@modulux okay, I gotta be honest, this is kinda cool. I feel like an ambassador of the world of vision. Now that you're first hearing of this, let me put in the effort to really describe how it looks like, as it's not entirely a rainbow:
While rainbows have all colors gradually merging from one to the other, oil spills can have hard cuts of colors and don't have those colors in perfect lines next to each other. They look like messy rainbows with a darkened tone. All the colors beautifully next to each other, weirdly ordered, but not mixed. Some dots of this here, a larger chunk flowing into the other. A minor spill of dark red flowing through a sea of white/green, red/purple, orange/yellow, and then light blue/dark blue (on this specific image, as an example).
All the colors look more robust, metallic, but there's still a lot of beauty in that. Less shiny, more matte. More chaos, and a dark tint. Like a rainbow put in a moonshine filter.
I really hope the concept of an oil spill and how they look is now a lot more clear to you!
This specific image was hard to write an alt text for, as the pun needed the explanation of an oil spill looking like a rainbow. Writing it down, saying “the background looks like an oil spill” and then I thought “how the hell would blind people know oil spills have all the colors???”
Oil doesn't smell nice. I guess oil coloring is a thing?? But how often do people state this “obvious” fact. Maybe some books mention the shimmering of oil spills on the street left by cars, but I assume this is rarely described in its beauty.
I also have no idea why oil spills have all of those colors. That's what it says online:
Oil spills look like rainbows due to a phenomenon called thin-film interference. When a thin layer of oil spreads on top of water, light reflects off both the top and bottom surfaces of the oil layer. These reflected light waves interact with each other, and because the oil layer is extremely thin (often just a few micrometers thick), some wavelengths of light reinforce each other (constructive interference) while others cancel each other out (destructive interference). This selective interference results in the different colors we see, creating the rainbow effect.
No clue what that means. I am glad I could help ya. ❤️❤️❤️
Thanks a lot for the effort. I definitely didn't know all that. Yes, it's definitely clearer now; and no, I'd never read a description of it like that. Shimmering or such, yes; but not the full effect.
Well, managed to earn a little over $4 lat night filling out surveys, although I did run across a survey with too many images, and wrote support about this, and they were kind enough to compensate me for what I would have got for the survey. But yes, if you want something to do that will make you some extra money, and you like expressing opinions about consumer products, click here and join. paidviewpoint.com/landing/?r=a…
@menelion Well, one thing I like is that support is aware of us screen reader users, and they even told me that if I encounter one that I just can't fill out, let them know about it along with the dividen this survey was to give, and they'll compensate.
@menelion@dragonscave.space That's really good to know because I've had a few now where I've just kind of had to guess on the answers to the picture ones.
@menelion @technolass EYah, I had some difficulty with entering the birthdate too, but it's a matter of activating pop-up menu where each month, year and date have their own little button that you have to select for each form field.
The most dramatic transformation has occurred in Tuvalu, a Pacific island nation with a population under 10,000. Until early 2025, Tuvalu had virtually no IPv6 presence. That...
Only basic fare of €1,12 for a journey of 9,4 km 😲
I wonder whether this was just a glitch or whether the system consistently cannot calculate the fare properly if checkout happened on a different line - the 🚎 changes the line number along the way. #OVpay
People of the Fediverse, stop everything. This is some true shit happening here: Two-Factor Authentication, a thread:
In French, the word for "factor" is "facteur". But it has another meaning: mailman. Yes, the one who delivers letters in your physical mailbox. For this reason, there is a funny meme in French where 2FA is in fact your mailman coming in and confirming that it's you.
I've just noticed piped.video can still be used for playing videos. It's just that the public instance at piped.video and some other instances require registration. @Archos and friends, please have you explored ways to eventually host it at @Oscloud ? I'd host it my-self but I don't have a spare machine at the location with suitable ipv6 range for being somewhat resilient to youtube throttling attempts.
