Dutch government announces that they'll make Mastodon available to all layers of the entire Dutch government, as a shared service of the government, starting in 2025!
The Mastodon pilot of the government celebrates their 1-year anniversary today, and as part of the evaluation they stated the Mastodon pilot "strengthens digital autonomy and [creates] a safe and reliable information supply".
Announcement (in Dutch): https://www.digitaleoverheid.nl/nieuws/1-jarig-mastodon-overheid-blikt-terug-en-vooruit/
@icy Oh, you don't know how many times I've heard "But you talk like a white guy" or also, "You don't look Hispanic, you look white?" I expect dumb comments like that in the US but I guess I shouldn't assume it's only a US thing.
In #Nicaragua, immigrants who just have residency (like myself) have to renew it every 6 months. It's an easy process but just usually very slow and very hot/uncomfortable/sweaty.
Today I had it done in record time. 2 hours and 10 minutes. Also wasn't terribly hot because we had both a tropical storm and a hurricane cover the country for the last week. So still a lot of residue cloud coverage. My own little silver lining.
@john @ols Good catch. Still, I must know why?
@ols But why are you being scolded?
Absentee ballot printed. Time to vote for a candidate who's not: 1) a convicted felon, 2) a grifter, and 3) orange.
@ols Hah, dude. You really framed that like it was a rugby injury. Nice one!
@ols My man plays rugby and wonders why his body hurts 
Also vegan high five!
@ols Did you do something specific to it? Is it an injury or ongoing pain?
I ask because I had lower back pain and sciatic issues most of my life. What used to help me a lot was a few stretches I'd do in the morning and evening but it never really resolved it. Also you should try to reduce dairy/red meats as they're pretty inflammatory and that can cause pressure on nerves, etc.
Since going vegan 8 years ago I've had no back pain at all, I assume due to way less inflammation in my body. Not preaching veganism to you, just saying that's what worked for me.
@ptd Hah, for real!
This photo of the Bridge Fire in the hills behind Los Angeles speaks to the fact that we are in the midst of a cataclysm and the vast majority of people have no idea
Multiple analyses show that if Trump had simply invested his multi-million-dollar inheritance in an index fund and didn’t touch it, he’d be a lot richer than he is now.
Think about that. His entire life’s work has been less successful than if he’d done nothing.
@tedu I think I'll wait for reactions (yours!) of S3 then before giving new hours to the series.
Was on vacation last week. Did I miss anything good?
@tedu Is season 2 good? I watched S1 and I wasn't that in love with the series. I was surprised to see a new season, which was S3. I had no idea S2 even existed. I may give it another shot.
at a protocol level, the internet is only really capable of transmitting two types of data: TCP (True Crime Podcast) and UDP (Unlistenable D&D Podcast)
Lou Dog taking in the views... Happy weekend all.
#nicaragua #tropics
Wishing a happy birthday to my good friend @AndrewHacks! See you next week man!
9850 Americans or 0.0029% of Americans are worth $100M or more, and could be subject to Harris's 25% tax on unrealized gains.
265,200,000 Americans or 78% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck.
The people who might 'only' be worth $75M want to lecture working Americans struggling to get by on how difficult life might become for them.
"We just sent you a temporary code by email. It will expire in 2 minutes"
Are you kidding me? These days with all the grey-listing and anti-spam measures it could take an email much longer than 2 minutes to arrive... Who in their right mind coded that?
@xavier @blainsmith
$ go telemetry on
$ echo '127.0.0.1 telemetry.go.dev' >> /etc/hosts
Let the games begin.
I'm slowly becoming that old dude with random long ass ear hairs and I'm not sure how I feel about it.
An SQL injection bug that lets you bypass airport security and even JUMP SEAT. Sure. This is great. I’m not having a heart attack or anything. TSA response is definitely also chef’s-kiss. *breathes into a paper bag* https://ian.sh/tsa
Oh dealing with AWS support is such a joy.
@whynothugo we're gluttons for punishment.
Shit you see on the streets of Managua, #Nicaragua.
Tesla: Other than showing off, there is no reason to have one of these in Nicaragua (currently anyway, no real infrastructure or replacement parts here for this)
Motorcycle: You see people carrying all sorts of crap on their motorcycles here. I've seen a mid sized fridge once. But this one, takes the cake.
