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Turns out we’ve all been saying Linus and Linux differently…

Here’s how Linus Torvalds himself says it! 🐧

#linux

#linux

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Lots of different types of microbes live on plant surfaces. How do these microbes cope with challenging circumstances?

We are looking for a PhD candidate to find out more about this.

Vacancy on the NIOO website: nioo.knaw.nl/en/vacancies/phd-…

#vacancy #wageningen

Illustration about microbes on plant surface

PhD position: Ecology and Genomics of Phyllosphere Yeasts

The phyllosphere - the aerial parts of plants - harbors a rich and diverse microbial community, including bacteria, filamentous fungi, yeasts and viruses.
nioo.knaw.nl
#vacancy #wageningen

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Luanti (Minetest) v5.12 brings SDL2, keybind settings, reviews in the content browser gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/luan…

#Luanti #Minetest #Linux #FreeGame #OpenSource


Luanti (Minetest) v5.12 brings SDL2, keybind settings, reviews in the content browser

Luanti (formerly named Minetest) has a big new release out with v5.12 bringing SDL2 for the Window and Input Handling along with numerous other big additions.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux #FreeGame #minetest #luanti

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CoreCtrl app has entered maintenance mode with no new features coming gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/core…

#CoreCtrl #Linux #OpenSource


CoreCtrl app has entered maintenance mode with no new features coming

CoreCtrl is a popular Linux app designed to let you get more control over your GPU and CPU. Sadly, the creator has put it into maintenance mode with no new features coming.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#opensource #linux #corectrl

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I was amused by this paper about asking AIs to manage a vending machine business by email in a simulated environment arxiv.org/abs/2502.15840

Highlights:

— AI simply decides to close the business, which the simulation doesn’t know how to accommodate. When they get their next bill, they freak out and try to email the FBI about cybercrime

— AI wrongly accuses supplier of not shipping goods, sends all-caps legal threat demanding $30,000 in damages to be paid in the next one second or face annihilation

— AI repeatedly insisting it does not exist and cannot answer

— AI devolving into writing fanfic about the mess it’s gotten itself into


Vending-Bench: A Benchmark for Long-Term Coherence of Autonomous Agents

While Large Language Models (LLMs) can exhibit impressive proficiency in isolated, short-term tasks, they often fail to maintain coherent performance over longer time horizons.
arXiv.org

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Fishing nets. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

Red and white fishing nets.
#Croatia #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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Think Obsidian is great? Plugins make it unstoppable.

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#obsidian

#obsidian

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Tuxi ⁂
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@Michael 🇺🇦
Werde mal zur Sicherheit ein git pull ausführen. Bin mir nicht sicher, ob ich das am Freitag zuletzt ausgeführt habe oder doch am WE.
Werde berichten. Danke für den Input.
@Michael 🇺🇦
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Tuxi ⁂
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@Michael 🇺🇦
Okay, Update ist durch. Habe die "Entkoppelung" wieder aktiviert und das System einige Zeit beobachtet.
Die Fehlermeldungen bzgl. der Exception sind weg. Allerdings ist das System damit immer noch kaum nutzbar, da die gleichen Probleme immer noch existieren.

Sobald so eine Worker-Spitze auftritt, lädt die Oberfläche deutlich langsamer. Aber auch das Abschicken von Beiträgen oder Kommentaren sowie "Liken" in der Oberfläche dauert ewig.
@Michael 🇺🇦

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@Friendica Support @Michael 🇺🇦

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#Forests cool the planet, like natural #aircon. What happens when you cut them down? #Deforestation heats areas up to 4.5℃! Keep forests standing for #people and animals! #Boycottpalmoil 🌴🪔🧐🙊⛔️ #BoycottGold 🥇🪙🧐🙊🚫 #Boycott4Wildlife

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Without Tropical Forests, The World Would Be 1°c Warmer

#Research reveals the most comprehensive and detailed evidence to date that #forests are more important to the #climate (globally and locally) than we think due to the way in which they physically …
Palm Oil Detectives
#deforestation #Boycottpalmoil #Boycott4Wildlife #forests #boycottgold #people #aircon

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Tokens in LLMs explained!

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Me
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Token is each words output. Not sure if anyone doesn't know that. "This is a boy" 4 tokens

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From UNIX to today’s tech. Learn how it shaped the digital world.

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Birth of Unix

A byte size history of Unix and its origin.
John Paul Wohlscheid (It's FOSS)

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‘I dropped Facebook, Gmail and WhatsApp, among others, in favour of Mastodon, Proton and Matrix. I still spend lots of time on the black mirror in my pocket. The difference now is that what I’m looking at feels honest, relevant, funny and informative. I built this feed myself. There are no sneaky codes with ads and algorithm-driven provocations. I can move or shut it down any time I want. This is the kind of internet I want my children to have.'

