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I like this messaging.
I like this messaging.
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Tomorrow night there will be a total #lunareclipse over North and South America! Lauren Sgro explains what that means and what to watch for. (Is it cloudy or raining where you are? We empathize.) More information: seti.org/total-eclipse-moon-co…
Total Eclipse of the Moon Coming to the Americas on the Night of March 13-14
A total eclipse of the Moon will be visible to everyone in North and South America on the night of March 13 to 14, 2025.SETI Institute
It is a REALLY good idea to write an introductory post about yourself and pin it to your profile. Pinned posts appear at the top of your profile page, and they also have a special ability to federate much more widely than ordinary posts.
It's very quick and easy to do:
➡️ fedi.tips/how-do-i-pin-my-post…
Here's why it matters: there's a quirk on Mastodon where some profiles may appear blank to people on some servers, but profiles with pinned posts never look blank to anyone!
How do I pin posts on my Mastodon profile? | Fedi.Tips – An Unofficial Guide to Mastodon and the Fediverse
An unofficial guide to using Mastodon and the Fediversefedi.tips
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I wonder if instead of trying to fetch all posts and storing them on the local database, there could just be a more robust solution to interacting with posts on other instances and then when you click on a profile, it can just go to their instance or it embeds the post view from their instances like news articles embed social media posts.
Similarly when you click on a post it just embeds what the replies in the author's instance look like. Though at least the not seeing all replies issue is getting fixed by other means
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I believe @GossiTheDog 's line here is "pass the bong"
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Astounding!! Finally you can see the cover of the anthology I've been working on for the past couple of years with co-editors @older and Karen Lord! "We Will Rise Again" is full of essays, interviews, and speculative stories about protest, social movements, and hopeful resistance -- all informed by the experiences of real-life movement leaders and community organizers.
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I am so proud and grateful to be part of the amazing group of folks who contributed to the anthology.
And you can pre-order it here! It's out in early December! simonandschuster.com/books/We-…
We Will Rise Again
From genre luminaries, esteemed organizers, and exciting new voices in fiction, an anthology of stories, essays, and interviews that offer transfor...www.simonandschuster.com
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Ruby is a very good hider.
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The sky always looks so monumental during a storm. We are so small.
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What a lovely evening it is
After careful scientific research it's been determined that Canadian “Electricity” is just like American electricity, except If you’re electrocuted in Canada you get free healthcare.
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What we know about the search for a U.S. student missing in the Dominican Republic
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5325265/sudiksha-konanki-missing-dominican-republic?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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I remember that I missed parts of an extended discussion a while ago using mastodon's standard web UI and it looked like #PhanpySocial showed more (transitive) answers. But is it actually possible to solve this problem purely on the client side?
Yes it is, you can already manually pull in all the public parts of a discussion by opening the thread's "original page" and then copy-pasting the URLs of all the replies into the search box on your instance. This is very tedious so no one does this, but there's nothing to stop a client or script or instance doing it automatically.
I am not a dev but AFAIK the main holdup has been how to do this efficiently without causing strain on instances.
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I just finished A Pail of Air by Fritz Leiber over at Project Gutenberg. It's great post apocalyptic tale about earth thrown into a deep freeze after a rogue Star tears the planet from its orbit. There's not a lot of action but the world building is phenomenal. I'd love to read more stories set in this universe. #scifi #pulp #apocalypse #ProjectGutenberg
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This is fantastic social.growyourown.services/@F…
Some good news about #Mastodon, there has been a very significant bit of code added which will automatically fetch all the replies in a thread. This means everyone will be able to see a thread's whole conversation no matter which server they are on! 🥳The code has just been "merged" which means it should become available in the next update to Mastodon, hopefully within the next few months.
(Those who want the technical details can see the Pull Request at github.com/mastodon/mastodon/p…)
(Via @rolle)
Add Fetch All Replies Part 1: Backend by sneakers-the-rat · Pull Request #32615 · mastodon/mastodon
Fix: #9409 Fix: #14017 Fix: #18150 Original PR Here: NeuromatchAcademy#44 Further description here: NeuromatchAcademy#43 I've never made a PR for upstream before, so forgive me if i'm doing...GitHub
That’s fine and normal and I’ll be happy to wait until it shakes out. I think this is the correct direction. Partial reply threads one of the pain points of Fediverse discourse.
Yeah, this is normal for all major new features. They test them on an experimental branch before they are actually released more widely.
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In Memoriam: Mark Klein, AT&T Whistleblower Who Revealed NSA Mass Spying
EFF is deeply saddened to learn of the passing of Mark Klein, a bona fide hero who risked civil liability and criminal prosecution to help expose a massive spying program that violated the rights of millions of Americans.Electronic Frontier Foundation
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Using the shell command in CAD software might seem like an easy way to hollow out a model for 3D printing, but it often leads to inconsistent wall thickness and print artifacts. This post explains why the shell command falls short and introduces a more precise manual modeling approach to achieve uniform, high-quality prints.
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I find it interesting what is happening to the polls in Canada.
