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It's #POLL TIME! What are your opinions about Arch Linux? (You can precise your opinion in the comments)

#foss #linux #arch #archlinux #mastodon #opinion #community #opensource #distro

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April 27 is #InternationalCrowAndRavenAppreciationDay - Ravens are among the smartest of all birds. They can solve problems, play tricks and have a whole range of vocals.

#ravens #bird #photography #BirdsOfMastodon #WildlifePhotography #wildlife #VancouverIslandWildlife #VancouverIsland #BritishColumbia #PNW #Canada

A raven on top of a log looking down at the photographer with its head tilted to the left. Trees and sky in the background are out of focus.

@marnanel

> "unsigned characters", which aren't even a thing in the C programming language

Huh?

His smug aura mocks me.

#birds #serebitBackyard

A photo of a Northern Mockingbird, a roughly robin-sized songbird native to North America. It's facing camera left and looking at something with its one visible eye.

@angrylinus Nah, I was just spending too much time on both.

Removed Mastodon and Discord from my phone. We'll see how it goes.

The ospreys are back!!!

#birds

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Today I got a cheery email from somebody who claims to be the "ethics and compliance" officer for a company called Bright Data. He wanted to have a "no pressure" conversation about the whole AI scraperbot problem. Looking at their web site, this company offers an API that, and I quote, "Bypasses anti-scraping mechanisms and solves CAPTCHAs, ensuring uninterrupted access to the most protected web sites".

After careful consideration for several milliseconds, I have concluded that I really don't have anything to discuss with this person.

But at least their claimed "100M+" of residential IP addresses that they use for their DDOS attacks are "ethically sourced".

@eraserbones Their eyes make them look like common grackles, but pure black instead of iridescent.

@steven I would say royal we.

@breakfastgolem Do they have a gluten free option for @TheSmollestofBeans? She seemed interested

@wonderofscience NEW HORIZONS!!! My dad worked on this craft! I watched it go up when I was 6 years old...

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Pluto’s ice mountains, frozen plains and layers of atmospheric haze backlit by a distant sun, as seen by the New Horizons spacecraft.

Credit: NASA/JHUAPL/SwRI

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#PPOD: This new NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope image features a rare cosmic phenomenon called an Einstein ring. What at first appears to be a single, strangely shaped galaxy is actually two galaxies that are separated by a large distance. The closer foreground galaxy sits at the center of the image, while the more distant background galaxy appears to be wrapped around the closer galaxy, forming a ring. Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, G. Mahler

#space #science #scicomm

In the center is an elliptical galaxy, seen as an oval-shaped glow around a small bright core. Around this is wrapped a broad band of light, appearing like a spiral galaxy stretched and warped into a ring, with bright blue lines drawn through it where the spiral arms have been stretched into circles. A few distant objects are visible around the ring on a black background.

Sadly out of birdseed and don't want to go buy more for a few days, but the birds and squirrel seem to appreciate my refilling the birdbath. I see the mockingbird drinking out of the birdbath more than I see it eating from the feeder!

#serebitBackyard

@stephanie @TheSmollestofBeans saw a merlin in my yard last year!!

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“AI made art accessible” is like saying burglary made me having your tv accessible

@carpingdiem What a lovely titmouse!

I spend more time thinking "I should write a blog post about this" than I do actually writing blog posts

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"Killgissa (Swedish). Literal translation is "guy-guessing". To sound like knowing what one is talking about, but actually guessing."

I just realized that this is exactly what chatgpt is doing pretty much all the time.

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