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Check out and share my latest blog post, “Hijacked Minds and Broken Trust”
https://www.speedofcreativity.org/2025/06/19/hijacked-minds-and-broken-trust/
(btw I blogged this on my iPad, which I’m trying to use more for media creation and sharing)

Various Artists – HB Parade 2
#acoustic

Aparentemente quieren privacidad pero no mucha...
Simplemente mencionar una versión alternativa de #Android, como #Graphene, te bloquea. ¿No sabes lo que es? Te cuento ⏬
Estaban hablando sobre si iOS es mejor que Android en temas de privacidad, cosa que no es así, los dos son muy malos, basura, pero ha…

I know that anything with aquarium on it costs more, but the aquarium tax for snowflake food is ridiculous. I've been keeping shrimp for less than a year, so maybe other shrimp keepers already know about this cheap alternative to snowflake food, but in case you didn't -
After watching some YT shrimp keeper channels, I've been feeding my neocaridina colony snowflake food a couple of times a week. They like it and I was almost out, so I was looking at the bag and realized it only has one ingredient - soy hulls. I paid $12 for 3 1/2 ounces of snowflake food.
I thought there must be a cheaper source, so I looked online and found soy hull pellets for mushroom cultivation were 10 pounds for $20. The pellets are exactly the same size as the ones in the snowflake food bag, and my colony eats them just as eagerly.
Snowflake food: $3.70 an ounce.
Bulk organic soybean husks: $0.13 an ounce. 28x cheaper.
@… @… @… #aquarium #nanotank #shrimptank #neocaridina

It doesn't take much to create a #fedi alternative to #Linkedin. We just need structured profiles (featuring experience and education) and posts (that let people know if they could still apply or position is taken).

US-DNS-Server wie Google oder Cloudflare speichern unsere Surfhistorie. DNS4EU bringt das Telefonbuch des Internets nach Europa, schützt vor Tracking und bietet verschiedene Filter. Ein Schritt zu mehr Kontrolle über die eigene Privatsphäre. Jörg Schieb stellt die europäische Alternative vor #DNS #Datenschutz

With the 5th #AAS246 presser come the paper https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.07262 (ALMA-JELLY I: High Resolution CO(2-1) Observations of Ongoing Ram Pressure Stripping in NGC 4858 Reveal Asymmetrical Gas Tail Formation and Fallback), the press release https://news.arizona.edu/news/belly-beast-massive-clumps-reveal-star-factories-bygone-era-cosmos (In the belly of the beast: massive clumps reveal star factories from a bygone era of the cosmos) and the papers https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/1538-4357/ada8a6 (UNCOVERing the Faint End of the z ∼ 7 [O iii] Luminosity Function with JWST's F410M Medium Bandpass Filter) with the press release https://science.nasa.gov/missions/webb/nasas-webb-uncovers-galaxy-population-driving-cosmic-renovation/ and https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.06198 (The "Dark-Matter Dominated" Galaxy Segue 1 Modeled with a Black Hole and no Dark Halo) with the press release https://www.utsa.edu/today/2025/06/story/researchers-offer-alternative-to-dark-matter-model.html

Det finnes alternative samfunnsformer hvor mennesker ikke nŸdvendigvis må forvalte livet sitt etter arbeidsmarkedets krav om lŸnn og profitt.
I dagens kapitalisme er det vanlig at arbeidskraft og produksjonsmidler eies av noen få, og at Ÿkonomiske beslutninger ofte tar utgangspunkt i profittmotivet og eksisterende hierarki.
I slike alternative systemer kan mennesker i stŸrre grad selv bestemme over egen arbeidskraft og leve uten å være avhengige av penger som hovednŸdvendighet fo…

The need for a unifying left Alternative Economic Strategy,
#AES.
Look, here's a start we made on it last year.
https://gettingreal.org.uk/full-report/ in case you STILL hav…

Full Report | Getting Real about the Crises Facing the UK
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Au départ, j'avais pensé que d'un point de vue fonctionnel, https://github.com/OriPekelman/alpair était une sorte d'alternative open source Š https://

My least favorite work interactions are with customers’ 3rd party “rockstar” consultants. I never know how to respond to certain sorts of queries. Ones where I could answer the question as asked but it really implies a deeper misunderstanding. I feel like I want to write him a treatise on VPNs: what they are and how they work. And Cc his boss (who shares his surname…) to communicate the depth of the problem.
I’m letting my boss handle it. He’s the networking guy anyway…

Schon mal was von ihr gehört, von der durchwachsenen Silphie?
https://www.telepolis.de/features/Silphie-bluehendes-Multitalent-auf-dem-Acker-10397187.html

Silphie – blühendes Multitalent auf dem Acker
Mais dominiert bisher deutsche Äcker, doch Dürreperioden setzen ihm zu. Die Durchwachsene Silphie könnte eine Alternative sein. Doch was macht diese gelb blühende Pflanze so besonders?

duf, an alternative to the classic df command to obtain information about the consumption of your hard disks, but with a nicer interface and even easier and faster to read.
#cli #linux

Was ist denn beim Spiegel Online kaputt?
https://www.spiegel.de/netzwelt/fedora-asahi-remix-alltagstaugliches-linux-fuer-macos-nutzer-a-769f47bd-6740-4254-9c9f-cba36550ceb6

Fedora Asahi Remix statt macOS: Ein alltagstaugliches Linux für neue Macs
Auch Macs mit Apple-Chips können zu Linux-Rechnern werden. Wir zeigen, wie Sie das alternative Betriebssystem Fedora Asahi Remix neben macOS installieren.

