@kas@magnetic-ink.dk

kas

@kas@magnetic-ink.dk

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kas, to passkeys

Passkeys: A Shattered Dream

🔗 https://fy.blackhats.net.au/blog/2024-04-26-passkeys-a-shattered-dream/




kas, to random

@Pepijn My neighbour's pre-teen boy often accidentally shoots his ball over the wall into my garden. A couple of times I have contemplated buying a truckload of cheap balls and shooting one over the wall every night while everyone is sleeping. 😈

kas,

@vegos_f06 Already happening, but not as baffling as many, many balls,.

/cc @Pepijn

franco_vazza, (edited ) to Astronomy
@franco_vazza@mastodon.social avatar

Do you think it is legitimate to call for an open dialogue between sprituality and science?

kas,

@franco_vazza

I this context, does “science” mean “physicalism” (»we think that elementary particles and electromagnetic radiation are the fuldamental building blocks of the universe, and consciousness is an emergent property of these«)?

In that case, a guy like Bernardo Kastrup has already expertly opened the dance floor and asked physicalism and “spirituality” out for a dance.

https://www.bernardokastrup.com/





benjaoming, (edited ) to python
@benjaoming@social.data.coop avatar

Dates and times and timezones are annoying, but maybe also worsened by a .days property of the timedelta behaving this way :)

>>> x = datetime.now()  
>>> y = datetime.now() - timedelta(days=2)  
>>> (x-y).days  
1  
>>> (x-y).total_seconds()  
172687.711143  
>>> (x-y).total_seconds() // 60 // 60 // 24  
1.0  
>>> (x-y).total_seconds() / 60 / 60 / 24  
1.9987003604513889

Edit: The internet helped 🙏️ (the example is borked )

kas,

@benjaoming

Well, some nanoseconds have passed between the two calls to datetime.now(), so strictly we do have less than 2 days. Does the same thing happen if you store the now() in a variable and use that value instead of calling now() twice?

kas,

@diazona @benjaoming

Perhaps it should have a .total_days() method that returned a float instead of the int that .days is holding.

kas, to random

@Tutanota It's a :

🔗 https://9to5google.com/2024/02/22/no-gmail-is-not-sunsetting/
🔗 https://www.forbes.com/sites/antoniopequenoiv/2024/02/22/gmail-says-its-here-to-stay-after-sunsetting-hoax-circulates-on-x/
🔗 https://gizmodo.com/no-google-isn-t-sunsetting-gmail-1851279685

(I refuse to link to Xitter.)

kas, to random

I ❤️ free software!

❤️ Thanks, everyone! ❤️ I ask you to be my ! ❤️

kas, to Danmark

> Det betød altså, at Johannes Sigurdsen skulle trække sin musik fra Spotify, Apple Music og alle de andre streamingtjenester. Det vil stadig være tilgængeligt i resten af verden, men i Danmark og Grønland ville det kun være tilgængeligt på Tusass Music.

Læs hele artiklen (læsetid: 9 min.):

🔗 https://www.information.dk/kultur/2024/02/groenland-maaske-knaekket-koden-baeredygtigt-streamingmarked?kupon=eyJpYXQiOjE3MDc1NTAyMTUsInN1YiI6IjE3NDE4MTo4MTM2NjkifQ.0zgEEDTIR2EJvU-Eo3aRkA (gavelink: artiklen kan læses uden abonnement)

🔗 https://www.tusassmusic.gl/

🇩🇰

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sachac, to random
@sachac@emacs.ch avatar

Getting things ready for tomorrow's livestream at Sun Jan 21 7:30 AM EST (-0500) via YouTube. This time I'm going to try using vdo.ninja to get my X230T's video output over to another computer that can handle OBS. If it looks like it can handle it, I might even be able to get webcam video with background removal like the cool people do. ;) Notes at https://yayemacs.com/ - little tweaks like copying to clipboard and running Org Babel Javascript blocks in my active Firefox tab using Spookfox, reflections on choosing things to hack on, and figuring out how to dynamically highlight directed graph SVGs made by Graphviz. =)

kas,

@sachac Indeed, it does. 👍

/cc @asjo

kas,

@sachac

Now that I take a closer look: HTTP is port 80, and HTTPS is port 443. So how come it works with [::]:80?

/cc @asjo

smallcircles, to random
@smallcircles@social.coop avatar

These 5 one-way tickets to Mars will be worth every penny.

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2024/jan/15/worlds-five-richest-men-double-their-money-as-poorest-get-poorer

kas,

@smallcircles

From the article:

> »Oxfam said the most recent Gini index – which measures inequality – found that global income inequality was now comparable with that of South Africa, the country with the highest inequality in the world.«

How can the global inequality be comparable to that of the country with the highest inequality?

kas,

@smallcircles

I was about to suggest that The Guardian had been using an LLM to summarize the Oxfam paper — something I cannot rule out — when I found the source of the quote.

