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1. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 14:06:54 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   Hahaaa! I found a still running old school GNU Social that has a shadow profile of my old #quitter.se account!

   chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/43…

   Thank you for hanging in there, Professor Steve. 🥰

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   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Monday, 13-May-2024 21:40:18 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864}
     @murph :anAmigaBall: :fedora: @Linux Walt (@lnxw37j1) {3EB165E0-5BB1-45D2-9E7D-93B31821F864} @Angry Sun I think all the posts are technically there on identi.ca, but everything changed URL in the migration and I think some issue was stopping me from forever-scrolling all the way back to my first post.
   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Tuesday, 14-May-2024 01:40:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     @Stephen Sekula Lucky I found it when I did then!

     Would you have any objections if I try to download it all while it's up? I could rate-limit myself.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 12:59:10 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     • Michael Vogel
     @Michael Vogel As you or someone noted on github, it appears that Chirp runs a StatusNet that should support AP. I just verified, it does in fact implement AP. 😊
2. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 11:59:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   This is a hilarious text, but unfortunately the aesthetic choice of writing it all in Unicode small caps makes it ... not quite text, not ASCII text anyway. It's unreadable to someone with a screen reader. I was curious and tried: "Read aloud" on my phone says "... 200 ... 705 ... X ... X."

   outerheaven.club/notice/AkaYEg…

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 12:05:12 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     The ascii-compatible text is here, and reads well aloud:

     outerheaven.club/notice/AkcRsn…

     But before I had found that, I was wondering if there was a quick and easy way to translate the small-caps text into text-text.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 12:09:56 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     So I tried just translating to English using the nearest translation tool. Maybe that would read the small-caps just fine, and output nornal text? It didn't. 🤣

     Autodetected language: Vietnamese.

     Output to English:
     ᴄʜᴇꜱꜱ ʜᴀꜱɴ’ᴛ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴜᴘᴅᴀᴛᴇᴅ ɪɴ ᴀʟᴍᴏꜱᴛ 200 ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀɴᴅ ɪᴛ’ꜱ ᴏʙᴠɪᴏᴜꜱ ᴛʜᴇ ᴅᴇᴠꜱ ʜᴀᴠᴇ ᴀʙᴀɴᴅᴏɴᴇᴅ ɪᴛ. ᴛʜᴇ ɢʀᴇᴇᴅʏ ᴄʀᴇᴀᴛᴏʀꜱ ᴛᴏᴏᴋ ʏᴏᴜʀ ᴍᴏɴᴇʏ ᴀɴᴅ ʟᴀᴜɢʜᴇᴅ ᴀʟʟ ᴛʜᴇ ᴡᴀʏ ᴛᴏ ᴛʜᴇ ʙᴀɴᴋ.
     I'm a 705 year old man. The first episode of the "Sunset" show was held in Seoul on April 14, 2018. I'm a Korean woman, I like to play sports. ɪ’ᴠᴇ ʙᴇᴇɴ ᴄᴏᴍᴘʟᴀɪɴɪɴɢ ꜰᴏʀ ʏᴇᴀʀꜱ ᴀʙᴏᴜᴛ ᴛʜᴇ ᴄᴏʟʟɪꜱɪᴏɴ-ᴅ ᴇᴛᴇᴄᴛɪᴏɴ ɢʟɪᴛᴄʜ ᴡɪᴛʜ ᴛʜᴇ ʜᴏʀꜱᴇʏ. The word “ᴄʟɪᴘᴘɪɴɢ-ᴛʜʀᴜ-ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ” means “ᴄʟɪᴘᴘ-ᴛʜʀᴜ-ᴘɪᴇᴄᴇꜱ”. English ꜱ ᴄᴏᴍᴘᴀɴʏ.

3. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:33:23 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   It was an exciting game between two very strong and technical players, both Wunderkinder who were winning medals years before they were 20, but Fan is 5 years older and the longer experience shows. His performance was consistent and disciplined under pressure.

   Möregårdh made some really impressive plays throughout the game, but only the first two sets were even. Once he started losing he started making more mistakes.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:08:48 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     I'm watching the ping pong final, males' singles.

     The Swedish guy is wearing Uniqlo. As a Uniqlo-wearing Swede, I can relate.

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 09:48:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to
     Oh wow, speaking of Wunderkinder, the French bronze medalist Félix Lebrun is only 17.
4. Tobias (tobias@social.diekershoff.de)'s status on Sunday, 04-Aug-2024 03:13:55 EDT Tobias

   • Berliner Luft

   Morgen Abend treffen wir uns in der c-base zum Fediverse Stammtisch in Berlin. Um 19 Uhr geht es los, alle am Fediverse interessierten sind herzlich willkommen um über Friendica, Mastodon, Misskey, Pixelfed und Co zu palavern und eventuell mal Gesichter hinter den Profilen kennen zu lernen.

