penguin42 @penguin42@mastodon.org.uk

I’m getting ready to do more work on Calagator, a platform for community event listings. When we started, we were an alternate to Upcoming (around the time of its sale to Yahoo) and more locally relevant than Meetup. Now many communities share what they're up to on Facebook and have even less control over their data. A lot of my passion for sustainability in FLOSS comes from this project. So — I’m giving Patreon a shot https://www.patreon.com/calagator

So I got my hands on a camera to start making reproduction shots of my oil paintings, but I'm still waiting on a few lighting bits to arrive before I can get started on that particular project.

In the meantime, I need to really get into figuring out the finer details of this camera.

Also, the local supermarket was selling lily plants for, like, $10, and the first flower just opened.

SO: time for a little fun with the macro lens :D :D

#photography #plants #flowers #garden

A #bumblebee on New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) in the autumn prairie garden. #bees #bombus #pollinators #nativeplants #Illinois #nature #photography #photo

Pretty amazing. Researchers have managed to launch a rocket that includes a Bose-Einstein condensate in it to perform experiments in a microgravity environment.

In contrast with such experiments, usually performed by dropping them down a tall tower, they managed to do over 100 experiments on the condensate.

#Physics #QuantumPhysics #BoseEinsteinCondensate #Science #Research #ZeroGravity #Rockets

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07009-5

For mobile filter feeders in the deep sea, like these bright yellow crinoids commonly referred to as feather stars, a sponge rising up from the seafloor makes for a perfect stepstool up into the flow of debris we call marine snow. Current flow is slowed along the seafloor through friction with the rocks.

libssh: Authentication bypass in server code.

https://www.libssh.org/security/advisories/CVE-2018-10933.txt

– CVE-2018-10933
– affected are libssh 0.6 and above
– attackers can authenticate without proving any credentials
– update to libssh 0.8.4 / 0.7.6

#libssh #vulnerability #infosec #security #cybersecurity #authentication #ssh

Interesting fact. Almost all Orchid flowers bloom upside down. The 'lip' at the bottom of orchids is actually the top flower petal. The whole flower flips 180 degrees during development.

#Flowers #Nature #Biology #Orchids

http://www.indefenseofplants.com/blog/2018/10/16/the-upside-down-world-of-orchid-flowers

With a bunch of libre hosters we are trying to create a syndicate/network/exchange-collaboration-platform…

A first meeting IRL is planned for November 9-11 in Amsterdam.
This message is an invitation to you and your libre hosting collective to join us in Amsterdam or online.

If you want to help define what ‘librehosters’ should be or what you or your affinity group would need from a pan-European collective. Please join!

#librehosters on freenode or #librehosters:chat.weho.st on matrix

Morning Mastodons and Google Plus refugees. 👋

In other news, I've set up my new ODROID C2! Running LibreELEC and it streams 4k/x265 content just beautifully.

Thanks for the recommendations, fellow tooters!