'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next
'Closer than people think': Woolly mammoth 'de-extinction' is nearing reality — and we have no idea what happens next
Scientists are getting very close to bringing a few iconic species, like woolly mammoths and dodos, back from extinction. That may not be a good thing.Sascha Pare (Live Science)
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Aggiunta l'applicazione Mensinator all'articolo Applicazioni per il monitoraggio del ciclo mestruale
Ho aggiunto questa nuova applicazione chiamata Mensinator nell'articolo dedicato alle applicazioni per il monitoraggio del ciclo mestruale.
Così come per Euki è possibile mandarmi (o scrivere qui) una brevissima recensione per queste applicazioni così da poter dare consigli a chi le volesse provare.
Mensinator è una nuova applicazione open source (licenza MIT) progettata per proteggere la privacy. A livello tecnico non contiene traccianti né pubblicità di alcun tipo. Una cosa bizzarra: la versione sul Play Store richiede l'accesso a internet mentre la versione su GitHub no.
Potete scaricarla su GitHub, su IzzyOnDroid (anche questa non richiede internet) e sul Play Store. Anche in questo caso non ho ancora trovato nessuna persona che abbia testato questa applicazione per cui se l'avete provata e volete scrivere due righe per spiegare come funziona le aggiungo molto volentieri.
GitHub - EmmaTellblom/Mensinator
Contribute to EmmaTellblom/Mensinator development by creating an account on GitHub.GitHub
Mini note dell'immediato scaricamento:
l'app di default prevede il monitoraggio solo del ciclo (con flusso lieve, medio, intenso) e non di spotting, non è possibile inserire un valore della durata di default di un ciclo prima di usarla quindi funziona subito in modo completo solo se si inseriscono dati di mesi precedenti oppure diventa utilizzabile solo dopo qualche mese.
Il ciclo è tracciato in modo un po' ostico: la quantità di flusso è l'unico "sintomo" di attività mestruale tracciata di default ma per segnare che è un giorno di ciclo c'è un altro pulsante a parte.
È previsto il monitoraggio dell'ovulazione ma da quello che ho visto va inserita manualmente almeno una volta come per la lunghezza del ciclo.
Non è per il momento previsto monitoraggio di metodi anticoncezionali né dell'attività sessuale (entrambi aggirabili aggiungendo "sintomi" personalizzati ma che per il primo non può associarsi bene al monitoraggio dell'ovulazione).
L'impressione è di un'app in beta o forse alfa, ancora molto incompleta.
Per paragone: log28 è più buggata ma più completa, bluemoon è al momento un'alternativa decisamente più avanzata.
Non ho testato Euki ma se è disponibile su fdroid proverò anche quella
consiglio di dare un occhio a questa: totalmente open source e offline.
drip. menstrual cycle and fertility tracking (Open-source, non-commercial and leaves your data on your phone.)
f-droid.org/packages/com.drip/
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Idag finns det små eller inga möjligheter att tjäna pengar via Fediversum för konstnärer, skribenter och andra kulturskapare. Den som vill tjäna pengar på sitt skapande behöver i allmänhet använda sig av olika externa och slutna tjänster som Patreon, Ko-Fi och OpenCollective.
Ubuntu Core Desktop - presented by Ken VanDine at SCaLE 2024
- The entire OS is built using snaps, including the kernel and bootloader
- Uses snaps instead of flatpak
- Prefers LXD over distrobox and other projects that use podman
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As a former Ubuntu user, I’m more likely to try Fedora Silverblue at this point.
I like Podman so swapping it out for LXD isn’t compelling.
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Yeah just.... Why? Why all those devices? Why auch a mess?
Snap and systemd are the worst things to happen to Linux. Both in Basic, maybe, not a bad idea but the implementation is horrible
This honestly seems like one of the only things Snaps could be useful for in the future, considering you can update every component of the system with Snaps in a way that you can't with Flatpaks.
That said, I still dislike Snaps and I think it would overall be better for Ubuntu to use the standard packaging format that everybody else seems to be converging on; Flatpaks.
Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
Linux smashes another market share record for August 2024 on Statcounter
Another fresh month and so we have the latest operating system market share details from Statcounter, and it's another impressive showing for Linux from August 2024.Liam Dawe (GamingOnLinux)
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I’m not sure how true this is, but I read somewhere that when Mac got above 5% market share, it suddenly got a lot more mainstream support.
I wonder if that means we’re are a year or two away from Linux as a mainstream option.
I’d love to have an arm based Linux laptop with software support for one of my critical work apps.
People shit on any distro 😂 just get whatever works for you, differences aren’t that big, after all.
