Chris @chrism@qoto.org

Sourdough Experiment #1 https://www.thekitchn.com/how-to-make-sourdough-bread-224367

Beautiful sourdough starter

the #QOTO ToS has been officially been updated after an in depth conversation with the community.

No policy changes occur, we have simply changed the wording to more accurately reflect the moderation policies we have always upheld.

Be kind, be respectful, and you will always have a place here!

You can see our new ToS here: https://qoto.org/about/more

#mastodon #fediverse #mastoadmin

@Quellist1Resleeved As long as you are respectful and compassionate towards others your welcome here.

@freemo

Agree. To become informed about our society you have to be open to the full spectrum of opinions, whether you agree with them or not. Only then you can sensibly decide what your own opinion is, and make it convincing for yourself before you start to try to convince others =)

I've never once blocked someone over a difference of opinion, and very rarely without talking to someone first to help resolve the issue.

Yet its not uncommon for others to block me through the course of a respectful post or comment, based solely on a difference of opinion.

In and of itself I dont mind that but what is particularly telling is that in every single case it is clear they dont even really understand what my position is or what my concerns are.

Take the most recent person who had an "episode" and blocked me at hearing I don't like bernie, didnt really even bother to ask why. Just a tirade and a block. But the reason is pretty reasonable: He promised military cuts and his proposed budget has much less than even a 0.1% reduction in military costs, among other things. But all he had to know is I dont like bernie, thats enough for him to make up his mind.

What these people dont get, and the point in me making this post is this: You are doing me a favor. I dont block people because, ultimately, I dont have to. The only people worth blocking are usually the people who are the ones doing the blocing after the first few words are thrown. Anyone who sticks around and have a conversation rather than block the first time someone disagrees, well i dont care what your opinion is, you've already earned enough of my respect that I'll hear you out.

Seriously?!

If your child has these installed it only tells he/she is really into computing. Nothing else. Don't spread bullshit.

#Linux #tor #Ubuntu #privacy #computers #hacking

“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.” -- Albert Einstein

This was in rebuttal to George Bernard Shaw who had said earlier: "Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating 10 more".

Interesting fact of the day: After the asteroid impact that led to the extinction of the dinosaurs it took 32,000 years after the event for the dinosaurs to go extinct.

The climate change itself that resulted took about 4,000 years to fully take effect.

People often say how Climate Change might be a natural process but people don't realize how absurd that is and why scientists laugh at the very idea. Even unnatural climate change like the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs is much MUCH slower than the climate change we are witnessing today. Literally there has never been a point in the history of life on earth where global temperatures have changed as quickly as they are changing now.

#ClimateChange #GlobalWarming

Decided to resurrect my old 2014 MacBook Pro Retina 15" and get ArchLinux working on it with BTRFS filesystem. Woot!

RT @fermatslibrary

Euler was the first person to prove the interchangeability of partial derivatives https://t.co/C4H1sxk0CQ

Install

Just found this article, an excellent read!

"Over the past few years, Mastodon has become the model for a friendlier kind of social network, promising to keep out the hateful or ugly content that proliferates on larger and more centralized networks. Journalists hailed it as “Twitter without Nazis” and for years, it’s generally lived up to that promise. But last week, the social network Gab migrated to Mastodon — and Mastodon’s admins have been forced to deal with the internet’s Nazi problem head-on."

https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking