👀😭 #takahē about the death of the internet as we knew it
"You want to order from a local restaurant, but you need to download a third-party delivery app, even though you plan to pick it up yourself. The prices and menu on the app are different to what you saw in the window. When you download a second app the prices are different again. You ring the restaurant directly and it says the number is no longer in service. You go to the restaurant and order in person. You mention that their website has the wrong number and the woman behind the counter says they have to contact the company who designed the site for changes, which will cost them, but most people just order through an app anyway.
You want to watch the trailer for an upcoming movie on YouTube but you first have to sit through an ad. Then you sit through a preview for the trailer itself. Then you watch the trailer, which is literally another ad. When it ends, it cues up a new trailer, with a new ad at the start of it.
The first page of Google results are links to pages that have scraped other pages for information from other pages that have been scraped for information. All the sources seem to link back to one another. There is no origin. The photos on the page look weird. The hands are disfigured. There is no image credit."
Tā Tipene O’Regan, 87 years old, leaned into his carved walking stick and reached down to a large wooden box. He paused a second, then slowly lifted the lid. Out shot the hefty body of a bright turquoise bird, legs windmilling, launching from its cage like a football from a slingshot....
"That streak of colour was the #Takahē: a large, #FlightlessBird, that was believed for decades to be extinct. Eighteen of the birds were released in the #LakeWhakatipu Waimāori valley, an alpine area of #NewZealand’s South Island last week, on to slopes they had not been seen roaming for about 100 years."
There’s a new wild population of #takahe in NZ! With Ngāi Tahu and supported by Fulton Hogan we’ve released 18 takahē to the Greenstone Valley near Queenstown - a site where they haven’t lived for over a century. Here’s the last pair heading off to their new home. #conservation
It's a "language support" update: new post language settings, translation, etc.
Also, if you're using the Electron build, update to the last one (1.7.0) and get spellchecker synchronization when you change the language in the post editor!
Into NZ’s wildlife? Then you’ll love the incredible story of the #takahe in the new book by the great @AlisonBallance. Learn everything about Aotearoa’s unassuming avian superstar and the country’s longest-running conservation programme. https://www.pottonandburton.co.nz/product/takahe/ 📷 Potton & Burton
Kennt Ihr #Takahē? Habe das recht frische Fediverseserverprojekt eben zum ersten mal entdeckt, bin darüber gestolter, als ich mir das Profil von @kromonos ansah. Es ist wohl erst mal "nur" eine weitere Fedisoftware für kleiner/mittlere Servergrößen, die aber offenbar zumindest ein spezielle Besonderheit hat: Der Umgang mit Domains ist flexibel, ich hab das noch nicht ganz verstanden, aber es klingt vielversprechend.
If you don’t believe birds are dinosaurs, check out this video. We recently released 8 more #takahe into the Murchison Mountains, to keep this important population (they were rediscovered here in 1948) topped up with captive-reared birds. Credit: James Bohan #rails#conservation
Takahē is a new kind of Fediverse server which is aimed at small to medium size servers. It's unusual as it allows the same server to host multiple domains, and allows each user to have multiple identities. You can find out more from the project's official website at:
If an actor provides an outbox URL, but not an inbox URL, it means that it cannot receive Follow activities and it can not push content to the followers. In such cases, the follower's server should switch to periodic polling like RSS.
This will enable statically-built blogs ( #jekyll#hugo etc) to appear in Mastodon network.
I'm playing around in #takahe 's GitHub repo and checking out the docker-compose.yml (which is not yet meant for production... but is still informative).
I'm really liking how all state is kept in the database. There are no persistent volume claims for Takahe itself. All configuration for Takahe is externalized through inherited environment.
Life-Critical Side Projects - Aeracode (aeracode.org)
Disappointing to see another AP project (possibly) coming to a halt. It always seems to be the same issues:...
[News] Prehistoric bird once thought extinct returns to New Zealand wild (www.theguardian.com)
Tā Tipene O’Regan, 87 years old, leaned into his carved walking stick and reached down to a large wooden box. He paused a second, then slowly lifted the lid. Out shot the hefty body of a bright turquoise bird, legs windmilling, launching from its cage like a football from a slingshot....