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psych@diasp.org
Michael

Fun with Day Geckos

I wondered if what I photographed on Big Island (HI) was actually what I was told, and have believed: "Madagascar Day Gecko".
And so it is, but I came across the same lizard (to my eye), labeled as a "gold dust day gecko". Same thing, different name?

I was curious. So.... learned a thing or two by feeding my image into evil (but free) Google Image search, and being led to an image of a "gold dust day gecko". Both were from Madagascar. My search for "Madagascar day gecko" led to the same pages, and I now know that there are a few types of day gecko seen in HI and FL, and there are warnings about the "giant (Madagascar) day gecko".
(Invasive). But they are pretty, so far doing well on the Hawaiian Islands and some Florida Keys. And they're not harmful in our lifetimes, though how they impact the larger ecosystems (as voracious insect eaters) is unclear. ~ say the insect experts.

Gold Dust Gecko

After reading a few things explaining this all, I went back and looked closely and an old and dear image of mine, and sure enough:
gold dust! OK, so my "Madagascar Day Gekko" (sp) is in fact generically that, and more specifically, a gold dust day gecko from Madagascar, home of great vanilla too.

#myphoto #gecko #gekko #Madagascar #DayGecko #nature #photography #Fenfotos

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faab64@diasp.org
Farhad A

2 years ago when I moved back to south of France, I found a baby lizard running on the walls of the balcony. It ran away before I could take a picture of it.

I have seen it come out and run around a few times and today I saw this gorgeous adult lizard, hiding behind one of my compost bins who stood up a moment and stared at me, as if it was startled by seeing me as I was seeing him, then it ran away behind other pots.

I looked online to identify it, I strongly believe it is a "Common wall or Moorish Gecko" (https://wildlifeinfrance.com/lizards-france/common-wall-or-moorish-gecko-in-france) but I am not 100% sure.

In the mean time, thinking about finding a suitable name for it.

#France #Lizard #PetLizard #Gecko #Antibes

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johnwalsh@diaspora-fr.org
John Walsh

Tarente de Mauritanie (Tarentola mauritanica)
Trois espèces de #Gecko sont observables en France, mais la Tarente est de loin la plus commune. Depuis une vingtaine d'années, elle est bien présente en zone urbaine et maintenant régulièrement observée en campagne. On ne connaît pas les causes de son expansion, sûrement naturelle en partie, elle semble profiter aussi des transports de marchandises, par ex les importations d'oliviers d'Espagne.
Présente à l'état naturel, l'espèce est protégée par la loi, comme la quasi-totalité des #reptiles et #amphibiens en France. L'Université de Toulouse anime une enquête participative sur la Tarente, où l'on peut voir sa présence, même en dehors de la région méditerranéenne : http://lashf.org/enquete-tarente-de-mauretanie
Photo : Tarente de Mauritanie (Tarentola mauritanica), adulte sur un muret de pierre-sèche et juvénile sur déchet de maçonnerie, garrigues de Lunel, novembre 2023 par John Walsh (CC BY NC SA).

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tani@diasp.org
Tomy Tani

Let's start with a translation of this four years old post: https://diasp.org/posts/3834747

Seamonkey, Mozilla's hidden child

There is not much buzz about Seamonkey, which is not a well known browser but yet full of qualities. This is the legacy of the old Mozilla suite, which at the time included a web browser, an email client, and other things. Seamonkey is the independent resumption of this project since Mozilla devoted itself to Firefox and Thunderbird.

The software therefore consists of a Web browser equipped with Gecko, an e-mail client, an address book and an IRC client. The whole is extensible and based on modern technologies imported from other Mozilla products.

What I particularly like about Seamonkey is that the user interface is classic. In fact, it has hardly moved since the time of the Mozilla suite. We always have a menu bar and item bars that we can customize at will. The bars can be retracted and removed. Themes management is available. It is less flashy than the latest Firefox whose visual aspect frustrates me.

Seamonkey takes up in a very classical way the canons of the old Mozilla, but behind it there are modern technologies hidden and subtle evolutions like the recent Gecko engine, the synchronization of the bookmarks or the address bar which also makes searches.

Update: Recent versions do not include the IRC client (ChatZilla), but it can be installed as an extension.

So far, so good... Is the project still alive? Yes!

http://www.seamonkey-project.org // Project News // July 27, 2018 // SeaMonkey 2.49.4 released

Let's give it a try!

There are downloads on the official site or there are also unofficial builds available here:
http://www.wg9s.com/comm-257/

Consider - As it says on this page: "the official Linux builds only require glibc version 2.12 (libc-2.12.so) and stdcxx version 3.4.16 (libstdc++.so.6.0.16) or later, the Linux builds provided on wg9s.com require glibc version 2.18 (libc-2.18.so) and stdcxx version 3.4.23 (libstdc++.so.6.0.23) or later."

Check:
- strings /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libstdc++.so.6 | grep GLIBCXX

I'm not sure about Ubuntu, but on Debian Stretch it's GLIBCXX 3.4.22 atm (if I'm not mistaken the wg9s build won't work).

After downloading and extracting the file (which is around 50 MB) from seamonkey-project.org some more packages are required to get it run (after reading the error messages these were the ones I could identify):
- sudo apt install libstdc++-6-dev
- sudo apt install lib32stdc++6
- sudo apt install libgtk-3-0:i386
- sudo apt install libasound2:i386
- sudo apt install libdbus-glib-1-2:i386
- sudo apt install libxt6:i386

Seamonkey starts fine from userspace (did not work for me from /opt/seamonkey).

It looks a bit outdated but actually I don't mind as the theme can be changed anyway. Btw Seamonkey is the default browser on the distros LXLE and Puppy.

#seamonkey #browser #mozilla #gecko #thunderbird #firefox #emailclient #irc #linux #gnu #gnulinux #lxle #puppy #puppylinux #hackernews

Seamonkey, l'enfant caché de Mozilla

Seamonkey, l'enfant caché de Mozilla On parle peu de Seamonkey, qui est un navigateur peu connu mais pourtant bourré de qualités. C'est l'héritage de l'ancienne suite Mozilla, qui comportait à l'époque un navigateur Web, un client mail, et...