Show newer

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.

disabled.social/@vlrny/1134534

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)

Show thread

Oops, I am accidentally doing surveillance-resistant DHT design now, I guess

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:

catalyst.coop/work-with-us/dat

#FediHire #Cooperative

Help I'm thinking of finally caving to peer pressure and making an account on that other new social media website that's so hot right now, but gosh I seem to have forgotten its name!

"Aeva, it's called ___"

TIL you can have dots in the protocol/scheme part of a URL

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)

Show thread

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?"

Show thread

Me: wtf is this plug, I don't need it *unplugs it*
Also me later: "hey why is the wi-fi not working"

Today I found 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.

Interior replacement stickering at NS Techniek could be improved upon.

Y'know since the world is clearly never going to calm the fuck down I need to make actual time for fun coding and writing, for making art and music, for witchcraft and ritual

All the things that make me feel whole can't just keep living on a backburner while I wait for the world to feel safer

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.

rowyn.dreamwidth.org/2024/11/1

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

Show thread

Find a better way to criticize bad people and bad choices than calling them insane, i'm begging

Show older
Pixietown

Small server part of the pixie.town infrastructure. Registration is closed.