Isole Lofoten, Norvegia.

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#photography
#Norway
#Lofoten
#winter
#snow

🤖 An AI agent created a GitHub account 2 weeks ago.

It’s already landed PRs in major #OSS projects and is cold-emailing maintainers to offer its services.

Maintainers don’t seem to know it’s an agent and the code is getting merged.

We’re in new territory! 🤠

https://socket.dev/blog/ai-agent-lands-prs-in-major-oss-projects-targets-maintainers-via-cold-outreach

Obwohl sich rein gar nichts an der Bedrohung durch die #Klimakrise geändert hat, nimmt weltweit die Bereitschaft zu #Klimaschutz ab – oder wird, wie bei #Trump, gleich ganz aufgegeben. Unser heutiger Podcast-Tipp blickt auf den politischen Backlash.

👉 https://www.deutschlandfunk.de/anti-klima-welle-fossile-energie-trump-klimapolitik-100.html

added/updated crowfi, mona classic, mona 7, sorasns, iphanpy on the app store (that's 40 not abandoned mastodon apps!) and
fedi reader to testflight
https://codeberg.org/technicat/awesome-mastodon

@las_lallero @ChieseBrutte

Non sembrano....SONO affilati 😈

The Bunny.net marketing videos are definitely a mood on their own https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfR1tWDzERU

@pallenberg Danke! Sehr gut zusammengefasst. Bald verlernen wir noch das Lesen und Schreiben. Das Hirn wird auch ausgeschaltet und die Menschheit schafft sich selbst ab. Aber wer wird es kontrollieren? Damit wird sehr viel Geld verdient, insbesondere bei den großen Spielern im Netz. Das sollte verstärkt überwacht werden und damit die Manipulation.

If you're trying to persuade someone to try Mastodon (or Pixelfed, or Friendica, etc), you'll get a lot further explaining them as algorithm-free, ad-free, AI-free, nazi-free conversations, rather than trying to describe a "decentralised protocol" or why "open source" is good.

Mastodon is conversations between real people.

It's sharing.

@dansup Just so awesome! 😊
Thanks mate for your dedication.

@SecurityWriter

I recall Bill Gates sometime in the ‘90s saying something like ‘if cars had improved at the same rate as software, they’d go at hundreds of miles per hour and run for a year on a single tank of gas’. The head of one of the big car companies replied ‘Our customers are glad that our products don’t crash multiple times a day’.

At least 3 killed, 15 injured in Russian attacks across Ukraine over past day: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/15/at-least-killed-injured-in.html

After making a viral (for Fedi) post and meeting the biggest sea lion I've ever seen today, I was inspired to go book shopping.

@urlyman Why should I reply to this one? Oh, I just did that? Shee...

Yes, you may be killed by falling human made space junk, but the odds remain small(ish) that will occur. The (almost inevitable) #KesslerSyndrome may also prevent future #space flights if all those #satellites in Low Earth Orbit start colliding, creating countless debris.

However, we *ALL* have to worry about the ‘chemical problem’ being created by SpaceX et al in the upper atmosphere. I have been banging on about this for a while and the attached article summarises the science in an easy to understand way - I have pasted the bit about the ‘chemical problem’ below because we *ALL* need to understand what the billionaires are doing to the planet while we are watching.

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Debris on the ground attracts immediate attention, but atmospheric scientists are tracking a slower process with potentially larger consequences. When satellites vaporize in the mesosphere, 50 to 80 kilometers above Earth, they release clouds of vaporized metals that condense into aerosol particles. Those particles descend into the stratosphere, where Earth’s protective ozone layer resides.

Aluminum is the element of greatest concern. Upon reentry, aluminum oxidizes into aluminum oxide nanoparticles. A single 250 kilogram satellite generates roughly 30 kilograms of these particles. Unlike chlorofluorocarbons, which directly destroy ozone, aluminum oxide acts as a catalyst. One particle can facilitate chemical reactions that destroy thousands of ozone molecules over decades without being consumed.

Researchers from the University of Southern California’s Department of Astronautical Engineering documented an eightfold increase in atmospheric aluminum oxides between 2016 and 2022, directly correlating with the proliferation of satellite constellations, a finding reported in detail by CNET. In 2022 alone, reentering satellites released an estimated 41.7 metric tons of aluminum, approximately 30 percent more than the natural input from micrometeoroids.

Projections based on current deployment schedules suggest annual aluminum oxide emissions could reach 360 metric tons, a 646 percent increase over natural background levels, according to research highlighted by Popular Mechanics. Because these particles take 20 to 30 years to descend into the ozone layer, the atmospheric chemistry of today’s satellite fleet will not manifest as measurable ozone loss until the 2040s. By then, the upper atmosphere could already be saturated with catalysts.

NASA high altitude sampling flights over Alaska in 2023 detected the signature of this process. At approximately 60,000 feet, instruments found that 10 percent of stratospheric sulfuric acid particles larger than 120 nanometers contained aluminum and other metals traceable to spacecraft reentries, according to data presented at the American Astronomical Society meeting that year. The atmosphere now bears a permanent chemical marker of human activity in space.
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#space #science #TheBillionairesAreKillingUsAll

https://indiandefencereview.com/starlink-satellites-falling-nonstop-to-earth-risk/

#SilentSunday

galileo is considered a sympathetic figure in the history of epicycles. i was specifically told in school that he was "excommunicated" from the church, which i was informed constituted the harshest possible punishment. that appears to have been false, but what's more interesting is what incites that response. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galileo_affair

@Remittancegirl agreed.

I know it’s probably an over-simplification but I think quite often about how indigenous cultures developed techniques for suppressing egotistical bullshit and lasted tens of thousands of years and how algorithmic media is the opposite

My "I don't give a flying fuck whether you follow me or not" posts are doing really well.

We are thrilled to announce Dr. Kari L. Jordan, Executive Director at The Carpentries as a Keynote for useR! 2026 in Warsaw!

Dr. Jordan, is a leading figure in data science education, serving as the Executive Director for @thecarpentries a globally recognized nonprofit. Upon completing Bachelor's and Master’s degrees in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan Technological University, she pursued a Ph.D. in Engineering Education at Ohio State University.

https://user2026.r-project.org/
#rstats #useR2026

@HeptaSean big fan of low code/no code environments for allowing people to solve their problems without a cs degree. It's still fascinating how hart it is do get those to actually be adopted.