keverets @keverets@librem.one
Joined Jun 2019
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This is a haiku.
It really is a haiku.
Double pinky swear.
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You don't need to use link shorteners on Mastodon. All links count as 23 characters no matter how long they really are.
Also, links on Mastodon stay in the form you wrote them. This is much better for privacy than Twitter.
Twitter quietly changes all posted links to go via Twitter's domain t.co so they can track people. This doesn't happen on Mastodon or the Fediverse.
You can see this hidden conversion in Twitter by hovering your mouse over a link there, the link appears to show a normal address but Firefox and other browsers will indicate the true t.co address in the bottom left corner of the screen. If you try this same check on Mastodon or the Fediverse, you will see your links stay just as you wrote them.
#MastoTips #FediTips #Mastodon #Fediverse #Privacy #Twitter #LinkShorteners
@foxhkron it's worse than "EU vs NA"
From https://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2019/07/world-map-of-paper-sizes-a4-in-yellow.html
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Oxford's JET lab smashes nuclear fusion energy output record
European scientists say they have made a major breakthrough in their quest to develop practical nuclear fusion - the energy process that powers the stars.
The UK-based JET laboratory has smashed its own world record for the amount of energy it can extract by squeezing together two forms of hydrogen.
The experiments produced 59 megajoules of energy over five seconds (11 megawatts of power).
This is more than double what was achieved in similar tests back in 1997.
@dthompson maybe try https://kartaview.org or https://mapillary.com which are user supplied, contributing to OpenStreetMaps. Unfortunately both use proprietary apps to contribute last I checked, otherwise I would have done more.
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So #Docker is turning its back on the #OpenSource community on which it's built. Can't even have more than 1 auth token on the free account, eliminated autobuilds, etc. They have an Open Source application form at https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application which, though it says it can't be used for funded projects, is clearly designed for companies. I filled this out awhile back and it was ignored.
@freakazoid the one I know about locally is: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Lake_Water_Cooling_System
It seems there are many other related projects around the world: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/District_heating#National_variation
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Mastodon and most other Fediverse platforms display posts chronologically, without any algorithms.
On your feed you will see all the posts from all the people you follow, in the order they posted them.
Because of this, if you post something important you may want to boost it again later in the day so that people in different time zones have a better chance of seeing it.
@dthompson the color blind mode unfortunately does not actually work well for fully color blind individuals. It's helpful for typical variations of red/green colorblindness, but lacks things like bold or italic or font changes. Wish source was available to submit a change; may try to do so with one of the clones
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"If you want to write fast software, use a slow computer" - Dominic Tarr
I have always loved this quote and lived by its message long before I found it so succinctly put. Thanks again, Dominic.
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People who like books (or audiobooks, or comics...) should check out @bookwyrm 's project https://joinbookwyrm.com/instances/.
It is federated, and has some nice features compared to just using masto to blab about books.
The flagship instance was a bit overloaded when I tried it, so now I am mostly active as @bremner on https://book.dansmonorage.blue
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@rysiek and then the dumbnuts harp on about how "GDPR is bad, it forces sites to have these banners". 😡
I think there should be a mandatory message on these banners that reads: "the operator of this site either wants to sell your data, or is too dumb to design their system around minimal data use". Plus a shocking picture like on a box or cigarettes.
@amolith @mansr
> Wordle was acquired from its creator, Josh Wardle, a software engineer in Brooklyn, for a price “in the low seven figures,” The Times said. The company said the game would initially remain free to new and existing players.
@dthompson so it will have to just be fun for the sake of fun?
Though really if people like to compare, that could be handled by including a link to which instance generated it.
@mike @feld @muppeth relative to what? Unlike previous variants this one hit very young people (ineligible for vaccination) far worse. It is destroying the ability of the health care system to manage due to massive amount of hospitalization. Be cautious around "it doesn't affect people I know" rhetoric. Significantly reducing health care capacity means it has far further affects than what you might think at first.
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suicide, tech, new biz lows
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Stop calling crypto a Ponzi.
A Ponzi scheme is a specific thing and MOST of the major coins aren't it.
It's like saying "property is theft". Even if you hate both property and theft, they're not the same. Calling them the same is voluntarily becoming less intelligent. So stop.
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Don't get me wrong, computers can absolutely help us regain our environmental efficiency. They just *aren't*.
Not as long as we're:
* constantly syncing everything to the cloud,
* expecting same-hour delivery,
* funding our clickbait via surveillance advertising,
* buying a new phone every year,
* using AIs because they're cool rather than useful,
* running bloated software & webpages,
* buying into "big data"
* etc
Computing is environmentally cheap, but it rapidly adds up!
Joined Jun 2019
