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

More info on the Book?

https://threatvector.cylance.com/en_us/home/cult-of-the-dead-cow-how-the-original-hacking-supergroup-might-just-save-the-world.html

https://www.ft.com/content/5250f866-cfe3-11e9-99a4-b5ded7a7fe3f

https://www.politics-prose.com/book/9781541762381

Wiki Reference on Group's History : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cult_of_the_Dead_Cow

And it's nice to see that the TechnicolorRainbow group is alive and well -- it's the home for the Book club at Hackers.Town instance.

One book a month, to be read by anyone interested, and can be discussed via the @TechnicolorRainbow Group. Neat.

January 2020 Book of the Month is : "Cult of the Dead Cow: How the Original Hacking Supergroup Might Just Save the World" by Joseph Menn.

RT of : https://hackers.town/@ryen/103372347108203901

** See an Explanation of what Guppe Groups is, how it works, how to sign up; illustrated. Here at our Discourse Forum (a copy of my original posts at HT).

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/technicolorrainbow-a-proposal-for-a-user-group-mailing-list/183

#Fediverse #Book #scifi #cyberpunk #tech

Ant then, people post some beautiful images with their posts, and you are glad to have caught a glimpse.

Gravure, a shipwreck at sea, lots of fine detail : https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/023/470/383/original/f0c54845b473d716.jpg

OP: https://mastodon.social/@maelig/103419462852721913

@realcaseyrollins correction -- that was in the way to Baghdad airport, so in Iraq.

@ae Really lovely colours and shapes. Thank you, great photo.

@realcaseyrollins I looked at The Guardian, just after posting the link here last night, and they had a report on it. A drone attack, seems like as the general was on his way to or from Tehran airport.

An act of War, isn't it? Oh, the need of those TV stations to fill huge air time, 24 h a day. A lot of repetition and spin result. No patience for that, prefer to scan the headlines and read the ones I might be interested in, in good news site.

@khird That is neat, nice work, Kyle. 😛

I used to have Rdio, which I really liked and was content to sue as a free user. I now feel a tad guilty, since being happy with their generous content allowance for non-paying users ultimately led to their demise. And now we have less and inferior alternatives, Spotify being less enjoyable for me than Rdio was.

They had ads, but not so obtrusive as Spot. Have found ways to block the ads in spot, but that breaks the radio streams playback, which I like, a long session of music without having to make a playlist.

@realcaseyrollins it's on Reuters : https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq-security-blast-soleimani/irans-soleimani-and-iraqs-muhandis-killed-in-air-strike-militia-spokesman-idUSKBN1Z201C

@Sphinx @mngrif If there is a red light ahead and I have space to reach it, I like to shift to neutral and let the car roll; control the speed, which is decreasing by tire friction and the motor no longer being engaged, control the speed with light brake touches. This is easy when you have experience driving the standard, for now do what feels safe for you.

The best is if you can avoid a full stop at the light at all; if you are still rolling, even slowly, and the light goes to green, I would trow into 2nd gear. As mngriff said, 1st gear is for starting up and very reduced, not good to trow a moving vehicle into it unless you are at very low speed,

@iankenway Interesting, learn something new everyday. Thanks Ian!

@FroehlichMarcel Welcome to Qoto, Marcel! 😃

@tiago

@Oliver_tad Hola Oliver, bienvenido a Qoto y Mastodon!

Si es nuevo en la red Mastodon, puedes ler un buen guía ahi :

"Guía básica de Mastodon para principiantes"

https://www.realdroid.es/2018/10/07/mastodon-guia-basica/

* tambien una FAQ (Questiones Frequentes) a este sitio :

https://github.com/tootsuite/documentation/blob/master/Using-Mastodon/FAQ_ESP.md

Ooopsie. 😐🙄

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #xp
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1214868366771
https://twitter.com/gayocats/status/1212677418864955392

#art, love #cyberpunk theme #illustration. Great work, sad moment. Sec Forces hitting #hacker hideout. #xp
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RT @AheadLooms
Raiding Hacker Hideout, Maik Beiersdorf https://buff.ly/2FjQswT
https://twitter.com/AheadLooms/status/1212825899688701952

Caught by surprise. Oops.

#cats #catsofMastodon #mastocats #meow #xp
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RT @TheHardyBoyCats@twitter.activitypub.actor
New year, new pose 🤩😂 #GlamourModelCatsOfTwitter
https://twitter.com/TheHardyBoyCats/status/1212806199273500676

@peterdrake The Your Name part looks great, contrast and bold. The username, nah...

We have all seen the nice B&W photo of a female soldier posted here, so I won't post again (I like the photo and her, after finding out who she was and what she did)

Lyudmila was a snipper in the Red Army, at a time when it looked like her country was going to be taken over by a determined invading army. She fought them bravely.

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

@freemo True!!! I have so many accounts here at our own instance that even forgot that service. TY!!

* Special hashtag to highlight serious posting ? *

Received an interesting suggestion via Direct Message, it said :

"What do you think about: Starting a hashtag like : "qotoarticle" and all users who publish journalism-like or good pieces from the Net using this #, to make it possible finding an interesting collection of *qoto-news*, without all the fun-stuff burying it?"

This is a nice idea -- and I am opening a Forum discussion thread for it.

My thoughts on the matter, on today's web magazine, live at : https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting

@ij Ah, thank you! I couldn't understand much of the title, curious to see what it was, very pretty graph.

Tryfriendica, after posting here I recalled it was a Finnish sys admin that hosted it, besides a normal permanent node, for people who wanted it after testing and trying out first.

I looked at the instances list and liked yours, since it is in the EU and has great performance. Very neat. I will have to go back and learn Friendica more, explore it, my account there integrates with the mastodon one perfectly. (communications, follows, retoots, all report and apply nicely)

I had too many new things to learn at the time I created the account, but saved numerous screenshots and made preliminary reports here in Qoto mastodon. A future report will be more in depth, journalistic style, as I am enjoying this new blogging venture as well.