ijk64✅ @ijk64@m.futex.au

Most people that I meet on my photography adventures don't know that "taking pictures for Wikipedia" is a thing. So, when I'm out shooting, I often engage in conversations about how Wikipedia needs more photos. That's what happened this morning, when I took this image for the article "Greater white-fronted goose":

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greater_white-fronted_goose

Please consider sharing your photos with a global audience through #Wikipedia !

#PacificFlyway #wikiphotographer #birdphotography #wikimediacommons

Every time I poke my head around the bird site, it's worse in a different way. This time, it was the ads. I saw more ads than actual Tweets. And, they were sad pitiful ads, too. For boring things, like Cole Haan wool-lined suede loafers

My wife (an expert in VPN technology) tells me this is accurate

ATTENTION EVERYONE WRINGING THEIR HANDS OVER “#MASTODON ADMINS CAN READ MY DIRECT MESSAGES”: #SysAdmins have *always* been able to read your #email and DMs unless encrypted, including at the big #SocialNetworks and Internet providers. We used to have t-shirts that said, “I READ YOUR EMAIL.”

It’s just hitting now because you got used to places where the admins were kept away in their cubicles and data centers instead of greeting you at the front door.

#privacy #security #InfoSec #cybersecurity

I spent October drawing a bird every day as part of #InktobirdsNZ, and just uploaded the ones I'm happiest with to @WikiCommons under an open licence for anyone to reuse for any purpose. No permission required, just credit me. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Illustrations_by_Mike_Dickison

THE LORD’S PRAYER 5.0:
Our Father on Mastodon,
Harold be thy name.
Thy follows come,
Thy toots be done,
On the Fediverse as it is in Heaven.
Give us this day our daily boosts,
And forgive us our replies as we also have forgiven those who have replied against us,
Lead us not into Twitter,
But deliver us from the evil one, Elon Musk.
For the kingdom, the power and the favorites are yours forever,
Amen 🙏

here's tonite's #amiga #chiptune - this ones called saturnday <3 hope ya like it \o_ + have a nice eve' x

This is a perfectly normal human town full of normal humans doing normal human things. Please move along, there is nothing to see here.

Every day I see more and more evidence of society descending into utter lawlessness and chaos.

Way to go #nasa #artemis🤘😬
👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏✨👏
“Houston, we have a new record 🌎
On Saturday Nov. 26, at 8:40 a.m. ET, @NASA_Orion broke the record for the farthest distance traveled from Earth of a human-rated spacecraft. The record was previously held by Apollo 13 at 248,655 statute miles from Earth. Go Artemis!” - @nasa_johnson.

#space #astronomy #science #travel #stem #moon

Reflections after 24 hours on #Mastodon... It's so chill. I didn't really recognize what the onslaught of incessant advertising was ruining the social network experience. It's *so refreshing* to come here and just see measured and meaningful conversations. I also see plenty of reflections by users that this is not a universal experience, so maybe it has something to do with me running my own server and really only seeing content from people I follow. But so far, its a breath of fresh air.

Since my once beloved doomscrolling site has been pivoted to an all-out shitposting service by new mgmt, I wrote about starting my own #Mastodon instance for #TechPolicyPress
https://techpolicy.press/how-to-open-an-outpost-in-social-media-exile/

The world map according to fish.

I have a whole blog post in my head I may write if I find the motivation. Traditional API Gateways are becoming commodity. Innovation can happen on the experiences, modernizing both dev and ops. WebAssembly, edge deployments, remote debugging, GitOps, local stacks—oh my! But does this change have commercial opportunity for non-utility companies? Underlying it all… Do I really want to build another gateway in my career?

a fairy story

@nixCraft

@jerry

On a related PSA we need to ensure we fill in emergency contacts and medical information on our smart phones! 🙂

As you may know modern iOS and Android has this options built-in and can be vital in an emergency

iOS:

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT208076

Android:

https://support.google.com/android/answer/9319337?hl=en

Let's get everyone setting this up! Friends and family also 🙂👍

Dentist: So, do you floss?
Me: Do you use a unique password for every account?

#️⃣CatSalad

You and I and everyone here are part of the first 10 million people on the fediverse.

We are setting the cultural and technical norms for the next few decades.

So if there's something you wish Mastodon did, or ActivityPub did, just start acting like it already exists.

If enough people want it or need it, it will get added by the software and protocols later.