomHearts youtube.com/shorts/uhzdpfsfhfk


The Jan. 6 Committee has formally accused Trump of "inciting insurrection, conspiracy to defraud the United States, obstruction of an act of Congress and one more federal crime" and referred him to the Justice Dept. for criminal prosecution. nytimes.com/live/2022/12/19/us…


all sneaky @openscience suddenly follows me while I'm reading a paper published in @PLOS i see being fully vaccinated is working

in all seriousness this is a really important paper that everyone should read especially considering #Wisconsin is currently developing its new wolf management plan

journals.plos.org/plosone/arti…

#OpenScience #Conservation #Wildlife #MathematicalModeling



Serious question: Do you guys think it's worth it making a tumblr nowadays?

What else am I going to use to share my work? Facebook? Hell naw. Insta? Twitter? Deviantart?
I feel like other than Tumblr and Pinterest there's not much of a choice.

#MastoArt #art #digital

in reply to Nando's Brain

TikTok absolutely would be overbearing for artists, it's for "content creators" and it's audience is largely those who consume said content. To try to get attention you'd have to be constantly doing things that aren't art.
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in reply to i'm

@angelar I don't even consider tik tok a possibility for visual artists at least.

I want to go back to youtube by january, but it will be more of a production diary, show and tell kind of thing than anything else.

@i'm


Oil Set to Become as Obsolete as Landlines, Experts Warn
But “if Canada and other wealthy countries transition our energy systems urgently and deliver money for vulnerable countries to do the same, we can keep the 1.5°C goal alive,” Segal says.
in reply to Muse

I would agree with you @Karl Auerbach. Perhaps not the best analogy. Interesting article, though!
in reply to Muse

Things that are no longer mainstream rarely disappear completely - not only is there still a valid role for landlines, but there will no doubt still be a role for a small amount of oil in certain applications where there is really no good alternative. But as the demand and profit fall rather than rise, the appeal to investors will certainly decline precipitously.


Nintendo has added golf to Switch Sports. Great to get out on the virtual links again. nintendoswitchsports.nintendo.…


I Made That Bitch Famous

In Donald Trump’s 2011 book Time to Get Tough: Making America #1 Again, the president-to-be made an astonishing claim: Lady Gaga likely owed her international fame to none other than…Donald Trump. “She became a big star and maybe she became a star because I put her on the Miss Universe pageant,” he wrote. “It’s very possible, who knows what would have happened without it, because she caused a sensation.”

The problem goes beyond Trump, of course. Women, especially women of color, are routinely denied credit for their ideas, creativity, genius, and success (not to mention they’re paid less than men for full-time work). So, in honor of Women’s History Month, I’ve put together this woefully incomplete timeline of the lowlights:

#1
in reply to Muse

Today's Google doodle honors a woman painter named Judith Leyster. Her work was either ignored or attributed to men.


Steam Deck 2 focuses on Battery & Screen, Valve paying over 100 Open Source Developers

youtu.be/llZboeDztkg

#SteamDeck #Video #Gaming

in reply to Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮

I am so impressed with what they've done with proton. It's so good I haven't bothered installing windows on my newly built desktop. Can't wait to hear more about gen 2.


Based on fossil evidence, a recent palaeontology paper argues that mammals first evolved in the southern hemisphere and from thence populated the rest of the world. eurekalert.org/news-releases/9…
in reply to kottke.org

Well, that explains a lot! So, can we expect the mammals on other continents will evolve to be less deadly, or more?


Distrotube Went Too Far This Time!! - #Linux Rap Battle #YouTube youtu.be/kv8QF_Bduhg
in reply to Brodie Robertson

okay, so here, in the Linux community, we have SuSE making parody songs, a DT and Brodie rap battle...

What do those proprietary folks have?



In this short animated film, photographer David Godlis remembers capturing the glory days at the legendary NYC club CBGB, "the undisputed birthplace of punk rock". kottke.org/22/12/a-tour-of-leg…


Social scientist Jason Vargo studies the intersection of severe weather events, their health impacts, and community development in his role as a researcher at @SFFED.

In this audio story, hear how @NASAEarth science data is making his job easier.

🎧: go.nasa.gov/3BNcK5S
#NASAEarth



Splashdown!

After 12 days and 14 hours in space, the #Apollo17 astronauts splashed down in the Pacific Ocean at 2:25 pm EST #OTD in 1972. It was the longest of all the Apollo missions with the most samples retrieved and photos taken. #Apollo50th
#NASAhistory



When #Apollo17 splashed down in the Pacific, a recovery team was waiting on the USS Ticonderoga just 6.4 km (4 mi) away to pick up the astronauts and the lunar samples inside the CM.

Read more about the mission’s return to Earth: go.nasa.gov/3V92HyF
#NASAhistory



Are we there yet?

