Bladeflow @Bladeflow@qoto.org

Happy Data Privacy day to everyone! ... except the tech companies whose business models rely on monetizing your personal info. Signal is supported by your donations, not surveillance: https://signal.org/donate/

23 minutes of sunrise (no filters)

Stunning photo from the Glenn Highway in #Alaska of Lion's Head and the mountain range behind it.
Photo by Brian E Reed

For a Lunar New Year's dinner with friends tonight I revised my old "double happiness" heart pendant to have different colors on each side and combined it with a clever rotating bezel I found on @printablescom. I just uploaded the remixed pendant designs at https://www.printables.com/model/381351-double-sided-double-happiness-rotating-heart-penda

Just visited a website which only displays its navigation bar if JavaScript is being active.

Please do not do this! Crucial element should always be accessible without JavaScript.
There are many people with various reasons not having JavaScript enabled in their browsers (e.g. because of low network bandwidth, old browsers pr adblocking).

#web #javascript

In episode 441 (https://embedded.fm/episodes/441), Chris White and Elecia White were joined by Mark Smith(SmittyHalibut) to talk about amateur radio and podcasting among other things.

Here's Mark explaining radio wave propagation via the ionosphere(an excerpt):
"
MS (10:01):
Yeah. So, you are going to be talking about HF. HF means somewhere between 3 and 30MHz, is the frequency range that is defined by the words HF. HF frequencies are the kind that can go up from your antenna.

If we have got a big solar storm that is coming, it will change it. I do not know whether it makes it bigger or smaller or moves it or whatever it does, but it changes, and it is moving all over the place.
(11:38)
The problem with HF communication is that it is not always predictable. You cannot say, "I will always have a path from X to Y."

...But you will almost certainly have a path to somewhere. So if you are trying to talk to a very specific person, you are going to have to keep an eye on when the path is open to that particular location. But if you are just trying to get on the air and talk to somebody, there will be somebody.
"
#technology #podcast #embedded #ham #amateurradio

@shannonpersists @GossiTheDog Oh, boy. Of course there are some fake/scam-apps on Android that use the @ivory branding... @gruber

#Vermont Landscapes #Vermont #Photography #Art
#Nikon Z6 No DM
Check out my Vermont Landscapes Videos
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCeetewGBf8Eegdba_TP_6Gg

More photos from The Aurora Chasers...wow! 💗
#NorthernLights #Alaska

This week's highlightable delights: Ram Dass how to be less harsh with yourself (and others); Elie Wiesel on the antidote to helplessness and how to be with each other's suffering; a Victorian love letter to wonder: https://mailchi.mp/themarginalian/trees-wonder-suffering

The ghost town of Bodie, CA by starlight

Gallery: https://www.abandonedamerica.us/bodie

Mastodon supports media uploads, so why should I join Pixelfed?

When you filter out the text posts and only see photos/videos, the experience changes.

The process of capturing & editing photos/videos requires more effort and curation than a simple text-only post.

Portfolios are one example of this, a feature that gives artists, creators and photographers their own portfolio website https://portfolio.pixelfed.social/dansup

We ❤️ Mastodon, compatibility not competition is what makes the fediverse so special!

HourlyWolves presents: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1615876762000392194/photo/1

🐦🔗: https://nitter.net/hourlywolvesbot/status/1615876762000392194

@guacamayan California's Sierra Nevada range 80 days ago versus today.
These mountains likely currently hold the biggest snowpack on the planet.

Yoooo... that 9-5 job is looking mighty fine 😅

#academia #PhD #phdlife #science #xp #AcademicChatter #sciencememes #PhDMemes #phdvoice #phdstudent

“When a person aspires to be a brand, they forfeit everything that is truly glorious about being human.”

Astute @debbiemillman essay on the problematic cult of the personal brand and how it diminishes the mutable multitudes in us https://wepresent.wetransfer.com/stories/personal-brand-paradox-debbie-millman

🇫🇮 Finland
(In Finnish: Hennosti punertava taivaanranta)

Winter evening sky. Sunset.
This color usually happens before frost.

Photograph: Jarno Miettinen
(inst: jarnohanmie.photography)

#finland #suomi #tuesday #jarnomiettinen #sunrise #discoverscandinavia
#discover #travel #scandinavia #bestsunset #PhotoMonday