   Die c-base findet ihr in der Rungestraße 20 am U+S Bahnhof Jannowitzbrücke.

   !Berliner Luft #Berlin #Fediverse #FediTreff #Feditreffberlin
5. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 18:38:00 EDT Michael Vogel
   Die Clickbait-Videos bei Youtube werden auch immer extremer ...
   pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/imag…
6. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 16:35:05 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan of Ohio [ . . . ] has led a right-wing crackdown on industrial independence — which is blatantly hypocritical behavior coming from the purported party of “free enterprise.”

   
   It's modern-day McCarthyism.

   msnbc.com/the-reidout/reidout-…

   Are you, or have you ever been, the CFO of a corporation that is party to Climate Action 100+?

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 17:00:35 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
     @Angry Sun Blackrock is among the investors that the Committee is implying left the coalition because of pressure from Jordan's investigation.
7. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 05:39:04 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

   World #1 male ping pong player https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chuqin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wang_Chu… from China is only 24 years old!

   World #26 male ping pong player https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truls_Möregårdh en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truls_M%…, who beat Wang in the semifinal yesterday, is only 22!! He won his first Swedish national championship as an adult when he was only 17.

   #PingPong #TableTennis #OlympicGames

   • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 16:07:20 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

     in reply to

     My bad, Möregårdh beat World #3 Hugo Calderano from Brazil in the semi, he beat Wang already in the round of 32 last week.

     Calderano is 28, which sounds more normal to me.

     Mikael Appelgren and Jan-Owe Waldner were world players almost into their 40s, but looking them up now, I see they started taking international medals already before their 20s. I never realized they went for that long. The inspiration from those two basically made Sweden the ping pong nation it is today.

8. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Thursday, 25-Jul-2024 10:17:16 EDT Brian Ó

   I found this barrel on the side of the road outside a marina. I called them to make sure it wasn't used to store anything nasty, and they couldn't tell me for certain, but it's free of residue/smell on the inside, and the bung was sealed with caulking, which makes me pretty certain it was used as a dock float. The faded print on the outside says it was originally for apple juice concentrate, so I know the plastic is food safe. I'm confident enough, despite its uncertain provenance, to use it as a rain barrel. I got it set up in it's future home and 3D printed a cap where it was missing one. Now I'm just waiting for the spigot and diverter I ordered to arrive. Unfortunately, due to where the downspouts are placed, I had to put it on the opposite side of the house to my garden. It'll be good exercise, I guess,

   #rain #water #3dprinting #gardening #diy #upcycling
9. Brian Ó (blacksam@social.gibberfish.org)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 09:26:34 EDT Brian Ó

   #insects #dill #butterflies #gardening #photo #mywork
10. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:33:33 EDT Michael Vogel
    Neben den ernsthaften Arbeiten auf der #ISS haben die Besatzungen von #CFT und #Crew8 ihre eigenen olympischen Spiele veranstaltet und dabei augenscheinlich viel Spaß gehabt.
    Olympics on the International Space Station youtube.com/watch?v=ycDoaIn6wu…
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 06:12:48 EDT Michael Vogel
      Es ist eine der Erkenntnisse, die man aus so vielen Jahren Stationsbetrieb gesammelt hat. Menschen sind keine Maschinen und brauchen Pausen. Das kann man auch sehr gut sehen, wenn man sich die Apollo-Missionen ansieht, wo die Astronauten unter massivem Zeitdruck standen.
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 06:18:04 EDT Michael Vogel
      Auch bei Skylab gab es massive Probleme mit den Plänen.
11. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Saturday, 03-Aug-2024 04:58:04 EDT Michael Vogel
    Die Tage musste ein Kleinflugzeug mit Antriebsproblemen in der Arktis im Atlantik notwassern. Beide Piloten konnten sich auch dank guter Vorbereitung retten.
    Rettungsaktion in der Arktis für zwei Piloten aus SH ndr.de/nachrichten/schleswig-h…
12. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 17:43:32 EDT Michael Vogel
    Die Craftbeer Bar in Hamburg hat ein nette Ausstattung.
    pirati.ca/photo/108323016066ad…
13. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 17:34:47 EDT Michael Vogel
    Abba haben wirklich viele Lieder gemacht. Seitdem wir hier in der Bar sind, wird nur Abba gespielt.
14. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 17:10:55 EDT Michael Vogel
    Wie haben uns auf Remis geeinigt.
    pirati.ca/photo/159794118966ad…
15. Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 12:38:47 EDT Michael Vogel
    Der Betreiber der SAR-Satelliten von Synspective macht sehr klar, dass er die Ukraine in ihrem Kampf gegen die russische Invasion unterstützt - und wie hoch die Qualität der Bilder ist.
    pirati.ca/photos/heluecht/imag…
    • Michael Vogel (heluecht@pirati.ca)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 12:42:01 EDT Michael Vogel

