I am angry and sad about the night sky (and the rest of the planet) getting destroyed by billionaires and I would really like some auroras to cheer me up please! (And if those spicy protons overload some satellites maybe that's ok too. Especially AST SpaceMobile satellites.)

Just a pebble covered with colorful lichens in the moss...
Concentric Boulder Lichen (Porpidia crustulata)

#lichen #lichensubscribe #Mosstodon #closeup

The TV is spying on you and we aren't sending people into a psych ward for saying so.

#privacy

@kev It's not just you! Looking forward to a day when Mastodon gets better admin controls.

A shocking 92 percent of US adults are not going to the doctor because it’s too expensive

https://www.independent.co.uk/us/money/us-medical-costs-doctors-health-insurance-b3026479.html

> The decision to delay medical care involves multiple factors, including gender - women are more likely to put off care than men

#health #healthcare #uspol #USA #feminism

Lesen ist wie ein Muskel. Einmal die Woche trainieren reicht nicht.

Eine Hamburger Grundschule zieht daraus die Konsequenz: 20 Minuten lesen, jeden Tag, gemeinsam und laut. Hier kommt kein Kind mehr ums Lesenlernen herum:
https://krautreporter.de/kinder-und-bildung/6529-bei-uns-verlasst-kein-kind-mehr-die-schule-ohne-lesen-zu-konnen?shared=f77923f1-9471-4ec1-81ca-eb2e741ac724&utm_campaign=share-url&utm_medium=social-media&utm_source=mastodon.social

@Yaku sì guarda, ora mi sento molto meglio

some day soon i am going to have (what i'd believed to be) a conversation with someone and feel their attention wander and see their eyes glaze over and i'll say to them "hey are you listening to me?" and they'll answer by pointing at their sleek wristpiece and saying "oh don't worry, keep talking, it's got siri recap." i need to work on my right hook so i can be prepared for when this day arrives

iPhone Duo’s software update is both hugely ambitious and yet not ambitious enough – here’s why https://www.stuff.tv/features/iphone-duos-software-update-is-both-hugely-ambitious-and-yet-not-ambitious-enough-heres-why/

@neil Oura not?

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

One of the burns that runs through the forest here. Bertie is too frit to drink or splosh about in this one (but he drinks daily from one less intimidating).

Sometimes I hear non-technical people speculating that this is a thing that could happen and I am posting it here to let them know that yes, this is a thing that happens.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/aug/26/fake-thinktank-israel-ai-propaganda

@las_lallero serviva un po' di serenità...

The bombing has been ongoing since the early hours of dawn, and it still hasn’t stopped. 💔

We are living through hours of terror and fear. Every explosion makes us tremble, wondering if the next one will be closer to us. We don’t know where to run or where we could possibly find safety.

Fear surrounds us, and we are struggling to endure. We need your support now more than ever—not only to survive, but to secure the most basic necessities for our families.

https://chuffed.org/project/161851-help-aya-go-to-uni-and-survive-in-gaza

#fediforgaza

#BBCNews - North Korea and Russia open first road bridge linking both countries
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj9xvg1kz0mo

@andre123 No aspè, il ciclo di Shannara non era di Terry Brooks?

With Meta perv glasses, Apple new always listening AI watch and Smart TVs tracking everything you watch, I fear that all my future meetings will be conducted naked in a Faraday cage.

@paul My introduction to SDR was as a student doing a GSoC project over a few months. I was trying to produce an open implementation of 802.11 (the original, 1Mbps BPSK with 11 chips of DSSS per bit, version). Since I couldn't use GNU Radio without bypassing most of its cool features and writing the whole demodulator as a single C++ class, I skipped all of it and did all my DSP work in Haskell, and got the same kind of experience that it sounds like you did.

I didn't get to test it on real hardware though, for a reason which caught me by surprise. It's not because I used Haskell, which was actually fast enough to keep up, as long as I was careful. But the original Ettus Research USRP had a USB 2.0 High Speed connection to the host, and was configured for 16-bit sampling on each of I and Q, and in that configuration it turned out that 480Mbps of USB bandwidth was not enough for a full 802.11 channel, which by Nyquist needed a bare minimum of 11 million I/Q samples per second.

A few years later I did another SDR project with a student rocketry group building an open-hardware GPS receiver. That time it was my fault that I didn't correctly think through the required bandwidth when specifying how the EEs built the hardware, but the outcome was kind of the same.

So I haven't had great luck doing SDR, but gosh, it's both fun and very educational, isn't it?

Mario Pirovano porta a teatro due spettacoli di Dario Fo su San Francesco - Teatro - Ansa.it
https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/teatro/2026/09/10/mario-pirovano-porta-a-teatro-due-spettacoli-di-dario-fo-su-san-francesco_ecd46c84-3919-4b3a-bd00-c3b48f50ed3d.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

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