I personally like the easy version of Arch (endeavourOS) and install stuff there only using yay in terminal (yay [name of program you nees])
I'd like to see a logarithmic version of this graph. Picking out a straight line in a log graph is easier than trying to discern an exponential. I want that juicy exponential.
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Uncertainties arise, however, over grid stability in a renewables-dominated power system, the availability of sufficient finance in underdeveloped economies, the capacity of supply chains and political resistance from regions that lose employment.
Russia has no such policy, but still strange to assume continuation of current government concepts there until 2060.
(you can see the regional breakdown in supplem Fig 1. )
Given that energy usage also increases about quadratically, this means that net CO2 emissions will roughly remain equal till 2060.
This is not a good graph.
Fängelse för att ha hanterat 30 kilo kokain. Södertörns tingsrätt har dömt fyra personer för att de bland annat hanterat eller främjat hanteringen av 30 kg kokain. Tre av de åtalade döms för synnerligen grovt narkotikabrott.
Gnome mutter 47.rc tagged
- Add experimental color management protocol support
- Use libadwaita for server-side decorations on GNOME (on Xorg and Xwayland apps)
- Let scaling-aware Xwayland clients scale themselves
- Add initial PipeWire explicit sync support
Frikännande hovrättsdom för mord. Den 22 augusti förra året sköts en man till döds när han satt i en bil på Dalhem i Helsingborg. Tingsrätten dömde två unga män, 16 och 17 år gamla, för mord och medhjälp till mord.
Vim actually IS easy to use once you get the hang of it, plus more comfortable and efficient.
Nanos just an excuse for lazyness, cmv.
nano -m <file> or set mouse in your nanorc
Oh to be clear, it's all humor. At least mostly, I'm sure there are RMS level fanatics somewhere that truly believe some of the BS.
This is something as old as time. I've seen it prolifically on Reddit (though not in the Emacs community, they generally discourage memes), various Linux forums, old Usenet, various programming forums... I'm not trying to be evasive, but it's hard to provide examples that aren't specifically cherry picked, which wouldn't benefit the conversation much.
There's even a Wikipedia page dedicated to this: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Editor_w…
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with an outside control interface that’s quite literally about as optimal as it can be.
Which is probably true, as long as you make one assumption- that the operator dedicates a significant amount of time to learning it. With that assumption being true- I'll assume you're correct and it becomes much more efficient than a Nano/Notepad style editor.
I'm happy to concede without any personal knowledge that if you're hardcore editing code, it may well be worth the time to learn Vim, on the principle that it may well be the very most efficient terminal-based text editor.
But what if you're NOT hardcore editing code? What if you just need to edit a config file here and there? You don't need the 'absolute most efficient' system because it's NOT efficient for you to take the time to learn it. You just want to comment out a line and type a replacement below it. And you've been using Notepad-style text editors for years.
Thus my point-- there is ABSOLUTELY a place for Vim. But wanting to just edit a file without having to learn a whole new editor doesn't make one lazy. It means you're being efficient, focusing your time on getting what you need done, done.
I remember looking up how to use Colemak with vim, and the advice was:
- Change the mappings so the position is the same, but it has the downside that every tutorial won't match.
- Keep the mappings and do awkward stretches for common functions like up and down.
So I just gave up and moved on.
it even has a tutor
Yeah, people are just lazy. I remember when I invented a new login screen and was told it was "difficult", "confusing" and "took some getting used to".
It even came with a free 100-page manual and a 4-hour master class. Some people, I tell you!
^This is meant more as a joke than an actual critique, even if it kind of reflects my thoughts. But ultimatly, I thought it was a funny bit.^
You mean my 6k Gmail drafts? 😭
I started doing paper pads everywhere and trying to log at end of day.
essentially a terminal modal editor (like vim), but instead of specifying the action to perform then what to perform the action on (like "yank 3 lines"), in helix you select first, then perform actions on the selection (like "these 3 lines, i want them yanked"). it's slightly better (according to others) because you get to see what you're going to change in the file so you don't accidentally delete 5 lines instead of deleting 4.
on top of that many features are builtin, like tree-sitter and lsp support, so you don't have to spend 5 hours looking for cool plugins and configuring everything to get started (my config file is only 50 lines of toml).
the downside is that there isn't support for plugins (yet), but there's already things like a file picker, more than 100 themes etc.
So similar to kakoune? I tried that for a while, but it was missing some features so I went back to vim/neovim.
I need to know vi anyway, because that is available everywhere (as part of busybox), so using vim/nvim for bigger systems just fits.
I gave it serious consideration when the death of Atom was announced and I was unsure where to move on to.