We used to run Invidious, but it's pretty much unusable now due to Google's throttling. We're not currently planning to replace it on Oscloud, but Piped seems like a better option – maybe in the future. @archos
very much in line with the late Rev Oscar Romero of El Salvador quote, “When I gave food to the poor, they called me a saint; when I asked why they are poor, they called me a communist.”
FT - In a laboratory outside Cambridge sits a remarkable “biological computer”. Its 200,000 human brain cells, grown in the lab, lie on silicon circuitry that communicates their synchronised electrical activity on a screen to the outside world. ft.com/content/713eab47-a1f1-4…
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).
congrats to the next 1k 🥳 And I can personally confirm first-hand the app is working fine outside DE as well 😜 Though there, weather stations are sometimes sparse (I e.g. get Larnaka when I'm in Paralimni, the two being ~50 km apart on different coast lines. But meh, then 2°C difference, rain coming a bit later (or earlier)… 🤷♂️
На русском языке сайт пока не очень большой, но развивается неплохо и там уже есть отличные путеводители. Если вам есть что рассказать, присоединяйтесь, там даже есть пивная, где вам помогут начать
We're absolutely thrilled to announce a new era of high-speed syncing for the open source ecosystem!
DAVx⁵ 4.5 will ship with full Push support (instant sync) for your Contacts, Events & Tasks!
We've worked on this for almost 3yrs from the first line of writing a draft for a (hopefully new) standard, to the work on a @nextcloud extension until the final DAVx5 implementation.
Video announcement and short tutorial
Announcement video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TWb5U6pPYg
YT Shorts version: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fWhaLgcrcvI
Tutorial for Nextcloud: https://w...
Sur scène samedi, le groupe de rap punk Bob Vylan a appelé la foule à scander « Mort aux IDF », les forces de défense israéliennes. Peu après, le groupe de rappeurs nord-irlandais Kneecap a, lui, appelé à scander des insultes visant Keir Starmer.
Nedíval ses někdy na API Garminu, jestli by to nešlo udělat jako služba zvenčí? Formulář pro přístup k API spíš působí, že ne: garmin.com/en-US/forms/GarminC…. Zkusil jsem jim napsat.
@zoul Jeden čas jsem používal tréninkový deník MyTreneek a už tehdy nebyla možná automatická synchronizace s Garminem. Nějak to šlo obcházet, přes jinou aplikaci. Strava nějakou dobu fungovala. Po změně API už ze Stravy do MyTreneeku nejde synchronizovat automaticky. Všechno teď funguje jen přes ruční import – měsíc po měsíci, a s několika omezeními (limit 1× za 15 minut)
@pavelkout Ty jo, tak to je brutál – tolik kilometrů za měsíc! Fakt hodně dobrý! 👍🏻 #respekt 1600 asi ještě ani nemám letos najeto. 😅 Ale snad teď o prázdinách to pojede lépe.
Uz je to nejaky ten rok, co architekti z mjolk vytvorili interier libereckeho chicago burger baru kombinaci industrialu v art deco budove. Tenkrat se zdalo, ze to pojali jako satiru. Ale prijde mi, ze test casu ukazal, ze to je jeden z jejich nejviditelnejsich (jako chodi tam lidi) a i nejlepsich pocinu (jako je to fakt dobry).
Pamatuju si, jak sem sedaval na baru v plne hospode a akustickym efektem svitidel poslouchal lidi u stolu, jako by stali vedle me a rvali mi do ucha. Tohle muzete zazit porad. Berte to i jako varovani o cem se u stolu bavite.
Samotne chicago si proslo kontroverzni vlnou zdrazovani-zmensovanim i podstatne mene kontroverzni vlnou zdrazovani-zdrazovanim a plno je tam v podstate porad. Cena jidla lidi zas tak neovlivnuje.
Jestli tam bude beton a lampa i za deset let. Uvidime.
