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

@freemo Boss, the Local feed seems to be behind the Home one quite a bit - not refreshing as it should be.

Last post in Local as I type is 49 min old; I personally have made other replies and new posts, which show immediately on Home as expected. Just FYI...

Snapshot included. Time ~21:11 UTC

Thanks for the great service.

Doggies will be doggies...

I say Poteito, you say Potáto... 🕺

🇺🇸 🇬🇧

A Remark You Made by Weather Report on CJRT: http://rdo.to/CJRT

OR get their mobile app, iOS and Android :

https://jazz.fm/download-the-new-jazz-fm91-mobile-app/

Canada's JAZZ Station, live on the air and the web...

Did you miss seeing the passage of Mercury over the face of the Sun earlier this week?

Beautiful images from the Solar observatories like the screenshot below.

See the footage at :

https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/display.php?year=2019&phase=In&dataset=Mercury19_AIA96s_171&title=AIA%20171

or from different cameras at the main site:

https://mercurytransit.gsfc.nasa.gov/2019/

An example of a working, lively instance with Pleroma running. Showing their Local feed.

https://blob.cat/main/public

Finished reading the page and it's excellent.

The author defines well what a Local timeline is, what the Federated timeline is as well.

And he explains the differences between Pleroma and Mastodon as server software alternatives:

"## How is it different from Mastodon?

If you are currently using Mastodon, you are probably interested in the differences between Mastodon and Pleroma. Here are some of the big ones.

## Lower system requirements.

Pleroma can run well on a Raspberry Pi or a $2.50 Vultr instance. This makes it affordable to host for single user instances. You can still run a hundred users or so on instances this small, though, so it also works well for bigger instances.

## Less moving parts.

Pleroma is built on a lot less technology than Mastodon. To run a Mastodon instance, you need Rails, PostgreSQL, Redis, Sidekiq, NodeJS and - if you want search - ElasticSearch. For Pleroma, you only need Elixir and PostgreSQL, while still getting all the features. This simplifies installation and makes maintenance somewhat easier."

original page (also linked above):

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

Found another nice page for reference. You might be able to get some explanations for the general operation of the network and instances, etc.

https://blog.soykaf.com/post/what-is-pleroma/

"In my last few posts I talked a bit about Pleroma. Since then, we had a lot of questions about what Pleroma is, how it is different from GNU Social and Mastodon, why you should use it and so on. This post will be an introduction to Pleroma, so read on if you are interested.

What is Pleroma?

Pleroma is a microblogging server software that can federate (= exchange messages with) other servers that support the same federation standards (OStatus and ActivityPub). What that means is that you can host a server for yourself or your friends and stay in control of your online identity, but still exchange messages with people on larger servers. Pleroma will federate with all servers that implement either OStatus or ActivityPub, like GNU Social, Friendica, Hubzilla and Mastodon."

Not for sale in North America, but very popular in Europe, Brazil, China, India and other markets.

High quality, well built, decent price and great support.

New version of MIUI 11, got a notification this morning and it completed unattended and successfully. 😊👍

❤️ Xiao MI!! https://mi.com/uk/index.html

*Some infinities are bigger than others*
There are two types of infinity, and it doesn’t stop there.

"Few numbers have exercised more fascination, and confusion, than infinity. I can remember asking my father at a young age whether space went on forever. He replied that this must be so because, however far you travelled into space, you could always stretch out your arm into a void beyond.

Same thing with time: will it go on for all eternity, and does it stretch back infinitely far into the past?

Philosophers and scientists have wrestled with these questions throughout the ages, but for most of that time ‘infinity’ as a concept was not well-defined. "

Great article, well explained and not hard to follow.

https://cosmosmagazine.com/mathematics/some-infinities-are-bigger-than-others

You can also see a linked video: https://youtu.be/Uj3_KqkI9Zo

Correction, composition by J.S. Bach, arrangement by Mahler.

Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra.

Great station if you like Classical.

Now Playing here... Gustav Mahler, courtesy of WNED, Classical music station in Buffalo, NY.

Live streams on the internet too.

https://www.wned.org/radio/wned-classical-945/

or https://radiobookmark.com/listener-interactive/webplayer/#/fullscreen/station/Tgh4Vx2HBa7NvK3

First World Problems.

And difficult to repair.

From article above:

"The issue highlights the fact that Tesla is not bound by the same rules when it comes to repair as other auto manufacturers. Tesla is not party to a memorandum of understanding signed by other auto manufacturers in 2014, in which they agreed to sell parts to independent repair shops.

As a result, there are very few independent Tesla repair professionals, acquiring parts to repair Teslas is very difficult, and finding or making aftermarket parts is also difficult. Many parts used by independent repair professionals are salvaged from wrecked Teslas. "

I love the idea of an electric car, but why not keep it simple. WE don't need pie in the sky self driving, with myriad sensors and things that will break sooner or later.

Just make a working electric Volkswgen bug kind of thing (the original, hugely popular model), please.

"The issue is with a flash storage chip called the eMMC that is embedded on a board called the MCU1. According to experts who have studied the problem, Teslas are writing vehicle logs to this flash storage chip so much that it eventually goes bad. The issue has been known in the Tesla community since at least May, when Tesla repair YouTuber Rich Benoit spoke to another Tesla repair professional named Phil Sadow about it in a video.

“Tesla’s got a problem. They create so many logs in the car, they write to [the chip] so fast that it basically burns them out. They have a finite amount of writes,” Sadow said in the video. “When this burns out, you wake up to a black screen [in the car’s center console.] There’s nothing there. No climate control. You can generally drive the car, but it won’t charge.” "

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qvgxqp/worn-out-flash-memory-is-suddenly-bricking-tesla-cars