Travel Guide for Kyoto - Japan Purple Travel Guide
We show you the best things to see in Kyoto and, as always, we provide lots of photos so you can decide where you want to go.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
The FDA Finally Visited an Indian Drug Factory Linked to U.S. Deaths. It Found Problems.
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The inspection comes after a ProPublica investigation revealed that drugs made at the Glenmark Pharmaceuticals plant accounted for an outsized share of U.S. recalls for pills that didn’t dissolve properly and could harm people.
propublica.org/article/glenmar…
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minimal_worlds_ii is now completed, and the full album can be downloaded via johnoestmannmusic.com/albums!
Along with the first minimal_worlds, this is a world of Game Boy music ready to be explored. As always, all tracks are Public Domain + project files are available from the individual track pages on my website.
#gameboy #opensource #chiptune
Albums - John Oestmann Music
All of these personal releases are Public Domain / CC0. This means you can download the music and project files and do whatever you want with them, no questions asked.Soundworlds
Nothing is more funny than this.
Or more, no irony, I'm dead, *true.*
If you are in 6th grade:
1. Why are you on the fedi? I mean, it's better than twitter or insta, but you are too young, please find an IRL adult. Please do not the internet.
2. It gets better. These are some of the darkest and hardest days. And people will laugh, but that is only because if we didn't laugh we would have to remember.
And then? Then we would cry.
Wieso ich der sogenannten "KI" misstraue:
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„KI“ als logisch-semantische Cloud – Logisch-semantische Souveränität
Mein größtes Misstrauen gegen "KI" entstammt einem einfachen Zusammenhang. Jede "KI" funktioniert vom Prinzip wie eine ausgelagerte Datenverarbeitung.seagent.de
I just came across an article that says #Bluesky now supports uploading videos up to 3 minutes long.
Sorry for the extremely newbie question but I wonder what the impact would be on the hypotethical of a self-hosted relay?
In a phenomenal article from last year @cwebber wrote that running a relay in November 2024 required 5 TERABYTES of storage (dustycloud.org/blog/how-decent…)... up from 1 TB in July 2024.
Does video make Bluesky decentralization / self-hosting a relay even more unattainable? 🤔
Right. It's not that far from the "10GB per hour" estimate in the previous post.
Guide to building and managing a mason bee hotel » Colin Purrington's blog
In nature, tunnel-nesting bees are perfectly happy to use logs riddled by boring beetles or piles of dead plants that have hollow stems.Colin Purrington (Colin Purrington's blog)
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Oh FFS
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Found more online
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What European Fighter Jets Have Critical US Components?
All European fighter jets currently in production use US-sourced components - although some use more than others.Aaron Spray (Simple Flying)
So why not follow the Ukrainian lead and use drones?
1) drones have allowed Ukraine to hold their own in war
2) cost effective
3) don't have to find & train pilots willing to risk their necks - use base operators
4) without human pilots, riskier attacks could be undertaken
5) could build our own if Ukraine would allow us to pay royalties for their expertise
6) ASAP build time beats 20 year down the road timeline
7) Trump, Russia & China aren't going to wait 20 years
How land-loving iguanas from North America may have ended up in Fiji
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54741/fiji-island-iguanas-rafted-5000-miles?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Science @science-npr
Interesting new guidance on post quantum cryptography from the UK National Cyber Security Centre
It says
"Migrating an enterprise PKI will require both the creation of a new PQC root-of-trust, and issuing new PQC certificates to all entities on the network."
What is this ?
If you criticize Trump, you can no longer enter The United States. French researcher deported after expressing a negative opinion of The Dear Leader.
lbc.co.uk/world-news/diplomati…
Diplomatic row erupts after French researcher expelled from US for expressing 'a personal opinion' on Trump
A diplomatic row has erupted between France and the US after a French researcher was expelled from the country for expressing "a personal opinion" on Trump.Danielle de Wolfe (LBC)
This is the next level of silently making deporting opponents acceptable, claiming them to be hostile foreigners.
