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Cake day: June 5th, 2023
  • Otter@lemmy.catoThe Internet Is Beautiful@lemmy.world•I made Firefly Forest to recreate a magic moment I had in central MexicoEnglish
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    3 days ago

    From the description on the website:

    My family has always been obsessed with animals. We had every pet imaginable while growing up. Maybe 30 different types of animals over the years? I’ve wandered over all 7 continents in this beautiful world to see wild animals very up close in the wild. Sometimes very uncomfortably close. I was never super into bugs.

    Once, I visited the middle of nowhere, Mexico, to see the fireflies in the forest. We walked into the forest at dusk. Everyone stood there quietly until the sun fully set. We waited and at first there were a few, then more, and more. Until the entire forest lit up as I had never seen before!

    This tries to recreate that magic. While it doesn’t do it justice. If I can make some of you take a moment out of your day to breathe and smile. I did my job for the day.

    Now I have a deep appreciation for even the bugs in our big, magnificent world.

    Assuming OP is also the creator of the website, thanks for sharing your work here @nomadsteve@lemmy.world :)

  • Otter@lemmy.catoTechnology@beehaw.org•What browser(s) should I use?English
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    12 days ago

    If you add three back ticks (```) to the beginning and end of the list, it will format as a code block instead of a bunch of links

    browser.ml.enable
browser.ml.chat.enabled
browser.ml.chat.menu
browser.ml.chat.page
browser.ml.chat.page.footerBadge
browser.ml.chat.page.menuBadge
browser.ml.linkPreview.enabled
browser.ml.pageAssist.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.enabled
browser.tabs.groups.smart.userEnabled
extensions.ml.enabled
browser.search.visualSearch.featureGate
  • Otter@lemmy.catoTechnology@beehaw.org•Mastodon CEO steps down with €1M payout and a deep sighEnglish
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    25 days ago

    The articles I’ve seen say that it was for the past 10 years of work, some amount of which was unpaid

    https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/mastodon-ceo-steps-down-as-the-social-network-restructures/

    With the revamp, Mastodon has the potential to expand its business, product, and mission, without being dependent on a single person’s leadership. It will also give Rochko a break, as he’s been singularly focused on Mastodon for the past 10 years.

    Going forward, Rochko will continue contributing to Mastodon as an adviser. He has also been compensated with a one-time payment of €1 million, given that he took less than a fair market salary over the years while building Mastodon.

    I don’t have insight into the decision making process that went into deciding on that amount, maybe it’s less than what he should have been compensated for, maybe it’s more. But it sounds like they reached that decision amicably

  • Otter@lemmy.catoFediverse@lemmy.world•Media Liberation Day: how can we help newcomers get started and have a good experience on fedi?English
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    25 days ago

    Hi Sarah,

    Sorry for the delay in getting to this. We really appreciate the feedback! We’re currently working on an update to our site, and will continue to incorporate feedback over time.

    We’ve iterated over these pages a few times, and while there is definitely more that we can do to improve it, I feel that we need a few different guides for each target demographic or use case. Ideally, someone will find their way to the appropriate resource, depending on the level of detail or transparency that they are looking for. The goal of the two guide pages above were mainly to explain what it is that our non-profit is doing, and how it differs from traditional social media. A lot of alternative social media platforms advertise transparency and a positive user experience, and so the guide pages above were intended for people who want an explanation on how the Fediverse can actually deliver on those promises.

    Right now, the page we have for users that simply want to sign up for a platform is here: https://fedecan.ca/en/guide/fedecan/our-platforms

    We can certainly improve the flow for users that want to get to that page, and the page itself. We haven’t prioritized that aspect, since we figured that users who are learning about one of the platforms might be going to it directly, instead of through our non-profit’s site.

    Would you have some suggestions on what a page like that should include, or what you would like to see in the guides instead?

    I have students who can help you with this stuff for free. If you’re interested, DM me.

    We’d love the help and feedback, especially if it’s something that would complement their studies! Thank you for offering :)

  • Otter@lemmy.catoLinux@lemmy.ml•Sick of reinstalling every year? My 8-step 'reinstall-proof' Linux desktop setup that actually survives hardware swapsEnglish
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    1 month ago

    You can view the source for my comment and copy paste :)

    Do this in order:

    1. Install with LUKS full-disk encryption and Btrfs subvolumes for @ and @home so snaps are atomic.

    2. Enable automatic snapshots with Timeshift or snapper.

    3. Export your package lists:

      • Debian/Ubuntu: dpkg --get-selections > packages.txt
      • Arch: pacman -Qqe > pkglist.txt
      • also flatpak list --app > flatpaks.txt

    4. Put your dotfiles under version control and manage them with chezmoi or GNU Stow.

    5. Use Flatpak for GUI apps, containerized toolchains (podman) for dev environments, and keep only system-critical packages in the distro manager.

    6. Back up with Borg: borg init --encryption=repokey /path/to/repo ; borg create repo::$(date +%F) /home /etc --stats ; borg prune --keep-daily=7 --keep-weekly=4 --keep-monthly=6

    7. Keep a small, bootable USB with the exact kernel/tools you use so you can unlock LUKS and mount Btrfs snapshots.

    8. Test restores quarterly: restore a snapshot to a spare partition and boot it. Do that for a year and tell me reinstalling is fun again.

  • Otter@lemmy.catoTechnology@lemmy.world•Servo: A new, independent Web Browser Engine (the core of a web browser) written in Rust.English
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    1 month ago

    Linux Foundation

    The slide people are mentioning

    In text:

    This is a brief summary of Servo’s project history. The project was started by Mozilla in 2012, at that time they were developing the Rust language itself (somehow Mozilla used Servo, a web rendering engine, as a testing project to check that Rust language was good enough). In any case we cannot consider it really “new”, but Servo is way younger than other web engines that started decades before.

    In 2020, Mozilla layoff the whole Servo team, and transferred the project to Linux Foundation. That very same year the Servo team had started the work in a new layout engine. The layout engine is an important and complex part of a web engine, it’s the one that calculates the size and position of the different elements of the website. Servo was starting a new layout engine, closer to the specifications language and with similar principles to what other vendors were also doing (Blink with LayoutNG and WebKit with Layout Formatting Context). This was done due to problems in the design of the original layout engine, which prevented to implement properly some CSS features like floats. So, from the layout engine point of view, Servo is quite a “new” engine.

    In 2023, Igalia took over Servo project maintenance, with the main goal to bring the project back to life after a couple of years with minimal activity. That very same year the project joined Linux Foundation Europe in an attempt to regain interest from a broader set of the industry.

    A highlight is that the project community has been totally renewed and Servo’s activity these days is growing and growing.

    The WPT scores should give an idea of how “ready” it is: https://servo.org/wpt/

    It shows that the situation in 2023 was pretty bad, but today Servo is passing more than 1.7 million subtests (a 92.7% of the tests that we run, there are some tests skipped that we don’t count here).

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