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Hi, when I follow someone I usually do this from multiple accounts, with different servers and platforms. This is partially as backup. It’s also because different software has different features. E.g. at the moment of writing I mainly post from my Friendica server, but it doesn’t yet support polls, or account migrations. So I also follow from my Pleroma server, which does notify me someone has migrated.

I also sometimes use platforms that support nomadic identity, that allows my channels on multiple servers to be synced. From software that doesn’t support that, a follow request looks like multiple separate requests from those channels.

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In order to welcome @Photosaurus on Mastodon, I'm sharing our last collab last November with this pic I love so much ! Also 2 detail shots of the leather belt accessories (details in ALT description). The goal was to represent what could be a vampire crossing the ages and slowly adapting her wardrobe (we also did a victorian and modern era version but I prefer the medieval one^^). #fantasy #photomonday #vampire #portrait #leathercraft #costumedesign

Dress: Armstreet
MUA: AlisterEuqorral

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Re: In order to welcome @Photosaurus on Mastodon, I'm sharing our last collab last November with this pic I love so much !


It's really exciting seeing a new wave of artists showing up here! I know it's a smaller space than Elon's noise machine, or even BlueSky, and a more complicated space than either, too. I hope you guys are getting a warm welcome.
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@kichae yeah lots of artists are still sticking only to Instagram (and I was one^^) but it's slowly moving ! And welcome is perfect until now for my part :)


Got a notification from my NAS, saying it's running low on disk space. It says it has only 3.5 TB left.

(Yet weirdly Windows also refuses to copy all of today's photos onto it, saying I need to free another 10GB.)

There's a mismatch of disk sizes, though. Come to think of it, that disparity is about 3.5 TB.

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Upgraded my Pleroma to version 2.9.0, that came just out today. Or actually yesterday by now, because it took longer than expected. Maybe I missed some versions, but for me the upgrade was not as simple as suggested.

In this version I also needed to upgrade to a newer Elixir version. And there were also some migrations still to run. Upgrading Elixir turned out to not be possible on an old Debian server, so I needed to switch over to using asdf to get the newer version; but that doesn't work nicely with the systemd service file... I have to figure a better solution for that later, it is late, now I have just hardcoded the paths.

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Thank you generative AI for my cybersecurity job security for the next 5 years as this stuff enters enterprises.

HT @bees

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> We should remove this “We never sell your data”
Why?
> Because some people define 'sell' more broadly
Like?
> Well, some people think it means "make available in exchange for something of value"
That's exactly what I think it means.
> Oh
So, that's what you've been doing?
> ...


well Mozilla has blinked

blog.mozilla.org/en/products/f…

"You give Mozilla the rights necessary to operate Firefox. This includes processing your data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice. It also includes a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license for the purpose of doing as you request with the content you input in Firefox. This does not give Mozilla any ownership in that content."

Still seems probably problematic, and to be clear, once you're dead to me, you're dead to me.


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The yellow of this field of rapeseed and the blue of the sky over Fife always reminds me of the Ukrainian flag, so I post this here today as a show of support for those brave people and their courageous leader fighting on so many fronts. May the summer sun one day warm their land, free of invaders and profiteers.
#Ukraine #photography

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So far came across these:

  • Gulf of West Russia
  • Gulf of Moscow

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🇪🇺 🇺🇦 Europe stands with Ukraine in its fight against the Russian aggressor.

Yesterday in Kyiv, President von der Leyen announced new key actions to boost our support ↓

🔵 New Sanctions
🟡 New €3.5 billion payment
🔵 More military support
🟡 More Energy Security

So far, the EU and EU countries have provided €134 billion in support—more than anyone else.

We remain united in our unwavering support for Ukraine’s sovereignty, security, and future.

#StandWithUkraine

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@baxaphobia There was one real president in the oval office and his name was Zelensky.
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Trump's White House is the set for the "New Apprentice" show...
"Light, camera, "You're fired!"😂 😂 😂

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Turns out Zelenskyy is good at standing up against dictators.

