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First step towards greatly improving performance of Notification Center: https://github.com/elementary/panel-notifications/pull/304

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Agent 23

@yeongno@metalhead.club 7 hr. ago

I am looking for collaborators to start a #decentralized #home #cloud project. Hit me up if interested

Woozle Hypertwin

@woozle@toot.cat 56 sec. ago

@yeongno I think our group also has a project like this in our plans (and I'd be interested anyway) -- so: interested!

cc: @eryn

Chris Petrilli

@petrillic@hachyderm.io 9 min. ago

That's just 25 74HC595 in a trench coat.

I love this, so I

@jpm@aus.social 2 min. ago

@petrillic only 25? Those are rookie numbers! This insane thing I’m designing has *counts* *multiplies* up to 192? Holy shit.

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Mike Malaska

@mike_malaska@deepspace.social 42 min. ago

We picked up 2.5 inches of rain last night. I wandered around the property looking for cool mushooms.

Here is a Flaming Gold Bolete (Aureoboletus auriflammeus)

Small yellow-orange mushroom surrounded by leaf litter. The mushroom cap is smooth and yellow orange. The mushroom stem is orange yellow, and the gills are light yellow.

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captain acab :antifa:

@redsad@ohai.social 7 hr. ago

become ungovernable

a no u-turn sign in front of the st louis gateway arch

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cohan

@cohanf@mastodon.online 8 hr. ago

4 media files

All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness.
A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf. — All pics same alt. Several views from different angles and degrees of closeness. A medium sized wasp- maybe as wide as a yellow-jacket but then 1 1/2 to 2 times as long? is perched on the long narrow leaf of a fireweed plant with bits of other green leaves visible and a blurred mostly green background with hints of other colours (mostly purply-grey) and some dark shadows. The wasp is an intense medium dark copper colour, shiny all over with shiny nearly trasnparent wings with dark veins which are held somewhat folded against its 'back' but wider as they go farther from the head and extending out to the sides a bit beyond the insect. The long legs are the same colour, maybe darker toward the tips (like the long dark antennae) and reach right to the edges of the leaf.

hannah aubry

@haubles@hachyderm.io last wk.

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@marqueandrepris@mastodon.social 3 min. ago

@haubles @Mastodon is mstdn.social an official domain?

Nelson

@skyfaller@jawns.club 29 min. ago

I told Maggie sawfly larva are eating our red-osier dogwood, and she said "that doesn't sound promising", but:

1. I'm gardening for wildlife
2. Baby birds rely on #sawflies & caterpillars for nutrition
3. Predators like birds will show up to eat them, and keep them under control

I was not prepared for how violent predation could be. A paper wasp simply tore pieces off the living larva?! My photos are so graphic I hesitate to post them to iNaturalist, it feels like they need CWs.

#insects

Adam Greenfield

@adamgreenfield@social.coop 3 min. ago

@skyfaller Red in tooth & claw, my man.

Men's Journal

@mensjournal@flipboard.com 4 min. ago

1968 Classic, With a Brutal Alternate Ending, Named One of the ‘Greatest Westerns of All Time’
https://www.mensjournal.com/entertainment/1968-classic-with-a-brutal-alternate-ending-named-one-of-the-greatest-westerns-of-all-time?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub

Posted into The Latest From Men's Journal @the-latest-from-men-s-journal-mensjournal

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ragman

@ragman@jawns.club last wk.

#webdev, #zines

I made a little web tool to split 8-page foldable zines into their corresponding page images:

https://ragman.net/zinecutter/

I wrote it in a bit of a fugue, and only just got it working well enough to show it off. Any feedback people have is appreciated! :D

Thanks to @robb for the inspiration!

Permalink: https://www.ragman.net/notes/57

Note: 57

A page for short-form notes that I didn't want to make into full on blog posts.

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Bjørnar (he/him) boosted

@LJ@sunny.garden 2 hr. ago

I can't be the only writer seeing this: my sales have tanked over the past few months. I have 9 novels & a short story collection out in the world, widely available in all venues. Up until early this year, a few books would sell every single day. With little to no promotion.

The biggest factor I can think of is the rise of AI slop for sale. Maybe it's also partly because of the economy & lack of money for non-essentials.

