[political] Some here may follow #avaaz. It's an activist organisation that may resonate with people? Currently they're running a petition to be delivered to governments around the world, encouraging them to take a stand. They do need identifiable details, so this may not be everyone's cup of […]

A few days ago, a client’s data center "vanished" overnight. My monitoring showed that all devices were unreachable. Not even the ISP routers responded, so I assumed a sudden connectivity drop. The strange part? Not even via 4G. I then suspected a power failure, but the UPS should have sent an […]

The EU is working on what is in essence a new Open Source strategy for Europe, and the call for evidence is now open. This is our cue to provide feedback and input to the strategy! If you are involved in the Open Source community in any way, if you benefit (or could benefit) in any way from […]

Driving to the shops this morning I caught the presenter on South Africa's national radio station reading out the list of US illegal interventions since WW2, she then played an excerpt of Nelson Mandela stating, ""If there is a country that has committed unspeakable atrocities in the world it is […]

RE: https://mindly.social/@floofpaldi/115838162251358096 To piggyback on this, being bored is an essential part of being creative in my opinion. It’s so easy to always be taking in some sort of media these days. Doing chores or walking around the city for errands without earbuds is when I often […]

What's the point of spending months writing a spline editor if you can't draw interesting graphs? The blog post related to the latest release of the #grapheditor #python #softwaredevelopment #qt #pyside6 https://isijingi.co.za/wp/2026/01/04/qtpygraphedit-v0-1-0-now-with-multipoint-lines/

#SilentSunday Although it looks cold, it was a pleasantly warm day - just a lot of moisture coming in from the sea. This is the other side of the Kogelberg, where the previous picture was taken. #BettysBay #SouthAfrica #Photography The original […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#Silentsunday Related to the previous post, this was looking left, toward the Kogelberg mountains. The southern Atlantic ocean is about 20km behind the mountains, the source of the moisture, which evaporates as the air drops down the valley and warms up […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

#silentsunday From Clarence Drive, on the far side of False Bay, #capetown, #southafrica It is 30km of truly beautiful views. #photography The original. https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1283034549

After about 4 months of sporadic work, and a good focus now in the summer holiday, I have a new pre-release of a #gui editor for nodes and edges #graph s, which support multi-point edges, both rectilinear and curved, as well as managing metadata on the nodes. A blog post will follow. #python […]

#silentsunday I took a walk at sunset on the beach. #southafrica #bettysbay #photography https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1280447124

Unwelcome cormorant. #bettysbay, #southafrica #photography #seascape https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/1279636270

The more black people die in this country, the more a certain type of shitstain complains about "The white genocide". We laugh at the stupidity of the claims that all white people are being hunted down and deserve refugee status. We ignore the vileness of those same people bolstering their […]

[Sightless Scribbles Live Lit event Flyer Draft.] Hey Fedi, how much should I charge for this literary event? We present a new art form. Not merely a reading, but a live, curated excavation of the human condition. An evening with the revolutionary artist Robert Kingett, a living primary source […]

You don't have to apologize for being white; no one ever asked you to. You DO have to acknowledge that, if you're white, you derive social and material benefit from a system of oppression which came about through colonial violence. The evidence is incontrovertible. And then, you either accept […]

Catching up on some technology press RSS feeds and spotting the occasional headline around the issue of AI Competency. A university that will include "working AI competency" as a graduation requirement. Recruiters expecting AI competency from candidates. Seems like a general trend of the […]

I'm a sucker for technical drawings of telescopes. I came across these today, of a @esoastronomy Very Large Telescope (VLT) Unit Telescope, while looking up some info for my MAVIS project work. The drawings probably date from the early 1990's. #Astrodon […] [Original post on aus.social]

As a teacher I have discovered that this is non-negotiable. Kids have an instinct for when they are being abandoned. Being a person who matters means that other people care about you and are willing to spend time on you. I've seen kids who were acting out, totally lost find the thread again […]

Sudan: Humanitarian situation is 'worst crisis' of 2025 Despite ongoing fighting and horrific human rights violations, global attention on the world's worst humanitarian and displacement crises remains low. The situation in Kordofan is worsening […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@oldaily/115724522481486546 ""What looks like “choice” is increasingly the downstream effect of ranking systems. "" No technology is neutral.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@_thegeoff/115713545982341938 @MrBerard #compsci teachers/ students should enjoy this! FWIW, in 1980 I wrote a process monitoring system on an Apple ][e, which had to alarm when readings when out of range. The customer was sceptical that the alarm would be loud […]

The mouth of a "vlei" - a small lake - that lies in the narrow strip of land between the mountains and the sea. The spring high tide has temporarily closed the river mouth, creating an estuary. I am quite pleased with the tonal range in this one […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Sunset Beach on Table Bay in #capetown, #SouthAfrica. After some heat, a bit of welcome moisture has come in over the last few days. #photography #sea #clouds #beach The original: https://www.deviantart.com/africanobserver/art/Sunset-Beach-1273720090