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Dawn has become dusk and may she sleep forever well in dreams among clouds above. My heart sorrowly sends my condolences to those she loves. Farewell, Michelle, thank you for Dawn Summers. 🙏💔😢 #RIP #RestInPeace #MichelleTrachtenberg #DawnSummers #Buffy

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Using the key emoji because she used to do that herself, referring to her most famous role.


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Be the @TeenVogue you want to see in the world: "To put it bluntly, Trump is now violently pursuing, rounding up, and disappearing immigrants, the majority not charged with any criminal offense, while right-wing loyalists convicted and sentenced for violent felonies against the country are released and celebrated." teenvogue.com/story/donald-tru…

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It's just chocolate sprinkles... I don't get why foreign journalists are so obsessed by it that they write this whole BBC article about us eating hagelslag on a sandwich. I had it today...

bbc.com/travel/article/2025022…

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Birds are weird...

...or when you need a wide angle lens for bird photography.

Roxy Furman made this beautiful film of her encountering pelicans and includes some incredible photos.
youtu.be/QT8HT1Kvv3E
#RoxyFurman #Pelican #DalmatianPelican #Greece #Birds

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I’m sorry. You can’t conduct “peace talks” with Russia over its invasion of Ukraine without Ukraine at the table.

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in reply to George Takei :verified: 🏳️‍🌈🖖🏽

You can't even call that a surrender,
with Trump's extortion demands, looming as part of that process?
UNTHINKABLE!
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I mean, you could.
But it would have to sound something like: "Putin, you need to withdraw from Ukraine at once, or you and I are gonna have a huge problem..."


Buzzards (I presume) seen from my balcony. The local newspaper in Best had just printed an article that they were spotted in town and they were not wrong. I think I saw four flying together over my flat, I don't know whether that's normal behaviour.

Photos by me, re-use allowed with attribution (cc-by). Canon EOS R10, Canon RF 100-400, cropped.
#Photography #Bird #BirdOfPrey #Buzzard

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The Windows Experience is it showing you a screen waiting for your input but when you actually try to provide that input it is like 'hang on, I wasn't ready for that'.


This article talks about Tumblr moving to WordPress and supporting Activitypub:

techcrunch.com/2025/02/11/tumb…

But, given that Tumblr has a history of breaking all kinds of stuff in various novel ways, I have just one question: what will they break this time, Tumblr, WordPress, or Activitypub?



Looks like the new US government found out this is still an issue with this year's theme... But they don't check these things beforehand...


My understanding of WordPress must be missing something.

There's this default theme 'twenty twenty four'. When you activate it, it inserts various hardcoded texts into your site. Things like "my book Money Studies is out now" and "I'm Leia Acosta, a passionate photographer". You have to use the site editor to find these and remove them. There are about four.

You have to do this on your live site, you can't customise a theme and preview it before activating, like you used to be able to. If you don't find them all, or ever did "Remove Customisations", you're site will say stuff like "A commitment to innovation and sustainability", without you knowing it.

So what if you're not called "Leia Acosta"? Or you don't have a book out called "Money Studies"? How did they think this was going to work?
#WordPress




Apparently Jenna Ortega and Natalie Portman have just wrapped filming The Gallerist yesterday, a film I didn't yet know they were making and which I know nothing about...
#JennaOrtega #NataliePortman #TheGallerist

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The trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow is out and it looks great! Clearly a lead role for Jenna Ortega. Here's the trailer on her Instagram: instagram.com/reel/DFqJossIV5b…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow
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The official trailer for Hurry Up Tomorrow on YouTube, with Jenna Ortega being brilliant. Not surprised, just really excited to see this film.
youtu.be/hg0oFI2egfo?si=3LeuKm…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow


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When photographing a waterfall the temptation is often to pop the camera on a tripod, add an ND filter and drop the shutter speed to 1sec to produce that classic, silky stream look.
Today, I did the exact opposite, cranking my shutter speed to 1/8000sec, with auto ISO and a wide open aperture to produce the abstract images below.
I'm happy with the results and will probably pursue this more in future visits to the woods.
#photography #AbstractPhotography #waterfalls #nature

