@PeggyDMinimalista fender affirming care

@tyzbit When you take your truck to the shop for the modifications, that is gender affirming truck care.

- Copilot was forced to nearly every MS user without their consent
- Gemini starts each time an Android user touch their smartphone main button
- Whatsapp users suddenly interact with an AI they can’t disable
- Firefox will soon have its own AI
- Even myself, as a @protonprivacy and @kagihq user, I received access to multiple chatbots I never asked for

But remember: statistics show that "people are using AI tools !"

If you trust those statistics, you are deep into the delusion bubble.

@50years_music I don’t like this video. But OMG he was so handsome.

I support #PalestineAction

Anyone who boosts this post is breaking the law of the United Kingdom

So don't do that

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what we have been doing has not been stopping them, so necessarily we must now do things we have not yet done before.

#uspolitics

@GottaLaff Also, do drug traffickers store their valuable cocaine in see through bags?

@cdarwin
This is a must-read for healthcare workers. #nurses

@tayfonay And then put it in the woman’s tote bag. Maybe he thought nobody would forcibly take it from a woman? And why did no one stand up for the kid?

@MalcolmNance I am sick to death of JDVance and his ilk equating mental illness with criminality and danger. The same goes for homelessness, etc. I have spent some time in “bad” neighborhoods. Just make eye contact and say good morning. Parents, set an example for your children.

Have you talked to your children about the separation of powers? No, seriously, we have to teach kids this.

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:ogxwo7snwv7j56iq3li2nh3v/post/3lvdjo3wnhk2o

@VeroniqueB99 This poor guy would not even have been admitted to this hospital to get a “big beautiful bill”. The hospital would be closed.

@wdlindsy
Thanks for trying, heroic nurses.

A zoo in the U.S. state of Kansas has welcomed the birth of a healthy baby pygmy hippopotamus, raising hope for a species that’s becoming rare in the wild.

The yet-to-be-named male pygmy hippo calf, born June 26, is the fifth offspring of parents Pluto and Posie since their arrival at Tanganyika Wildlife Park in the city of Goddard from different zoos in 2014.

By Shreya Dasgupta https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/07/rare-pygmy-hippo-born-in-kansas-zoo-offers-hope-for-endangered-species/

#News #Conservation #Environment #Wildlife

I want meshtastic (off grid communication network) and I want everybody to have it. Meshtastic.com. I am not knowledgeable about the technology, but I will try to learn it.
#meshtastic #OffGridCommunication #resist

@ov_dragonman It sounds like the same concept as https://meshtastic.org/ , with a difference in how messages are broadcast: via Bluetooth for Dorsey's new thing, and via small "radios" for meshtastic.

What they seem to have in common is a mesh relay system and store-and-forward. It works like this. Say you want to send a message to someone who lives in another city 20 miles away. You type your message, "I like ramen," and it gets encrypted into an unreadable lump of data before it leaves your device. Then your device broadcasts it directly to every other device (that has the same app installed) in range.

The range for Bluetooth would only be about 35 feet, as you know. But nearly everyone could, potentially, be carrying a device with the app. Whereas the range for a meshtastic radio (LoRa system if you want to look it up) could be a couple miles, depending on terrain. But relatively few people have LoRa radios.

Back to your message. Every device (or node) that receives the encrypted lump will then rebroadcast it to every node in its range, which reaches farther out than yours. And the relay repeats again and again, until it reaches your intended recipient 20 miles away whose device can decrypt the message. Meanwhile, your device is probably receiving and relaying messages from other users that you're not aware of. The store-and-forward function means a node will try to rebroadcast the same message more than once, for example after they've physically moved some distance away.

At no point is a cell tower involved, nor any internet server. The article mentions "bridge" devices to increase range. Meshtastic has something similar. They are dedicated signal-boosters which might be mounted on tall buildings or hills. All they do is blindly relay messages. In meshtastic, boosters are more powerful than personal radios and make a dramatic difference in range. I don't know how they would work with Bluetooth only, though. The article mentions using overlapping wifi networks instead of just Bluetooth.

So in summary:
- yes, messages are as secure as the encryption itself
- system operates independently of cell phone and Internet providers; it is "off-grid" in that sense
- system would struggle to cover long empty distances, and work best with dense clusters of users
- police would probably be able to see the location of nearby nodes, but not tie them to a phone number or to read encrypted content

I'm not an expert but this is my understanding of mesh systems.

@SPF I really really want this. I wish I understood the technical stuff.

@w7voa If it was appropriate to deport him, he should have been in Canada within a couple of days. He would still be alive. Why hold him for 6 weeks in unsafe conditions?

@MalcolmNance Can someone please explain this to me?

@Phro@mastodon.gamedev.place When learning, I had difficulty controlling my speed. Some machines have speed control which would be helpful. If you want to sew clothing, start making pajamas. You can wear your mistakes in privacy.