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This was done a few weeks back, but didn't have chance to post due to VF and other factors



Hoxe tivemos #RepairCafé simultáneo na Escola de Camiños da UDC e na Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñaría da USC. En #ACoruña foi coa Oficina de Sustentabilidade, e tivemos ademais cacharreo bicicleteiro grazas á Asociación #Mobiliza
En #Compostela foi dentro da materia de Aula Profesional e acompañáronnos os compas do Banco de Reciclaxe Electrónica Municipal de Teo.
Reparar é xenial, pero xuntas aínda é mellor..
#DereitoAReparar #DerechoAReparar #rigthtorepair #SoftwareLibre
#ESFnaUni #ESFpro


Israels Regierung entlässt Geheimdienstchef

Israels Regierung hat den Chef des Inlandsgeheimdienstes entlassen. Als Grund führte Regierungschef Netanjahu einen Mangel an Vertrauen an. Gegen die Entscheidung gingen Tausende auf die Straße.

➡️ tagesschau.de/ausland/asien/is…

#Israel #Netanjahu #Geheimdienst

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My first Megaman Battle Network prop was a scaled-up Battle Chip for a friend's 30th birthday.

The body is made from layers of EVA foam and can hold any 4x6-inch photo. The nameplate is a plexiglass insert so you can write any names for any photos you want.

The "Recover 30 HP" photo was perfect for his birthday. Though it's been several years and he still hasn't swapped it out with any of the other photos... 😅

#megaman #mmbn #evafoam #propmaking

in reply to VanGoYo

You could say he is still recovering from this. 😂 But great gift. I would love receiving such a thing. It ticks all the boxes: handmade, geeky and funny. 😄


I just had a thought:

If the #USA actually _does_ invade #Canada , then #Tesla cars become valid military targets.

After all, ultimately they are controlled by #ElonMusk , who has already stated that "Canada is not a real country" and largely seems to support whatever inane thing #Trump wants to do.

And Tesla cars are already massive surveillance devices, and could probably be turned into autonomous #drones very easily with a few simple software updates by Tesla.

So... Canada (and #Greenland, etc.) should probably start banning these cars.

#DroneWarfare

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in reply to Jürgen Hubert

This is actually something I've been discussing with people from a risk and possibility perspective.

The current state of art allows Tesla's to target specific individuals for a kill. No new or more advanced technology needed. Just a single firmware update.

Second, the US administration has a tendency for making personal attacks and not caring much for the law.

So this is both technically feasible and it's a possible escalation of the direction they are heading in.

in reply to Jürgen Hubert

Can’t help but think of this scene… where all the Teslas block highway access.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=9xkokcGT…



This is how you do it:

Step 1: More than 100,000 protesters flood the streets of Serbia’s capital Belgrade.

Step 2: Unpopular Serbian leader Vucevic resigns.

Next stop Washington D. C.

Update: As pointed out by others, it is the president who is very unpopular in Serbia, but it is only the prime minister who is resigning, so the Serbs have not completed their mission yet.

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in reply to Randahl Fink

It is forcing a change, which is good.

But make no mistake, this is a scapegoat and not real systemic change.

in reply to Randahl Fink

I'd love for this to happen in DC and actually effect some change but, I'm not hopeful. However I can, at the very least, see change in the conservatives around me. One straight up changed their party affiliation, one has started sending me liberal leaning memes and one HARDCORE Republican keeps telling me "I would have never voted for them if I knew this would happen"


Scientists used archaeological remains to reconstruct Atlantic sturgeon populations from 200 CE to today. The findings show stark genetic differences between fall and spring spawning groups. theconversation.com/atlantic-s… #archaeology


21 March 1888 | A Hungarian Jewish woman, Rosa Groag, was born in Budapest.

In 1944 she was deported to #Auschwitz and murdered in a gas chamber.

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#Macos #mac Mac users, there’s an update to GIMP 3.0 called revision 1 that fixes missing tabs on the Colors windows

gimp.org/downloads/

You will see the file ends with -1.dmg now.

Thank you to all who reported it!

#GIMP #GIMP3 #Gimp_3

in reply to GIMP

I cannot open it. I receive an error on Apple silicon


The Kavkazkaya Oil depot in the Russian Oblast of Krasnodar is questioning whether invading Ukraine was among Putin’s better ideas.
in reply to Randahl Fink

That’s about half a billion bucks in product and equipment going up in smoke… or more.





Just finished @pluralistic's "Picks & Shovels." It is the fourth Marty Hench book, but it is also the first Marty Hench book, where we learn his origin story.

Every time I've finished one of the other books in the series, I've thought it was the best one. This one continues the run -- once again, the best Marty Hench book I've read.

I love this series. Highly recommended.

bookshop.org/p/books/picks-and…



Max enjoying exploring on a beautiful day at Point Molate! I love to see him smile! 😊

#dogsofmastodon #pointmolate #EastBay #EBRPD



A Modern Take on the Etch A Sketch

hackaday.com/2025/03/20/a-mode…






View of the old #mining town of #SanktAndreasberg .

Unusually, most of the houses were built on top of the local hill ridges, while the mines spread out beneath them.

#Harz #landscape



I'm thinking of applying for this job driving the Nutmobile. It starts in November.
in reply to Spocko

Looks like it could be fun to drive, but really, who wants to be Trump's chauffeur?


"#Netherlands launches fund to lure top #scientists, like those fleeing the #US"

Smart

A term the #USA has lost familiarity with, and will lose a lot more of

nltimes.nl/2025/03/20/netherla…

#science #europe

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Lack of evidence of treason is evidence of treason.

abovethelaw.com/2025/03/trump-…

#ttrpg #trump #law

in reply to Friend Computer

For an instant—before I realized who it was—I thought this was a retoot of something the Trumpenführer had ranted about
in reply to Charlie Stross

Oh goodness no.
Any sane society would have demoted that citizen to Orange Clearance middle management after a good brain scrubbing session.
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#CPPotD
WHEN WILL CARNEY CALL AN ELECTION?

