@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-09-10 09:46:57
@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-09-10 09:46:57
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2025-07-09 19:36:31
The @noaa.gov site is slow to publish the June average of atmospheric CO₂. In these times of Trump's war on climate science (building and staff already affected), this makes me worry about the end of the Keeling curve, the valuable record of 67 years. Daily measurements still coming in, though.
#CO2 #emissions
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2025-07-04 20:14:31
Long; central Massachusetts colonial history
Today on a whim I visited a site in Massachusetts marked as "Huguenot Fort Ruins" on OpenStreetMaps. I drove out with my 4-year-old through increasingly rural central Massachusetts forests & fields to end up on a narrow street near the top of a hill beside a small field. The neighboring houses had huge lawns, some with tractors.
Appropriately for this day and this moment in history, the history of the site turns out to be a microcosm of America. Across the field beyond a cross-shaped stone memorial stood an info board with a few diagrams and some text. The text of the main sign (including typos/misspellings) read:
"""
Town Is Formed
Early in the 1680's, interest began to generate to develop a town in the area west of Natick in the south central part of the Commonwealth that would be suitable for a settlement. A Mr. Hugh Campbell, a Scotch merchant of Boston petitioned the court for land for a colony. At about the same time, Joseph Dudley and William Stoughton also were desirous of obtaining land for a settlement. A claim was made for all lands west of the Blackstone River to the southern land of Massachusetts to a point northerly of the Springfield Road then running southwesterly until it joined the southern line of Massachusetts.
Associated with Dudley and Stoughton was Robert Thompson of London, England, Dr. Daniel Cox and John Blackwell, both of London and Thomas Freak of Hannington, Wiltshire, as proprietors. A stipulation in the acquisition of this land being that within four years thirty families and an orthodox minister settle in the area. An extension of this stipulation was granted at the end of the four years when no group large enough seemed to be willing to take up the opportunity.
In 1686, Robert Thompson met Gabriel Bernor and learned that he was seeking an area where his countrymen, who had fled their native France because of the Edict of Nantes, were desirous of a place to live. Their main concern was to settle in a place that would allow them freedom of worship. New Oxford, as it was the so-named, at that time included the larger part of Charlton, one-fourth of Auburn, one-fifth of Dudley and several square miles of the northeast portion of Southbridge as well as the easterly ares now known as Webster.
Joseph Dudley's assessment that the area was capable of a good settlement probably was based on the idea of the meadows already established along with the plains, ponds, brooks and rivers. Meadows were a necessity as they provided hay for animal feed and other uses by the settlers. The French River tributary books and streams provided a good source for fishing and hunting. There were open areas on the plains as customarily in November of each year, the Indians burnt over areas to keep them free of underwood and brush. It appeared then that this area was ready for settling.
The first seventy-five years of the settling of the Town of Oxford originally known as Manchaug, embraced three different cultures. The Indians were known to be here about 1656 when the Missionary, John Eliott and his partner Daniel Gookin visited in the praying towns. Thirty years later, in 1686, the Huguenots walked here from Boston under the guidance of their leader Isaac Bertrand DuTuffeau. The Huguenot's that arrived were not peasants, but were acknowledged to be the best Agriculturist, Wine Growers, Merchant's, and Manufacter's in France. There were 30 families consisting of 52 people. At the time of their first departure (10 years), due to Indian insurrection, there were 80 people in the group, and near their Meetinghouse/Church was a Cemetery that held 20 bodies. In 1699, 8 to 10 familie's made a second attempt to re-settle, failing after only four years, with the village being completely abandoned in 1704.
The English colonist made their way here in 1713 and established what has become a permanent settlement.
"""
All that was left of the fort was a crumbling stone wall that would have been the base of a higher wooden wall according to a picture of a model (I didn't think to get a shot of that myself). Only trees and brush remain where the multi-story main wooden building was.
This story has so many echoes in the present:
- The rich colonialists from Boston & London agree to settle the land, buying/taking land "rights" from the colonial British court that claimed jurisdiction without actually having control of the land. Whether the sponsors ever actually visited the land themselves I don't know. They surely profited somehow, whether from selling on the land rights later or collecting taxes/rent or whatever, by they needed poor laborers to actually do the work of developing the land (& driving out the original inhabitants, who had no say in the machinations of the Boston court).
