*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@qoto.org

Found this morning. Many good resources, all linked from this page.

https://github.com/tleb/awesome-mastodon

Check your Birdsite account, and the Toot should be there.

Screen capture confirms Success.

...as a simpler toot net has Success!

Watch the Toot Editor for the extension's post report. Here showing one that made it there. 🆗

alas, the message above, my first test -- did not work.

Twitter returns an Authenticate error message. I think they block the content really.

Cross-post you Toot directly from Mastodon to Twitter, aka Birdsite? *Easy* with browser extension.

* Firefox one here: https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/birdsite/

* Chrome if you prefer: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/birdsite/lfmfhaopllgidldpmifdcjdckdggdjaj

** OP at https://gitlab.com/pmorinerie/birdsite

Clients for Mastodon, Pleroma instances? Mac, Linux, Windows supported.

* Whalebird * has some nice features -- like shortcuts for really quick replies, resizable Feed window widths.

https://vuejsexamples.com/an-electron-based-mastodon-client-for-windows-mac-and-linux/

#xp #moa Inequality in pictures - these from a upper class apartment building in Sao Paulo, Brazil, next door to a shantytown "Favela". Similar happens in Mumbai and Ciudad de Mexico. #inequality #policychallenge
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RT @davidmirandario@twitter.activitypub.actor
Fotos de dois ângulos pra ilustrar: a desigualdade social e a racial demarcam aonde o Estado chega pra aterrorizar e matar e aonde ele chega pra garantir direitos - e muita…
https://twitter.com/davidmirandario/status/1201625708239507459

" Libra: Facebook Wants to Control Your Money
Facebook - backed by some of the largest banks and corporations on Earth - seek to create a global digital currency and reassert Western dominion over the global economy."

http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2019/11/libra-facebook-wants-to-control-your.html#more

A long and rich article which Dr Dejahang posted here yesterday. ( https://qoto.org/@drdej555/103239575953234069 )I read thru and he covers a wide variety of implications. A good read, requires focus.

Piemonte, Italy.

❤️ 🚲 🚵

Images for the Web, forum posts, etc.

Choose your formats - we can help make faster loading webpages, reduce traffic if we chose the best format for images we include in our posts.

I noticed a lag on loading an image included in another website I linked to (in this status: https://qoto.org/@design_RG/103240153529603948 )

Didn't feel right, and it *wasn't*

I use Irfanview to edit, crop, compress images which I like to include in my posts here.

Had noticed the variations, on how sometimes PNG can produce significantly smaller files than the older JPEG format.

Sometimes it's the opposite - JPEG handles life imagery, more complex, better, giving smaller finished images.

Make a point to chose the best format - and be part of keeping things running as fast as possible.

A couple of examples follow, the original page image was a PNG, weighing a hefty *600 KiloBytes*, a bit too much for me.

See the Information boxes for the original PNG, and the improved JPEG, MUCH smaller.

I use the RIOT plugin with Irfanview, and it's a great combo. Both free, small, easy to learn and use. Recommended!

* IrfanView : https://www.irfanview.com

* RIOT : https://riot-optimizer.com/download/

It happens to both #introverts *and* #extroverts. Here's why.

https://introvertdear.com/news/you-are-becoming-more-introverted-with-age/

VPN status shows me 600 MB of down traffic, 7 hours session. No large downloads, just web pages.

Wowa.

https://protonvpn.com has excellent service and a FREE account option. 😉

Amazing things we see in fediverse.

deauth watch

And then, this comes across my eyeballs.

Goodness, it's pretty. I am posting a resized, smaller version here.

Full size original: https://hackers.town/system/media_attachments/files/001/490/157/original/c6809fe2a6d6e103.png?1575300731

#xp #moa Beautiful Japanese porcelain, stylish #cats decoration. Lovely! #catsofinstagram #CatsOnTwitter #mastocats #meow Thanks Kay! Sending to my Fediverse home and followers too. 🐱🐈
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RT @kaymarchy@twitter.activitypub.actor
@design_RG my favorite rice bowl, maneki neko
https://twitter.com/kaymarchy/status/1201364425325760512

Idea to finished product above. AutoCAD 2d front view for layout and parts size determination.

'T is the Season...

Wine filled Advent Tree, counting down from now.

Sad that we have to use Mute(s) to keep our Local Feed as expected.

Curious about how much things costed in Medieval Age? A list of assorted common articles, all in English coinage of the time. Sourced from historical books.

Hardest part is making sense of the shillings, pence, farthings and what not!

"Money goes as follows:
1 pound (L) = 20 shillings (s)

1 crown = 5 shillings
1 shilling = 12 pence (d)
1 penny = 4 farthings
1 mark = 13s 4d"

http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html

From the neat article about how Mastodon reacted and copped with the appropriation of it's software by a know extremist site (https://www.theverge.com/2019/7/12/20691957/mastodon-decentralized-social-network-gab-migration-fediverse-app-blocking) which I posted about here last night, I discovered another nice one.

A gem indeed. Well written, thought out, focused, humble on its opinions.

I liked the whole article, and can relate it to my own past experiences in different places (BBSes, forums, DC++ hubs, etc) over the years.

Take a bit of time, turn off the distractions (silence notifications!) -- and delve into it.

"Run Your Own Social" is not only a case for starting and keeping a multitude of smaller servers/instances, but also it explains really well why Small is Beautiful and the way to go for best results in a social network, community building sense.

The author is the administrator of a small mastodon instance, and has been a Fellow on the Mozilla Foundation programme for the past year.

Hope you like, it. @salad_bar_breath , this is the one I mentioned a fw minutes ago.