nonesuch_user @nonesuch_user@qoto.org

Today's meeting in Blender HQ.

#interesting #goodtoknow video about fires and #lithium batteries.
Pay attention to not expose them to the #sun for too much or high sources of #heat..
#science #fire #smoke #safety
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8nz5ijXcckI

Lights off in the railway station as you arrive in Kyiv.

This is the darkness that greets you:

Be sure to catch the end of this clever NASA "climate spiral" video showing monthly global temperature changes between 1880 and 2021
https://climate.nasa.gov/climate_resources/300/video-climate-spiral/ #dataviz #boost #climatechange #climate

This a scanning electron microscope image of a starfish skeleton. One of Nature's best images of 2022!

https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-022-04372-2/index.html

#twitter has permanently suspended Aaron Rupar.

Public Service Warning

Mastodon has a very big surge of new users right now. There's no way to tell if it will be sustained, but at this early point it looks similar to Nov 18 when when Musk pulled the employee purge.

It is very challenging for system administration to accommodate so many new users. If your server starts to struggle, it is not broken and will get sorted out.

We're all in this together. It's our social network. Be patient. What we are building is amazing.

#twittermigration

This is significant ...

The German office for data protection and freedom of information hosts the official #Mastodon server for government departments

They are now calling for all ministries on the server to put their focus on Mastodon

They are also asking ministries which are not yet on Mastodon to join as soon as possible

#twitter is directly attacking #mastodon links now. This is for the link to my mastodon profile that I have on Twitter. Also, this:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/12/15/elon-musk-suspends-mastodon-twitter-account-over-elonjet-tracking/

I wonder if a simple trick using a redirecting link on Twitter will work, to achieve the same thing.

Elon Musk continues to use his platform on Twitter to spread dangerous rightwing disinformation, most recently taking a swipe both at the trans community and Dr. Fauci.

In response, Dr. Fauci clapped back with a brutally accurate description of Musk's Twitter.

Definitely worth a watch.

https://www.comicsands.com/fauci-response-musk-twitter-description-2658958592.html?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=toot&utm_campaign=sand

Mr. Sebastian Pospichil of TRKKN fame authored a guest post on my blog (www.simoahava.com).

This article shows you how to setup "Enhanced Link Attribution" for GA4. With just a single #GoogleTagManager tag and some variables, you can track each and every navigation event with metadata on which link / link-like element was clicked. You can use this to build heatmaps of the most used navigational elements on the site, for example.

https://www.simoahava.com/analytics/track-and-categorize-all-link-clicks-on-the-site/

#measure #gtmtips #googleanalytics4

# United Federation of Instances Proposal

https://gitlab.com/ufoi/constitution

I tagged below everyone who asked me to tag them. I have now started a gitlab group and project where we can discuss the #UFoI proposal transparently and with a good recorded history.

Please start discussions by creating issues, and any edits you have to the proposal please edit on gitlab and submit as a merge request, which can then be discussed.

I will write the CI code to make sure the document gets compiled.

I will try to leave the mass-message like here just to the major developments as it feels a bit spammy. I will only send out one more notification once the by laws draft is up. Of course if anyone does not want to get notified let me know and ill leave you off from future discussions.

@timezoneless @floppy @ufi @ufoi @skanman @john @stevenclyman @robryk @ejg @dashrandom @Romaq @ichoran @AlanOutback @tsomof @aebrockwell @Ryle @tatzelbrumm @Gaythia @realcaseyrollins @stux@mstdn.social @stux@masto.ai @trinsec @khird @darnell @jq

Check out this cool visualization of where Americans live
Source: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/cp/3d-mapping-the-worlds-largest-population-densities/

I’m always on about purchasing power, adjustment for inflation, and definitions of poor/middle class/rich. Therefore I found this comparison interesting (shared on LinkedIn by someone I don’t know):