#Kelvin-Helmholtz clouds. Layers of cooler and warmer air interact to create the "breaker" like formation. #capetown #southafrica #photography

#resonantcomputing "In order to build the resonant technological future we want for ourselves, we will have to resist the seductive logic of hyper-scale, and challenge the business and cultural assumptions that hold it in place. We will have to make deliberate decisions that stand in the face […]

Stunning insights into teaching (coding) "How can we talk about artificial general intelligence when all the top programming languages do not even support all neural systems on this planet" https://corecursive.com/hedy-with-felienne-hermans/

Reading about the development of #hedy an introductory programming language: "It’s really weird if your husband sends you unsolicited pull requests." 🤣 https://corecursive.com/hedy-with-felienne-hermans/

Wooo it's up! New paper alert! I will write a summary thread about this paper tomorrow morning when I'm not quite as mentally exhausted! "An Orbital House of Cards: Frequent Megaconstellation Close Conjunctions" by Thiele, Heiland, Boley, & Lawler https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.09643 Not […]

@Geo_odyssey https://nerdculture.de/@Olly42/115695545449561971

Bloubergstrand is on the northern side of #TableBay. The water is cold south Atlantic, and the wind can be quite intense, but it is still a popular spot. It always seems a little dystopian scifi from a distance. Maybe the beach evokes desert? Not sure […] [Original post on mastodon.social]

Was looking for another photo and found this. No idea of the source. It made me laugh, so I'm sharing.😅

I'm so old, I can remember a time when the idea of a software library getting compromised was sci-fi nonsense written by people who didn't know how to computer. "Battle stations, somebody got into Boost, now we have to update all pur c++ apps" lol are you high? How could they even propagate […]

Guess I buried the lede on this Oct 10 story, which broke the news about a record 29+ Tbps DDoS from the Aisuru IoT botnet. https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/10/ddos-botnet-aisuru-blankets-us-isps-in-record-ddos/ Because tons of sites are writing about this latest quarterly report from […]

The two relics of exploding stars are black holes and neutron stars. Both were discovered by women. Jocelyn Bell discovered neutron stars, in the guise of “pulsars”, in 1967. Since then, three Nobel prizes have gone to male scientists for their work on pulsars, but none to Bell. Louise Webster […]

Repposted with Alt Text (because Women need Alt Text too) #misogyny #patriarchy #feminism #incels #manosphere

The mysterious black fungus from Chernobyl that may eat radiation https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20251125-the-mysterious-black-fungus-from-chernobyl-that-appears-to-eat-radiation

A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages James Iry; Thursday, May 7, 2009 1801 - Joseph Marie Jacquard uses punch cards to instruct a loom to weave "hello, world" into a tapestry. Redditers of the time are not impressed due to the lack of tail call recursion […]

Looking through old photos of when I was in Nepal, 2010, and came across this one of a school. Gave me a good giggle.

#teacher #soundengineer My day yesterday. Guiding my student AV crew through rigging and running the primary school gig. 3 outdoor stages. 10 radio mics. 30 channels of sound. 1 rehearsal. 14 hour day, zero complaints, hit every cue. I am proud of what these guys do (as is the school!)

https://educationfutures.com/post/how-big-tech-is-silently-colonizing-education/ @edutooters This article is very insightful. "With AI, the flow reverses. The tools regulate the schools. Algorithms determine what students see. Content filters shape what they can ask. Recommendation engines […]

Found this cool interactive demo of the Bortle Scale: https://academo.org/demos/bortle-scale/ I am extremely grateful for my Bortle 4 skies. What does your sky look like?

Everybody go read "Termination Shock" by Neal Stephenson, because apparently that whole scenario is actually about to start happening: https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2025/11/21/stardust-geoengineering-janos-pasztor-regulations-00646414

"Those in power recognized that oppression is best maintained by keeping the masses illiterate, and those oppressed recognized that literacy is liberation. To my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked […]

An organic farm where you can buy without money! In Hout Bay not too far (500m) from Imizamo Yetu bus stop. A helluva scenic ride by the way.

#solarpunk spoke to me for it is all about activism, imagining a future we would all want to live in. There is the tech and aesthetics to depict, but there is also the worldview, for clean energy without social justice is greenwashing! In this #film I imagine direct democracy in a sustainable […]

Solar in Africa: a revolution accelerating https://climatedrift.substack.com/p/why-solarpunk-is-already-happening

"If you’re shopping around for an app which takes privacy as seriously as you do, look for the ones which are private by design. Look for the ones which allow you to define where they are hosted. Look for the ones where the feature set is reduced in order to maintain the safety of your data […]