Sam Beebe @sbeebe@social.coop

Pulling up my trouser legs
My tants (trouser leg pants)
My plegs (pant legs)

(illustration credit Lee Zeiman-Heider)

Apple tracks you, even if you don't have Apple devices

iOS sends the MAC addresses of nearby devices, e.g. other handsets and the home gateway, to Apple together with their GPS location. Users have no opt out from this and currently there are few, if any, realistic options for preventing this data sharing.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/apple_google.pdf

#privacy #iOS #apple #google #GAFAM

Very happy about this.

Today marks 59 years since Kenya attained self rule from British as Madaraka Day

He's trying to hide his excitement for the official pixelfed mobile app!

If you'd like to participate in our mobile app alpha, make sure you follow this account and boost this post.

We'll be inviting a few people at random (that follow us and boosted this post) to test out the app before anyone else! #pixelfed #pixelfedMobile

These are NGC5426 and NGC5427, collectively known as Arp271, a pair of interacting spiral galaxies located about 130 million lightyears away.

I took this image back in 2018 with VIMOS, an instrument at ESO's Very Large Telescope in Chile. I was the Instrument Scientist, and that night we were decommissioning the instrument to make room for a new one, so I decided to take one last farewell image to celebrate all the cool science done with this instrument over the years.

Here's a ninja turtle with a stick!

Gonna start doing some traditional media practice pieces and selling them on my Gumroad shop (https://gumroad.com/laemeur), and this is the first one I'm puttin' up.

#tmnt #drawing #ninjaturtles #donatello #cartoon

Breakfast is served 😙👌

sharpless avocados, painted by amanda almira newton, 1917

If your community/organisation/company is interested, I am keen to give on-line talks about #FrugalComputing, aka Low Carbon and Sustainable Computing.

Example topics are:

Frugal computing
On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and the path towards zero-carbon computing.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing/

How to reduce the carbon footprint of your digital lifestyle

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing-consumer/

Frugal computing: developer perspective
On the need for low-carbon and sustainable computing and what developers can do about it.

https://wimvanderbauwhede.github.io/articles/frugal-computing-developer/

But happy to discuss specific topics in this area.

(boosts much appreciated!)

#LowCarbonComputing
#SustainableComputng

Mother of the year. Olare Motorogi Conservancy, #Kenya. © Yaron Schmid (Photographer of the Year 2022 entry)
#MothersDay2022

Any teenager in America can get a Brooklyn Library card to check out banned eBooks.

https://www.bklynlibrary.org/media/press/brooklyn-public-library-94