Punica granatum @PunaisetPimpulat@qoto.org

Exploring Reddit’s third-party app environment 7 months after the APIcalypse - Enlarge (credit: Getty)

Last year, Reddit sparked massive cont... - https://arstechnica.com/?p=1992717 #socialmedia #developers #features #policy #reddit #tech #api

Rober McKeon Aloe has a further look at rippled vs flat (and curved) tampers, based on a recent video posted by Lance Hedricks on the subject.

cc @espresso

https://rmckeon.medium.com/flat-curved-smooth-and-rippled-tampers-for-espresso-807e4e7f48fb

@dansup @pixelfed some people will hate any change, some people will hate not enough change. you can't really keep these folk happy. so manage expectations and get on with your roadmap. but as long as the changes, don't get in people's way, make sense, and there is enough communication for most people there will be some grumbling but they will be fine

Our next major release will be #LibreOffice 24.2 (with new "year.month" version scheme), in February. And it has usability improvements, thanks to our community! For instance, a new search field in the Functions sidebar deck in Calc, from Rafael Lima: https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/24.2#Calc

Population density of the metropolitan area vs. transportation-related energy consumption (image source unknown) #urbanism #sustainability #climatechange #urbanplanning cc @geographyjim

Crows are so lovely 🥹🥹💖

The fascinating snow globe effect of a soap bubble freezing.

Video credit: Lorie Shaull / CC BY 2.0
Further reading: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/freezing-soap-bubbles/

Fascinating footage of a human white blood cell chasing a bacterium captured through a microscope.

Credit: David Rogers

https://embryology.med.unsw.edu.au/embryology/index.php/Movie_-_Neutrophil_chasing_bacteria

#health #biology #science #phagocytosis

Life always comes back. Somewhere in Hawaii, this lava trail got some company: life.

hey all!! i need your help.

my instance permanently shut down with zero warning and my last backup was from september, but didn't realize following exports weren't included in the archive.

please boost to hopefully help me find my followers

How many holes are in a straw?

#Poll #PleaseShare #curious

Pixelfed is an Instagram-style photo network on the Fediverse. You can follow Pixelfed accounts from Mastodon and vice versa.

For example, @Iancylkowski is a Pixelfed account, but you can view and interact with it entirely in Mastodon too.

To create a Pixelfed account, find a server at:

➡️ https://pixelfed.org/servers

You can use Pixelfed through the web or apps.

The official apps aren't ready yet, but there are good third party ones such as @vernissage for iPhone/iPad and @PixelDroid for Android

Currently looking to file a criminal complaint against Meta on the basis that their processing of personal data (which has already been declared as illegal under the two legal bases they chose since 2018) breached criminal law with regards to computer trespass and misuse of computing resources.

The scripts they placed on our devices for the purpose of tracking our behaviour were criminal trespass (accessing a computer without consent and use of computing resources without consent).

#privacy

I just filed a criminal complaint against Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. under Section 2 and Section 5 of the Criminal Justice (Offences Relating to Information Systems) Act 2017 for:

"illegally deploying surveillance technology to my computers for the purpose of monitoring my behaviour, as they had no reasonable excuse or lawful authority to do so."

and

"illegally intercepting transmission of data within an information system (my computing devices) for the purpose of monitoring my behaviour."

@viticci Guess you iCloud sync doesn’t sell more devices for . Unfortunately everything that doesn’t directly contribute to their bottom line is essentially broken, to various degrees.

Many years ago the <major AV vendor at the time> I was working for took the highly unusual step of stopping all new features development to only fix bugs for six months. Sales wasn’t happy,but customers were.

I wish  would slow down on features in favour of functionality.

Monthly CO2 Atmospheric Concentration
From the Mauna Loa Observatory, Hawaii

October 2023: 418.82 ppm
October 2022: 415.74 ppm

More: https://gml.noaa.gov/ccgg/trends

#co2 #globalwarming #climatechange #temperature #weather #maunaloaobservatory

Gotta love being a geek - you can write a script to automate a bunch of mundane processes and save yourself hundreds of hours of work...

If you want to let people know about your account on here, it's important to include your full account address (also known as a "Fediverse address").

If you paste a full Fediverse account address into the search box on any server, it will always make the account profile appear, even if previous searches drew a blank.

You can exchange account addresses with others just like you might exchange email addresses or phone numbers.

Find out more here:

➡️ https://fedi.tips/whats-my-accounts-address-how-do-i-follow-other-peoples-addresses-how-can-people-follow-my-address/