Going down the #Nostalgia highway today whilst I work on a small personal #Project to help me at my day job.

Making a #Tool that can make #Reports when I take a call from clients and co-workers to help me be more #Organized
Basically a glorified #Form collector that will save each file to my #NextCloud drive for easy sync and backups.

The nostalgia today will be brought by the band #Creed and their music from their 1997 album #MyOwnPrison

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IooIZbqcBs

https://www.europesays.com/1944610/ ITOPF: Consequences of an LPG spill in the marine environment #Environment #ITOPF #LPG #LPGCarriers #MarineEnvironment #reports

Report on Paragon Spyware

Citizen Lab has a new report on Paragon’s spyware:
Key Findings:

Introducing Para... https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2025/03/report-on-paragon-spyware.html

How South African wine is tackling a mountain of challenges – Drinks International https://www.diningandcooking.com/1968474/how-south-african-wine-is-tackling-a-mountain-of-challenges-drinks-international/ #ChallengesSouthAfrica #climate #ClimateIssues #ClimateIssuesReports #dodd #fighting #issues #IssuesReports #IssuesReportsOli #maintain #MaintainQuality #oli #OliDodd #quality #reports #ReportsOli #ReportsOliDodd #south #SouthAfrica #SouthAfricaFaces #SouthAfricanWine #Vineyard #Wine #WineFromSouthAfrica #WineOfSouthAfrica

Ukrainian soldier:

”The minerals deal was a plan from US to secure rights in the country after Russia takes over”

”Without US aid, the frontline won’t collapse. Unreplacable dependence on american weapons is minimal.”

It is a drone war, and #Ukraine makes those themselves. They are the key weapon of this war.

But they do need air #defence, and they need Starlink for communication. But US stopped aid 3 times, so they had contingency plans.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=pwp_5M61Lqw
#ukrain #war #reports #nafo

1. If you're going to #report somebody you need to give #examples of what #activity you're reporting. Just #reporting a #profile and telling an #instance #admin that an #account is being "#spammy" doesn't cut it. Not when we can clearly see the user is not.

2. Again, not a very helpful report. You report a user and say they're a #SCAM account but offer up absolutely no #evidence to support your #claim.

3. Every account was new once, including the person that reported this one. As long as #NSFW #content is properly #flagged, there's no issue. Suspecting an account to be a "scam account or worse" is not a valid #reason for reporting an account.

4. Another report without any basis or #justification.

5. Again, another baseless report about somebody with absolutely ZERO evidence to back up their claim.

So here's what's going to happen....

The instances that forwarded these #bogus #reports to me, and wasted my time, each have a strike against them.

Strike three and we tell #Sharkey to #ignore any and all reports coming from the #instance in the future.

No #admin wants #BadActors on their instances, and no admin wants a #BadActor to make someone else feel unwelcome.

But you can't just flag and report an account for any bullshit reason either.

You have to give us proof and evidence.

This is not high school and this is not middle school. If somebody is being disruptive or causing problems, let us know.

But if you just suspect someone might cause problems or they might be disruptive... wait until you have proof and evidence and then let us know!

#FediAdmin #AdminStuff #administrivia #UserReports #FediReports #InstanceAdmins #MastoAdmin

Trump signs executive order expanding power of Elon Musk’s Doge agency

Order calls for ‘transformation’ in US spending on contracts, grants and loans by requiring centralized payment system

The order instructs each agency’s Doge team lead to provide #monthly #reports on contracting activities,
including payment and travel justifications.

Agencies with Guns:
Law enforcement, the military, immigration agencies and national security-related activities
are excluded from the new requirements.

The order is part of a much broader effort by the White House to dramatically reduce the size of the federal workforce,
which the Trump administration has cast as an impediment to realizing his agenda.

On Wednesday, the Office of Management and Budget
and the Office of Personnel Management sent a seven-page memo
directing agency leaders to develop plans to implement
“large-scale reductions”
by 13 March, according to the Associated Press.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/26/trump-executive-order-musk-doge?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

#Design #Reports
Adobe’s new free Photoshop app · Available on iOS now, coming to Android later https://ilo.im/162ip8

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#Images #ImageEditor #Photoshop #Mobile #iOS #Android #ProductDesign #UiDesign #VisualDesign #WebDesign

#Development #Reports
Google AI coding tool is now free · Gemini Code Assist challenges GitHub Copilot https://ilo.im/162im4

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#Programming #Coding #AI #AiAssistant #Google #Gemini #Copilot #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

#Utah Bill Aims to Make Officers Disclose AI-Written Police #Reports
#ai

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/02/utah-bill-aims-make-officers-disclose-ai-written-police-reports

#Development #Reports
Let’s Encrypt is ending expiration notice emails · Why the free SSL/TLS certificate provider is doing this https://ilo.im/1627mz

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#CA #LetsEncrypt #Domains #Https #SSL #TLS #Certificates #WebDev #Frontend #Backend

Qusay Noor: #Syria underground archive library belonging to the #Assad regime, containing files, documents, and reports of informants, which the informants prepared on civilians.

#Reports written by informants from 1980 until now, reports that are absolutely unimaginable.

There are screenshots of posts on #Facebook ..

Even the informants were following the people they wrote their reports about & photographing them everywhere they went ..

https://x.com/qusay_noor_/status/1873811019681980530?s=46&t=uM8me4uwdP7D0z4nanVVuw

#ai #teacherlife #education #reports

I'm enjoying seeing how Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool for my work. I've been writing report comments and copying them into Gemini, asking for grammar checks. The suggestions are then considered by me and I either use them or not.

Some have been very useful

Most of the mastodon.social #botnet we recently confirmed is still intact.
https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/113214966299464693

Only the accounts we all reported were banned, while the others are still active.

The #reports specifically mentioned that they are part of a larger botnet, to no effect.

#Mastodon #software seems to be great at automatically detecting obvious botnets, like the first example while struggling with #AI generated, higher-quality profiles.

@Mastodon

Beijing is surveilling and harassing dissident Chinese nations living in Japan via their relatives back home in a campaign of “transnational repression,” Human Rights Watch has alleged in a report. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/10/10/japan/japan-chinese-harassment-report/ #japan #china #chinajapanrelations #humanrights #reports #shigeruishiba #fumiokishida

A New World Bank Database To Support A New Era In Biodiversity Conservation [with link to opendata database and supporting papers]
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https://blogs.worldbank.org/en/opendata/a-new-world-bank-database-to-support-a-new-era-in-biodiversity-c <-- shared technical article
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https://datacatalog.worldbank.org/search/dataset/0066034/global_biodiversity_data?_gl=1*ypqp81*_gcl_au*Mzc2MTk5OTUyLjE3MjU5NDU5MDA. <-- Global Biodiversity Species Global Grid database
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41788 <-- shared paper
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https://hdl.handle.net/10986/41778 <-- shared paper
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #biodiversity #global #opendata #ecosystems #economics #watersecurity #foodsecurity #conservation #naturalresources #climate #industry #sustainability #environment #IPBES #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #development #planning #remotesensing #machinelearning #AI #model #modeling #monitoring #change #policymaking #infrastructure #reports #GBIF #distribution #raster
@WorldBank

Reminder that there are currently several issues with the federated #reporting system, including that #Mastodon #instances don't parse #Misskey #reports properly, and that #Akkoma instances aren't getting reports from #Sharkey at all. Developers are working on these, but in the meantime, let's all remember to make sure reports are going through before we assume they're being ignored: there have been multiple cases of instances getting into fights over misunderstandings like this.

Keep your communication lines open: the #Fediverse is a communal project, and it's up to us to make it work!