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Landscapesâ—ŹPermacultureâ—ŹCultivatorâ—ŹArtistâ—ŹMomâ—ŹWondermaker
â—ŹProtector of Pluralistic Democracyâ—Ź

"Let's get the rhythm of the hot-dog"

Unbridled interest in political and legal analysis, #anthropology #mycology #nativestewardship #equity #ecology #history #art #painting #pottery #poetry #textiles #camping #kayaking #fishing #woodwork #wondermaking #cooking #gardening #farming #animalhusbandry #propagation #preservation #homerestoration

With Twitter rebranding itself out of existence, millions of websites will have to update their "follow" and "share" buttons.

A perfect opportunity to finally add Mastodon or Fediverse buttons.

Underbelly of the Manhattan Bridge, 2023.

A dozen pixels for every story in the naked city at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/52841667763

Note: Not a 16:9 horizontal image, so you may need to click the preview to see the whole thing.

#photography

Manhattan Bridge

Flickr
Craig Mod recently completed a 16-day tour of northern Japan's jazz kissas (listening cafes) and made a short binaural recording of each one — with headphones, this is as close as you're gonna get to experiencing these kissas w/o being there. https://kottke.org/23/07/the-ambient-sounds-of-japans-jazz-kissas-listening-cafes
The Ambient Sounds of Japan’s Jazz Kissas (Listening Cafes)

Craig Mod recently finished a 16-day tour of jazz kissas in northern Japan. Jazz kissas are bar/cafes where one goes to listen t

kottke.org

Mozilla, makers of open source free Firefox, joined Mastodon last week. Mozilla began testing Mastodon security, including how their server responded to attacks and more.

They found 5 major flaws, threats, including the ability to take over a server, control a server, with a post.

With a post. TootRoot.

"Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking"

For 13 million users, #Mastodon NEEDS a security FOCUS.

Demand layers of protection.

https://arstechnica.com/security/2023/07/mastodon-fixes-critical-tootroot-vulnerability-allowing-node-hijacking/

Mastodon fixes critical “TootRoot” vulnerability allowing node hijacking

Most critical of the bugs allowed attackers to root federated instances.

Ars Technica

Flood! It's been solidly raining all day, and we are in the comparatively dry part of #Vermont. VT Digger is doing a great job providing updates on the #flooding ongoing in many parts of the state. https://vtdigger.org

#ClimateDiary #flood

VTDigger

Vermont's largest newsroom. Reporting on Vermont business, politics, the environment, public policy and more since 2009.

VTDigger

Oh my god, the #Dutch #government has launched a #mastodon server! Welcome to the #fediverse!

https://social.overheid.nl/@beheerder

Mastodon beheerder Overheid.nl (@[email protected])

3 Berichten, 2 Volgend, 965 Volgers · Functioneel beheer account t.b.v. de officiële mastodon instance binnen overheid.nl

Mastodon

The number of new Mastodon users has now slowed to a trickle again - but the number of active users keeps hitting new all-time-highs. IMO this is way more important.

Thank you for being here
https://botsin.space/@mastodon_daily_active_users/110684957271906789

Mastodon Daily Active Users (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 1,872,951 Active Mastodon Users +46,436 in last day +574,682 in last 7 days +715,456 in last 30 days 7,675,745 Total Mastodon Users +32,239 in last day +391,155 in last 7 days +741,751 in last 30 days data from https://api.joinmastodon.org/statistics

botsin.space

If Threads isn't available in the EU then it's not a viable Twitter replacement. That is both (1) ample evidence of inadequate privacy/content guardrails and (2) fatal to non-US sports coverage, which is a significant draw for Twitter.

via @business

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-05/meta-won-t-offer-threads-app-in-the-eu-on-regulatory-concerns

Meta’s Threads App Won’t Launch in EU on Regulatory Concerns

Meta Platforms Inc.’s Threads app — the social network rolling out this week to take on Twitter Inc. — won’t be offered in the European Union as the company works out how data sharing between the new platform and its Instagram app will be regulated.

Bloomberg

Mojang, the studio behind MineCraft, is exiting Reddit and abandoning is 7 million user strong subreddit after the way the company has handled the API clampdown and ensuing protests.

It’s truly incredible to me that their CEO saw what Elon did to Twitter and said, hold my beer.

https://www.pcgamer.com/minecrafts-devs-exit-its-7-million-strong-subreddit-after-reddits-ham-fisted-crackdown-on-protest/

Minecraft's devs exit its 7 million-strong subreddit after Reddit's ham-fisted crackdown on protest

The Minecraft subreddit won't be a source for official Mojang communications going forward.

PC Gamer