Just wait and see, next will be incarcerating protesters and people publicly criticising Trump administration.
Quietly accepted by majority. Like in 1930's Germany.
When will people wake up? When their neighbour or relatives are taken, deported or disappear?
Good spot for a small sawmill?
Under the five oaks the predecessor planted 40 years ago.
Easy access with the tractor, can pull a log alongside and stack drying lumber in front where the wind ventilates it. Away from the house for noise and dust.
Maybe some point foundations to roll the beam onto. And need to pick a second good beam as the other one supposed to go here crumbled to bits.
The leaves might be a bit annoying in late autumn.
#Homestead #Sawmill #DIY #Lumber #Renovation
@Maker_of_Things I'll post pix on Mastodon? That way I don't have to get more camera gear and spend time editing videos 😬
Plus there's already tons of videos about those Woodland mills things.
That's fair.
I was only saying to Sue, this morning, that it would be good if we had a band saw mill at the community workshop.
There are a lot of nice logs that are just going to rot away, including a lovely huge laburnum that I would really like planked to work on.
We couldn't have one though, We can't even afford the insurance for the group to use any fixed power tooling. Cordless circular saw is fine, but a little drill press is not. 🤷♀️
@Maker_of_Things Ah yes, I remember that from the UK. I was up a stepladder, my head inside a false ceiling, replacing a wifi access point in there when some layabout with tea mug in hand started talking from below about ladder certificates. Working at heights or something. I'd told him to stop bothering the working people and asked if he wanted wifi today or not.
To my own surprise, that shut him up and he never bothered me again 😀
Perhaps you can have a stealth sawmill. In camouflage paint!
@Maker_of_Things The obvious solution is to build your own sawmill. Then you can name it whatever you want. You could name it safemill for example.
Honestly, they're pretty undramatic to operate, quite unlike a circular saw in the wrong hands! 😀
Yes, this is the thing that is confusing about the insurance.
They feel that it is fine for a 70 year old with Parkinsons to use a powerful cordless circular saw to cut a bit of wood balanced on a chair, but not to use a little hobby sized 100mm band saw (with all the safety guards) that is bolted to a workstation, or a 250W drill press with a 10mm chuck.
It makes no sense in terms of risk.
The first industrial accident I witnessed was a carpenter taking his thumb off with s circular saw!
I was about 7 years old.
@Maker_of_Things I'm very careful with powertools and then end up stabbing myself in the hand real good with a manual tool while deburring some steel instead, or just jamming my hand into somewhere sharp and unseen trying to connect a cooling conduit 😛
Once I cut myself on a poorly designed servers SCSI backplane (sharp metal not folded over) and bled all over the cabling in front of a client, who was torn between "oh god do you need an ambulance" and "will our server still boot?" 🤣
I am forever having little 'accidents' with sharp or rough edges. Often I don't realise until I wonder where that sticky red stuff was coming from!
I have file of photos of random self injuries on legs and hands.
@aconaway Thanks! Yeah, I probably want a (electric) leaf blower after seeing how useful it is with removing sawdust 😁
I also have the grain barn that has a nice raised floor for wood storage, but it dries better outside. And the barn is not that long.
#cats #gingercats #pets #CatsOfMastodon
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Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for a Self-Guided City and Murals Tour of Derry - Northern Ireland Purple Travel Guide
Derry was the epicenter of The Troubles in Northern Ireland. A Self-Guided City and Murals Tour brings you to the most important locations in Derry.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
In October, we published secret recordings of Russell Vought discussing plans to eviscerate entire agencies and decimate the morale of federal workers if Trump won a second term.
It's hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism, our editor-in-chief writes.
propublica.org/article/propubl…
#Trump #Government #USPolitics #RussellVought #Journalism
ProPublica’s Russ Vought Reporting Outlined Trump’s Plans for the Federal Government
It’s hard to imagine a more prescient piece of journalism. Vought’s plans for eviscerating entire agencies and decimating the morale of federal workers have turned into reality.ProPublica
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As a comment to beliefs of Vought & Christian Nationalist right about a ”Marxist takeover”
The Democratic Party does not have a Marxist bone in it’s body. It’s a center-right neoliberal party.
