szescstopni @szescstopni@social.cleverlibre.org

We had quite a large flare today!

#ham #hamradio #physics #space #radio #rf #sun #SpaceWeather

@arstechnica
Please don't call it #OpenSource when the license is not approvable as open source, even if Meta did...

https://elk.zone/animalfound.family/notes/9hawieua5d

TL;DR:

Facebook pracuje nad usprawnieniami do protokołu ActivityPub. Dzięki temu protokołowi instancje fediwersum mogą się ze sobą komunikować (Mastodon z innym Mastodonem, Pixelfedem czy Lemmym).

"Co z tego" zapytacie. Ano spójrzcie chociażby na Google Chrome. Sytuacja jest identyczna. Google lata temu też wyczaił otwarty silnik przeglądarki, zaczął wrzucać do niego usprawnienia, a z czasem zrobił się tam Gugla prywatny folwark i teraz Chrome jest hegemonem praktycznie nie do obalenia. Zadajcie sobie pytanie, czy chcemy, by Facebook był takim samym hegemonem. Więcej w źródełku.

Dodam tylko od siebie, że takich sytuacji, gdzie oddolne inicjatywy są mordowane przez korporacje albo polityków jest przecież cała masa - nawet niekoniecznie w świecie technologii. Nie zrozumcie mnie źle - wsparcie korporacji czy nawet (ha tfu) polityków w różnych przedsięwzięciach może się opłacać, bo często bez finansowania wiele projektów by umarło. Jednak takim instytucjom trzeba patrzeć na ręce i każdy ich ruch obserwować z pięciu perspektyw. A już na pewno nie pozwolić im na samowolkę.

#birdsofmastodon #birds #sweden #fåglar Does anyone know what type of bird this little friend might be? The Merlin birdsong app didn't recognise them, but they were very chatty. Photos taken (with phone camera, apols for poor quality) in May in central Sweden.

Manager: "Ok.... THIS time we don't need documentation. It's obvious that users have seen this before and know how to use it."

Me: 🤔

that's not a yard it's a hate crime

no landscape that isn't:
- home to sheep
- in a place called a "highlands" so some such
-with craggy rocks and rain and wind

should ever ever look anything like that... and even then there ought to be... IDK maybe some clumps of ... clover or... god it's so depressing.

(meme stolen from tumblr)

So the CEO of online ads giant IAB made a pretty… remarkable speech, saying:

"These extremists (referring to privacy advocates) are political opportunists who’ve made it their mission to cripple the advertising industry and eliminate it from the American economy and culture."

And this, friends, is our mission statement RIGHT THERE.

In a new article, we write about how the phenomenon of #weeds acquiring #herbicide #resistance can lead to positive effects when these weeds are plants of #phytomedical importance and important in #food #technology.

#Cornflower is such a plant, and its herbicide-resistant biotypes have much higher levels of #polyphenols, #flavonoids and free radical scavenging activities - i.e. better #health-promoting properties than herbicide-sensitive biotypes
#science #plantscience

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-38520-z

Here's what's going to happen, because I've seen it before.

The government creates a big tree-planting program. A bunch of Wyoming ranchers who just happen to donate to politicians- just a coincidence!- will get paid millions of dollars, which they'll mostly pocket. But they'll buy some cheap non-native seedlings and wreck their native grass rangelands putting them in.

6 years later, during a drought, the whole thing burns, releasing all the carbon anyway.

I've seen enough tree plantations to know that planting trees for climate is going to cause as many problems as it solves.

https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-republicans-trillion-trees-01e455acce4397c0376e82bfa18b72c2

...No county commission or state legislature can possibly meet the demands of a quasi-religious movement that believes it has God on its side and that its opponents herald the apocalypse. But that doesn’t mean they give up. It just means they keep trying, using any tool available. Eventually they arrive at the point described by Tom Lee, the lawyer for the Sumner County Election Commission: “It’s not enough to get your majority and get your way—they have to make the minority lose their voice.”

BY THE WAY ITS BEEN OVER A CENT...
*coughs*
By the way, it has been over a century, folks.

Opening the fridge over and over again is not about hoping that new delicious food will materialise.

It's about hoping hunger has lowered your standards enough to eat what's available.

#Hungry #NotThatHungry

The problem with capitalism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money.

Incredible.
https://patreon.com/lowqualityfacts

Zabił biały cisheteroseksualny Polak, zaszczuwana jest kobieta i mniejszości
krytykapolityczna.pl/kraj/mord…

This is your reminder that potatoes are an objectively superior currency to Bitcoin or any other crypto

A Potato:
- Shows inherent proof of work
- Hacker proof
- Valid in any country
- Works in any century
- Accessible at any tech level
- Delicious and nutritious
- Is also a battery
- Can be turned to rocket fuel (AKA vodka)

A poster spotted in Wrocław, Poland:

"Walking your dog burns 100kcal.

Picking up shit burns 20kcal".

I sometimes hear people make fun of the fact that Berlin has a huge empty field right in its core area where Tempelhof airport used to operate which is now a public park and left almost entirely unchanged, runways and all.

They talk about it as if it's an example of the city's inability to do something "useful" with this land. And what they mean is build stuff on it.

But just the way it is, it is hugely popular among the people of Berlin, it's a unique space where the sheer size of it enables anyone to basically do whatever without annoying anyone else. Even at peak times like Saturday afternoon, it still doesn't feel crowded and the further away from the edges you go the emptier it gets.

It refuses any commercial "usefulness" and instead gives people space to use how they see fit. It's absolutely beautiful.