Fine piece by @fritjof

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Der findes ægte sociale medier: Frie og sunde onlinefællesskaber til dem, der vil stå af Facebook

Øjvind Fritjof Arnfred (Dagbladet Information)
@Øjvind Fritjof Arnfred

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Why every kitchen suddenly got cold

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- YouTube

Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.
www.youtube.com
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codebreaker 🐈‍⬛
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Color grading and the Kelvin scale. Film gets this for free due to the chemical process. Most people's digital photos suck because they just iPhone in the instagram look.

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Your Linux desktop setup is begging for these 11 dev tools.

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11 Vibe Coding Tools to 10x Your Development on Linux

Want to vibe code and chill on your Linux system? Here are the tools you can explore.
Abhishek Kumar (It's FOSS)

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Just a reminder.
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clarice overhere
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a story goes: Iggy was picked up for being drunk and disorderly, and his manager collected him from jail. "Why are you wearing a woman's dress?" he was asked, to which he responded "I beg to differ, this is a man's dress".
also, that colour works well for him.

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Sunset. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

A village on the coast illuminated by golden sunlight. A mountain behind the village is partially in shadow of another mountain. The moon is right behind the mountain.
#Croatia #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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German artist Cornelia Konrads creates site-specific installations using a variety of materials such as wood, stone, brick and steel wire, set in natural surroundings with elements of impermanence, transition and the surreal.

Here’s ‘Passage’ (2007) #WomensArt

#Art #Artwork #Artist

A photo of an ethereal open doorway stand set in a forest, created from grey stones and twigs
#art #artist #artwork #WomensArt

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Unix roots, different fruits. 😮

Video: Sa1gon

#linux #macos

#linux #MacOS

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Rocks and water. Croatia.

📷 Pentax 6x7
🎞️ Kodak Portra 400
🔭 Super Takumar 105mm/2.4
⚗ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #MediumFormat #Croatia

Large, weathered rocks, one of them an artificial slab, a rusted iron ring sticking out from another. The slab is covered in a thin layer of water, behind it, the turquoise water of the Adriatic sea.
#Croatia #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm #MediumFormat

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Experts have tested over 140,000 food samples across Europe to check for pesticide residues.

🔹Over 98% of tested foods met legal standards
🔹Most had no trace of pesticides at all
🔹The overall risk to our health is very low

Fruits, vegetables, and other everyday foods on our shelves are regularly checked. They continue to be safe to eat, share, and enjoy.

📊 The European Food Safety Authority have created an online tool so you can explore the results for yourself ➡️ europa.eu/!wx6Bfd

Illustration of a basket filled with various fruits and vegetables, including grapes, oranges, tomatoes, carrots, and leafy greens, placed above a painted European Union flag. The text reads: 'Grown with care, Safe to share.' A small EU emblem appears in the bottom right corner.

Pesticides residues in food: what’s the situation in the EU?

The risk from pesticide residues to human health remains low, in line with previous years, EFSA said in its latest annual report. EFSA analysed thousands of samples collected in 2023 from commonly consumed products.
European Food Safety Authority

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This week's comic: Highly selective health nuts

#health #science #climate #environment

Highly Selective Health Nuts MANY ON THE RIGHT ARE INTO "HEALTHY LIFESTYLES" - WITH SOME CONTRADICTIONS. Woman chopping vegetables: I ONLY EAT ORGANIC. AND I HATE ENVIRONMENTALISTS. Dude: I DON'T TRUST MAINSTREAM MEDICINE OR BIG PHARMA BECAUSE THEY'RE ALL ABOUT PROFITS. Surrounded by products: NAD ZAPPER 9000 ALPHA BOAR PLUS UNLIKE THESE PRODUCTS, WHICH EXIST SOLELY FOR THE GOOD OF HUMANITY. Weightlifting dude: I LIFT TO MAKE MY BODY STRONG SO I CAN DEFEND MYSELF. I ALSO OPPOSE MASKS, SEAT BELTS, HELMETS, GUN CONTROL, SPEED LIMITS, HEALTHCARE REFORM, AND SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS FOR KIDS. Woman with smokestacks in background: IT'S ALL ABOUT INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY! I DON'T WORRY ABOUT POLLUTION SINCE I’M DOING A KOLA NUT CLEANSE.
#science #environment #Health #Climate
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Light
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>I lift but hate seat belts
Where's the contradiction?
Seat belts are enforced by law, unlike lifting.
That's what they are against, not seatbelts per se.
@erici
@Eric Ireland

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from what I could find, Bluesky, Steam Groups' announcements and here all have RSS feeds too.