Looks like in the meantime a lot has been done (as far as I remember, TreeSitter and LSP weren't built in back then...? Not sure though), but the lack of a plugin system is still killing it for me.
TBH it looks like it has 75% of the features you want from a codeditor, which is much more than the use-case for Nano, but no way to go the remaining 25% of the way.
It was pretty great, wasn't it?
Although I must say. I eventually landed on neovim. Steep, steep learning curve, but now I would not switch back again.
I simply have too much vim config and muscle memory to ever leave vim
I'm trapped in a prison of my own making!
I used it for a while. The flipped mode of thinking with it was weird at first but I liked it once I got used to it.
I don't remember the specifics, but I vaguely recall encountering an issue with its LSP implementation that drove me toward thinking the whole LSP approach is insane and I went back to neovim.
.nanorc. Though, Ctrl-Z conflicts with suspend in many terminals, so I keep that one as Ctrl-U. A .nanorc also allows turning on mouse support, changing the color scheme, etc.
They need to learn how to use their tools better. Winscp does all that transparently for you if you press F4 on a file on a remote system. Or maybe they did and you just didn't see it.....
It's quite a handy function when you're diving through endless layers of directories on a remote box looking for one config file amongst many.
Vim makes it easy to edit text in complicated ways, once you've learned it.
Vim is not easy to learn nor intuitive.
It is simple and compounding.
You might not ever edit enough text to ever need to learn a new skillset to edit text. If that's the case, use nano.
But if you do find yourself editing a lot of text, consider trying vimtutor.
It takes 20 minutes and you'll be proficient enough to match nano's efficiency ceiling.
Now when I use nano it's frustrating to use and I can do things much faster and easier in vim 😅
Fair enough. I basically gave you a large chunk of vim so it will feel super overwhelming. The trick is to do one command or combo at a time. For example, I started with dd. Then I added yanking. Then I added visual mode. Then I added "o" (which I think I forgot to mention: o creates a newline under the current one and puts you in insert mode. Capital O does the same but above the current line). The real trick is going little by little. And to be honest, there are some commands I still rarely use or forget to mention. I've never used f instead of t. And in terms of forgetting to mention, there's the x command which deletes the single character under the cursor rn.
Also, I'm sure someone will find this list helpful, so on top of this, I'll also add this video (and hope that Piped bot will appear):
It contains some things I haven't mentioned.
As for learning all this, I'm repeating myself for the third time. Do it little by little. And when a command is already a thing you do almost without thinking about it, you're ready to add more.
I'm mentally checking out
Why? dw is delete word, c5b change 5 words backwards, and those are the most complicated commands you'll ever get to use, unless you start adding cuatom keybinds.
But I digress. If you don't want to learn it, it's fine.
Well its shown to you at the bottom of the screen what it does...
And if you want Ctrl v,c,s etc. To work like in word etc you can always use nano --modernbindings
Edit a file, writing a quick shell script or whatever in the terminal. Nano is great. I don't see any use in learning vim or emacs. If I need something more I'm going use a gui editor anyway.
Don't get triggered anyone it's just my preference
ciw or ci" being a thing.
Nano is the tool that people use when they don't have a need for TUI editors in general and therefore don't want to have to memorize how people with teletypes decided things should have been done 75 years ago and who also don't want to get dragged into endless pointless bickering arguments about which set of greybeards was objectively right about their sets of preferences.
I'm glad people enjoy the editors they use and also I just wanna change a single fuckin line in a config file every once in a while without needing to consult a reference guide.
If I am forced to use an editor in the terminal, nano generally. But I very rarely need to because I have a functioning modern computer from within the last 25 years and therefore have a gui I can rely on. If I somehow manage to break the gui in a way that requires me to edit a text file (itself very very rare) I can fix it with nano.
Now, why would you voluntarily use an editor with a ui that's needlessly confusing and convoluted, an arse to learn, and notoriously difficult to even save a file and close without checking help files if you haven't already memorised completely random key combinations? I would say we'd love to know, but we already do. It's because you're an arrogant dickwad - at least that's what your last comment makes you look like
I don’t have much to say about nano, except the hotkey bindings are weird and unnatural.
They make sense, but they feel wrong.
Same here.
The biggest diss I have on emacs users, as a vim user, is that emacs is the only text editor where people routinely need to keep a book about it on their desk!
I used to work with a bunch of emacs guys and they all had an emacs book or two on their desk or as a monitor stand. They usually also had one on awk and/or Perl to go with it.
I’m sure they’d probably make fun of me for being unable to edit a file with anything but my specific vim config, which is not compatible with any other human’s vim config.
