Jane Goodall, the primatologist and conservationist, has died at age 91. Here's more from NBC.
#JaneGoodall #Primatology #Conservation #Chimpanzees #Biology #Zoology #RIP #InMemoriam
Goodall's field research changed the understanding of humans' closest relative.Julia Jacobo (ABC News)
Concept that shouldn't be hard to make: a fediverse Patreon/OF/etc alternative.
I don't think it needs to be or even should be its own instance patrons have to make fedi accounts on. Rather, it could just approve follows from an existing fedi account based on payment. You'd request follow to a closed-follows account, give your account handle when making payment, then get approved.
the payments situation is going to be a nightmare because it will be terribly unreliable. Even a platform like OF (or any porn site really) has to use many payment processor backends simultaneously.
The only way around that problem is crypto.
Auto Parts Supplier's Bankruptcy Spells Potential Trouble for Loads of People Who Own a Car, Truck, or SUV
motortrend.com/news/first-bran…
Do you repair your own vehicle or use an independent shop? Your repair costs and time without your vehicle could both increase thanks to First Brands Group's bankruptcy.Justin Banner (MotorTrend)
"Rust code is so great"
ok then why do I see all this trash when compiling it? If the Rust compiler has this capability why is this a warning and not an error?
warning: unused variable: `body`
warning: struct `Timestamp` is never constructed
warning: method `into_inner` is never used
warning: variable does not need to be mutable
Kodak is officially selling their own film again for the first time in many years and will be selling directly to photography stores now.
🔗 404media.co/kodak-is-selling-i…
Kodak announced two new types of film that it will sell directly to photography stores, sidestepping a bizarre distribution agreement that has been in place since its bankruptcy.Jason Koebler (404 Media)
reshared this
I thought, why not start dinner with dessert.
Being an adult is great, there is nothing but custom to stop us.
For many users, Android’s openness has long been a key advantage: the ability to install (or “side-load”) apps from outside the Google Play Store, or to useAmir Soleimani (Accessible Android)
> Your Costco delivery is complete. Please rate your delivery on Localz: <link>
Amazing, they just asked for a thumbs up or down. No trickery into a longer survey. Just simple "good or bad?". Exactly how it should be.
TIL that while there is a unicode superscript character for trademarks ( ™ ) there isn't one for latin ordinal indicators. E.g. There's no "st" superscript character to use with 1st.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_…
BUT, there ARE "minuscule" superscript characters of the full English alphabet (tough shit if your language needs diacritics over letters i guess 🤷♀️)
So, you can fake "1st" with those but the font handling isn't great: 1ˢᵗ, 2ⁿᵈ, 3ʳᵈ, 4ᵗʰ…
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@matt oh Jesus Christ. I figured they were literally just minuscule Latin letters so "of course" they'd be handled just like any other Latin letter? But no. 🤦♀️
Just listened with macOS voiceover and it completely skipped over them as if they weren't there. What the absolute fuck?
So many WTFs.
Also just learned that it says "misspelled" before every word that's spelled correctly but not capitalized correctly. That's fun. 😡
(gonna go have to edit the alt text to the screenshot i just added)
Okay, hear me out.
#systemd has `systemd-detect-virt`, but what about `systemd-detect-fash`.
lol
github.com/systemd/systemd/pul…
This PR introduces a new utility, detect-fash, which scans a system for the presence of software and configurations known to be associated with fascist ideologies. This may help identify undesirabl...GitHub
#Catima 2.39.1 is out!
github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
This fixes a crash bug which was reported using the new #ACRA crash reporter functionality *less than 3 hours after the last version released*. If that's not an ACRA success story I don't know what is ;)
Coming soon to an app store near you!
#IzzyOnDroid #GitHub #FDroid #GooglePlay
Fix possible crash that could occur for cards missing colour information in the databaseGitHub
Thank you for the response! I might make the switch.
We had contact a while ago. It was about the "Deutschlandticket" in Germany. I promised you a feedback. It works with Catima. I got the ticket here as a PDF file and as a pkpass file:
vrs-ticketshop.de/Deutschlandt…
I have to readd it in the app every month, but that is no big problem.
Deutschlandticket - Das Deutschlandticket gibt es nur als Abonnement, es ist gültig je Kalendermonat. Die Bestellenden müssen mindestens 18 Jahre alt sein.Voraussetzung für die Bestellung des Abos imhttps://www.vrs-ticketshop.de/
I would expect that readding to be fixable, the pkpass probably contains an URL to get updates from. But I haven't really looked into that much more deeply: github.com/CatimaLoyalty/Andro…
Glad to hear it works with workaround though
Pkpass files can be updated online: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/walletpasses/adding-a-web-service-to-update-passes While the documentation suggests this is mostly for changes like boa...TheLastProject (GitHub)
My quick guess? I could be wrong, but:
I think they probably think this drama is in their best interest.
