In 1812, hundreds of thousands of men in Napoleon’s army perished during their retreat from Russia. Researchers now believe a couple of unexpected pathogens may have helped hasten the soldiers’ demise.
i read the article and yes but also that train has line has an insane number of at grade crossings. Just one more example of dogshit American infrastructure
@anemone but still. People are parking their cars on the tracks all the time so they can total their car for insurance and escape debt and mentally ill people are walking on the tracks. It's wild. I've seen the videos, lived in Miami right near where it happened regularly.
@anemone but also what are you suggesting? that the highways go over or under the rail lines?
That same railroad is used for the Port of Miami to move cargo/shipping containers and all sorts of massive heavy loads out of Florida and up into the USA
ideally. the route was built back when trains topped out at like 40mph or less and has been used for decades for freight moving at even slower speeds. Obviously it's not really feasible for a private company to do all that but it's completely absurd that neither they nor the local municipalities have even bothered to put up fences where the line cuts through residential and business areas.
@anemone there are fences and walls the whole way man, i lived right next to the rail I watched the trains every day from my patio and even posted videos here
I've also taken the train all the way to Orlando from Miami. There were no residential areas where the train had no fences/walls
the article talks about pedestrians getting killed in other place so this doesn't seem to be entirely true. As far as road crossings yeah there's not much that can be done other than grade separation which is what's done in civilized countries. Just one more example of America cheaping out on infrastructure and killing us.
Nádhera. Uzavírka hlavní silnice A4 v Londýně, o prázdninovém víkendu… Všechny přijíždějící autobusy minimálně o 2 hodiny zpožděné, jakákoli trasa na objezd pro 15m dlouhý autobus zacpaná. Takže se uvidíme zítra v 6 ráno. Abych mohl být ve 4 zpátky v práci!
The Washington Post reports on 996, "a term popularized in China that refers to a rigid work schedule in which people work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., six days a week...
almost finished the struggle to find good vegan cosmetics I can actually afford that aren’t full of Essence of Tropical Fruit Tree From a Remote Island With Questionable Labor Practices That Smells Too Strong And Also Gives You Acne
Re last: I mean, character limits should be settable by every admin from the admin panel! Come on, it's 2025 and it's nearing its end already! #MastoAdmin
@ag Have you seen the issue on the matter? It's completely absurd, idealists straight-up saying but everyone should be able to do this and putting in the admin panel makes onboarding easier and it shouldn't be or some such nonsense.
I completed a quick survey of 10,000+ Mastodon instances and found that 21% of them change their MAX_POST length in some way... that's more than 2100 instance admins messing with the default......
> we encourage the development of alternative server software and client UI that's more purpose built for longer posts, like Tumblr.
Why make it customizable at all then? This just feels like punishing the people who actually want to customize it. It's a constant reminder that this software wasn't built for us.
This rejection of a PR is the reason I'm running Mastodon in a persistent LXC container instead of using Docker. Ridiculous.
Пару лет назад читал как это сделать. Там вроде скрипты есть готовые, упрощающие жизнь. Конечно без возни не обойтись, но вряд ли сложнее чем поднимать кластер Kafka, или Hadoop например, а уж тем более админить это счастье.
@Yinshi Не, ну понятное дело, не Кафка, но могло бы быть сильно легче. Есть альтернативы, которые, как и должно быть в 2025 году, docker compose up -d и всё.
Я про альтернативные решения и не знал, правда меня вся эта тема с децентрализованными соцсетями и прочим в целом обошла стороной. Знаю что API тут вроде как чуть более богат чем доступен в TWBlue. А может и нет.
one of the most irritating parts of running your own instance is having to modify source files just to change your character limits. there are plenty of posts out there describing how to change the character limits for posts, but almost none on how to change the limit for alt text (1500):
here's the source file where the alt text char limit is buried: /instance/app/javascript/mastodon/features/ui/components/focal_point_modal.jsx
and here's the source that needs to be changed:
<FormattedMessage id='upload_modal.detect_text' defaultMessage='Detect text from picture' /> </button> <CharacterCounter max={1500} text={detecting ? '' : description} /> </div>
If I could only have one thing this year, it would be to eliminate PPC support from MacPorts. Toxic PPC fanboys still hugging their decaying Power Macs and pretending that software written in 2025 can cope with hardware and drivers from 20 years ago would have to find another outlet for their retro fetish, but at least they wouldn't bother upstream projects any more.
Sorry about that. I‘m using a PowerMac and Snow Leopard as well (sometimes) and am happy about every port that still works. But I thought it would be my job to write patches for software that won‘t run on that machines anymore otherwise. Would be a pity if removing support would become an act of collective punishment for some bullies existing in any community. Technical reasons, yes, of course. There‘s no contract for eternal support, paid forever or sth.
De 2008 à 2018 en Europe, plus de quatre millions d'agriculteurs et paysans ont dû quitter leurs fermes : lente disparition silencieuse de 1000 par jour. Ça ...
‘ Doctors have warned that the government’s decision to exclude health and social care workers from its covid vaccination programme is putting patients at risk and will have a major impact on an overstretched NHS.’
🤦 Unbelievably shortsighted, based on what exactly!
Stort grattis! Both your code and the discipline you require from contributors to curl are examples of what the word "ingenjörvetenskap" suggests to me. I'm delighted for you that the Kungliga IVA recognized your work.
my piece about some current events, somewhat political
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I usually don't talk politics but...
