Maximus @maximus@fosstodon.org

Oh wow.

"Finnish astrophotographer J-P Metsavainio has released a Milky Way photo that took him nearly 12 years to create. The 1.7-gigapixel image has a cumulative exposure time of 1,250 hours."

https://petapixel.com/2021/03/16/photographer-spends-12-years-1250-hours-exposing-photo-of-milky-way/

#Space #Images #MilkyWay #Galaxies

@evilscientistca

This is a long shot, but I want to put the power of social media and federation to the test.

My son wants to become a commercial airline pilot when he’s grown up. It would be awesome if we could find a commercial pilot in the fediverse that we can follow and ask questions of.

If everyone who reads this could boost it, it would be much appreciated and it would mean the world to my son if he could get in touch with a real-life commercial pilot! ✈️

#pilot #flying #airline #jet #boeing #airbus

I am now 0x1F years old 🎈

There go the fact-checkers again--marking my post as false! Who am I to believe? The Facebook fact-checkers or Dr. David Samadi, M.D, and the guy who invented the PCR tests? The Lancet even pointed this out.
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(20)30453-7/fulltext

Not on social media?

5 Eyes, 9 Eyes, and 14 Eyes: #Surveillance Alliances Explained
https://dt.gl/5-eyes-9-eyes-and-14-eyes-surveillance-alliances-explained/

Anyone watching these impeachment debates in the House? Weird how we can throw an impeachment together in a day or two but can’t give Americans any financial relief for ~8 months

WhatsApp's suicide

Dear #Mozilla, I fully agree with your message and this is why I am not giving you my money anymore. Because you are not the #Internet and I really don't like how you started speaking of yourself as such.

You make a browser. This is great. Diversity among browsers is essential and indeed keeps the Internet alive and humane. However instead of concentrating on this very important mission you are uniquely positioned to perform you changed your focus to populism while your top management pay figures go into seven digits. This I don't like as well. #Firefox needs love and attention but instead you cut developers and engage into distracting nonsense no one asked you for. You even managed to break Firefox Mobile. After your redesign it is just shadow or what it used to be.

Instead I am giving to someone else. It is David Morley who runs diasp.org - my first Diaspora pod. It is the Dr.Quadragon who runs one of the largest Russian Mastodon instances. It is Funkwhale, great free music sharing and streaming platform. It is Phillip Kulin who runs Russian Internet Censorship Registry Watch. I am not giving much but I hope this trickle helps to fuel real life of the Internet - people who create and support things.

I used to give you, Mozilla, but I am becoming more and more disappointed lately. Sorry. And again when salaries of your execs are described with words "instant inter-generational wealth" it seems to me you can do fine without my $5.

⚠️ WARNING
Do NOT install #NewPipe through the Samsumg Galaxy Store!

A copy of #newpipe is currently distributed through the Samsung Galaxy Store by a third party. The package id of that version is identical to the officiail one (org.schabi.newpipe), but the signing keys differ.
Surprisingly, users running an outdated version recieve a notification to update their installed version with the one uploaded in the Galaxy Store.

How many GNU/Linux users are needed to change a light bulb?
https://www.gnu.org/fun/jokes/users-lightbulb.html

"Time to Say Goodbye to Google Fonts"

Self-host your fonts (or use web safe fonts) for better performance.

Good post/message! Too bad the site still uses Google Fonts 🤷‍♂️

https://wicki.io/posts/2020-11-goodbye-google-fonts/

When reading source code comments...

Say no to Google #gafam https://gafam.info/

#Google: a walk down privacy lane
https://www.cupwire.com/google-timeline/
#degoogle #ungoogle

#darktable is on Mastodon now. Hi there !

OMG, am dying!!!

Someone used the bug GitHub refused to fix, that allows you to add a commit to a repo you don’t control... to upload YouTube-dl to the DMCA request repo on GitHub.

https://github.com/github/dmca/tree/416da574ec0df3388f652e44f7fe71b1e3a4701f

If you live inside a fortification where someone else writes the rules, decides who can enter, can force anyone to leave, decides what you’re allowed to have, and can take things away if they decide it’s contraband, are you living in a castle or a prison? https://puri.sm/posts/your-phone-is-your-castle/