CBC: Liberals lagging other parties in candidates as election call could be days awa cbc.ca/news/politics/liberal-m…

#CanPoli #cdnPoli #CanElxn #LPC #CPC #NDP #GPC #Bloc

  • March 19 (4%, 1 vote)
  • Sometime this week. (18%, 4 votes)
  • Before Parliament resumes March 28th. (50%, 11 votes)
  • After Parliament resumes March 28 (27%, 6 votes)
22 voters. Poll end: 6 months ago

in reply to Feike 🇪🇺🇳🇱

I live in Canada. My government functions under the Westminster model. But It could function better with some relatively minor changes.
in reply to Amgine

one thing that Trudeau gets no credit for but that he should is that I think the Canadian Senate works much better than it used to.


Trump's critics have compared him to King George III, but is it accurate? A scholar of early America says the 18th-century British monarchy’s power was far more limited than many realize: theconversation.com/tyrannical…
@histodons #Histodons


C'est marrant comme les chats n'ont pas tous les mêmes gouts en matière de jouet.
Notre tout premier adopté, Nyan, son truc, c'était la souris. Il en a eu une qu'il avait démoli et mise en miette. Un truc basique, plastoque, tissu. On avait finit par balancer ce qui en restait, tellement c'était mâchonné dans tous les sens. Il avait moins aimé les suivantes pourtant identiques.
Kitsune, elle, son truc c'était dormir. Au chaud de préférence. Le jeu c'était "jouer à chat avec Nyan", mais elle était pas branchée jouet.
Et les griffes, elle les faisait tjs sur des griffoirs à l'horizontal.
(ils me manquent très fort tt les deux)
#catsofmastodon
in reply to Nyafox

Yosei, notre papy-chat, qu'on appelait notre Miteux de Birmanie. Lui, on l'a adopté déjà bien vieux. Il était pas très jouet non plus.
Mais il aimait jouer à chat avec son pote Yokai de temps en temps.
Griffoirs surtout à l'horizontale aussi.
(Lui aussi il me manque mon papychat)
#catsofmastodon


in reply to Trivial Einstein

what brand of earbuds did you get? I need some noise cancelling ones to block out noise when trying to sleep in the daytime.
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in reply to 💙🩷💜Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ🐡🍉🐧

@Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ

Noise Canceling is a mic feature that keeps background noise from being picked up and transmitted with your call. It does not apply to the speaker part of the earbuds.

in reply to Unus Nemo

Some buds do have noise camceling for the outside world. My soundcore ear buds make the beep of thectrain doors almost inaudible, but only when I switch on the noise cancelling.
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@Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ

Never heard of it but I'll look for it. I have only ever seen them advertise noise canceling in regards to mic. Then again I do not buy extremely expensive ear buds either. I break or lose them to fast 😀

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@Ⓑⓡⓔⓣⓣ

Yes, I have Bose speakers in my car and love them. Though I would never get a pair of their earbuds. Way past what I will spend on them considering I would probably have them for a month at best.



So I've been getting at least 2-4 of these emails _every day_ for a couple weeks now... they are from YouTube, and they always come from a channel named "YouTube Creators".

Except the channel name is actually not that, it just looks like that: tinyurl.com/2cs63xk4

in reply to Jeff Geerling

Real shame you didn’t follow through on your statement that you’d leave Twitter/X if/when Elno killed off Tweetbot.
in reply to jc

@callme_jc Cancelling Blue, not leaving Twitter—see x.com/geerlingguy/status/16140…

Note, however, I did cancel Blue. Then it re-enabled itself lol.

But now it's required to get a measly slice of the Elon X monetization pie. Which is next to nothing, even if you have millions of 'impressions' per month.

@jc


nytimes speak: “controversial tactic”
plain english: “blatantly illegal graft” flipboard.com/@newyorktimes/po…
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Finland is again the world's happiest country.

In other news: I am building a sauna. 🇫🇮♨️

edition.cnn.com/travel/worlds-…



#Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict #Trump on #Venezuelan Gang

To invoke wartime #deportation powers, Trump asserted that #Venezuela’s government controls a gang. #US intelligence analysts think that is not true.

#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #USpol
nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/poli…

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#Trump’s assertion that a gang is committing crimes in the #US at the direction of #Venezuela’s govt was critical to his invocation of a wartime #law last wk to summarily [w/o #DueProcess] deport people whom ofcls suspected of belonging to that group.

But US #intelligence agencies circulated findings last month that stand starkly at odds w/Trump’s claims…. The doc, dated Feb 26, summarized the shared judgment of the nation’s spy agencies that the gang was not controlled by the Venezuelan govt.




As Musk is about to get top secret information from Pentagon re U.S. plans in event of war with China, I found this recap of Musk’s business interests with China useful. vox.com/world-politics/404621/…

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Musk forced to recall all Cybertrucks, because they are falling apart.

This is the 8th recall of the new vehicle.

pocket-lint.com/tesla-cybertru…

in reply to Randahl Fink

In completely unrelated news, NHTSA will soon be facing severe personnel reductions.
in reply to Randahl Fink

The design icon seems nowhere near as robust as its predecessor | Die Design-Ikone scheint bei weitem nicht so robust wie das Vorgängermodell
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What causes the powerful winds that fuel dust storms, wildfires and blizzards? A #weather scientist explains: buff.ly/XvSzUEQ