      in reply to
      Der Screenshot ist ein Ausschnitt dieses Bildes: synspective.com/gallery/sevast…
16. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 09:06:38 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
    Me: "... because in terms of Open Source, Free Software and Linux ..."
    Manager: "It's ok, we're off the clock now"
    Me: "No, no, no. In the office, I care about business objectives, priorities, outcomes ... in my spare time I care about Open Source, Free Software and Linux"
    Manager: "... ok 😅"
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 01:42:12 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • silverwizard
      @silverwizard uuuugh, eight hours in front of the screen at work. finally, I can go look at my own screen.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 10:14:55 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      • gunnar@diasp.org
      @gunnar I don't worry about eye health. I'm more concerned for my sleep schedule.
17. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 10:10:17 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    The HK government bought the Olympic Games rights for HK, so that people can watch it on any channel they like, whether it's Viu, TVB, Hoy, RTHK or something else.

    But I can't seem to find anywhere online I can watch the table tennis semifinal that just finished. I found one place where I think I could have streamed it as it happened.
18. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 00:38:36 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    There's a natural variation in ozone in the atmosphere, but CFCs and other substances were reducing ozone levels and expanding the seasonal ozone holes over the poles. The problem was real and it was getting worse, because CFCs were produced for a reason: It was really useful and cost-effective stuff.

    Banning ozone-depleting substances for use as coolants, fire supressants, aerosol agents and other applications was very successful, and after four decades we are now more than halfway to recovering to natural ozone levels.

    A few years ago there was briefly some illegal production of CFCs, which halted the recovery, but it was tracked down and halted, and we are back on track.

    nasa.gov/missions/aura/nasa-st…

    bbc.com/news/science-environme…

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozone_de…

    #OzoneLayer #OzoneDepletion
    #OzoneDepletingSubstances #ODSes
    #chlorofluorocarbons #CFCs

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 00:53:53 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      There are people out there who believe this was all a hoax, that variation is all natural, etc. But we can see the ozone holes shrinking. We have seen that recovery slows when we emit new CFCs.

      We stopped doing some genuinely useful and cost-effective things because it wasn't worth the cost of harming our health. We stopped doing it in every country on the planet, because it was causing a global problem.

      Everybody signed on, there was a transition period, we initially made exceptions, but we gradually found replacements and banned more substances. In some cases the replacements still aren't as good as what we had, but our atmosphere is healing. Companies were making good money making CFCs, but now they're making good money making what replaced them.

      And even for this seemingly uncontroversial success story, there are people out there who make up stories that contradict scientific consensus and direct observation.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 01:08:50 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      Published last month: "The last ozone-layer damaging chemicals to be phased out are finally falling in the atmosphere"

      theconversation.com/the-last-o…

      Another set of gases, hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs), was used as a temporary replacement.

      Unfortunately, HCFCs still destroy ozone. The good news is that levels of HCFCs in the atmosphere are now falling and indeed have been since 2021 according to research I led with colleagues.

      HCFCs deplete ozone to a much smaller extent than the CFCs they have replaced – you would have to release around ten times as much HCFC to have a comparable impact on the ozone layer.

      CFCs and HCFCs are also greenhouse gases, so that's at least one category of greenhouse gases that is falling.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 04:16:13 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      in reply to

      The United States, West Germany, East Germany, Yugoslavia, Venezuela, the Soviet Union, China, Uganda, Indonesia, countries from every alignment and continent, had signed it by 1989. By 1991 Chile, Brazil, South Africa, Iran and India had signed, and most of the world.

      You couldn't get all these countries to agree on anything ideological, but this was just a no-brainer. We're breaking this part of the environment? Let's stop then.

19. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Friday, 02-Aug-2024 02:42:37 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    One of the applications we're developing and maintaining at work requires the user to upload a file, and when I've been doing testing I've been uploading my Fedi profile picture. It's fun and it's a small file.

    Now I was on a call with one of the devs, and we were troubleshooting a thing together, and when he needed to upload a file, he uploaded my Fedi profile picture too. 🤣

    "Yeah, I downloaded that from one of your tests"
20. clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 10:27:14 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

    Not watching the trailers before watching Deadpool × Wolverine was the right choice, maaan they showed a lot.

    I had my first big surprise just minutes into the film and that would have been ruined if I had been reading or watching anything about it in advance.

    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 10:28:26 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛
      Now I can watch all the "HERE ARE ALL THE EASTER EGGS YOU MISSED" etc videos.
    • clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)'s status on Thursday, 01-Aug-2024 12:18:59 EDT clacke: inhibited exhausted pixie dream boy 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛

      @Angry Sun It was fun, it was funny, it was gory, it was exciting, it had drive, it was tight, it had love for Marvel Marvel and Fox Marvel, and it had its own weird brand of touching moments within the madness and irreverance.

      It was a very consistent third Deadpool with more cameos and references than ever, while delivering an actual story and an adventure.