But, wow, is it demoralizing.

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Chris Alemany🇺🇦🇨🇦🇪🇸

@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca 9 hr. ago

🚨 Carney is saying in French the USA tried to limit
“Discoverability online of Canadian and French culture and language!? Canadian products”

Incredible!!

Tell me again that Digital Sovereignty isn’t absolutely critical!! Hello Canadian Fediverse and also @Paulatics

GIF

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Andy Matuschak

@andy_matuschak@toot.io 3 days ago

Mesmerized by Dennis Hlynsky's overlapped timelapses of starlings, crows, fish…https://vimeo.com/dennishlynsky/videos/sort:plays/format:thumbnail

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handmade ghost

@handmade_ghost@sunny.garden 7 min. ago

*pulls string*

"The black-crowned night heron says, 'Squawk, plup, woc-a-woc, rattle rattle.'"

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 43 min. ago

@SRAZKVT i'm sorry for getting upset at you earlier. that was my fault. i agree with you here. i get very upset at linus for other matters and it affects my judgement.

context

note that i'm particularly looking to do the opposite of DirHash, which actively obfuscates content and which google wants to inflict upon pypi. one thing zip files do really well is having a plaintext metadata table, and it makes them more useful than tarballs for source releases since they essentially have a built-in manifest.

hash trees for comparison

i also think that it could be possible to generate an entire hash computation tree which is used as the basis of comparison instead of just the top hash.

if git already does this: cool! but when pants used an object database, directories were completely opaque and encoded as serialized protobuf blobs, much like DirHash:

More precisely, the hashed summary contains a single line for each file in the list, ordered by slices.Sort applied to the file names, where each line consists of the hexadecimal SHA-256 hash of the file content, two spaces (U+0020), the file name, and a newline (U+000A).

one thing that an explicit hash tree achieves is greater collision resistance. instead of modifying a single file (or adding extra space in a .tar.zst) to achieve a collision over a whole tarball, you really need to modify an individual file to get an important collision. which brings me to...

file checksums with length

one thing pants actually did right with its annoying little object store interface was to record the checksum and the length for all files, which makes it much more difficult for an attacker to add junk data in an unevaluated region (e.g. within a /* ... */ comment) to achieve a hash collision after modifying a file to do evil. a length is another kind of checksum, and it supports the integrity of the standard checksum.

there is also the option of retaining hash computation trees within a file, if using a tree-like hash such as BLAKE3, and this would generally take O(log2 n) space with n the number of chunks in the file. but the way files change can be very strange (e.g. insertion at start breaks chunking, unlike directory trees), so i don't think this would be useful. we should probably just stick with hash + length.

dirhash package - golang.org/x/mod/sumdb/dirhash - Go Packages

d@nny disc@

@hipsterelectron@circumstances.run 6 min. ago

@SRAZKVT you of course were way ahead of me when you introduced incremental identifiers just above.

inodes as local identifier

i like the idea of calling these "inodes". i think they should be local to a representation of a directory tree, and possibly namespaced separately between files and directories.

you're right that we would need to have a reverse index mapping checksums to inodes. i actually think that's ok, because i want to explicitly check for whether the object database has this checksum yet, and insert it if not. i feel that allocating an inode is a useful way to mark this operation.

i also feel that operations upon inodes (like constructing views and/or overlays) are generally a different matter than checksums, so i feel this separation makes sense.

finally, if we generate a hash tree representation to send over the network, i feel it might make sense to also assign it similar inodes if only to make the point that it's a kind of database in itself.

problem: recycling

if we use something like SHA-3 or BLAKE3 for file hashing, our potential output space is variable, but an inode will need to be recycled at some point.

sharding into separate file and directory inode namespaces is probably a good idea, and perhaps we furthermore shard by checksum variant (since directory checksums are likely to be a subject of research, this is probably a good idea).

however, at some point, we might overflow. i suppose we could simply add the number of bits we take from the checksum + the number of bits for the file length together. we also don't need to do much more than increment the inode--it doesn't need to be a number-like object.

so perhaps in the protocol we specify that an inode is a k-bit string and we can just increment it and abort loudly if it overflows!