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joeDoe | @znoteer@pleroma.debian.social

🔄 please boost this, genuinely important

I need to find a very specific demographic of people:

Transgender Germans who STARTED their HRT using a service called "GenderGP", or at the very least have experience using it IN GERMANY.

I am on the verge of joining their plan to start my HRT, but I am scared of committing so much money out of pocket to them without reassurance that they work, that their services are good, and that all of it works in GERMANY specifically, and how well their services and paper prescriptions work with local healthcare / pharmacies.

PLEASE comment if you have this experience and are open to talk to me about this. 💜

SpaceX has incredibly impressive engineering! ...That they are putting towards destroying the upper atmosphere with pollution from launches and reentries, dropping potentially lethal garbage on everyone from orbit, stopping the entire field of observational astronomy, and soon ending our ability to use Low Earth Orbit for anything, while making shitloads of money for the richest dude in the world.

Time to go pat goats.

We at Microsoft sincerely hope you enjoyed the opportunity we provided for you to reconnect with your colleagues. We believe in the value of personal relationships and trust you made the most of this experience to cultivate those relationships and develop new ideas to drive your business forward.

If you're annoyed at Microsoft, this might help you feel a little better.

r/sysadmin • 18h ago
u/Own_Plane_1029
Microsoft owes you money for today's outage. They won't tell you. Here's how to claim it.

Outlook, Teams, Copilot, SharePoint: down for hours today and still going!

Microsoft's SLA allows 44 minutes of downtime per month.

Today blew past that before lunch was over.

That means a credit:

    25% if you were down more than 44 minutes
    50% if you were down more than about 7 hours

Microsoft won't apply it automatically. You have to ask.

How (2 minutes):
M365 admin center → Support → New service request → "SLA credit for EX1550543 / MO1550821"
(+ TM1550488 if Teams died this morning)
Bought through a reseller? Ask them.

Do this today: note when it went down, when it came back, and how many users were affected.

Every credit nobody claims tells Microsoft outages are free.

Claim it. Share this with your IT team.

(from https://www.reddit.com/r/sysadmin/comments/1xuqu5y/microsoft_owes_you_money_for_todays_outage_they/?solution=f80e5d8f45e09817f80e5d8f45e09817&js_challenge=1&jsc_token=2824be10929bdc604753c70a67a1c331d1bfcae961ee7e9b0aa39d98208aa83c&jsc_orig_r= )

Ok, less depressed now!

YES YES YES YES DarkSky International now has templates for YOU to refuse sunlight reflected from orbit! Templates for declarations of non-consent, model ordinance for cities and towns, a model state bill, and an international adaptation guide https://darksky.org/news/say-no-to-sunlight-for-sale/

SHARE WIDELY. Bring these templates to your towns and cities! Make it clear Reflect Orbital is not wanted anywhere!!!

hey microsoft

Empty electrical outlet with sign read reading “Do not unplug this for any reasons.”

Those of us who have Microsoft-based work emails, will tomorrow have:

: The lights of cities across the United States sparkle against the darkness in this photograph taken from the International Space Station on October 18, 2026. CSA astronaut Joshua Kutryk captured the view from about 417 kilometers above Earth, stretching from the Midwest toward the East Coast. Among the illuminated metropolitan areas are Chicago, Detroit, and New York, their sprawling networks of lights tracing the landscape a few hours before sunrise. Credit: CSA/Joshua Kutryk

Nighttime view of the Great Lakes region from orbit, city lights speckling the dark land, a thin glowing atmospheric band and sunrise along the horizon, with part of the ISS visible at the top edge.

hey microsoft have you tried emailing some of those engineers you laid off?

space geekiness
On Nov 18, after nearly 50 years, the spacecraft Voyager 1 will have travelled a light-day, the distance light can travel in 24 hours. There will be celebrations: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasa-invites-media-public-to-join-voyager-1-one-light-day-activities

#space #deepspace #voyageur #interstellar #heliosphere #holycrap

"We still don't know what the fuck is wrong or how to fix it."

Current status: We’re continuing to pursue all available pathways to restore service, as our actions taken thus far have not provided the anticipated relief. Our investigation has found that a core process on the affected servers is becoming overwhelmed, which causes the servers to stop responding and contributes to the capacity loss.
 
To validate a potential recovery approach, we're fully isolating a portion of our service infrastructure, restarting the affected components, and gradually reintroducing traffic to confirm our services remain stable before applying this approach more broadly. We're also analyzing traffic patterns across our entire service infrastructure and evaluating whether isolating traffic within each region may allow affected regions to recover independently.

hi i'm fbz and i designed these mandelbrot fractal sweaters

https://knityak.com/collections/antenna-crown?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

they are pixel native where one pixel exactly equals one knit stitch. i'm pedantic and a math nerd and i'm exacting about my code created knits. these come with source code in python for this exact spot on the mandelbrot set with this specific dithering.

fbz wearing a mandelbrot fractal sweater in four shades of blue with custom dithering for the color fades on the edge of the fractal sleeve of a mandelbrot fractal sweater in four shades of blue with custom dithering for the color fades on the edge of the fractal and fbz's hand back of a mandelbrot fractal sweater in four shades of blue with custom dithering for the color fades on the edge of the fractal hanging on a vine close up of a knit mandelbrot fractal sweater in four shades of blue with custom dithering for the color fades on the edge of the fractal

I wrote a fediverse onboarding tool for newcomers, powered by the community curated FediDB database ✨

Please boost this, more people need to see this!

https://fedidb.com/welcome

: this House of Commons Petition calling on the government to protect and strengthen our universal health care system, including enforcing the Canada Health Act is open for signature until November 22nd. We need to send a message to governments at all levels that we will not tolerate the ongoing destruction, and that we expect the Feds to act. If you haven’t signed it, please do, and share it with your friends who might have missed it. https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7691

This was maybe 30-40 seconds of work, I’ll have you know.

Photo of a grand looking carrion crow, close up on head and neck in profile. Text reads Keep Calm and Carrion.

Image taken from https://voice.gardenbird.co.uk/all-about-the-carrion-crow/ where the photographer is not credited

I’m taking a class that requires reading music notation,. I’m looking for accessible software to help. I know some Braille music and have a Braille display. I’m also comfortable using screen readers. I use Windows11 and Linux, so I’m open to options on either.
My teacher currently uses paper worksheets and hasn’t used notation software before. I’d appreciate suggestions that would make it easy for him to provide materials in an accessible format he could send. What software would you recommend?

New Amazon Drone Hovers Above Customer Until They Order   Something

SEATTLE—With its announcement of a new technology that company executives touted as the future of online shopping, retail giant Amazon confirmed Thursday that it would launch a new fleet of drones that continuously hover above potential customers until they order something. “This fully electric, autonomous drone can locate and fol…

https://theonion.com/new-amazon-drone-hovers-above-customer-until-they-order-something/

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