Arindam Basu @arinbasu@qoto.org

I've found this social media site called Twitter.

It's like Mastodon but you can pay $8 to pretend you're someone of significance, everyone hates each other and you're posts are monitored by a billionaire who wants to run the whole thing by himself but doesn't have a clue how to.

It's all rather entertaining.

I have just realised how wasteful #pens are. Looking for #ecofriendly substitutes. My handwriting is terrible, so the obvious choice is a #fountainpen but I fear the ink smudge. Happy to be enlightened. I have had a look on here; https://www.treehugger.com/best-eco-friendly-pens-5201425 but hoping for something in #Australia to #supportlocal

Hello Mastodonners! The org I co-run, New_ Public, is organizing a learning session for folks new to Mastodon and the fediverse this coming Tuesday at 12pm ET. We'll be joined by the brilliant @cfiesler @wilf and @jeffjarvis -- and you are welcome too.

Noobs (like me) who want to learn and long-timers are all welcome. Sign up here, and boost if you're willing to help find other interested folks. https://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZIvc--uqzIrGd3viRbTltC0dXmDkaidAJc-?_x_zm_rtaid=we6EIiy7SVC4ko6U7Unicw.1668089335856.e548e65efba05ec79cde9656bf3f20a1&_x_zm_rhtaid=249

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.

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!