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An Afro-Australian Daisy (genus Dimorphotheca) spotted in Italy on 19 Oct 2024. A lovely looking flower.

On iNaturalist [ inaturalist.org/observations/2… ].

#iNaturalist #Nature #Photography #Italy #Plants #Plantae #Flowers



Interesting post on bluesky pseudo-decentralization, the tech bros of the valley, and as a filigran, capitalism :)

rys.io/en/167.html

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Purple donkey orchids (Diuris punctata) in open heathland, Croajingolong NP, VIC. Widespread in VIC + NSW but generally uncommon in disjunct populations - regarded as vulnerable in VIC due to habitat depletion. Good numbers out this spring at this location.

#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #Diuris



Found 3 new servers and 7 servers died off since 3 hours ago.

22,798 servers checked. 14,708,379 Total Users with 1,081,044 Active Users today. Check out the stats!

New #fediverse servers found:

test-fga.kate.wtf a #katewtf 11ty server from Slovakia
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mouthf.art a #mastodon server from Portugal

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CORSO 31 OTTOBRE is in a beautiful village called Mel in the Italian dolomites.
While I was taking these pictures, a half-English woman came over to me and explained that "Mel" is a contraction of "Gemelli", and the village got that name because at one point in history it was ruled by a pair of twins.


A few people have said that the blurry person in this photo looks like a ghost or even the Grim Reaper.

Taken at Denmark Hill London Overground Station.

Happy Halloween 🎃

#photography #railway



Donald Trump’s biggest danger to the world could be his dismissiveness about climate change – The Irish Times byteseu.com/525344/ #Climate #ClimateChange #COP29 #DonaldTrump #GlobalWarming #oil #US #USElection




@RaccoonForFriendica new version 0.1.0-beta16 available for testing!

Changelog:
🦝 added an option in Settings to disable automatic image loading;
🦝 initial loading optimization;
🦝 dependency updates.

@Thomas @Kristian I prioritized your feedback since the next thing in my roadmap is quite big (UnifiedPush integration) and it would have taken too long if I had waited for it.

Let me know if things are better now and #livefasteattrash!

#friendica #friendicadev #androidapp #androiddev #fediverseapp #raccoonforfriendica #kotlin #multiplatform #kmp #compose #cmp #opensource #procyonproject



#SCEWC 2024: Besuchen Sie den #BundesverbandSmartCity auf dem #SmartCity #Expo #WorldCongress in #Barcelona:

Der #BVSC wird vom 5. bis 7. November auf dem Messerstand der #HafenCity Universität #Hamburg (#HCU) vertreten sein, wo wir gemeinsam mit der Professur #DigitalCityScience (#DCS) u.a. auch das EU-Vorzeigeprojekt für internationale kollaborative #OpenSource-#SoftwareEntwicklung #MICADO für die #Flüchtlingshilfe in #Kommunen vorstellen werden.

bundesverband-smart-city.org/v…

#SCEWC24 #BVSCnet




I review Hell’s Acre by Lilith Saintcrow. This turned out to be quite not for me, sadly. Out now.

susannashore.blogspot.com/2024…

#BookReview @bookstodon

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The Austrian Data Protection Authority made clear:
A cookie banner where "accept all" visually seems like the default choice is not a way to obtain consent.

gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=DSB…

@GDPRhub #GDPR #DarkPattern #DataProtection #Privacy

in reply to Hex

".. must modify the cookie banner to provide the data subject with an equal choice on the first level of the cookie banner between "Accept all cookies" and "Only necessary cookies". It must be ensured that both options are designed equally in terms of visual appearance, including color, size, contrast, placement, and emphasis. It is not permissible to highlight one of the options through an excessively prominent design, such as preferred color, larger font size, or more prominent placement."


#ElonMusk’s PAC launched an X Community supposedly focused on “exposing voter fraud & election interference."

But it's being used to dox election workers, who will likely be threatened. As far as the DOJ is concerned, threats to election workers will be investigated & prosecuted.

This is another case of Musk using his platform to interfere with the election.

spockosbrain.com/2024/10/30/th…

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In a note to staff, Block CEO Jack Dorsey says Tidal is in for another mass layoff; insiders say as many 100 people could be laid off, or ~25% of Tidal's staff (Kali Hays/Fortune)

finance.yahoo.com/news/jack-do…
mediagazer.com/241031/p2#a2410…