(I would never seriously judge someone on their editor, but I will bust an emacs users chops and accept a good natured jab back)
Although I came from vi (pre-vim and pre-evil) and still have the muscle memory, I don't and haven't used it myself.
I hear it described as a "nearly complete" and "very comprehensive". There is definitely a solid community of people using and enjoying it, but on the other hand there are always some reports of getting tired of having to work through, and sometimes extend, an additional interface layer, so in the long run being happier to just adopt the default bindings.
I know there are a few areas where trying to follow common vim workflows doesn't work as well. Historically the performance of line number display been weak in Emacs, though I believe it's recently much improved. A lot of people seem to make heavy and constant use of it in vim but conversely for me (and I think it's more common in Emacs) it's only an occasional, transient need when some external log or error quotes a line number, so I have them only displayed when I hit the go-to-line binding.
Overall, I think the most frustrating issues people have trying to adopt Emacs from vim are due to trying to impose their specific familiar vim workflows. The most obvious example is people concerned with startup time, but for more typical Emacs workflows it's a non-issue. Users typically stay in Emacs rather than jumping in and out of it from a terminal (and if you really want that workflow, you run one instance as a daemon and pop up a new client to it instantly). My Emacs instance's uptime usually matches my computer's uptime.
The draw of Emacs is not about it only being an editor so much as a comprehensive and programmable text environment. It is a lisp-based text-processing engine that can run numerous applications, the primary being an editor (the default, or evil, or others...) but also countless other applications like file managers, VC clients, subprocess management and many others. It 95% replaces the terminal for me, and many other tools. So it's the environment through which you view and manipulate all things text that is very accessible to modify and extend to fit your needs. Hence the joke about it being an OS is pretty apt, though to believe it needs a good editor implies vim isn't a good editor ;).
It’s because my job involves managing and operating systems that are only accessible through ssh or tty sessions. I spend hours every day in a terminal, on a remote session, frequently editing files for stuff: crontabs, configs, etc.
I learned vi because when I was coming up, university systems only had ed, vi and emacs, with pico on the servers that had pine for email. I learned vi because it was more powerful than pico (and because I couldn’t get the hang of emacs key combos). I read the help files and learned how to use it, because it was foundational.
Every Unix-like system has a variant of vi. Many of my container images don’t, but it’s trivial to install and use anywhere if needed.
It’s just a more powerful tool than nano, and consequently more difficult to use. Which is fine, man. It’s okay for you to use a basic text editor on the rare occasion you have to edit something in a terminal. You don’t have cause to learn how to be productive in an advanced editor, and that’s fine.
For what it’s worth, when I’m writing and testing python, I use VS Code.
> to < in your shell.
The second most important thing about vim to learn is:
If nothing is behaving then you probably have caps lock on.
Imagine using Nano or Vim; when you could be using Cat and Echo.
/s
modal editing can be fun. it is a weird skill like driving a manual transmission.
that said driving a manual transmission in stop and go traffic on a hot day is a lot like editing in vi sometimes.
~/.nanorc. Most of mine are the same as standard desktop editors, except undo is Ctrl+U because Ctrl+Z is commonly bound to suspend, and quit is Alt+Q instead of Ctrl+Q because in browser window terminals (e.g. Unraid) Ctrl+Q usually closes the whole browser (oof).
When you only need to hammer a nail every once in a while, any hammer will do. When you're a roofer, you better have a roofing hammer.
If you don't spend your life in a terminal and just need to edit a file, vim isn't for you. If you want to learn complex strings of arcane wizardry to not only make your life easier but amaze your underlings, use vim.
So I need to dive into the manual to do something as basic and universal as "copy and paste"? Why not make it Ctrl+shift+c or have it shown in the info text when pressing this almost universally accepted keypairs? Or at least make it somewhat similar to this. I find it bonkers why some programs decide to just have radically different shortcuts or defaults, the complete opposite of what feels intuitive. Same with the design of some doors that need actual SIGNS on them to tell you which direction they open. Just bad design choice.
Edit: just remembered. Same story with tmux. Want to copy something? Surprise, it's not anything you expect it to be. Some ctrl+b + [ or some shit
This is my thought process exactly.
I get it, for a power user, vim is probably incredibly powerful. However, I just want to edit text files. I don't want a text editor where I need a cheat sheet just to save my changes and quit.
If something is "easy to use" this includes the time you need learn said thing.
