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maple "mavica" syrup [6502]6d ago

aha! looks like they WERE in fact 3D rendered! even to the point of using a human figure as an origin point for the camera to make it look like you were actually looking at a desk top

source: https://blog.cocoia.com/2008/the-origin-of-the-inimitable-icons/

casey :3 5h ago

Fionn 6h ago

Technical Writer looking for work!

Previously worked at Red Hat on OpenShift and Ceph, and at various startups. Been contracting the past year, but it's a tough market out there, and I'm very much in need of work.

I come from a technical background (software engineer). Open to contract work and FTE.

Reach out here or fionn@kelleher.email. Happy with solo work, or joining a team of writers.

Boosts appreciated.

casey :3 5h ago

postmarketOS 16h ago

Speaking of great things for Linux Mobile that @nlnet and @NGIZero are funding:

One of them is the OpenIMSD project, which has the goal of getting VoLTE on Qualcomm based phones working with postmarketOS, @mobian and all other Linux (Mobile) distributions.

As a precursor to that, we need to be able to create VoLTE-related QMI traces from Android phones. @lynxis figured out a good method and wrote a blog post about it:

https://postmarketos.org/blog/2025/06/17/volte-project-qmi-sniffing-with-frida/

#linuxmobile #openimsd #frida

Creating QMI traces from Android phones with Frida to reverse engineer Voice over LTE

Aiming for a 10 year life-cycle for smartphones

postmarketOS

casey :3 17h ago

damn you work on fuchsia? wanna zircon?

zircon deez nuts

https://puri.sm/posts/hidden-operating-systems-in-chips-vs-secure-auditable-oses-a-cybersecurity-comparison/

this purism blog post marketing about firmware security is wild

In the case of the Librem 5 smartphone, there is no Intel ME or AMD PSP at all—offering a truly transparent architecture.

Yet the Librem 5 has a proprietary boot ROM, additional ROM code for root of trust validation, a modem running proprietary firmware (connected via USB)

most importantly, I don't believe they actually enable secure boot, so if you're able to gain root access you could trivially replace the trustzone firmware with a modified version

To not go into any detail about the security model is pretty wild for a post titled "Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison"...

Hidden Operating Systems in Chips vs. Secure, Auditable OSes: A Cybersecurity Comparison – Purism

Purism makes premium phones, laptops, mini PCs and servers running free software on PureOS. Purism products respect people's privacy and freedom while protecting their security.

Purism

when you go over to read lenin and chill and she actually makes you read lenin,,,

Jordan Petridis 6d ago

You don't get to own Xorg. It belongs to the X.org foundation and community.

X.org literary hosts and runs Wayland and Weston

Xorg is dead and we killed it. And nobody regrets it.

isnt it beautiful (context in alt text)

OH: i dont give a fuck about anything i just dont want people to think im into piss

@somsnosa

Vee Jun 5

What's been lost...
Entomologists from Krefeld, Germany, collected flying insects for two weeks in August 1994 (left) and—at the same site, with an identical trap— in August 2016 (right). Similar data from 63 German protected areas overall gave a shocking result: a 76 percent drop in insect biomass between 1989 and 2016.
It has worsened significantly in the past 9 years.
Photographed at Entomological Society of Krefeld

Roy -- the dull one Jun 5

This is not a "like" showing that I like the info you shared, but rather a "like" that you are publicizing something important. Thank you.

Vee Jun 5

@oldclumsy_nowmad YW..It happens... every once in a while... 😜

Roy -- the dull one Jun 5

Rather often, I'd say.

Vee Jun 5

@oldclumsy_nowmad 🥰 TY!!

GhostOnTheHalfShell Jun 5

In the knock on effect, all this is no food for birds and a lot of other animals and so much for all the nutrient transfer. This represents as well..

This is a disintegration of working ecosystems, which means that the carrying capacity of the planet capacity for life to produce itself is taking a nose dive

@GhostOnTheHalfShell 👍

Parttimesailor Jun 5

@VeroniqueB99 unfortunately lacks context about changes from then until now.

regenrohr Jun 6

@JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99 meaning?

@regenrohr @JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99
He (? Maybe.) is trying to deny that there is a problem.
Failing, but trying.

@regenrohr @JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99

Fusselwurm Jun 7

Meaning that there might be a lot of variation between the years. Like… maybe August 1994 was an exceptionably good month for insects, and 2016 a very bad one.