It certainly gives the appearance that the Republicans are not fully in control, even though they are.
The general public will probably think it's business as usual, and that the Democrats are "at fault" for not "working together" and so on. 😖
The primary reason why I asked was because LMMS got an offer for a partnership on Muse Hub, and we were discussing it on their Discord server. I then decided to look at Muse Hub myself and then discovered Mixxx on Muse Hub.
From the Discord server, it appears that someone from MuseHub is looking into it. I don't know if you'll get contacted again or what but I thought I'd let you all know what's going on.
It looks like Muse has updated Mixxx to the latest version, so that's nice to see. The linked manual is still old, though.
We do sign our Windows installer, so it's possible to confirm if that's been modified. Our other installers take a little more work to compare SHA values or otherwise determine if they match our builds.
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TIL Scooter and their "Cover" of Logical Song (Supertramp)
/me listen
Now I get why TIL.
We learned back in February that the British government had secretly ordered Apple to create a worldwide backdoor into iCloud....Ben Lovejoy (9to5Mac)
No comment.
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As a single solution across government, GCtranslate will generate economies of scale and reinforce the use of both official languages within the public service. It demonstrates the government’s commitment to modernizing the public service through secure, efficient and Canadian-based innovative digital tools.
canada.ca/en/public-services-p…
As part of the Government of Canada’s digital transformation, artificial intelligence (AI) is playing a central role in modernizing public service operations.Public Services and Procurement Canada (Government of Canada)
> Canadian-based infrastructure
So I guess I need to ATIP this so that I can show how much bullshit it is. It's not "Canadian based" nor safe if it is owned by American oligarchs.
> An earlier version of the tool was launched at PSPC in June 2025 under the name PSPC Translate. In its first 3 months of operation, it translated more than 60 million words, equivalent to more than 3,000 pages of documents per working day.
What was the error rate? And how much did it cost to fix those errors? If they don't say it's because it's bad.
«O día que nós emitamos papel-moeda non estamparemos nel o retrato dos políticos, nin dos sabios, nin dos artistas; estamparíamos, somentes, a figura dunha vaca, como símbolo da nosa economía humanamente distribuída.» Castelao, Sempre en Galiza.
O máis perto diso é o Miss Vaca da TVG, así de lonxe chegamos.
AOL has now shut down dial-up service as of September 30.
Let us play the forgotten music...
Seeing Montreal by Observation Car, c.1920s - International Fine Art Co Postcard
ebid.net/uk/for-sale/seeing-mo…
Seeing Montreal by Observation Car, c.1920s - International Fine Art Co Postcard Listing in the Canada,Topographical,Postcards,Collectables Category on eBid United Kingdom | 223286830eBid United Kingdom
Target launches a first-of-its-kind accessible self-checkout experience, created with and for people with disabilities. Rolling out in stores now through early 2026.corporate.target.com
RE: activitypub.blog/2025/10/01/7-…
Version 7.5.0 of the #ActivityPub plugin for #WordPress is out, and it now lets you quote posts! 😍
We’re back with a fresh release, and this one makes following and sharing smoother than ever—plus gives you more control over how your posts can be quoted.ActivityPub for WordPress
California's governor put the president on a leash.Lee Moran (HuffPost)
Donald Trump has said federal troops are necessary to maintain order in Portland, but there is no truth to the president's fever dream about the city.Tim Dickinson (Rolling Stone)
While #chatcontrol poses an existential threat to the Freiburg merlinux GmbH and distributing #deltachat apps from within the EU to all stores worldwide, it would resist any chatcontrol legislation up to the German constitutional and EuGH courts.
If the EU based company would need to fold in a few years, there would likely be forks distributed outside the EU that will *seamlessly* continue to function. Our architecture and FOSS licensing makes sure of it. See also chaos.social/@delta/1134177407…
Preventing enshittificatiom with the "Ulysses pact" from @pluralistic pluralistic.net/2024/11/02/uly…We consider our efforts aligned: #deltachat #chatmail and #webxdc implement "right to exit" on all levels of our decentralized messaging project.
- deploy your own servers permission free and interoperable with all e-mail servers ("federation mast")
- all apps and libraries and server components are 100% Foss
- interactive chat-shared web-apps can be used in other messengers
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