Drinking rahmen from the bowl is easier then using chopsticks (even if you are more elegant with chopsticks)
Driving automatic is easier then driving manual (even if you may be more efficient with manual if you practised shifting a lot)
Walking is easier then flicflacs (even if you may be faster with flicflacs if you practised a lot)
Using Ubuntu is easier than using arch (even if arch gives you more control and opportunities if you understand it)
What you observes could be OS depended,. Vim has its own copy paste buffers (y,p etc) and the OS has its own. Traditionally highligh to copy and middle mouse button to paste on Unix. Windows has 2 methods, ctrl-c,v but those are also bindings in vim so only the older less known crtl-insert,shirt-insert works.
Copy paste is definitely built in, there is no need for extra plugins.
Control+W = "Where is," Control+O = "Overwrite", Control+X = "Exit."
Makes just enough sense to me, and those are really the only three binds I ever need for editing config files.
I don't want to come off like a vim hater, because I do believe it when people say it's powerful, but... I don't need powerful. I just need to edit text files.
Greybeard here. I can use vi, emacs, nano, etc. and use whatever is available if it suits the job. For many years I did dev in emacs on my computers and on other systems used vi for quick edits. Currently on my own laptop I have micro as default term editor now. For Rust development - code, though I have hopes for Lapce.
They're all just tools and so are people who get tribal about things.
On my laptop, I update my bashrc on Excel, in Wine, then export it as a PDF, OCR to .md, Pandoc it to an .Org, and then finally, write it down on paper and re-type it on my phone's Termux's Emacs instance, then TRAMP it to my PC, in the other room.
I use biebian, btw.
Snörpvadsbåtar i Ålesund. Jag var för nån vecka sen på besök i Ålesund. Där låg bland annat en lång rad snörpvadsbåtar från Nordlandet vid en av stadens kajer. De flesta från Troms fylke.
I grekiska Volos har hundratals ton fisk spolats upp på stränderna. Orsaken är klimatförändringar. Det är ett verkligt problem för fisken. För många av världens fiskbestånd. I Sverige nonchalerar så kallade miljövänner som uttalar sig om fiskbeståndet dess verkliga problem och fokuserar helt på ett inbillat problem. De stora trålarna.
Backebåtar i Ålesundsområdet. Backebåtar eller långrevsbåtar är nåt som i praktiken inte längre finns i Sverige. En gång i tiden var de vanliga i mellersta Bohuslän och på Listerlandet. I Bohuslän användes de till långafiske långt ut i Nordsjön och Nordatlanten. På Listerlandet användes till laxfisk och torskfiske.
Fishecos Jan Ohlsson är upprörd. Jan Ohlsson som är redaktör för nättidningen Fisheco är antagligen Sveriges främste expert på att ha dålig koll. Han skriver ofta om yrkesfiske och fiskbestånd men hittills har jag nog inte sett ha honom ha rätt en endaste gång.
Gängskjutningarna och polisen. I mitten av oktober 2023 så upphörde våldsvågen i Stockholm som plågat huvudstaden i flera år. Skjutningarna minskade kraftigt i antal. Minskningen sammanföll med att Erdogan i Turkiet fick igenom sina krav i förhållande till Sveriges ansökan om NATO-medlemsskap.
Steam On Linux Drops Below 2% For August 2024 Survey
Back in May the Steam on Linux marketshare returned to passing the 2% threshold and remained above 2% through July. But the August 2024 survey results are out this evening and point to a drop for Linux. The August 2024 numbers show a 0.16% drop for Linux gamers, landing at a 1.92% marketshare. Windows meanwhile rose to 96.78% and macOS dropped a tiny bit to 1.3%.As we have seen in months past when Linux takes a sizable dip, it's correlated to a rise in the Simplified Chinese use. In August the Simplified Chinese use further grew and helping out Windows at the cost to the Linux percentage.
Steam Hardware & Software Survey: August 2024
Steam On Linux Drops Below 2% For August 2024 Survey
With the start of the new month comes the Steam Survey results for the month priorwww.phoronix.com
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As we have seen in months past when Linux takes a sizable dip, it’s correlated to a rise in the Simplified Chinese use. In August the Simplified Chinese use further grew and helping out Windows at the cost to the Linux percentage.
So, the solution is clear: get all Simplified Chinese users to switch from Windows to Linux :D
Last Week in Fediverse – ep 82
1 million new accounts on Bluesky as Brazil bans X, and premium feeds with Sub.club, and much much more.
Brazil bans X, and a signup wave to Bluesky
The Brazilian supreme court has banned the use of X in an ongoing legal fight with Elon Musk. The ban follows after a long trajectory of legal issues between the Brazilian government and Musk’s X. In April 2024, the Brazilian court ordered X to block certain X accounts that were allegedly related to the 2023 coup attempt, which Musk refused to do. In that same time period, President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva opened an account on Bluesky, and there was already an inflow of a Brazilian community into Bluesky. Now, the legal fight has further escalated over X’s refusal to appoint a legal representative in the country, and Musk’s continuing refusal to comply with Brazil’s laws and regulation has resulted in the supreme court banning the use of X in the country altogether.
