*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".
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…
E-Brieftasche: EU-Kommission will ständige Personenkennung durch die Hintertür
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Traurig, dass das nicht einmal überrascht...
Bürgerrechtler beklagen Foulspiel der EU-Kommission bei der europäischen digitalen Identität: Firmen dürften verifizierte Ausweisdaten abfragen.Stefan Krempl (heise online)
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What are chatmail servers and how to select one? Chatmail servers are optimized for messaging with Delta Chat to provide a privacy-preserving and speedy user experience, securely interoperable with...delta.chat
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
This commit removes hardcoded 500 ms debounce from storage that delays all storage notification subscribers such as IDLE and NOTIFY commands. 500 ms debounce constant NOTIFY_DELAY_MSECS was added i...GitHub
Disney+ lost 700,000 subscribers worldwide in recent months, according to Disney's earnings results for the first quarter of 2025. Disney said...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
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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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Chef Michael Solomonov shows Seth how to make slow-roasted short ribs and challah bread from his book Zahav Home.Late Night with Seth Meyers. Stream now on P...YouTube
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…
Get started with the Model Context Protocol (MCP)modelcontextprotocol.io
Amazon today sent out invites for an AI-focused event that will be held on February 26, and according to Reuters, the company plans to introduce its...Juli Clover (MacRumors.com)
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Apple Legal signed off on “inaccurate, unexpected, or offensive” content being pushed to users *by default*...
what could go wrong…
#Canada #BuyCanadian #AI #AppleIntelligence #mac #Apple #macos15sequoia
Workday becomes the latest tech company in recent weeks to cut headcount. Amazon, Okta and Cruise have also laid off employees.Rebecca Szkutak (TechCrunch)
Welcome to the eleventh episode of Access On, the National Federation of the Blind's Technology podcast. Episode Listen to the eleventh episode of the Access On podcast (Browser). Or listen on your preferred podcast platform.nfb.org
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)
A 220-page presentation on the past, present and potential future of the video game industry.Matthew Ball (MatthewBall.co)
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Open source “Deep Research” project proves that agent frameworks boost AI model capability.Benj Edwards (Ars Technica)
Egg farms are still recovering from the 2022 outbreak but now there’s also the cage-free law, mutations and competition as bird flu devastates other states.Tamara Chuang (The Colorado Sun)
The suite of agentic Gemini 2.0 models includes 2.0 Flash, 2.0 Pro Experimental and 2.0 Flash-Lite.Hayden Field (CNBC)
This is how Blackwell delivers its biggest "gains."Jarred Walton (Tom's Hardware)
By treating DNA as a language, Brian Hie’s “ChatGPT for genomes” could pick up patterns that humans can’t see, accelerating biological design.Ingrid Wickelgren (Quanta Magazine)
@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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Yes, links to the various timelines too, for example.
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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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Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.Janus Rose (404 Media)
Big news! The Be My Eyes Winter ‘25 App Update is here, bringing powerful new capabilities to enhance accessibility for our blind and low-vision community, including 1080p HD video calls, auto read aloud, save & share, custom iOS shortcuts and new data management options.
Learn more about our Winter'25 Update in our blog!
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A new case of iPhone malware has been discovered in apps downloaded from the App Store. It reads your screenshots looking for key info.Ryan Christoffel (9to5Mac)
#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 
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
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.”
You Can’t Post Your Way Out of Fascism 404media.co/you-cant-post-your…
Authoritarians and tech CEOs now share the same goal: to keep us locked in an eternal doomscroll instead of organizing against them, Janus Rose writes.Janus Rose (404 Media)
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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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Vyšetřovatelé uzavřeli sledovaný případ z loňského 20. prosince – ve stanici Uhersko na východě Čech tehdy projel nákladní vlak návěstidlo zakazující další jízdu.Jan Beránek (Economia, a.s.)
I was just thinking 'it's been a while since I've felt homesick for Singapore' and then I saw this list of food within 5 min from my house and I am now hungry
Jason Shiga's _The Beyond_ is out for iPhone/iPad!
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THE BEYOND: an interactive comic by Jason Shiga Your death was a tragedy... your afterlife is a mystery. Unravel the secrets of death with the help of Xochitl, your guide.App Store
Download apps by Zarfhome Software Consulting, including Pocket Storm, Meanwhile: Interactive Comic, The Beyond: Interactive Comic, and many more.App Store
Konference o Linuxu, open-source a vším, co s tím souvisí. Koná se každoročně v pražských Dejvicíc na půdě FIT ČVUT v Praze.www.linuxdays.cz
🤔Is Google Lighthouse an industry accepted standard for assessing #accessibility?
❌No it's a tool that automates testing of a subset of the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines 2.2 Standard
30% auto testable
70% manual evaluation
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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Attached: 1 image Hey um remember those two astronauts who are still stranded on the space station https://www.404media.co/nasa-dei-drop-everything-executive-order/ #USPolvmst·io
Google adds its experimental Gemini 2.0 Flash Thinking “reasoning” model that’s capable of explaining how it answers complex questions to the Gemini app.Jess Weatherbed (The Verge)
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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Employees at Elon Musk's agency have been told "OMB is asking us to stop generating new slack messages starting now."Jason Koebler (404 Media)
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