Ok, I have sifted through #altText discussions, and this is what I am gonna do as a standard:
Asking for help: #alt4me tag and
@imagecaptionspls group. So follow those if you want to keep an eye out for opportunities to help.
Reply with #alt4you and I'll edit my toot and add better alt Text.
I heartily encourage everyone to follow the tag and group, not just for me, but because it helps so many ppl. We take care of each other here, and it is fekkin beautiful.
Sometimes kōtare (sacred kingfishers) are so focused on what’s for breakfast that they don’t notice me getting quite close.
#birds #bird #BirdPhotography #BirdPhoto #BirdsOfMastodon #wildlife #photography
Was looking into P2P relay routing with relay discovery as a side effect of DHT traversal, and realized that this would create some issues with bias in peer selection (specifically a surveillance node could sit on a specific DHT path to increase chances of being selected)
https://uk.shortenmytra.in/333
well. it's up!
(see https://uk.shortenmytra.in/info for some barebones info)
We're recruiting a new member to wrangle messy open energy data! If you want to put your #Python skills to work on the #EnergyTransition creating #OpenSource software and #OpenData, and value having flexibility and autonomy in your workplace, check out the job description and instructions for applying here:
Zo! Dat ging een stuk sneller dan verwacht. Inmiddels 156 volgers (en ja, we proberen iedereen terug te volgen ;) )
Uit de verschillende comments blijkt dat jullie niet zitten te wachten op een automatische berichtenfeed vanaf de site. Dat is ook niet het plan.
Is er dan helemaal geen plan? Jawel, een plek die toegankelijker is dan een info@-mailadres en hopelijk een actieve #wetenschapsnieuws-community in de #Fediverse op Mastodon :) En lijsten van interessante mensen om te volgen natuurlijk.
(Also please take a moment to contribute to OpenFoodFacts if you have some time, it's a very useful site, despite the very... suboptimal UI. Even just adding sharp pictures of product packaging is very helpful, then other people can extract the information from it)
On a related note, did you know that OpenFoodFacts has an ingredient volume estimator built in? If you add ingredients and nutritional values for a product to the database, then under 'ingredient analysis' you can see the volume (min/max) of each ingredient that it estimates and infers based on the available data, even when it is not explicitly listed on the packaging.
It's not perfect and it's always going to be an estimate, but it's very useful for answering questions like "does this contain a little bit or quite a lot?"
Today I found https://ciqual.anses.fr/, which is a searchable database of (average) nutritional values for a *wide* variety of ingredients, far more detailed than any nutrition label you might find on a product. Useful when you have specific nutrient restrictions or requirements!
Answers questions like "how much calcium do cashew nuts have" without having to wade through 50 pages of blogspam and LLM barf first.
Happy #PolarPrideDay 🏳️🌈❄️ Das Überwinterungsteam der Neumayer-Station III in der #Antarktis schickt Grüße zum Polar Pride Day!
Selbst hier am Rande des antarktischen Schelfeises hat die Bedeutung von Vielfalt und Inklusion in der Wissenschaft einen hohen Stellenwert. Polar Pride erinnert uns daran, dass dass jeder in der Polarforschungsgemeinschaft willkommen ist.
After seeing an article about how no one wants to look up from their smartphones anymore, I wrote a post. It's much longer than this screenshot but it was my favorite line.
Does anyone know of any interesting theories on dealing with the federation ownership problem? I'm not looking for "just use fedi" comments, I'm looking for frameworks of reasoning that can be applied to different or new federated systems.
(The federation ownership problem: not everyone is able to maintain a server, so a significant share of users relies on other instances, often public ones because their tech friends do not use the system, but how do you encourage those instances to remain up and running? Especially once people get bored of running them as a hobby)
the more i dig into and untangle my own indoctrination, the more i realize how few (white, us, male) leftists and progressives have even a clue how much internal work we have to do, just to learn to live & act without doing harm
Technical debt collector and general hype-hater. Early 30s, non-binary, ND, poly, relationship anarchist, generally queer.
- No alt text (request) = no boost.
- Boosts OK for all boostable posts.
- DMs are open.
- Flirting welcome, but be explicit if you want something out of it!
- The devil doesn't need an advocate; no combative arguing in my mentions.
Sometimes horny on main (behind CW), very much into kink (bondage, freeuse, CNC, and other stuff), and believe it or not, very much a submissive bottom :p
My spoons are limited, so I may not always have the energy to respond to messages.
Strong views about abolishing oppression, hierarchy, agency, and self-governance - but I also trust people by default and give them room to grow, unless they give me reason not to. That all also applies to technology and how it's built.