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

"6 killed in New Jersey gunbattle, including police officer
JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Six people, including a police officer and three bystanders, were killed in a furious gunbattle Tuesday that filled the streets of Jersey City with the sound of heavy fire for hours, authorities said. "

From Canadian Press via https://www.sootoday.com/world-news/6-killed-in-new-jersey-gunbattle-including-police-officer-1953571

I came across a series of desktop snapshots taken by a techie user at another instance.

** Full post, more versions on Discourse : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/some-pretty-linux-desktops-i-have-seen/131

They are quite interesting, I am posting here a picture of my favourite one.

With her on the desktop it would become even harder to pry me away from my laptop, lol.

/me wishes for an AI like "Her" (2013 film)...

With thanks to Paulo, @jpaulostrindade

Not too many users, but a verbose group. Another instance I hang out at.

Adding a second screenshot, Pinafore is just so delightful as a client. Look at the Image description box, to assist our visually impaired users.

@nolan It does not have this problem with another instance I also use it, and supports 10,000 chars. They are running Glitch-soc there, which seems to communicate the limit to Pinafore fine.

Man, I love Pinafore! What a nice and FAST client...

If I could only get it to allow me more than 500 characters... Pity it right now shows 356 chars left.

when this account at Qoto allows up to 65,000 characters. I had tried it weeks ago, it became my fave with it's speed and sleek interface.

But I am verbose, and neeeed the extra characters.

@nolan , any suggestions? Sorry to bother you.

** Unix Programmer's Manual
November 3, 1971

"The first edition of the Unix Programmer's Manual, dated November 3, 1971, is available here in image, Postscript, and PDF format. Return with us to the golden days of yesteryear!

The image links refer to PDF files produced by the scanner. They are fairly large, ranging up to a couple of MB, and are named .pdf. You may need a plugin or other software in order to view them; Adobe Acrobat is readily available. "

How cool is an op sys with a * Cat * command? 😺

https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/1stEdman.html

(originally posted by SnowyFox,
https://toot.cafe/@snowyfox/103279787835800422 )

Idea, Fediverse.

Is there such a thing as RateMyInstance ??

Searched for a hashtag and did not find one. I think we users could take this and provide feedback, ideas to others of what our home instances are like.

The Good, the Bad, the Ugly parts even. Just like the Spaghetti Western. 😉

What you all out there think? This could be a grass roots started thing.

#RateMyInstance is needed!

#mastotips #newusers

Great fun to see my Mastodon post, the original above, crossing over there via Birdsite Firefox extension.

TW post is at https://twitter.com/design_RG/status/1204119845152972800

This BBC News article (which I saw on birdsite) is the Reason I am here today.

Thank you, BBC!!!

https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-50343054

Screenshots via James Wilson, @jameswils https://twitter.com/jamewils/status/1192736311406411777

Not usual for me to ask, but... A quick question.

Any way to post an image in a toot without having to upload the image into the message or copy/paste into it?

Tried <img src:" " tag and it doesn't convert to an image.

Reason for asking - hate to be re-uploading and taking space on servers with multi copies of same thing. TY.

LOLZ.... 😝👍🐈

#catsrule #mastocats #catsofmastodon #CatsOfTwitter #meow #xp
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RT @Jfayepaints@twitter.activitypub.actor
I'm so over the cats chewing on/ jumping in the christmas tree 😐 the internet's given me a few solutions, which one to use... 🤔😄 why do cats hate christmas?! 😂
https://twitter.com/Jfayepaints/status/1203745817322041345