Hi Mastodon. I'm Mick, a wildlife guide based in Granada region of #Spain. I'm looking forward to connect with fellow birders, botanists & entomologists throughout the Fediverse.
Regularly out in the countryside of Andalucia & further afield posting info & images about my adventures & encounters with the natural world.
Here's a photo of a close encounter with Iberian Lynx I took a few years ago.
#intro #birdwatching #birding #birds #orchids #butterflies #moths #dragonflies #wildflowers
I've come to understand what's happening in frontend's decade-long failure to deliver decent user experiences as a sort of epistemic closure. I'm calling it "frameworkism", and the epicenter is now React.
Here's a lot of words on why we should all reject it, and what the post-React world should look like:
infrequently.org/2024/11/if-no…
Frameworkism is now the dominant creed of today's frontend discourse, and it's bullshit. We owe it to ourselves and to our users to reject dogma and embrace engineering as a discipline that strives to serve users first and foremost.Alex Russell
FUCK. RIGHT. OFF. YOU. CUNT.
theguardian.com/world/2024/nov…
Reform UK leader says it would be ‘worthy’ discussion and parliament should get more time ‘to debate things people talk about at home’Ben Quinn (The Guardian)
This is making the rounds on Finnish social media.
A large association for Finnish construction companies, #Rakennusteollisuus, decided that they needed an English version of their website but apparently they didn't want to pay an actual #translator so just used some free #LLM with hilarious results.
They've fixed it now, but for a short while there was some comedy gold to be found.
P.s. I didn't find these, I've no idea who did.
El sindicato CCOO denuncia que un 40% de los empleados de Ilunion dentro de la planta de El Prat, la mayor de la compañía en España, están de baja por las duras condiciones laboralesPau Rodríguez (ElDiario.es)
Oggi alle 10.45 c'è l'evento IGF Italia Giovani per dare voce a software libero, fediverso, educazione!
@FlaviaMarzano ci racconterà delle opportunità per i giovani
Poi @filippodb insieme a
@RookieNerd presenteranno i ragazzi del Liceo Galilei di Verona che parleranno dell'esperienza scolastica con #Mastodon
@fsfe ci racconterà dei progetti attivi in Italia
E si Parlerà anche di Zorin OS.
Collegatevi qui! shorturl.at/10Ijd
IL sito dell'evento è questo: youthigfitaly.org/
Learn using BigBlueButton, the trusted open-source web conferencing solution that enables seamless virtual collaboration and online learning experiences.shorturl.at
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P. #Blanár najprv na ministerstvo nabral 146 novych ludi a hned na to¹ ide inych 40 prepustit. Zdovodnuje to potrebou setrit, o ktorej v zasade tusili/vedeli uz aj pred volbami a urcite vedeli pocas naberania tych novych.
🔒 dennikn.sk/4332123/blanar-rozb…
p.s.: Chapem, ze beriem noz do prestrelky (t.j. za sa snazim drzat logiky tam, kde na nu rezignovali), ale asi musim.
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¹ bavime sa o cca roku fungovania
Minister zahraničných vecí Juraj Blanár (Smer) rozbehol jedno z najväčších hromadných prepúšťaní v porevolučných dejinách tohto rezortu. O prácu prišli diplomati s veľkými skúsenosťami, ktorí mali dvadsať- a viacročnú prax v pozíciách veľvyslancov.Miro Kern (Denník N)
2/2 Skusim odlahcit:
V ZSSR postavili niekde na Sibiri zeleznicne priecestie. K nemu mal byt zamestnanec na obsluhu rampy. Len ten nemoze robit vkuse, prip. moze ochoriet. Tak tam pridali druheho obsluhovaca. Lenze to uz su dvaja a tych treba riadit. Tak pridali veduceho. Lenze to uz su traja a tych treba strazit. Pridali teda aj politickeho dostojnika. Lenze na financiach zhodnotili 4 ludi na jednu rampu ako privela a nariadili skresat na ½. A tak zrusili tych dvoch obsluhovacov rampy.
#vtip
Amazing what €750 million can accomplish. How much donations are going to rebuilding South-Lebanon?
I wonder.
Here it is: the Finnish Parliament has sided against #ChatControl !
I am overjoyed that in their statement, they have outlined exactly what this proposal would entail: mass surveillance in Europe.
From their statement (translation by me):
"..the suggested model would, in fact, lead to the mass surveillance of communication and would weaken the integrity of communication in the EU."
eduskunta.fi/FI/vaski/Lausunto…
#privacy #encryption #Finland #Europe #EU #surveillance
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Not everyone is happy about it being the default.Shannon Connellan (Mashable)
Il nucleare è talmente conveniente, economico e redditizio che l’unico modo per farlo è trovare un governo amico che ti fa un prestito da cinquanta miliardi a tasso zero, rischiando una procedura di infrazione europea per aiuti di stato illegali che ostacolano e distorcono il libero mercato dell’energia.
