Mira

@mira@shark.community
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Just some girl who’s old enough to be a grandmother. Former generalist tech worker; currently unemployed. Wannabe goth cat girl techno witch. Wish I was off this rock and working the zero G sections of a starship 
Use Linux, Mac, and Windows depending on what I’m doing.
Fan of all things sciency with astro, geo, and bio as favs.
Also fan of anime and manga, especially of the yuri variety

Please, no under 18 as on rare occasion, nudes and lewds may be boosted, although they will be CW
PronounsShe/her
Agegmilf years

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down.

US President Donald Trump has decided to defund the observatory recording the data, as well as the widespread US greenhouse gas monitoring network and other climate measuring sites. #ClimateChange

https://theconversation.com/mauna-loa-observatory-captured-the-reality-of-climate-change-the-us-plans-to-shut-it-down-260403

Mauna Loa Observatory captured the reality of climate change. The US plans to shut it down

Cutting data climate collection – as the Trump administration is now trying to do – is like breaking a thermometer to avoid knowing you’ve got a fever.

The Conversation

Adobe is now processing all your PDFs in the cloud, by default. The setting to “Enable generative AI features in Acrobat” was on, and I didn’t know it until I opened a document and Adobe asked me if I wanted a document summary. It’s annoying to have to click “No,” so I opened settings to disable the prompt.

THE PROBLEM
I sign Non-Disclosure Agreements for many of my clients. Adobe is a potential leak of protected information. I don’t know what Adobe does with this information. I don’t know what they store, or for how long. I don’t know what country (or countries) the data is stored in. I don’t know what LLMs are trained with this data. And I don’t need to know. What I need to know is that they won’t use default opt-in as a legal excuse to wiretap my information.

I recommend that you check your Adobe settings on all devices, for all Adobe accounts.

#CallMeIfYouNeedMe #FIFONetworks

#cybersecurity

@Devijand Thanks for the info! Hope it gives you lots of good service and photos

I told my husband that posting this could literally take down the instance and he is insisting I post it

#dogsofmastodon #dogs

2/2 if you ever want to build one, here’s a great 1/2 scale model (that you can totally scale up to full size!) which you can print:

https://www.printables.com/model/1194497-sojourner-mars-rover

Also, a great book about the mission:

https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/166161/managing-martians-by-donna-shirley/

Sojourner Mars Rover by bglasford1 | Download free STL model | Printables.com

A working model of the Sojourner Mars Rover. | Download free 3D printable STL models

Printables.com
"America has been vaccinating people for fifty years. If vaccines caused autism, America would have trains, okay? We would have so many trains." - Jon Allen

My husband gave me a trail cam for our wedding anniversary today. I wanted to have a camera in this part of the backyard to see what kind of animals hang out here. It immediately caught these delinquents in the act of destroying our property 🤣

#trailcam #trailcamera #kauwboys #kauw #jackdaw #destruction #demolitioncrew #wildlifecamera #backyard #birding #birdwatching #birdsofmastodon #birds #cool #gadget #happy #greatgift

@Devijand I’ve been looking for a backyard cam myself. If you don’t mind, could you let me know the make and model?
@catsalad @ownlife Damn straight!

My beautiful boy.

#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon

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In a country characterized by the rule of law, some regulation of immigration is a legitimate function of government. In a lawless, expressly bigoted, and expressly corrupt regime, it is not. Download IceBlock and defy this administration.
/2 To show my work: by lawless I mean the administration routinely deliberately violates the law, defies courts, and obstructs the rule of law, and respects no substantive or procedural rights.
/3 By expressly bigoted I mean since he came down the escalator Trump has deliberately and successfully used hatred based on ethnicity and national origin, and his most recent administration is openly premised on it.
/4 And by expressly corrupt, I mean the administration has openly declared it will use immigration to suppress speech it doesn’t like, harm political enemies, and benefit friends.
/5 Any such administration does not merely lose the right to the legal presumption of regularity. It, and its agents, lose any reasonable expectation to the protection and benefit of the rule of law that it flouts.

@kenwhite.bsky.social

How long until Apple blocks that app in the US?

@kenwhite.bsky.social @GhostOnTheHalfShell This app not being available in my country is one more thing to be proud of.
@kenwhite.bsky.social Give one good reason borders shouldnt be open "bc we want to keep out criminals?" this is just nimbyism crimes are already illegal it shouldnt matter where someone is born they should have the freedom to participate in any country they want otherwise its not a consensual social contract its a prison country #noborders #openborders #anarchism #anarchocommunism #nooneisillegal

@ambiguous_yelp Your remarks surely have some merit worth consideration, but would probably be more persuasive if they were written the way a grown-up would.

You seem to have trouble with basic prose composition, but not with hashtags. It's pretty clear you're willing to make the effort when you have to. That makes the rest of your comment seem insultingly lazy.

@wesdym whats wrong with the prose? this is a microblogging platform if u can shorten by removing fluff the msg gets across faster

@ambiguous_yelp You're free to express yourself any way you choose.

And everyone else is free to judge you for the choices you make.

Based on your expression, I find you childish, and I find childish people tiresome and not worth my while.

Bye.

@rdfrkian
@kenwhite.bsky.social

Not available for android phones. ☹️

F.I.R.E. Initiative

@slowenough @thezenlady @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social That looks great but I bet in my area its full of people regarding a neighbors kids walking down the street as a potential danger.

@InkySchwartz

That sounds like my town as well, but then I doubt they even know about these apps.

@slowenough @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social

@thezenlady @InkySchwartz @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social Waze (which this was modeled after) had to figure out how to stop accepting submissions from spammers as well. It's doable.

After yesterday's meltdown from MAGA about these apps, lots of people have now heard of them. But if there are people in your area who don't know about them then lucky you! You get to be the person who shows them one thing they can do to fight the new police state.

@slowenough @thezenlady @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social The problem is, those people and reports are not spam but their sincerely help beliefs due to decades of "programming".

Also what meltdown over these apps?

@InkySchwartz @thezenlady @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social The developer is now being targeted publicly by people like Bondi and Homan, it's been in the news.

@slowenough

Not surprising that the developer is being targeted by DOJ & Homeland since they have gone full nazi

@InkySchwartz @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social

@thezenlady @slowenough @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social

Maybe, maybe not. All I will say is nextdoor and Fbook are really popular and one of the main uses is public service stuff. Which sounds great right until we realize it mostly those sorts of complaints.

@InkySchwartz @thezenlady @rdfrkian @kenwhite.bsky.social The app is only useful in areas where there are a lot of people using it as intended. Fortunately, there are a *lot* of people in many if not most areas who are willing to do so!

Spam is a problem, but can be at least brought to a reasonable level by the programmers.

I realize what I should have been doing every time I mention it is to *also* encourage people to find their local defense networks. Worth more than any app.

@kenwhite.bsky.social The app requires your location. It would be better to manually enter a location to avoid tracking. I want to use it but that’s a nonstarter for an app like this, at this stage of the regime.
@kenwhite.bsky.social I’m especially concerned that it “strongly recommends” the “Always”-on location option. That’s a tracker.