@h0m54r @mcc Yes, it's one of the aliases for that action: https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/rev/c72617c016491f426f33f84b8822aad7fdd532c2/browser/locales/en-US/browser/browser.ftl#340
I begin searching for "eyes of laura mars" (apparently a movie released in 1978). As I am typing, for 1/10th of a second Firefox briefly prompts me to "Pick a colour", the prompt then disappears. I am immediately torn between 3 thoughts.
1. Why is Firefox prompting me to "pick a colour"?
2. I really don't want to know why Firefox prompted me to "pick a colour".
3. Wow, it sure is frustrating that there's literally no good way to communicate "My location is Canada but I use American spelling"
@mcc 1. I like Kagi News, I do not have to add RSS feeds and can filter the content for free
2. I like Kagi Translate, a good translator especially fast it is
still annoyed that all the CDNs banned domain fronting
@artemist@mildlyfunctional.gay . o O (domain frotting)
i have no idea what that would mean
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There are only a few days left to write to senators about the NDIS cuts. The motion to disallow the Support Determination is currently scheduled for Tuesday, 17 November 2026, providing an opportunity for the Senate to overturn it.
I am an NDIS participant with DeafBlindness, which means I live with both hearing and vision loss. Support workers help me communicate, move safely, access my community and read mail and forms. With fewer funded hours, attending medical appointments and managing daily life becomes far harder. Getting out independently is exceptionally difficult for me, so less support means more time alone at home.
The National Disability Insurance Scheme (Support) Determination 2026 reduces funding for affected social, economic and community participation supports by 50 per cent, and improved daily living skills supports by 10 per cent. Some supports are excluded, and these percentages do not apply to a participant’s entire NDIS budget.
The changes will apply to new and reassessed plans from 1 October 2026 and will extend to plan renewals from 1 February 2027. Reductions can apply even after supports have been assessed as reasonable and necessary.
You can follow proceedings through the Australian Parliament’s official YouTube channel: [https://www.youtube.com/@AUSParliamentLive?sub_confirmation=1](https://www.youtube.com/@AUSParliamentLive?sub_confirmation=1). Parliament lists Tuesday’s Senate broadcast from midday until 11 pm AEDT, Melbourne and Canberra time.
I have not been able to confirm the debate time for the motion. Keep an eye on Parliament’s Work of the Senate page, where “Order of business” provides the proposed schedule published each sitting morning: [https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Chamber_documents/Senate_chamber_documents](https://www.aph.gov.au/Parliamentary_Business/Chamber_documents/Senate_chamber_documents). You can also follow proceedings as they happen through the Dynamic Red: https://parlwork.aph.gov.au/Senate/DynamicRed.
Please write to your state or territory’s senators before Tuesday and ask them to support the disallowance motion. Explain what losing support would mean for you or someone you care about. A short message in your own words can help clarify the consequences.
Every Australian Counts’ campaign page on the motion explains the cuts and includes a personalised email template: https://everyaustraliancounts.com.au/ask-your-senators-to-vote-against-ndis-support-cuts/. Please boost this post so more people have time to contact their senators about this vital issue. #NDIS #AusPol #DisabilityRights
You got it perfectly. Please never do it again.
I can to the voice too.
@Heliograph Thank you for being a friend to lizards <3
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Decentralized social media for environmental research
www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1
(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)
Decentralized social media for environmental research
A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12
Abstract
Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.
Next is FindSuri, a project founded by Syrian-Canadian Dima, which uses a technology platform to find and reunite displaced Syrians around the world. FindSuri is to address the exploitation that arose when desperate families used FB/Meta trying to locate people but were exposed to predators and exploitation who misused their information.
All FindSuri cases are reviewed by humans and information is only shared or responded to by validated and involved parties.
@mcc 2, maybe because the colour picker tool is often called an “eyedropper”? No idea why Firefox has that as an address bar feature though.
@h0m54r @mcc Yes, it's one of the aliases for that action: https://searchfox.org/firefox-main/rev/c72617c016491f426f33f84b8822aad7fdd532c2/browser/locales/en-US/browser/browser.ftl#340
If you do a search for news on "Van Hollen" you will be bombarded by articles on the futility of his bid for Majority Leader. You'll even learn John Fetterman is so incensed, he will leave the Democratic Party if Van Hollen is elected leader by his colleagues.
But you can also watch this video, where Chris Van Hollen sidesteps the billionaire media gatekeepers and spells out his agenda for fighting for the priorities of #WeThePeople.
Please share the video widely.
https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117616685683400949
@daniel_gonzalez @peter Java frameworks simply formulate the problem as "Do not design N=1 systems, design for any-N generalization from the start". And that's how you get a FactoryFactoryFactory.
Here is an observation about writing software that may be so general as to be incomprehensible.
When you go from having one of a thing to having two of a thing, it is easier and possibly even more readable to just duplicate the thing instead of creating a generalized system that can handle N things.
Once you get to having three of a thing, it is better in all ways to simply have a generalized system that can handle N things.
But you don't *do* this when N reaches 3. You wait until N reaches 4
@mcc unless you're zhe particular kind of sicko i am, who makes generalized systems for doing N zhings so i can use it for exactly one zhing. or even zero zhings.
i have never finished a project.
It says a lot about the power of money that enough of it can turn an exceedingly mid guy like Jensen Huang into Dirk Diggler
@jalefkowit He managed to keep it up far longer than is reasonable. (The market, that is.)
Main goals achieved for today. Mounted the weather station on the greenhouse and spread some fall rye in the chicken run!
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