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Blender Tip: When clicking and dragging on input boxes in Blender, many of them have hard limits, but most can be bypassed by typing in the box instead. These limits are around to help prevent accidentally grinding your computer to a halt, but don't let that stop you. If you need 10 levels of subdivision, go ahead, click on the box and tell that modifier who's boss.
#Blender3D #B3D
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Technically, they're called soft limits. The hard limits are the ones you can't go beyond even by typing in the field. Soft limits are not always there to prevent long computations but often to prevent most users from using physically inaccurate values (e.g. a diffuse shader with RGB values > 1 or < 0), but still give artistic control to those who want to break the laws of physics.
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I've never felt more positive about Ed Sheeran. He definitely gets copyright right.

"Copyright was designed to benefit the middlemen and gatekeepers, such as the record labels, over the artists themselves. That’s why the labels have a long history of never paying artists. ... modern copyright is stifling rather than incentivizing music creation — directly in contrast to what we’re told it’s supposed to be doing"

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/05/08/ed-sheeran-once-again-demonstrates-how-modern-copyright-is-destroying-rather-than-helping-musicians/

#Copyright #EdSheeran

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20 US lawmakers prod 22 data brokers to explain their data practices in new letters to:
Acxiom
AtData
Babel Street
CoreLogic Solutions
Epsilon Data Management
Equifax
Experian
Gravy Analytics
Intelius
Kochava
LiveRamp
Mylife
Oracle America
PeopleConnect
Placer.ai
RELX
Safegraph
Spokeo
Thomson Reuters
TransUnion
Verisk Analytics
Whitepages
#uspol #privacy #DataBrokers
📄https://d1dth6e84htgma.cloudfront.net/05_10_2023_Acxiom_Data_Brokers_Letter_1cbb81da32.pdf?updated_at=2023-05-10T16:19:56.031Z
📰https://www.cnbc.com/2023/05/10/lawmakers-press-data-brokers-to-reveal-how-they-buy-sell-information.html

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The sponsors of the EARN IT Act and the STOP CSAM Act have made it clear they want to surveil user messages. We can still stop these bills, if there’s enough public pushback. The Senate is listening. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dangerous-earn-it-bill-advances-out-committee-several-senators-offer-objections

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The US makes clear that it's fine with End to End encryption, as long as it can listen in on at least one of those ends.

Next time you think "end to end encryption" at least think about who's controlling those ends. You're not controlling one of them, and soon you may not control the other either. So you're doing E2E encryption... but to what end?

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We have to stop EARN IT, Restrict and all others threatening our digital rights.

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This post brought to you by #Calckey on #FediHost! 🎉
We're looking for a few brave individuals to beta test our new fully managed Calckey hosting offering in for two months free of charge. Let us know if you're intersted!

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maybe even cheaper. You can purchase for price of grad student part time labor

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Did you know that the hardware database #hNode has detailed instructions on how to identify the hardware in your computer? Use the commands to see what's in your computer and whether or not it is compatible with #freesoftware https://u.fsf.org/3ui https://u.fsf.org/3uh

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As an alternative to the completely useless "UX/UI", I propose:

Pixels vs Process
Both are important & nuanced! Pixels are the specifics of what you see: layout, fonts, color scheme and icons. Process is more how the user flows through the product: user needs, navigation model, how many new concepts does your app invent, or how errors are handled or recovered.

Pixels are a snapshot, Process is a flow through time.

(but, tbh, I realize this has no chance, I'm just ranting a bit)
#UX #Design

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where is the xmpp-server-in-a-box thing because matrix is getting very cozy with the kind of people who have no problem attacking citizens
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@Jacky Alciné
There is also #snikket which can be self-hosted but also offers free hosting while in beta https://snikket.org/hosting/

What makes it different is it uses a web admin panel which makes it really easy to send invites, manage users, groups etc

@kelbot ◖⎚∠⎚◗

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I just announced legislation to limit use of guns by security guards. We must amend local law to prohibit guards from drawing weapons just to protect property. Human life is more important than property.

