@trusty hey guys, $29/mo (teams plan) as the minimum requirement for being able to have a hidden master for my zones seems like a bit much. Can you guys reconsider this?
you want to use another server as a hidden master and have us pull data into DNSimple and serve it from our name servers on the Solo plan, is that correct?
you're charging $0.50 per hosted zone, if there's a concern about cost/resources to allow more people to use DNSimple as a secondary just make it $0.75 or something...
anyway, I see on the site you've got team members at the ElixirConf, have fun and I'm so glad to see DNSimple embracing Elixir 😇
Windows 95, arguably the first PC gaming OS, is still being used... to sort eggs in Germany "...For one thing, it may not surprise you to learn that egg-counting software is actually pretty niche, or that the programmer that originally built the software is no longer around to provide updates compatible with later operating systems. So, unless some young upstart wants to bring chicken farming into the modern age, hen farmers like Huber have few options but to stick with Windows 95..." pcgamer.com/hardware/windows-9…
Here is what is missing in the popular #OSM based #FOSS apps (#OsmAnd, @CoMaps & @organicmaps) from being a potential replacement for GMaps.
1. Photos & Reviews are two most important things that are missing right now. @mangroveReviews and @lib_reviews are here to fill the reviews gap. #WikimediaCommons, @panoramax are here to fill the photos gap.
2. Crowdsourced Real time Traffic data. I couldn't find any #opendata platform yet. Though I saw an empty repo created under the CoMaps project. 🤞
have you come across @cartes_app yet? They are the most complete OSM based solution I have seen yet integrating Panoramamax and wiki commons data already. They have also been talking about trying to integrate possibly fediverse or Bluesky based reviews
I carry a 5 foot slip leash when I'm walking Maple in case we see a loose dog so I can catch it before it gets to her if it's aggressive.
I've found it easier to be proactive and get my dog behind me and lasso the other dog as it approaches.
After you have a leash on a dog they get way easier to control but if they don't, you can let your dog go and keep hold of the aggressor.
The only way this works is if you can train your dog to get behind you when you say and if they have enough recall to trust that you can get them back after you let them go.
It's not perfect but I've done it and it is better than not having any way to restrain a mean dog.
I'm just putting this here for anyone who wants to know what to do if an off leash dog is approaching you.
Obviously every crisis is different and sometimes you can't get the lead on the other dog.
Being prepared doesn't always work out but when it does, it does.
just bring pepper spray / mace / bear spray and then you don't have to worry about getting bit by an aggressive dog that you're trying to catch with your spare lead
@feld I have some. It's a last resort. It doesn't really do anything but make them more angry and also sometimes get yourself and your dog pepper sprayed as well.
Air horns can work to scare them away sometimes but I prefer having control over the stray than doing anything that will upset them further.
well if you get in a situation where the dog latches onto yours, grab their back legs and lift them. They'll release unless they're a pit / bull dog, in which case you gotta jam your finger into their anus and then they'll release.
and once they've released, swing and YEET them as far as you can.
the number of people I've encountered especially at dog parks that don't know how to separate dogs safely and end up making things worse or getting bit... 🫠
Spirits maker Diageo says it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some of the bottling volume to the U.S.
“This kind of thing should make everybody stop and really think before deploying any AI agents. We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks.”
“It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there.”
Nice indirect prompt injection attack: Bargury’s attack starts with a poisoned document, which is shared to a potential victim’s Google Drive. (Bargury says a victim could have also uploaded a compromised file to their own account.
That sounds like a lovely idea! 😊 Although I can imagine it being hard. 😅
I mostly get my tech news from here on Mastodon and to be honest, I’m probably missing a ton. I don’t mind though, I’d rather see an awesome side project or FOSS software saving the day than know about the newest smartphone on the block. 😊
Spirits maker Diageo says it will cease operations at its bottling facility in Amherstburg, Ont., early next year, as it shifts some of the bottling volume to the U.S.
@hub Guinness - I don't like beer anyway. Baileys - Coole Swan is Irish and tastes incredible. Smirnoff - Lots of Canadian vodka options I'll be okay 👍
What the actual hell? They really want to alienate Canadian customers, don't they?
I've always preferred Wiser's anyway, but shades of Heinz abandoning Leamington. At least Heinz is an American company. And bottled in the USA will NOT be an appealing selling point in liquor stores. They haven't been paying attention to the empty shelves that used to have American products on it? Maybe they sell more to Americans, so don't really care.
*for Champagne lovers, there are several wineries in Ontario who make bubbly that’s as good as or better than most of what Moet et Chandon (j.v. between Diageo and LVMH) produces. Some of those include: Westcott Estate Vineyards, Hidden Bench, Mason Vineyards, and Honsburger Estate Vineyards (those are our favourites). #BuyCanadian #SparklingWine
**Beer lovers, please share some of our great #CanadianBeers that we could be drinking instead of anything produced by Diageo
@Lynnd @ZenHeathen @CStamp @Chigaze for beer, my local grocery store has an incredible selection of local micro breweries. (Québec) No need to feed Molson-Coors or Budweiser.
@hub Quebec seemed ahead of others with regards to grocery store stuff. On our summer trips between Toronto and NS, we used to stop into some stores to pick up stuff like iced cider, which we had never seen before. :) @Lynnd @ZenHeathen @Chigaze @jace
@CStamp @Lynnd @ZenHeathen @Chigaze My rule is: if you want wine go to SAQ. If you want beer (local) check the grocery store (usually Metro or IGA, less so for Weston) or even the dépanneurs (some are treasures).
I have never lived in Quebec and not be able to get beer at the dep or grocery store.
