Five years later, the greatest basic science failure in generations caused the pandemic harms highlighted by people across the political spectrum, and broke our social cohesion.
The news has been more than a bit grim of late, so hooray for Carbon Brief providing some genuine and really meaningful **good** news: the UK's carbon emissions in 2024 were the lowest since 1872, because demand for fossil fuels just keeps decreasing.
yes the UK government has made good progress. I just wish that the UK public was allowed to participate. It feels much more like the government is ‘doing to’ than ‘doing with’. The policy barriers and costs for the public to decarbonise are frankly ludicrous. We are effectively barred from getting off of gas ourselves. Public transportation is dire and expensive. No cycle paths. All feels very toxic.
Unless a miracle occurs, Trump’s tariffs will keep driving up consumer prices and drag the U.S. into a 1970s-style stagflation crisis: high inflation, slow growth, and rising unemployment.
🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥 Chapter terbaru dari The Strongest Guardian Who Devours Gods and Demons (Chapter ) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉 📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya. ✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya! 👉 Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/441054 ⏳ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya! #EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhua #Action #Adventure #Drama #Fantasy
🔥 Pecinta Komik, Ini yang Kamu Tunggu! 🔥 Chapter terbaru dari The Strongest Guardian Who Devours Gods and Demons (Chapter 02) sudah hadir dalam Bahasa Indonesia! 🎉 📖 Gabung bersama ribuan pembaca lainnya dan nikmati kisah serunya. ✨ Jangan biarkan orang lain tahu kisah ini lebih dulu, baca sekarang dan rasakan sendiri keseruannya! 👉 Klik di sini untuk mulai membaca sekarang: e-komik.org/komik/441054 ⏳ Jadilah yang pertama tahu apa yang terjadi selanjutnya! #EKomik #Komik #Comic #Manhua #Action #Adventure #Drama #Fantasy
Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Wildlife of Our National Parks Jigsaw Puzzle. Get it to remember the good old days of National Parks, before Trump starts selling gold passes so billionaires can hunt bison and sea turtles in them. amazon.com/dp/B0DWLBLNQ6?ref=t…
Pennsylvania's $1.1 billion #mushroom industry faces a critical labor shortage as #immigration policies tighten. Growers may struggle to meet demand. And that could lead to higher prices for consumers: buff.ly/v9BcMVq
Kennett Square, Pa., is considered the mushroom capital of the world. The industry depends heavily on immigrants, who work physically demanding jobs in tough conditions.
Fun find in the University of Delaware Library Special Collections: Dante Gabriel Rossetti (English, 1828-1882) “Dinner Time,” 1859 Drawing, pencil on paper; 12.7 x 11.4 cm “A depiction of the Great Seal in the London Zoo. Inscribed with title, signed with monogram, and dated April 1859.” Mark Samuels Lasner Collection #PreRaphaelites #ZooAnimals
More than 10,000 people named Bob have entered the world of sports. Today, there are only nine. Bobs are special people, and in losing them to retirement, we...
“Robert Morris, the founder of a Texas megachurch and a former faith adviser to the #Trump White House, was indicted Wednesday on charges that he molested a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said” nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/robe…
Robert Morris, the former senior pastor of the Dallas-based Gateway Church, abused a girl over several years in the 1980s, the Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office said.
#Bogota is the capital of #Colombia . It is a busy city, but the historic downtown area is relaxed and worlds away from the hustle and bustle of this modern capital. There are many things to do. Follow us to see the best things to see and do: backpackandsnorkel.com/Bogota
Our Backpack and Snorkel Bogota Travel Guide provides the best things to see in Bogota so that you can make memorable moments on a relaxing vacation in Bogota.
Adam Curry, former MTV VJ turned podcaster turned Christian nationalist, says those who oppose Elon Musk and DOGE "are under dark spiritual spells and I think we need to pray for them."
Adam Curry, former MTV VJ turned podcaster turned Christian nationalist, says those who oppose Elon Musk and DOGE "are under dark spiritual spells and I think we need to pray for them."
Jesus Christ (no pun intended) I followed some of his activities in the early days of the web. Then he and John Dvorak started a podcast and Curry was going down the loony tunes path with “don’t carry a phone, use an iPod touch on WiFi only”, and then prior to the 2016 election, I had to stop listening.
Imagine a time before Discord servers and cheap long-distance calls. Back in the 1950s, a curious and crafty group of enthusiasts invented their own global social network: on reels of magnetic tape…
Setting up Nginx Proxy Manager was easier than I thought! A few hurdles at first (longer blog post in the works) but I got it all working without much issue.
I am seeing things timeout every now and then but it seems a common problem so hopefully I can get that fixed.
Ubuntu to replace classic coreutils and more with new Rust-based alternatives
After so much terrible tech politics news, let's focus on some nice, easy-going Linux news that's not going to be controversial at all: Ubuntu intends to replace numerous core Linux utilities with newer Rust replacements, starting with the ubiquitous GNU Coreutils.
I found this site that lets you draw icebergs and see how they would float (joshdata.me/iceberger.html?fbc…) - I was looking for visualizations of the iceberg metaphor for behavior, how we only see 10% of what someone is really going through. It’s a great resource for that and also now I’m distracted seeing how an iceberg shaped like a cat would float.
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…
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.
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!