20 March 1913 | A Polish Jewish woman, Maria Szenker, was born in Kraków. She was a clerk.
In #Auschwitz from 27 April 1942.
No. 6842
She perished in the camp on 19 August 1942.
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Israeli attacks in Gaza kill more than 70, including newborn baby
Women and children among those reported dead in predawn attacks across northern and southern Gaza.
[Photo: people leave a destroyed building]
Loved ones of the deceased mourn as bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on a funeral house are brought to Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, Gaza, on March 19, 2025 [Abdul Hakim Abu Riash/Anadolu]
Published On 20 Mar 2025
Israel’s renewed bombardment of Gaza is continuing for a third consecutive day, with more than 70 people killed in predawn attacks, including a newborn baby.
At least 71 people were killed overnight and early on Thursday in southern and northern Gaza, according to health officials in the coastal enclave. Many others were injured in the attacks.
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Israeli attacks in Gaza kill more than 70, including newborn baby
Women and children among those reported dead in predawn attacks across northern and southern Gaza.
[Photo: people leave a destroyed building]
Loved ones of the deceased mourn as bodies of Palestinians killed in an Israeli attack on a funeral house are brought to Indonesian Hospital in Beit Lahia, Gaza, on March 19, 2025 [Abdul Hakim Abu Riash/Anadolu]
Published On 20 Mar 2025
Israel’s renewed bombardment of Gaza is continuing for a third consecutive day, with more than 70 people killed in predawn attacks, including a newborn baby.
At least 71 people were killed overnight and early on Thursday in southern and northern Gaza, according to health officials in the coastal enclave. Many others were injured in the attacks.
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Italy wants to extend NATO's article 5 to Ukraine, so if a peace agreement is reached, Ukraine is at the same time protected by all the NATO countries against any further attacks by Russia.
Has anyone done a full teardown of a Tesla's software stack? With full details on what/when/how it exfiltrates, what direct backdoors it has (short of updates), etc.?
I suspect not, and donating one to a hacker group willing to do this would be a great way to dispose of it.
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Can you look at these 9 photos and not smile on International Day of Happiness?
https://www.npr.org/sections/goats-and-soda/2025/03/20/g-s1-54523/international-happiness-day-photos-smile?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Ex-F1 team owner and media personality Eddie Jordan has died at 76
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/g-s1-54876/ex-f1-team-owner-and-media-personality-eddie-jordan-has-died-at-76?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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#dailyartflow continuation with drawdailytogether, ref 📸 by smidovalucia - park krajobrazowy mierzeja wiślana
I discovered that the crappy paper of this sketchbook actually works quite well with gouache, not watercolour.
Hands felt good today, not the usual pain which was nice ☺️
Wish you a lovely start into this new week!
#mastoart #art #sketchbook #landscape
Europe doesn’t need Trump to form a western alliance – and one is already taking shape
Britain, France and Germany are closing ranks to bolster Nato as the unreliable US president marches to his own drum, says Guardian columnist Martin KettleMartin Kettle (The Guardian)
imagine if the World just carried on without the United States, like there were 8 billion+ other people in 200+ countries and territories?
If Gilead wants to shut itself off from the outside world, fine, .....it was probably time to ditch the endless self absorbed drama anyway....
London Begins to Breathe Better - Ethical Revolution
[Read on Ethical Revolution] A study by the Greater London Authority has shown that the city’s levels of lethal pollutants have substantially decreased since the expansion of the UK capital’s ultra low emission zone (Ulez).Ethical Revolution
Trump urged to target ‘coercive and discriminatory’ Australian media laws by Musk’s X, Apple, Google and Meta
The Computer & Communications Industry Association named Australia’s News Media Bargaining Incentive in its submissionNatasha May (The Guardian)
For Uzo Aduba, there's no such thing as 'too late'
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/20/nx-s1-5330909/uzo-aduba-anything-is-possible?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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