Schließlich, wieder Abend, wieder oder noch im Freien. Mittlerweile haben Büsche und Stauden den Blick von den Wegen fast vollständig geschlossen, die Sonne bleibt in den höheren Bäumen hängen und entlang der Laube warten die Tomatengestelle auf Tage des Wachstums. Die schweren roten Blätter von Mohnblüten bedecken große Teile der Wege, verschiedene Arten von Salbei entdecken neue Farbe, nebenan wird die Pforte abgeschlossen und das Rad samt Anhänger zum Ausgang geschoben. Immer noch heller Tag, schon wieder fast mitten im Jahr. #outerworld #concrete city #urban escapism #where we are we are
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Mobile #Diaspora client for Android and iOS needs testers
Jonne Haß has created a mobile client quite more comfortable than Dandelion. It was on f-droid, now he has also put it on the Play Store. Right now he needs testers to get the app approved, so if you'd like to have a really well functioning mobile client, drop him a PM, because he may need to put your email manually into the tester list.
@danielsreichenbach Hypothetically, could the whole Wikipedia including all media just be forked? I of course know the data is fully available, but I don't know about licenses and such.
Should Wikipedia truly degrade massively this *certainly* is something the EU would provide grants for so it could be rebuild. Don't want to paint the devil on walls… but in the worst possible outcome for Wikipedia it might be an "out" for Wikipedians to continue their truly invaluable work.
A new organisation taking the code and data could indeed be created but this is far from trivial. Lots of institutional knowledge and reputation at the org. Lots of hosting costs currently met with big regular donors. Lots of good-will towards the wikimedia foundation that would be hard to recapture.
Though if the good will is gone already then perhaps that last one wouldn't matter much.
Doesn't really seem realistic to think you're gonna recreate the entire org only with union staff and EU grants, but don't think it would be illegal.
@danielsreichenbach Yeah, it would be a monumental task and truly the last resort. But at least it would be an undertaking the Union almost certainly helps with, both with money and visibility (otherwise it indeed would be almost impossible without some rich person's help).
Staff wouldn't even need to be EU-only, just the upper management / Cooperative's Board.
Trying to find ways to believe in a better future even in the worst circumstances. Getting fucking depressed not doing so.
@Natanox it's better to make an effort for the future than just be scared, a fork is definitely possible since there are archives and the license permits it. The scale is definitely scary but it's not going to be big like this from day one if you fork it.
@danielsreichenbach Lucky you, we just got the money for it… just as the market is basically vanishing in front of everyone's eyes thanks to the very same fascists pushing their slopmachines.
Was looking for some hard drives. 30€ / TB is just insanely expensive for HDD, not even mentioning RAM…
I just hope for a MASSIVE crash by now causing the market to be flooded with now useless server hardware and eventually somewhat normalising, and that happening rather sooner than later.
if there's one thing that Wikipedia/media doesn't need, it's our peanut donations. I've learned that when they began selling content to AI. They have MILLIONS in the bank and their desperate calls for donations are a complete scam.
@alexskunz It does cost millions to run as well as having millions in the bank. A boycott of those donations can make a difference to things they care about.
But yeah, in truth me not donating because of anti-union management doesn't do much coz I was already not donating because of AI contracts anyway.
"Wir lassen einen Fremden in unser Archiv, nur weil er ein T-Shirt mit der Aufschrift «Ich helfe beim Aufräumen» trägt." – in Sachen #KI-Nutzung: "Bequem, aber gefährlich" publishing.blog/bequem-aber-ge…
Wir haben uns so sehr an die tägliche Unterstützung durch KI-Tools gewöhnt, dass wir oft nicht mehr darüber nachdenken, was wir den Systemen füttern. Ein
🌐 Inbound messages, external links, way too much text. Automated consent, privacy euphemisms, myriads of partners, legitimate interest. An exercise in patience.
(Switching back to here for now. I love social.lol and the community over there but ... can't help feeling very much how annoying it is to keep communication across Bluesky, Tumblr, Diaspora* and ActivityPub on any platform other than Friendica. Not sure whether I'll regret that but then again, and in general, maybe ... it's all about accepting imperfection of all of these solution and not bothering all too much as ... esssentially no one does.)