Could you elaborate on what you mean about these posts federating more widely? Is it the hashtag or the pinned status that causes this? I'm a self-hosted server admin and still did not know this. I run the software but clearly don't know how it all works.
It's nothing to do with hashtags, it's the status of the post as being pinned.
Mastodon will automatically fetch any remote post which is pinned (in a process called "backfilling") as soon as a profile is mentioned or visited on a server.
This doesn't happen for non-pinned posts, only pinned posts.
(Non-pinned remote posts only get fetched if someone on the server is following the account before the post was published, or if they are following someone who shared a remote post.)
> "Non-pinned remote posts only get fetched if someone on the server is following the account before the post was published, or if they are following someone who shared a remote post."
Why? From a user standpoint this is incredibly bad design. It adds so much friction, frustration and conflict and it makes this place seem even more empty than it is and it is a centralising force because the problem is most noticeable on smaller instances.
This is the only social media where I go to a profile and I can even follow a profile and I will not be able to see all the posts that the profile's owner put there for people like me to see. At least not in a way where I can also interact with them. It's the only social media where before every reply I post I have to leave the app and go to another website to check if someone else already made the same reply - and if I find there that someone did, I can't interact with that to agree.
If this is inherent to federated social media and unfixable, then maybe federated social media is a bad idea and it shouldn't exist. If it's no
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> "Non-pinned remote posts only get fetched if someone on the server is following the account before the post was published, or if they are following someone who shared a remote post."
Why? From a user standpoint this is incredibly bad design. It adds so much friction, frustration and conflict and it makes this place seem even more empty than it is and it is a centralising force because the problem is most noticeable on smaller instances.
This is the only social media where I go to a profile and I can even follow a profile and I will not be able to see all the posts that the profile's owner put there for people like me to see. At least not in a way where I can also interact with them. It's the only social media where before every reply I post I have to leave the app and go to another website to check if someone else already made the same reply - and if I find there that someone did, I can't interact with that to agree.
If this is inherent to federated social media and unfixable, then maybe federated social media is a bad idea and it shouldn't exist. If it's not inherent to it, why after almost 10 years of mastodon, is it still a problem?
It's not unfixable, the fact all pinned posts federate automatically on Mastodon shows backfilling is possible on Mastodon.
PeerTube already backfills accounts completely, if you follow an account on PeerTube from another PeerTube account on a different server, you will see a complete list of videos published by that account.
The challenge on Mastodon is that there are typically hundreds/thousands of posts instead of a few dozen videos.
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
That's pretty much what happens if you go to the "original page" of a post or profile (more info: fedi.tips/what-are-original-pa…).
If you want to interact though, you have to fetch a post or profile onto your server which takes up resources, which is why instances have to be somewhat picky about what they fetch.
Having said that, there is room for them to fetch a lot more automatically than they do right now. That's why today's announcement is so important: social.growyourown.services/@F…
That's pretty much what happens if you go to the "original page" of a post or profile (more info: fedi.tips/what-are-original-pa…).
If you want to interact though, you have to fetch a post or profile onto your server which takes up resources, which is why instances have to be somewhat picky about what they fetch.
Having said that, there is room for them to fetch a lot more automatically than they do right now. That's why today's announcement is so important: 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.
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...
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.
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. thesunion.com/news/canadianele…
Current weakness of Mastodon: You often don’t see all replies of a post (unless it’s your post). Details: 2ality.com/2024/11/mastodon-we…
A pull request to fix this has just been merged and should be available in the next update to Mastodon (hopefully within the next months). I’m delighted to see this.
As a web developer, I love Mastodon: Since Twitter became X, there are enough web dev people here. I’m happy with the web app – it even has several nice touches where it is better than Twitter.
Current weakness of Mastodon: You often don’t see all replies of a post (unless it’s your post). Details: 2ality.com/2024/11/mastodon-we…
A pull request to fix this has just been merged and should be available in the next update to Mastodon (hopefully within the next months). I’m delighted to see this.
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.
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...
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.
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
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.
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...
it is important to point out that this is very experimental, behind a feature flag, and there will be a need for more changes to get it in front of people. Also we don’t recommend activating it yet, this may have significant performance implications or bugs.
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.
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.
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.
The Canadian Conservative Party has a massive war-chest and they’ve basically been campaigning non-stop since the last election. The Liberals on the other hand have kept their heads down and have been busy running things, basically ceding the floor to Poilievre and his grievance-politics.
Additionally, the Liberal government under Trudeau have been in power for almost a decade, so people got just kind of bored with them.
It's pretty rare that governments last longer than two full terms (10 years max, but generally closer to 8). Trudeau was leader for 9 and a bit. That would make him the 6th or 7th longest serving PM.
He had a lot of baggage from a few relatively minor scandals and dealing with Covid. There was also a constant anti-Trudeau drumbeat from Western and mostly rural based grievance operations, well funded by the oil, gas and coal industries.
PP made it his duty to appeal to the anti-vax and grievance voters. A lot of the rest were just leaning "not-Trudeau". As soon as Trudeau stepped down, conservative support started to slide.
Good question. A compliant unquestioning media, sketchy polling, the constant far right drum beat of "fuck Trudeau", well organized social media disinformation campaign funded by who knows who? All of the above?
I'll add...the Liberals did a piss poor job of promoting their accomplishments in gov't. Their Comms team, if they even had one, should have been fired years ago.
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.
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…
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