Due to ongoing disappointment with how infosec.exchange moderates racism (or doesn't, as the case may be), and a conversation with one of their moderators which very much left us disillusioned as to their capacity for taking racism seriously, we will be blocking that instance from mastodon.art in two weeks.

Context: https://mastodon.art/@Curator/117123315920205462

@pixelfed

Why the import function for instagram is disabled ? Will it be bring back soon ?

(But also how have we got to a point where it makes sense to someone to feed the excess plastic to people instead of just making less of it?)

Plastic bottles can be turned into edible, vanilla-flavour cookies

"Those components are then fed to yeast that has been genetically altered using CRISPR gene-editing technology. This allows the yeast to convert the components into a variety of useful ingredients, including proteins, fats and acids, as well as vanilla flavouring and beta-carotene, which the body can convert into vitamin A.

Finally, fibre, starch and sweetener are added to the mix, and the paste is extruded through a 3D printer into any desired shape."

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2585463-plastic-bottles-can-be-turned-into-edible-vanilla-flavour-cookies/

https://archive.is/kOZSX

Regardless of any theoretical benefits of this process, I feel like anyone who thinks anyone will actually accept this has never been on the internet and never seen how people respond to any novel foodstuff that isn't made from plastic or by GM microbes. If people think plant-based burgers are a plot by Bill Gates to bring about the new world order or whatever I can't see this idea taking off.

Albert Camus on the 3 antidotes to the absurdity of life https://t.co/4eM6QR3VtI

RE: https://mastodon.social/@pixelfed/116103131962435900

It's true, we *thought* we fixed account migration in Pixelfed earlier this year, but a few pesky lines of code were to blame for breaking this migration feature.

So we disabled it until we could get it right, and after FediCon, @dansup (me) made it a priority to fix along with several other important bug and security fixes!

We are in feature freeze mode, and focused on further bug/federation/performance fixes, to make Pixelfed easier to install, more stable and more fun!

#pixelfed

Remember to raise your rates.

Your time is valuable. Clients who always want the bottom line will burn more of your time.

So ensure they will pay.

The conjecture attracted considerable interest when Gerhard Frey[5] suggested in 1986 that it implies FLT.

ok so you're saying a bunch of nazi mathematicians decided in the mid-80s to start playing up elliptic curve and lattice bullshit and now those are the only two public-key cryptosystems you're even allowed to use? despite both of them being very specifically motivating by breaking diffie-hellman, which works based on incredibly simple mathematics?

omfg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modularity_theorem TANIYAMA-SHIMURA CONJECTURE IS SLOP

Yutaka Taniyama[1] stated a preliminary (slightly incorrect) version of the conjecture at the 1955 international symposium on algebraic number theory in Tokyo and Nikkō as the twelfth of his set of 36 unsolved problems. Goro Shimura and Taniyama worked on improving its rigor until 1957. André Weil[2] rediscovered the conjecture, and showed in 1967 that it would follow from the (conjectured) functional equations for some twisted L-series of the elliptic curve; this was the first serious evidence that the conjecture might be true. Weil also showed that the conductor of the elliptic curve should be the level of the corresponding modular form. The Taniyama–Shimura–Weil conjecture became a part of the Langlands program.[3][4]