gemma lynn @ellotheth@mastodon.technology

On the bird app, I play a game with my followers called #1vs2.

I show X-ray data of supermassive black hole from the Chandra X-ray telescope, and ask my followers if they think it's an image of a single point source or a dual point source (aka possible a pair of SMBHs)!

For the smallest separated SMBH pairs, it's not very easy to tell if the data is 1 or 2 !

What do you think? Is this a single or a dual? I'll send a sticker of a black hole cat to someone who guesses correctly!

#astronomy

One of the most important feature requests we've heard from you is "WHERE THE HECK IS MY #THUNDERBIRD MOBILE APP?"

Here's a straight answer:

YES, we're excited to announce that an Android version of Thunderbird is coming!

We'll have more details to share with you in a few weeks. We'll talk to you about it here, and over on our blog at https://blog.thunderbird.net.

When we created ODF 20+ years ago, Microsoft first laughed at the committee at OASIS, then made OOXML to render it moot, then rigged ISO to make OOXML a standard, then implemented ODF and now participates in the ODF committee and helps fund its work through COSM.

#Bluesky is Twitter's OOXML to #ActivityPub and it's at the "rigging ISO" stage.

Mastodon has a verification mechanism, though it looks different from Twitter's. We do not ask for your documents. Instead, if you have a website that you are known by, you can verify that you are the owner of that website.

Link to your Mastodon profile from the website, either through a visible link, or through a <link> tag in the head of the document, with a rel=me attribute, and link back to that page from your Mastodon profile. It should then get a green checkmark, like @Mastodon.

Petition to rename "kill/death ratio" to "fuck around/find out"

Study of heterosexual people on dating apps finds women had to portray themselves as *not* high-maintenance: naturally pretty, capable, expectation-less, fun-loving, and, most importantly, easy-going. "All to ensure a man’s comfort."
https://theconversation.com/high-maintenance-is-a-red-flag-on-dating-apps-women-are-still-expected-to-shrink-themselves-180113

So glad I found lists on Mastodon, it was getting hard keeping you all in my head

👋 I am Bodo, Father of a 4-year-old, working as a Full-Stack Freelancer in Berlin.

I am a CODA, and I'm the admin of https://signdict.org.

Besides that, I have two other bigger side projects:

https://hierbautberlin.de and https://wishlephant.com

Happy #starwarsday

So I did a thing. I volunteered to be a release manager for #PHP 8.2. Here's hoping elections go in my favor :-)

Regardless, I'm still writing a book on PHP for O'Reilly and will be paying close attention to this release so I can accurately cover it.

https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/php-cookbook/9781098121310/

Excited to get back into our Divinity 2 playthrough. I'm playing a Ranger build that is quite a bit of fun. I'm a bit of a glass cannon, so some fights I get to watch and give strategy advice. Lol. It's still fun.

We are streaming our playthrough on https://twitch.tv/OnlyOpe 7pm CST.

#OnlyOpe #twitchstreamer #Twitch #DivinityOriginalSin2

As someone that loves OSS and maintains projects, this resource from Daniel Stenberg (the creator of curl) is awesome:
https://un.curl.dev/
He shares his experience doing open source for over 20 years. Interesting fact: despite having started curl around the 90s’, he was only able to start working on it full time in 2020.
#oss

Introducing https://fediverse.info - a bespoke guide to the fediverse!

Some highlights include

⚡ People Directory - opt-in directory of people based on topics

⚡ Projects list

⚡ Mobile Apps list

We're working to improve our FAQ section and add additional projects! #fediverse #activitypub #fediverseInfo