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

@Nikolai_Kingsley @DissidentKitty@radical.town
I aspire to relax like cats do. Anywhere. Anytime.

Fully.

Great pic. 👍

@maison_faim #nowplaying Jazz in the Morning @ spotify radio

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/37i9dQZF1DX71VcjjnyaBQ

"Companies like Facebook and Twitter are poorly policing automated bots and other methods for manipulating social media...

For €300, the researchers bought over 3,500 comments, 25,000 likes, 20,000 views and 5,000 followers...

After four weeks, about 80% of the fake clicks remained. And virtually all of the accounts remained active three weeks after researchers reported them"

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/06/technology/fake-social-media-manipulation.html

Re-Toot with Comment is Possible.

Nolan's thoughts are interesting.

About Media articles frequently quote, mentioning and including snapshots of random twitter posts.

OP at https://toot.cafe/@nolan/103270233532909125

@mngrif Sleep well, that was a late session, eh.

Morning shift checking in...

@QuentinMann I have been so busy with reading, posting and investigating projects here in the Fedi that my news reading has fallen drastically.

The UK election is very important, it was dismaying that they went into it coerced by the PM who had a big lead on polls and wanted a crushing majority to rule unimpeded (same crap happens here in Canada, Proportional Representation is sorely needed to avoid PM dictatorships'').

I saw you mentioning and quoting a statement by the american Sec of State, which I found rather offensive -- on the open saying they would do all they could to change an election result?

These men have no shame.

@kosame

Fedilab supports a lot of different protocols and fediverse projects, which is interesting.

I have used and enjoyed the Lite version, available on F-Droid.

@fedilab@toot.fedilab.app

@freemo Good morning, hope the code writing goes well.

No snooping at cartoons while you are at it, lol.

I used to tel my students I was going to put a 3 or 4 foot high banner at the front of class, over blackboard. One word.

F O C U S.

Used to call and mention it as the 'F'word. they always had chuckles, by association with the other, bad F word.

@QuentinMann Good morning, nice post with good points.

One thing to mention is that we have full text searching here at Qoto; I find it wonderful to retrieve things I posted and now need to refer to or mention. This is active here, but not everywhere, and in a very large instance it would be hard on the system.

We should be getting bookmarks, which will help with keeping tabs on good, interesting topics.

Instances running the GlitchSoc fork already have Bookmarks and some other interesting new features. It's the cutting edge of development, it seems.

I think we can try and complement Mastodon with one or more of the other fediverse projects. They sometimes offer different things, and we can search, mention and link back here.

Write.freely, Friendica are two that I have started looking at, and integrate well.

@SecondJon Good morning, I hope your run goes well!

* Resized from OP at https://twitter.com/23057/status/1201854145101062146

@polychrome

That is very neat. Thank you, Polychrome!

I recognize the text layout in the screens, as it showed in the browser we used at the time.

Kind of ironic to see a return to a light weight protocol like that, when today video is the real dog hogging bandwidth and gigantic data transfers on the Net.

A good thing to have this development; there might be a time when reduced communications could make a low usage protocol the way to go ahead.

QBasic, omg, I loved it. Used to teach high school programming, and it was a great language for that.
@mngrif

@Sphinx Alas, RedPhone not on G play or F-Droid.

@Sphinx Found it.

"Snowden’s message included an endorsement for Signal, an open-source, encrypted messaging tool for the iPhone. The service, which launched earlier this month, uses VoIP and the ZRTP protocol developed by PGP email encryption creator Phil Zimmermann.

“It’s very good, I know the security model,” Snowden said about Signal. “They don’t protect you from metadata association, but they do strongly protect your content from precisely this type of in-transit interception,” he said."

And:

"As for Android options, Snowden suggested two programs, Redphone and TextSecure. Both are designed by Open Whisper Systems and both allow users to make encrypted phone calls and send secure text messages. The NSA, Der Spiegel revealed in December, classifies services like Redphone as a “threat” to surveillance."

From: https://www.dailydot.com/layer8/edward-snowden-signal-encryption-privacy-messaging/

@cowanon

That vertical monitor is a dream!!

Vertical space is so limited in the wide screen laptops and desktop monitors we are forced to purchase for the last few years.

That one will display so much more information. Lovely. 👍

@TheMadPirate @evaristus @freemo

@mngrif Reading the Design Criteria now, and I like what I see.

Interesting. 👍

@mngrif Had to go to the Gemini homepage from github, to try and find out what is it.

https://gopher.commons.host/gopher://zaibatsu.circumlunar.space/0/~solderpunk/gemini/docs/faq.txt

Gopher link, that brings memories. Been there, 1994, Internet at uni only, accessing via ppp daemon from home and dial up line.

Fun stuff.

@cowanon @TheMadPirate @evaristus @freemo

Done in Preferences, as shown --v