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

Give me enough Tabs and the world is my Library... I actually have about twice as many shown in the picture, and the system is stable.

Waterfox Current, based on Firefox Aurora channel, v. 68.02a

"Ken Thompson (sitting) and Dennis Ritchie working together at a PDP-11"

A Mini computer, made by DEC, Digital Equipment Corporation, one of the great names in American computing history that disappeared into mergers and acquisitions (bought by Compaq, I think)

#vintage #retro #computing

My idea of Heaven.

@Full_marx An awesome article on The Guardian (my favourite newspaper,) which is VERY relevant.

"To decarbonize we must decomputerize: why we need a Luddite revolution:"by Ben Tarnoff

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/sep/17/tech-climate-change-luddites-data

"Magnetic-core memory was the predominant form of random-access computer memory for 20 years between about 1955 and 1975. Such memory is often just called core memory, or, informally, core.

Core memory uses toroids (rings) of a hard magnetic material (usually a semi-hard ferrite) as transformer cores, where each wire threaded through the core serves as a transformer winding. Three or four wires pass through each core.

Each core stores one bit of information. A core can be magnetized in either the clockwise or counter-clockwise direction. The value of the bit stored in a core is zero or one according to the direction of that core's magnetization."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnetic-core_memory

#IT #Tech #vintage @Full_marx

RT
@evilpaul_atebit@twitter.com
: Possibly the nerdiest joke ever..

It's Follow on Friday, aka #FF

A good day to discover accounts to follow and learn, get entertained or engage in good discussions.

Searching for the #FF hash also helps find these posts, last week there were many and I added a number of interesting people to my list.

Any you suggest?

Cory Doctorow is a great SciFi writer, blogs at https://boingboing.net/ and is active on twitter and Fediverse as well. @doctorow

See his books and maybe get a free ebook copy to read at his site: http://craphound.com/

One of his book's free download pages, (there are others for many of them) : https://craphound.com/homeland/download/

Pretty cheap compared to a Canada Post international mail letter which is over one dollar (it's been ages I haven't sent one) each.

The slowly stamps are decorative, reusable ad infinitum, and just plain fun. Great app!

https://getslowly.com/en

What type you like? #slowly brewed coffee. Larger is better, longer lasting.

Ah, use the right Stamp in that penpal letter, via @slowlyapp@twitter.com "Slowly" app? Currently on Sale, 20% off. 80 coins, about 2 CAD for the 6 stamp set. Regular, 100 as shown.

Best coffees I have ever had, are in Portugal.

Delta is my favourite Brand - look for the name and logo at the awnings in front of cafés all over the country.

"Uma bica, por favor." gets you this nice espresso cup. Cost? from about 50 Euro cents.

** STAY AWAY from tourist trap areas and you get great food for low prices in the whole country.

https://blancavalbuena.com/portuguese-coffee/

How to order a Coffee in Lisbon, or whole of Portugal too.

In the picture, an Abatanado, which is my favourite style.

Drink it #slowly, savour the Pasteis de Nata (tarts to die for) and read your penpals letters in @slowlyapp
on a sunny morning. <3 PT

https://lisboando.pt/comer-em-lisboa/como-pedir-um-cafe/

Nice photo courtesy of Emma,

http://www.emmashouseinportugal.com/

"You are the master of your own Prana - the winds and
spirits inside the body. Work with the physical body,
slowly change the diet to plants only, slowly release
all muscle tension through stretching, movement and
acupressure, slowly deepen and extend the inhale
and exhale through subtle concentration, slowly.
Many knots arise in the solar plexus and navel and
can be easily manipulated through physical means.
Only through service to others and surrender to
God/Tao/Unity can you access the knots that block
the heart. we are here to serve. May we
use our lives to give life. May we never forget."

Author, unknown tome. Found on twitter, a screenshot, un-attributed.

https://twitter.com/aletheiamea/status/1194709815144198144/photo/1

@qoto

Finally, here is the Notification screen -- Notice the origin of the post, clearly marked as Boosted, and by the Group name!

@qoto Pretty much instantly, I receive the message.

- Note that it will NOT show on the Local feed area, since I wanted it private.

- But it DOES show on your HOME feed, as well as in a Notification.