Almost! 50 years ago today, in preparation for #Apollo17’s descent through Earth’s atmosphere, the Service Module, which powered the mission’s flight to the Moon and back, was separated from the Command Module. #Apollo50th
#NASAhistory



Whoa, this rainbow has at least five distinct bands! "Supernumerary rainbows only form when falling water droplets are all nearly the same size and typically less than a millimeter across." apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221127.ht…


✉️ #Nextcloud Mail has seen a number of great improvements with Hub 3. Check out the overview in this video.
youtube.com/watch?v=YpaELzycAG…
in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

it is nice but still unusable for work because it isn't possible to properly search for mails :

github.com/nextcloud/mail/issu…

in reply to Nextcloud 📱☁️💻

for those experiencing slowness in Nextcloud Mail, this did the trick for me.help.nextcloud.com/t/mail-app-…. Run the occ command from one of the replies to update mime types.


Apollo 17, the most recent mission to land on the Moon, splashed down in the Pacific Ocean today (Dec. 19) in 1972.

What we learned from Apollo is preparing us for @NASAArtemis missions, which will return humanity to the lunar surface. go.nasa.gov/3BNkXHe
#NASA

#NASA



Four decades of data from NASA spacecraft and ground-based telescopes has revealed unexpected patterns in how temperatures in Jupiter’s belts and zones change over time. 🌡
Details: go.nasa.gov/3FzEXhA
More about the solar system's largest planet: solarsystem.nasa.gov/jupiter
#NASASolarSystem


Scientists mapped the thickness of the lava flows from Mauna Loa with @nasa aircraft. 🌋🛩

The airborne data is overlaid on a #Landsat 8 image with topography from a digital elevation model.

Thicker lava flows are shown in yellow and thinner in teal.
#NASAEarth



These airborne measurements helped @usgs scientists calculate that 230 million cubic meters of molten rock poured from the volcano during the two-week eruption.

Full story: go.nasa.gov/3hAKBrM
#NASAEarth



In the age before satellites, how were the first world maps created? With mathematics, explorers' reports, the compass (eventually), and with a healthy dose of imagination & creativity, culminating in the wonderful Catalan Atlas, created in 1375. kottke.org/22/12/how-were-the-…


The Tadpole Nebula in Gas and Dust apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap221219.ht… #APOD
#APOD


Hi everyone, welcome to the Museum of Screens!

If you don't know the Museum of Screen, read this: museumofscreens.wordpress.com/…

For now this account is quite empty, but starting in 2023 I will change my workflow to publish the same regular content in here. In the meantime, you can follow me on Tumblr: museum-of-screens.tumblr.com/



game industry needs to bring back official transparent consoles and peripherals.

#retrogaming #games



#introduction

Hey everyone,

I'm Haruko and I'm an independent CG artist and Creative Director working in product visualization and illustrative editorial work.

I use Cinema 4D, Zbrush, Redshift and very occasionally Octane. Curious to see what others are up to in the space!

I just started dabbling in food sculpting in Zbrush, which is my newest obsession when I'm not on client work!

Feel free to check out my work on IG: instagram.com/harukohayakawa/



Washing machine techno. The washer sets the beat and the lads play along with it. youtube.com/shorts/HgaRZZRyLz0


If you're now migrating and you're a researcher - I can recommend akademienl.social

It's aimed at Dutch academics but hey, we colonized the world at one point so why not colonize this server in return (sorry @RHoogstraat)



"To a remarkable extent, inequality, which fell during the New Deal but has risen dramatically since the late 1970s, corresponds to the rise and fall of unionization in the United States." epi.org/publication/unions-dec…


Then and now.

Discover the differences and similarities between launch and recovery during the Apollo missions and the #Artemis I flight test around the Moon. See how @NASA_SLS and @NASA_Orion broke records and made history: go.nasa.gov/3HMQFrP
#NASAArtemis #Artemis



"Gun violence recently surpassed car accidents as the leading cause of death for American children. We're now living in the era of the gun." nytimes.com/interactive/2022/1…


The crew of #Apollo17 returned to Earth 50 years ago today. And what better way to celebrate a return from the Moon than with dessert! After being picked up by the recovery ship, the crew enjoyed a celebratory cake. What cake flavor would you choose? go.nasa.gov/3v2tUc4
#NASAMoon
in reply to NASA

I watched all of those missions as a child but I never knew that they were cutting the cake with those knives. What the heck, NASA? No actual cutlery onboard?


#OTD in 1999: The third servicing mission up to the Hubble Space Telescope launched!

During this mission, astronauts replaced Hubble’s gyroscopes and installed new equipment to make it more capable than before.

Find out more: go.nasa.gov/3W6ohFm
#Hubble

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