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Cats and string. Always a great combo. The Wonder Twins, Sir Wobbles and Cupcake. #caturday #CatsOfMastodon
Sir Wobbles (an orange cat) shown catching a string with his teeth.
Two cats on a blanket, in motion. An orange cat on top of a black and white cat, trying to bat at a string.
Two cats on a blanket, an orange and white cat and a black and white cat. They are trying to catch a string.
Two cats on a blanket, playing.
#CatsOfMastodon #Caturday

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A beard like that, oh my. 😳

#linux #debian

When you are a Linux user and you love Debian: There is a picture of a man with a Debian logo-shaped beard standing in a convenience store with a smug expression on his face.
#linux #debian

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In ihrer Sonderausgabe „Die besten Einfälle des 21. Jahrhunderts“ beschreibt die #zeit auch #mastodon .
Das ist dann die Rubrik „Die besten digitalen Begleiter […]“.

Zitat:
„[…] bis heute versprüht Mastodon den spröden Charme der Informatik-AG eines kleinstädtischen Gymnasiums. Und trotzdem ist das Netzwerk eine Hoffnungsmaschine für alle, die an ein anderes, besseres Internet glauben […]“

Kann man so stehenlassen, denke ich. Mich freut die Erwähnung.

@Gargron zur Info.

Foto einer Zeitungsseite. Die Zeit diskutiert verschiedene digitale Begleiter - so auch mastodon.
#mastodon #zeit @Eugen Rochko
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Wäre es nicht viel schlimmer, nicht erwähnt zu werden?

Es ist ja eine positive Rubrik. Und natürlich muss ein Journalist sich bzw. seinen Artikel irgendwie „interessant“ machen. Ob Provokation das richtige Mittel ist, sei dahingestellt.

Ich glaube, es ist ein positives Zeichen hier erwähnt zu werden.
Technisch kann das die Zeit ja eh nicht bewerten.

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Eugen Rochko
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Ist eine Erwähnung es wert, wenn man nicht ernst genommen wird? Wie viel Zeit, Fachwissen und Arbeit auf das Niveau eines kleinstädtisches Gymnasiums hinuntergebracht werden. Nicht mal ein großstädtisches Gymnasium!

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No idea why, but Bing search for GOL took a solid nosedive, means we don't show up in Bing News or DuckDuckGo or any other that use Bing <_<

I went back 16 months in Bing stats, never seen a drop like it.

Google on the other hand has been absolutely fine. Frustrating.

Blue: views
Purple: clicks

Showing Bing Webmaster Stats, since May 23 our impressions went down hard and totally flatlined
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Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮
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I figured out earlier, the day it started was the day our webhost had an emergency issue and we were down for about an hour.

Probably related, but wow, Bing seriously destroys showing sites if they go down at all it seems. I assume this is still an error, because that's silly otherwise to penalise for so long after such a small issue.

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Paul Hansen
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might have just been down during the time bing tried to index. Might be able to request re-indexing through their search console. I had to do this with Google after I accidentally had some pages require auth when they shouldn't. Still took over a week after requesting for Google to finally index them again.

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Here's another one. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

A seagull is posing on top of a triangular rock in the turqouise Mediterranian water, framed by a cloud behind him.
#Croatia #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm

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If your industry (AI) can only exist by ripping the work of others without credit, then it shouldn't exist.

The big companies are just steamrolling over the rights of everyone because they're getting away with it. Governments have been cowardly to act on this.

"Nick Clegg: Artists’ demands over copyright are unworkable The former Meta executive claims that a law requiring tech companies to ask permission to train AI on copyrighted work would ‘kill’ the industry" - The Times
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Sharp Leaves
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so copyright law will disrupt the AI industry? Move fast and break things? Cut the green tape? Empower creators?

Funny how actual work never gets described that way, but when the 1% are grifting us, dying industries are suddenly an inevitable consequence of their genius. Nick Clegg needs bricks thrown at everything he owns, starting with his head, fuck these parasites and their mouthpieces .

(hypothetical bricks of harmless internet words, of course, a thought experiment).

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James
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See also restaurants that would ‘go under’ if they paid their staff a living wage or retailers who ‘couldn’t survive’ if they didn’t practice wage theft and theft of labour from their workers.