L’ultimo aggiornamento di Bluesky ha portato in dote l’evidenziazione di default delle risposte ai post che hanno avuto più interazioni.
Per tornare alla vecchia modalità dal vostro profilo: Impostazioni → Contenuti e media → Preferenze delle discussioni → Mostrare prima le risposte più vecchie
Leggi il comunicato Bluesky: bsky.app/profile/did:plc:z72i7…
Should software developers quit after 40? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FHf6wHpwZVI (spoiler: definitely not) Interesting point though about hype, that as you get older, we tend to resist or dismiss things that are over-hyped, but if you're not …Toot Café
The electric car brand was once a liberal favourite – but the CEO’s embrace of Trump has led to an angry backlashOliver Milman (The Guardian)
It's the 2024 Marathon. Enter to win prizes, read more about this year's games, and more. http://lerven.me/marathonEnjoy the stream? Here's how you can help ...YouTube
Ich bin verblüfft über die Resonanz meines Tröts zum #digitalzwang durch den #deutschebahn DB-Schnüffelnavigator!#datenschutz und #digitaleselbstbestimmung sind erfreulich vielen im Fediverse wichtig.
Hier könnt ihr die Petition von @digitalcourage gegen den #digitalzwang mitzeichnen: civi.digitalcourage.de/recht-a…
Die Petition läuft noch bis voraussichtlich Mitte Mai 2025, also bitte mitzeichnen und weiterverbreiten!
Black Friday bargain special! Adopt an App for €49.50!
And find out why funding free software communities is a better use of your money than spending it on stuff you probably don't need.
kde.org/fundraisers/yearend202…
#SupportGoodPeople #fundraiser #BlackFriday #donations #BlueFriday
Blue Friday celebrates supporting good and humane causes over the unbridled consumerism of Black Friday.Blue Friday is Back!
#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 20 updated and 2 added apps:
* Praxis: Christian daily prayers, reading, and fasting
* NewPipe: the free lightweight YouTube frontend that also works for PeerTube and more, added here on special request 🛡️
RB status today: 357 apps (29.3%)
Enjoy your #free #Android #apps with the #IzzyOnDroid repo 
This is a repository of apps to be used with your F-Droid client. Applications in this repository are official binaries built by the original application developers, taken from their resp. repositories (mostly Github, GitLab, Codeberg).IzzyOnDroid App Repo
Euer Einsatz, eure Unterstützung, eure Leidenschaft – ohne euch wäre dieser Erfolg nicht möglich gewesen! Dieser @nachhaltigkeitspreis gehört nicht nur uns, sondern auch euch, unserer einzigartigen Community. Danke, dass ihr gemeinsam mit uns den Weg der Nachhaltigkeit gestaltet und immer an unserer Seite steht! ❤️
shift.eco/wir-gewinnen-den-deu…
#shift #shifthappens #shiftphone #DNP17 #Nachhaltigkeitspreis #DNP
Während die Vorfreude auf das SHIFTphone 8 steigt, sagen wir tschüss und auf Wiedersehen zu unserem geliebten SHIFT6mq.Leon von Zepelin (SHIFT GmbH)
A Bluesky bridge, encrypted rooms support for Hookshot, and the Sharing Extensions back in Element X iOS. That, and much more happened This Week in Matrix!
matrix.org/blog/2024/11/29/thi…
Matrix, the open protocol for secure decentralised communicationsThib (m.org) (matrix.org)
"with sufficient resources"
There's only one relay, and only one AppView. DMs are outside the protocol.
Bluesky doesn't become decentralized because Bluesky says it is. It becomes decentralized when it is.
It isn't.
If you want to make sure you always see posts from particular accounts you follow, go to their profile and click the notification bell:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-to-be-notified-w…
The official apps don't yet have this feature, but third party apps do and so does your server's website.
If you want the official apps to have this too, and if you're comfortable using Github, you can give a thumbs up at:
Android
github.com/mastodon/mastodon-a…
iPhone/iPad
github.com/mastodon/mastodon-i…
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
No mention of how to get the tools to bypass software locks means owner still legally beholden to OEMsBrandon Vigliarolo (The Register)
Almost all ticket vending machines of the municipal transport company in Amsterdam will stop working on 1 January 2025 and will be removed later.
The reason is quite interesting: end of software support for the card payment terminals. 🙄
Sure you can now check in and out with your bank card directly, but if you want a day ticket, or discounted ticket, all you're left with is the mobile app.
Debian welcomes its new Outreachy interns: Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that
Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round.
Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update,
mentored by Thorsten Alteholz.
Divine Attah-Ohiemi will work on Making the Debian main website more attractive by switching to HuGo as site generator,
mentored by Carsten Schoenert, Subin… bits.debian.org/2024/11/welcom…
Debian continues participating in Outreachy, and we're excited to announce that Debian has selected two interns for the Outreachy December 2024 - March 2025 round. Patrick Noblet Appiah will work on Automatic Indi-3rd-party driver update, mentored...Debian Project
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