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2024-03-20 08:51:23

#Sunrise in #Grindavik - Live.
and...
#Hot_Lava!
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=iKs0zTGPPZk
#tallship #Iceland
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2024-01-29 09:52:58

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Questions always follow after such, 'salty talk', or 'nautical nomenclature', or in #Star_Trek terms, #technobabble.
What's the difference between a mizzen topgallant sail and a main royal staysail? Just a few rules is all it takes, but in today's world, one need only avail themselves of the basic Marconi rig on a single masted sloop. There's a mainsail (the big triangular one aft of the mast), and a jib, or foresail. Typically, when speaking about a jib (the one forward of the mast), people will typically categorize them into about three classes:
a #Genoa (big one - low wind conditions)
a #Jenny (also called a #working_jib for most wind conditions)
a #Storm_jib - smallish, for reduced sail area in high and gale force winds.
If you're rigged to run one jib, you're a #sloop; two, and you're #cutter rigged.
tl;dr: Unlike elections, rigging is a good thing. Without standing rigging you have nothing to hold your masts up in place and they'll just snap or fall over. Without running rigging you have no way to control your sails, hoist them up, or catch the wind.
So when it comes to sailboats, it's a very good thing that they're rigged :p
#tallship #silly #rigging
https://media.neenster.org/df789209-6951-431e-a6dd-13153884c595/ts2.jpg

2024-01-27 11:42:24

We need more substance like this. Not coz the scans are pretty, and they are (dunno how I feel about leveraging AI, still on the fence about that), but even when viewed on a platform that doesn't render Markdown (Pixelfed has graceful degradation - but hey let's get on with it @npub1f9f…dgxv and ditch the paltry 500 char limit and lack of #Markdown) This info card is a good looking, informative, interesting, and it's a well formatted PSA or news snippet.
Thank you for sharing this @npub1pmn…7cwg - only the first photo in the series posted through onto #Pixelfed, I'll give it a boost there in a sec. Should look really good on #Friendica, and other Markdown supporting #Fediverse platforms such as #Mitra, the *key's and the p-forks like #Soapbox & #Akkoma too.
#tallship #medicine #holistichealth
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2024-01-27 05:38:02

There's a few bots I like to follow, not all of them are crappola. #UNIX_Weekly is one of them that often posts little nuggets worth rabbit-holing and so I figured I'd give a quick boost for #OasisLInux
Pretty C 😎 😎 L, right?
I hope that helps! enjoy
#tallship #FOSS #UNIX #Linux #distro
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2024-01-23 23:29:08

Don't trust those "little buddy heaters" and their cousins of having CO2 sensors and low #Oxygen cutoffs that their marketing indicates you can bank your life on.
You can fucking die.
I used a few of these for several years, when I lived completely off-grid, in the mountain wilderness far from the nearest humans.
They're really convenient and quick to heat a small area, or anything close to them, in just a few minutes, and you can pick them up at any Target, Walmart, Big 5, Tractor Supply, Etc., for $40 - $50.
Basically, you warm your environment, sitting on your cot and warming up your feet and toes before turning it off and burrowing into your subarctic bedding. You can leave the pilot going all night so all you need to do is twist and click it on on the morning, but seriously, why bother?
Sharp (and more importantly, observant) girl in the video - although there's no way to be sure, she just may have saved the lives of everyone in that fricken' tent.
https://invidious.fdn.fr/shorts/kaSwF2jru3A?si=u8a0HRKlqPxb_A8T&local=true
#tallship #asphyxiation #camping_safety #CO #Carbon_dioxide
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2024-01-23 22:47:57

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Cat 'O' ***seven*** tails?
Prefer Singletails. One must be careful, however, and there are classes available at your local dungeon so you practice and play safely.