Can't believe this is still public [St Anne's Catholic Primary School - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone - Audio Book](stannes-school.uk/surrey/prima…)
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1/n 🧵 Včera se mi poštěstilo přinést 🐿️ neboli hanger. Ještě teplou, tak to bylo čerstvý.
Okamžitě si šla vydechnout na rošt do špajzu, dnes si jen tak "na mokro" zalezla do vakua a za tři týdny půjde na gril.
Oh cool so if someone wants the cops to Hoover up your private data just give a false hotline tip that they need to deport you RT: kolektiva.social/users/yourano…
Agents executed search warrants on college dorms based on flimsy affidavits and even put a trace on one target’s WhatsApp account. https://theintercept.com/2025/06/20/mahmoud-khalil-homeland-security-investigations-ice-surveillance/
Why did it take so long? I hope they can push it through though. Democrats Are Now Pushing to Unmask ICE Agents • FrankNez franknez.com/democrats-are-now…
I think they made this joke poster because a previous one may have used AI or it was just a bad photoshop -- there's a floating thumb in the air to the right of his gun
Hungary has banned anything that “promotes homosexuality,” which essentially means Pride. Today over 500,000 people in Budapest turned up for a Pride march and told the government to: 'Fuck off!'.
huh nice, what kinda storage? storage speed was my postgres difficulty last i ran a pleroma instance, once the db hit over 50gb queries would time out until i moved to fast ssds. i stopped around 2022, unno if the schema or postgres's performance has changed since then.
@matt, a screenshot displaying turquoise background with three windows above it. There are two buttons in the corners of the screen: the top left button shows an icon of a paperclip and says "Workspace 1", the bottom left button has the XTerm logo (blue T overlaid on top of red X).
To the right of the middle, an XTerm window showing the output of a command listing video outputs and something else, visible are keywords "wl_output", "wl_compositor", "wl_seat" etc.
City council, the mayor, borough councils, borough mayors, #assnat, MNAs, MPs, #hoc, etc. have known this for a while... you'd think something/anything would've been said and done BEFORE June, right?
Right?
Nope, not in Montréal. Not in Québec.
Lip service, only. juste pour la forme, seulement.
When times were better, my partner and her family used to go to the Bronx zoo almost every weekend. I only did this a few times.
One such time, October 5, 2013, I recorded this from just outside the sea lion pool. ?Captured with a pair of Sound Professionals MS-BMC3 microphones on glasses and an Olympus LS14 recorder. The image is what I would consider quasi-binaural, best heard with headphones.
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in reply to modulux • • •@modulux okay, I gotta be honest, this is kinda cool. I feel like an ambassador of the world of vision. Now that you're first hearing of this, let me put in the effort to really describe how it looks like, as it's not entirely a rainbow:
While rainbows have all colors gradually merging from one to the other, oil spills can have hard cuts of colors and don't have those colors in perfect lines next to each other. They look like messy rainbows with a darkened tone. All the colors beautifully next to each other, weirdly ordered, but not mixed. Some dots of this here, a larger chunk flowing into the other. A minor spill of dark red flowing through a sea of white/green, red/purple, orange/yellow, and then light blue/dark blue (on this specific image, as an example).
All the colors look more robust, metallic, but there's still a lot of beauty in that. Less shiny, more matte. More chaos, and a dark tint. Like a rainbow put in a moonshine filter.
I really hope the concept of an oil spill and how they look is now a lot more clear to you!
This specific image was hard to write an alt text for, as the pun needed the explanation of an oil spill looking like a rainbow. Writing it down, saying “the background looks like an oil spill” and then I thought “how the hell would blind people know oil spills have all the colors???”
Oil doesn't smell nice. I guess oil coloring is a thing?? But how often do people state this “obvious” fact. Maybe some books mention the shimmering of oil spills on the street left by cars, but I assume this is rarely described in its beauty.
I also have no idea why oil spills have all of those colors. That's what it says online:
No clue what that means. I am glad I could help ya. ❤️❤️❤️
modulux
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