Dennis @dennis@social.bankmann.name

Desert protip: get a UV light to find scorpions at night

Via @rstockm: (tiny) spiders fly by taking advantage of the difference in charge between the ground and the air (apparently 100V per meter and more). This is amazing. “Spiders have been found two-and-a-half miles up in the air, and 1,000 miles out to sea.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/the-electric-flight-of-spiders/564437/

Riot/Web 1.4.0 and Synapse 1.4.0rc1 are here with massive improvements to data privacy, including making identity servers strictly opt-in only; selectable integration managers; garbage collecting redactions & much much more. Read all about it: https://matrix.org/blog/2019/09/27/privacy-improvements-in-synapse-1-4-and-riot-1-4

Synapse release candidate for you! 1.4.0rc1 is a whopper and contains a huge body of work to improve data privacy. Check it out if you would like to help us test, but check the upgrade notes first. https://github.com/matrix-org/synapse/releases/tag/v1.4.0rc1

The first release candidate of #Mastodon 3.0.0 is out for testing:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/releases/tag/v3.0.0rc1

@rixx Thanks for sharing (again)! What an elaborate article that explains all terms used as they go. The form of the article alone is worth learning from.

Much appreciated!

@dennis

My 'one weird trick' is to not say "Hello" when I answer a call that may be from a telemarketer. Instead, I wait for the caller to say "hello".

I think most of them have auto-dialling machines that only connect to a real marketer upon hearing an audio signal.

Works for me. After 5 seconds of silence from me, I know it's a junk call and just hang up. Real people calling would say a "Hello?" by then. 🙂

@bkhl @kensanata

well isn't this next level bullshit

RT @chillicampari@twitter.com
Earlier today by the Germany/France/Luxembourg border.

HyperTerminal

The ReMarkable Tablet: A Review - https://blog.liw.fi/posts/2019/09/22/the_remarkable_tablet_a_review/

Hi Fediverse

it seems to me that switching.social closed down it's services. All social media accounts are deleted and the site is currently offline.

Unfortunately, I have no clue what happened, I'm as surprised as you are. I already contacted the French, Italian and Turkish version of the site.

In case someone knows anything about what happened or has backups of one/multiple pages of the website, I would be very happy to get in touch with you.

#SwitchingSocial #offline

RIP Luigi Colani