Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org

If you migrate over to #MedMastodon from #MedTwitter please don’t be shy and instead please announce your arrival. I want to see it boosted into my feed and celebrate you joinining the #Medodon!

কলকেতার বাবু বিবি ডেঙ্গু হতে বাঁচতে এটিকে জীবনবেদ করুন #Kolkata #dengue
https://mastodon.social/@vinayaravind/109318432742847206

এখানে ক্রিকেটভক্তও কেউ কেউ আছেন নিশ্চয়ই। তাঁদের জন্যে আমার এই লেখাটি রইল। #AsiaCup এর পর লেখা। #T20WC22 তে কী হতে যাচ্ছে সেকথা কিছুটা লিখেছিলাম। অনেকের পছন্দ হয়নি। কিন্তু যা লিখেছিলাম প্রায় পুরোটাই ঘটল #IndvsEng

https://inscript.me/what-has-happened-to-team-india-in-asia-cup

For my part, I've always seen them as something at the discretion of the author. As the reader, you have a plethora of tools to disengage from unwanted content on Mastodon—with even better filters coming in 4.0—and harassment is not one of them. People who are arriving now have as much right to be here and bring their own culture as the ones who came before them.

Having been here since 2016, I can tell you there is definitely no such thing as a consensus on usage of content warnings on the fediverse. It's a decentralized network that doesn't belong to any one party, so by definition there is no single culture on it. Different corners have different expectations and customs.

@arinbasu @hutomp বেশ বেশ বুঝলাম। শুরু করে দেবো ক'দিন পর থেকেই এখন একটু ব্যস্ত তো।

Workerd support for pyodide would be nice

It's nice to see people favouriting my posts. But it doesn't affect visibility (for anyone else).

Only boosting matters

Let's follow up yesterday's post with another from my archive, this time a guide to #HighPerformanceComputing!

I wrote this as a cheat sheet to remind myself of a few things when I was new to using a #ClusterComputer, and it turned into a resource I often point new students to. It runs through connecting via SSH, installing Python and using SLURM.

Maybe some of you here on #ScienceMastodon might get some use out of it too!

https://www.steventhomson.co.uk/post/hpc_guide/

#HPC #computing #cluster #slurm #Python

Just to give you an idea of how bad the whole "we block anyone who doesnt block who we block" has gotten, someone sent me this:

https://www.patreon.com/posts/74474015

I would **love** to give M.A a script that goes over all the instances in the fediverse and alerts them of every instance that doesnt follow the exact same block list as them and spit it out. I'm sure they will realize they have to block 99% of the fediverse... its getting laughable at this point.
QT: https://qoto.org/@freemo/109320340763769669

A ✅ has appeared in my profile. Hurrah for that. I think we have to realise that the learning curve here is steepish, but rather than be anxious about it, shouldn’t we should celebrate the adventure of slowly finding out something that was puzzling at first? Like your first week at school or in a new office building. We’ll get there and soon laugh at how confused me were at first. I hope!

An #rstats #rladies workshop I gave earlier this year

Iterating well with {purrr} 🐱

now has the recording available 🎉

Thank you for having me, R-Ladies Rabat! 💜

https://www.pipinghotdata.com/talks/2022-06-08-iterating-well-with-purrr/

If you are part of the #TwitterMigration you may want to consider downloading your Twitter archive. Even if you’re not deleting your account.

You can’t be sure this possibility won’t suddenly stop working one day.

Instructions for requesting your archive are on the following link. Note that instructions are different for iOS app, Android app and web browser (desktop). You can select an icon for the system you want at the top of the instructions.

https://help.twitter.com/en/managing-your-account/how-to-download-your-twitter-archive

How long will a 'toot' or status update will be made available in a server depends on the server policy about their databases. So, your toot/status update may not persist beyond a year in some cases. In most day to day small talk, this may not matter, but as we have several scholarly and #academic discussions in the #fediverse, we may want to think of assigning #DOI to toots and updates that can persist. Perhaps @crossref
has some thoughts about it.
What would you say?

Is there a #COVID or #Covid-19 related group here?