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

@georgia

ManyBooks.net has many nice FREE ebooks. Classic, public domain and newer CC licensed ones too.

Including a good selection of modern Sci-Fi books, Cory Doctorow’s titles and others.

Cory Doctorow’s titles on file there: https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Cory%20Doctorow

Nice site, recommended.

https://manybooks.net

@binsrc Wonderful photos, look at all the tiny details.

Made me think instantly of the "Micrographia" book, by Roberto Hook. A classic from a fascinating period in the History of Science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Micrographia

See one of his amazing drawings: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8b/Hooke-bluefly.jpg

@togs We need to understand and translate the HR / Management Speak to plain English, and try to see what you can do to satisfy them. All of the musings below are my own, maybe others can opine and suggest others, correct any errors.

- Excellent communication skills, fair enough to ask, you need to speak the working language well, write it well, at a professional level.

- it can also mean that you can handle interpersonal dialogue, have a decent temper and can accept criticism without undue stress.

- Excellent team work : you can work and communicate with upper level and colleagues. You can take on tasks on a collaboration and push to make deadlines.

Criticism is handled with humility and poise.

Tech skills and the gibberish on design : uhm, that is tougher.

Conceptual - the beginning of a project, abstract level, architecture.

working model: rough and ready test code to demonstrate or evaluate a concept.

"Consistency in architecture and design/code practice"

I imagine this means you can identify the common practices at the company and work within their guidelines. Be them in conceptual level, structure or code formatting and organization at the editor formatting, indentation, etc.

Please not that I am not a grad or practitioner in comp sci or engineering. I might be wrong, but a good approach to a large problem is to chew it, one Byte at a time. 😉

Good luck tomorrow, Duncan!

@Sphinx
You are very welcome.

We have two new discussion topics on the forum, for the two major issues we are facing/:

- Non-English posts, and what to do about them.

- General posting, detracting from the instance's main Theme, STEM.

Feel free to post any comments and suggestions, it was moved there to make it easier to find.

@freemo

@ae

https://www.thetarotguide.com/two-of-pentacles

@caleb Got to mention that the Full Text search here at QOTO is really first class service. Fast and thorough.

@caleb The size of their instance might be the reason. Plus the fact that they are not connected to a number of fediverse instances who object to their politics.

@Sphinx

Nothing wrong, you need to create an account there; the one from the mastodon instance does not propagate to the other services hosted at QOTO.

Sorry for the inconvenience!
@freemo

@jasper

I enjoyed the video once again, now that things are quieter and homework is done. I would guess the smart alecs who went to hide by the trees at the back of the corral?

Got to give it to those dogs, they are amazing!

@rgx

@jasper

LOL, go on and tell us, Jasper. 😜

@rgx

@freemo

I just finished creating two new threads for discussions regarding the themes which are mixed in this and other threads here.

1. The Site's Theme and the influx of new users; preserving focus and maintaining quality and current user's interest on a time of change.

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nov-2019-site-issues-discussions-preserving-qotos-s-t-e-m-focus-in-a-time-of-growth-steering-site/103/1

2. The use of Foreign languages and non-Latin character script in the Local and fediverse postings

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/nov-2019-site-issues-discussions-non-english-and-foreign-script-posts

** Participation in these discussions is open to all QOTO membership. The Discourse forum linked above is part of QOTO and hosted in the same facilities.

You can see those and other threads, read posts at will

** You can also register at the Discourse site. I suggest using the SAME username you use at the Mastodon instance here, for easier recognition.

The Forum will allow the discussion to be visible and not lost in a labyrinth of different threads, as it has happen so far as this was generated by a general feeling that there are some problems and action is needed.

Thank you! 🤔 ➕

@johnlitt @arteteco @Surasanji

@freemo

Yes, I can see the relation to Moderation. My suggestion of the upper level is because so far it's been open and broadcast to all in the fedi interested in following it.

But Mod area is still visible by default, no? I think it is, even for non-logged in users?

@johnlitt @arteteco @Surasanji

hello @Parth , welcome to Qoto.

We are primarily an English speaking community, and have been discussing the issue of new users and posts in foreign languages and script.

Could you please post the text in English, on the same post and as a translation of the Hindu or Tamil original?

Thank you, enjoy your stay.

@freemo
I will have to focus to be able to bridge the topics then.

Will get to it soon, but it's not an easy task. Do my best.

To clarify, it's on the QOTO area, not Moderation, for now, right?

A lot of the issues are general site philosophy and direction, I would keep it at the upper, more open lounge level.

@johnlitt @arteteco @Surasanji

@freemo

Thank you, I am not shy to push the New Topic button, it's jsut that arteteco mentioned seeing 3 different issues interleaving on the current thread.

Each is important, and now we have to start over, with links back to posts here if possible, summarizing each of the issues.

Do we have an Exec Assistant on staff? 😅

@johnlitt @arteteco @Surasanji

@pschwede @freemo
Wow, he did it again. 😈

ps, a suggestion / question - would it be possible to display on your message the number of posts for winner of day, also total post count for day?

Just to give us an idea of the activity sitewise, curious people like to know.

@johnlitt @freemo @arteteco @Surasanji
Been there, looked around, where is everyone? 🙊

J/k, we need a topic or 3 to discuss the pending issues, there's various.

I imagine it will be a thread or threads in the QOTO area?

https://discourse.qoto.org/c/QOTO

...could start something up, but don't want to do something that doesn't meet with everyone's approval.

Will wait for input.

@freemo @Josephrao
Adult material, was what they were blocking and removing, no?

This server / instance is a science/tech/math/engineering themed one, welcome to Qoto.

Hope this theme is something you are interested in.