@mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@olivia@scholar.social @CyberneticForests@assemblag.es Statement 3 is my favourite: similarity through obscurity. I don't understand A, I don't understand B, therefore A is similar to B. A fallacy that can't even be called logical.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Uninstall Google Photos, it scans your pictures

I have had a very positive experience with Fossify Gallery
https://www.forbes.com/sites/zakdoffman/2026/04/20/google-starts-scanning-all-your-photos-as-new-update-goes-live
@libre

forbes.com

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 2mo ago

Unsurprisingly, beavers are the much needed firefighter volunteers

"Beavers build dams, dig channels and transform small streams into broad wetland areas. This helps keep plants lush and green, even throughout long periods of drought"

"The study “conservatively” estimates that beaver dams have the potential to store a total of 120 mln cubic metres of surface water and create 2200 square kilometres of fire resilience in high fire risk areas"

https://www.euronews.com/2026/07/29/how-beavers-are-quietly-tackling-europes-raging-wildfires-and-helping-burnt-landscapes-rec
@wildfire
@wildfirescience@a.gup.pe

Why beavers could be a secret weapon against Europe’s wildfires

euronews

Why beavers could be a secret weapon against Europe’s wildfires

Beavers’ penchant for dam building has created natural fire breaks across Europe, which could help tackle deadly blazes.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@stefan @taylorlorenz I think an important one to add here is @mike with his series DotSocial https://flipboard.video/c/dot_social/videos

Flipboard PeerTube

Flipboard Dot Social

Hosted by Flipboard co-founder and CEO Mike McCue, Dot Social is a new podcast and video series spotlighting leaders at the forefront of the open social web movement. Mike and his guests will explo...

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

The US is so pathologically capitalist

...that they get to the point where:
1. they commoditize political resistance by writing tons of self-help books of dubious quality on the topic
2. they commoditize the abundance of the above by selling the excess in an outlet (Humble Bundle is a sort of outlet for digital products)

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/no-kings-library-berrettkoehler-books
@resist

Humble Bundle

Humble Book Bundle: The No Kings Library by Berrett-Koehler

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

After the defeat in Hungary, Bulgaria offers Kremlin's next best bet

"Radev’s campaign has been bolstered by a network of former senior Bulgarian military officers who have connections to Russian military intelligence and have backed Radev by promoting his views against support for Ukraine, according to a European intelligence official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive matters."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/after-orban-s-defeat-in-hungary-bulgaria-offers-kremlin-s-next-best-bet/ar-AA21bvsZ
@bulgariaeu

msn.com

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 11mo ago

Replying to

@davep @yawnbox @Mer__edith with decentralization you're throwing out of the window not only latency, but often also the capacity to guarantee delivery. Consider this talk for details: https://hapyyr.com/@bogo/115401249466782443 ...also for alternatives to Signal and the corresponding tradeoffs.

hapyyr.com

Bogomil Shopov - Бого: "If you are looking for good privacy respecting me…" - Be Hapyyr - An awesome Fediverse Server

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@drj@typo.social @olivia@scholar.social @CyberneticForests@assemblag.es Searle? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Searle ?

en.wikipedia.org

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@jeantranscene @reiver at least for me, this thing is the threadiverse. Whereas mastodon is centred around people, the threadiverse is centred around topics and interests. People are complex and have various interests. As a consequence, they don't emit a consistent signal on topics. Long story short, try this search: https://lemmy.world/search The mechanics behind this is that you can follow threadiverse communities from mastodon as you do with users.

lemmy.world

Search - Lemmy.World

Lemmy

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@rvps2001 also this: https://newrepublic.com/post/208724/jd-vance-donald-trump-iran-attack Almost feel sorry for the poor JD puppet

JD Vance Learns in Real Time Trump Left Him Out of Iran Attack Plans

The New Republic

JD Vance Learns in Real Time Trump Left Him Out of Iran Attack Plans

Two different reporters told Vance to check his phone.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us @Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk @nazgul@infosec.exchange a very effective way to fight back is to deprive him of his only authority: his richest man status. This means devaluing Tesla, and this is already happening. We need more of it.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@cstross@wandering.shop odd enough, the BBC to be the most exhaustive source I managed to find online https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cgm4y0ewe93o

Footage shows violent clashes as Iran protests spread to more areas

bbc.com

Footage shows violent clashes as Iran protests spread to more areas

Semi-official Iranian media say two police were killed in a western town, as videos show security forces firing guns and tear gas at crowds elsewhere.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@cstross and this is the fedi handle for the primary source media seems to cite most often @en-hrana.org #iran

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 17mo ago

Replying to

@MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk here is some more on the topic: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-landlords-game/

The Public Domain Review

The Landlord's Game: Lizzie Magie and Monopoly's Anti-Capitalist Origins (1903)

The story of how a homemade, anti-capitalist game created by a woman becomes a mass-produced uber-capitalist game that profited a man.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@leanderlindahl@mastodon.social @gregalotl@c.im @_elena@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu thank you!

