ceoln @ceoln@social.cleverlibre.org

https://www.inaturalist.org is a fantastic citizen science project where people can report their wildlife sightings and add photos, and other people can then verify the species they saw

It has a fantastically easy to use and powerful API, which provides everything we needed to build owlsnearme.com - using API requests directly from JavaScript without API keys or worrying about rate limits

https://www.inaturalist.org/pages/api+reference

Please enjoy the world premiere of my video “From Artist’s Board to Newspaper Page: How Comics Were Made in the Age of Metal Printing, 1910s–80s,” made for the Billy Ireland Cartoon Museum & Library’s exhibition opening today celebrating the Bill Blackbeard collection! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TBrV4-LpnA&feature=youtu.be

Find out more about the exhibition here: https://cartoons.osu.edu/events/man-saves-comics-bill-blackbeards-treasure-of-20th-century-newspapers/
Huge thanks to Ann Lennon and Caitlin McGurk, the exhibition curators.

The ability to put a note to myself on someone's profile is handy. It's another cool Mastodon feature I wish other social sites offered. Too bad the notes don't show up on the iOS apps I've tried so far (Metatext, Tootie, Mastodon)

Who else here remembers eating frozen ham popsicles as a kid? 🐷🍭 #SummerTreat

@profdaf The actress Hedy Lamarr invented frequency hopping technology.

https://www.womenshistory.org/education-resources/biographies/hedy-lamarr#:~:text=Although%20she%20died%20in%202000,communications%20like%20GPS%20and%20Bluetooth.

I will never make a better post than this my first post because it is a link to over 200 outstanding movies that you can watch for free on YouTube. I have seen them all!
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLdPiEzu69PYZoa_-hS25GAjdoQ4ZR6MHL

Well, isn't this interesting!

f(x,y) = (((~(-x)) / ((y ^ 3) | (x + x))) / (((-x) / (~y)) / ((x | x) / (y ^ 6)))) % 4

Extent: 256x256 (scaled x2)

"Onebit" colouring scheme.

@zlatiah Only own a #FrameworkLaptop and I can attest that it is great! It works very well for my use case of occasional compiling, video editing, largely documentation, a bunch of video calls, and some very light gaming. Did you have a specific question or use-case in mind?

Entirely possible that based on @pluralistic’s posts that I’m going to get a @framework / Framework Computer (https://frame.work/ )to teach my 9yo how to build a laptop and make his own (I think we’ll stick with Windows over Linux, though, if that’s okay).

#technology #DIY #FrameworkLaptop #Awesome

As requested, I have migrated my infosec Mastodon account importable lists here: https://tisiphone.net/2022/11/10/infosec-mastodon-lists/

I hope this helps, pals! I will try to keep them as up to date as I can.

I am intending to start posting my experiences and findings in first stabilizing, then scaling Infosec.exchange, along with where I see it going in the near/medium term.

I have quite a lot left to sort through and clean up. I should be at the point of circling back to the many (MANY!) people who kindly offered assistance.

Between work and home life and stamping out fires, I haven’t been able to spend the time yet to engage with those volunteers like I wanted. I did, however, manage to appoint an absolutely stellar moderation team. We have been going through a steep learning curve and appreciate your patience and grace as we get our legs under us. I expect we will need to expand that team, particularly to cover different times of day and languages other than English.

Also, I am overwhelmed by the generosity of the community. Three weeks ago, this website had 180 active users. As of this morning, there are 17,053. Very fortunately, I far overspec’d the server, but that was quickly overwhelmed as the site went through cuts cosmic inflationary period. I took some pretty aggressive but expensive steps to get things back to stable, and from a member perspective, that wasn’t the first experience I wanted people to have of mastodon or the fediverse. My intention, after I am able to sleep for a week, is to, with the help of some smart people I’ll be tapping, to consolidate and optimize (cost, performance, and scalability) the environment. In the mean time, Hetzner stock (if there is such a thing) might be a good investment.

It’s been quite interesting to watch the dynamics of the community. While we’ve grown nearly 100 fold in 2 weeks, I have been contacted by people letting me know they’re leaving because $X person is now on the instance, or that the timeline is too busy, or that there are too many 🐈 pics, and so on. For them, the small homey feel of the site was lost. I’ve been thinking about spinning up some parallel instances on the same infrastructure with moderated signups and possibly max numbers of active accounts.

The reason I started the DefSec podcast, I care about the security community deeply and that is why I set up this instance. I am not a celebrity or thought leader or a terribly important person in the scheme of things, and I am not doing this for fame, money, etc. I am fortunate enough to have a well paying job. I am doing this because I want us to be successful against the baddies. At the same time, members of the security community face many challenges like burn out, isolation, and it can be hard to find people who can relate to what we’re going through. My hope is that this place is helpful in some small way.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly for the community: my intention after I assess whether this is a flash in the pan, is to set up a non-profit foundation to oversee this instance. Assuming we don’t collapse back to 180 active accounts, I want this place to survive me. I want it to be trustworthy and transparent and reliable.

It’s been a busy two weeks. Thank you all for your patience and support. You are the best and I believe in you ​

I posted a message to mastodon via ham radio! iPhone via Bluetooth to a Mobilinkd TNC3 modem to BaoFeng UB5R. The signal went about 4 miles to the UT Austin Amateur Radio Club's antenna on top of Physics building (KA5D) where their iGate send it to 4X5MG whose bot posted it. Pretty neat! https://botsin.space/@aprs/109316550326136608

A cool growth marker that #mastodon is definitely reaching, being part of the content farm for other platforms, already seeing screenshots of posts here on other sites.

That means: help other people who are nervous join! Respond to introduction posts! Punch nazis!

Let’s do our best to make this space great for everyone.

#SelfPromotionSaturday is a thing here? Ok, I’m giving a webinar on my research on #TrashyStreams on Wednesday and it’s free and open for anyone interested in #geomorphology of #UrbanStreams or #PlasticPollution. Details & registration here: https://csumb.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZYqdu-qqDsuHNKh4-95Lfd4zJLYpwwcEHBg

sandersha mangoes, painted by amanda almira newton, 1907

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