(for the record, I believe this to be rather unlikely)

Matej Lexa Jun 6

@JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99 At least two of three likely factors increased in intensity in the last decades: radio noise, light smog, and chemicals.

Cindy Jun 6

@matej_lexa @JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99
IDK anything about How radio noise interplays ~ will you please explain This, a little?

Matej Lexa Jun 6

@TrueBlue4THREE @JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99 I know it is being studied, like here: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969723038342
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31949179/
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/24750263.2024.2308550#abstract

Cindy Jun 6

@matej_lexa @JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99
Thank You, I will check it out😊

@JCBlubaugh @VeroniqueB99
I recall reports from the late 90s - about the time I got a car again, which is why I noticed it - using bug-splat counts per number plate (fixed size) per 100 km as a biomass estimator saying *then* the counts were substantially down on the decade previously.

It's a multiple-decade, steep decline. Regardless of jiggles in the counts over single years.

Happy now? Entomologists have been reporting this for decades, since before it was fashionable.

Mrinappropriate Jun 5

@VeroniqueB99 We.Are.Fucked. This is stark evidence of our planet’s future. We, and many more species will be gone. The planet’ll be fine. Perhaps cockroaches will rule. We do not deserve this home.

@MrInappropriate 👍 💯

@VeroniqueB99 I have been pessimistic about the future of our society for quite some time, but I am starting to believe that it's all going to go to shit even quicker than I thought... Perhaps within 10 years.

@FelisCatus 👍 yup thereabouts...

Little Bunny Frou Frou Jun 5

@VeroniqueB99 I noticed after a long drive windshields aren't covered in bugs like they were when I was a kid. I miss bugs

RobinF❌️👑Jun 6

@BunnyBrave @VeroniqueB99 exactly. You can't drive anywhere in summer without it being really noticeable and scary.

@BunnyBrave @VeroniqueB99
"Splat counting" is a technique that has also been used. More often with number plates than windscreens, because they're a standard size for one country. Also, flat-on to the motion.

@BunnyBrave 👍

ScriptFanix ❤️ ⏚ ⸫Jun 6

@BunnyBrave 💯 No-one born before the 90s can deny this
@VeroniqueB99

📄 Mehdi.doc Jun 7

@BunnyBrave @VeroniqueB99 why do all your methods of counting insects involve killing them 🥲

Little Bunny Frou Frou Jun 7

@mehdi_benadel
Not all of my methods do, my other method is counting how many insects I can tenderly kiss on the forehead and offer a little snack to but it's much more time consuming

Galad Jun 5

@VeroniqueB99 I highly suspect that this is a direct consequence of pesticides being overused.

contrasocial Jun 6

@galad @VeroniqueB99

The horrible thing is that similar declines are seen in protected areas with minimal interference from direct human activity like pollutants.

Pesticides definitely don't help, but this is driven by climate change. Many insects and other life are evolved to fit in a very specific environmental niche, when the timing of seasons and weather patterns gets messed up it throws the life cycle of these insects into chaos. Like when a tree blooms too early and gets killed by frost

#ClimateEmergency <https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/03/climate-species-collapse-ecology-insects-nature-reserves-aoe>

@galad @VeroniqueB99
"Used".
Not over-used.

The level of pesticide use compatible with zero biodiversity loss is zero use.

@galad 👍 💯

@VeroniqueB99 “for two hours each evening, the site got power and a 25-watt bulb flickered on above the porch. Out of the forest darkness, a tornado of #insects would flock to its glow, spinning and dancing before the light. Lit up, the side of the house would be “absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them”, #DanielJanzen says. [The walls would be] absolutely plastered with moths – tens of thousands of them… Inspired, he decided to erect a sheet for a light trap with a camera – a common way to document flying insect numbers and diversity. In that first photograph, taken in 1978, the lit-up sheet is so thickly studded with moths that in places the fabric is barely visible, transformed into what looks like densely patterned, crawling wallpaper.

Scientists identified an astonishing 3,000 species from that light trap, and the trajectory of Janzen’s career was transformed, from the study of seeds to a lifetime specialising in the forest’s barely documented populations of caterpillars and moths.

