Punica granatum @PunaisetPimpulat@qoto.org

#QOTO is back after a long migration in the first stage of our upgrade. Now that we are on a new home we will give it 24 horus to see if the move was bug free (As it seems to be) and then we will start upgrading versions one at a time day by day.. The upgrades are prepared and ready and should be **much** quicker.

The move took a while as we keep a backlog of every message to the start of the fediverse so our media and DB stores are quite large and it took a long time. But we are back!!!

Throughout the 2010s I was often frustrated when rate limited by the #Twitter API when trying to do fun stuff.

Tonight I was rate limited by my own #Mastodon instance for following too many people at once, so I just went in the code and doubled it.

This is the way. :mando:

Chinese hackers using #deepfakes in advanced mobile banking #malware attacks 👇

https://thehackernews.com/2024/02/chinese-hackers-using-deepfakes-in.html?m=1

#cyberthreats #cybersecurity

I am protecting the environment by using adblocker, because: „Digital Advertising May Be Causing Almost 2% of Global Carbon Emissions“

https://www.magiclasso.co/insights/advertising-carbon-emmissions/

#digitaladvertising #ads #energy #co2 #climatechange #sustainability

To add to this, I'm also very cognizant that most people, when finding a "How to do XYZ" guide online don't want to read someone's life story and how they were inspired by a trip to Venice and then spend sixteen paragraphs and 2,000 words writing about that trip before getting to the recipe or guide...

This is why we keep our introductions short on all our How Tos - usually just some minimal background and prep before diving in. We save the longer stuff (history of the drink, where it's popular, variations, etc) for AFTER the how to steps.

I mention this, because adding the guide revisions bit adds more content before the actual step by step guide, and I'm not sure about placing it there. I might put it at the end of the guide.

From /u/Udzu on Reddit: The numbers 0-99 sorted alphabetically in English, French, Spanish and German.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/1adux6w/the_numbers_099_sorted_alphabetically_in/

(German confirmed to be a scrambling algorithm masquerading as a language.)

wikipedia has so many gems, but this has to be one of the best.

related, English is such a clusterfuck, what a crazy language

but also I'm completely obsessed with heteronyms, they're the best thing ever

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