@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Just a random guy.
Some info about me: I like videogames, I like to contribute on Wikimedia and OSM, I love Arch and Alpine, I'm panroace(?).
On here I'll repost mainly in english, but sometimes some italian stuff might slip through, in both cases I try my best to boost the things just once, and with alt text when needed.
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Sacrifices must be made, we do what we must because we can.
Everything is fine, know you are loved.
I'll live for those who come after.

Will never forget Niko.

Notes: 1499
Following: 1
Followers: 1

pronouns and stuff: https://en.pronouns.page/@martinligabue
Pronouns: I/me
SCP: 426
birth: 23/07/1998

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Miles :verifiedbisexual: :verified_neko2:
@miles@snug.moe

windows bad

I really have no clue how people keep saying that "Windows just works", because no it doesn't? And it never did tbh
Like, sure it got exponentially worse recently, but it's always been a piece of garbage that required arcane workarounds for mysterious issues which affected the most mundane tasks.
And I don't know how it used to be on linux before (because, guess what, I used to be a Windows user too), but now most stuff does just work. Sure it breaks from time to time, sometimes horrendously badly, but it's nowhere as hostile to the user as Windows is.

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

number one M3GAN fan
@checkervest@laserdisc.party

A Neanderthal found this rock, thought it looked like a face, and put a little dot for a nose. We still have their fingerprint. How can you look at that and not feel split open

Rock shaped like a human face. It is a long oval. At the top are two depressions that look like eyes and at the bottom is one that looks like a mouth. An ochre dot has been placed right in the center like a nose. On the right are two images of the dot. One is how it looks in reality, a reddish smidge. The second is how it looks on a scan, and the whorls of a fingerprint are clearly visible

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

OpenStreetMap Ops Team
@osm_tech@en.osm.town

To keep #OpenStreetMap.org up and running while we're being deluged by scrapers, we've blocked 320,000+ primarily residential IPv4 addresses in the last 24 hours (+ 100,000 IPv6) involved in scraping.

If you need OSM data, please don't scrape the website - use the official downloads at https://planet.openstreetmap.org
🙏🌍 #AI #Bots #Abuse

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Steven Lawson Photography
@StevenLawsonPhotography@mastoart.social

This week I began a 10-week course in #lichen identification and, following the maxim that faint heart never won fair lady, I have begun by trying to identify one of the most notoriously difficult lichens, a Cladonia.
This on a Scots pine and has all the characteristics of Cladonia polydactyla. I have some chemical tests and a scaled image to complete but these are a good start (and check out the tiny springtail which was barely visible to the naked eye).
#LichenSubscribe #nature #ToughTG7

Close up image showing the bright red apothecia and coarse, granular soredia on the podetia of a Cladonia lichen

Close-up image showing the squamules and some podetia of a Cladonia lichen with tiny drops of water clinging to the squamules

A tiny globular springtail clambers of the squamules of a Cladonia lichen

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

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Bwee the Fluffdragon 🩵

@Bwee@meow.social

I am curious...

I know I have a lot of followers who are blind, but I'd like to see how many of you are out there that this post will reach!

Including some additional demographics for interest's sake.

Please respond and boost if you don't mind!

I am blind. (Legally or otherwise, if sight is not useful, choose this) (0)
I cannot see very well and glasses don't help, so I don't wear them. (0)
I wear glasses/contacts all the time, and they help me see a little better, but still not great. (0)
I wear glasses/contacts all the time, and I can see just fine. (0)
I occasionally wear glasses/contacts for some situations. (0)
I don't wear glasses and I see just fine. (0)
Other/Feel free to reply! (0)

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Zambunny
@Zambunny@livellosegreto.it

I need money for my dog's surgery, so

COMMISSIONS ARE OPEN!
Apro le commissioni!

As of RIGHT NOW.

See my works at https://www.francescazambon.it
https://www.instagram.com/zambunny/

I can do digital, watercolor, oil, and even etch a linocut print for you.

Please inquire and/or retoot!

A hare with barn owl wings, ram horns and four eyes hides amongst tall grass and wild flowers.

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Scott Jenson
@scottjenson@social.coop

By reframing this as "site stats" and not user stats, I hope we can move forward. If there are zero stats "of any kind" about the user collected, maybe we could do this without freaking out?

If there are some hidden user stats collected, then we should remove them. The point is to figure out how to do this safely, not assume it can never be done.

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Amᵃᵖanda | map data witch
@amapanda@en.osm.town

#Overpass is such a powerful #OpenStreetMap tool, but it has the strangest version numbers ever. Latest release is v0.7.62.4
4 levels of version number! v0.7.0 was released more than 10 years ago...

Cripes, just do a “version one release” 🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️🤦🏻‍♀️

http://dev.overpass-api.de/releases/

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Chris Siebenmann
@cks@mastodon.social

I have to admire this writeup for the sheer deranged glory of remotely unlocking your desktop's encrypted root drive on boot by setting up Tailscale and a very limited SSH server in your initrd, so you can SSH in to enter the unlock password. And of course you give your initrd a separate and limited Tailscale identity and its own set of SSH host keys.

https://jyn.dev/remotely-unlocking-an-encrypted-hard-disk/

(via https://tech.lgbt/@jyn/115939595372361611 or https://lobste.rs/s/spemfa/remotely_unlocking_encrypted_hard_disk )

Niko (Martin) :heart_ace:
@martinligabue@tsukihi.me

Dr. Victoria Grinberg
@vicgrinberg@mastodon.social

RE: https://mamot.fr/@ploum/115923251561577968

Everyone who ever plans to be teaching and is forced to make their students take exams (especially in the academic environment but also outside) should read this.

There is SO much to learn and think about from this post, not just about chatbots but so much more.