2024-01-09 09:33:50

Well this is a really fucked up #Rug_Pull!
At the time, I searched and searched and could not find any #FOSS solutions to achieve what I figure most everyone who must use #MFA / #2FA needs, namely:
A Linux desktop version
An Android version (F-Droid or .APK - not from the Google playstore
A Windows desktop version
Does anyone have suggestions as to how to achieve this, so that it syncs between all of your devices?
There are plenty (even FOSS versions) out there, but none of them that I know of that sync between all of your devices. If you lose your phone... oh well! But with Twillio you could just install it on a new phone and it would sync over all of your accounts from one of your other devices, laptop, whatev. I know it's proprietary, and that's a bad thing, but like I said, I couldn't find a single FOSS solution that had this very basic functionality of syncing between all of your devices.
Do you know of an authenticator that syncs between all of your devices? Feel free to boost and ask around, people shouldn't have to carry a phone around with them everywhere, let alone use a phone for your multi-factor authentication when your working on your desktop, and using your desktop/laptop to authenticate/signon to your accounts. That's just ridiculous.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/1/8/24030477/authy-desktop-app-shutting-down
We only have 7 months to migrate to an alternative solution. The Desktop version goes EOL and then dark in August.
If you have any suggestions, please do let me know
#tallship #Twillio #authenticator
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2024-01-09 06:30:55

Post for Andre'
Same image attached, this one with alt-text populated
@npub1df0…7gmw
https://media.neenster.org/ad397d50-a53a-4925-b877-478cc57dd35e/Bradley_at_studio-in_Palos_Verdes-567x763.png

2024-01-07 19:02:09

I'm seeing an awful lot of Threads sourced nuggets espousing the virtues of, along with optimism surrounding, the #Fediverse lately.
This seems a bit sus to me, like a concerted outreach effort on the part of Meta/Faceplant and a few other largish, commercial actors to popularize their ulterior motives of domination by... Ahem, normalizing the concepts of #DeSoc and more specifically, the ActivityPub powered spaces in the Fediverse.
I actually dunno who MDBHD or John Oliver are, but I'm certain that they're no Oprah, although it would be nice if she would weigh in on the critical mass achieved to date in the adoption of Fediverse technologies that are #FOSS based, and #Privacy respecting.
To date, *Privacy has been of primary consideration and motivation in the development community surrounding the #ActivityPub powered platforms in the Fediverse, but the questionable players entering from the horizontally scaling decentralized social networking industry have, as of late, been overwhelmingly of the deprecated, privacy disrespecting, monolithic silo persuasion. These monolithic-ally inclined companies hailing from vertically thinking companies are an expected, yet suspect group of *privacy mining experts, sophomorically (sic) wading into the deep end of a demographic consisting mostly of privacy minded* individuals and notable developers of the FOSS based portions of the software world.
<tangent> These industrial surveillance engines are already back on their heels as they venture into what many warn as an #EEE incursion - but truth be told, already too late to the game to subjugate, assimilate us: #Diaspora #ZOT #nostr #Nomad #Matrix #TOR #Yggdrasil #I2P #IPFS / #IPNS and others, including blockchain based so-called #Web3 solutions with baked in privacy considerations at the protocol layer are being *Bridged to interoperate with each other and ActivityPub in the Fediverse at rates which the purveyors of industrial surveillance machinery must invariably only describe as "alarming rates" - that's good news for the average schmoes of the world like you and I. </tangent>
So why are we, just in the past few weeks, seeing so much attention given to the Fediverse by these #juggernauts, perhaps #dreadnoughts, that for so long have exhibited such great restraint and avoidance of the mere utterance of Fediverse, ActivityPub, or even alluding to the notions of Decentralization? There's certainly a particular spin in their delivery, leveraging third parties that obfuscate their participation in the dissemination of their, Great News.
Speaking of Dreadnoughts, just how was it that the great Bismarck was taken out? Remember? The outgunned and outmatched Royal Navy took out her port rudder! ⛵ 💥
It was the end of an era. A rudder post. The Bismarck was doomed to circle her watery grave.
But I digress...
Make no mistake, obscuring the lines between the privacy respecting FOSS based camps that have historically steered the direction of DeSoc has taken, and the deprecated, proprietary silo companies which have based their entire existence upon advertising and industrial surveillance models that I refer to as The Sunnyvale Syndrome family of data mining engines, is now seeping through the cracks of a clear delineation between these two prinicples - that of uncompromising privacy and open source development and that of proprietary, closed source subjugation methodologies leveraging **YOU as the product in inventory*.
Feel free to boost and share your comments at length here. A million people other than myself are here in the Fediverse and are really interested in just what kind of impact the introduction of these traditionally privacy raiding Industrialists will have upon their... scratch that, our future online safety.
tl;dr: Your very private, personal medical history and data (and that of your minor children, in violation of FERPA regulations) is being wholesaled and auctioned off by the so-called "Big-Tech" entrants and hopefuls that are at this very time knocking on the front door of the ActivityPub portions of Fediverse... Tread lightly, and consider how your every move going forward affects the unwitting consent to farm and sell your most confidential personal information.
it is up to you - it is your choice to affirm or deny - whether industrial surveillance is your birthright to embrace or your nemesis to destroy... You, We, have that power to decide.
#tallship #Privacy #Sunnyvale_Syndrome #meta #HIPAA #PHI #FERPA h/t to: @npub1k08…6xvn
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2023-12-31 10:32:32