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Github down? I hadn’t noticed.

Might be a good time to check out Codeberg.

https://codeberg.org

Bonus: You can follow them on the fediverse at @Codeberg

#github #githubDown #codeberg #git #dev
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I will probably get slammed for this but a remote storage is just a remote storage. The main difference is that GitHub is repackaging your code and offering it as their product.

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Misskey and its clones reminds me of MySpace

It does many things, and the UI is packed with distracting elements like the current date represented in progress bars (lol why tho?)

I wish them all the best, maybe I'm old, but I like the simplicity of Mastodon

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You can simplify the layout (there are three modes, with the simplest being a basic reverse chronological timeline).

All the dates and stuff are "widgets", of which there are more!, that are removed in the simplified view.

Calckey has a high degree of customisability it seems.
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No, you aren't old, I'm older 😀 I personally like all the whistle and bells there, all the fancy stuff. That's a nice addition to the more "focused" systems.

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I don't care if BlueSky gains popularity over Mastodon. At this point, I don't wanna be on the dance floor with the cool kids, imma be in the side room with the five weirdos I like.
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6 new reserves created in Brazil.

"#Indigenous people are guaranteed exclusive use of natural resources on these lands, viewed by scientists as a bulwark against Amazon deforestation - a major challenge in the fight against climate change."

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230428-brazil-s-lula-decrees-six-new-indigenous-reserves

#brazil #amazon #climate #jungle #rainforest #environment #southAmerica #humanRights

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@kainoa Hi Panos, would it makes sense for the Calckey devs to do a writeup on how they're implemented Quote Posts, on somewhere like the FEP repo (https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep ), so that we can point implementers at it?
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@kainoa @FloatingGhost @akkoma

Possibly invite #Akkoma devs too then, as they've implemented their quote functionality working exactly as described by Panos, and they've built it on top of the Mastodon API (with Pleroma + Akkoma API extensions).

Just a thought...

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We planned to add that support. We will first fix all bugs on our latest release and bring small improvements.
Then we will work on the Calckey support.

PS: We won't apply for the 150$ bounty.
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This will be amazing. Already the best mastodon app for android (by far) - adding calckey support will just move it to top for *key instances as well.



https://mkorostoff.github.io/1-pixel-wealth/ this is a good illustration of how obscene a billion is... (someone please repost this on something that isn't msgithub so I don't have to keep sharing this version)




Witnessing a few (organic??!!) convos between liberals lamenting how "left leaning" billionaires don't organize, and help save democracy.

Newsflash: People who pursue money to the point of becoming billionaires simply do not "lean left."

Lots of folks don't realize this because: Corporately owned media (and the PR flaks who surround billionaires)

1) are really- unlikely to explain how much a billion dollars of personal wealth is. It's an obscene amount.

2) know that spinning a stories about "heroic" billionaires protects their clients and their own jobs.

There -may- be a few left leaning ultra wealthy/millionaires...

But ALL billionaires exploit. Full stop.

Billionaires exploit in order to **climb up hierarchies of wealth.**

Both billionaires and right wingers LIKE and believe in hierarchy based living. It's really about that simple.


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First (mostly) working cut of the filter UI for #relatica so too stoked not to share it. This shows several things. First, multiple filters. Second, can choose to hide it behind a warning card or make it disappear entirely (the red bar which will be an empty widget when run in release mode). Third, you can see that posts by certain people are filtered (by content in the post) but others from that same person are not. Fourth, filtering on domains and even wildcards (the *graph.social). Lastly, posts hidden behind a warning card can toggle it back hidden with the additional "hide" button on the upper-right of the card. Still have some rough edges but the whole system before I can push out the next version but client-side filtering is now wired up and ready to go. #relatica #friendica