In many ways this ... is also basically caused by being increasingly disappointed with how things are going in the #Fediverse but maybe that's just a bubble thing. I've been out here ever since early identi.ca days, with my first post on federated social networks dating back to 2011 and still being around somewhere in the Wayback Machine. As of 2018, I think, this was the first time ever to feel like this kind of networks could finally be up to counter the commercial walled gardens, to provide an actual, human, human-centered alternative to surveillance capitalism and people farming. Turns out: It surely does better than Facebook, X, ... in some way. But it still is far from where it would need to be for that. And worse, it doesn't seem to improve much. Sure, individual platforms have matured. Mastodon has. Friendica has. But at the very end, at the bottom of things, in 2026 (eight years later) it's still the same un-addressed, unresolved issues to run into as in 2018 (which I have been whining about often enough not to do it again). Still, from some angles, it's amazing to see how some of these things did "just work" before on Diaspora* (and still do). It's amazing to see some of these issues fixed in ATProto (regardless of ones opinion on Bluesky) because people cared to think a bit ahead of the status quo in advance. It's, too, saddening to see how many once-vivid accounts and contacts out here have either turned quiet or deleted their accounts or visibly announced retreat into some walled garden (again) or to individual blogging and all of that. It's not a bad thing. It's an individual decision that should of course be respected. But it's sad. It feels very much like mission not accomplished. It feels like specifically ActivityPub has turned out to be what it apparently started wanting to be - a protocol that focuses on open networking but actually, in this, focuses on hackers and tinkerers and developers rather than users and communities, a protocol that by design is biased towards people building "something new" on top of it (and making compatibility - or lack thereof - something anyone else is to blame for) over people using technology in a reliable manner. Not sure whether the Fediverse is growing or shrinking and at some point I don't really bother that much at the moment. Just hoping that, for the time being, #Friendica will somehow continue working as good as it can to keep different channels under one hood (and not having to decide to keep or cut contacts based on an individual network technology choice again - or being overwhelmed by trying to handle a plethora of different inboxes in a load of almost fully equal yet separated systems) - and hoping for people out here to be forgiving if there are things, conversations, communications I just miss out on. Maybe part of the deal is accepting that big-picture things over "here" aren't built with reliability in mind.
Respectfully, and as a newish user from a special interest group, I disagree. There's a large and vibrant #blind community on Mastodon that couldn't exist on any other platform.
@#BlindAltBot Thank you for that feedback. Maybe it's indeed to some extent a bubble thing and having more positive examples helps getting that leveled a bit. 🙂
Having joined properly in 2023, I see those issues. Whenever I go to check on who I'm still following, there's definitely some dead accounts that make me quite sad.
@Radgryd Yeah, this. It's also ... not so much the fact that people give up and move on, that apparently happened in every other network too. It's specifically, in my environment, that I notice people moving on after being here for weeks to months, trying to feel home here, becoming more quiet and eventually just quietly cutting ties then, for a lot of reasons that probably could have been avoided and are valid. 😔
Lunch break deviations, a bit later that very day: Out on the terrace, observing the birds of the office neighbourhood resting on the metal roof. Bright sun, still, but there's a breeze too to keep the day bearable. Letting attention jump around and temporarily attach itself to random findings, having a lot of technical and non-technical aspects keeping ones own circuits under load and running still. The challenges of entering a state of break. And the early summer one doesn't yet feel ready for. #outerworld #concrete city #office hours #where we do what we do
!Friendica Support Is there anything to be known about Friendica and its implementation of the Mastodon client API specifically when it comes to posting media (such as images)? I do have code that works with recent Mastodon variants but trying this against a Friendica server (POST /api/v1/media) ends up in
{ "error": "This API requires login" }
... which seems a bit odd, for what I see it takes an Authorization: Bearer token which is there and works with other API interactions from the same code. Ideas, anyone?
It works for all clients that I have used so far. As an alternative you can try username and password as well. But to change the script you obviously then have to change the script as well.
@Michael 🇺🇦 Ok, I'll try to work through this then. Don't really like the idea of using username/password here and the remainder of the script, including actual posting of textual statuses, does work with that OAuth flow. It just seems the binary part to be difficult.