Now 86, Janzen still works in the same research hut in the #Guanacaste (Costa Rica) conservation area, alongside his longtime collaborator, spouse and fellow ecologist, #WinnieHallwachs. But in the forest that surrounds them, something has changed. Trees that once crawled with insects lie uncannily still.”

‘Half the tree of life’: ecologists’ horror as nature reserves are emptied of insects

A new point in history has been reached, entomologists say, as climate-led species’ collapse moves up the food chain even in supposedly protected regions free of pesticides

The Guardian

@peterrenshaw 😭

About 40 years ago I would have to clean all the dead bugs off my windshield after a visit to my realitives over in the Valley. Nowadays, my windshield is always clean.

Takiro 🎨Jun 6

@KanaMauna @VeroniqueB99
Exactly this. When I was a kid and travelled with my parents the family car's front was covered in bugs. Now, 30 years later on my own car it's barely worth mentioning. Everyone can see it for themselves, if they want, but most don't.

@Takiro @KanaMauna 👍

@KanaMauna 👍 💯

@VeroniqueB99 And yet we still have *all* of the annoying ones.

@ned 👍 🤣

@VeroniqueB99 maybe the trap from 1989 caught all the insects

Seriously though, I can think of many causes for this but I'll share one that has not yet been mentioned here, artificial light. There's so much of it and flying insects b-line for it whenever they see it, that *has* to mess with their life cycle over time.

Mer-fOKxTOwl Jun 6

@renardboy @VeroniqueB99 i really hope that first sentence was sarcasm, cause those traps are so small and few (space and time wise) they couldn't even make a visible dent in the population.

let me add to that sarcasm:
now that people erected those traps all over the place, the insects just learned to avoid them! /s

an actual bus Jun 6

@glowl @VeroniqueB99 it was indeed sarcasm, the hint was the next paragraph starting with "seriously though", which implies that what preceded it was indeed not serious.

@renardboy 👍 💯

MaryMarasKittenBakery Jun 6

@renardboy @VeroniqueB99
It certainly is one reason for the decline, yes. There are several, pesticides and loss of habitats are others

Alexander Goeres 𒀯 Jun 6

@Vee everybody who was driving a car for longer distances in the 80s and today can notice the difference. back then you had to stop often enough to clean the windscreen from unlucky insects to keep a clear view. today can go for hours without even one insect hitting the screen ...

@jabgoe2089 👍

@VeroniqueB99
It's called "Krefelder Studie" - here is a mention from 2022 (in german)
https://www.riffreporter.de/de/umwelt/insektensterben-krefelder-studie-5-jahre-faq-fragen-antworten-biodiversitaet
@riffreporter

Insektensterben: Wie steht es fünf Jahre nach der Krefelder Studie um die Insekten?

Antworten auf die wichtigsten Fragen

RiffReporter

@horstworst @riffreporter 👍

François @Prague Jun 6

I bought a piece of land (2000 sq. m). I plan to build a small wooden cottage on it (50 sq. m.) the rest will be filled with trees and flowers for insects and birds.

I also encourage everybody to support rewilding groups. For example, Randal Plunkett and he is the 21st Baron of Dunsany, is a metal head, horor movie director and feminist engaged in rewilding. An original guy worth promoting.

rawe Jun 6

@FrancoisPrague can you provide some tips/links, especially what types of flower/tree/plants to grow?

We start with a "small" 200 m² piece of land next week.

François @Prague Jun 6

@stereo4x4 @VeroniqueB99

It depends where you live and how global warming will affect your locality. For example where I come from, we had fir trees but they won't survive the next 20 years so we had to go for a special kind of oak.

@FrancoisPrague @VeroniqueB99

rawe Jun 6

@FrancoisPrague You are right... I just asked a local gardener to have a look and recommend plants/trees.

@FrancoisPrague 👍

I found this article interesting -

Guerilla seed bombing -
https://wildseedproject.net/blog/native-seed-balls

Native Seed Balls – Dispersing Seeds with Guerilla Action — Wild Seed Project

There is something satisfying about the idea of tossing seeds of wild flowers or trees into an empty area with the hope that it will magically turn into a flowery meadow or forest. After all, seeds scatter in nature by chance…

Wild Seed Project

notsoloud Jun 6

@VeroniqueB99
#Alt4You Two cylindrical 2 liter lab glasses, both containing a light brown fluid with a mass of insects at the bottom. The left glass gas more than 1500 mL of insects, the right glass around 250 mL.