<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> This happens to me regularly. Everything new (to me) is exciting and incredible.</p><p>The upside is that life is always interesting. The downside is that this magnitude of excitement is rare in an adult, so it looks like an affectation.</p><p>My most recent example: A few weeks ago, I identified Jupiter in the night sky, with the help of a website. So the power of the World Wide Web blew my mind. A few decades too late. :)</p>

<p>Here to remind you again that the ideas that:</p><p>1. Biological sex is a perfectly binary thing that exists</p><p>2. It can always be accurately predicted by chromosome configuration (which is perfectly binary)</p><p>3. It can never be changed</p><p>Are not based in science at all</p>

@vriska@lizards.live i agree but whenever i try to say this to tsa agents i either get laughed at or get weird looks

<p>You fellas most likely know what you&#39;re doing. For your sake I hope the venture capitalist owners of your next garden don&#39;t turn into another Musk or just sell the site and its users to his ilk for profit.</p><p>Seems like algorithm boosts and mass movers ace patience and logic every time. Wonder what Chaplin would make of modern times...</p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@Popehat" class="u-url mention">@<span>Popehat</span></a></span><br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@mmasnick" class="u-url mention">@<span>mmasnick</span></a></span><br /><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://hachyderm.io/@dirkhh" class="u-url mention">@<span>dirkhh</span></a></span></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> The last tech that truly blew my mind—not what anyone who knows me would expect me to say—are my hearing aids. I walked outside in the evening wearing them for the first time, and was greeted with an orchestra of nature. Some of these sounds I hadn’t heard in years, and literally made me forget how alive the world around me truly is. I was almost brought to tears.</p><p>This is life-changing tech for me.</p>

Gooty sapphires are an Old World tarantula species, famous for their dramatic yellow and blue coloring. Broadly, Old World means ‘not native to North or South America’. In fact, their name holds the details of this tarantula’s origins. The first individual described was caught in the Indian town of Gooty in the early 20th century. But this is only half the story. It is now thought that one Gooty had arrived in town by train, because they have only been discovered in a small region of forest 60 miles east of there since. Gooty tarantulas are famous for their exotic coloring. Their main body color is blue, not because of blue pigment, but due to special lamellated hairs on their exoskeleton. Lamellated means ‘scaly’. The scaliness of those hairs disrupts how light is reflected from their surface, so that blue wavelengths dominate. In fact, the hairs themselves are not blue at all! Because of this, how intensely blue a gooty sapphire looks will depend partly on how the light is hitting them. Beside their blue areas they also have a white fractal pattern running down the center of their back, and vivid yellow patches at some of the joints on their legs (which are the result of yellow pigment). Gooty sapphires are venomous, and very much so -unlike tarantula species which rely on a venomous bite and flicking tiny irritating hairs from the sides of their abdomen to repel threats, gooties rely solely on their venomous bite as their only form of defense. To make it as effective as possible, they have adapted to produce a very powerful venom.

<p>I think <a href="https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/ae97/fep-ae97.md" rel="noopener">FEP-ae97</a> with server-independent IDs is the best way to make identities and data portable in <a class="hashtag" href="https://mitra.social/collections/tags/activitypub" rel="tag noopener">#ActivityPub</a> world.</p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/fep/7628/fep-7628.md" rel="noopener">FEP-c390 + Move activity</a> makes identity portable but not data, and requires wide adoption to provide meaningful benefits. So far there haven't been much interest from developers.</p><p>FEP-ae97 with server-independent IDs makes data portable as well, and while it is not compatible with existing software, the server can support both AP flavors at the same time, so it is not worse than FEP-c390 + Move. I also found a way to make it work with Mastodon API, that makes it a clear winner.</p><p>There is still a couple of things that need to be figured out, of course:</p><p>- What it the best way to specify a list of hosts where data is stored? I'm not entirely satisfied with <code>?hosts=server1.example,server2.example</code> solution.<br>- How to encrypt data? It's harder to maintain confidentiality of private messages when they are stored on multiple servers, therefore they should be encrypted.</p>

<p>The TSA should also feel up dudes it&#39;s equality, everyone gets they balls grabbed</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@kev" class="u-url mention">@<span>kev</span></a></span> I&#39;ve been doing tech since Apple ][, and even earlier if you count my acoustic coupler connections to my dad&#39;s minicomputer in the early 1970s. After all I have seen, what blows my mind is the completeness, consistency, and flexibility of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript standards on MDN and W3C, combined with the tightly related concept of knowledge graphs (shown on Tim Berners-Lee&#39;s famous WWW picture as well, so related). This means the last time was yesterday (I&#39;m stuck in a UUID hell today).</p>