What looked like an upcoming comfortable victory for The Conservatives has changed dramatically after the inauguration of Trump.
Should the Liberals end up winning the election later this year, the US president would be facing the new leader of the Liberal Party, Mark Carney.
We would then see the chaos president Trump fighting a trade war against a calculated, educated and experienced economist who has lead central banks.
Until then we will all experience a whole flood of tariffs and EOs....
Let's sse if the USA still "exists" by then. 😬😱
Just sayin':
Nobody ever has seen a sadistic destruction of a superpower before. Who knows what's gonna happen til fall.
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I hope European people also see and understand where far right, fascism and nationalism leads to.
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Nudel has taken a turn for the 'gelis.
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"American Fried Rice"
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This happens all the time.
French fries are not French, they’re Belgian at best.
One of the most popular Chinese dishes in the USA is General Tso's Chicken. In China no one knows who the General Tso is and never tasted his Chicken.
This is not an exhausting list.
reminds me of the dutch "filet americain"
which 1) for whatever reason has a french name
and 2) is literally raw minced beef with some spices that you're supposed to put on a slice of bread (with maybe some onions/eggs/more spices).
I guess maybe because americans like meat and boneless things? I have no idea what the connection is here honestly
WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development:
Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a new Dim Auto Flip Text option to disable automatic text orientation based on where you click first.
BIM:
Syres916 fixed two cosmetic bugs in the UI code,
furgo16 re-enab
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WIP Wednesday, 12 March 2025
This week in FreeCAD development: Draft: Roy_043 fixed several bugs, including Draft’s fillet not working the first time you try it, as well as incorrect snapping behavior. He also implemented a ne…FreeCAD News
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Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney’s Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
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Salvador Dalí & Walt Disney's Short Animated Film, Destino, Set to the Music of Pink Floyd
Dalí long gone and Disney gone longer still, it came out. The delayed arrival of Destino had to do with money trouble at the Walt Disney Studios not long after the project began, and it seems that few laid eyes on its unfinished materials again until…Colin Marshall (Openculture.com)
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Phoenix Park is a park with large grassland areas and tree-lined roads outside of Dublin�s busy downtown area. The name comes from the Irish word fhionnuisce = clear or still water. How did you like the park? #Dublin #Ireland backpackandsnorkel.com/Ireland…
Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guide for the First Day in Dublin in Ireland - Ireland Purple Travel Guide
On your first day in Dublin, there is a good chance that you will be tired and exhausted - take it slow and have a relaxing afternoon in one of Dublin’s most beautiful parks.Backpack and Snorkel Travel Guides - The Home of the Purple Travel Guides
★ Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
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Something Is Rotten in the State of Cupertino
Who decided these personalized Siri features should go in the WWDC keynote, with a promise they’d arrive in the coming year, when, at the time, they were in such an unfinished state they could not be demoed to the media even in a controlled environme…Daring Fireball
AXIOS Poll: Would you rather President Trump take over D.C. or the District "retrocede" to Maryland?
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#news #poll #DC #WashingtonDC #Maryland #Trump
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#news #poll #DC #WashingtonDC #Maryland #Trump
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Maybe they should have done a bit more time in school and less time in the Gym.
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A cartoon by Paul Noth (@paulnoth). #NewYorkerCartoons
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The Daily Cartoon, Shouts, and other funny stuff from our Dept. of Hoopla.The New Yorker
Comic-con culture goes beyond entertainment, offering moral values, creative inspiration, and community bonds. A sociologist explores how fandoms built on #comics, #superheroes, and sci-fi can take on sacred dimension: buff.ly/w3adlUO
Michael Elliott, Towson University
Michael Elliott, Towson University
For superfans, comic-con culture is more than fun – it’s sacred, a sociologist explains
Beyond entertainment, fandom provides meaning, values and essential community to some participants.The Conversation
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That makes sense.
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Rich text editing on Discourse! I think that having to write Markdown directly has been one of the biggest real impediments for existing forums to move to Discourse, as I see it. I prefer writing raw Markdown, but most "normal" people would prefer a rich text editor. So happy to see this happening!
meta.discourse.org/t/test-our-…
Test our new composer on Meta!
We have been working on a new rich text editor mode for our composer so that it’s easier to write on Discourse.Discourse Meta
Trump admin cancels $21 million in funding for schools & food banks to buy from Az farmers tucsonsentinel.com/local/repor…
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide, including $21 million in funding for schools and food banks to buy from Arizona farmers.
#Tucson #Arizona
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is cancelling roughly $1 billion in already-promised spending on local food purchases for schools and food banks nationwide, including $21 million in funding for schools and food banks to buy from Arizona farmers.
#Tucson #Arizona
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Been spinning different kinds of Star Wars silks on twitch.tv/MakerDeck lately...
This is good news. A strong Democratic statement is much in need now! vmst.io/@jalefkowit/1141514332…
Jason Lefkowitz (@jalefkowit@vmst.io)
Attached: 1 image Are Senate Dems finding their backbone? Christ, I hope so https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/schumer-senate-democrats-votes-gop-funding-bill-shutdown-rcna196029 #USPolvmst·io
Do not believe it.