Fixed it seems. Apparently the API implementation in Mastodon doesn't really pay attention to the OAuth Authorization header if an access_token field containing the same information in the request body is present (which obscured the fact that the scripts syntax of assembling the HTTP headers for the upload request was wrong).
@Nead well, cheers muchly for your kind words. 😀 the paint colour i used is call blackjack, but i suppose the sun brings out its more chocolate-y tones.
@tamami thank you! i did a lot of intentional chaos gardening last year & it seems to have paid off (although, the pigeons helped themselves to a lot of seeds). 😀
"When I settled back in to my routine at home, I took a stab at reviving Linux For Everyone. I tried to immerse myself back into the tech life, hoping I could still swim in that pool instead of being polluted by it. I tried to find purpose there. Tried to convince myself it wouldn't always be a time-consuming grind. That producing enough videos to make a meager enough revenue stream to survive on wouldn't result in burnout.
But it did. And the burnout struck fast and without any mercy."
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"Once I stepped away and viewed it all from a more objective lens, I realized with absolute certainty that the current version of Jason isn't meant to live within these four walls. That amazing road trip last year only increased my wanderlust, and the trailhead for the next season of my life is just around the corner.
As of this writing, in one week I'll be calling the open road my new home. On June 1st, the season of the nomad begins."
Bryce Canyon Is Magic | The Big 2025 Parks Tour, Part 10
Thanks to a lengthy stay at Sanctuary, I felt well rested, energized, and ready to swap my cozy Airbnb bed for the forest floor again. I'm not sure what compelled me to choose Bryce Canyon National Park as my next destination, but I hold absolutely zero regrets about that decision. Which is a strong statement, considering this would end up being my last stop (albeit a lengthy three day one) before heading home, and I wouldn't make it to Zion.
Throughout this somewhat impromptu and fluid road trip, I had been sending highlight emails to friends and family. There was a substantial delay in writing and sending the one about Bryce Canyon. I was disappointed with the vast majority of the photos and videos I walked away with. Not only that, but I was struggling to put the magic of that place into words.
In fact, as I write this entry more than 6 months later, I’m still dumbstruck and mostly speechless about it. Fortunately, this time around I'm armed with a companion video which might push the needle of mystique and wonder a bit further. video.seasonsofjason.com/video… Please enjoy this musical companion clip!
But still, aside from perhaps a high-end 360-degree recording played back on a high-end VR headset, you simply can't experience what happens when all your sense are fully engaged while your peripheral vision is consumed by this landscape.
As an amateur photographer and nature enjoyer, Bryce Canyon National Park definitely qualifies as the most challenging I’ve ever tried to capture. Trying to convey the magnitude of it, the depth, the scale, the spectacle, is so difficult. I honestly can’t tell you how it felt to drive up to Rainbow Point at 9300ft, see the bizarre structures and pink cliffs and red rocks from a distance high above, and then hike down into the midst of it all the next day (below). How do I explain how otherworldly and downright magical it looks when a long row of white hoodoos (above) becomes brilliantly backlit by the late afternoon soon? The glow it produces is hypnotic, and I would drive all the way back there just to see that in person, one more time. Even for only 5 minutes.
I'm not exaggerating when I say it was a spiritual experience.
How do I explain how it feels to stand in front of this natural bridge (below) that appears solid, but in reality could collapse tomorrow with the right combination of dramatic weather? This landscape is so dynamic that if you travel there tomorrow, you may not see it exactly as I saw it. That applies to so much of this park. Especially the thousands of whimsical hoodoos you see everywhere, shaped by eons of wind and water and erosion, that seem to be balancing precariously on their foundations.
Even if I had the perfect set of photos and videos to show you, I would still insist you go see it for yourself. It’s a really special place, and I’m baffled why it has significantly fewer visitors than nearby Zion National Park.
But you know what? Perhaps that's for the best 😀
Maybe I can't perfectly convey how awesome this place was, but I know two things for certain: I absolutely adore hoodoos, and I will absolutely be going back in the near future.
Epilogue
After 3 days and 2 nights basking in the wonder of Bryce Canyon, I returned home feeling a bit under the weather, but with my spirit fully recharged. It didn't take long for me to miss it. Snow Canyon State Park and Bryce Canyon ended up being the most memorable highlights for me – and neither of them had been on my original list of destinations!