I keep seeing this thing about how we shouldn't celebrate Charlie kirk's death. Then I see, "Well, they celebrated minority death every day!" So, this means you should go so low as to join them? Really?
I don't care who the person is. I might not be sad that so and so is gone, but I'm not going to celebrate it. I'm not going to run around gleefully singing about it. I'm not going to sit over here like, yeah conservatives, that's what you get! Because, like it or not, the man is still a human being, and he did/does have family who are hurting right now. Just because that individual is gone, do you really need to celebrate it publicly for his relatives to see? To me, that's just uncalled for and honestly disrespectful.
And now, I return you to your regularly scheduled toots about... whatever I come up with today.
Random thought of the day: the UK's emergency number is 999, and the word 'emergency' is 9 letters long. So when you dial 999, you are saying 'emergency emergency emergency'.
You know things are bad when you're trying to reset your iPad, can't use a phone number you don't have, forget your trusted phone number, and there's no option to get a recovery email. You have to admit, #apple is secure for sure. So secure that even if you're the right person, you can't get into your Apple account at all because of these layers.
Now that I've somewhat figured out Visual Intelligence on iOS, it's quite a nice feature to have. I need to work on prompting for better descriptions, but not bad for what it is by any means.
@LeonianUniverse It can do a few things, although I'm not totally sure what's changed in 26 as I only just updated a few days ago and didn't have a ton of time to play around until this weekend. You're able to take a picture or screenshot of something, and then either ask ChatGPT about it or use Google to find similar items. It can also do things like read text aloud, add events you see in public to your calendar, and a few other things like that.
GmsCompatLib is a core component of the GrapheneOS sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and and will be obsoleted by the next OS release including the changes in the base package.
Pixel Camera recently added a hard dependency on Google Play services. It still works on GrapheneOS, but started requiring sandboxed Google Play services.
GmsCompatLib version 100 for GrapheneOS 2025102300 or later restores support for Pixel Camera without Play services:
GmsCompatLib version 100 released:
https://github.com/GrapheneOS/platform_packages_apps_GmsCompat/releases/tag/lib-100
See the linked release notes for a summary of the improvements over the previous release and a link to the full changelog.
The fact that hotels have started hiring escape room designers to hide their light switches seems related to the fact that UI designers turned scrollbars into the world's shittiest video games/hand-eye coordination tests.
add shim implementation of GmsFontProvider to prevent crashes of apps depending on Play services when it's missing or disabled (restores support for using Pixel Camera without Play services with recent Pixel Camera versions depending on it for this)
extend shim for background service starts to address edge cases where a foreground service is required
fix NoOpPrewarmService chain crash in Pixel Camera caused by lack of privileged OS integration
A full list of changes from the previous release (GrapheneOS version 2025102300) is available through the Git commit log between the releases.
GmsCompatLib is a core component of the GrapheneOS sandboxed Google Play compatibility layer.
This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and and will be obsoleted by the next OS release including the changes in the base package.
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This update is available to GrapheneOS users via our app repository and will also be bundled into the next OS release. Vanadium isn't yet officially available for users outside GrapheneOS, although we plan to do that eventually. It won't be able to provide the WebView outside GrapheneOS and will have missing hardening and other features.
Privacy and security enhanced releases of Chromium for GrapheneOS. Vanadium provides the WebView and standard user-facing browser on GrapheneOS. It depends on hardening in other GrapheneOS reposito...
fix signing the GmsCompatLib package with a dedicated cross-device key, which was added in the last release but wasn't being replaced by a release key and blocked moving the last release past Alpha
kernel (6.12): update to latest GKI LTS branch revision
All of the Android 16 security patches from the current November 2025, December 2025 and January 2026 Android Security Bulletins are included in the 2025102301 security preview release. List of additional fixed CVEs:
2025100901 provides at least the full 2025-11-01 patch level and the Android 2025-11-05 patch level (Pixel Update Bulletin could have fixes we don't get early) but will remain marked as providing 2025-10-05.
For detailed information on security preview releases, see our post about it.
I have completed my email migration to Stalwart and I only hit one bug where an account somehow got messed up from imapsync and lost its INBOX and Stalwart couldn't deliver messages in the queue because of that and nothing would let me create the INBOX manually, so I had to delete and resync
Otherwise: it works. Thunderbird handles autoconfig nicely, iOS doesn't (expected). Contacts and calendars and sieve working.
Spam filtering seems to be working so far but it does feel more opaque overall because I'm used to having my fingers in every service that comprises a modern mail setup. But that leads to lack of tight integration which was also frustrating
curious to hear how it goes if something goes wrong. One big benefit of postfix and dovecot that they are pretty fine with things going wrong and recovering from that. Partly because everything is mapped to the filesystem and you can do easy tooling around it. Mess up some filtering subsystem? Postfix will queue it and you can inspect the failure via cli. Fix the issue and the queues clear out.
@hpk yes it holds stuff in an internal queue if there are issues with delivery which is nice
I am not a fan of RocksDB because I have been able to get it into a state where the software using it doesn't want to start up because of some unclean shutdown issue and I don't know how to fix it. Haven't seen a way to fix it... so I don't trust that. I'm using Postgres right now for the main storage which is fine but a bit unnecessary, i could just be using ZFS and I'll probably switch to that. Filesystem storage is good enough for me when they aren't actually leveraging the database properly anyway.
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