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

@chrism Thanks for the link and the invitation!

I haven't played in a long time, so maybe playing with the bot for a bit will help me out.

Not that I need any more ways to spend time on the computer, lol, fediverse has got it covered really well.

I am facinated by all there is to explore here.

Thanks again!

@salad_bar_breath 😄 I am glad you enjoyed the article too! And I found another really good reference from it -- will post a separate new thread soon, to give it more exposure.

Hint : it's a well argued analysis on why keeping communities small is the best way to make them productive and healthy. 😉

@chrism Very true, Chris.

I have read another article on how that group has appropriated another open source project's work, the bravo browser, and 'forked it' to use for their own interests.

The developers of Bravo were livid, but with it being open source project they couldn't bar this from happening.

Surprises me that people would trust such a sensitive tool as a browser, and use one provided (built as a binary, an .exe) by a group that could use that as a surveillance tool, with even less scruples than Google .

@realcaseyrollins Thanks, glad you liked the article.

@_lunawinters You are very welcome. I found both the image and the message beautiful, and thought immediately of you. 😺

Have a great day, friend.

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

There are many Usenet new user guides, Bing lists a few : https://www.bing.com/search?q=usenet+tutorial+guide

Looked over a few of them and liked this one: https://www.ngprovider.com/usenet-newbie.php

They also have another page, listing the very important tool you need - the Newsgroups downloader software. Page is here: https://www.ngprovider.com/best-usenet-newsreaders.php

I did not see my old time favourite, called Alt-Binz, which is full featured and fast. https://www.altbinz.net/

It's probably not the easiest to use, but a powerful tool.

https://www.altbinz.net/index.php?page=about

** Speed! Note on screnshot below, a dload coming in at * 39 MegaBytes per SECOND *.

@freemo

I noticed the attribution in the posts to a Gab account. Looks like a provocateur.

A whole week, omg.

@sda

Usenet service - some very low pricing offers from Newsgroups Direct.

These allow you to access date from the Newsgroups, including the ones carrying Binaries - photos, video, data, apps, etc.

* Very fast to download, you are getting data from a secure server farm.

* No peer to peer connections, so no monitoring of who is sharing what.

* Files posted in the newsgroups will be around for a LONG time, unlike some of the p2p methods were people are interested at first, but later it is hard to complete a download, few seeders, etc.

I haven't used it in a while, but still have a bunch of data left from a Block I purchased from the company.

If you are Uploading (posting things to Usenet), that traffic is NOT charged to your block, it's all for download.

Takes a bit of learning, but there are good guides and the software has became easier over time. Give it a try. 😉

https://newsgroupdirect.com/#pricing

They have a sister company,. now offering over 4,000 days of binaries retention -- that's over 10 Years. Something posted in 2009 is still on their servers.

https://www.newsdemon.com/Usenet-Black-Friday.php

(Similar prices for Blocks of download.)

@freemo
Wow. 🙊

@sda

@mngrif
Just noticed your username text recovered from Down Under spell. LOL.

I liked it the other way, rather mysterious.

@doomba

@sda Thank you for the link. I read thru that thread, although it seems to have branched out from a previous discussion. The user probably posted a reply in the Local timeline, as a new topic, by mistake.

I notice quite a bit of spelling errors at first glance.

And sometimes people will have language that irks others. I remember a couple of recent threads, when a user posted requesting confirmation that the free service he was enjoying here offered certain guarantees.

I knew he did not intend to come thru as adamant, but that is a possible interpretation. Freemo engaged this user and knows more about the discussion, he's also the admin and provider of the service we enjoy.

I think it got to him. I can see myself getting annoyed by some of the discourse I observe in certain places, which, after observing, I avoid.

Sometimes it is best if a team member can help and take over the moderation, if the person currently engaged on it is getting affected personally.

The theme of that discussion is beyond me, I did not participate, since first seeing the equation post/challenge the user posted.

Moderating a topic like that would take specialized knowledge and experience in the area. Plus the patience to handle the form the user expressed him/herself.

@freemo

@sda
Those quotes are pretty nasty. All of them from the same message, or from the same author?

Links would help, if you don't mind. Thank you.

@freemo

@esperera_98

Gracias, cL, eres muy gentil. Casey puede veer las mensajes ahí, y se quiera, escribir-te.

Muchas gracias, siempre un placer, señorita.

@realcaseyrollins

@realcaseyrollins La maestra está ahí, amigo. 😉

El es anglófono, pienso yo.

@esperera_98

@freemo
That makes sense, and it's a pity. It can be a satisfying occupation, especially if the person is motivated by the problem solving, new challenges and constant learning.

But it isn't for everyone. I have seen some of the programming challenges posted here by one user, and imagine that an average student in high school would not react well to anything needing that much focus, and understanding of abstract data structures. (in case we proposed simpler, but similar challenges to them)

I learned the basics of programming when all we had was pencil and paper, maybe a blackboard, to jot ideas and develop it. When you had enough laid out to start creating the program, you would write it, line by line, and parse thru to see if it made sense.

Processing it came later, not instantly by pressing a key to try to run/compile it.

Teaching programming in high school, students had a hard time tackling a similar challenge - writing a small routine on paper only, and verifying that it would likely work. Was surprising to me, but most of them felt it was hard.

@jump_spider @Full_marx @tek @kornel @namark @raman@mstdn.social @fahrni @mngrif @rodolpho @shibaprasad @Gomario @EdS

@esperera_98
Holla, es fué rapido sin duda, ja ja ja...

Casey está aprendiendo el Español, le dijo que se necessita, tú es fluente y gostas de charlar, no? 😉

@realcaseyrollins

@realcaseyrollins NP here -- Madeleine Peyroux.

https://open.spotify.com/track/187pCIXgBHX2g7seGJDqEO

@realcaseyrollins I call ClickBait...

😝

@realcaseyrollins No es malo, se las personas te entiendem, eso es el más importante. Quizá @esperera_98 te daria unas lecciones? 😛

Yo también no soy muy fluente, pero la practica ayuda, siempre.

New Toy on the way... 😉

Wanted a smaller and lighter laptop for travel. I usually take an ipad mini tablet, have various laptops of assorted vintages but all a big larger and fragile.

Searched for an HP Elitebook 12" model, similar to my everyday workhorse 15.6" one, but not luck finding stock.

Worked on this yesterday, even drove out to nearby city to check a possible open box, sold out.

Today I got lucky, found a nice Thinkpad X230, very reasonable price, top quality and the lovely design I have enjoyed for years.

So, clicked the buttons, and it should arrive in a couple of days, next week. Yes!!

This is an off-lease, business class laptop. A good review here: https://www.laptopmag.com/reviews/laptops/lenovo-thinkpad-x230

The store I purchased from had some other excellent similar models, in larger sizes, some with great configurations.

With a new SSD upgrade, if they have old style hard drives, these machines are wonderful. Mine is coming with 8 GB of ram, and a 120 GB SSD, so storage is already cool.

@freemo My ancestors lived in Portugal, rural region, I don't know much farther than my grandfather's generation.

Do feel right at home when I visit, family has been there for ages. Centuries, millenia.