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The #foraging season is in full effect! Lots of good stuff around these days: wild garlic (Bärlauch), lungwort (Lungenkraut), deadnettle (Taubnessel, stinging nettles (Brennnessel), bulbous comfrey (Beinwell) and of course dandelions (Löwenzahn). I also found some lesser celandine but the advice is not to eat it once it's flowering so I decided to pass.

Somehow people still miss the point of why #OpenSource is not a victory and #FreeSoftware is the one that actually matters.

I find that this article spells it out quite clearly & plainly: https://asd.learnlearn.in/open-source-misses-point-woefully/

#OpenSourceMissesThePoint

If we lose the Internet Archive, we’re screwed

https://www.sbstatesman.com/2023/04/04/if-we-lose-the-internet-archive-were-screwed/

When Julius Caesar burned the Library of Alexandria, it was hard to imagine a greater destruction of scholarship. Now, 2,000 years later, some petty, litigious schmucks are ready to deal an even bigger blow to the literary canon.

This is fundamentally a strike against taxpayer-funded public services by corporations and private individuals.

"If governments were serious about countering abuses of surveillance technologies, they would take aim at the data brokers operating in the west, and not just politically convenient ­targets" < This is really good on the context around banning #tiktok by @ethanz #tiktokban https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/views/columns/60888/an-internet-with-less-surveillance-could-be-possible.-this-is-how

A little-known fact about Mastodon is that when you move your account, it gets put on a truck and then shipped to the new server. Here, for instance, are users employing I-195 to move between servers.

Black dads are *more* involved in both early childhood activities like bathing and diapering, and school aged activities. From the CDC:

A larger percentage of Black dads
(41%) had helped their coresidential children with homework every day in
the last 4 weeks compared with
white (28%) dads.

Only 30% of white dads take their own kids to activities every day, vs 42% of Black dads.

71% of white dads talk with their kids about their day, vs 79% of Black dads.

Etc, etc.

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Reading more on search with #Mastodon. After reading about #Searchtodon and @anildash lastest piece I then read this one from @ben on his $0.02 and efforts to build a bot to detect scrapers.

I'm still forming my opinions (maybe more on that later) but Ben covers a few corners of the discussion I haven't seen brought up yet.

https://www.bentasker.co.uk/posts/blog/security/autodetecting-and-outing-mastodon-scrapers-with-scrapersnitchbot.html

#Fedisearch