The ban on X has caused a massive signup wave to Bluesky, with over 1 million new accounts created in just three days, of which the large majority are from Brazil. The user statistics shot up even more than that, suggesting that there are a lot of people with an existing account logging back in as well.
The new inflow of people to Bluesky is having some significant effects on the network, as well as on the state of decentralised social networks more broadly:
- President Lula is putting actual focus on Bluesky. In one of his final posts on X, Luala listed in non-alphabetical order all other platforms that he is active on, and placed Bluesky at the top of the list. Posts by Lula that are placed on Bluesky (134k followers) as well as on Threads (2.4m followers) get more than 5 times as much likes on Bluesky. Today, Lula explicitly asked people on Bluesky what they thought about the platform, in a post that got over 30k likes and counting. It is hard to imagine that the Brazilian government is not paying attention to this all, and is looking which platform(s) the Brazilian community is moving towards in the wake of the ban on X.
- Brazilians are a very active community on the internet (see Orkut), and bring with them their own unique culture to Bluesky. The current decentralised social networks are heavily focused on US politics, judged by top posts on both Mastodon and Bluesky, and beyond shitposts and memes there is surprisingly little space for mainstream pop culture and sports. The Brazilian community does seem to bring a large number of pop culture and sports to Bluesky, significantly diversifying the topics of discussion, and in turn, creating more space for other people who are interested in that in the future. The activity of Brazilians on microblogging can also be seen in the like counts on popular posts of Bluesky: before this week, the most popular posts of any given day usually got around 3k likes, this has sprung up to 30k to 50k likes. Brazilians are so chatty in fact, that currently 81% of the posts on the network are in Portugese, and the amount of accounts of people who post on a given day has gone up from a third to over 50%.
- The Bluesky engineers have build a very robust infrastructure system, and the platform has largely cruised along fine without issues, even when faced with a 15x increase in traffic. This all without having to add any new servers. For third party developers, such as the Skyfeed developer, this increase in traffic did came with downtime and more hardware requirements however. It shows the complications of engineering an open system, while the Bluesky team itself was prepared with their core infrastructure, third party infrastructure, on which a large number of custom feeds rely, was significantly less prepared for the massive increase in traffic.
In contrast, the ban on X in Brazil has made little impact on Mastodon, with 3.5k new signups from Brazil on Mastodon.social. I’d estimate that this week has seen 10k new accounts above average, with 15k new accounts the previous week and 25k in this week. That places Mastodon two orders of magnitude behind Bluesky in signups from Brazil. There are a variety of reasons for this, which deserve their own analysis, this newsletter is long enough as it is. One thing I do want to point out is within fediverse community there are two sub communities that each have their own goals and ideas about the fediverse and growth. Some people responded with the news that most Brazilians went to Bluesky with type of response that indicated that they appreciate the small, quiet and cozy community that the fediverse currently provides, and a distrust of the growth-at-all-costs model for social networks. For other people however, their goal of the fediverse is to build a global network that everyone is a part of and everyone uses (‘Big Fedi’), a view of the fediverse that is also represented in the latest episode of the Waveform podcast (see news below). And if the goal is to build ActivityPub into the default protocol for the social web, it is worth paying attention to what is happening right now in the Brazilian ATmosphere.
The News
Sub.club is a new way to monetise feeds on the fediverse, with the goal of bringing the creator economy to the fediverse. It gives people the ability to create premium feeds that people can only access via a subscription. People can follow this feed from any Mastodon account (work on other fediverse platforms is ongoing). Sub.club handles the payment processes and infrastructure, for which they charge 6% of the subscription fee (compared to 8-12% Patreon charges). Sub.club also makes it possible for other apps to integrate, both IceCubes and Mammoth have this option. Bart Decrem, who is one of the people behind Sub.club, is also the co-founder of the Mastodon app Mammoth. Sub.club also explicitly positions itself as a way for server admins to fund their server. Most server admins rely on donations by their users, often via services like Patreon, Ko-fi, Open Collective or other third party options. By integration payments directly into the fediverse, Sub.club hopes that the barrier for donations will be lower, and more server admins can be financially sustainable.
