*DOOMSCROLLING CHECKPOINT*

Okay just stop. Breathe. Take your mind off the rapid collapse of US Democracy for just a few moments.

I'll help you. Here's some baby giant springtails, aren't they cute?

They don't understand human politics, they just eat fungi and logs and go to sleep. That must be nice for them.

Okay, off you go. Come back if you need to.

#Invertebrate #SoiBiodiversity #SoilEcology #Macrophotography #Collembola

The GoToSocial developers add a feature that serves randomized nodeinfo stats because services like FediDB don't have an opt-out from the crawling.

dansup goes out of his way to call it "they do this for clout on FediDB" and calls out the project not to be used anymore. 💀

This kind of behavior towards other fedi devs surely goes against the so touted around morals and "being all for fedi".

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Breaking News: 14 state Attorneys General representing California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, Nevada, Vermont, and Wisconsin advise that Trump's executive order telling hospitals to stop providing care to those under the age of 19 is unlawful.

If you are affected by the ban, please send your hospital system this letter from the AGs: riag.ri.gov/press-releases/att…

#ErinReed
#TransRights

E-Brieftasche: EU-Kommission will ständige Personenkennung durch die Hintertür
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Traurig, dass das nicht einmal überrascht...

#privacy #datenschutz

Could I just attach @delta to my existing Postfix+Dovecot server and get the same features as the chatmail servers (aside from push notifications, I guess)? :blobfoxthinkgoogly: #Deltachat
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You can just use @delta with your existing Postfix+Dovecot server by clicking "Create new profile" -> "Use other server" -> "Classic E-Mail login" and logging into your server there.

There are not that many features offered by chatmail on top of Postfix+Dovecot:
- Patch removing half a second delay from Dovecot: github.com/dovecot/core/pull/2…
- Strict DKIM signature checking
- The ability to create an account via QR code
- Filter to prevent sending unencrypted messages
- push notifications

Amazing they found the Israeli chef from Mo and had him give some cooking tips on late night.

Chef Michael Solomonov Shows Seth How to Make Slow-Roasted Short Ribs an...
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TIL about the Model Context Protocol, a standard for exposing tools/resources/prompts to LLMs used via desktops/other clients. Intriguing. I've been wondering how old-style Mycroft/Alexa-style skill development would work in the age of LLMs and I'm guessing this is it.

Currently trying to use Goose, a CLI developer agent, to build a Joplin MCP server that exposes notes/tags/resources to models. Since context is apparently everything with these, I'm wondering if I can eventually spec out a project in Joplin and have an LLM help implement some features, and/or have the LLM update that spec as things change, including potentially creating/toggling todo items and such. Seems to be off to an OK start.

Maybe I'll finally build that GTFS interface/skill I've been thinking about for years. Would love the ability to chat with transit schedule data, including real-time updates, right from my desktop or Home Assistant satellite. modelcontextprotocol.io/introd…

We'd like to thank @AccessOn for interviewing @DavidGoldfield and @bblazie on episode 11 of Access On. Learn more about the BT Speak pocket computer for the blind. Also, Jonathan somehow manages to get Bryan to talk more about our upcoming Braille display product.
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#BTSpeak
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Another stunning statistic: Google and Apple’s income from app store fees on games is likely higher than all game publishers’ combined income, both mobile and non-mobile.

Holy crap. Talk about egregious rent-seeking.

(Matthew Ball‘s The State of Video Gaming in 2025, page 42)

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After 24-hour hackathon, Hugging Face’s AI research agent nearly matches OpenAI’s solution
Open source "Deep Research" project proves that agent frameworks boost AI model capability.
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Colorado’s high egg prices are blamed on bird flu, but there’s more to the story (Hint: out-of-state supplied eggs) | Colorado Sun
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The Poetry Fan Who Taught an LLM to Read and Write DNA | Quantum Magazine
"...ChatGPT was trained on large volumes of written English text, from which the algorithm learned patterns that let it read and write original sentences. Similarly, Evo was trained on large volumes of DNA — 300 billion base pairs from 2.7 million bacterial, archaeal and viral genomes — to glean functional information from stretches of DNA that a user inputs as prompts. ..."
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@RaccoonForFriendica version 0.4.1-beta10 has been released and is available for testing in the Play store (or in Obtainium if you prefer installing directly from GitHub)!

Apart from the usual localization and dependency updates, this version contains several improvements for embedded images and, if you are using Friendica, you will also be able to insert embedded images within your post body (as opposed to regular attachments). This can benefit those who want to create larger posts with several illustrations.

