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EUCommission, 4 days ago to random

🗳️It is the final day to have your say!

Today these countries will vote in the #EUelections2024:
🇵🇹 🇪🇸 🇫🇷 🇱🇺 🇧🇪 🇮🇹 🇩🇪 🇩🇰 🇸🇪 🇫🇮 🇪🇪 🇱🇹 🇵🇱 🇦🇹 🇸🇮 🇭🇺 🇭🇷 🇷🇴 🇧🇬 🇬🇷 🇨🇾

Democracy starts with YOU.
#UseYourVote or others will decide for you.

arstechnica, 9 days ago to random

Intel’s new “Lunar Lake” chips promise big GPU and NPU upgrades, minor CPU boosts

Lunar Lake returns to a more conventional-looking design for Intel.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/06/intels-new-lunar-lake-chips-promise-big-gpu-and-npu-upgrades-minor-cpu-boosts/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

EUCommission, 27 days ago to random

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

Today, we launched our new Mastodon instance. It will ensure a privacy-focused space to engage with and get the latest from our Commissioners, departments, and the official voices of the Commission.

We want to thank @Mastodon for stewarding us and helping us make this possible.

Fostering European digital players is vital to our strategy for a stronger #DigitalEU.

This is a unique opportunity to grow the community even more. Let's get there!

Mastodon, 1 month ago to mastodon

#Mastodon forms new 501(c)(3) non-profit entity with new board of directors in the United States to facilitate tax-deductible donations and in-kind support:

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/04/mastodon-forms-new-u.s.-non-profit/

EU_Commission, 1 month ago to random

Our commitment to the fediverse is here to stay.

We are working on a solution to ensure our continued presence on your feeds, taking full advantage of Mastodon's identity portability.

And we are even growing the team behind our Mastodon presence, increasing efforts to engage with your comments on our posts.

We are fully committed to being a real part of the conversation in the fediverse.

Interested in our next steps? Follow us as we take on this new chapter.

Gargron, 1 month ago to ghost

The blogging platform #Ghost is working on adding #ActivityPub integration. That means, among other things, being able to follow Ghost-powered blogs and comment on articles right from your Mastodon account. The website they made to explain their plans is really nice! This is what momentum looks like.

https://activitypub.ghost.org/

waldoj, 1 month ago to random

I'm trying to pay my Virginia income taxes online, and they have disabled paste in any field of consequence. Paste in a password? Nope. Your bank's routing number? You're gonna have to hand-key that. Your bank account number? You better believe you're typing that in.

If you wanted to force people to create crappy passwords and cause them to accidentally siphon money out of strangers' bank accounts, this is how you'd do it. And somebody went to extra effort to make it be like this!

coreyspowell, 2 months ago to space

The astronauts aboard the ISS were amazed by the April 8 solar eclipse, just like the rest of us, and went crazy snapping photos from orbit.

They got some amazing views of the Moon's shadow sweeping across southern Canada & Maine, seen from 420 km (261 miles) above: https://www.flickr.com/photos/nasa2explore/with/53645140833 #space #eclipse #space #astronomy

The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.
The Moon's shadow, or umbra, is pictured covering portions of the Canadian provinces of Quebec and New Brunswick and the American state of Maine in this photograph from the International Space Station as it soared into the solar eclipse from 261 miles above.

Techaltar, 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago) to random

Fairphone sent me the Fairbuds to test about a week ago. My thoughts:

✅ Replaceable battery in both the buds & the case!
✅ Active noise canceling & decent sound quality (to me, not an audiophile)
✅ 149 eur, not bad
❌ Buds & case both quite bulky
❌ Almost symmetrical design means I never know which way is R/L, or up/down
❌ BT range seems a bit lower than usual

More about this later

Gargron, 2 months ago to random

The fact that you can follow the president of the United States (@potus) from your Mastodon account instead of being forced to have an X or Threads account for it is a huge W in my book. Of course our team is fully available to help if they'd want to set up Mastodon on whitehouse.gov. I believe governments should not rely on 3rd party platforms to connect with their constituents.

asymco, 2 months ago to random

Musk Social is priced at about $160 per MAU. Trump Social is priced at $13,000 per MAU.

asymco, 2 months ago to random

Trump Social: revenue tumbled 39% year-over-year in the fourth quarter to just $751,500. Accountant questions going concern. Market cap still at 5.26b after today’s 24% drop.

asymco, 2 months ago to random

Trump Social’s 494,000 US MAU compares with 75 million on Musk Social. Threads has about 5 million (data: Similarweb.)

Barredo, 2 months ago to random

The New York Times Company is actually games publisher with a news division

maxroser, 2 months ago to random

'More people care about climate change than you think'

My colleague @hannahritchie.bsky.social just published her latest article on Our World in Data: https://ourworldindata.org/climate-change-support

randahl, 2 months ago to random

Recap of Putin's narrative:

Ukraine is a country of Russians waiting to be liberated, who deserve to have their energy infrastructure bombed, so they can freeze to death before the liberation, because they are led by a Jewish president who is somehow also a nazi who has recently sent his Islamic jihadist terrorists to gun down Russians in Moscow while screaming “allahu akbar”.

Imagine the briefing on Russian tv1, where the hosts are told to keep a straight face while delivering this message.

owa, 2 months ago to random

Digital Markets Act Workshop: A less than informative response from Apple to our simple questions. 🤷‍♂️

_roman, 3 months ago to TeslaMotors

People in Autoland Germany bought 4x more e-bikes in 2023 alone than pure electric cars were sold in the country.

🇩🇪 2023

🚲🔋 2,1 million
🚙🔌 0,5 million

You know what #EV truly means.

#micromobility

JenMsft, 3 months ago to gaming

Trying to decide if you're ready to take on a boss #gaming

An owl standing big, wings out and intimidating. In front, a small cat with his back up, debating if he should approach the owl

caseynewton, 4 months ago to random

Here's @zoeschiffer interviewing Mastodon founder @Gargron on the state of the platform and its relationship with Meta. He says he thinks two-way federation between Threads and Mastodon is coming this summer https://www.platformer.news/mastodon-interview-eugen-rochko-meta-bluesky-threads-federation/

EU_Commission, 4 months ago to random

Europe is true to its word.

Last night’s political agreement on the €50 billion Ukraine Facility is a major step forward.

We will continue to deliver much-needed funding and predictability for our brave partner and aspiring member.

We aim to start payments in March.

BrentToderian, 4 months ago to random

BREAKING: Paris voters just won referendum 55% to TRIPLE parking charges for SUVs!

“We’re doing this to reduce pollution & to make our children safer because these cars are dangerous. Paris is transforming itself to allow people to breathe & live better.”
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/feb/02/paris-residents-set-to-vote-on-plan-to-triple-parking-charges-for-suvs

Gargron, 4 months ago to random

Excellent video by @Techaltar about the #SocialWeb. You can basically send this to anyone who wants to learn what makes Mastodon unique compared to other social media platforms and what it is that we're doing here 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3ptZ1W-FRA

hbons, 4 months ago to random

saying "I was wrong" in meetings: boring. puts the blame on you.

"I hallucinated": modern. shows you're using the latest tech. it's not your fault you're wrong.

secretsquirrel, 5 months ago to random

I switched to Firefox a few weeks ago and it was remarkably painless for something so absolutely critical and that I need to work reliably, with zero additional friction, every single day.
I cannot stress enough how low-hassle it is to switch from Chrome to a browser with a business model that doesn't rely on tracking you.
Do it.