When I settled back in to my routine at home, I took a stab at reviving Linux For Everyone. I tried to immerse myself back into the tech life, hoping I could still swim in that pool instead of being polluted by it. I tried to find purpose there. Tried to convince myself that it wouldn't always be a time-consuming grind. That producing enough videos to make a meager enough revenue stream to survive on wouldn't result in burnout.
It did. And the burnout struck fast and without any mercy.
Once I stepped away and viewed it all from a more objective lens, I realized with absolute certainty that the current version of Jason isn't meant to live within these four walls. That amazing road trip last year only increased my wanderlust, and the trailhead for the next season of my life is just around the corner.
As of this writing, in one week I'll be calling the open road my new home. On June 1st, the season of the nomad begins.
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#OTD in 1897. First publication of Bram Stoker’s Dracula. Let's celebrate #DraculaDay!
The novel was mostly written in the 1890s, and Stoker produced over a hundred pages of notes, drawing extensively from folklore and history. He probably found the name "Dracula" in Whitby's public library while on holiday, selecting it because he thought it meant 'devil' in Romanian.
"Meaning & History Means "son of Dracul" in Romanian, with Dracul being derived from Romanian drac "dragon". It was a nickname of the 15th-century Wallachian prince Vlad III, called the Impaler, whose father was Vlad II Dracul. However, the name Dracula is now most known from the 1897 novel of the same name by Bram Stoker, which features the Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula, probably inspired by the historical Wallachian prince."
@jmcrookston The name Dracula means “son of Dracul.” In the Romanian language today, dracul means “the devil”—drac is “devil,” ul is “the”—but it is derived from the Latin dracō, “dragon.” (Dragons have been historically associated with Satan, hence the evolution.)
What comes to your mind when you see or hear the word Dracula? Probably vampires, right? But what about ruthless Romanian royalty … or dragons? It’s time for the story of Dracula—the word.
@jmcrookston The name Dracula means “son of Dracul.” In the Romanian language today, dracul means “the devil”—drac is “devil,” ul is “the”—but it is derived from the Latin dracō, “dragon.” (Dragons have been historically associated with Satan, hence the evolution.)
What comes to your mind when you see or hear the word Dracula? Probably vampires, right? But what about ruthless Romanian royalty … or dragons? It’s time for the story of Dracula—the word.
He also used the word "Nosferatu," which doesn't seem to mean anything in any language. Ironic, since his character van Helsing is supposed to have been based on the great linguist and translator, Max Müller.
TIL that there exists a prior source for "nosferatu" published in German by one Wilhelm Schmidt in 1865. (Not the Wilhelm Schmidt who theorized about "original monotheism", he wasn't born yet. This Wilhelm Schmidt was a schoolmaster in Transylvanian Hermannstadt, today's Sibiu.)
@noctuaminervae @scotlit Funnily enough I was reading the Wikipedia article on the etymology of "Nosferatu" on Sunday, after watching a gorgeous restored print of Tod Browning's 1931 "Dracula". Highly recommended, but watch out for the Transylvanian armadilloes!
Incidentally, this was not the first film with "Dracula" in the title, but the other, Drakula Halála (Austria, 1921) has been lost.
Dracula is a 1931 American pre-Code vampire film directed and co-produced by Tod Browning from a screenplay written by Garrett Fort and starring Bela Lugosi...
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Little Tahoma has a presence all its own.
This view from the south-southeast shows off its jagged rock, lingering snow, and rugged alpine shape. Mount Rainier may be the famous name in the park, but Little Tahoma definitely knows how to hold attention.
What catches your eye first, the rock, the snow, or the shape of the peak?
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Arch. Lina Bo Bardi transformed the former factory into SESC Pompeia. Preserving the industrial buildings, she added two Brutalist concrete sports towers linked by eight walkways and opened the interiors for community use. The complex hosts sport facilities, swimming pool, theatre, public spaces, etc. 1977-86, São Paulo, Brazil.
Side-effects of being on a single-user instance is being exposed to more details than on other systems where you're not supposed to have administrative privileges and right now I am increasingly wondering how much computing resources are spent / wasted on trying to deliver notifications to hosts that have temporarily or permanently disappeared...
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