Notices by stib (stib@aus.social)

@steve it's important to mention that these nations weren't solely motivated by high ideals. Scientists from Germany were also welcomed to countries like the US and Australia *after* the war. These weren't the ones fleeing from the nazis though, these were the ones that had been at least happy to work for the nazis, or actual nazis themselves. In Australia it was called the Employment of Scientific and Technical Enemy Aliens Scheme, but the same thing went on in Britain and the US, famously in the case of Werner Von Braun.
https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.1080/0810902021000023327

If you like geoguessr or you fancy yourself a bit of a sleuth, there's a great page of #osint puzzles on the bellingcat website.

https://challenge.bellingcat.com/

Instead of doing a jigsaw or whatever while slobbing around on the couch over the holidays I'm getting through the @Bellingcat challenge, which I'm finding very addictive.
So far I've managed to get about half of them, using reverse image searches, exiftool, google maps and streetview, google translate, wikipedia and a bit of guesswork.
I surprised myself by being able to find the ICAO code (the international airport ID) for this airport, it was actually one of the easier ones.
Can you find it? If you can, the rest of the puzzles are here https://challenge.bellingcat.com/
Edit: adding #BellingCatChallenge tag

Looking for the dressing tool so I can dress the grinding wheel so I can sharpen a cutting tool so I can cut some metal off the shank of a security bit on the #lathe so that it will fit in the screw holes on the iron so I can take it apart so that I can #repair the leaky water reservoir so I can use steam to press the sleeve plackets on the sleeve of the shirt I'm #sewing, why do you ask?

@mekkaokereke when my kids were younger we used to have weekly pancakes. We got creative with the toppings, because I wasn't so keen on just pouring sugar (maple syrup) over them. Some things we used to do: stewed apple (great way to use up aging wrinkly apples), sliced banana with desiccated coconut, stonefruit or berry compote, and ricotta with brown sugar, lemon juice and vanilla.
Anyone else have suggestions for toppings?

@GreenRoc @Susan60 @hellomiakoda the twist of the knife is the hold music that periodically stops for a second, just to have a recorded voice tell you how important your call is to them. So if you have the phone on speaker while you do stuff in the background waiting for the music to stop, it sounds like someone has answered, only for Lucy to yank that ball away one more time.

@ewen I like the term @pluralistic coined for abstaining from Facebook: Zucker-veganism

@l05tchild Yep, nothing makes me feel like we're doomed as a species than a bubblegum flavoured vape containing a fully functional lithium battery getting washed down the drain into the ocean when it rains.

Fun* fact in this video: the 'disposable' vapes thrown away in Britain alone contain enough lithium batteries to make 1.2 Million e-bikes.
I've been independently powering things with vape batteries that I've rescued before seeing this video. Pull out the cell, add a cheap usb charging module and you have a fully rechargeable 3.7v power source. If you need higher voltage you can put them in series and you can even get multi-cell balancing modules for next to nothing if you want to have a few in parallel for more current.
I don't trust them for anything critical, but they're great for low-budget projects as the cells are completely free. My bike lights are all powered by them (one can run a flashing bike light for a couple of weeks' use), as well as various other things that had their batteries die, or that didn't come with rechargeable batteries.
I also only charge them somewhere flameproof, though I haven't had any issues so far.
#making #electronics #reuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehp23hrrEHY

@br00t4c a better way to tip is just to abolish serfdom and pay decent wages.

@HistoPol
OnlyOffice? https://www.onlyoffice.com/
@2ndStar

@HistoPol
There's a really pertinent story about one such scheme in Scotland where planting spruce destroyed peat marsh, an excellent carbon sink biome, and releasing more carbon than the trees captured.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264837723001436
@conditional_soup @arstechnica

@kingtor
It's also not per-capita. Eg multiply the Australian result by roughly 10 to get a comparable statistic to the US number.
@statisticsworld

@clacke
"Don't you hate it when everyone blocks me just when I am about to prove how stupid they are"
-SnepperStepper, probably

Sending my #AfterEffects project files off to an agency who are going to translate it, and setting up the proj so that all the text layers in the dozen or so different derivative comps all link back to a single master layer, saving someone a heap of work. I feel like the universe owes me some good #Mograph karma.

The tinsel is actually procedurally generated using a shape layer, I would make a tute for it, but it renders incredibly slowly. No, slower than what you're thinking, it's actually a Really Bad Idea. I also wrote a script that let me animate the ribon, it's not a physics sim, it's all hand animated. By adding separate controls for each point on the line it's a lot easier to do path animation using shape layers. https://codeberg.org/stib/PureAndApplied_AEScripts/src/branch/cloninate-re-do/ScriptUI%20Panels/points-n-handles.jsx

@HistoPol
That looks like a tracking pixel, the contents of that HTML wouldn't be visible.
@Dave_von_S @Mina