Western quoll joey born in the wild after conservation program success
> Once thought to be extinct in NSW, the small, spotted, and highly photogenic western quoll is making a hard-fought comeback to the wild.
"How tall is Darth Vader?"
"Six foot six."
"What's that in metres?"
"Darth Vader only uses Imperial units."
Ieri sera da Radio Blackout è stato fantastico. Qualcosa sta cambiando. C'è sempre più interesse per il Fediverso.
Oggi niente KenoMATTINA, riparto ora da Torino!
@kenobit purtroppo mi son perso la diretta, sai se è stata registrata la trasmissione (non la vedo sul sito della radio)?
When ICE started ramping up their attacks on immigrants, they said, "We're going after the murderers and rapists!🤡" They used that consent to lock up 100K people, fewer than 5% of whom have a violent conviction.
If you understand that, you can understand 400K innocent people in pretrial detention.
1016 words (28750 total) on “The Post-American Internet,” a sequel to "Enshittification," about the better world the rest of us get to have now that Trump has torched America #DailyWords
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@mekkaokereke/109846801162660628
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
Feb 11: Wrongful Convictions
Read the whole thread. The entire thing. Every word.
Happy #BlackHistoryMonth !
I still haven't made it to Black history. I'm still working through all this white US history.
Q: Why do Black folk commit more crime? I hear you on "wage theft should be a crime too" and all that... but if we look at convictions for murder, sexual assault, and drug possession, Black folk just commit way more crime! Those are facts!
A: Black folk are *convicted* more. Black folk are *many times* more likely to be wrongfully convicted. Because racism.
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Ukrainian Unmanned System Forces struck the Lukoil Ukhtaneftepererabotka refinery in Ukhta, Komi Republic, with long-range drones. The facility lies about 1,700 km from Ukraine’s border. #Ukraine
A question for UI/UX experts.
If you need to get confirmation from a user, what's an alternative for a pop-up modal?
The advertising industry, with cookie consent, has conditioned people to just OK them.
I have lost count how many support requests I've seen that can be directly traced to a person not reading, or possibly not even noticing, an "are you sure you want to do this?" dialog, even when said pop-up precisely described the consequences of proceeding.
Boosts for reach appreciated!
@kitkat @Arthfach it failed completely at e2ee twice: https://furry.engineer/@soatok/116055556402436098 and previously https://soatok.blog/2024/08/14/security-issues-in-matrixs-olm-library/. mistaking fandom for security is a dangerous fucking game.
Another great #FOSDEM talk from Michael Winser at @openssf / #AlphaOmega about the terrible economics of package registries like #NPM #maven #PyPi #RubyGems #crates
https://fosdem.org/2026/schedule/event/8WJKEH-package-registry-economics/
Some charts from different registries are at https://go.xwind.io/registry-research-report
The slide below is a take on some of the common "solutions" that people come up with for funding registries (also applicable to non-registry products with large numbers of downloads) and what might happen if you choose them
So this is fun: libsignal is AGPLv3. This means that you cannot use it in anything that you put in the Apple App Store. Signal requires a CLA that allows them to use a different license for their iOS app.
It also means that you cannot use it to integrate Signal with any proprietary services (which makes me sad because I'd love for banks to use Signal to reach people instead of SMS).
Protocols should have permissively licensed reference implementations.
@david_chisnall @zzt @davidgerard @R3yScale I like using signal for a lot of stuff but also there's a lot of signal I don't like, and that's going onto the list too.
@developing_agent Nono. What I mean is that if you have a local account, and then federated auth is implemented, any interaction from your home base account in its capacity, with a server you already have a local account in, would end up with a duplicate account situation that's hard to fix (one local, one remote), while what you want is to convert the existing local account to remote.
