Hexnut @ambihelical@qoto.org

@TTimo What spirit is he referring to? I can't come up with anything.

@chrispeters @ivory I don't see anything about this app promoting (directly or indirectly) killing elephants for their tusks. Where are you seeing that?

@ibagail Malbolge. If you can program it in Malbolge you can program it in anything.

@BobKerns Mine too. I knew about slow mode but had never tried it. Now I'm using it, and it's a much better experience even on the slower feeds.

@dpiponi Come on over to qoto.org. You can post latexmath, except you have to wait for @freemo to fix it, lol, if you actually want it to display right. And almost everything else goes. And most of the alt-libs and alt-cons block qoto, so you don't have to worry about pissing any of them off, well unequally anyway.

@preceptsofzote@emacs.ch I haven't yet had to declare bankruptcy, but I use-package, periodically prune stuff, and try to keep things understandable. Seven years, hovers around 2K lines. 🤞

@BobKerns Slow mode preference will stop the scrolling. Federated is too much info for me even so. I only take a look once in a while.

Is metatext the best iphone mastodon client? I only ask this because it's the slowest, jankiest, most fragile iphone app I've ever had the misfortune to install on my phone. Surely there's something better?

@engelbart Yeah I was going from memory mostly, I can see now (e.g 2 year minimum bet) that it's not what you were looking for. 😆

@engelbart longbets.org?

@fasterthanlime @eddyb

I don't know what this about, but someone needs to learn about rebase, imho.

@Elucidating
Welp, it's the turbofish, which is a weird thing that was brought into being by the avoidance of the weird tax, which is to by following the same stupid <> syntax for templates that C++ uses, wheareas they should have used [], or even «» or even removing > > as an operator (what's so wrong about rsh(x)), and lsh(x) instead, how often do we need to do a fucking bitshift anyway?) and so here we are answering questions that should have never have been needed to be posed.

@astronomerritt

It's an awful social problem, but also an interesting technical one. How do you allow for federation via hash tags without allowing any random racist to spin up a server every day in order to harass all the blm and woke tags they can find in their timeline before they are blocked?

I am new to the fediverse, but it seems to me that the defaults are wrong, new instances (and perhaps accounts) should have limited privilege until they prove themselves to be good citizens. Currently they are allowed all the privilege until they prove themselves to be bad, which is a perpetual game of whack-o-mole.

This would require a bit more communal effort of course, and it's not at all clear how that would be done. But if possible, it would be much better than the current situation, as long as there is some kind of gradual process when instances go rotten. This is the other side of the coin, instances can be de-federated from small infractions, whereas a gradual and considered approach would be preferable.

No clue if that is even technically feasible with the current protocols, but I felt like musing on this topic.