Prosthetic limb device enables users to ‘sense’ temperature difference (www.theguardian.com)
Swiss-Italian study finds MiniTouch can help people with amputations feel whether objects are hot, cold or in between
How Mastodon made friends with Meta (www.platformer.news)
Founder Eugen Rochko on helping Threads federate, dodging venture capital, and why he hopes Bluesky abandons its protocol
Astronauts may be able to make cement using their own pee (www.sciencenews.org)
Lunar dust and a compound found in urine could be used to build future dwellings on the moon, a new study finds.
Do we have a kbin discord server? (kbin.social)
I'd like to chat and hang out with you folks in real time. Do we have an official or unofficial discord server?
Fediverse link-aggregator PieFed launches in beta test (fediversereport.com)
We now have another thread aggregator to join Lemmy and Kbin on the fediverse!...
openSUSE's Logo Competition Results (en.opensuse.org)
FrankenPHP v1.0 is Here (laravel-news.com)
Flipboard Begins to Federate (medium.com)
Today we are beginning to open Flipboard to the Fediverse, a rapidly emerging part of the Web which includes social services like Mastodon, Threads, Pixelfed, Firefish and PeerTube all built on a revolutionary open protocol called ActivityPub....
Ideas for organizing the header (kbin.social)
While UI tweaks definitely aren't the top development priority as of now, the header currently feels a bit cluttered and unintuitive. When @ernest does get around to improving it, here are a few changes I suggest:...
Several hour delay on both incoming and outgoing federation (fedia.io)
Sorry to bother you again jerry 😅...
Neanderthal DNA may explain why some of us are morning people (www.theguardian.com) Polish
Scientists find genes inherited from our prehistoric cousins increase tendency to rise early – useful in regions with short winter days
reb00ted | Meta/Threads Interoperating in the Fediverse Data Dialogue Meeting yesterday (reb00ted.org)
Exploring stdClass in PHP (dev.to)
Request: pinned thread tracking instance defederation (fedia.io)
Looking at the (short!) list of defederated instances, I tried looking through this magazine to read about what caused some of the defederation actions -- unfortunately it looks like some of that information might've been lost in the mbin migration and subsequent cleanup?...
Anyone can edit our wiki now (wiki.startrek.website)
Original post...
Fedia.io downtime for maintenance (fedia.io)
Hi all. I am going to be taking fedia.io offline for a bit today to move to a new server, switch to a containerized version, and some other enhancements. Thanks for patience.
The Magazines page is a bit of mess (kbin.social)
I've thought the Magazines page has been messy for a while now, though with collections now also being on the same page (at least for the time being), it's starting to get very out of hand....
Symfony 7.0.0 released (Symfony Blog) (symfony.com)
Also released Symfony version 6.4.0 (LTS)...
Pixelfed.social removes all storage limits on accounts (pixelfed.social) Polish
[Grande Prairie, Alberta, Canada, Nov 20, 2023] – Pixelfed.social, a leading player in the image sharing and social media sphere, is excited to announce a significant update that marks a new era for digital creativity and user experience. Effective immediately, Pixelfed.social has removed all storage limits on user accounts,...
Blocked accounts still showing in random posts/threads sections (kbin.social)
So I like the random posts and threads sections on the main page as they help me find new content, but all too often, they're filled with posts from accounts that I have already blocked. Could we modify these sections to filter out blocked users?
blahajzone unusable once again (kbin.social) German
performance issues on the *keys seemingly never stop
Nala: a frontend for APT, so you can have prettier output, faster downloads of packages, and a history. (linuxiac.com)
Money pattern in PHP: the problem (dev.to)
Could there be a "subscribe to thread" option? (kbin.social)
A small thing here. The option for users to individually choose to subscribe to specific threads to get notifications for new posts. I often see threads of curiosity to me, that I personally have nothing to say in that moment, but might want to see what others say.