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For weeks now I have been encouraging fascist and diet fascists in my offline life to get/try a Tesla flying car because I know natural selection will occur and nothing of value will be lost.
Las hormigas amazónicas producen sonidos de percusión cuando se sienten amenazadas.
Cuando una hormiga detecta el peligro, golpea violentamente su abdomen o su cabeza contra un sustrato sólido como una hoja seca, madera o las paredes del nido.
Estos rápidos impactos crean vibraciones físicas que viajan significativamente más rápido a través de superficies sólidas de lo que las feromonas químicas pueden propagarse por el aire. Otras hormigas en las cercanías detectan instantáneamente estas vibraciones estructurales utilizando órganos sensoriales altamente sensibles ubicados en sus patas, lo que permite que toda la colonia se mobilize para la defensa en cuestión de segundos.
#Naturaleza #Nature #MedioAmbiente #Environment #VidaSilvestre #Wildlife #MadreNaturaleza #MotherNature
Gestern auf einer Party gewesen.
Ein schwuler Kumpel, der aus der Gothic Szene kommt, als er meinen @berlinfediday Zipper sah:
"GEIL, EIN SCHWULES PENTAGRAMM!"
#gay #queer #gothic #fediverse #fediverselogo #Pentagramm #pentagram #BerlinFediDay
😂 Liiiiiieben wir! 🧟♀️🦄🏳️🌈
On the plus side that means I get to distro-hop again
Trying Linux Mint for the first time. It’s nice! There’s a little GUI utility just for yer NVIDIA drivers! I got Resolve to work!
Gonna try i3 on it rather than the stock DE. Cause so far it’s a bit more crashy than Debian…
The term "single use software" currently lives rent free in my head.
People use LLMs to create software specific for their needs. But neither can other people use it (hardcoded variables, no rights management, too specific), nor do they use it again (too specific, easier to produce a new one).
Single use software is not maintained. Nobody understands it or has an interest in keeping it working.
The creation of single use software feels cheap, but isn't. It takes time to create the software, it needs infrastructure and power. The time is experienced as short compared to how long it takes to create maintainable and reusable software. But once you take into account how many people benefit from reusable software, the single use software takes way more time to create than what it saves. The infrastructure and power costs are hidden because the data center isn't visible. The costs are subsidized by venture capital.
Like other single use items, single use software brings risks of unforeseen consequences. From data loss or leaks to issues for maintainers of reusable software (eg. verbal abuse, less motivation and lost income).
As an example of single use software is a German LinkedIn post of a person who slopcoded a HEMS (home energy management system). It took them more than a week. While open source projects like https://evcc.io/ already provide the same functionality. They could have used it for free or paid 100€ and got support for some additional devices. But they decided that they know better how it should work and now have a single use software. If it breaks there is nobody they can ask. There won't be updates and no community to discuss and develop new features. No organization will ever be interested in officially supporting it. And even if it works, it only benefits that one person.
(This doesn't mean people shouldn't build things that only they use. But they should enjoy doing so.)
@luca I was gonna start arguing with you, but your last paragraph took the wind out of my sails.
Because I did the same thing, built my own HEMS integration, with about the same effort, but I did it with my own brain, and I learned *a lot* (and I am not a professionall programmer, although I've been coding on and off for 4 decades).
But going from "works well for my environment" to something that could be reused by others is a lot of effort, needs cleaning up, abstracting things, documenting /
Banana for scale
Banana for scale
seven h1 submissions so far today ...
Milestones. This one is on the Wikimedia Commons.
@rohini amazing! well done and thank you 🙂
Anyway. This tiny little woman who looked like she should be somewhere making breakfast for grandkids hopped off the bus she was driving and talked to the train driver and security. Whatever was going on had JUST happened, and the driver was the first to get the directives straight. The train operator had literally been told as he was on the southbound track that he was to go no further than the stop we were now at, but not why or what to do instead.
Our bus driver, bless her, fixed it.
Train driver finally realized he wasn’t out of service but the Uptown station was temporarily “end of line” and he was turning around, and we were the actual Northbound passengers. Bus driver wished us well with one last shout that anyone *actually* going south should board the bus. Transit cops sorted themselves and sent one sprinting over to the Northbound platform to try to explain what was up to the next confused bunch over there. Train driver ran back to the North end cab and we were off.
Je viens de croiser un couple de lycéens (16/17 ans max) encerclé par 5 fdp qui ont fouillé consciencieusement leurs sacs et poches.
J'entends un :
"Ha, ha, qu'est-ce que je vois là...des masques anti-covid, c'est pour cacher vos visages pendant que vous brûlez des poubelles..."
Ahuri, le couple demande ou est le problème, ces masques serviront à les protéger (vite fait alors !) contre les lacrymos.
"C'est interdit par un arrêté préfectoral, au même titre que l'eau distillée, les protections pour la tête ou les lunettes de natation..."
"Je peux voir copie de l'arrêté, comme la loi vous y oblige, d'ailleurs, quel est votre RIO...?" demande, candide la jeune femme.
Éclats de rire gras des pandore "et puis quoi encore...allez, mettez vous sur le côté, papiers d'identité et tout le toutim..."
"Pourquoi" demande naïvement le jeun homme, cette fois ?
"Ben, pour vous dresser l'amende pour Possession de matériel prohibé assimilable à des armes de catégorie 5 !"
Pourtant, un petit couple de lycéens, blancs, normal quoi, benus défiler das la joie.
Je leur glisse en les dépassant "Ne contestez pas, ne signez rien" et je leur passe la carte du cabinet de #Arié_Halimi
Humilier, déshumaniser puis matraquer...dans cet ordre.
Mastodon für alle Studierenden:
Die Uni Innsbruck eröffnet eine zweite Instanz für alle Studentinnen und Studenten. Nach den Mitarbeiter:innen haben damit nun alle Uniangehörigen Zugang zum Fediverse über lokale Instanzen, angebunden an das Uni-Anmeldesystem via Single-Sign-On. 🙌
https://www.uibk.ac.at/de/newsroom/2026/social-media-mastodon-fur-alle-studierenden/
👉 @team
@uniinnsbruck @team supercoole idee, mal schauen wer das noch machen wird.
My art shop has a collection of my original landscape and nature art.
Good news for buyers in the USA, original art is exempt from tariffs!
https://folksy.com/find/shop/theweeowlart
#FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
#insects #Birds #Flowers #OriginalArt #Drawing #Painting #Artwork #TraditionalArtist #ArtFromScotland #GiftIdeas #ArtShop #ShopIndy #SupportSmallBusiness
Kinda sad I lost my Scottish accent when I grew up. A small brown girl, speaking in that accent and living in the US Midwest, would’ve been exotic!
@farah Wilde! i love hearing brown skinned asian looking people sounding Scottish.
Scotland Absorbs
Would there be a trusted person or non-hostile company within the #Fediverse that could maybe offer me a loan to secure the future of our Fedi services?
I’ve been thinking about this for some time and I know it’s far from optimal but I feel like I need to do something for the longer term
I’m not looking for investors and I don’t want to put up the services as collateral, it’s for safe keeping
It has to be someone who wants and CAN afford to help out, I want it done responsibly
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