Playing the harmonica.

Your mouth cavity forms part of the instrument (like the body of an acoustic guitar) so you need to precisely control your lips, tongue, jaw, etc on top of the usual embouchure skills that you need for a wind instrument, while also being sure to only use the hole/holes you want. You get different notes when you blow and draw (suck), so you must control your breath so the note doesn't squeak - unless you're doing that on purpose, which lets you play notes outside the key of that particular harmonica. You also need to balance your in and out breaths so you don't get too full or empty of air (a few notes have both in and out options to help with this).

I'm very bad at the harmonica.

Zaatar is both the name of a herb (Hyssopus officinalis) and a spice mix, containing the herb along with sumac, salt, etc. Mostly references to zaatar are about the mix as that's what normal people actually use.

The herb is quite strong, is like a slightly bitter mint, and is also used in Chartreuse and absinthe.

We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers.

This is pretty big too, as the cost and legal risks of hosting this user content is high. They've clearly thought about the media moderation problems too:

We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol.

This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors; they could self-host these tools if they choose to do so, or share the infrastructure with other servers for better efficiency.

Another problem is that system requires agreeing on what a week is, and there's disagreement over whether Sunday starts or ends the week.

Tell me more about these bunkers, let's Streisand this.

I had to look it up too. You might want to stop reading after the Kangaroo paragraph.

Kangaroos are born after less than a month, and then climb into the pouch, attach to a teat and stay there for half a year before being ready to face the outside world.

Spotted Hyenas gestate for about 110 days and then have to make it though the mother's pseudo penis, which can tear with first-time mothers (fatal to her) and can suffocate the cub (fatal to them) with cubs of first-time mums only having a 40% chance of surviving birth.

When Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet it was already old. The proverb “a cat has nine lives, for three he plays, for three he strays, and for three he stays” is older than the USA. Nine is often seen as an magic/auspicious number in Anglo-Saxon culture, which the US is very influenced by.

The multiple lives thing goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed cats were divine creatures and were incarnations of the goddess Bastet (who had the power to reincarnate herself nine times). The Bastet link makes me think that nine is the "right" number of lives.

I think it's mostly accidental and idiots from /all who don't understand how things work.

How have I missed that this is back? I blame Lemmy's sorting algos for never showing me anything from here.

https://infosec.exchange/@0xabad1dea/116335209525412306

You mean this bit:

"If you deregister or factory reset these devices, you will not be able to re-register or use these devices in any way."

I'd be interested to know what actually happens in that case - I suppose they could have sent an update that fully locks out an old device but factory-reset Kindles are usable offline (necessary to set up WiFi).

The article has a different title* which doesn't mention bricking, because that's not what they're doing. I happily moved off Amazon onto Kobo and Koreader, but this post's title is a lie:

They can continue to read books already downloaded on these devices but won't be able to "purchase, borrow, or download additional books on them after that date,"

Bricking would mean they'd been completely sabotaged so that they wouldn't even boot, and would now only be useful as a paperweight or building brick. Again, not true.

* I've noticed the page title (as opposed to the visible heading) is the same as here, I thought that OP had made up this title.