- The land deal was on condition that there capital-holders who stood to profit would find settlers to actually do the work of colonizing. The British crown wanted more territory to be controlled in practice not just in theory, but they weren't going to be the ones to do the hard work.
- The capital-holders actually failed to find enough poor suckers to do their dirty work for 4 years, until the Huguenots, fleeing religious persecution in France, were desperate enough to accept their terms.
- Of course, the land was only so ripe for settlement because of careful tending over centuries by the natives who were eventually driven off, and whose land management practices are abandoned today. Given the mention of praying towns (& dates), this was after King Phillip's war, which resulted in at least some forced resettlement of native tribes around the area, but the descendants of those "Indians" mentioned in this sign are still around. For example, this is the site of one local band of Nipmuck, whose namesake lake is about 5 miles south of the fort site: #LandBack.
@idbrii@mastodon.gamedev.place2025-08-10 06:06:15
Enjoyed this interview with UX researcher Ben Taels. He talks a lot about what games ux research is as well as what it's not. Some high level goals and some specific examples.
https://aftermath.site/video-games-user-experience-ux-r…
@stefan@gardenstate.social2025-07-09 13:07:56
In Mastodon v4.4.0 instance owners can enable HTTP referrers.
If somebody clicks a link in a Mastodon post (e.g. to a news article), the link target owner (such as the news site operator) can see that a user from that instance has visited their website.
They do _only_ get the instance domain (e.g. gardenstate.social). No information about the user!
That being said I think gardenstate.social is probably too small to turn this on. Let me know if you feel different!
@toxi@mastodon.thi.ng2025-09-08 11:28:44
Trying to find #RPI5 GPU benchmark reports, and yes, please do tell me more about your amazing "Performance-benkvwirg 3D rendeing renabilties capabillities"...
One image instantly converted the parent site into 1000 distrust points...
I get that most sites using LLM generated content just exist as farm space for ad revenue, but parking this for a moment and taking this type of…
@arXiv_physicsinsdet_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-09 08:48:02
Quantitative U/Th deposition and cleanliness control strategies in the JUNO site air
Jie Zhao, Chenyang Cui, Yongpeng Zhang, Gaosong Li, Nan Wang, Monica Sisti
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05759
@bourgwick@heads.social2025-09-07 18:09:07
what a drag. i really enjoyed @… & @…. https://
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-09-03 03:23:02
About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@compfu@mograph.social2025-08-06 17:58:49
Listened in to the Academy Software Foundation's virtual townhall about the Open Review Initiative. I knew that project because they provide very useful ffmpeg command lines and they're doing all the encoding tests to figure out good quality settings and obscure parameters.
Learnings from the presentation: prores by ffmpeg is sadly pretty crappy compared to the real prores from Apple. There's the OpenAPV codec that is gearing up to be an open-source alternative:
@axbom@axbom.me2025-08-01 20:02:30
Open question about OpenGraph to any geek who feels like responding 😄
BlueSky and LinkedIn fail to fetch the featured image for posts on axbom.com (my English site) but does it with no issues for posts on axbom.se (my Swedish site).
From my perspective they are set up in exactly the same way (Ghost sites). My estimate is that this started happening more than a month ago and I have no idea why.
@lukem@hachyderm.io2025-08-03 23:29:10
👋 Hello! I’m Łukasz. Thirty-something, living in Warsaw, Poland. On fedi since 2021 or so. Right now, I'm merging my two accounts into one and giving this profile a fresh new start.
I live a few parallel lives.
Most of the time I’m a web developer. I work with TypeScript, React and all that jazz. But I still enjoy static site generators and good ol’ HTML/CSS.
In another life, I’m a documentary photographer and photojournalist. I’m interested in activism, art and culture, politics, and pretty much anything interesting happening on city streets. A big part of my photography journey involves documenting protests and demonstrations in Poland, especially those related to human rights and social issues. I’m also drawn to street art, particularly when it carries strong messages.
