The United Nations (UN) believes there are 4B buildings on Earth. This week, a dataset called "GlobalBuildingAtlas" (GBA) was published by researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) that attempts to estimate this number at being closer to 2.75B
This morning, during some chaos, this zipped by on one of my feeds. Maybe it was here? Maybe it was BlueSky? Hard to overstate how much this made my day.
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Here it is, my new, self-hosted home in the #Fediverse running on #GoToSocial! This is really exciting stuff, now I’m truly living the Fedi spirit by supporting decentralization. If you're reading this and don't mind, I'd greatly appreciate a boost of this post to help my tiny new instance discover more servers. Thanks! #NewFedi #FediAdmin #Selfhosting
oh sorry about that, I missed this. I mainly said this because of your post I was replying to. Boosting your post won't actually do very much for your federation other than spread that one particular post around. Fedi is push based, not pull based, so the real way to get content and server reach is to both be followed and to follow people. I don't think GTS does relays yet, so that would be another way of getting content into your instance, but you might need to wait. This is the same for hashtags.
Thanks so much for clarifying and for the explanations! I was under the impression that boosting would indeed result in my server pulling in more posts from other instances, but I guess that was a misconception on my part having seen others doing this after spinning up a new server. I did follow many of the people who boosted though as a way to say thank-you, so perhaps this actually did help extend my server's reach by extension . GTS does not support relays yet sadly, although it is on their roadmap, I only realized it after I'd already configured most things so there was no turning back. That being said though, I do feel GTS is absolutely the right choice for my single-user scenario, setting up Mastodon or one of its forks would likely be overkill for my small Fedi home. That being said, I did find this project which seems interesting, maybe I should look into setting this up: codeberg.org/tante/hypebot
GTS is definitely the right choice without a doubt, at least in my opinion. Yeah this push based thing is something a lot of people struggle with. If a server doesn't send you stuff, you won't get stuff, without external tools. I'm not entirely sure if GTS does context backfilling yet, I used to use fedifetcher for that for example. That's another way to get content in.
@simon Ah, this is a really nice one. Of course, because it's from Sonic Couture! I am happy they sampled the felt separately. I wish we could use Kontakt effects so that one could do additional processing on the felt sound! :)
American soybean #farmers are struggling during what should be a standout year. Yields are up, but sales are way down and storage facilities are full. It’s a dire situation that will require government support - or many #farms will not survive. All because of Trump’s #TradeWar. China, our largest #soybean customer is simply not buying from US farmers, after being their biggest customer. And USAID, which has been decimated by the #TrumpAdministration was the second largest customer. #Agriculture is under attack in the USA. And it’s all Trump’s fault. #Ag #FAFO
The U.S. soybean harvest began in September without any orders from the world’s largest buyer: China. American producers are harvesting a crop the USDA estimates at 4.
In Lake County, CA, where I used to live, a restaurant abruptly closed its doors after a Facebook post by the owner was interpreted as a celebration of Charlie Kirk's death. This story in the local paper is a really interesting temperature-taking from a poor, rural part of the US.
Lake County went for Trump in 2024, though it was close. If the death threats were bad enough to force a small business to close, clearly there remains plenty of MAGA there. But in the story there's a tone of exasperation in the quotes. People complaining it's hard to keep businesses or find jobs.
MAGA clearly wanted Charlie Kirk's death to be a watershed moment, one where they consolidated control, particularly cultural control. This story in the Lake County Record-Bee is one more sign that it may have been a watershed in the opposite direction, an overreach that has normal people fed up.
I have been waiting for a turning point in the mood of the country, and I think a lot of people reading this may have been too. It's too early to tell... but the signs are looking better than they have been for nine months that Americans are sick of this.
he’s so fucking stupid that he thinks magnets stop working if they get wet. he’s so fucking stupid that he thinks exercise is bad for you. he’s so fucking stupid he thinks windmills give you noise cancer. he’s so fucking stupid that you don’t even have to use his name — all you have to say is ‘he’s so fucking stupid’ and everyone immediately knows who you’re talking about. - Jeff Tiedrich
If you ever wonder why the Dems don't change and continue to alienate progressives, here you can see it happening in real time.
New centrist think tank in DC has already raised millions and promises to “defy ideological boxes and embrace a mix of positions from across the spectrum."
If you're not aware, that's code for 'make sure the progressives don't have a voice and keep giving the billionaire donors what they want. 🤦♂️
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I have always avoided politics on here, and even created a NoPolitics tag! But this is simply too important to ignore. Right now, it affects Europe, but if it passes, the whole world could be at risk of it being implemented everywhere. Even for those of us with nothing to hide, who don't deal with sensitive information, it's still a complete and unnecessary invasion of privacy.
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this is an incredibly complex discussion and it's almost impossible to get anyone to have a rational discussion about the nuances around it all with people, especially online.
> Denmark is primarily a country for the Danes, Britain primarily a united kingdom for the Brits, and Japan primarily a set of islands for the Japanese.
okay how about the world is primarily a place for humans?
Since he's automatically siding with "locals are scared of cultural change and people different from themselves are rapidly immigrating 🚨" there's no chance of him considering the consequences of past actions by the country or how people different than yourself don't automatically deserve a worse life and should be kept out of your community, etc etc.
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Updates from the Nepalese LibreOffice community: Recent protests and stress in Nepal have disrupted regular activities. Almost everything was affected, including in-person events being canceled rapidly.
