keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
@dajbelshaw and sometimes you have to because some instance admins hold grudges against other instances and preemptively block all of their users. It creates a bit of a mess when messages don't get through and it's not clear to users on either side why that is. At least email had bounces.
@craftyguy cheaper that way. But painful
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For many #OpenStreetMap users on mobile (#OsmAnd, #OrganicMaps, #MagicEarth, apps that supports geo links), the built-in search feature is less than desirable. It works, *kinda*, but many wish it could be better.
If you're one of them users, you might want to check out #Acastus Photon, an #Android app that uses a #Photon server, an alternative geocoder for #OSM data.
Think of it as a companion app for leveling up the UX of your favorite #OSM front-end.
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Did you see the news that all of the #JWST instruments are aligned now?
Check out this comparison of one of the newly released calibration images from the MIRI instrument compared to images taken of the same region of space by the WISE and Spitzer space telescopes! Look at that resolution! So many newly resolved stars and structures! 🤩
I can't wait for all the new discoveries we'll make with JWST! #Science data starts in only a couple months!
(Image from @/AndrasGasper on birdapp)
@jonny a bit of setup, but people are tacking ".rss" on the end of profile or hashtag URLs to get RSS feeds, feeding those through rss2email then using various email sorting/bucketing algorithms. Having something do that in a single client would be advantageous.
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Mastodon tip: you can customize a column to list multiple hashtags (and block-list some of them too). It's a good way to discover all the posts gravitating around the topics you like (eg. for art, #mastoart is a popular one). That's really a feature I love here and wanted to share it to newcomers.
Another cautionary tale on how GM/Chevrolet handle the EV market, even today:
https://www.ev-resource.com/blog/gm-kills-support-for-the-spark-ev-no-battery-replacement-available
@brennen depending on the need, I tend to use onlyoffice (there's a public instance available on https://cryptpad.fr/sheet/ ) or libreoffice calc locally. Ages ago I used scheme-in-a-grid (siag), and gnumeric
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We updated this story on stalkerware with a new photo of physical trackers like AirTags and Tile devices, and new info from @evacide @adamrdodge on searching and scanning for them. https://www.consumerreports.org/digital-security/shut-stalkers-out-of-your-tech-a6642216357/
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If you're saying we should ditch #Firefox due to #Mozilla's decisions, this is the world #map you're advocating for. #browser
🔗 https://nitter.net/theworldmaps_/status/1518150533038620672
@mhoye that was eterm, part of the enlightenment desktop environment. Seems they've since deprecated it and now have "terminology" as the terminal which doesn't look quite as eye-candy
@linear "move fast and break things" is pretty much the opposite of engineering
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@gael would be easier for users to replace if there was an "add search engine" link for browsers, similar to what ddg does. Otherwise users need to add something like https://spot.ecloud.global/search?q=%s manually, which most will not do
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Ursula K. Le Guin on "technology"
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✨️ I made a thing! 🎉️
Check out my brandnew webcomic, "Contra Chrome":
Subtitle: How #Google‘s browser became a threat to #privacy and #democracy.
Featuring Shoshana Zuboff, vegan Piranhas, and everything you ever wanted to know about #Chrome but were afraid to ask!
Read and download for free – hope you like it! 😊
And if you do, please spread the word! 
@winduptoy @cblgh what (if anything) did ypou out on the bottom to be able to move it around?
Joined Jun 2019
