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Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
ark@social.lol ("Alex Kagno") wrote:

Super late to the party, but I wanted to boost this out to the rest of the #fediverse for those of you looking for a nice little corner of the internet that's a safe space.

https://omglol.news/2025/02/01/toward-a-more-diverse-social-web

Thanks to @adam for all the work he does to ensure what he makes is equitable and inclusive. (We know @prami actually does all the work, though.)

Boosted by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):
urbanupgradeglobal.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy ("World Bike Forward") wrote:

While the US goes with trade barriers, here's an urban monorail train just completed in China by BYD to be shipped to São Paulo, Brazil 1/

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

One would think that any reasonable definition of an HDR color space would have clear well-defined math for saying what subvolume of the HDR color volume corresponds to Display P3 (SDR). But no. Everyone except full-screen playback of a movie on a TV needs the definition, but can’t even agree on whether SDR white is 80, 100, 150, 203 nits in terms of the PQ-encoded nit values.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
hsivonen ("Henri Sivonen") wrote:

If you think about it for even a couple of minutes, it’s pretty clear that any system that has a compositor and an HDR display is going to need not to break existing SDR content and apps, and the display link is going to need to be latently HDR capable all the time so that it doesn’t renegotiate when some HDR content enters the composition. Therefore, all such systems are going to need a way to map SDR sRGB and SDR Display P3 to whatever color space the HDR display link uses.

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
chi@social.lol ("Chi Señires") wrote:

nakakatawa na yung mga lalaking nagsasabi usually na hindi sila maarte sa mga bagay bagay yung mga isa sa PINAKA maarte kong kilala na tao

mga tatay na may masculine insecurity or whatever the fuck this bullshit is now na tinatawanan na lang namin ng mom ko pag pinag uusapan pero hassled ako kasi pakahirap kasama pag may topak na ganito 🙃

Boosted by keul@fosstodon.org ("Luca Fabbri"):
mpg@grumble.social ("MPG") wrote:

If any of you are in the Amazon ebook ecosystem and have been considering leaving, Amazon has announced that they will be disabling their Transfer to USB functionality next week, so you have 1 week to liberate your library before then! You don't need to rush out and buy a new eReader this week, but you will want to get your purchases migrated to ePUB before you lose that ability altogether. 🧵 for how-to...

@bookstodon #Books

Boosted by isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:"):
terrybot@frikiverse.zone ("Terrybot :pratchett:") wrote:

Look, that's why there's rules, understand? So that you *think* before you break 'em.

Terry Pratchett, Thief of Time

#GNUTerryPratchett, #SpeakHisName, #Discworld

Boosted by adam@social.lol ("Adam Newbold"):
jaredwhite@indieweb.social ("Jared “Indie Social Web” White") wrote:

Noted transphobe, “China virus” conspiracy theorist, and xenophobic racist who is also the Founder and Lead Maintainer of the Ruby on Rails web framework, David Heinemeier Hansson (DHH), thinks VP JD Vance's speech to the Europeans in Munich was really, really spot on.

https://world.hey.com/dhh/europeans-don-t-have-or-understand-free-speech-c7c406e8

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
ireneista@irenes.space ("Irenes (many)") wrote:

thanks to @Mnewton we found it! it's by http://campbellwhyte.com/ 1/2

chipotle@mstdn.social ("Watts Martin") wrote:

Scrolling LinkedIn idly (always a mistake) and seeing someone in the far reaches of my network saying, “I’m excited to announce that I’ve started a new role for AOL at Yahoo!” and I have so many questions

Boosted by andreu@andreubotella.com ("Andreu Botella :verified_enby:"):
ApostateEnglishman@mastodon.world ("The Sleight Doctor 🃏") wrote:

Thanks to the publicity boost and endorsement of Elon Musk, Germany's fascist anti-immigrant party, the AfD, is now polling in second place with a national election approaching.

Just this past week, more than 200,000 Germans marched in protest against the far-right nationalist party, which has been under surveillance by authorities for suspected extremism.

Those of you who don't seem to be able to say "fascist" with a full chest have something seriously wrong with you.

https://www.npr.org/2025/02/15/nx-s1-5298683/jd-vance-afd-germany-olaf-scholz-musk

isagalaev ("Ivan Sagalaev :flag_wbw:") wrote:

"But Jesus, use your fucking brain!"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shFUDPqVmTg

#academia #research #bubble

slightlyoff@toot.cafe ("Alex Russell") wrote:

Every web deve...sorrry, "full stack engineer", should watch this talk by @programmingart:

https://fosdem.org/2025/schedule/event/fosdem-2025-4852-how-browsers-really-load-web-pages/

nadim@infosec.exchange ("Nadim Kobeissi") wrote:

Thanks to all the folks who have reached out to express solidarity with my petition and accountability efforts.

It will be an uphill battle. The IACR Board is made up of the most reputed, senior people who may not hesitate to discredit me or my effort. I won't give up.

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

The argument from how pretty my prophet's eyes were.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/15/i-get-email-102/

Boosted by jwz:
markmccaughrean ("Mark McCaughrean") wrote:

I definitely wasn't supposed to be doing this this afternoon, but ... 🤷‍♂️🙂

A time lapse movie of the northern hemisphere of Saturn, showing a full rotation of the famous polar hexagon, a very cool fluid dynamics phenomenon in the planet's atmosphere 🪐🐻‍❄️

Taken by the NASA/ESA/ASI Cassini spacecraft over a 12.5 hour period on 3 & 4 April 2014: 35 ISS WAC images 512x512 pixels, CB2 filter at 752nm 🛰️📷

Credit: NASA, JPL-Caltech, SSI, Mark McCaughrean

#SpaceScience

Attachments:

• gifv: A time lapse movie showing the northern hemisphere of Saturn rotating over a 12.5 hour period. There are atmospheric bands at lower latitudes, with small spots and storms too, and then close to the north pole, there is a giant hexagonal structure in the atmosphere. At its centre is a large vortex. The rings of Saturn are seen above the planet and the latter casts a shadow on the rings to the left. The data have been given a silver blue tint, even though they are original monochrome.

