Sven Slootweg (soft-deprecated) @joepie91@pixie.town

this article is objectively the truth: "Pl@ntNet is the world’s best social network"

https://qz.com/1615237/plntnet-is-the-worlds-best-social-network

Pl@ntNet far outperforms iNaturalist anyway both in identification success and in being generally usable and nice (e.g. doesn't pressure you to log in unless you want to submit stuff, doesn't do shady AI, publishes papers on their machine learning models and makes the API available, etc.).

one of the few remaning apps on my phone that I enjoy using. I only open iNaturalist when i want to identify something which is not a plant, but 95% of the time I'm looking at plants so

i think some people on fedi just haven't realised the fact that they haven't healed from twitter. i openly admit that fact. in fact, i will do so now. i still have trauma relating to twitter that makes me feel physically sick every time i encounter it. i also still have the thing where i have to reply to people who are blatantly wrong (i'm getting better at it though). at least i understand it and try to deal with it healthily, whereas some people use fedi as a direct replacement to twitter minus fascists. they still use quotes to make fun of people, and still misinterpret people's arguments on purpose so they can ratio them because they hold interaction count higher than genuine interaction which is what the whole point of me talking to people on this is

In de wandelgangen rond om Amelisweerd of op de bospaden er doorheen wordt weer gesproken over een nieuwe klimtraining. Deze zal georganiseerd worden klimmers van een klimgroep en wat meer autonome klimmers.

De datum is nog niet bekend, maar het zal na het broedseisoen zijn. De natuur moet ook zijn rust hebben.

reposting here because someone sent this to me and i realised how much i needed it actually

Kortom, de wolf is in alle opzichten beter voor een gezonde en diverse natuur.

https://nos.nl/l/2570492 via #nos

Advertising should be banned.

Advertising is an industry whose goal is to manipulate people at a massive scale into spending money on or believing things.
Advertising pollutes our physical and digital landscape visually and serves as an inconvenience.

Is it just me or is anyone else annoyed by red and black never being next to each other on these ribbon jumper-cables?
I just want them to stay a unit, I solely use black and red to power boards, they shouldn’t need to be split..

Playing the world’s smallest, glassiest violin to honour the death of iOS 7 flat design, where everything looks the same and you can’t distinguish a button from a label

Affordance’s are back baby. They’re good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

So, there's a toot, supposedly from an employee of a company, recommending that folk delete that company's phone apps before going to protest.

First, that company is not the only source of software on your phone that is being used to surveil your participation in civil disobedience. Toot gives impression that by uninstalling that company's products your phone is somehow safe.

Second, that company, in particular, has hooks in the Web pages you visit, and thus tracking you even if you don't have an account (let alone apps) on any of their platforms.

Third, if folk are using apps from that company, they very likely learned of the protest through one of those apps, which means the company already knows they are likely enough "people who want to protest".

You want to avoid being surveilled by your phone at a protest? None of the answers are easy.

But any advice that suggests uninstalling a handful of apps (which may be bloat that can't be removed without tech knowledge) is misleading.