Good for her and the others that are doing this. "Sarah McLachlan pulls out of performance for Disney doc amid Jimmy Kimmel fallout." usatoday.com/story/entertainme…
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Since the Romanian government started attacking students by not giving scholarships during the summer anymore and potentially making it harder to get scholarships (not confirmed yet for students, but they did make it harder for highschool), I'm no longer in a good financial state (not that the scholarship was ideal anyway)
I have a server to pay monthly (12 euro) and I won't have the money by October 6th. If you want to help you can do so here:
Last week we posted some howlers from ChatGPT as it failed to generate anatomically correct diagrams of pregnancy. Some of you believed the position of lungs and intestines relative to the uterus were yet another screw-up by the tech. We regret to inform you that's *quite* correct.
#MorningAll & #TZAG G’day Squirrel Fans, hope I find you bright eyed & bushy tailed!
Ello, Ello, is this thing working?
*taps keyboard experimentally*
OK, so I think it's Tuesday, unless Donnie T thinks that Tuesdays cause autism and has banned it!
So the key question is, did the world get more insane while I slept or is it just me finally loosing the last of my marbles?
I wonder what the manufacturers of Tylenol™ did to upset the orange oaf??
The BBC, much to the consternation of its top brass no doubt, have been forced to question POTATUS's statements on pain killers & indeed all vaccines. I bet it took their best spin doctors hours to come up with language that could not be seen as offensive by the man who, after last weeks visit, holds the fate of the UK economy in his tiny greasy hands!
It seems that the US health service has gone to war with the ND community! Why let silly things like facts & decades proven science get in the way of a good rant!
Grrrrrrrr!
Anyways, rant over, have a fabulous day & if you’re in the UK enjoy the sunshine!
Cashew later Peeps, have a fabulously nutty day #Today ! 😊🫶🖖
Not sure if this would make sense, or if other 3rd-party clients would do this.
"Quote with link" = non-native quote. Copy is not finalised.
The right way is probably use native quote if supported else fallback to non-native, instead of showing both at the same time. But would users still want to use non-native quote if native quote is not allowed? 🤔
Fix s/accounts/statuses.
I also suspect that DEFAULT_STATUSES_LIMIT applies here too, so instead of default 40, should be 20. I didn't test/check this so I'll update this PR if it's wro...
Prompt to turn them into quotes only show if: - Native quote post is supported - They "look like" post links (same logic as non-native QP link unfurling) - Still respecting the quote policy of the post (same logic as enabling/disabling the Quote menu) - There's no media attachment(s) or poll
In his 'Enter the Matrix' talk¹, @mcnesium suggested donating to the Matrix Foundation to address the issue of one company controlling 90% of the ecosystem and spec.
Here's how the foundation spends its money:²
• Administrative overhead • Operating the matrix.org server • Director’s salary • Hosting Matrix Conf
No funds for software development or spec writing.
Hosting the conference (12.5% of budget) is obviously a good investment.
Is there any place where financial reports of The Matrix.org Foundation are published? Like, summary of income through donations, who is currently employed by The Matrix.org Foundation and how are ...
Do watch @mcnesium’s talk though. I agree with the entire premise. I’m just not convinced that the venture capital funded Element-New Vector-Riot Incorporated is a reliable partner in solving the problem outlined at the beginning of the talk.
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Whenever I read "Trust & Safety" my first reaction is "You have to TRUST us" and "We ensure our SAFETY through restrictions on your device". Sadly, I have rarely been wrong with that.
Regarding the more general accusation on #Matrix being just another VC-backed one-company-product, I'd like to refer to another recent post from the foundation, and only quote from its final paragraph:
> … triggered some defensive reaction with other European players in the market. It is a shame that small European players feel the need to fight one another rather than collaborate via open source software against the bigger non-European and proprietary players.
I would not underestimate the value of having a go-to home server free of charge for people new to #matrix. In the end, it is the members of the foundation to decide whether they agree with the use of the budget they contribute. Are you also a member?
Trust & Safety does include moderation of Matrix.org, but it also includes research and development of FOSS tools, techniques, and spec changes, and collaboration with contributors and server operators from across the ecosystem, even beyond Matrix.
As conveners for the ecosystem, we're able to leverage the fact that we operate a flagship instance to advance the experience of the open federation for everybody.
When I complain about Windows, I literally never thought about running Linux in my life.
As I stare at my shelf full of Linux laptops.
Or look back at my decades of working and playing with Linux systems.
Or the Linux stickers on my desk.
Or ...
Sometimes people just need to use Windows. Or Mac. Or Ubuntu. Or something else you don't like.
Stop being elitist snobs about it when someone complains about the tool they're using. I PROMISE you every single person on this corner of the Fediverse has heard "you should use Linux" a thousand times. They have their reasons to use something else. And they're allowed to complain about it.
This sort of shit is why I hate the FOSS community.
Edit: I felt like registering uselinuxinstead.com/ as a catchall for reasons people may choose not to use a Linux system for their personal use cases. It's as a GitHub Pages so feel free to put issues or PRs if you want to suggest content. L
If I feel more generous later, after making a list of things, I'll also include some links on each section pointing to resources of "okay this was my reason, but maybe if I understood how to do ________ I could give Linux a try."
But the primary point is to have a parked list to hand to folks insisting that you should use Linux for everything and everybody simply because you're frustrated about one specific frustrating thing on MS or Apple or Android or Chromebook or whatever else.
. GTS does not support relays yet sadly, although it is on their roadmap, I only realized it after I'd already configured most things so there was no turning back. That being said though, I do feel GTS is absolutely the right choice for my single-user scenario, setting up Mastodon or one of its forks would likely be overkill for my small Fedi home. That being said, I did find this project which seems interesting, maybe I should look into setting this up: codeberg.org/tante/hypebot
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