The original paper reads:

> »The gap between the Global North and the Global South has grown for the first time in 25 years. Global inequality is now at a level comparable to the level of inequality found within South Africa, the country with the highest inequality in the world.«

Last paragraph between pages 18 and 19 in:

🔗 https://oxfamilibrary.openrepository.com/bitstream/10546/621583/29/bp-inequality-inc-150124-en.pdf

I arrived at that document from:

»Wealth of EU’s five richest men soars almost 6 million euros every hour since 2020«

🔗 https://www.oxfam.org/en/press-releases/wealth-eus-five-richest-men-soars-almost-6-million-euros-every-hour-2020

and

»Briefing paper: Inequality Inc. How corporate power divides our world and the need for a new era of public action«

🔗 https://policy-practice.oxfam.org/resources/inequality-inc-how-corporate-power-divides-our-world-and-the-need-for-a-new-era-621583/

simonjust, to random Danish
@simonjust@mstdn.dk avatar

"Digitaliseringsstyrelsen kan oplyse, at det ikke tidligere har været teknisk muligt for sundhedskort-appen at slå borgernes sundhedskortoplysninger op enkeltvist, skriver styrelsen i en mail til Version 2."

"Select top 1 * from persondata where cprnr = '000000-0000'" - nåh, ja - så skal vi lige lave API'et...

Hvor kan jeg hente min løncheck? :P ... Er der nogen, der kan kaste lidt lys over, hvad det er for systemer, de sidder med - for det lyder vitterligt som årets (første) joke?

https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/sundhedskort-app-henter-cpr-data-fra-samtlige-danskere-uden-samtykke-sandsynligvis

kas,

@simonjust Det er vildt at det overhovedet skal gennem Digitaliseringsstyrelsen. Hvorfor har CPR ikke et API så man gennem appen kan logge sig ind med MitID og hente sine egne data. Så svært kan det altså ikke være — og du har allerede skrevet SQL'en (og ellers kan ChatGPT eller CoPilot vel hurtigt banke noget sammen).

The_Whore_of_Blahbylon, to random
@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon@mastodon.social avatar
kas,

@The_Whore_of_Blahbylon I have to admit that I always have to look up the spelling of those two words.

michael, to conservative
@michael@social.tree.dance avatar

researchers find flowers that are evolving to self-pollinate where insect populations are declining: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/dec/20/flowers-giving-up-on-scarce-insects-and-evolving-to-self-pollinate-say-scientists

@plants

kas,

@michael @plants This is really scary news! 😱

nerdd, to random Danish
@nerdd@mstdn.social avatar

Du godeste, hvor er det rart, at det er solhverv i morgen, og dagene begynder at blive længere igen!

kas,

@Chris @nerdd Til gengæld bliver den ved med at stå senere op indtil ca. 29/12. 😉

kas, to plant_milk

:boost_requested:

TL;DR: Does E418 (gellan gum) inhibit lactic acid fermentation of organic soy milk?

/cc @fermentation | @vegan ]

For a couple of a years I have been making my own vegan yoghurt by emptying the contents of two probiotic capsules into a litre of organic soy milk, mixing thouroughly, and then letting the milk sit in a yoghurt maker (or a pressure cooker set on the yoghurt program) for 14 hours. The effective working time is less than 5 minutes, and the result is a wonderfully tangy and creamy plantbased yoghurt. It's one of the easiest things you can make in your kitchen — or so I thought until yesterday:

For my own convenience I used a different brand of soy milk, because I thought that organic soy milk was organic soy milk. However, when the incubation periode was over yesterday, the soy milk was still runny — it didn't seem to have coagulated at all. No problem, I gave it 6 hours more (for a total of 20 hours): still runny, and not the slightest sour. WTF?

To exclude the possibility that I — in a fit of distraction — had taken some other capsules from the fridge than the probiotics, I repeated the procedure with a fresh carton of the same brand of soy milk, making sure that I used the probiotics this time. Same result: after 14 hours of “fermentation” the soy milk was still runny and not tangy at all (the taste was just like lukewarm soy milk and it didn't have even the slightest resemblance to yoghurt).

Both brands (we can call them Coop365 and Spir) of soy milk are of the sweetened type with added vanilla flavour. Coop365 (the one I usually use) is made from 8.5% soy beans and has 3.7 g protein per 100 g. Spir is made from 8% soy beans and has 3.2 g protein per 100 g. Both are organic, and both are sweetened with organic cane sugar. Coop365 has a slightly lower salt content than Spir — 1.2‰ vs 1.8‰ — but in such low concentrations it should not have any effects on lactic acid fermentation.

