Notices by Osma A 🇫🇮🇺🇦 (osma@mas.to)

Chinese forestation effort in Taklamakan Desert is bearing results: a human created carbon sink around the edges of the desert. It has taken 66 billion planted trees so far.
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/plants/china-has-planted-so-many-trees-around-the-taklamakan-desert-that-its-turned-this-biological-void-into-a-carbon-sink

Bropocalypse

The Nuremberg trials were largely a show, though of symbolic importance. Fifty years later the Rome Statute established the International Criminal Court to set in place mechanisms to be more effective the next time such crimes would be perpetrated. USA never ratified that statute.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rome_Statute

There's a surprising variety of random stuff on @loops already even though it's not actually launched. I'm a text guy so unlikely to frequent it any more than I have visited @PixelFed and even less likely to post, but there it is for those who like that sort of stuff. #loops

- GPLv2 not covering the hardware may have been an oversight
- GPLv3 specifically addressing that indicates the intent to cover that
- Linux continuing to use GPLv2 is not an oversight but an explicit signal that the kernel developers do not intend to make claims over hardware access
@ghul @pkal

Elon wants to divide Europe and is using X to sow hate. Threads and Bluesky aren't overtly hostile, but they're not European either. Fediverse is. Global, but centered in Europe. Federated, independent, sovereign.

And certain hereditary conditions are more or less probable in given familial lines so just like a doctor might ask if your family has a history of a disease, an insurance company might use the familial DNA to adjust actuary assessments.
@steter @mast0d0nphan

Just Bluesky being Bluesky. I wonder if the moderation action is intolerance against fungi or algorithms.

I'm not an expert on the subject, but..

https://hubzilla.org/page/info/timeline

https://wedistribute.org/2024/03/activitypub-nomadic-identity/

That is, to the best of my knowledge it's all Mike.
@feralthoughts

If Mike's pioneering work would be accepted by other developers (particularly Eugen), fedi would be in a much, much better shape. Alas...
@feralthoughts

It's not available in my local books infrastructure (the library) so could you please reference how it relates to sharing helmets (rather than safe road space) as infrastructure development? Thanks!
@inthehands @aubilenon @debcha

That's stretching the definition of the word quite a bit further than I'd be comfortable stretching it.
@inthehands @aubilenon

Helmets aren't infrastructure
@aubilenon @inthehands

The Web is a totally reasonable alternative.
@ErikJonker @jwildeboer

Wow, I wasn't aware the serial enshittifier Bending Spoons had acquired Vimeo. Thanks for heads up!

Has that TikTok takeover actually happened? I haven't seen anything solid on that.
@anildash

Related, over the last couple of weeks I've had to special case a couple of DNS holed third party domains to return an error instead of never respond - because news sites would never get to first render without. Whatever happened to async background loads..
@steter

In addition to uBlock Origin, every browser should have an extension installed that calculates a Competence Score. Some kind of merger of builtwith, count of (attempted) third party cookies, and number of console warnings.
@steter

Giant US pickups must not be normalized as civilian vehicles on the EU market. Same goes for US SUVs, too. No to RAMs, no to F-series, no to Suburbans, no to Escalades. European streets are for people.
https://www.transportenvironment.org/articles/eu-cave-in-on-vehicle-trade-rules-will-cost-european-lives-as-us-pick-up-trucks-flood-into-europe

On a Unix-like system, load is, and has always been, the number of processes waiting for CPU in the ready queue (often meaning they have unprocessed IO waiting for attention). A load number less than the number of CPU cores/threads means the computer will shortly have idle processing capacity.

Again, this has ALWAYS been the case. When you were a kid, those computers had a single CPU core, or two at max.
@glyph

Steamer pot, filled to little past the bottom of the steamer piece will cook rice as well or better as a rice cooker appliance without a lot of regard to the time. Rice will absorb all the water it can and excess stays at the bottom. Just don't let it boil dry.
@steter