Don Thompson @guardeddon@qoto.org

This shining example of a man drove his Cybertruck on our local beach near Santa Cruz and of course got it stuck. This car is really becoming a symbol for poor life choices.

I am quite excited by this… the Macbook Pro that is displaying the installer is officially only supported by Big Sur, OpenCore Legacy Patcher has configured a Ventura install. The hardware was bought to provide a donor screen to a more recent Macbook & this is a useful ‘sandbox’ unit for testing, experimenting, and so on.

Ooh, I've just seen the final schedule of sessions for the FullyCharged & Everything Electric LONDON show on March 28th, 29th and 30th: https://uk.everythingelectric.show/london and we have a FANTASTIC show for you. We'll be covering all the big questions about the future of energy and transport, with lots of new topics and amazing exhibitors. And it's definitely not just about cars - plenty of home energy, micromobility and society-level stuff. Do join us!

#energy #London #climate #electric

Trajectools 2.0 released 🎉

It's my pleasure to share with you that Trajectools 2.0 just landed in the official QGIS Plugin Repository. This is the first version without the "experimental" flag. If you look at the plugin release history, you will see that the previous release was from 2020. That's quite a while ago and a lot has happened since, including the development of…

http://anitagraser.com/2024/02/24/trajectools-2-0-released-%f0%9f%8e%89/

@TCatInReality @Npars01 I don't care if a charity is tax exempt, even a church, but... to qualify for that tax-exempt status, they should have to open up their books to the general public.

Every. Single. Transaction.

A lot of them would scream louder about that than they would about paying taxes.

Well, if this isn't clear IDK what is...

"'International law does not enforce itself,' the experts said. 'All States must not be complicit in international crimes through arms transfers.'"

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/02/arms-exports-israel-must-stop-immediately-un-experts

@thomas @beasts +1 for Mythic Beasts generally. Just transferred my domains and web/mail hosting their way and it's been a pleasant experience. Plz let us know how the Pi hosting goes!

"What I am concerned about is that [solutions] seem not to go far enough [eg] the UK's #OnlineSafetyAct ... was catalysed through very real concerns but [doesn’t] look at the [big tech] business model. They take as a given these mass social platforms. And the solutions often look like extending surveillance and control to government ... not looking at how we attack the surveillance business model that is at the heart of [big tech]" - @Mer__edith

Yes, exactly

#BigTech https://youtu.be/iLzQXWq_Sp0?t=34m50s

@bloor there is a media push, from some quarters, who are really anti EV. I talk about cars all the time, I have a podcast on it, so get to see this nonsense everywhere.

BMW isn't giving up on EV, that's just a lie on a headline.

Hydrogen doesn't make sense, as it all stands, for personal transportation. BUT it might have a use with heavy goods and even light commercial vehicles as the EV offerings do not suit most of the use cases right now.

The tedium of fanatics (both sides) is large.

What is We Distribute, exactly? 🤔

We Distribute is a CC-licensed open media project. It serves as a people-focused tech publication, with the goal of informing and educating people about three things:

1. Decentralized Communications
2. User empowerment
3. The future of the Internet

Most of what we do involves reporting on the day-to-day developments of the #Fediverse. In fact, our articles are ActivityPub-enabled, and integrate directly into the network.

However, the Social Web / Decentralized Social movement involves far more efforts and technologies that we think are also worth reporting on: #Matrix, #XMPP, #Bluesky, #Nostr, #SecureScuttlebutt, and #Solid all bring interesting pieces to the puzzle.

Our ultimate goal is to showcase the ongoing efforts to change the shape and form of the Internet itself, at a grassroots level. Join us on this exciting journey. #WeDistribute

I wish more companies had tech support like @beasts - problem resolved in minutes, clear explanation of what was broken, how to avoid the problem in the future, and info for follow-up. No scripts, no escalation, no call centre. So good.

High Street. Low cloud.

#Queensferry #Scotland #Edinburgh #MeerMittwoch #bridges #ForthBridge #MastoDaoine

@BBCRD @BBC_News_Labs @Connected_Studio @BBCRadio4 @BBC5Live

What works is publishing more content, your feeds are really thin at present!

I said it several times, but with Ivory's latest announcement, let me repeat it: we (the Mastodon team) are working on implementing Quote Posts. This is a much more complex feature than showing a preview for a link to a post, which is done at the moment by multiple clients.

It is a complex task and we have been working on defining the feature and the protocol-level details for some time. We are moving forward, and there are fewer hard questions to answers, but progress is there.