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Are you 18 years old and a resident of one of the EU Member States or third countries associated to Erasmus+? Get ready to explore Europe!ย When is the next round?It will take place between 2 April 2025 at 12:00:00 (midday Brussels time) and 16 April โฆEuropean Youth Portal
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Noticed #MetaAI is now in #WhatsApp? ๐ซฃ If this concerns you, you're not alone ๐
In our latest guide, we look at how you can get rid of Meta AI ๐ tuta.com/blog/how-to-turn-off-โฆ
How to turn off Meta AI in WhatsApp? You canโt, but... | Tuta
Noticed an AI assistant is now in your WhatsApp? Metaโs AI feature is now being rolled out in the EU and you canโt turn it off โ but you can stop the AI invasion by opting for privacy-focused alternatives.Tuta
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Happy Hump Day my fellow Fediversians. What a day and night yesterday. Senator Booker was amazing and inspiring, and it looks like the good people in Wisconsin understood the assignment - yes?
I wish you all a good day. Be well. Stay safe. Stay strong, get up stand up and find some good trouble to get into today. Peace and love to you all!
Cheers!
Today's art is in a style that I call "Digital Impressionism"!
Happy Bird Week, to those who celebrate it!
Researchers recently discovered two new species of poisonous birds in Papua New Guinea, the regent whistler (Pachycephala schlegelii) and the rufous-naped bellbird (Aleadryas rufinucha), both containing batrachotoxin, a potent neurotoxin also found in poison dart frogs.
The Poison:
Both species contain batrachotoxin, a neurotoxin that, in higher concentrations, can cause violent muscle spasms, heart failure, and even death.
Location:
These birds are found in the jungles of Papua New Guinea.
Batrachotoxin:
This toxin is also found in the skin of poison dart frogs in Central and South America.
Other Poisonous Birds:
Besides the newly discovered species, other known poisonous birds include the hooded pitohui and the variable pitohui, also native to Papua New Guinea.
How they acquire the toxin:
The birds acquire the toxins through their diet, primarily by consuming beetles from the genus Choresine.
It has taken way longer than we hoped, but we now have our own instance. I have just finished migrating my account so I would appreciate it if you could boost this post so our little instance gets noticed by a bunch of servers. Here's a picture of my cats Huginn and Muninn so I am at least adding something to the fediverse instead of just asking for something.
#cats
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The Wikimedia Foundation, which owns Wikipedia, says its bandwidth costs have gone up 50% since Jan 2024 โ a rise they attribute to AI crawlers.
AI companies are killing the open web by stealing visitors from the sources of information and making them pay for the privilege
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Since January 2024, we have seen the bandwidth used for downloading multimedia content grow by 50%. This increase is not coming from human readers, but largely from automated programs that scrape the Wikimedia Commons image catalog of openly licensed images to feed images to Al models. Our infrastructure is built to sustain sudden traffic spikes from humans during high-interest events, but the amount of traffic generated by scraper bots is unprecedented and presents growing risks and costs.
The graph below shows that the base bandwidth demand for multimedia content has been growing steadily since early 2024 โ and there's no sign of this slowing down. This increase in baseline usage means that we have less room to accommodate exceptional events when a traffic surge might occur: a significant amount of our time and resources go into responding to non-human traffic.
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The "United States Disappeared Tracker' is brilliant, though we should be sickened that it is needed. Huge kudos to Prof. Danielle Harlow.
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Here's her explainer:
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I can no longer be silent or "professional". I have so few skills to fightโฆ | Danielle Harlow | 376 comments
I can no longer be silent or "professional". I have so few skills to fight the cancer of fascism that is spreading through the country but as a "data person"โฆ | 376 comments on LinkedInDanielle Harlow (www.linkedin.com)
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A model of a Man Engine in the #Mining #Museum in #SanktAndreasberg - an elevator of sorts which allowed miners to get into a mine and out again far faster than by climbing ladders.
I really encourage you to read the Wikipedia entry to understand the concept. And then you can inflict this on your #ttrpg campaign the next time the player characters delve into an old mine. ๐
#engineering #history
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How reciprocal tariffs could affect you. And, Maryland man mistakenly deported
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/g-s1-57764/up-first-newsletter-trump-liberation-day-tariffs-wisconsin-supreme-court?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Tim Heidecker's latest album is a humble vision of a world 'Slipping Away' : World Cafe Words and Music Podcast
https://www.npr.org/2025/04/02/1242229712/tim-heidecker-album-slipping-away?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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Positive Effekte durch Deutschlandticket: 560 Millionen Autofahrten weniger
Durch das Deutschlandticket konnten innerhalb von 20 Monaten 2,3 Millionen Tonnen COโ eingespart werden. Das zeigt eine Studie fรผr die Verkehrsminister.taz
The Lowly Wall Wart Laid Bare
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The Lowly Wall Wart Laid Bare
Getting a look at the internals of a garden variety โwall wartโ isnโt the sort of thing thatโs likely to excite the average Hackaday reader. Youโve probably cracked onโฆHackaday
2 April 1924 | A German Jew, Samuel Goldman, was born in Dortmund.
He arrived at #Auschwitz on 5 August 1942 in a transport of 998 Jews deported from Mechelen in occupied Belgium. He did not survive.
โก๏ธ Download 3D print model: cults3d.com/:2866820
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N Scale Tamper MOW
Have tracks to tamp on your Pike? This vehicle will do the job nicely. The build is pretty simple. The hard part of the build with be fitting the central tamper needs to be inserted into the frame diagonally.Cults 3D
Starlinerโs flight to the space station was far wilder than most of us thought
โHey, this is a very precarious situation weโre in.โโฆEric Berger (Ars Technica)
Foodtrucks tragen zum Gelingen von Festivals bei. Sie sind bei vielen Veranstaltungen ein integraler Teil der Infrastruktur.
Dass sie auch ein eigenes Festival sein kรถnnen, war mir neu.
Und wie muss ich mir das konkret vorstellen? 12 Variationen von Pulled Pork? Vorfรผhrung โwรผrdevoll Essen auf Mรผlleimerdeckelโ? Festival fรผr alle, die Angst vor Tellern haben? Tempeh-Kimchi-Taco trifft auf Allgรคuer Kรคsespรคtzle-Truck? Powered by Dieselgenerator?
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Sorry, geht gleich wieder.
Titan, the largest moon of Saturn, is a fascinating and deeply alien world. Many bodies in space are, well, dead. No weather, no climate, no geology. Not Titan! Things are Happening on Titan, but none of the elements building the complexity and weather of this planet are the same as those on Earth.
I really enjoyed this video, and here are some exciting images. What happens when a river of methane carves "rock" of water-ice and organic sand?
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Titan Is Much Stranger Than You Think
๐ Watch this video with NO ADS and a BONUS part for FREE:https://www.patreon.com/posts/125246921Titan is the only known world except Earth that has liquid o...YouTube
Stormtrooper helmet for my daughter
"One of the first prints I did, when I got my Creality K1 Max 3d printer, was a Stormtrooper helmet from Star Wars. But Iโฆ โฆ"
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helmets are looking great. Also the Mandalorian IB-94 handblaster came out well.
I have occasionally thought of doing some #CosPlay
Hell's Kitchen Bitches! ๐ฆฎ๐ฅ
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