The only real difference between the two soy milks according to the fact box on the cartons is that while Spir contains E418, also known as gellan gum, Coop365 doesn't. Gellan gum is said to be “inert”, and according to the woodchuck book it is often used in “plant-based milks to keep plant protein suspended in the milk”:

🔗 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gellan_gum#Food_science

Both soy milks coagulate readily when adding a small amount of e.g. lemon juice. According to a page I read yesterday, the curdle point of soy milk is around pH 5.5.

The probiotic capsules that I use contains three different species of lactics: Lactobacillus acidophilus, Bifidobacterium lactis (syn.: B. animalis), and Lactobacillus rhamnosus (syn.: Lacticaseibacillus rhamnosus). All three of them are found/used in dairy products such as fermented milk.

Now my question is simply: Do any of you fedizens have experiential, or otherwise solid, knowledge that E418 is able to inhibit lactic acid fermentation of soy milk as described above? Or, when reading my description, does your experience tell you that “Hey, the Spir didn't ferment because of …!”?

Thanks in advance! 🙏

#BifidobacteriumAnimalis
#BifidobacteriumLactis
#E418
#fermentation
#fermentedMilk
#gellanGum
#LacticaseibacillusRhamnosus
#LactobacillusAcidophilus
#LactobacillusRhamnosus
#plantBased
#plantghurt
#soyMilk
#vegan
#yoghurt
#yogurt

kas,

@paelse

Indeed, it's easy as pie.

It started as a test because it was not easy to find an organic vegan yoghurt where I live, and the ones I could find were rather expensive.

I reckoned that if “they” could ferment soy milk, so could I. Initially I used a couple of spoonfuls of commercial plantgurt (I believe it was the Alpro, that you mentioned) as a starter, with the intention to propagate my own culture, much the same way you use a sourdough. However, in my experience it tends to become unstable (ferment in unpredictable ways) after a few cycles, so instead I turned to probiotics.

I use the Symbioflor+ capsules from BioSym, that contains the lactics I mentioned earlier, but you could probably use any probiotics that contains lactobacilli.

The soy milk is UHT treated and has a shelf life of 12 months at ambient temperature, so I figured there was no need for further sterilization. And it is possible to open the capsules and adding the contents to an open carton of soy milk without contaminating the whole thing. Then it's just shake-shake and let the milk sit at 41°C for 14 hours. It can't be easier.

The commercial plantghurt was rather expensive (around 28 DKK for just 750 mL). The Coop365 soy milk is 13 DKK for a litre, I think, and if you buy 300 probiotic capsules they cost roughly 1 DKK a pop, so altogether it costs me 15 DKK to make 1 litre of soy yoghurt (cost of electricitry not included), or around 40% of the price tag of the commercial plantghurt.

I have a dedicated yoghurt maker that holds 1 litre, and it does the job eminently, and I have used an InstantPot electric pressure cooker set to the yoghurt program with equal success. It's easier to clean the youghurt maker, though, and it takes up less room on the kitchen desk.

The homemade soy yoghurt becomes more tangy and slightly firmer than the Alpro. If you like a milder taste, or a runnier yoghurt, you could possibly experiment with the fermentation time.

@fermentation @vegan

kas,

PS: I forgot the other thing I wanted to ask you about the E418:

If indeed the is the culprit, what does that say about its impact on our intestinal ? If E418 can somehow inhibit a simple lactic acid fermentation, will it be able to significantly alter the composition of species in our microflora? 🤔

/cc @fermentation | @vegan ]

kas, to houseplants

My Hoya linearis, that is hanging in the garden all summer, usually blooms when I take it inside in the autumn when the night temperature reaches about 5°C.

This year it has decided that now is the time. It actually suits me well because the flowers are too heavily perfumed for my bedroom.

Now I'm keen to see if there are any Danish night insects that take interest in the flowers, so that I may have some seeds. It would be great to start a new pot from seeds, wouldn't it.

/cc [ linearis | | @plants | @houseplants | | | ]

Blurry picture of the plants seen from beneath in an attempt to better reveal the flower structure.

kas,

@houseplants @plants

I have a confession: Months ago I tried to persuade y'all that no Danish nocturnal insects takes interest in the flowers of Hoya linearis.

I lied.

The plant has been hanging from the ceiling in my bedroom all winter. Today I took it down to offer it some water, and now there are downy seeds all over my bedroom (I guess I should be grateful that I'm single).

To conclude:

Some of the flowers must have been pollinated while the plant was hanging in the garden last summer.

The seedpods must have looked somewhat like the leaves of the plant, and in retrospect I have been a little worried since some of the “leaves” looked yellowish, but since it was just here and there and didn't seem to affect the whole plant, I wasn't too worried.