I occasionally blog and translate. Many years ago I wrote two books about WordPress. However, these days I’m more likely to go outside and touch grass than spend even more time in front of a screen.
Outside of that, expect me to post about mental health and politics. I promise to use CWs when appropriate.
I post in both English and Polish, depending on the topic.
Aaaand that’s it. Nice to meet you! ☺️
#introduction
@lightweight@mastodon.nzoss.nz2025-07-25 03:13:56
Oh dear... I just got a big email from our boys' high school about the upcoming school board elections - which are going to be 'Electronic Elections'. Ho boy. There's a link in the email with a link to 'learn more about electronic elections'. It send me to a site with an invalid SSL certificate. This is exactly what I would've expected from this sort of numpty approach.
@mia@hcommons.social2025-07-27 08:50:41
The sheer horror of browsing from stories about the lead-up to the women's Euros match today then seeing this, I guess because it's also about a women-only thing https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c74z4gy5g31o
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-07-27 19:51:03
About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@cheeaun@mastodon.social2025-08-27 04:45:50
🤔 Looking at this UI, Forem could probably implement ActivityPub at this point.
Every logo is a server. "Forem feed" = Federated timeline. "Follow" = follow and adding their Local timeline to my Following timeline? 🤔
Related discussion: https://github.com/forem/forem/discuss
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2025-06-25 15:18:21
Introducing Web Numbers
Domains? Where we’re going, we don’t need domains!
Get ready for an exciting new (old?) way to address (small) web sites in 2026.
https://ar.al/2025/06/25/web-numbers/
💕
(Thanks to @…
@pre@boing.world2025-07-25 10:14:45
So in theory today is the day when all the site have to try and get their UK users to verify their age. Which is mostly done by verifying their ID.
I expect the kids will have little trouble figuring out a way around this.
The boomers will have more trouble though. Expecting calls from my folks asking what's going on and if they really have to scan their face and indeed how to do that and probably giving up and just not using the thing.
I'll just be not using the things which demand it in general.
About the only upside in all this is it might get the boomers off of Facebook I guess.
#onlineSafetyAct #uk
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-28 09:22:09
Series C, Episode 01 - Aftermath
AVON: That's about all. Keep feeding reports through Orac.
ZEN: Information. A space vehicle has been registering on the detectors. Visual scan now indicates that it is approaching the Liberator. Present status suggests the vehicle will attempt docking beside port entry.
https://…
@LillyHerself@Mastodon.social2025-07-17 10:52:17
Does anybody know anything about this news site?
https://www.europesays.com
I've never seen a website before that doesn't have an "About us" section.
It also has a UK bot that just RTs all of the toots from @…
@metacurity@infosec.exchange2025-07-16 10:58:51
So Bitvise, the developer of an SSH client that competes with PuTTY, the widely-used open-source SSH and Telnet client, somehow got hold of the domain putty.org and is using it to promote its own products.
Here's how Bitvise responded to a tech blogger/journalist who wrote about this situation.
https://blog.pupred.…
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-07-23 09:51:03
About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@rachel@norfolk.social2025-08-19 15:01:30
Just thinking about this OSA thing and I’ve still not come across a site that is blocking me or requiring proof of my age. Maybe I just look at the wrong websites?
#ukpolitics #osa
@v_i_o_l_a@openbiblio.social2025-06-15 17:14:39
"New File Format Research and Documentation on the Sustainability of Digital Formats" | The Signal https://blogs.loc.gov/thesignal/2025/06/new-file-format-research/
@EarthOrgUK@mastodon.energy2025-07-22 09:51:04
About Our Greenish Home aka 16WW, with Bonus Bats and Sparrows - Learn more about our council-house turned SuperHome, that this site is based on! #podcast #greenLiving -
@andromxda@infosec.exchange2025-07-23 00:56:10
Content warning: rant about the incompetence of "Android Authority"
🧵 "Android Authority" might literally be the most useless tech publication I've ever seen. For the past few days they've been publishing absolute garbage articles entirely consisting of "these guys said this in a blog post, "these guys responded with that in their blog post". Don't they have a fucking editorial team or something? Aren't they a literal Android-focused news site? Are they entirely incapable of even doing the most basic level of research and fact-checking??? What benefit does o…
@paulbusch@mstdn.ca2025-08-12 12:37:35
Good Morning #Canada
Recent news may have some of you panicking with the announcement that AOL Dial Up Services will officially shut down on September 30th of this year. Yikes! But, the Canadian government has your backup plan as they attempt to provide high-speed internet services to 100% of Canadians by 2030. Current estimates put access at 94.5%, and the next target is 98% by the end of 2026.