Newsmast has build a new version of groups software for the fediverse, and the first group is dedicated to the Harris campaign. There are few types of groups available that integrate with Mastodon, such as with Friendica or a.gup.pe. These groups function virtually identical to hashtags, by boosting out posts where the group account is tagged in to everyone who follows the group account. As there is no moderation in these types of group accounts, it allows anyone to hijack the group account. A group account dedicated to a political campaign is especially vulnerable to this. On Mastodon a volunteer Harris Campaign group used a Friendica group for campaign organising, but the limited moderation tools (blocking a user from following the group) that are available are not working, which allowed blocked users to still get their posts boosted by the group account. Newsmast’s version of Groups gives (working) moderation tools, and only boosts top level comments and not replies, to cut down on the noise. For now, the new Group is only available to the Harris Campaign group for testing, but it will come later to Mastodon servers that run the upcoming Patchwork plugin.
Bluesky added quite a number of new anti-toxicity features in their most recent app update. Bluesky has added quote posting controls, allowing people to set on a per-post basis if people can quote the post or not. There is also the option to remove quotes after the fact as well: if you’ve allowed quote posts on a post you’ve made, but someone made a quote post that you do not feel comfortable with, you have the possibility to detach your post. Another update is the possibility to hide replies on your posts. Bluesky already hides comments under a ‘show more’ button if the comment is labeled by a labeler you subscribe to. You now have the option to do so on all comments that are made on your posts, and the hidden comment will be hidden for everyone. Finally, Bluesky has changed how replies are shown in the Following feed, which is an active subject of discussion. I appreciate the comments made by Bluesky engineer Dan Abramov here, who notes there are two different ways of using Bluesky, who each prioritise comments in conflicting ways. As new communities grow on Bluesky, prioritising their (conflicting) needs becomes more difficult, and I’m curious to see how this further plays out.
The WVFRM (Waveform) podcast of popular tech YouTuber MKBHD has a special show about the fediverse, ‘Protocol Wars – The Fediverse Explained!’. It is partially a discussion podcast, partial explainer, and partial interview with many people within the community. They talk with Mastodon’s Eugen Rochko, Bluesky’s Jay Graber, Threads’s Adam Mosseri, and quite some more people. It is worth noting for a variety of reason. The show is quite a good introduction, that talks to many of the most relevant names within the community. MKBHD is one of the biggest names in the tech creator scene, and many people are paying attention to what he and his team is talking about. Furthermore, I found the framing as ‘protocol wars’ interesting, as the popularity of Bluesky in Brazil as an X replacement indicates that there is indeed a race between platforms to be build on top of the new dominant protocol.
Darnell Clayton has a very interesting blog post, in which he discovers that there is a discrepancy in follower count for Threads accounts that have turned on fediverse sharing. Clayton notes that the follower count shown in the Threads app is lower than the one shown in a fediverse client, for both Mastodon and Flipboard. He speculates that this difference is the number of fediverse accounts that follow a Threads account. It should be noted that this is speculation and has not been confirmed, but if this is true, it would give us a helpful indication of how many fediverse accounts are using the connection with Threads. While we’re talking about Threads accounts, Mastodon CEO Eugen Rochko confirmed that the mastodon.social server has made a connection with 15.269 Threads accounts who have turned on fediverse sharing.
The Links
- Threads has figured out how maximise publicity by making minimal incremental updates to their ActivityPub implementation, edition 500.
- A Developer’s Guide to ActivityPub and the Fediverse – The New Stack interviews Evan Prodromou about his new book about ActivityPub.
- FedIAM is a research project where people can use fediverse and Indieweb protocols for logging in.
- You can now test Forgejo’s federation implementation.
- This week’s fediverse software updates.
- Ghost’s latest update on their work on implementing ActivityPub: “With this milestone, Ghost is for the first time exceeding the functionality of a basic RSS reader. This is 2-way interaction. You publish, and your readers can respond.”
- Dhaaga is a multiplatform fediverse client that adds unique client-side functionalities.
- Lotide, a experimental link-aggregator fediverse platform, ceases development.
- A custom QR code generator, which some pretty examples of custom QR codes for your fediverse profile.
- Custom decentralised badges on atproto with badges.blue, a new work in process by the create of atproto event planner Smoke Signal.
- Smoke Signal will be presenting at the next version of the (third party organised) ATproto Tech Talk.
That’s all for this week, thanks for reading.
Hehe title says highest resolution and thumbnail's a blurry mess.
Edit: wait the whole thing is blurry. Which means... we didn't even have this before?
What stopped us? Distance in space or that light simply escaped and we couldn't zoom in on finer increments?
Radio telescopes. While I don't know the complete process of how an image is created, it's likely a composite of hundreds of thousands of points where radio wave strength was measured.
A very basic explanation is that each radio antenna likely takes a reading of some kind for each equivalent pixel in the resulting image. Over time, you can build an image.