My gut feeling is the safest solution to this is email matching. If you're already requiring emails for account creation, then they can be used to check for a preexisting local account. You'd have to verify via email confirmation, but it would avoid the risk, and it can also be used for remote account recovery when you lose your home server. The flip side is it exposes your email to all servers, and in fact allows "does this email exist in this server" lookups by alll third parties (modulo rate limits etc), but I feel the advantages outweigh the disadvantages here (though you could still turn the feature off if you know/accept the risks, there's room for more paranoid opt in choices here).
There are subtle tunables here, e.g. you could do a bit of "proof of work" stuff for email lookups to avoid blatant spammer/scraper abuse.
If it's purely federated-auth, then you would continue to have one and only one account on each server (only method of auth changes), so a "homeserver" account and the "local" account would never appear alongside each other.
At the time of the transfer of login authority, the account type on the remote server could maybe undergo some minor remodelling, so eg when someone mouses over your profile in posts on remoteserver it says you're "person@otherserver" instead of just "person"
@helge @iamkonstantin A native app is not necessarily a better app. We've seen dumpster fire on both sides. Probably comes down to engineering talent.
I think OpenAI apps are a good benchmark. The ChatGPT is made in SwiftUI (afaik) and Codex in Electron. It's a good comparison within the same org.
SwiftUI is now 7 years old and on macOS there is still a ton of broken stuff. Should we give it another 7 years or what.
@jpm that includes the crane to drop it in the back yard too, right?
@mike back… yard? Surely it comes with a back yard?
If you've not seen this, I recommend
@TheBreadmonkey going to preface everything I say today with a "maaaahaa" in homage
Our haiku prompts for 7-14 Feb
Thank you for playing along at home.
Do what suits your mood. The prompts, merely suggestions.
North South
02/07 North Wind Grin
02/08 Flurry Milky Way
02/09 Spring Lantern Moon
02/10 Violet Lamplight
02/11 Cloud Vine
02/12 Evergreen Ripen
02/13 Wind Chill
02/14 Pilgrimage Grapes
Birds sing in the dawn,
Their voices fill the soft air,
A homecoming song.
--Masaoka Shiki
The Evergreen stands
in woods of winter decay;
green as Spring in snow
Sul Cedec, in Lombardia, il tempo si misura in gradi che aumentano. La domanda ricorrente tra gli scienziati è: quante specie stiamo perdendo e cosa significa per le Alpi e per le persone? Leggi il reportage di Novella Gianfranceschi. intern.az/1Pqg
@davidgerard @R3yScale signal groups support 1000 participants, and video chats supposedly will do 75
an idea (no warranty on how good it is) is to use libsignal to implement a signal client with a concept of a signaling group chat, used to implement groups of groups and present them like how discord presents servers and channels. signal’s existing invite URL mechanism can be used both to invite users to the “server” (signaling group chat) and manage channel membership.
So this is fun: libsignal is AGPLv3. This means that you cannot use it in anything that you put in the Apple App Store. Signal requires a CLA that allows them to use a different license for their iOS app.
It also means that you cannot use it to integrate Signal with any proprietary services (which makes me sad because I'd love for banks to use Signal to reach people instead of SMS).
Protocols should have permissively licensed reference implementations.
@leighelse
If I need small I drag out my 25 year old HP mini laptop. So old it doesn't have Bluetooth or 5GHz wifi, but runs Xubuntu 24.04 like a charm and has HDMI. A great little "burner" for when I travel overseas. RTC battery is dead dead, the main one still lasts a whole 15 mins!
@irix @eythian @lightweight @chopsstephens
@vik I have a little HP netbook (11"?) with an Atom processor. Can't play video at any speed, and takes *ages* to boot. At one stage tried to install Haiku on it, but can't remember if I actually got it going. @leighelse @irix @eythian @chopsstephens
@rapitadaglialieni @antanicus booooh, io mi sono rifiutato di vedere il video, era già tanto cringe la cosa in sé, avevo paura di non reggere la botta.
@leodurruti anch'io, per questo chiedo a voi 😂 @antanicus
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