We set up a new Mastodon instance focused on supporting nonprofit/charitable organizations. If you know of such an organization looking for a place in the Fediverse, please point them our way.
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#nonprofit #mastodon #fediverse
One of our goals at Empathy Forward is to support long-term projects that benefit society. Part of that is helping […]James Smith (Bene Homini Society)
More than a 1,000 Docker Hardened Images (DHI) are now freely available and open source for software builders, under the Apache 2.0 license.
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We've got plans to host a special #CircusInPlace vidchat next week for folks who need a hideout from the holidays.
Most likely Wednesday evening.
Hang in there, friends. ❤
“I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forgo their use.”
Galileo Galilei
this might be a weird question, but are you always truly genuine with your friends or family, or do you catch yourself saying things that sort of give the impression of connection without really saying anything? or maybe you intend to actually have a conversation, but end up just sort of landing on lines that are sort of aesthetically pleasing without substance? Or maybe you notice people doing that to you sometimes
is there a word for this behavior? are we talking at each other instead of to?
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Hits include country songs and a Dutch anti-refugee anthem, both entirely made without human compositionAisha Down (The Guardian)
Generative KI ist unausweichlich. Auch deshalb, weil Influencer, Fernsehsender, Marken und Co. eine Geisteshaltung entwickelt haben, dass generierte Imitate ...YouTube
Hi, The public share link has been removed with the 3.15 client version. Could it be possible to bring back this feature ? Below, a screen from a right click on a folder/file with the 3.14.3 client...SebjuFrab (GitHub)
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WTF would I want an AI to preview the link, Firefox.
Another fucking thing to disable.
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The Vancouver Christmas tree right after its lighting ceremony, at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC. — December 2010
This is deliberately out of focus.
Olympus E-P1, m-Zuiko 17mm f2.8
(20101202_PC031144)
Happy Winter Solstice.
Winter is here.
I don't really care much about cerifications of any sort so I can't be sure I'm describing the right one, but I remember when working at a small ISP/datacenter we wanted to get SOC II (??) compliance to please some customer and the process was like this:
Me: what are the requirements?
🤖 We have to document all our processes and procedures
Me: and then what?
🤖: an auditor will verify (by quizzing you in front of a computer screen they don't understand) to prove you're following the documented processes and procedures
Me: okay, but like what do we have to do? How long do we have to retain customer backups, for example?
🤖: there is no requirement. How long are you retaining customer backups?
Me: well we had that failure so right now we only have 6 months
🤖: so document 6 months
Me: can we just say one month? And then we exceed our documented retention by a good margin?
🤖: yes
Me: this is a scam isn't it?
#odemčeno Jen aby se nám vláda nerozbila dříve, než dostala důvěru.
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Analýza: Páteční tisková konference ministra obrany Jaromíra Zůny (za SPD), respektive její ohlas se hnutí vymkl z rukou.Jan Wirnitzer (Deník N)
This is your reminder to cancel all those subscriptions you signed up for on sale at the end of 2024 that are about to renew at full price next week.
#adhd
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happy to be playing with #GTK again! this time enhanced by libadwaita.
I always found the treeview APIs hard (things did improve along the way) but doing this stuff with Rust holy shit. 😵💫
TIL that the sixth largest pipe organ in the world is contained within the home of a man from Alabama called Barry Norris.
According to Wikipedia, it has 11,200 pipes.
By comparison, the Royal Albert Hall's organ (which TIL is called The Voice of Jupiter, which is an amazing name) has just 9,999 pipes. Tiny. Pathetic.
#Spotify #music #metadata #DataRescue
'It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 million music files, representing around 99.6% of listens.'
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We backed up Spotify (metadata and music files). It’s distributed in bulk torrents (~300TB). It’s the world’s first “preservation archive” for music which is fully open (meaning it can easily be mirrored by anyone with enough disk space), with 86 mil…annas-archive.li
Self hosting a Postgres or MySQL/MariaDB database is often treated like a horror story told around a campfire, a narrative carefully created by big cloud providers over the last decade. But is it actually "terrifying," or just a lost art of Sysadmining? This post talks the reality of self hosting versus managed cloud versions like AWS RDS, cutting through the marketing to look at the actual trade offs for both IT pros and developers.
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Self-hosting Postgres is simpler and cheaper than managed services suggest, with comparable reliability and better performance tunability.pierce.dev
Don't let your Wi-Fi get in your way.Gaurav Sharma (How-To Geek)
Focus groups indicate that insurance companies have to annoy the shit out of you several times a game just to break through the noise.
That’s why I’m not just Peyton Manning, I’m _also_ IRRITATIN’ Manning
Awww, someone made a badge for me for 39c3.
You can get it by getting hugged by Foxbrush!
(For people uncomfortable with hugs but who want the badge regardless, I can of course make exceptions, but the badge name and description do say you got a Foxbrush hug)
#39c3
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