My daughter asked me, "Have we ever seen a star being born?" Here's part of the answer. Deep within interstellar cloud CB 130-3, a dense knot of gas and dust teeters on the edge of collapse. When it goes, it will become a new star. nasa.gov/image-feature/goddard… #Space #astronomy
"Have we ever seen a star being born?" Part 2: This is protostar L1527, 1/50,000th the age of the Sun. It's still pulling in gas & squirting out huge jets. The star itself is hidden behind a dusty disk (the line at the middle). Planets are forming there! webbtelescope.org/contents/new…
"It was my belief that as Mastodon adoption grew, the moderators of whichever instance you chose to use would have to deal ever-increasing volumes of abuse. It’d be like how email providers have to develop spam filters to combat incoming spam from every other provider (but so much still gets through).
After a month on #Mastodon, I’ve realized I was wrong."
I said that Mastodon moderation wouldn't scale, it does. The cultural differences will likely continue to maintain a friendlier atmosphere regardless of size.
Had a really fun conversation about Mastodon and the Fediverse today with folks at the #Oregon State University #OpenSource Lab, @osuosl.
If you don't know about them (or if you do!) please give them a follow. It's a great program for getting university students hands-on experience with key #FreeSoftware project infrastructure.
I’ve recently released gpu-io – a #webgl computing library for real-time physics simulations, particle/agent-based systems, cellular automata, image processing, and general purpose GPU computations.
gpu-io makes it easy to build GPU-accelerated apps without worrying about low-level WebGL details and browser inconsistencies. Designed for WebGL2 with fallbacks for WebGL1. WebGPU support is planned! More in thread 🧵...
A GPU-accelerated computing library for physics simulations and other mathematical calculations - GitHub - amandaghassaei/gpu-io: A GPU-accelerated computing library for physics simulations and oth...
@futureisfoss That is correct. Closing the last tab by tapping on the X runs Clear and Exit. This is documented in Guide > Local Storage in the app.
Clear and Exit is not run if the app is closed by the OS (for example, by viewing the thumbnails of all running apps and swiping Privacy Browser away, or by rebooting the OS while Privacy Browser is running).
@futureisfoss By the way, in the next release Privacy Browser will also run Clear and Exit when the last tab is closed by the OS back button or gesture, which happens if the last tab does not have any back entries in the WebView history.
Hello people of the Fediverse! Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory, is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be developed alongside Ivory as a lot of code is shared. A new Mac version of Tweetbot and Ivory are also currently in development and we are working hard on getting those towards a public beta state.
@blindscribe graphic of an elephant holding a mobile phone in its trunk and with a blue bird perched on its ear, accompanied by text reading, "Ivory by Tapbots. A Mastodon Client for iOS & Mac" #Alt4Me
@blindscribe promo image for Ivory. Text reads "Ivory by Tapbots: A Mastodon Client for iOS and Mac." There's an incredibly adorable 3D computer-art elephant holding a phone in their trunk; on the phone's screen is the Tapbots logo. Sitting on the elephant's back is a Twitter-reminiscent blue bird, also looking down at the phone.
Thanks for the heads-up! Indeed, in the packages list the most recent APK says 8.0+
Mind to use Fastlane in your repo? See my cheat-sheet for details: gitlab.com/-/snippets/1895688 – and I could send you what I've got here as PR for starters, so you can build upon that.
For now I've updated the description here (effective with tomorrow's sync). Please let me know if you'd accept said PR.
The last minutes are running out. Masstodon.Technology will shut down permanently any day now ashfurrow.com/blog/mastodon-te… 😢
No, I won't talk about fish here. But thank with all my heart our then admin and god-father, @ashfurrow, for having kept it up and running all those days of fond remembrance! I'll never foget those years.
Live long and prosper, Ash – you're now free of that burden and walk toward new horizons. (Made it out before that bird crashed in through the roof, lucky man! 🙊 🙈 💨)
Two days to go! Have you registered for #GNOMEAsia2022 yet? It's not too late! Our talks will be available remotely and registration is free. Sign up today: events.gnome.org/event/100/reg…
You want to help #OpenSource #FreeSoftware but you are not a developer? And English isn't your first language? Well - that's just perfect! Join us at #codeberg and donate some of your time and knowledge of your language by helping with translations for many open source projects at translate.codeberg.org!
Českou republiku v lednu čekají prezidentské volby, které rozhodnou nejen o podobě vnitřní politiky země, ale i o způsobu její prezentace navenek. "Každý si zpětně věci idealizujeme a vytěsňujeme to špatné.
