Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org

@zleap That's not blocking them, is just avoiding them to install cookies or storage at your computer.

Doing that, you are kinda a new user to them each time.

@zleap They're probably related, but I think the ones we have around here are more closely related to tree squirrels.

This is the iNat observation for the California Ground Squirrel I saw, just before I startled it trying to move closer for a better photo:
https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/89734843

And a few minutes of wiki-walking turns up that ground squirrels as a group do include chipmunks, so I guess the better answer is that they overlap, but this particular one wasn't a chipmunk!

I'm currently writing a #guide on how to set up your own #Fediverse instance using a #Hetzner cloud, getting a domain from #Contabo and using #YunoHost.

This guide will be directed at total beginners, with no prior knowledge necessary.

I really like writing guides. 🙂

Only two weeks until #debian release 11.

Incomplete release notes: https://www.debian.org/releases/testing/releasenotes.en.html

Add your release party to the currently empty list: https://wiki.debian.org/ReleasePartyBullseye


Source: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2021/07/msg00003.html

Do we have too many Linux distros, and is it really an issue? https://tilvids.com/videos/watch/25608a5f-a2bf-4513-95cb-e9295dd59b73

Recent talk on direction of #mastodon are not what's most relevant for our #fediverse future.

Decisions of an individual #foss project are theirs to make. More important is where fedi as a whole is headed to.

A "Tragedy of the Commons" is at play. #TheFediverseChallenge is to remain relevant and healthy far into the future.

Individualism only gets us so far, but for Mastodon and other federated projects their choices are understandable.

But only teamplayers will win!

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/the-fediverse-challenge/1968

Good evening!

We are currently starting to organize our next General Assembly. It allows us to have discussions about the bigger topics around the project and the community and elections for our committees will take place. Get involved, leave your comment, step up for the elections and help us improving #Funkwhale in the future!

For any questions or feedback, just reply in the comments or visit our Forum: https://forum.funkwhale.audio/d/36-general-assembly-organization

@zleap Creepy and interesting read, thanks for sharing.

The Retrocomputing Archive
http://www.retroarchive.org/

(submitted by elvis70)

FBI probe shows nitrate amount in Beirut blast was a fraction of shipment
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/fbi-probe-shows-amount-chemicals-beirut-blast-was-fraction-original-shipment-2021-07-30/

(submitted by yyyk)

Hello, fediverse! We are Tenacity, one of the most prominent forks of Audacity for the time being.

I'm not sure what I'll do with this account yet, but you're more than free to follow it and find out for yourself. :)

In LibreOffice 7.2, due in August, Calc can filter by color in Autofilter (both cell background color and text color). Importing from and exporting to OOXML is also supported. Feature implemented by Samuel Mehbrodt at Allotropia – https://wiki.documentfoundation.org/ReleaseNotes/7.2