Mike Masnick on Zuckerberg’s cowardly letter to Jim Jordan:
"The only actual “news” out of all this is (1) Zuckerberg has no spine and simply cannot stand up to bad faith government pressure to change his moderation practices when it comes from Republicans (he was fine doing so when it came from Democrats) and (2) Donald Trump has accused himself of rigging his own election against himself.”
https://www.techdirt.com/2024/08/28/trumps-accidental-admission-and-zuckerbergs-surrender-the-real-takeaways-from-metas-letter/
@pronto Woah those are neat. I should look into those for our farm pre-rolls. We mostly sell rosin but we got some fire pre-rolls and hash holes too that would look cool in those.
@pronto @computerywar Hah. I think the rule of thumb is 1 tbsp for every cup. I generally use 6 tbsp for 7-8 cups of water. Tastes great.
Three days ago my #github account was apparently “flagged” (whatever that means).
I wasn’t notified about it. No email. No banner in my account. I only discovered it when a workflow I was testing wasn’t working and my signed commits were “unverified” because “no email address is associated with the committer”. A friend at work then told me my profile page 404’d.
8 hours later GitHub also deleted the codespace powering my GitHub pages-hosted website, taking it offline.
🧐
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How come we never hear media report that in the year prior to 10/7—Hamas killed 250 Israeli civilians, kidnapped 800 Israeli kids, took 8000 Israelis hostage, & built more than 12,000 homes on Israeli land?
You know why?
Because Hamas did none of those things. In reality, in the year prior to 10/7, the Israeli Govt killed 250 Palestinian civilians, kidnapped 800 Palestinian kids, took 8000 Palestinians hostage, & built 12,000+ homes on Palestinian land.
But go on—pretend this all began 10/7.
Switzerland goes all-in on open source!
Switzerland pioneers a decision mandating all government software be released as open source: enhancing transparency and security.w
Public money, public code 🚀
#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #GovernmentTech @fsfe
https://www.zdnet.com/article/switzerland-now-requires-all-government-software-to-be-open-source/
@icy Apple appears to be trying to tell you something.
@ols Eyyyy new icon dropped on my side now
@knapjack also accidentally bonked your reply hah. Oops
@knapjack Hah, I feel you
@petersanchez That's good to hear.
I don't love wires but I like batteries less. 😂
@crft Well I live here so I'm always around. Drew I think is staying 6 months (he's renting an apartment). Yea, it's not terribly expensive to travel here.
@knapjack I have that kb (bluetooth version) and it's great! I use it when traveling mostly but it's a very nice kb.
@crft No, I didn't end up in OC. I wouldn't choose to live in the OC lol.
What will we get up to? Drinking, beaches, and coding. About it.
Sunset and sunrise views from the hills in San Juan del Sur, Nicaragua.
@AndrewHacks @crft You'll never do it. Though happy you have your flight booked for next week. Maybe Craft should come down and hang for a week or so too.
Also when Drew says 12 miles from the beach in LA, he means K-Town to Santa Monica. Aka, top 5 worst drives in the US. Then you gotta beach in Santa Monica which usually isn't that great due to tourist crowds.
I used to live in Cerritos and would shoot down to HB several mornings a week to surf. I loved it. Took about 25 minutes to get there and the drive back was usually easy. If there was traffic I could take the streets.
I just cut the line at living in OC. I may be a mile or two from the county border but f*ck living in OC.
That's your wife?
https://www.reddit.com/r/curb/s/h6yYr1XtWw
Curb Your Enthusiasm is the funniest show ever. Fight me.
New coffee mug just dropped.
What a time to be alive.
https://botsin.space/@iss_whizz/112992553463503444
@ols @icy Yea, manual query shows the right photo URL and the image loads. So I guess once caches start expiring it'll show up.
@icy @ols Sorry just seeing this but icy is correct. And yes the files go in the <datadir>/memes folder. Here's what my profile looks like:
@icy Nice
@icy Awesome! Glad you enjoyed it. Yea, the story could have been tuned up a bit and you could pretty much see where things were heading from mid-way but I just found the entire process so much fun to watch. I was scared a few times where I sort of jumped in my seat. Love when a movie can do that!
Plus the Nicholas Cage character was so damn creepy.