@CStamp Ontario now has wine, beer and coolers in grocery and convenience stores, and I absolutely do not see the need. As an example, there are many small communities in Ontario which *do* have an LCBO (which also has beer, including a great selection of Canadian craft beer), and *don't* have a grocery store or convenience store. Alcohol was already very readily available in this province, but our boneheaded premier is obsessed with it. @hub @Lynnd @Chigaze @jace
Ha, thanks to Hungarian radio, song stuck in my head that I cannot knock out with any other catchy song for now. Excited to travel to New York Sunday though, taking today and Friday off work just to be in the right mental space. When Do I Get to Sing "My Way" - Sparks: open.spotify.com/track/70RYaTW… or: youtube.com/watch?v=gqH-HpqZsY…
Why does it seem to be the case that when a patron does not return the items they checked out, they usually have checked out a large number of items?
I remember when one person checked out 6 volumes in the Wheel of Time series at once and then never returned them. Between unreturned items and bindings falling apart, I sometimes feel like my library is propping up the Jordan estate with all the repurchasing I need to do of that series
And this problem has been exacerbated since we went fine-free. I'm happy that we're fine-free and definitely don't want to go back to charging fines, but I also need to acknowledge that we have had a lot more loss in the library materials since the switch
My (former) library saved money by going fine-free since they no longer had to deal with the costs of accounting, staffing, training, security, debt collections, and tax implications of needing to accept fines.
And once (especially poor) folx were told to “just bring it back” we found that it meant they actually came back to the library, we got the book back, instead of them never returning to the library and just keeping the book. It was a resounding win for everyone. @fskornia
Has @thunderbird for Android removed the direct Archive email button from the UI?
What a terrible change to make.
Edit: Export to Mobile from Desktop disables the Archives folder settings in 11.1 so these have to be reapplied manually for Archive button to work in the UI
We're sorry for any frustration with this, and we'll get this feedback to our mobile team to see how we can get this improved in a future version of the app.
My father loves the "bird program", as he calls @thunderbird (he doesn't speak English). He doesn't like webmail or other email clients, just Thunderbird.
Byli jste dnes behat? Nebo na vylete? Ja se taky dnes nabehal...nechapu, proc mi to meri v kilometrech. Metry by bohate stacily! (Na spanek nekoukejte, hodinky na noc sundavam.)
Is there something you always wanted to ask an astrophysicist? Here is your chance.
I will try to answer as many questions as I can today. And if I enjoy it, we may repeat this later.
Some background: I'm a high energy astrophysicist working on black holes, neutron stars, accretion and massive stars with a pretty broad knowledge of the whole astro field (I did teach it at uni level), but little to no experience with hobby observing or astrophotography.
Reading For Fun Is Plummeting In the US, and Experts Are Concerned - alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you sett... - news.slashdot.org/story/25/08/… #books
alternative_right shares a report from ScienceAlert: When's the last time you settled down with a good book, just because you enjoyed it? A new survey shows reading as a pastime is becoming dramatically less popular in the U.S.
Western scholarship has had “a bias against studying sensual experience,” writes Reina Gattuso at Atlas Obscura, “the relic of an Enlightenment-era hierarchy that considered taste, touch, and flavor taboo topics for sober academic inquiry.
Last year, Vision Australia attempted to recruit a CEO without an open process, thus locking out capable blind leaders from Australia and around the world who didn’t work for the organization. They would have gotten away with it if a group of brave, principled blind leaders weren’t having it, and stood up to make change, despite the personal difficulties this caused. They banded together, formed an organization called United Blind Leaders, and were relentless until Vision Australia did the right thing and embarked upon an open and inclusive process in which appointing a blind person was something they are actively seeking to do. They’ve been effective, and now they’re taking their message global and continuing to advocate for change. It is essential that we as blind people lead the organizations that provide us with service. If these organizations don’t believe in blind people, why should the rest of the world? I encourage you to follow United Blind Leaders on Mastodon for updates on this great movement for change. @Unitedblindleaders. That’s UnitedBlindLeaders at Mastodon.social.
It is essential in 2025 that blind people lead the organisations that are representing us. However this has to extend across the organisation, throughout senior and middle management as well as staff overall. I have personally seen major organisations be led in the completely wrong way due to a tiny number of blind people within the organisation. And that’s up to the blind leaders to implement. I’ve equally seen a blind person get into high office in an organisation only to pull the drawbridge up behind them to ensure their own viewpoint is heard and to allow them to dismiss all others. One blind person’s opinion is just that - one opinion. As they say, it takes a village. And that village needs to be full of blind, low vision and sighted people, with a blind leadership team. caneandable.social/@JonathanMo…
Last year, Vision Australia attempted to recruit a CEO without an open process, thus locking out capable blind leaders from Australia and around the world who didn’t work for the organization.
I still use a Kobo Touch, an ereader that came out in 2011, and this morning I got an update that replaced the now-dead Pocket integration with an Instapaper one. A decade and a half old product still getting new features shouldn’t feel extraordinary but it really really does.
Today I learned that fuzzy logic came to be thanks to an Iranian scientist, Lotfi A. Zadeh. Fuzzy mathematics play an important role in so many appliances and new tech, including your rice cooker and the AI you use daily. Fuzzy logic allows computers to work with a degrees of truth rather than 1/0 or true/false. Fuzzy mathematics added a little humanity to our machines. Think about it! We say the weather is warm, really hot, kind of cool, extremely cold, ETC. There's no just hot/cold. Machines can understand this using the fuzzy logic. In simpler words, fuzzy logic is designed to mimic human reasoning by handling imprecise information. I am proud of my country and my people, but I should emphasize that my current government is definitely not my people. #Iran #FuzzyLogic #LotfiZadeh #Mathematics #AI #Tech #Computing
Fucking alcohol monopoly
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