Today I am testing a new #BoardGame with my humans. It's called Castles of Mad King Ludwig.
Results:
👎Top cover is too deep - not comfortable;
👍Bottom cover has a nice foam on the bottom so its not as deep and it's soft - very comfortable;
👎 The board is full of cards which are constantly moving under my tail - not comfortable
Hi all, I have what may be a strange request. My Nan is in a nursing home and can't go out due to mobility problems, but she loves birds. I show her bird photos I come across online but sometimes it's hard to find a lot of new/interesting ones. If you take any cool bird pictures, could you please add the hashtag #BirdsForBecsNan so I can find them more easily for her? The more colourful/exotic/pretty, the better, but she also likes to see rare/unusual birds.
(here is my crappy rosella photo)
I once had a sparrow chirp frantically at a group of people I was with. At first I thought it was trying to shoo us away from its nest. After a while I realized it wasn't behaving aggressively, but urgently. It was trying to get our attention so we approached it and it led us to another sparrow that was upside down and tangled up in dense ivy-like brush.
One of us managed to get up to the tangled bird to get it freed. It took a while and the whole time the bird that got our attention just hovered nearby watching us free its friend. It was making no effort to keep its distance from us. When we finally got the trapped bird free, the two of them flew off together.
I was astonished that an animal with such a tiny brain had the wherewithal to understand how to summon help and who to summon help from.
(Updated to include a photo of the incident that I found after I posted.)
@stux
Another blog post for the end of the year: a list of the TV shows I enjoyed the most in 2024.
Read here:
multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com…
What were your favorites?
Continuing my end-of-the-year retrospective with TV series. This year was definitely better than the last in terms of good shows. I watched ...multicoloreddiary.blogspot.com
This is a pre release for 38c3 https://events.ccc.de/category/38c3/ signed for the c3gsm sim cards. (This release will be removed when 0.5 will be released)GitHub
Ready for #NewYear? Time to make up a #NewYearResolution 💪
Why not choose #privacy over Big Tech⁉️
Here are some ideas. 👇 Which is on your list for #2025❓
And more tips to #deGoogle your life: tuta.com/blog/how-to-leave-goo…
Start DeGoogling today and prevent Big G from exploiting your data! Learn how to replace Google apps with private ones in this detailed guide.Tuta
Issue Addressed: The documentation of curl_multi_waitfds indicates that users should be able to call curl_multi_waitfds with a NULL ufds. However, before this change, the function would return CUR...GitHub
Oh, Ian. For such a smart and respected man you sure do toot some shit sometimes. 
The security protocols behind this are well documented. Apple isn't 'sending your data to the cloud'. Rather, Apple has gone to extraordinary lengths to ensure that the data that they send to the cloud, which enhances on-device functionality, is encrypted and obfuscated up the wazoo.
You're being disingenuous _at best_ to suggest that this is not the case. Shame on you for amplifying this nonsense.
Nomes galegos das aves de Galicia e de España
Real Academia Galega
"presentamos unha proposta unificada das denominacións terminolóxicas das aves en galego, para que sirva de instrumento para todo tipo de comunicación especializada no ámbito da ornitoloxía, sexa na realización de artigos científicos, libros, paneis, materiais divulgativos ou actividades de educación ambiental"
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#aves
Desde o ano 1977, no ámbito da ornitoloxía galega especializada publicáronse diversos traballos para as aves detectadas en Galicia.publicacions.academia.gal
"What are heavy? sea-sand and sorrow.
What are brief? today and tomorrow.
What are frail? spring blossoms and youth.
What are deep? the ocean and truth."
Christina Rossetti, who died #OTD in 1894, was an English writer of romantic, devotional and children's poems, including "Goblin Market" and "Remember".
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christin…
Christina Rossetti at PG:
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Project Gutenberg offers 74,817 free eBooks for Kindle, iPad, Nook, Android, and iPhone.Project Gutenberg
When cruising, there’s a sound often heard throughout the day: the PA/Announcement Chime. Whether it’s an update from the captain or a list of activities fro...YouTube
Whois is one of the older protocols still in use on the Internet, playing a critical role in managing and distributing information about domain names and Internet numbers, such as IP addresses and autonomous system numbers (ASNs). This talk focuse...38c3
You’re telling me that was drawn by a horse?
I’m still not buying it.
Welche Folgen hat es, wenn VW massenhaft Fahrzeug-, Bewegungs- und Diagnosedaten sammelt und den Schlüssel unter die Fußmatte legt? Was verraten Fahrzeugdaten über die Mobilität von Behörden, Ämtern, Ministerien, Lieferdiensten, Mietwagenfirmen...38c3
✨ One year ago, I released 'Lullaby'. 🎶 This song holds a special place in my heart. Just like a lullaby brings comfort, I hope 'Lullaby' offered you some solace. As we welcome a new year, let's cherish the memories and embrace the hope that comes with fresh starts. Happy Holidays & a Happy New Year! ✨
#Lullaby #NewYear #Reflection #Hope #Music
Sonocotta's HiFi-Amped is a Raspberry Pi Audio HAT designed for Raspberry Pi single-board computers. It features dual PCM5100 DACs and TPA3110 (2x15W @Debashis Das (CNX Software Limited)
What better way to ring in the new year than with a Doctor Who New Year's special? There have been four so far, and we're going to rank their popularity based on their viewing figures.Alex Skerratt (Lovarzi Blog)
Oh oh. Looks like Apple “did a Mozilla” and shipped a great well thought out feature with a good privacy story and still upset everyone.
Planes were going to drop out of the sky, nuclear reactors would explode. But then … nothing. What really happened with Y2K? People still disagree …Tom Faber (The Guardian)
If any event you're going to has a terrible Covid-19 policy, I invite you to shame them by pointing out an EROTIC HYPNOSIS CONFERENCE does a better job than them.
@elexia @Katzedecimal probably because these are the few vaccines some country actually require... and have for a while.
But our governements just bend over to anti-science-anti-vax morons.
"privacy" "freedumb"
#LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional.
#ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such.
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Excerpt from a message I just posted in a #diaspora team internal forum category. The context here is that I recently get pinged by slowness/load spikes on the diaspora* project web infrastructure (Discourse, Wiki, the project website, ...Geraspora*
Sean Randall
in reply to Becinator • • •Have a look at one of the later posts from @billyjoebowers about the sparrows.
Amazing.
#BirdsForBecsNan