Chip Douglas @Diptchip@qoto.org

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The mystery is finally solved, the fediverse is mostly filled with cats!

@funny #cats #cat #funny #joke #humor #humour

Some proofs that we are living in computer simulation:
* Particles behave like waves sometimes
* Quantum physics handler was taken from another project, that's why fundmental interaction on macro- and micro-levels is different.
* They forgot to add mass to photon and because of this it can't stop
* Every electron in the world is the reference on the same electron
* When moving on high speed, timer gets laggy
* To make galaxies rotate correctly, they were filled with invisible inert substance by 80%
* So that universe doesn't collapse because of gravity, space expands itself. This may cause issues in the future but works yet.
* Two previous paragraphs are temporary hacks but survived to the release.

#fedorahints #fedora #linux

How to make a gif file from video file?

As simple as it never was.

Open terminal app, install ffmpeg:
sudo dnf install ffmpeg

then:
ffmpeg -i input_video_file output.gif

XVII( I do not love you)

I do not love you as if you were salt-rose, or topaz,

or the arrow of carnations the fire shoots off.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved,

in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

I love you as the plant that never blooms
but carries in itself the light of hidden flowers;

thanks to your love a certain solid fragrance,

risen from the earth, lives darkly in my body.

I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where.

I love you straightforwardly, without complexities or pride;

so I love you because I know no other way
than this: where I does not exist, nor you,
so close that your hand on my chest is my hand,

so close that your eyes close as I fall asleep.

-- Pablo Neruda

this is one of my favorite poems 🙂

#poem #poetry #english #writing

Well we are absolutely fucked, there foes the fourth and second amendments right out the window.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2021/02/05/supreme-court-will-decide-whether-police-can-enter-a-home-to-seize-guns-without-a-warrant/?

1. Do something #dumb
2. Display it on #socialmedia
3. #gofundme
4. #profit

https://www.gofundme.com/f/gorilla-glue-girl

OK everyone! Relax. It wasn't stollen. It was fortified!

@ademalsasa p2p.chat is a neat webRTC video chat service (open source)

The first three seconds: A Review of Possible Expansion Histories of the early Universe | Published in The Open Journal of Astrophysics
https://astro.theoj.org/article/19020-the-first-three-seconds-a-review-of-possible-expansion-histories-of-the-early-universe

#cosmology

https://www.radioshack.com/
Radioshack is opening as an online electronics retailer

"#Microsoft repo secretly installed on #RaspberryPi OS"

https://www.cyberciti.biz/linux-news/heads-up-microsoft-repo-secretly-installed-on-all-raspberry-pis-linux-os/

#OpenSource firmware for #PinePhone modem

https://linuxsmartphones.com/hackers-develop-open-source-firmware-for-the-pinephone-modem-use-it-to-make-phone-calls/

I have recently uncovered a user who seems to be opening temporary accounts at QOTO, blocking all the moderators so we dont see their posts and then posting high offensive material (nazi imagery, transphobic and hateful derogatory content, etc) and then proceeding to announce to block list moderators and possibly on the #Fediblock list in general in an attempt to get us banned.

The issue of users being able to block moderators and do **exactly** this is something I have brought up to @Gargron before probably over a year ago but he has never acted on fixing this issue and does not see it as needing fixing from what I could gather (he can interject here if he would like).

It is something we as moderators are powerless to detect or act against unless someone actually reports the content first, that is the only way we will even see it. Thankfully none of the block lists have actually acted on this and no damage to QOTO has been done. But seeing as this may continue I want to make others aware of the problem, press gargron to fix the issue once more, and also encourage **anyone** who sees such content on QOTO to please report it so we can act on it.

I can not personally confirm this but according to the block-list operator they seem to have reason to think it is @snow behind the attacks. This would be in line with the behaviors from snow I have witnessed in the past.

For the attempt by snow to spam and falsely accuse instances see here:

https://likeable.space/notice/A21ux0IbhoDJIkNxzc

For more information see these attempted block requests on QOTO that were made in this fashion:

https://schlomp.space/FediBlock/data/pulls/255/files

https://schlomp.space/FediBlock/data/pulls/248

@arteteco @Sphinx @khird

@Science

As you may know I have an interest in data...

#DataScience #Data #Science

Software store is under "software"?? Not very many options either- will have to get resourceful!
#pinephone #pine64 #mobian #debian #linux

@Science

The physics of sailing, including an explanation of how you can sail up-wind

https://newt.phys.unsw.edu.au/~jw/sailing.html

#science #physics #Sailing #ocean

Why #RustLang could replace #Python

https://blog.logrocket.com/rust-vs-python-why-rust-could-replace-python/