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.
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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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 blinkedblog.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.
An update on our Terms of Use
We’ve been listening to some of our community’s concerns with parts of the TOU, specifically about licensing. Our intent was just to be as clear as possible about how we make Firefox work, but in doing so we also created some confusion and concern.Jenifer Boscacci (The Mozilla Blog)
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#Ukraine #photography
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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.
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‘Dummies for Putin’: Democrats defend Zelenskyy after ‘shameful’ Trump meeting
Ukrainian leader abruptly left White House after being publicly berated by US president in Russia ceasefire talksLéonie Chao-Fong (The Guardian)
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"Light, camera, "You're fired!"😂 😂 😂
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youtu.be/62pyfjnzIuc
#JennaOrtega #DeathOfAUnicorn
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Donald Trump’s Criminal Justice Agenda Is a Front That Has Nothing to Do With Public Safety
Trump is rounding up immigrants, while right-wing loyalists convicted and sentenced for violent felonies against the country are released and celebrated.Scott Hechinger (Teen Vogue)
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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…
The sweet Dutch sandwich that makes no sense
There's a pervasive belief in the Netherlands that this unconventional meal helps lift the national mood.Deborah Nicholls-Lee (BBC)
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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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with Trump's extortion demands, looming as part of that process?
UNTHINKABLE!
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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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
#JennaOrtega #NataliePortman #TheGallerist
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deadline.com/2025/02/hurry-up-…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow
youtu.be/hg0oFI2egfo?si=3LeuKm…
#JennaOrtega #HurryUpTomorrow
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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
youtu.be/OCfvQGj4jVQ
#MirandaCosgrove #MinuteEarth
#You #YouNetflix
#Laowa #Macro
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#Photography #MacroPhotography #Canon #Laowa #Godox
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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"
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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#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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