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☦️💻⚽🏥📷📈💪🏄☕️🇺🇸🇪🇬 Software Engineer by day Things I like: - #P2P/#opensource - #History (esp Rome/Greece/Egypt) - #Transit/#urbanplanning - #EVs/#SolarPower - #Space - #VideoGames Things I've Built: - Agora: Follow your favorite topics across Mastodon, B…
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Compare this to Mastodon, where an instance essentially has full control over users' data, and if it decides to shut down or cease service for specific users, they're shit out of luck and have to start over. Not a very decentralized way to handle accounts. atproto.com/guides/overv...

Re: the yearly daylight savings vs standard time debate, i say we split the difference. When we go back to daylight savings time in march, we spring the clocks forward a half hour, and leave it like that forever. Side bonus: it inconveniences the rest of the world

In light of recent events with @internetarchive , I figured we could really use a decentralized Internet Archive to have a resilient backup. Having said that, introducing Chronicl: https://chronicl.vercel.app

"ADCs combine antibodies with potent chemotherapy drugs through a chemical linker, allowing for targeted delivery to cancer cells while minimizing harm to healthy cells. This innovative approach represents a significant advancement in personalized cancer treatment." […]

This is what peak performance looks like.

Figured I'd make a little update to this

Most of those store brands aren't actually produced by Whole Foods, Trader Joes, Target, etc. They contract private label foodmakers to produce it for them. Normally that list of foodmakers is a company secret, but some digging in FDA food recalls reveals […] [Original post on andrew.masto.host]

1988-2010 was the golden age of hip hop Pre-1988 was still unrefined Post-2010 has been mostly garbage

Notion’s email product is nearing launch https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/24/notions-email-product-is-nearing-launch/

PSA: " #E.coli Outbreak Linked to McDonald’s Quarter Pounders, with most illnesses in Colorado and Nebraska."

Is all of #GoogleDown or something? I can't get Gmail, Drive, Calendar, etc to load

@perplexity_ai is by far the best alternative to Google Search that I've come across

Am i crazy or has the phrase “high trust society” become a very obvious dog whistle for “ethnically homogenous society”?

Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships […]

Total rainfall dropped by Hurricane Milton on Florida

Key members of PNAC like Wolfowitz, Perle, and Feith, known for strong pro-Israel stances, speculated in their 2000 report that a ‘new Pearl Harbor’ could galvanize US foreign policy. A year later, 9/11 became the catalyst to push regime change in Iraq. Incredibly convenient…

** Self-GPT: Open WebUI + Ollama = Self Hosted ChatGPT ** Instructions here: https://github.com/ghobs91/Self-GPT Self-GPT is a handy script that bundles Open WebUI (chat interface front end) with Ollama (LLM backend). - Privacy & Control: Everything runs locally, so your data stays with you […]

What sub-$100k car has the nicest interior? Nicest could mean most luxurious, coolest looking, most modern, etc. @cars

Some epic announcements from @tesla last night. Would love to see those RoboVans in the BRT Bus Lanes #RoboTaxi #RoboVan #TeslaBot

Are there any alternatives to the Internet Archive that are built around P2P, so that everyone can contribute to hosting/sharing web archives? Seems like having all these important archives hosted by a single organization isn't the best idea for longevity/redundancy @opensource

CGI of what different #hurricane storm surge heights look like, incredible.

Not sure when iCloud on the web got this good, finally becoming a legit alternative to Google Drive or OneDrive @apple_enthusiast

#hurricane #hurricanemilton #florida

#hurricanemilton #florida

At @Vivaldi , we make browsers. Powerful browsers, with more functionality than others, but still browsers. What we are not is: 1. An OS company. 2. A search company. 3. An ad company. 4. An AI company. None of our major competitors can really say the same. We focus on doing one thing really […]

Unprecedented drip

Favorite gaming account of the week: @obsoletesony

Ok, so how do we fork Firefox successfully into a more user-aligned nonprofit, funded by donations and non-browser-touching halo services, that’s still pragmatic in nudging surveillance capitalism in the right direction without losing compatibility or being complicit, and bring Servo back into […]

Imagine telling someone in the ‘90s that: - the best #EVs would be made by the American and Korean carmakers - Followed by mediocre or overpriced offerings by the Europeans - and finally the Japanese, who try to pretend EVs don’t exist at all

1910 vs 2023 - Corner of Main St. and Shore Road in Port Washington (Long Island, NY) looking east @longisland

Bop Spotter: "a box high up on a pole somewhere in the Mission. Inside is a crappy Android phone, set to Shazam constantly, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. It's solar powered, and the mic is pointed down at the street below" https://walzr.com/bop-spotter @technology

This is a great example showing that your governor is often more impactful to your daily life than who the president is. "California bans legacy and donor preferences in admissions at private, nonprofit universities" […]

I got your two state solution right here

OpenAI CTO Mira Murati stepping down @technology

Meta: “Introducing Orion, Our First True Augmented Reality Glasses” https://about.fb.com/news/2024/09/introducing-orion-our-first-true-augmented-reality-glasses/amp/ @technology

Fun fact, diamond mining company De Beers popularized the whole "___ months salary" trope for engagement rings with marketing campaigns like this one

It would be awesome if @internetarchive 's 13 million videos were available on a @peertube instance. It would add a huge volume of valuable/interesting videos to the Fediverse @brewsterkahle @mark @avdempsey @sawood @textfiles @andrea @chrisfreeland @tracey @Roger

wow! this is a big deal for the ActivityPub ecosystem. Mallory is great, can land the funding that has been so lacking, credibly counter-balance multinational corporations, navigate standards bodies, get E2EE/MLS rammed through, etc.

Beyond the route: Introducing granular MTA bus speed data https://new.mta.info/article/beyond-route-introducing-granular-mta-bus-speed-data @transit

Applications Open for 6,200 Jobs in Egypt’s new Dabaa Nuclear Project https://egyptianstreets.com/2024/09/22/applications-open-for-6200-jobs-in-egypts-dabaa-nuclear-project/ @worldnews