Charlag @charlag@birb.site

#Tusky 4.1 is here! https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v4.1 @Tusky

The #federated #blogging engine, #Plume, has got a fresh new website: https://joinplu.me.

It is one of the most complete #activitypub projects still in alpha stage, and looking very neat too.

Things to do to help the project:

- contribute financially
- make a translation
- launch an instance

There are already some stable and updated Plume #instances running right now: Fediverse.blog, or plume.mastodon.host, or https://plume.hostux.coffee, as well as https://plume.oa-dev.com, more soon.

"Widespread Blurring of Satellite Images Reveals Secret Facilities in Israel and Turkey

By complying with requests to selectively obscure military facilities, the mapping service [Yandex Maps] has actually revealed their precise locations, perimeters, and potential function to anyone curious enough to find them all."

https://fas.org/blogs/security/2018/12/widespread-blurring-of-satellite-images-reveals-secret-facilities/
#Yandex #Maps #Military #OSINT

trying compiled-to-js languages, i better realized that modern js itself is not that bad. it's a bit strange, has some problems, but it's fast, has great jit compilers and enforcing concurrency is sometimes even good.

but browsers, dom, web apis are painful. pure js infrastructure is too, maybe these are problems of a language which is too easy to start coding in, while being not so easy to write good code in.

anyway, we are here and have to somehow deal with it.

Who’s a good boy? It’s this little dung-muncher! 😋

Odie’s the best mate I could’ve wished for, he’s like a sibling to me and I love him dearly.
He’s a very chill doggo, therefore scared easily by sudden noises (like when I’m putting away dishes), that’s why I’m tiptoeing none stop and try to make no sound. ☺️

He’s a huge fella – see that for tree for comparison. Massive! 🤪

Special tricks:
• Bang!/Play Dead
• High Five
• »Say Woof!« (he actually says woof)

#MastoDogs #MastoPets #PetToots

it is now Bird Appreciation Hours

#TIL that the philosopher William James experienced great depression due to the notion that free will is an illusion. He brought himself out of it by realizing, since nobody seemed able to prove whether it was real or not, that he could simply choose to believe it was. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_James

Forgot to share this picture of cardamom buns I made few days ago.
They came out especially good. I think both bagels and buns were a success because of the dough. Will do more because it's definitely encouraging!

Bunnies are adorable in carefully trimmed and cropped videos but please think very hard before considering getting one. What you see is not what you get.

They are complex to keep, not nearly as docile as most think, are a 10yr commitment, and in the UK alone a whopping *75%* end up neglected or in bad health from poor care. http://bunny.nipple.solutions #bunnies #rabbits

Here is some art of my troll surfer from #warcraft

https://www.wired.co.uk/article/dutch-rights-group-fined-for-not-paying-royalties

Hollywood-funded anti-piracy association Brein, the people who made the "you wouldn't download a car" ad, tried to stiff Melchior Rietveldt, the musician who composed the music for it, out of the vast bulk of his royalties. They told him the ad would only be shown at a local film festival, then stuck the ad on a bunch of DVDs and acted like they had full right to.

So, like, if you're ever wondering if anti-piracy capitalists hate piracy? The answer is "no". They'll steal and lie seven days a week and twice on Sundays. They just hate seeing people enjoy media without paying them.

#WeCo, #platformcoop replacement for Reddit is shifting from Google Analytics to something more ethical.

As we are governed and owned by us users, there is a binding poll on what alternative we should use here:

https://www.weco.io/b/root/p/weco-1544471522708/vote

Anyone can register and vote in the poll or add a new option.

If there are other ways we can improve our privacy and be more ethical, message me or propose it on WeCo.

Here is a link describing how our democratic user governance works.

https://medium.com/@weco/democratic-user-governance-in-action-how-the-decision-pipeline-in-weco-works-e08b732b3e33