Avalon Woodard @Avalon@social.tchncs.de

Fun fact: We took inspiration for Tutanota's new, Google-free push notification when @Gargron 's @Mastodon used SSE for push (they now use another push system). 👍 👏 It's exciting to build open source alternatives to liberate people from using data mining services. #foss #opensource Head over to @fdroidorg to read details on our new push implementation 👉 https://f-droid.org/en/2018/09/03/replacing-gcm-in-tutanota.html

IF YOU USE OPEN SOURCE STUFF in the course of your day-to-day, consider sending the maintainer a thank you note: https://www.thankyouopensource.com/

OSS can be really thankless, and this tiny note can make a world of difference.

#mastoart #monday #astronomy #astrophysics #fuckyeahscience

"Google wants to kill the URL"

No

"People have a really hard time understanding URLs" is not a good enough reason to get rid of URLs

To this day, I refuse to use an AMP specific webpage as it breaks the open web. When I'm presented with an AMP link, I edit the URL to remove that component so I get the full page. "Safe" URLs will similarly cater to Google interests and I will not be using it

If other vendors go along with this, I'll write my own browser if I have to

https://www.wired.com/story/google-wants-to-kill-the-url/

Family.
Source: https://www.deviantart.com/applepoo/art/Family-270564199
#art #illustration #animals #birds #chickens #chicks #ducklings #cute

- a microSD card weighs somewhere around 0.4g
- the highest capacity microSD that's easily available is 256GB
- a trebuchet can throw a 90kg projectile over 300m

90kg worth of microSD cards is 225,000 of them

Therefore a trebuchet can throw 57.6PB of data over 300m

This would have the highest throughput of any telecommunications network ever created

too tired to art at home for the most part this week, but here's a little bird critter

Me: I want to get this thing done, so, I'll stay up late working on it

Also me: stays up late re-dyeing hair and tying tinsel into it, does not do work

Also also me: argh I feel so wrecked this morning and I slept late and I have So Much Work To Do

#ActuallyADHD

Wooo, #Mastodon got a shout-out (with a typo) on #XKCD:
https://xkcd.com/2045/

While I'm still sorting out some upload troubles with archive.org, here's another youtube video to enjoy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-QNB7uEqhE

This is Scott Renkes and Courtney Vanous. They are the acrobatic duo in my circus. Absolutely incredible people, on and off stage.

#theater #circus #acrobatics #LiveTheater #acrobats #PhysicalTheater

People often wonder why printers are so cantankerous but frankly any device that embeds pigmented runes in the remains of long-dead trees is going to be stricken by an ancient faerie curse from the start

How did "the quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog" become the typical sentence that contains all letters of the alphabet and not "sphinx of black quartz, judge my vow" which is objectively a million times cooler

Personal victory: One of my all time favorite performances is now on archive.org

https://archive.org/details/LeBelleEtLeBete

#LiveTheater #Clown #Juggling #ContactJuggling #Circus #Performance #Video

"You're not the sharpest tool in the toolbox, are you?" he asked his hammer.

#smallstory #microfiction #shortstory #originalwork

Me IRL.

/via http://questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=3821 seriously a wonderful comic

Wikipedia and Google delude many into thinking all human knowledge has been made available to our immediate access.
This is a dangerous lie.
Any scholar will tell you of the vast amount of documents and artifacts completely unavailble online, or indeed impossible to easily scan or study online.
And this silent wealth pales before the oral and analog culture which, in a McLuhanian dimension, can not be simply digitized and maintain integrity.

I don't know why this concept is in my head, but for some reason I really want to hear William Shatner do a spoken word cover of "Jolene". I think it has the potential to be the most beautiful piece of art ever made. Someone please contact his people and get this done.

#music #art #StopLookingAtMeLikeThat