DoeNietZoMoeilijk 🥔 @doenietzomoeilijk@mastodon.nl

50,000 Photographs Combine to Form a Detailed Image of the Moon and Stars

https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2019/02/andrew-mccarthy-high-def-moon-photography/

@aral Have you heard of "free as in helicopter"?

Someone gives you a free helicopter. Awesome, right? But if you don't know how to fly a helicopter it's useles to you.

Meet our new #logo and mascot!

Hey developers & ActivityPub enthusiasts!

@GetTogetherComm is a free open alternative to MeetUp.com.

The lead developer needs help with implementing federation, either coding or better documentation about ActivityPub.

There's an open issue for it here:

https://github.com/GetTogetherComm/GetTogether/issues/60

There's been discussion but no code contributions yet.

Can you help?

(It would be *so* cool to get this kind of service federated, imagine every town having its own instance )

#ActivityPub #FLOSS #FOSS

This post recounting the successful harassment campaign to shut down a subreddit devoted to political debate is deeply troubling in its own right.

What's more, it seems like something similar could happen to the fediverse. The process the author describes—where a community is tarred with the worst comment of its worst members—seems like one to which we are uniquely vulnerable. I'm concerned.

https://slatestarcodex.com/
(direct link not working, but it's the top post)

This didn't age well.

Calling all #Fediverse admins of instances in the #EU. The #CopyrightDirective is coming, we need to show the MEPs how massively the EU Internets will be affected.

We are preparing a list of all EU-based #Pleroma, #Mastodon, #GNUSocial, #Peertube, #Funkwhale, and any other instances.

Please *contact me*. All I need is the domain name, which EU Member State it's located in, and the rough topic of the instance. Approximate user count welcome, but not necessary.

Please help. This is important.

Meanwhile, on birdsite... 🐦

#Brave #PeterThiel #Palantir

first, they sold exceptions to privacy tracking to Facebook and Twitter, now it comes out they've got a header override that allows them to set header exceptions on demand.

https://laptop-updates.brave.com/promo/custom-headers

don't use this garbage.

Facebook has a team working on getting kids under 13 hooked on Facebook.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/08/facebook-youth-team-messenger-kids-app-lol-meme-hub

Gisteren even genoemd bij #dwdd: Simon Carmiggelt. Weet dat er ebooks zijn bij de KB. Gratis dus.

https://www.dbnl.org/auteurs/auteur.php?id=carm002

egg

boost to agree

'Emma didn't know if this was the real #TerryPratchett, but she responded anyway... Pratchett gradually started to make small suggestions of his own based on his experience with [the Oblivion mod character] Vilja. [...] Eventually, Pratchett even started to write dialogue for Vilja based on his exploration of the goblin dungeons of Oblivion. [...] Snuff is the Discworld novel that Pratchett partially based on his experiences in Oblivion's goblin dungeons.'

https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2019-01-29-the-story-behind-the-oblivion-mod-terry-pratchett-worked-on