We've been discussing these issues, amongst others lately in the Fediverse-City room on Matrix, what with the relative demise of Meetup.com following its acquisition by WeWork, and the rise of *events over at Faceplant further obviating them having much to do with a plethora of event management projects exploding onto the scene for the past couple of years.
It's been a while since I've visited #Faceplant, so long in fact, I only recently became aware a couple of years ago that they had a marketplace that has largely supplanted craigslist, and finding out just today that they in fact have some sort of events system - that speaks volumes, I think, toward my dedication to dogfooding my #FOSS and simply ignoring, for the most part, there are still some privacy disrespecting operators in the deprecated monolithic silo space of social networking.
#Mobilizon, #Hubzilla, #Rebased, and #Friendica have their own take on how these event management systems should #Federate through the rest of the #Fediverse, while others mentioned in the article below, including #WordPress try to fit into that niche in a cooperative, interoperable way... and it's paying off. Bigtime.
It's a good read, events are powerful for hobbyists, technologists, sports enthusiasts, and just about any kind of IRL or remote attendance awareness and organizing; so it only stands to reason that #DeSoc, and social networking in general include the capabilities to seamlessly propagate events as globally possible.
At the very least, events are heralded as one of the best ways to get free pizza 🍕 and beer 🍺 with others that have common interests. After a veritable shitload of funding from many sources, including NGI0 and even larger corporate sponsors, we're approaching a place where anyone with a Fediverse account, even on the smolweb or most obscure platforms like Threads, will be privy to things like announcements, RSVP, alerts, Etc., of upcoming events, regardless of whether your Fediverse platform of choice directly supports event management.
And it is perhaps a little ironic, that #Threads users themselves will likely have at their disposal, an event notification and management capability in direct conflict with the one that Meta wants them to use - I dunno how that's going to work out, but I think it's pretty kewl that nobody else does either at this time.
#tallship #Fediverse_City #NGI0 h/t to @npub1df0…7gmw for the heads up on the following article, he just always seems to know where that rabbit is hiding in the tophat and pulls it right out when it's most needed, lolz.
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2023-12-24 03:03:26

#PeerTube just gets better and better - something the rest of the #Fediverse could really benefit from is observing how it leverages external technologies through its plugin network.
No longer just a #VoD platform, or a #Twitch replacement with native #LiveChat via plugins with all of the goodies one would expect, but now with #podcast support the raises the bar even higher...
And everything is easy peasy when integrating Fediverse OAUTH... more on that later ;)
#tallship #FOSS #LiveStreaming
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2023-11-14 09:53:14

@npub18jn…7898
Do you have any background on this place. I figure an artist might be privy to some cultural background on street art like this.
IIRC, locals call it “Jazz Alley” or something like that. There are a couple of small, mostly jazzy night clubs, that have entrances from here in the alley in this waterfront neighborhood if what’s referred to as Old Town.
All of the history here is inferred, deduced by me, but the most troublesome thing for me is the explanation as to why the railroad tracks are right up against this old building - now some sort of trinket shop for tourists (on the other side of the building).
Anyway, I just figured you’d might be able to shed some light on this or point me towards some links explaining this phenomenon.
Kindest regards,
Bradley
#tallship #Billie_Holiday #murals #street_art #waterfront
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2023-08-10 06:08:36

More awesomeness continues to unfold as #ActivityPub and #DeSoc in general continue to transcend the #boundaries between obscurity and #mainstream #communications and societal interactivity between people, institutions, and the software systems we use on a daily basis - that is, Privacy respecting, #FOSS based software that can be easily self-hosted by any person or company.
So…. This, from the version 4.0.0-rc1 docs themselves:
This module also shows how the social_auth 4.x module could be used as a base to allow multiple servers of same kind (as gitlab, nextcloud, fediverse oriented instances…) to provide auth access.
https://www.drupal.org/project/social_auth_nextcloud