Facebook defends its simple 2 question survey on the trustworthiness of news publishers
What if everyone recognizes a news source and say half of them trust it but it isn't true?
I'm hoping that a chat banner notification is for really great chats only and not some subtle distinction between chat notification types that I can't figure out even after some moderate to heavy googling. If anyone knows seriously please tell me.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Banner Chat #etc #skype What is the difference between chat notifications and chat banner notifications in Skype? )
Four Painted Lady butterflies eclose (emerge) from their chrysalises. The video has a timelapse and then realtime video of each butterfly in turn.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Painted Lady Butterflies Eclosing #etc #video #butterfly #chrysalis #eclose Timelapse and realtime video of four Painted Lady butterflies eclosing (emerging) from their chrysalises )
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If I need to reboot to view a PDF then you must be doing something very badly wrong Adobe.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Die PDF Die #etc #adobe #pdf Why do I need to reboot Acrobat Reader DC after an update? Don't reply, that's a rhetorical question. )
The Kindle nonfiction list has become a bit alarming recently.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Nonfiction #etc #amazon #kindle According to the New York Times Nonfiction Bestsellers list on Kindle Stephen King and Margaret Atwood are no longer fiction... )
I have a Nest camera in my backyard. So far it has caught zero criminals. It's not completely useless though as it has captured many raccoons, several skunks, eerie spiders glowing in the infrared lights, a couple of rats and one cat. Parkside police say I can stop calling now.
(Published to the Fediverse as: Backyard Visits #etc #video #nest A Nest camera catches many raccoons, several skunks, eerie spiders, a couple of rats and one cat. )
Facebook, I spotted a typo. I think you might have meant to say important to us.
Wired (and everyone else) is reporting that Twitter is finally testing longer tweets. Maybe 280 characters! I had a better fix six years ago:
ITHCWY: Twitter: Put some status in status updates: Give me an extra character for every year that I’ve been with… http://goo.gl/fb/gCEpT
— Robert Ellison (@abfo) July 8, 2011
(Published to the Fediverse as: HOWTO: Fix Twitter #etc #twitter HOWTO: Fix Twitter - instead of upping the limit to 240 characters drip out an extra character a year, and for good behavior. )
A datalapse video of San Francisco street trees:
City elevation contours and street tree database from DataSF. I included all trees with a latitude, longitude and known planting date. On the visualization trees grow over 25 years to a generally exaggerated 25 meters radius. Each species of tree is assigned a random color.
(Published to the Fediverse as: San Francisco Street Tree Datalapse #etc #datalapse #sanfrancisco #trees #video Animation of all the known trees in San Francisco (from Data SF). )