The 20 year old Apple iSight camera. This is my original Apple iSight camera (Rev C) that I purchased sometime around 2005. Its specs don't mean much today with a mere 640×480 resolution, but to me it stands out as a remarkably well-designed piece of hardware. The best detail was the rotating aperture

Pretty camera pretty

With easy tasks, failure is shameful, but success is unremarkable. With hard tasks, failure is understandable, but success is epic. Easy tasks that seem hard are the best.

I wonder how these bug-hunts I do at work are perceived. They are actually hard for me, but what if they seem easy for others?..

Cladosporium sphaerospermum is a remarkable species of radiotrophic fungus that is thriving in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone and which scientists are studying to unlock applications in a wide range of fields.

Giving write access to your contributors might motivate them to do more. Super cool!

Работаем.

A simple utility to add Mastodon bookmarks to https://betula.mycorrhiza.wiki/ - gglanzani/betulon

Wow!

Есть игуана с глазом на затылке! А это, оказывается, тема распространённая так-то. Называется теменной глаз.

A hackernews claims their internet experience is faster on FreeBSD due to a superior internet stack. Is it true!?

Martin came up with the idea of using something like the roots from semitic languages for naming things. I thought of the same before I read this article, but it's good to have it written down by somebody.

French wild pansies are producing smaller flowers and less nectar than 20 to 30 years ago in ‘startling’ act of evolution, study shows

Предлагается такая форма стихов для русского языка, вдохновлённая хайку. Две строчки и шесть слогов. Пример:

Сибирь
гиперссылка

Luxury beliefs have, to a large extent, replaced luxury goods.

Luxury beliefs are ideas and opinions that confer status on the upper class, while often inflicting costs on the lower classes.

TL;DR: Alpine is boring, this is good.

Recently I've had an issue with Alpine, which I had to resolve with some workaround from GitHub issues. But otherwise it's boring yeah. Cool. One day I'll use it on all of my servers! For now, I only use it on CI.

DiskerNet empowers you to be the master archivist of your own internet browsing. As a robust, lightweight tool, DiskerNet seamlessly connects to your browser, saving and organizing your online discoveries in real-time. With an option to archive everything or only bookmark-worthy content, DiskerNet places you in full control of your browsing history. No special plugins or extensions required.

A surprisingly cute Linux-related news forum.

Mastodon and Pleroma support four settings for post visibility. These are public, friends only, unlisted and direct messages. What actually happens when you use those settings? The only thing they will change are the to and cc fields of the created activity and object. Your server will federate the post to other servers depending on those fields, and hopes the other server respects this. There is no technological guarantee for this, though. A malicious server could leak all the data it receives. This includes posts to friends and direct messages.