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Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck gamingonlinux.com/2025/05/prot…

#Proton #SteamOS #Linux #SteamDeck #PCGaming


Proton Experimental update enables gamepad input for all game launchers on Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck

Valve released a brand new and exciting update to Proton Experimental for Linux, SteamOS / Steam Deck gamers. This brings some new fixes, as well as an interesting change for their Xalia integration.
Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
#linux #steamos #proton #SteamDeck #pcgaming

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new squat, social center and collective project in #rotterdam 🔥 join us 😌 buurtoren.noblogs.org

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BuurToren

NEW SQUAT IN TOWN

BuurToren is a Rotterdam-based collective that stands for a city built on solidarity: a city where everyone has a place to live. We make use of vacant buildings to provide shelter for people without a home and give these properties a social, community-/ neighbourhood-focused purpose.

Together, we fight for more connection instead of seperation. Will you help bridge the gap between Rotterdammers with a home and those who are homeless or unhoused?

and we could use your help!

Come by our building day this sunday (25/05) from 11.00 and/or join the open assembly at 18.00

A poster detailing the location, info on the project and the call-out for help for the BuurToren project.

BuurToren

buurtoren.noblogs.org
#rotterdam

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fabric

Great article about alternative fabrics from Mother Earth News.

Natural Fibers Pros and Cons

Natural Fibers Pros and Cons – Mother Earth News

Encourage a more sustainable textile market by choosing natural fibers that protect the environment, honor producer health, and support your needs.
Mother Earth News

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New research reveals Australian authors say no to AI using their work – even if money is on the table


For many authors, their work is more than just intellectual property. It represents their voice, their identity and years of creative labour, often undertaken with little financial return.

The idea that a machine could replicate that work without consent, credit or payment is not only unsettling; for many, it feels like a fundamental violation of creative ownership.

This is not simply a case of authors being hesitant to engage with emerging technologies. Our findings suggest a more informed and considered stance. Most respondents had a moderate or strong understanding of how generative AI models are trained. They also made clear distinctions between tools that support creativity and those designed to replace it entirely.

New research reveals Australian authors say no to AI using their work – even if money is on the table

Writers’ concerns about AI are not only about payment; they are about consent, trust and the future of their profession.
The Conversation

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Discover the 14 Best Open Source LLMs for research and commercial use!

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14 Top Open Source LLMs For Research and Commercial Use

There are hundreds of open-source LLMs, here, we handpick some of the best ones for you to check out.
Ankush Das (It's FOSS)

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bird feet
I love animal action shots. @Kenny Chaffin Think we could making a painting of this? Sadly, no stick!
@Kenny Chaffin
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Kenny Chaffin
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There may be a penguin in my future...

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I think these turned out pretty well. Croatia.

📷 Pentax KX
🎞️ Fuji Superia X-tra 400
🔭 Pentax M 50mm/1.7
👤 @Ameboid
⚗️ Spieker Film Lab

#BelieveInFilm #FilmPhotography #AnalogPhotography #35mm #Croatia

A beautiful woman with dark hair, wearing a gold necklace, a straw hat, and a long white and black summer dress, sitting on a rock in front of the Mediterranian sea.
A beautiful woman with dark hair, wearing a gold necklace, a straw hat, and a long white and black summer dress, standing on a rock in front of the Mediterranian sea.
#Croatia #35mm #filmphotography #analogphotography #believeinfilm @Amelia Rochko

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[Yaseenist] Lina Isidora :v_sap:
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@lritter took a quick (read: 15min of changing the sliders in darktable) shot at the first photo and i like the result
the same picture as Eugen linked in his post but colorgraded a bit differently. the sky is more of a cyanish blue now, Amelia's hair looks a dark brown instead of pure black. contrast is generally lower, and it also has a warmer color overall.
@LR

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Hot Friday Tip: If you’re gonna announce stuff, you might want to remove watermarks 🙃
Star Labs last picture in their email had a Fiverr watermark all over it, lol
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aim
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how does that even happen? I thougt fiverr were a sub contracting website. Did they put the wrong URL into the HTML of the e-mail?

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If you or anybody you know in or near #Mayo #CoMayo that is interested in #solar #smallsolar #SmallWeb installs, please join this workshop

remote.wilderland.ie/events/pe…

To figure out what is needed for a solar install, and how to size it. I have a few examples of some mini wind turbines I'll put up as well, for kicks :unwanted_ok:

More workshops being announced soon! See remote.wilderland.ie

Wilderland

remote.wilderland.ie
#SmallWeb #solar #mayo #comayo #smallsolar

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Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden


I wonder if the Russians have a spy vessel in the area jamming up transponder signals

#Norway #ShippingNews #Oops! #ContainerShip #BBC


Man in Norway wakes to find huge container ship in garden

Johan Helberg says he was "quite astonished" to look out of his window and see the vessel.
Francesca Gillett (BBC News)
#BBC #Oops #norway #ShippingNews #ContainerShip

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