Turns out the yellow “leaves” were actually seedpods that have now burts open and revealed lots and lots of seeds — each attached to something that looks like eiderdown. They fly at even the faintest breeze. This is gonna be fun…

People who know me also know that now I have to try and sow those seeds to see if I can grow new plants from seeds.

Did my mom and dad fsck in a greenhouse, that early summerday back then? 🤔






kas, to plants

Hey @plants,

Has any of you guys ever tried pollinating your / Peace Lily and grown new plants from the seeds?

Anything I should know about the pollination or the germination of the seeds?

/cc [ | ]

kas,

Hello @houseplants and @plants 👋

Are you ready, guys? Now this adventure is getting really exciting:

More than three months ago I hand-pollinated some still closed spadices of peace lily (Spathiphyllum) — see parent post.

For a couple of weeks, one of the swollen spadices had become increasingly brown, and today I was sure there was no longer any connection to the stem or the mother plant, so I cut it off and broke it up on a lunch plate. (The three remaining spadices are still green.)

We have seeds!! 🤸

There may still be a long way to germination and plants, but undeniably having actual seeds feels like a huge progress. The pollination code has finally been broken!

Yay! 😸









Spadix material and smaller seeds on a white lunch plate with blue patterns

kas,

@houseplants @plants

The peace lily saga continues:

Not only did the peace lily produce seeds: the seeds germinated, and now I have a number of ever so small peace lily seedlings.

On March 2nd I sowed some seeds on a wet paper towel in a petri dish that sat in the windowsill.

On March 29th some of the seeds seemed to have germinated (see first photo — can you spot the tiny roots?) and the germinated seeds were transferred to small pots that were kept in a “greenhouse” made from a plastic bag to avoid dehydration.

The second photo was taken today (April 20th) and shows a couple of seedlings that have developed their first leaf. Match for scale.

This is a project that has called for patience:

The period from pollination to seeds took 4-5 months. Then it took roughly 1 month for the seeds to germinate, and 3 weeks later the seedlings have just a tiny leaf each. Things can still go wrong, but I'm pretty confident that I will end up having several mature peace lilly plants grown from seeds.

Meanwhile, I have cross-pollinated two peace lily plants. One was the plant I've had for 10+ years. The other was a “miniature” plant I bought last summer, that was meant to sit on the very narrow windowsill in my bathroom. I was naive enough to hope that some gardener had developed a miniature cultivar of the peace lily, but I was fooled: the plant was just a baby plant of something that has now grown into a mature peace lily plant. Latipac be damned!

Now I hope that the two plants are unrelated, and not just perpetuated clones, so that the cross-pollination introduces some genetic variability. Perhaps I am wiser at the end of 2024.

I wish y'all a peace(lily)ful weekend.

🕊️ Peace now! 🇵🇸 السلام الآن 🇮🇱 שלום עכשיו









Two evero so tiny peace lily seedlings in a small sunlit pot. Match stick for scale.

kas, to gardening

I've always been told that seeds from the mistletoes you can buy around are no longer able to germinate because they are kept in dark during transportation.

Well, four years ago I decided to challenge that claim: I bought a mistletoe twig in a local nursery and “sowed” the seeds on a Japanese cherry tree resp. a young willow in my garden.

Result: While lots and lots of the seeds germinated, only a few of the seedlings survived the first year after germination, and fewer still made it past the cotyledon stage.

Here, four years later, I have three mistletoes on the cherry tree: a smaller one and a bigger one (the latter is a pair of twins, actually), and a really tiny one on the willow. Please see the attached pictures.

The tiny mistletoe on the willow seems to be having a hard time. It's still a tiny seedling only. I guess it doesn't approve of the host species.

The mistletoes on the cherry tree, on the other hand, seem to be thriving, although it took three years for the first real leaves to appear, so I've had to be very patient.

Apparently twin embryos are very common in mistletoe (i.e., Viscum album), but only one survived in my garden.

We ought to challenge superstitious beliefs.

/cc @plants | | | | ]

Four year old mistletoe seedling growing on a young willow tree

kas,

@plants | @gardening | | | | | ]

So here we are: 5½ years later, the mistletoe I sowed on a small cherry tree is blooming (I apologize for the terribly blurry picture). The flowers are nothing spectacular, but it's a great reward to experience this. Does anyone know if the flowers are male or female? There are plenty of wild mistletoes in the area, so perhaps I can hold a hope for berries if the flowers are female.

Second picture: same age, different host species (Salix / willow).

/cc jamessemaj@p.palindro.me.uk

Five or six year old scrawny mistletoe seedling on a willow

kas,

@Irisfreundin Hardly.

@gardening @plants

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