Please consider completing the 2022 Accessibility Skills Gap Survey (by Dec 16) teachaccess.org/accessibility-… To "accurately reflect the #accessibility skills that currently exist within the workforce." from TeachAccess & PEATWorks #a11y
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Something I've started doing for my command-line tools is including a page in their online documentation that shows the --help output for all of their sub-commands
I mainly do this because having the help output displayed online somewhere makes it much easier to casually review for opportunities to improve it!
For sqlite-utils for example I realized that having example usage for each command is a really big usability improvement.
40k users, 50k projects. We're providing service to so many, this was unbelievable four years ago when #Codeberg was founded.
Thank you for supporting our mission. Together we fight the monopoly of proprietary platforms, and work towards a future where websites are hosted by non-profit associations and federate with each other.
Little known fact: Pong has no code. Pong doesn't even have a microprocessor. Al Alcorn hardwired the game with transistor-to-transistor logic. (See Henry Lowood: ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/5…)
The earliest digital games emerged out of laboratories and research centers in the 1960s and 1970s. The intertwined histories of Nolan Bushnell's Computer Space and Pong illustrate the transition from these "university games" to accessible entertainm…
We're looking for a #c / #cpp or #rust #freelance developer! It's mostly about Linux namespaces, PAM modules, and patches in 3rd-party software. Low volume. Take a look, mail us, or spread the word!
This job posting is written in German. However, we all speak English here. Feel
free to apply even if you don't know German. Translating this post is left as an
exercise to the applicant.
Our @zbus Windows CI jobs fails 60-80% of the time (almost guaranteed on the first run) with an "Unable to open shared memory" error. Would anyone with some Windows dev xp happen to know or can take a look what happens?
I've noticed that typically it's the doc tests that fail.
Dutch train news: NS is delaying the introduction of the new Intercity trains until at least the second quarter of 2023 as they are not yet reliable enough for revenue service.
After 2 years of negotiations with Microsoft, the German Data Protection Conference issued a damning statement: German schools must not use MS365 due to privacy violations.
Fortunately, Linux, LibreOffice & Tutanota are very good alternatives. 💪🔐
2. We need more diverse feedback on how to replace the (very tech oriented) word "instances", please join the discussion here ideas.joinpeertube.org/posts/1…
“You can have weird and dangerous features in a platform if the core is that you are never gonna scale.”Internet artist Darius Kazemi is known for his many...
✊🏽 "We need to stop trying to turn private companies into something they’re not, and start building a new moral, institutional and legal order to express the values, rights and standards that we hold into the digital realm. It’s not about whether Zuckerberg is good or bad, vampire or human. It’s about getting to a place where we don’t have to care."
![Screenshot of the create-table help documentation.
Usage: sqlite-utils create-table [OPTIONS] PATH TABLE COLUMNS...
Add a table with the specified columns. Columns should be specified using
name, type pairs, for example:
sqlite-utils create-table my.db people \
id integer \
name text \
height float \
photo blob --pk id
Valid column types are text, integer, float and blob.
Options:
--pk TEXT Column to use as primary key
--not-null TEXT Columns that should be created as NOT NULL
--default <TEXT TEXT>... Default value that should be set for a column
--fk <TEXT TEXT TEXT>... Column, other table, other column to set as a
foreign key
--ignore If table already exists, do nothing
--replace If table already exists, replace it
--transform If table already exists, try to transform the schema
--load-extension TEXT Path to SQLite extension, with optional :entrypoint
-h, --help Show this message and exit.](https://fedi.ml/photo/preview/640/385419 "Screenshot of the create-table help documentation.
Usage: sqlite-utils create-table [OPTIONS] PATH TABLE COLUMNS...
Add a table with the specified columns. Columns should be specified using
name, type pairs, for example:
sqlite-utils create-table my.db people \
id integer \
name text \
height float \
photo blob --pk id
Valid column types are text, integer, float and blob.
Options:
--pk TEXT Column to use as primary key
--not-null TEXT Columns that should be created as NOT NULL
--default <TEXT TEXT>... Default value that should be set for a column
--fk <TEXT TEXT TEXT>... Column, other table, other column to set as a
foreign key
--ignore If table already exists, do nothing
--replace If table already exists, replace it
--transform If table already exists, try to transform the schema
--load-extension TEXT Path to SQLite extension, with optional :entrypoint
-h, --help Show this message and exit.")
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