I am announcing all this today as this morning
Haparanda 🇸🇪 - Tornio 🇫🇮
finally re-opened, connecting Finland to the EU passenger rail network again

The last passenger trains ran here in 1988, before either Sweden or Finland joined the EU

Yle about the launch: https://yle.fi/a/74-20240125

We released the first beta for Mastodon 4.7 today. It contains very few user-facing changes, but contains significant reworks of the backend code to improve security and support new protocol features.

This update includes substantial database migrations that might take up to a couple of hours on very large servers, but will not cause downtime if the upgrade instructions are followed.

Release notes and upgrade instructions are available here: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/releases/tag/v4.7.0-beta.1

#mastoadmin

There’s areas of the Aussie alps I’ve been itching to do justice to

Over a few trips I’ve waited for the sunset for the sunlight to hit the mountain range only for it to get taken out by low cloud

This time was different - again waiting for the sun to set, but unlike before a gap on the horizon broke & let the sun through, making wherever it hit glow giving us a couple mins of good light.

Tech: 5 handheld shots 1/40sec f/11 ISO 250

#dalegphoto #landscapephotography #photography

Semisti ahdistaa. Ei tarvinnut kuin avata Threads ja LinkedIn.

animfetch is animated system fetch based on fastfetch.
https://github.com/Andrew-Velox/animfetch

#Linux #OpenSource #fastfetch #neofetch

Quicktab is a minimal offline-first new tab page for Chromium based browsers.
https://github.com/rollecode/quicktab

#OpenSource #Browsers

"Kiusaaminen ei lopu vain hellimällä ja kuuntelemalla uhreja"

"Olisi siistiä, jos opettajalla olisi vähän kiusaajan mieli"

"Hän kokee, että kiusaaja elää hänessä aina.
– Se on jäänyt lihasmuistiin. Olen hyväksynyt, että se olen minä."

Mitä minä luen? Miksi kiusaajaa nostetaan framille näin? En pysty kiusattuna ymmärtämään tätä yksipuolista näkökulmaa.

Jutussa kiusaaja saa eräänlaisen "sankaritarinan", uhrit jäävät rekvisiitaksi, teot on listattu kuin saavutuslistana.

"Kuuluuko kiusaajiin suhtautua myötätuntoisesti?" - aivan typerä äänestyslaatikko, joka muuttaa traumoihin johtaneen väkivallan viihteeksi, jota lukijat voivat äänestää kuin urheilutulosta.

Yllättävän moni vastaa "kyllä". Miksi ihmiset haluavat suhtautua väkivallantekijlöhin myötätuntoisesti?

Pyri aktiivisesti vähentämään kiusaamista.
Kiusaajat häpeäpaaluun.

En pystynyt katsomaan videota. Liian triggeröivä.

Juttu videona: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63rWAIY-iQg
Juttu tekstinä: https://yle.fi/a/74-20224648

A new solar lighthenge discovery 🌞🙂

Walked into my bedroom at just the right moment this afternoon to find this beautiful patch of illumination on the wall.

It’s sunlight reflected from a dormer window on a house down the valley to the south, sneaking through a narrow gap into my balcony door. The leaf shadows are vines on the neighbour’s wall.

Lasted just a minute & I may never see it again given the angle, time of day & year, & brevity.

Now there’s a metaphor …

#Photography 📷

The last purple martins have fledged (and are turning up in various silly places around the farm, like this guy just hanging out in the fence).

The swallows, purple martins, and crows are gathering together into larger and larger flocks, and thinking about leaving. It's always so sad when the birds leave us for the winter, and mid-August always seems awfully early. But, well, it's Saskachewan. Winter is coming.

The local news article:

Jyväskylä has a new celebrity: a raven - the bird seems to enjoy fast food or even vomit
https://yle.fi/a/74-20237863

He circled around and eventually sat so close I was able to get a decent shot from inside the cafe with my iPhone.

What a magnificent bird.

In my hometown, there's this huge raven in the city center. He sits and watches. I find him comforting. He's a celebrity by now, and newspapers write about him. I saw him again today. I didn't want to disturb him, so I didn't take any photos. What a character.

👁️⁠👅⁠👁️

#Wordpress: A Critical pre-auth #XSS to RCE vulnerability chain (CVE-2026-64638) dubbed #XSS2Shell is affecting all versions of WordPress Core. This vulnerability was discovered by AI (@pwn_ai). Patch to v7.0.3 ASAP - older versions backported:
👇
https://thehackernews.com/2026/08/new-wordpress-pre-auth-xss-could-lead.html

A 360° view from the surface of Mars from Perseverance Rover.

📸: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Simeon Schmauß

CachyOS Linux Kernels are open-source kernels optimized for speed and responsiveness. They offer multiple CPU schedulers, performance patches, and variants for gaming, desktops, servers, hardened security, and real-time workloads.

Available for Arch Linux, with community packages for Fedora, Gentoo, and NixOS.

More details: https://digitalescapetools.com/tools/tool.html?id=linuxcachyos

#OpenSource #Linux #CachyOS #Performance #FOSS

RE: https://mas.to/@Plamobot/117051447136309708

“After all, Babylon 5 is the story of an Earth with an increasingly fascist president surrounded by crony capitalists and who is secretly conspiring with its enemies while he uses the organs of the state to further his own petty ambitions. The show, both at the time and in retrospect, was dismissed by critics who said its use of McCarthyism as a key theme was backward-looking.”

Read More: https://www.engadget.com/2229891/you-have-no-reason-not-to-watch-babylon-5-now-that-its-free-on-youtube/

Man in my 50s here. Have started telling the important people in my life that I love them every time I see them. The embaressment, especially with the men, might shave a year or two off my life but I'm not stopping now. If I drop dead tomorrow they'll at least know how I felt.

35 years ago today, on 6 August 1991, @timbl shared about a project he called WorldWideWeb.

"The WWW project merges the techniques of information retrieval and hypertext to make an easy but powerful global information system... Try it"
https://www.w3.org/People/Berners-Lee/1991/08/art-6487.txt

Thank you Tim and thank you to everyone who has helped make the web an open, powerful global information sharing system for all.
#WebAnniversary #WebHistory