I kinda miss the phone couplers, bragging about the size of my "Baud Rate," and the beep booping screeching announcement of going online. OK.... not really.
#CanadaIsAwesome
https://ised-isde.canada.ca/site/high-speed-internet-canada/en/high-speed-internet-all-canadians
@PwnieFan@infosec.exchange2025-06-16 17:20:37
Trying not marinate in bad news all the time . . . but for those of you feeling a little crazy, you're not. Things are bad. I'm keeping this site updated as best as I can in between life stuff. If you have any time to spare, think about what you can do.
https://stateofourunion.com/report-card
@arXiv_hepex_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-08-19 08:15:20
IsoDAR@Yemilab: Preliminary Design Report -- Volume II: Medium Energy Beam Transport, Neutrino Source, and Shielding
Joshua Spitz (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), Jose R. Alonso (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), Jon Ameel (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), Roger Barlow (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), Larry Bartoszek (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), Adriana Bungau (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), Michael H. Shaevitz (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), Erik A. Voirin (for the IsoDAR Collaboration), …
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-22 06:12:33
@arXiv_csIR_bot@mastoxiv.page2025-07-18 07:46:42
Machine-Readable Ads: Accessibility and Trust Patterns for AI Web Agents interacting with Online Advertisements
Joel Nitu, Heidrun M\"uhle, Andreas St\"ockl
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12844
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2025-06-19 18:12:39
#PondLife #PoolPond #Backyard #DIY #PortAlberni #Home
$CAD1100 is a lot to spend on just a couple items, but I guess in the grand scheme of making a pond/pool that will completely transform our backyard, it's not crazy. This about equals the amount spent ($1200 iirc) to rent the digger last Labour Day weekend. The liner and underlay fabric was another $3000. So we're looking at about $5500 so far for the project as a whole. Still better (including for the ecosystem!) than your average $50,000 in-ground pool install. ;=D
I realized last night that I bought the wrong pumps (DCT vs DCP argh). One of those “oh that's cheaper than I thought it would be” moments... followed by... “oh crap.”
I'll send the previous pumps back immediately upon arrival.
It's ok though, these will be two 20,000L/h variable pumps. The entire pond/pool system should be no more than 23,000L. My biggest rookie mistake with the #pandemicpond in the front yard was too small a pump. I rectified that when I added the bog filters there.
So I'm overbuilding this time. I should be able to run them at low-speed/power for the same amount of flow. Which will be better for pump longevity and power over time.
Also got main piping for the system: 50ft of 2" flexible PVC (Schedule 40). This will move water from the intake bay (behind the tree) to the bog filter (in front of the tree) and connect to smaller diameter piping/valves/fittings for sprayers in the pool.
This should be the end of the big-ticket items. The rest will be a LOT of little stuff: electrical, piping, and a lot of rock. Probably another $1000-$1500 to go, all should be local, and some of it can be put off until next year if needed.
It took a few tries on the Bezos Site, but I managed to find a supplier within Canada to avoid tariffs on any of it because Tariff-flation is definitely a thing! (American .com store essentially doubled the cost!)
So ya, you can hashtag this #tariffs #TariffLife #TheAmericanFascist and #TrumpTariffs
@blakes7bot@mas.torpidity.net2025-06-19 21:19:06
Series A, Episode 08 - Duel
BLAKE: [To Travis] We could agree not to fight.
TRAVIS: [Chuckles slightly] Could we?
GIROC: If you trusted one another.
SINOFAR: There is another matter: a lesson you must learn about death.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/108/281 B7B6
