yesterday I had an amazing session with a anthropologist friend in the #HailuotoOrganum developing #scoresforvisitors
I used a fog horn and she brought her childhood kantele. we talked very deeply how spaces influence our behavior and how limited we behave in public, it was very interesting, i am preparing to publish the session, you can follow the hashtag
archive: rec-on.org/kaiku.html
hailuoto-organum.info/
Microsoft managed to trouble some open source devs.
itsfoss.com/news/microsoft-loc…
Microsoft Locked Out VeraCrypt, WireGuard, and Windscribe from Pushing Windows Updates
A mandatory verification requirement Microsoft introduced in October took them out.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Another wander back to 2012 and the SIPEXII expedition. At the last sampling site (unplanned, we were stuck) - we had a visit from a Minke whale!
It decided to expand a hole that a seal made the day before - in ice about 10cm thick and not quite solidly frozen - for some room to breathe. The whale hung around for quite a while, returning to this spot to grab air.
It was .. very spectacular.
#fieldworkFriday #seaice #Antarctica
I discovered three new geckos in Cambodia’s limestone caves – and that’s not all we found
The whole ecosystem inside a cave feeds off guano, dead bats, or any dead animals on the ground. It’s not for the faint-heartedPhoebe Weston (The Guardian)
More Pizzicato Five fun!
Their videos are GREAT!
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Had to say goodbye to my good friend Liza today. She was always very gentle and kind. Thank you for all the good times, Liza. Rest in peace.
Palm Oil Is Ruining Kalangala Uganda — Locals Paying the Price
A catastrophic storm in #Uganda’s Kalangala district left nearly 1,000 households homeless. The real culprit? Rampant #deforestation for #palmoil. Once rich in native forests that buffered storms, …Palm Oil Detectives
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Tornado forces joyful merging of wedding and volleyball tournament - YouTube
That's a crossover!
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Many years ago I had a somewhat friend named Albert Pot. I suggested he'd study pharmacy so one day he could start a pharmacy called A Pot Hee!
He warmed to the idea and thus studied tropical forestry 🤨 What he did do was to print little business cards.
A Pot invites you to A Pot Thee (small improvement, yet not true to the original)
Albert handed these out to girls who would often take him up on the offer. He was a gay dude, which caused great confusion to the girls: it was really just tea.
¡Ándale! ¡Arriba! Speedy Gonzales set to make his triumphant return to the silver screen
The comeback story of ‘the fastest mouse in all of Mexico’ reveals how audiences – not cultural gatekeepers – shape the meaning of representation.The Conversation
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Positive feedback has also been received for the stable version
@Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪 @FollowBackBot @Friendly Koala @AJ Sadauskas yes i did, but i posted the pic of the resultant page, above... here it is again... i dunno what to do with this page once there.
i suppose my main question here for you is -- how do you feel about any of your instance users, eg me, using this new possibility, wrt your server resources?
@Friendly Koala @Marek 🇦🇺🇩🇪 @AJ Sadauskas @FollowBackBot today i have mucked about some more with this, & now have formed a tentative conclusion that this service is not compatible with friendica.
the essential first step is to
FollowBackBotFollow me and I will follow you back. Your public posts will then be boosted through tags.pub. Unfollow me, and the boosts will stop
but afaict the #friendica GUI simply provides no facility to DO that initial Follow of this service. i tested in #FirefoxNightly, #Floorp, & Vivaldi.
in Masto, per pic below, searching for that tag does generate the standard Masto Follow Hashtag button.
otoh by contrast, in friendica a completely different page ensues, per next pic, which has NO button or any other way obvious to me, to actually DO the Follow.
alas, it seems i still have no good way so far to expand the reach of hashtag-fetching across fedi, in a small friendica instance.
Catnip's Other Uses
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Enjoy the videos and music that you love, upload original content and share it all with friends, family and the world on YouTube.youtube.com
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Big new Wasmtime security release today - 11 new CVEs found including 2 critical ones using LLMs.
bytecodealliance.org/articles/…
If LLMs can find this many critical bugs in a project that is as rigorous about security as Wasmtime, then get ready for projects with weaker security postures to do a lot worse. Like,,, actually.
Wasmtime's April 9, 2026 Security Advisories
A new world for security-critical projectsBytecode Alliance
This also reminds me of f.duriansoftware.com/@joe/1163…
The only pushback I'd provide is that I think it's less "the people have chosen" and more "capital has chosen". We're here only because hundreds of billions have been sunk into this.
Joe Groff (1M Context) (@joe@f.duriansoftware.com)
is it just me, or does the a. i. companies’ recent focus on automating exploit finding read as an “engage with us Or Else” ploy against the projects that wouldn’t take generated code contributions but can’t ignore security issuesJoe Groff (1M Context) (Durian Software)
A Server That Forgets: Exploring Stateless Relays | Tor Project
In this post we explore how a stateless, diskless operating system can improve relay security with a focus on software integrity and physical attack resistance. This work and guest post is by Osservatorio Nessuno who run exit relays in Italy.blog.torproject.org
The most expensive dumbell in the world..
We've taken off the forestay yesterday, we'll take it all apart, have a new stay made and try to put the whole thing back together without breaking anything.
I'm so done going up the mast when its only partly stayed, it's harrowing af
#theBoatyard
Satellite Navigation in the 18th Century
More than two centuries ago, it was possible to very accurately pinpoint your position on earth by means of ‘satellites’.LOW←TECH MAGAZINE
Mastodon is about to launch its take on Bluesky’s starter packs
Mastodon is getting ready to roll out Collections, a feature that allows you to find and create lists of accounts worth following.Emma Roth (The Verge)
🏝 Próspera: la fantasía neocolonial de Peter Thiel en Honduras
Gobierno propio, policía, tribunales, Bitcoin, terapia génica mientras desplaza al pueblo garífuna de sus tierras ancestrales. Mientras Palantir crea ImmigrationOS para vigilar migrantes, Thiel coloniza territorios caribeños con "ciudad-estado libertaria" que promete "restaurar la civilización occidental".
🔗 ctxt.es/es/20260201/Politica/5…
¿Cómo resistir cuando el neocolonialismo tecnológico usa tratados internacionales como arma?
HJ - Harley
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in reply to It's FOSS • • •if i were these open source devs, i would make a public announcement, that windows will no longer be supported.
People and companies who use their software can then choose to switch away from microslop or complain to them, that their software isnt being updated anymore.
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