An Alternative MAGA

Mixture of Encoders is a vector-native alternative that models both structured and unstructured data in a unified embedding space. Join Filip Makraduli as he introduces the method, demonstrates how it powers natural language search and real-time recommendations, and shares open-source tools and benchmarks for replacing complex hybrid stacks.
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"But there were technologists and open source projects in attendance. Notably, representatives from the Mastodon and Bluesky teams were at the Festival. The Newsmast Foundation was also present, incisively taking part in conversations to help newsrooms onboard themselves onto both of them. I got to hang out with them all, connecting with people I’d spoken with but never interacted with in person. Mastodon has undergone a transformation, has doubled its team, and is working on smoothing out some of its rough edges, while not letting go of its core ethos. It’s also beginning to position itself as a European alternative to American social media platforms, with a community-first values system and new services to directly help organizations join the network.
Bluesky, on the other hand, has done an able job of bringing journalists onto its existing social app, and is now hard at work explaining why its underlying protocol matters. Both want to engage with newsrooms and journalists and do the right thing by them. They each have something different to prove: Mastodon that it can be usable and accessible, and Bluesky that it can provide a return to its investors and truly decentralize while holding onto its values. I’m rooting for both of them.
These platforms’ messages dovetail with my own: news can own the platforms that support them. Lots of people at the Festival were worried about the impact of US big tech on their businesses — particularly in a world where tech moguls seem to be aligning themselves with a Presidential administration that has positioned itself as being adversarial to news, journalists, sources, and, arguably, the truth. The good news is that the technology is out there, the values-aligned technologists are out there, and there’s a strong path forward. The only thing left is to follow it."
#media #Mastodon #BlueSky #Journalism
https://werd.io/2025/notes-from-perugia-journalism-values-and-building-the-web-we

Document: Xiaohongshu, a TikTok alternative known in the US as Rednote, has surged to a $26B valuation based on recent market transactions via a GSR fund (Echo Wong/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Ich bräuchte eine Alternative zu Storymaps, um meine einzige Storymap dort wegzumigrieren: https://storymaps.com/de/stories/2d0cbaa26b774d1ba1f0abb20380f85e
Alle alten Storymaps-Konten müssen auf ArcGIS umgestellt werden, und dann fallen nach einem Mon…

Health and Human Services head RFK Jr threatens that publicly funded scientists may be stopped from publishing in leading medical journals.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/28/rfk-jr-medical-journals

"Reefs made from human ashes could revive British seabeds, says startup"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Oceans #Environment

Our meetup was well-attended with two interesting talks:
📋 Sarah Julia Kriesch presented "Docker vs Podman" - a beginner-friendly introduction to container basics and key differences between these tools.
🔧 Philip Laine showcased "Spegel", an OCI Registry Mirror that leverages torrent technology for efficient container image distribution - saving traffic costs and safeguarding against registry outages.
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The #OpenAI paper by Baker et al, "Monitoring Reasoning Models for Misbehavior and the Risks of Promoting Obfuscation" comes to a troubling conclusion: #LLM s with #reasoning or

Das war tatsächlich die ERSTE Metal-Band, ohne Modern/Alternative/Core/Post/sonstwas-Zusatz auf dem Leineweber, oder?
Weiter so! 🤘
#Bielefeld #Leinewebermarkt #PlanB

Zimní pneu – Nahšč
#alternative

Wow, what a weird rabbit-hole I just ended up down.
So, the “Spread Mastodon" page (tutorial?) recommends a cool-sounding browser extension as an alternative to all those constantly-dead 'fedifinder' / Twitter-person-looker-upper-tools: the ‘Whosum Social Assistant' browser extension.
Sounds cool! Sounds like the correct solution to this problem!

Fast prototyping of thin-film polyimide electrodes for neural interfacing: tantalum metallization as an alternative to noble metals #BCI

Another week, another essay. This time, it's an essay for the Florilegium, my native plant gardening blog, a deep dive into the Japanese garden aesthetic in the United States, why it is not just lazy but harmful in so many ways and what alternative might we seek. Link in the comments.

Tomšs Gazzo – Objetos en elevación libre
#alternative

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Ankur Khapre, Jyotisman Hazarika, Rajadurai Chandrasekar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.04874

Organic Crystal Active Waveguide as an All-Angle Signal Receiver and Transmission Platform for Visible Light Communication
Organic crystal waveguides, known for excellent light-guiding and photonic versatility, present a promising alternative to conventional optical media in visible light communication (VLC) systems. In a novel approach, the high photoluminescence quantum yield organic crystal 2,2dash-((1E,1Edash)-hydrazine-1,2-diylidenebis(methaneylylidene))diphenol (SAA) is used as an optical waveguide medium for real-time data communication in the visible range, employing a microcontroller unit with on off keyin…