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Juan Nunez-Iglesias
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Core dev and co-founder napari.org
Core dev scikit-image.org
Co-author elegant-scipy.org
Research Fellow at https://www.monash.edu/researchinfrastructure/eresearch […]

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It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch.

A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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Living as a human in this here 21st century is in fact immensely complicated and relentlessly exhausting and most of us want fewer choices, not more. We want to *delegate*, abstract away, and never have to think about it.

Most people only want more choice if (a) it is their area of niche […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
November 11, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Remember that survey about how we can sustain napari development? We extended the deadline until the 16th, AoE! Blog post: https://napari.org/island-dispatch/blog/sustainability_survey.html
Survey: https://napari.typeform.com/sustainability
If you use napari at all we would be super grateful if […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:24 PM
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Linux Breaks 5% Desktop Share in U.S., Signalling Open-Source Surge Against Windows and macOS
https://www.webpronews.com/linux-breaks-5-desktop-share-in-u-s-signaling-open-source-surge-against-windows-and-macos/
Linux has surpassed 5% desktop market share in the US (5.03% in June 2025), per […]
Original post on mastodon.scot
mastodon.scot
November 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@bruno_j_navarro/115503399845524889

Intuit must be doing a little jig right now.

"But the IRS has faced intense blowback to Direct File from private tax preparation companies that have spent millions lobbying Congress. The average American typically spends about […]
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@Mastodon/115503024028215175

Shout out to Claire* and Eugen for doing the frontend on this, I got pulled away to work on other things and so they pushed it over da finish line and added a whole new AsyncRefresh feature on top.

#fetchallreplies is for all the small […]
November 6, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Super easy cheesecakeb 500g quark, two eggs, some sugar (1-2 teaspoons; does not have to be a lot if final result eaten with honey), some flour (~ two heaped tablespoons). Mix directly in the oven dish (high one preferred, it will become very fluffy). In the […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
November 2, 2025 at 10:10 AM
The dumb bed that wouldn’t work without #aws being online seems like a good opportunity to share this excellent talk by @martin on #localfirst development: https://youtu.be/NMq0vncHJvU
October 22, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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Good morning. Starlink has now launched more than TEN THOUSAND satellites into orbit. Nearly 1400 have already been burned up in the atmosphere so far.

Here's a "lovely" image from my Kuiper Belt discovery program with dozens of satellite streaks in a 3 hour […]

[Original post on mastodon.social]
October 21, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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Tomorrow I am traveling to be at the farthest I've ever been from home and I'm so excited and looking forward to being with an amazing group of humans that I love and admire from @napari

And also, good ramen
October 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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You might have noticed lots of activity in the napari project recently! 🚀 We're grateful for a grant from CZI that's keeping us going, but grants don't last forever: we're trying to figure out sustainable long term funding. Read our blog post to find out how you can help […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
October 21, 2025 at 2:34 PM
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napari 0.6.6 is out! 🚀

This is a bugfix release following up 0.6.5: if something in your napari workflow unexplicably broke, you might want to update ;) Also, with the new bundle you can now "open files with > napari"! Check out the full release notes on the website […]
Original post on fosstodon.org
fosstodon.org
October 16, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Spicy take:

Normal people shouldn't self host.

From an energy use perspective, the users per watt are WAY higher in a data center.

People are already awful at running patches and doing security updates.

OMG are people awful at doing backups.

From an ewaste POV, consumer electronics just […]
Original post on infosec.exchange
infosec.exchange
October 12, 2025 at 4:47 AM
I’m so tired. Why is it so hard for these people to spend their money without causing *massive* environmental and ecological damage *for absolutely minimal or even negative benefit*. It can’t possibly be this hard!!!!

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115345346648445621
Prof. Sam Lawler (@sundogplanets@mastodon.social)
It's becoming increasingly clear to me that Reflect Orbital's fucking stupid giant mirror satellite, with absolutely NOTHING useful to offer, which will cause countless safety issues, ecological disasters, and destroy the night sky, is going to launch. A bunch of astronomers and I have sent out a fact sheet about them to a bunch of journalists, but very few are going to write about this. So, let me try posting it all here. Here's what I know about Reflect Orbital and all the downsides:
mastodon.social
October 11, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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Wow this sucks so bad.

a person posted on /r/datahoarder that they have created an archive of the Epstein files with added metadata like mentioned people and etc. But everything is LLM-generated.... Including the "full text" of the documents.

Rather than […]

[Original post on neuromatch.social]
October 10, 2025 at 9:06 AM
Reposted by Juan Nunez-Iglesias
Alright it's late and i need to go to bed, but here's a draft FEP to do full account migration with posts and whatever other kinda objects you want to bring with you. It's a trivial expansion of existing ActivityPub/streams systems and supports gradual migration as it's implemented and after an […]
Original post on neuromatch.social
neuromatch.social
October 9, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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napari 0.6.5 is out! 🚀

Rapid-fire highlights are: colorbar overlay, custom startup script, and better and prettier documentation! Check out the full release notes here: https://napari.org/dev/release/release_0_6_5.html
October 2, 2025 at 11:45 AM
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The great Dr Jane Goodall, ethologist and campaigner for great apes and much else, has died at the age of 91.

She loved this _Far Side_ cartoon, and wrote a forward for a later Gary Larson collection.
October 1, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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added a cheat sheet to the official Git website https://git-scm.com/cheat-sheet
September 16, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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Timeline-cleanse: Fly through 3D map of stellar nurseries made by #esa's #gaia mission:

▶️ https://youtu.be/cejvjP-a77k

Especially from ~1 min on: just turn on the volume, put the video on full screen and enjoy.

#Astrodon #nature #astronomy
September 16, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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We can create communities that celebrate being just as much as doing. One of the best ways to do this is by cultivating purely social spaces where you can get to know each other as whole people, share pictures of your pets, talk about your favorite books and tv shows, and vent about your day. I […]
Original post on social.coop
social.coop
September 5, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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This should have been big news!

Ten funding agencies from eight European countries have pledged to support a public infrastructure that is poised to replace academic journals:
FWF 🇦🇹
RCN 🇳🇴
Forte 🇸🇪
ARIS 🇸🇮
SRC 🇸🇪
FCT 🇵🇹
CSIC 🇪🇸
DFG 🇩🇪
Formas 🇸🇪
ANR 🇫🇷
Only two of them issued press releases in […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
September 3, 2025 at 12:34 PM
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sam altman is trying to find the guy who did this
September 4, 2025 at 7:54 AM
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And another French rural branch line - the Ligne des Hirondelles - is in danger https://www.laviedurail.com/actualites/ter-menaces-sur-la-ligne-des-hirondelles/

This one is amazing - super scenic. But the service is already very thin, and passenger numbers low. Renovation, coupled with a better […]
Original post on gruene.social
gruene.social
September 4, 2025 at 8:30 AM