Yes!

@qoto Now let's send a message to our buddies.

- I enter a new toot message in the box. Include the Group name at the top, so the bot gets it.

- I am trying something here, remember we talked about PRIVATE group messages?

I think that changing the privacy selection to UNLISTED (open padlock icon), it will NOT show on our server's Local feed.

- So we selected Unlisted, type the message, hit Send Toot, and voila, it will go out to everyone.

@qoto OK!

Now that we searched for this New group we wanted to creat, pushed the button, Magic Happens. 😃

- a search is started, it will find the group we wanted, and now exists!

- and it shows a FOLLOW button for us to click on...

Push the button, and now the Group exists. Tell your friends to Search for the same group (show them this post) and they will see the group, and follow it too.

Done. 😄

- The Group now Exists, and anytime you tag it into a post, it will go to the bot;

- The bot then gets it Boosted, and Feeds it to everyone on it's group Followers list.

@qoto I hope the previous post made sense? It was already in fact Boosted and distributed to that usergroup (which could contain any number of users), everyone following it will get notified and see it. Cool.

- Oh, I want a Private group! 😄 Maybe in the future extra features will be added. For now, want a sec group? CREATE IT and DON'T tell anyone other than the intended users. Keep it hush hush and you get some privacy,

(I think; it might show up on the local feed possibly? This is all new to me too, here trying to explain it to you)

How About Creating a NEW Group?

- reading that same screen above (again, it's located at : https://gup.pe/u/guppegroups )
we see a reference to :

"Create other groups by searching for or tagging @yourGroupName"

OK - so say we want a new qoto-bikers group. We are all cyclists, and plan some rides, or maybe it's a motorbike group. Let's make it happen!

- What group name? You decide. Keep it Simple. Short. Memorable. Obvious if you can!

ok, how about qoto-bikers? 😄

Sure!

- This will be done from inside you own Home -- your own instance, in my case, this is qoto.org.

- We enter the new Group name we decided on into the SEARCH box, on the top Left corner of the web page (or in the search box in your mobile app)

On the screen below you can see the NEW @group_name@instance_name already typed in. Hit enter and it goes to work!

Will show the result in the next post.

If you open that link, you will land on a new tab and page, with some cryptic instructions (will explain then soon) and an input box.

What to do here?

- if you wanted to JOIN an EXISTING group, say QOTO's (which I created a few minutes ago), you would need to know the Group_name@Instance.name to enter it there. On my example, it would be : qoto@gup.pe

- Done that? It will redirect you to a page, where you will see the Group Bot profile. Click on the "FOLLOW"button, and you will be ADDED to this particular group.

- Any posts made anywhere in fediverse afterwards, and that include the @qoto attibution (username) will be Copied to the Bot there.

And the bot will Boost and send it out to ALL the people Following this particular list. 😄

Screenshot below shows this first entry point into Guppe. (I will describe How To Create a New Group on next post)

By sheer serendipity it seems, I have come accross a boosted post that mentioned someone working on a project that might help solve or improve one of the problems mentioned in the post above.

We can't keep trowing all the posts into one big pipe forever (and then trying to find what we need or want). As the number of users grown, the amount of data will also, and it will become unmanageable soon enough.

Facebook is terrible, in general, but we have to acknowledge they do support an mind blowing number of users 24/7.

One of the things they do fairly well is to have Groups for people with any kind of common interest; I participated in some, and they do reduce the spread of these posts to only a smaller number of users, who are interested in them. It is also easy for them to get to the group they want, post and move on.

FB Groups are NOT as good in my opinion as Forums (where posts can be finely organized by topics, and you can find things much more easily once you understand the logic and how it works).

But it's better than the pulsating Federated feed we currently have, which is like to grab a fish swimming down the Niagara river just above the falls. Yikes, the volume!

The post I refer to is here:

https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103139269483844935

Specifically, the post by Will mentioning the GuppeGroups.

https://gup.pe/u/guppegroups

The fight goes on in #chile (Spanish text)

* Protests in Chile continue with a General Strike *

"The error was to think that what existed was Peace, when in reality it was a terrible silence."

https://elresaltador.com.ar/continuan-las-protestas-en-chile-con-un-paro-general/