Mastodawn

📸 ETH Zürich & Empa researchers have developed an image sensor using stacked perovskite layers, capturing full-color images with higher efficiency and accuracy and without the need for traditional color filters.

Goodbye demosaicing, two-thirds more light in the same surface!

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-025-09062-3

Miro Jun 16

Jo-chin up, elbows up.Jun 16

My fave painting I’ve done. Finished piece.
Uprooted-Flying Geese Series, 2025
24x36” Acrylic on MDF Board.

It’s sooooo much nicer IRL and big!

#art #artwork #artist #mastoart #migration #immigration #quilting #bonsai #climateEmergency #climatechange #environment #climate

Miro Jun 13

Adfichter Jun 13

Jeder Kanton gibt ungefähr bis 5 Millionen Franken pro Jahr für Microsoft-Lizenzen aus (M365 Cloud). Und verpflichtet sich auf 5 Jahre. Macht mindestens 25 Mio CHF.

Stell Dir mal vor, rechnen wir das mal hoch für alle 26 Kantone. Macht 650 Millionen Franken...

die Microsoft nun mit diesen Verträgen erhält.

Mit dieser Summe hätte man in den letzten Jahren besser ordentliche, souveräne und benutzerfreundliche IT-Infrastruktur gebaut, die von allen Kantonen und Gemeinden mit gutem Gewissen genutzt werden kann.

EDIT: die Zahl 5 Mio ist bei sehr bevölkerungsreichen Kantonen...und 650 Mio wohl zu hoch geschätzt. Aber auch schon bei realistischeren 400 Mio. wäre das genügend.

Miro Jun 10

Elena Rossini on GoToSocial ⁂Jun 10

Dear Fedi friends,

I'm really proud to share with you a video I made: "Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media" https://news.elenarossini.com/fediverse-video/

In this 4-minute video I explain what the #fediverse is to people not familiar with it, mentioning some of its great features and benefits (interoperability, no ads, no surveillance...) and I set it in contrast to the world of Big Tech social platforms. I argue that, with the rise of Big Tech oligarchs and the current political climate, there has never been a better time to join the fediverse.

I hope you will enjoy this video and that you will find it useful (maybe as a tool to introduce your friends, family, colleagues, school administrators, local government officials to it).

The fediverse has truly changed my life, making me a better, more empowered digital citizen. I am endlessly grateful for it, so this is my contribution to the cause ❤️

I am also incredibly thankful for the work of @samaaberg and @patel.riyen who helped me bring my vision to life with their amazing cinematography skills and their assistance throughout the process, providing brilliant feedback to the script / edits from the POV of fedi newbies.

And I was also moved by the generous help of people of the Fediverse who volunteered to translate the script into many foreign languages: @jan @fritjof @erikkemp @sknob @severin @clabru @tarcisiosurdi @hongminhee @danielcasanueva @ainali @nacly

Lastly, I'm thankful for the opportunity I had to premiere the video last week at #FediForum - thank you @j12t and @anca

The video is up on my self-hosted PeerTube instance (thank you @yunohost) and for now it is unlisted as I have no idea how my VPS will hold up. I also included an alternate location in the blog post.

I hope you'll enjoy it! It's been a real labor of love (a month of full time work on it)... I see it as my love letter to the fediverse 💌

Edit/update: THANK YOU for all the people who volunteered to have their avatar show up in the last shot. There were 750+ submissions and only 135 spots - sorry I couldn't include everyone 🥲

#TheFutureIsFederated

📺 Introducing the Fediverse: a New Era of Social Media

A 4 minute video that aims to introduce the Fediverse to people not familiar with it

Elena Rossini

Found in my archive:

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

Miro Jun 3

Qasim Rashid, Esq.Jun 3

Yesterday Israeli tanks shot at Palestinians getting food from a food distribution site *the Israelis established* and killed at least 32 Palestinians.

Israel has repeatedly claimed "Hamas is stealing aid" but offered zero evidence. Now, Israel uses *TANKS* to shoot at starving Palestinians getting aid from where the Israelis told them to go to get aid.

If you still don't think this is intentional genocide, then you really are complicit & history should remember you as such.

Miro Jun 3

Anti. 🐘Jun 3

Israeli military are killing people at aid distribution sites. I mean.

How much more cynical must this get until the world says stop.

#Gaza #Israel

Miro Jun 1

CoMaps Jun 1

CoMaps Android preview release is out! 🎉
Powered by the community ❤️

For now as a downloadable apk only, get it at https://codeberg.org/comaps/comaps/releases

The release will be available on F-Droid @fdroidorg soon

And we're working on Google Play and AppStore releases 🛠️

comaps

The main code repository of CoMaps, a community-led fork of Organic Maps. Reinforced with commitment to transparency, privacy and being not-for-profit.

Codeberg.org

Miro May 30

Tjeerd Royaards May 30

There is a sad and frustrating repetitiveness to my cartoons about Gaza, but still I think it's important to keep drawing them, just as it's important to keep sharing the images from Gaza.

Today's cartoon for Trouw: https://www.trouw.nl/cartoons/tjeerd-royaards~bcb45712/

#Gaza #Netanyahu #Israel #redline