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A new Tah 2.0 video on YouTube reminds me that I meant to mention how much I like having found that channel. She feels very real and honest. The channel is quite new, just 11 videos and 2k+ subscribers so far. When YouTube recommended it to me, I think she had only three videos; apparently YouTube knew after all exactly the thing I wanted to have recommended to me...
youtube.com/@tahstory

The 2.0 refers to starting over. Apparently, she used to be a travel content creator, but that didn't feel right anymore. Now she talks about her insights in film making and storytelling itself. This is her video about starting over: youtu.be/7eE9uUU9zUY



The advantage of procrastinating is that you get other stuff done.



A convergence of interests: I follow the MinuteEarth (and MinutePhysics) YouTube channel because I like how they quickly explain interesting science concepts, and I'm a fan of the actress Miranda Cosgrove because she's great. Now Miranda is on the MinuteEarth channel!
youtu.be/OCfvQGj4jVQ
#MirandaCosgrove #MinuteEarth


US TikTok-ers moving to triller, YouTube and Xiaohongshu ('RedNote'), not Instagram, the former offering to transfer all their videos.


You season 5 will be on Netflix on 24 April. I don't know which characters/actresses will come back, the two I'm hoping for I didn't spot in the teaser.
#You #YouNetflix


Be prepared that when soon even more of those that blame everything on others are themselves in power, it will still be everyone else's fault.



New toy: a Laowa 2x macro lens. Comes very favourably out of reviews, also for non-macro distances. It's the crop sensor advantage that this is small-ish and cheap-ish, while still being a super-sharp f/2.8 apochromatic lens. Now I have to learn to manually focus, and to use (flash) lighting.
#Laowa #Macro

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Glad it's winter and there are no insects about, testing out my macro lens.

Canon R10 with Laowa 65mm F2.8, either with Godox speedlite flash off-camera or the light of my Samsung phone when I had already put the speedlite away.


#Photography #macro #Laowa #Canon #Godox #Samsung


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Reminder that if you want Pixelfed-specific tips, please follow my other account at:

:PixelFed: @PixelfedHelp

#Pixelfed #PixelfedTips #FediTips

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There seem to be too many politicians at every level secretly thinking "Well the politics is rough and tumble, but at the end of the day we can shake hands and agree to disagree."

This kind of performative disagreement for the cameras is totally unsuited to governments that pose existential threats to their own citizens and the world in general.

I guess a lot of them were brought up in more gentle times and are trying to take their cues from that bygone age? Whatever the reason, they are going to let us all down if they carry on with their prioritising of civility above responsibility.

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Politicians in DC will not solve US problems by themselves; they are a real part of the problem itself.

Albert Einstein : "We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them"


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unicode proposal: you should be able to send an emoji with a specifier for which image set and version you want.

sometimes you want to send 😔, and you don't mind which version is displayed. but sometimes you want to send 😔, and have it specifically be the Samsung TouchWiz 7.0 (2016) version.

no other iteration of 😔 captures the feeling of "sigh... if only my girlfriend Chiaki Nanami from Danganronpa 2 was real... then i could be her Ultimate Gamer Husband instead of studying for this lame physics exam..." quite like this one

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@IngaLovinde yes but ideally every client would have to contain every iteration of every emoji set, so i could just send U+1F614 PENSIVE FACE followed by U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER and U+EA07 TOUCHWIZ SEVEN MODIFIER
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or, U+1F914 THINKING FACE followed by U+200D ZERO WIDTH JOINER and U+EA08 BLOBCAT ONE MODIFIER :blobcatthinking:

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#JamesWebb #Space Telescope's 'little red dots' come into focus

npr.org/2025/01/14/nx-s1-52589…

> A #cosmic object spotted by the James Webb Space Telescope has flummoxed #astronomers. Now, a research team has studied hundreds of these "little red dots" and found clues about their identity.

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the only social media platform that operates out of the EU


Except for all the other ones.

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