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The Kabuki Cave
As you could see from my comments here and some occasional comments on Bluesky, I felt pretty confident for most of the day that Senate Dems were in the process…Josh Marshall (TPM - Talking Points Memo)
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Just sent off my freedom of information request to get all the private data about myself that #DOGE has accessed. You can do it too, thanks to some quick #activism by Maryland representative Jamie Raskin.
"We ask but for peace, liberty, and safety." Amen, stamp.
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DOGE Privacy Act Requests - Jamie Raskin for Congress
U.S. Representative Jamie Raskin is encouraging all U.S. citizens to join him this week in filing formal demands for access to their personal data obtained by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and Elon Musk.Jamie Raskin for Congress
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I only wish I had John Lewis stamps on hand....
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The mysterious figure of Faithful Eckart appears from time to time in German folklore as a harbinger of danger.
#Germany #folktale #folklore #WildHunt @germany @folklore
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13 March 1924 | A Polish Jew, Moszek Najman, was born in Radom.
In #Auschwitz from 21 July 1942.
No. 50301
He perished in the camp on 11 August 1942.
Young Mr. Najman showed bruises under his eyes and across the bridge of his nose. Like almost everyone so beaten, almost exclusively men, he perished in a very short time. 3 weeks in his case.
I wonder if there is a correlation between the people so marked for early death and a particular Nazi guard or kapo on duty at their selection to enter the camps. Who punched defenseless people so brutally.
I wonder if there is a correlation between the people so marked for early death and a particular Nazi guard or kapo on duty at their selection to enter the camps. Who punched defenseless people so brutally.
Friendship ended with Firefox: Floorp is my friend now #Linux #YouTube youtu.be/6OUjWdAtGbs
Friendship ended with Firefox: Floorp is my friend now
I had meant to try out Floorp ages back but never got around to it so now after the Mozilla situation is as good a time as any, is it a good Firefox based br...YouTube
Floorp is what I recommend to people, who insist on sticking with Firefox.
As you pointed out, the obvious, if Firefox goes, so will all these many Firefox clones, because none of them have expressed interest in hard-forking Firefox, and going independent.
But, Floorp has two advantages.
1) They do not break things. LibreWolf, will break something (often), then blame Firefox. Which only further hurts, Firefox, which in turn only hurts, LibreWolf. -- It is a snake eating its tail. I think the 1x Floorp broke something, they patched it right away, and they owned up to their issue. They did not try to pass the blame, as LibreWolf does.
2) Floorp is very similar to Vivaldi Browser. If Firefox, goes, it would be nice not to have a big learning curve, if you need to switch browsers. If you've learned Floorp, you've more or less learned, Vivaldi, in many ways.
These are two things, I believe can help users in the long run.
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@Linux floorp is a nice browser, if somewhat needing a lot of tweaks. I use it as part of my isolated browsing system
Librewolf is my main personal browser and it hasn't really broken anything for me. I don't use it for streaming services or anything requiring DRM
There is 1 site that is buggy (canva) in librewolf (i use floorp for that) but everything else is fine so I don't know what people who have big problems with it are trying to do other than using DRM services
EPA announces dozens of environmental regulations it plans to target
https://www.npr.org/2025/03/12/nx-s1-5326354/trump-epa-environmental-rules-rollback-deregulation?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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This week's #defconmovienight selection is Tony Scott's 'Enemy of The State'. Join us at 8pm PDT this Saturday in the movie-night-text channel of the #defcon discord (discord.gg/defcon) We'll chat about the movie and hit the 'Enhance' button together.
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Weird #3dPrinting question I've been thinking about.
Would the left side print faster? (Assume that both discs in the photo below are the same diameter and height.)
My assumption is that it would. The print head could accelerate during the chunky segments but the right side would be constantly changing directions, so no acceleration.
If it would be measurably faster, I'm not sure. I need to do some testing, but it's interesting to go against years of optimization in the other direction.
Agreed. In a related way, there’s an “image quality” setting in SolidWorks that controls how smooth arcs are displayed. Most of the time, this doesn’t matter because the objects we’re working with are relatively small. When I have to model a large tank or similar, you can really start to see the facets. If there are two concentric cylinders close together, it will look like they interfere because facets will overlap. Messes with your head at first.
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@chrishuck right. I think I’ve met this problem.
When you have two different geometries joining with different with a different number of facets you get some pretty strange problems. The corners can’t quite align. In a 3d print? Not a problem. I can see in industrial applications it could be a big ass problem if it wasn’t just an artifact of an image quality setting.
(I actually like the look of lower facets in some more shiny filaments like this example)
Fortunately, it’s just a graphical artifact. When it happens, I usually just turn up the quality setting from the default until it looks right. We’re not talking complex geometry here, usually just cylinders.
I never really thought about it on the printing side because I’ve been using STEP files for so long in slicers and also running my G-code through ArcWelder to produce true circular moves. It could definitely be a problem otherwise!
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in reply to Tony, Pretty Much • • •If you can call it a truck.
But, it is ugly, there is no doubt.