Again, I don't know the full details of how the full image is recreated. It seems super complex reassembling millions of data points from antennas that are located on a rotating earth that is also rotating around a sun. The position of the earth probably has a huge impact on radio signal strength at any given time.
They could be very well using the earth's orbit around the sun to get better resolution - two data points from opposite sides of the orbit. What I know is that the largest "virtual" radiotelescope is literally the size of earth. The data points are synced with atomic clocks (or better), and a container of harddrives gets shipped into a datacenter to be ingested. Thats hundreds of streams (one per antenna) of data to be just synced up, before the actual analysis even can begin. (I'm just guessing after this) At this point, you have those hundreds (basically .wav files) lined up at timepoints they were sampled (one sample, one timepoint column). So row by row, so you can begin to sort out signal phase differences between the source rows.
I.e to put it shortly: an image is not taken, it is inferred and computed. Not that you even could in the first place, it's a blackhole after all.
News from the #HobbyArcheology department. I have absolutely no clue what I found this time so I’ll go with “probably something religious”.
beko.famkos.net/2024/09/01/156…
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in reply to floofloof • • •Em Adespoton
in reply to floofloof • • •t�m
in reply to floofloof • • •PassingThrough
in reply to floofloof • • •What happens next? A wave of even worse disregard for things.
After all, if we can bring back the mammoth, who cares if we off , they’ll just bring it back next rotation. /s
Rhaedas
in reply to PassingThrough • • •The first Jurassic Park quote applies here, a few have used a variation of that idea of doing something just because you can. The other quote follows it, "Dinosaurs and man, two species separated by 65 million years of evolution have just been suddenly thrown back into the mix together. How can we possibly have the slightest idea what to expect?"
These aren't dinosaurs and are a lot closer to us in the timeline, but definitely reintroducing them in a large scale would have some effect to the environment they're put in. Perhaps we only make a few...seems kind of pointless though to bring back a species but keep them at extinction levels. And can they even survive as they were in a warming planet? We might not even be able to, and we're younger and current.
hex
in reply to floofloof • • •Transient Punk
in reply to hex • • •Swedneck
in reply to hex • • •hex
in reply to Swedneck • • •Swedneck
in reply to hex • • •i mean they'd be birthed by elephants, presumably they'd also live with elephants at first.
start with making sure the things actually stay alive, then move onto making them act like mammoths properly.
hex
in reply to Swedneck • • •Hmm good point. For some reason I just assumed they'd grow it in a tube.
edit: you're right, this is from the article:
So they're basically gonna create a new type of mammoth (basically) by gene editing an existing species..
PowerCrazy
in reply to floofloof • • •The genetic science is cool, the consequences of the science are non-existent. The consequences of using them as bio-engineering agents is obviously an open question, but a distraction at this point of time since governments around the world have no appetite for environmental science that doesn't directly make someone money.
As for "what happens next," it either becomes commercially viable and wolly mammoths are seen as mundane and numerous in the next few decades, or it becomes a one-off like Dolly the sheep and the herd population of woolly mammoths stays <10 plus maybe a few zoos.
twinnie
in reply to floofloof • • •DudeImMacGyver
in reply to floofloof • • •wondrous_strange
in reply to floofloof • • •Bringing them back from extinction just so we can make sure they suffer before going extinct again by us.
There are countless species going extinct as I'm typing this bullshit.
notastatist
in reply to wondrous_strange • • •/s
BastingChemina
in reply to wondrous_strange • • •Bringing back mammoths could have a sizable positive impact on arctic ecosystem AND climate change.
It sounds like a far fetched idea but this article is talking in details about this theory.
smithsonianmag.com/science-nat…
wondrous_strange
in reply to BastingChemina • • •Right. Cuz the fastest and better way to stop this planet from a climate disaster is bringing back mammals from extinction while we are busy exterminatig all other life on the planet.
Sounds like pure hubries
figjam
in reply to wondrous_strange • • •wondrous_strange
in reply to figjam • • •figjam
in reply to wondrous_strange • • •I do acknowledge that the planet is fucked and making a wooly mammoth will not in any way address the root causes of that. The point I'm making is that if this is developed and perfected there is hope for a path back to biodiversity as long as humans get their shit together and unfuck the planet.
I know that the glass is way beyond half empty, I have to remember that there is a little water left or else all I'm left with is despair
𝕸𝖔𝖘𝖘
in reply to floofloof • • •Evil_Shrubbery
in reply to floofloof • • •threeduck
in reply to floofloof • • •Dae
in reply to floofloof • • •"We have no idea what happens next."
I'm pretty sure there's a movie about this.
HumanPenguin
in reply to floofloof • • •What happans next?
McDonalds releases a new burger!