Osma A / is on Nostr

Systems, organizations, products, platforms, software, science, and a little bit of politics. Whatever you think I identify with, I probably don't. Searchable on #tootfinder

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2024-08-04 08:15:45

My #homeassistant discovered a neighbor's OralB toothbrush and offered to connect. Imagine the possibilities.
#internetofshit

2023-12-01 14:29:23

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@npub143w…pykj
268 GW new addition last year sounds a bit much. Latest data from Ember says 189 GW new capacity in 2022, doesn't yet have data on 2023. In any event, way ahead of IEA's forecasts, as it has always been. Ramez Naam wrote a great article in 2020 explaining why IEA is always trailing behind..
https://ember-climate.org/insights/research/global-electricity-mid-year-insights-2023/
https://rameznaam.com/2020/05/14/solars-future-is-insanely-cheap-2020/

2023-09-20 14:12:01

While other messengers like Matrix/Element have only recently rolled out E2EE at all, Telegram continuing to pretend that encrypting only some comms, and those with proprietary algorithms is enough, and others like Mastodon just don't even try, Signal is now rolling out post-quantum cryptography with an upgrade to what they call PQXDH.
Now the rest of us would just have to trust that this time, NIST specs haven't been spiked with backdoors..
https://signal.org/blog/pqxdh/

2023-08-17 05:47:48

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@npub1eu5…3nau
Federation in the ActivityPub and AT protocols are significantly different. Anyone can run an AP node, and one can exist as a community even without federation (example: Truth Social). Anyone can also run an AT PDS (plausibly, one could run both on the same server), but no one reads one directly - they're indexed first, then collated by a labeler, feed gen and appview. bsky.app is primarily the latter layers, and those are where moderation happens.

2023-08-14 05:59:47

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@npub1lj7…zczx
Chris, a question. You write that LinkedIn is the only social media which auto-suggests hashtags. Do you see Medium's topics bar somehow qualitatively different, because that, too, uses auto-suggest? I see them as effectively the same - the only different being syntactic wrt the use of # character or not.

2023-08-14 05:31:41

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@npub1lj7…zczx
When I got started here and started also hacking on various (web) clients, I spent quite a bit of time trying to understand why, despite the AP protocol including dedicated metadata fields for both mentions and hashtags, I could get neither filled and/or displayed unless I also inserted the same as hyperlinked HTML to the text of the toot.
Turned out it was a missing feature in Mastodon parsing and rendering. Mastodon is finally catching up to its protocol here..

2023-08-12 20:13:28

Etelä-Suomen taivas on tähtikirkas. Jos et ole keskellä valosaastetta, nyt kannattaa vaivautua ulos katsomaan. Itse vietin 20 minuuttia laiturilla ja bongasin muutaman #Perseidit meteorin ja kahdeksan satelliittia, luultavasti kaikki #Starlink samasta pohjoiseen osoittaneesta lentoradasta ja tasaisista väleistä päätellen.

2023-08-06 17:12:29

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@npub12ld…d8ag
https://mas.to/@osma/110838418122860065

2023-08-06 16:53:17

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@npub12ld…d8ag
I think "selfish, foolish ghoul" describes uncomfortably many people.

2023-08-06 10:53:08

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Isabella Eckerle, Prof at Geneva Centre for Emerging Viral Diseases:
"FFS! Shut down these farms and stop the farming of these animals! This is playing with fire and really provoking adaptation of the virus to mammals. We are not ready for another pandemic, and the situation does not seem to be under control at all."
https://twitter.com/EckerleIsabella/status/1687181399550291968
In Finnish:
https://www.iltalehti.fi/kotimaa/a/0654926c-507f-4e1b-aed8-ad2c1173c85c
#avianinfluenza #H5N1 #Finland #furfarming

2023-08-05 07:47:45

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@npub1hpc…hjn3
The significant shift that is happening, for sure, is that Ukrainian domestic production of both naval and aerial long range strike capability is developing to a point where the use of it can have material impact to the outcome. Keyword here is domestic: technically these capabilities existed before, but their use like this wasn't politically available.
@npub1vz5…qdta

2023-08-05 07:37:19

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@npub1hpc…hjn3
Yom Kippur war. Soviet-Afghan war. PLA. IEDs against US military in all the Middle East conflicts. IRA. There is no qualitative shift. Perhaps a quantitative one, but even that is dubious. This is just the nature of asymmetric war and the development of technology during conflict.
@npub1vz5…qdta

2023-08-05 07:21:14

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@npub1hpc…hjn3
I understand that's what you're saying. I'm saying that has always been a feature of war. Small and comparatively weaker forces have, since the beginning of history, used raids to this effect against superior adversaries.
@npub1vz5…qdta

2023-08-05 07:18:46

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@npub1hpc…hjn3
That's an interpretation, for sure. I would pick the far simpler one, though: with the ability for long range strikes developing, Ukraine is using them to try and make occupation of Crimea untenable even before the land war reaches Azov Sea. Meanwhile, they're also using the long range strike capability to russian territory to create political pressure against putin. I see no reason to doubt their stated objective of liberating all occupied territories.
@npub1vz5…qdta

2023-08-05 07:09:19

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@npub1hpc…hjn3
Denial typically is easier than control in any domain, because control requires ability to prevent any disruptive action. Even in the land war, which favors the defender, if success is measured by ability to perform strikes, no minefield or trench line can control artillery.
@npub1vz5…qdta

2023-08-05 06:45:19

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@npub1hpc…hjn3
Ukraine has no Navy as of today, while they do have an Air Force. That means the comparison isn't particularly apt - for a nation with no Navy, Ukraine is having a lot of success sinking or disabling high value naval targets.
I am waiting for the first news of a russian submarine promoted to a dive site.
@npub1vz5…qdta

2023-08-04 17:58:17

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Translated:
"Some of the viruses in fur animals also have mutations, which indicate the transformation of the virus as a result of mammalian infections."
https://yle.fi/a/74-20043894
An official was in the TV news saying there is no intention to stop farming, but interestingly I can't find that statement anywhere on the net.

2023-08-04 17:42:52

Hey, world. Just so you know, #H5N1 has mutated on Finnish fur farms to spread between mammals. #Finland will not stop the practice of farming mink, fox in steel cages etc despite this. This should not be a surprise, since we value neither animal nor human life. Feel free to apply pressure.
#respiratory #pandemic #policy #policyfailure