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@gregalotl@c.im @leanderlindahl@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social @EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu the form appears to be unreachable to me now. Could you confirm you could still open it? There's a few further issues: EU GDPR is incompatible with the US Cloud Act: https://www.theregister.com/2025/12/22/europe_gets_serious_about_cutting/ In this article Austrian government institutions report that one of the primary obstacles towards their digital soveregnity is... the need to communicate with EU institutions over MS Teams.

theregister.com

Are we human?

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@glyph hey, but you didn't have to put the effort to search for the original parsing library. How big a time-saver this is...

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 29mo ago

Replying to

@luckyresistor@mastodon.art I've question myself if semantically the more accurate solution would be a font or an icon set. ;) The two have quite different implications in terms of use

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@NikitaTarsov@rollenspiel.social @wonka@chaos.social @MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us @Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk @nazgul@infosec.exchange Starlink is currently the only organisation in the world capable of launching reusable rocket platforms. How is this a liability?

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 2mo ago

Replying to

@iftas@mastodon.iftas.org that's awful. I remember many respectful people being on the first two instances. I hope anyone still around has migrated away.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 9mo ago

Replying to

@virtuous_sloth@cosocial.ca @BrentToderian@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr isn't it as simple as: the fediverse is grassroots, so it doesn't have the usability for less engaged folks?

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

A letter to all of our children by a person who dared to act.
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2026/5/5/thiago-avilas-letter-from-israeli-prison-to-his-daughter

Al Jazeera

Thiago Ávila’s letter from Israeli prison to his daughter

The Brazilian activist explains to his little girl his motivation to join the Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@OchmennoPodcast the author is also on Masto as @ChrisO_wiki

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@naturzukunft2026@mastodon.social what I don't see is an answer to the questions: who is expected to provide new data and why? I get it it is something like wikidata, but for provisional data that wikidata would not accept. Who is going to remove information that is outdated?

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@cdonat @funkylab Probably the summary and skills are so diverse across career paths that it's not a good idea to try to standadise them in order to match automatically (ambitious potential follow up). 2/4

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@wonka@chaos.social @MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us @Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk @nazgul@infosec.exchange it's a private company. Is there a way of getting him out other than the DoJ starting an antitrust case? Because this is certainly not happening in the next 2 years. A best-case scenario would be Trump flipping the coin to save his ass after the mid-terms. But even he is not so stupid to think that his ass could be saved after all this.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@nikitonsky@mastodon.online privilege management for the win

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@punissuer @wikkit but they are not exhaustive to energy. Adding lithium exports (corresponding to oil and gas) or those of internal combustion engines (to electric vehicles) would work against the argument. So instead of making a valid comparison between the trade of two countries in a certain context, the charts serve the opinion of the author.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 3mo ago

Replying to

@dalfen@mstdn.social funny that the conclusion should be for e-cars and not for public transport, good old bicycles or just reducing urban traffic. As it happens, the preferred solution is the most expensive among these, meaning most favourable for big money.

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 7mo ago

Replying to on writing.exchange

@alxd@writing.exchange love it, thanks! One could also follow SSL via @storyseedlibrary.org

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 19mo ago

Replying to

@NikitaTarsov@rollenspiel.social @wonka@chaos.social @MidniteMikeWrites@zirk.us @Christo_459@mastodon.me.uk @nazgul@infosec.exchange I'm sorry, but I'd need this explained in more detail, for dummies. Would you bother to do so? Thank you!

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 5mo ago

Replying to

@wikkit ok, but why are you comparing raw materials vs technologies? You surely don't imply that the US is not exporting technologies overall?

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@cdonat @funkylab An interesting question is who posts jobs: do professionals do it from their profiles or you allow organisations to create profiles? Org profiles could potentially be a paid feature. There are lots of quality professionals are already on fedi, so companies might have the reason to pay. 4/4

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mapto @mapto@masto.bg

· 6mo ago

Replying to

@cdonat @funkylab Potentially other types of posts like

events (this is also an ambitious project, probably worth delegating to mobilizon or similar),
professional insights (regular posts?; without MS and AI risks of shitification are not as big) 3/4

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