Let me know what you think about it and, as always, #livefasteattrash

#friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #foss #procyonproject

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@Piero Bosio thanks for the feedback! Let me see if I understand your idea correctly: do you mean to add more options (e.g. "add image", "embed image", "add link", etc.) in the drop-down menu shown in the post creation page?

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Сегодня мы с вами наблюдаем рождение и становление Всероссийской политической партии «АЧТОТАКОВА?!». Это партия хоть и относительно молодая, но достаточно опасная. Когда всё закончится и начнётся что-то новое, представители этой фракции попробуют затянуть нас обратно. Их будет много, и они будут убедительны — в их программе уютные компромиссы, селективное зрение, с ними комфортно и спокойно, ведь найдётся оправдание всему, и никто ни за что не осудит.

Ну, предлагает тебе много-много денег олигарх за долю в СМИ — возьми, он же человек, по сути, приличный, да и материал разместить просит редко и по делу. Или государственный контрактик без конкурса дают — ты бери, ничего страшного. Ты же хорошо сделаешь? Хорошо! А другие бы хуже сделали в любом случае. Да и с выборами то же самое: «Чуть-чуть подрисуем тут, — скажут они, — а то победит какой-то неогиркинец или коммунист», — и укутают тебя в тёплый пледик, нальют чайку, приговаривая: «Все так делают, а что такого?»

Путинские реваншисты будут разные: одни обвешаются георгиевскими лентами и Z-атрибутикой, а другие будут как раз из этой партии «АЧТОТАКОВА?!». Но цель у них будет одна — вернуть, как было (только без войны! Вот как в 2018-м на чемпионате, помните? Или в Парке Горького в 2013-м! Да и как в 2021-м тоже сойдёт, чего уж!).

Если нам когда-то посчастливится увидеть свободную Россию, давайте никогда не забывать, какой ценой эта свобода получена. И никогда её больше не упускать, засмотревшись, пусть и на очень привлекательную сделку с совестью.

I've been loving @404mediaco lately, but this was such a good read that I just paid for a yearly subscription.

“For most people, social media gives you this sense that unless you care about everything, you care about nothing. You must try to swallow the world while it’s on fire,” said Cross. “But we didn’t evolve to be able to absorb this much info. It makes you devalue the work you can do in your community.”

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Learn more about our Winter'25 Update in our blog!

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#AndroidAppRain at apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid today brings you 19 updated (14 of those RB) and 2 added apps:

* Sefirah: the continuation of Sekia (Windows Notification Mirroring, Clipboard Sync, etc)
* Moneytopia: track your personal expenses 🛡️

Enjoy your #free #Android #apps (and #reproducibleBuilds) with the #IzzyOnDroid repository :awesome:

Totally agree with this…can we just stop with the wall-to-wall toots about politics, ex-Twitter, etc. Let’s instead build the social web (and world) we want to live in.

“We don’t need any more irony-poisoned hot takes or cathartic, irreverent snark. We need to collectively decide what kind of world we actually do want, and what we’re willing to do to achieve it.”

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Sice máme #ETCS, ale přeci se nevzdáme přivolávacích návěstí, že 😎

Když všude ukazují statistiky kolik vlaků jede pod ETCS, možná by měli také začít vést statistiku při kolika takových jízdách bylo použito override.
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#etcs

Jason Shiga's _The Beyond_ is out for iPhone/iPad!

apps.apple.com/us/app/the-beyo…

My notes: blog.zarfhome.com/2025/02/the-…

#InteractiveFiction

in reply to Andrew Plotkin

I purchased meanwhile, hmm 10 years ago? Was it even out 10 years back? It was pretty accessible with VoiceOver but I got to a point where it got frustrating so gave up. I just redownloaded it and am loving every second of it since it is now accessible with VoiceOver! Every Interactive Comic by Zarfhome Software Consulting now has VoiceOver support! I will be buying the others! Thank you so much from blind interactive fiction players everywhere!
Zarfhome apps on the app store!
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Okay, for those of you who don’t know what bikeshedding is:

If you built a nuclear power plant and asked the community to give feedback, they will focus on the details of the bike shed out front because they don’t know the first thing about nuclear power, but still want to sound smart.

This is textbook bikeshedding behavior. They’re not in their positions to oversee power plants or launch rockets. They’re here to do bigot shit. That’s literally their only qualification.
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NEW: DOGE employees have been ordered to stop using Slack while the agency transitions itself to a legal regime that is not subject to FOIA and other government transparency laws

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