Boosted by jwz:
blogdiva ("your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦") wrote:

“winter freeze” is the cause of this recession.
https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/us-retail-sales-fall-sharply-january-2025-02-14/

after these hellish 3 weeks in Washington DC, with millions tens of millions of Americans affected by the #techbro and #griftocracy smash and grab of Americans livelihoods, it’s the weather the reason why Americans are not spending money.

sure.

Boosted by jwz:
vowe@social.heise.de ("Volker Weber") wrote:

jwz wrote:

"Your personal information is very important to us.", part four.

Three months after Google de-listed XScreenSaver from their "Play" [sic] store, the Google "Play" Console Team are now suddenly very concerned about "Android vitals bad behavior for...
https://jwz.org/b/ykiQ

jscalzi@threads.net ("John Scalzi") wrote:

Measles doesn't give a shit about your politics, but if your politics make it easier to thrive inside of you or your children, it won't complain either

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/measles-outbreak-west-texas-grows-unvaccinated-rcna192163

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
grickle@mstdn.social ("Grickle") wrote:

Good Saturday. (Purchase a signed Graham Annable Doodle Collection book here: https://gricklemart.com/second-delightful-graham-annable.../ ) #grickledoodle #cat #catnip #saturday #cartoon #art #drawing #funny

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen") wrote:

Just trying to share some beauty as I am finding everything to be a bit much at the moment. Pink dogwood found in my neighborhood this afternoon.

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
iro_miya@mk.absturztau.be ("Miya Ironami") wrote:

I complain a lot about Inkscape vs. Adobe Illustrator when it comes to print design. Do you want to do something about it? Do you want us to have nice free software tools for print?

Well Martin Owens @doctormo@floss.social is making things better, he's the one working on CMYK and revamped PDF export for Inkscape. It seems like a massive endeavour, and it looks very promising!

https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1061/cmyk-support-in-inkscape-could-be-a-game-changer-for-professional-print-designers

This would open up Inkscape to a whole new sector. Inkscape is pretty good for digital work, but it lacks crucial features for print. CMYK would be a massive step in the right direction.

You can support his work on Liberapay and Patreon. Personally, I would do so, if I had an income
- https://liberapay.com/doctormo/
- https://www.patreon.com/doctormo

Boosted by bcantrill ("Bryan Cantrill"):
mikeolson ("Mike Olson") wrote:

I've been disappointed and frustrated by the silence of tech company leadership in countering the messages coming out of the Trump administration and DOGE. It's absolutely essential that credible, compelling voices speak up now in favor of truth and fairness.

I'm just one guy, but I'm in a position to do that where many others aren't. And I used to do some of this when I was running Cloudera and Sleepycat.

So I'm launching Not A Tech Bro as my platform.

https://not-a-tech-bro.ghost.io/the-genesis-post/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
tapirgirl@flipping.rocks ("Tapir Girl") wrote:

It was a banner day yesterday because (1) my open studio didn’t get snowed out again, and lots of people came, and (2) I discovered that the local co-op is selling Clearly Canadian sodas, which disappeared from my life some 20 years ago and for which I pined every single day.

#Marquetry #Woodworking

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
futurebird@sauropods.win ("myrmepropagandist") wrote:

The Rubber Mallet Man hits us on the head three times every day. No one knows why. I think he just enjoys it. But, what can you do?

It hurts so much. I hate it. But, today was the WORST day. While I was in line waiting to get my bonks, I saw that the guy in front of me was hit just ONE time!

Naturally, I was furious. I threw a fit until they dragged the bastard back and bonked him two more times.

I'm definitely getting angry about the right things in this situation.

Boosted by pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑"):
babe@glitterkitten.co.uk ("tiddy roosevelt") wrote:

The fedi isn't like email. The fedi is like if you accidentally triple booked a bdsm convention, a FSF convention, and a communist workers AGM all in the same german arena

pzmyers@octodon.social ("pzmyers 🦑") wrote:

Another way Amazon hurts us: it presents garbage as literature, with a complete lack of discrimination.

https://freethoughtblogs.com/pharyngula/2025/02/15/libraries-rule-amazon-drools/

Boosted by cstanhope@social.coop ("Your friendly 'net denizen"):
LauraJG@deacon.social ("Laura G, Sassy 70’s") wrote:

Your Black History Month art post for today: by Barkley L. Hendricks (1945-2017), “Lawdy Mama,” 1969, oil and gold leaf on canvas, 53 3/4 x 36 1/4 in. (136.5 x 92.1 cm), in the collection of the Studio Museum in Harlem. #Art #blackart #blackartist #blackartists #BlackHistoryMonth

Art critic Yinka Elujoba describes this work as “a luminous painting of a Black woman cleverly layered on gold leaf with an Afro sitting on her head like a halo, complementing the arched canvas.” New York Times, Sept. 28, 2023.

Boosted by kornel ("Kornel"):
forrestbrazeal@hachyderm.io ("Forrest Brazeal") wrote:

I'm going to business hell for this one