Notices by Daniel Hernández (daniel@mstdn.degu.cl)

Do you have the feeling that #Linux desktop systems are more unstable nowadays? I have the feeling that around 2000 it was very uncommon for the desktop to get stuck, and when that happened it only affected a specific window and not the whole desktop. Now it usually happens that I get the whole desktop and system stuck.

@stephaniewalter This is an excellent explanation! The same applies to many things. For example, making the Web more accessible not only helps people with some disabilities but all the people.

@daviwil @KatS Why not including other BSDs? (like FreeBSD)

@KatS @daviwil This could also be a poll. I would like to read answers and see numbers 🙂

@knapjack @evan @negative12dollarbill Indeed, many people are nude at least once a day (for example, to take a shower or have sex). So, they should count at least two outfits. So I think the option one outfit is overstimated.

@domo @cwebber Is it because Cloudflare is based in the US?

@Jeremiah @evan Notice the means of communication that the White House will use: X, Instagram and Facebook. In other parts of the world, democratic governments and democratic institutions will start moving to the Fediverse.

The German Foundation for Research will exit X. Instead, they are now in Mastodon @dfg_public

https://www.dfg.de/de/service/presse/pressemitteilungen/2025/pressemitteilung-nr-01

La siguiente consulta en Wikidata lista instancias en el Fediverso que están en Latinoamérica. Avísame si conoces una instancia que falte en la respuesta a esta consulta.

https://w.wiki/ChB6

¿Por qué hago esto? Para visualizar y promocionar los nodos del Fediverso en Latinoamérica.

#Wikidata #Fediverso #Latinoamérica

@donelias @eco_amandine Agregué la instancia mastodon.cr a Wikidata (http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q131737959). ¿Hay más instancias del Fediverso en Costa Rica?

#CostaRica #Mastodon #Fediverso #Wikidata

When hiking in the mountains near to Santiago, in Chile, you will see red flowers parasiting the cactuses. Called tristerix aphyllus (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tristerix_aphyllus), these flowers are on the top of the cactuses, some meters above the ground. How do they arrive there? A beautiful video from the BBC with the voice of David Attenborough explains it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Myy8qO20o38

#Chile #Ecology

@skinnylatte That is the most beautiful aquarium I visited so far. I am sure you will enjoy your new work so much! I have so good memories from Monterrey, when attending the International Semantic Web Conference there in 2018 (http://iswc2018.semanticweb.org/). We visited the Sequoya parks and some other beautiful places with my wife, and met very nice people around. Your pictures made my day!

@ricmac @evan @social @BBCRD

I just queried #Wikidata how many institutes and universities have Mastodon account, and seems most of them are in Germany (103). We need to thank the @neuSoM effort to convince universities to migrate from Twitter to #Mastodon.

However, I don't find how to query how many institutes hare integrated with the Fediverse beyond Mastodon. For example, the CS department where I studied has a #PeerTube channel (https://pt.dcc.uchile.cl).

https://w.wiki/CLjK

@evan
@social

I don't understand what the Mozilla Social Team is. Is it a Mastodon instance hosted by Mozilla, or is it a team with a certain research and development goals and a roadmap?

@todwest @gutenberg_org I was thinking the same. The Selknam, the Yagan, and the Kawesqar navigated those canals many years before, and they did very well to survive on such a difficult conditions.

@todwest @gutenberg_org I entirely agree!

@evan I know that place and that church! I was there at the end of June when visiting the ICS-FORTH institute after attending the Extended Semantic Web Conference.

@evan It looks tasty. What city is that?

@evan Regarding 2, it seems that in this case the ActivityStreams specification is not followed when your WordPress article is displayed as a note because it has many paragraphs.

@evan @evanprodromou

Your answer suggests the following (which is quite interesting):

1. `Note` and `Article` seem to have implicitly associated a different HTML subset.

2. An object (with a single ID) can have two representations and belong to two classes, `Note` and `Article`. I assume that these classes are not disjoint. This may lead to ontological inconsistencies.

3. The downscaling looks like a type casting that depends on the capacities of one endpoint (it may not be needed between two WordPress instances). The downscaling seems to be done by WordPress, whereas it may also be done by Mastodon when representing the object. This sounds like content negotiation.