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I do realize now that my code that goes from whatever this gets handed back to me as to something the user can edit breaks under this scenario. I think the span properties are being ripped out...have to add that to the bug report 😀.
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Lookin' very good! Friendica can handle the Markdown, but Diaspora still can't handle BBCode (based on my experiences in that direction).
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“According to a recent poll, more than 70 percent of Britons under the age of 50 are indifferent to the coronation. Even so, a staggering 250 million pounds ($315m) of magicked-up taxpayer money will be spent on this single day even as thousands of nurses, doctors, teachers and other key public workers have been told for months there is no money in the coffers to offer them a meaningful pay rise.”

https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2023/5/5/with-charles-iii-coronation-colonialism-is-coming-home-to-roost

#monarchy #uk #inequality #letThemEatCake

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Today I got introduced to the phenomenon ”YT videos which are basically some guy reading some other guy’s blog posts out loud and having takes on them” and I’m sorry but we have officially finished this internet now. We should burn it down and build a new one

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Human Rights Watch said the arrests were "something you would expect to see in Moscow not London". #NotMyKing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-65507435

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I’m really enjoying my new electric car. I have a pay-per-use arrangement and it comes with unlimited free parking.

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Making #Krita brushes – 5th video just released! Here's the playlist for the whole series.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLNjBqr_ciXycZ5DgqJEn7g6K_cBKDg4Vw

#DigitalBrushes #DigitalArt #KritaArtist #DigitalArtist

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"The Luddites did what every science fiction writer does: they took a technology and imagined all the different ways it could be used – who it could be used for and whom it could be used against. They demanded the creation of a parallel universe in which the left fork was taken, rather than the right." - @pluralistic

https://locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doctorow-science-fiction-is-a-luddite-literature/

"Democratizing access to the means of production isn’t intrinsically anti-labor – it’s only bad for workers when the bounty of automation is disproportionally al­located to a small number of capital owners, and not workers."

#scifi #venturecommunism #coop #cooperative
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Shame to @mozilla for not providing a Gecko-equivalent of CEF (Chromium Embedded Framework).

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Kaidan 0.9 has been released! It adds support for OMEMO 2, Automatic Trust Management (ATM), XMPP Providers, Message Reactions and much more: https://www.kaidan.im/2023/05/05/kaidan-0.9.0/

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India bans Element – the flagship client for the Matrix network: https://element.io/blog/india-bans-flagship-client-for-the-matrix-network/
#linux #foss #matrix #element #india #ban

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per the article...

''banning Element because it gives access to the Matrix network is the equivalent to blocking Google Chrome because it gives people access to the web...''

Yep. Just goes to show those in power are out of touch and have a hard time wrapping their heads around newer technologies.

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NI-powered solar collectors...

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In ONE HOUR I'll be joined on the picket line by one Hasan Piker for an irl stream as the #WritersStrike continues. Come cheer us on at twitch.tv/HasanAbi and learn a thing or two about this historic action!

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Please donate to @dansup!

He's developing three important Fediverse projects:

1. @pixelfed
2. https://fedidb.org
3. https://fediverse.info

All these tools are critical to the future of the Fediverse.

In particular, #Pixelfed will be released on iOS and Android by the end of the month -- which will give people who use #Instagram an easy way to migrate to the Fediverse.

Dan does a lot! Let's show him appreciation and love!

DONATE HERE:

https://www.patreon.com/dansup

@fediversenews
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Chris Trottier
@o2n2 Or don't donate 🤷‍♂️
@Onno

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I think it's fair to say that anyone who believes in Democracy and free speech really needs to be supporting #Fediverse projects right now.

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Shopify to cut 20% of its workforce, beats quarterly revenue estimates: https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/shopify-reports-first-quarter-revenue-above-estimates-2023-05-04/
#market #shopify #layoff

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Hey everyone — If you are getting crypto spam messages from off server today please remember to REPORT them to our/your Mod team - then BLOCK the account(s). 🚫

This is a fluid situation and I’ll post again if further action is taken here at #MstdnGames.

Thanks!

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Nobody tricked anybody- it were a solution—we just need to make A WORK and find another solution! Are you working on it?




Top-notch observation disguised as a meme. It's not new, but it's great.