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I waddled onto the beach and stole found a computer to use.

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Note: I'm moderating a handful of communities in more of a caretaker role. If you want to take one on, send me a message and I'll share more info :)

  • Would you rather glow in the dark, or slowly get bigger when in water, and then shrink back to normal when dry?

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  • Does the amount of water affect the rate of growth, or is it a timing thing?

    Am I absorbing water like a sponge, where I'd grow much faster in a pool vs. the rain

    Or is it a reaction to any prolonged contact with water

  • UN Ditches Google for Taking Form Submissions, Opts for an Open Source Solution Instead

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  • Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data

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  • I think the website is old, and the blurry bits were a prediction

    The new cycle is expected to start late in 2019 or in 2020, with solar maximum to be reached between 2023 and 2026 and the maximum (smoothed) sunspot number in the 95 to 130 range.

    A different color and a legend would have been nicer imo

  • Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data

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  • I wonder if it was even possible for the pilots to intervene, or if the system was interpreting any signal from them as "pitch down" during that time

  • Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data

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  • Nice thank you, this one has the details I was curious about

    In a service difficulty report submitted to the FAA the operator stated, that the Elevator Aileron Computer #2 (ELAC2) was identified faulty causing an uncommanded pitch down in cruise flight, the autopilot remained engaged

    On Nov 7th 2025 the NTSB reported: "During cruise, the aircraft experienced an uncontrolled descent for approximately 4-5 seconds before the autopilot corrected the trajectory. This likely occurred during an ELAC switch change." The occurrence caused 10 injuries on board, the NTSB opened an investigation.

    The subsequent investigation identified a vulnerability with the ELAC B hardware fitted with software L104 in case of exposure to solar flares.

    This identified vulnerability could lead in the worst case scenario to an uncommanded elevator movement that may result in exceeding the aircraft structural capability.

  • Flights disrupted after Airbus discovers intense sun radiation could impact flight control data

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  • Saw this ghacks article for speeding up YouTube on FF and seems to help.

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  • Roasted facehugger

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  • sigounery weaerv

    fnsagape

  • Locked

    TIL Iran Has No Water Left, 28 Million People WITHOUT Water

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  • I think you replied to the wrong comment

  • Rybbit - Open source Google Analytics replacement

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  • You mentioned being frustrated at Plausible. What did you not like about it?

    I haven't tried Plausible, but it seemed popular

  • The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal

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  • Sounds like they joined a large group chat as a member

    The FBI, the documents show, gained access to conversations in a “courtwatch” Signal group that helps coordinate volunteer activists who monitor public proceedings at three New York federal immigration courts. The US government has repeatedly been accused of violating immigrants’ due process rights at those courts.

  • Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?

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  • Hi Sarah,

    Sorry for the delay in getting to this. We really appreciate the feedback! We're currently working on an update to our site, and will continue to incorporate feedback over time.

    We've iterated over these pages a few times, and while there is definitely more that we can do to improve it, I feel that we need a few different guides for each target demographic or use case. Ideally, someone will find their way to the appropriate resource, depending on the level of detail or transparency that they are looking for. The goal of the two guide pages above were mainly to explain what it is that our non-profit is doing, and how it differs from traditional social media. A lot of alternative social media platforms advertise transparency and a positive user experience, and so the guide pages above were intended for people who want an explanation on how the Fediverse can actually deliver on those promises.

    Right now, the page we have for users that simply want to sign up for a platform is here: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms

    We can certainly improve the flow for users that want to get to that page, and the page itself. We haven't prioritized that aspect, since we figured that users who are learning about one of the platforms might be going to it directly, instead of through our non-profit's site.

    Would you have some suggestions on what a page like that should include, or what you would like to see in the guides instead?

    I have students who can help you with this stuff for free. If you’re interested, DM me.

    We'd love the help and feedback, especially if it's something that would complement their studies! Thank you for offering :)

  • I Have to Ask. Which Instance Was Online During the Cloudflare's Outage?

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  • I appreciate that different teams are doing different things, I'll have to remember to drop by during the next cloudflare outage 😄

  • I Have to Ask. Which Instance Was Online During the Cloudflare's Outage?

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  • I Have to Ask. Which Instance Was Online During the Cloudflare's Outage?

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  • Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.

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  • While I don't have a direct answer, I know that my university had some courses dedicated to this topic. I think these are some of them:

    https://www.students.cs.ubc.ca/~cs-311/2025W1/nav/goals.html

    https://www.cs.ubc.ca/course-section/cpsc-411-201-2020w

    https://www.cs.ubc.ca/~rxg/cpsc509-spring-2024/

    The second one is described as

    The goal of this course is to give students experience designing, implementing, and extending programming languages. Students will start from a machine language, the x86-64 CPU instruction set with Linux system calls (x64), and incrementally build a compiler for a subset of Racket to this machine language. In the process, students will practice building, extending, and maintaining a complex piece of software, and practice creating, enforcing, and exploiting abstractions formalized in programming languages.

    The course assumes familiarity with basic functional programming in Racket, and some simple imperative programming in assembly.

    Those links might give you something to search off of?

    And what’s the purpose of developing more languages anyway?

    At some level, I think it's this:

    https://xkcd.com/927/

  • PdfDing Update: Signatures, dedicated website + docs

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  • Looks good!

    I have one suggestion, the white text on bright green on the website is hard to read. Maybe you can pick different colors, or put borders around the characters.

  • Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.

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  • Linux Foundation

    The slide people are mentioning

    In text:

    This is a brief summary of Servo’s project history. The project was started by Mozilla in 2012, at that time they were developing the Rust language itself (somehow Mozilla used Servo, a web rendering engine, as a testing project to check that Rust language was good enough). In any case we cannot consider it really “new”, but Servo is way younger than other web engines that started decades before.

    In 2020, Mozilla layoff the whole Servo team, and transferred the project to Linux Foundation. That very same year the Servo team had started the work in a new layout engine. The layout engine is an important and complex part of a web engine, it’s the one that calculates the size and position of the different elements of the website. Servo was starting a new layout engine, closer to the specifications language and with similar principles to what other vendors were also doing (Blink with LayoutNG and WebKit with Layout Formatting Context). This was done due to problems in the design of the original layout engine, which prevented to implement properly some CSS features like floats. So, from the layout engine point of view, Servo is quite a “new” engine.

    In 2023, Igalia took over Servo project maintenance, with the main goal to bring the project back to life after a couple of years with minimal activity. That very same year the project joined Linux Foundation Europe in an attempt to regain interest from a broader set of the industry.

    A highlight is that the project community has been totally renewed and Servo’s activity these days is growing and growing.

    The WPT scores should give an idea of how "ready" it is: https://servo.org/wpt/

    It shows that the situation in 2023 was pretty bad, but today Servo is passing more than 1.7 million subtests (a 92.7% of the tests that we run, there are some tests skipped that we don’t count here).

  • I think I'm suddenly very allergic to my cat maybe? What gives????

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  • Has the cat's diet changed at all? My understanding is that the allergy has to do with a protein that some cats produce, and it ends up on their fur through the saliva. Certain diets can reduce or eliminate the protein.

    I don't have any brands to recommend, but here is the study if it gives you something to go off of

    https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6764009/

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    GoodBearComics - Sniff

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    LitterBox Comics - Chicken Strip

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    The Other End Comics - Bear Hug

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    Loading Artist - Unexpected Presents

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    Loading Artist - Dropping By

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    Loading Artist - Live and Let Bee