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

@Bhavikchitalia I am quite fond of providing links to further information, it's so easy and enriches any discussion.

That's part of what made the WWW so successful. Feel free to add links to your posts anytime. 😉

@sda

Thanks for posting the link, sda. I have been very fond of Usenet, it worked well for many types of things and contents.

I made a big effort once to convince a group I participated in to promote usenet as a channel for media sharing, much more stable than what they used and faster. But... So I left, their loss, sadly.

Your FAQ is very objective and focused, plus well formatted even if only using plain text, no enhancements or markups. Well done.

@freemo

This article is brilliantly written and illustrated. 🤔

"Is this trend driven by people’s changing cultural habits, or is it that people are following the new laws of social networking? I don’t know — that’s for researchers to find out — but it feels like it’s reviving old cultural wars. After all, the web started out by imitating books and for many years, it was heavily dominated by text, by hypertext. Search engines put huge value on these things, and entire companies — entire monopolies — were built off the back of them. But as the number of image scanners and digital photos and video cameras grows exponentially, this seems to be changing. Search tools are starting to add advanced image recognition algorithms; advertising money is flowing there.

But the Stream, mobile applications, and moving images: They all show a departure from a books-internet toward a television-internet. We seem to have gone from a non-linear mode of communication — nodes and networks and links — toward a linear one, with centralization and hierarchies.

The web was not envisioned as a form of television when it was invented. But, like it or not, it is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking."

Must Read. 😉

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

"The Web We Have to Save
The rich, diverse, free web that I loved — and spent years in an Iranian jail for — is dying.

Why is nobody stopping it?"

https://medium.com/matter/the-web-we-have-to-save-2eb1fe15a426

Amazing art on the post header. See the FULL SIZE image here, lots of detail: https://miro.medium.com/max/2999/1*DLIqBteIIJchIhaiUfCFdQ.jpeg

I am a big Fan of History, and the WWII period is one of my favourites. Just saw a nice post at the birdsite, by a WW2 Live account.

Searched Fediverse, and indeed we have a bot bridging content here too. 😉

See the feed and if desired, Follow at https://mastodon.muage.org/@RealTimeWWII

or @RealTimeWWII

@rodolpho 'Tis Here...

https://open.spotify.com/album/70iPSxP7Jtb2ZwrypiZFQG

Love mark, etched in stone. Very pretty view. Ile de Ré.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Ele_de_R%C3%A9

#travel #slowly

Two cats, one bed. Big love here.

OP at https://twitter.com/i/status/1197663987095261189

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@yantrajaal An interesting article, thank you.

Cyber operations are already being done, by various nation state sponsored teams.

Even malware with a highly complex nature, clearly taking lots of time and talented people to create, was used against adversaries, for example the Stuxnet worm.

Antarctic Station cross sectioned drawing. Great illustration work and interesting engineering for the harshest climates on the planet.

Full size, high res image at https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/189211233880

OP by Cory Doctorow, https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103180871538694673

Solid State Cooling?

A package of frozen Burgers used under laptop while large Compiler job running. 😜

Cool in more than one sense!

OP at https://hackers.town/web/statuses/103178554576704842

@freemo They must have a lot on their plate all the time, but starting the ball rolling is the best we can do.

Plus, here, check the first page new users see, and the About This Serve page. Add fully spelled out acronym, or additional text.

The English comprehension requirement you opened for discussion earlier this morning also, once there's a consensus and you decide what's best.

@freemo Now that we mentioned him maybe Peter could help?

@peterdrake

@freemo If it was hand picked, a message to him with a link to this thread might clarify what and why we want to change.

Just decide on the final form of the text you would like to see there, maybe up to 120 or 125 chars, and send him a DM, imo.

@Bhavikchitalia Hello Bhavik and welcome!

Found a reference for who Shrimad R is; might help. 😺

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrimad_Rajchandra

@Patrick Hello, Patrick and welcome. Wasn't long ago that I posted my very own 1st message here.

You found a good place, enjoy!

@freemo

@freemo There is one user who posts here and is a Uni Comp Sci professor, in Seattle I think. Name?

Search found. Peter Drake.

https://qoto.org/@peterdrake

@freemo Our current text description there is only 61 characters.

The Witches.live on the right side 113 have characters, and there's still room for maybe 10 chars or so.

Did this on my text editor, and it's 108 chars (w/o quotes):

"Question Others to Teach Ourselves. A STEM - Science, Technology, Engineering and Math - oriented instance."