Vincent Cloutier @vincent@librem.one
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Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmSSAu20f0A
As a Canadian, this is half funny, and half worrying that if a fascist gets to power in the US, they’ll come to “liberate” us from our democratically elected representative
Seems like universeodon.com just banned bird.makeup...
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Every once in a while a top-notch observation disguised as a meme comes around, and I think this is one.
@jwildeboer @sesivany @dexternemrod @hrw nuclear has been displaced by coal in Germany. Coal is also radioactive ( https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/coal-ash-is-more-radioactive-than-nuclear-waste/ ) but that’s now pumped into the air instead of being stored safely.
And that just the radioactivity, coal is way more deadly in many other ways
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I think we tend to overestimate the importance of software design as the main factor in explaining why social media feels “good” to us while underestimating the importance of good people posting good things. This comes to mind as folks wonder if Bluesky or Substack Notes or whatever new platform might be more “user friendly” than Mastodon and then therefore definitely “better.”
@guddl thank you! 😄
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@vincent Thanks for https://bird.makeup/ the service is much faster than some others. I like it very much. Threw a few bucks in the hat 🤠
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the drm driver works as well and I (re-)discovered one not so terrible use case for touchbar display:
move the kde’s panel to the touchbar, see the mockup in the picture. It’s broken in interesting ways since kde handles it as second display. I got the panel only with tricks to use the full height, applications are not opened on the main display.
It would require integration as auxiliary display.
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Airbnb
Waterbnb
Firebnb
Earthbnb
Long ago, the four bed-and-breakfasts lived in harmony
Everything changed when the Firebnb attacked
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Well, that's a first.
Achievement unlocked: I have been rickrolled in an academic paper.
@experiencersinternational @thatonecalculator yeah, it’s been like that for a while. I found that there is only @IceCubesApp that displays that accounts are bots as much as I’d like (both in profile and on the home feed)
@thatonecalculator @experiencersinternational that’s some good feedback, thanks!
Re: rate limiting, what did you find was too much? Too many posts, media, replies, accounts? Or more like the traffic was too bursty?
@thatonecalculator @experiencersinternational Care to elaborate on the why? There’s stuff I might be able to tweak to make bird.makeup a better fediverse citizen.
Lots of people are using bird.makeup to follow people that are already on the fediverse and it's something I want to fix.
I'm prototyping using #wikidata to discover fediverse accounts of Twitter users, see my query: https://w.wiki/6anz
This could be a way to add links to their other profile, in a way that scale and is moderated by reusing the work of the #wikipedia community. Downside would be that it will only be for VIP users.
Thoughts?
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Zynga's VP of player success details how the company uses gambling industry tactics to maximize the money it gets from its biggest spenders | This Week in Business
https://www.gamesindustry.biz/how-does-zynga-hunt-for-whales-this-week-in-business
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Hello Fediverse! 👋
#Wikipedia 
is a multilingual free online encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called MediaWiki. -- or so says our Wikipedia article (https://w.wiki/W).
Follow for cool facts, behind-the-scenes details on editing processes and tips on getting started contributing!
#Introduction #FreeCulture #FreeContent #OpenKnowledge #wiki #CreativeCommons
New little feature on bird.makeup this weekend: the account page will now display the number of followers a user has, and also in which server that account is the most popular.
Hope this will help users find more niche servers that host the communities they want to be part of! Also if you are on a server like mastodon.social that bans bird.makeup and you want to move, this is now my recommended way to find a new home
@mochsner @iamharaldur we are talking about this person right? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haraldur_Ingi_%C3%9Eorleifsson
While it’s true that musk made him more famous, he seems like a great guy!
- Github
- https://github.com/cloutier
Open source developer. Wikidata, IPFS, Linux, Ethereum. /r/fuckcars enthusiast. I tend to boost funny stuff.
Joined May 2019
