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

Antarctic Station cross sectioned drawing. Great illustration work and interesting engineering for the harshest climates on the planet.

Full size, high res image at https://thevaultoftheatomicspaceage.tumblr.com/post/189211233880

OP by Cory Doctorow, https://qoto.org/web/statuses/103180871538694673

Solid State Cooling?

A package of frozen Burgers used under laptop while large Compiler job running. 😜

Cool in more than one sense!

OP at https://hackers.town/web/statuses/103178554576704842

Like on a TV remote control, sometimes the Mute button is a big relief. 📢 🚫

Learn more about the Fediverse?

That's the part many of us here inhabit - the Mastodon instances, and many other sites, serving different needs.

"Fediverse
is a portmanteau of two words “federation” and “universe”

It is a common name for federated social networks running on free open software on a myriad of servers across the world. Historically, this term has included only microblogging platforms supporting a set of protocols called OStatus. This didn't do justice to a large number of projects that federate, share same values and are reasonably popular. With the appearance and wide adoption of a new standard protocol called ActivityPub it makes no sense to further divide the federated world into “OStatus” and “non-OStatus” projects. This guide unites all interconnected federated networks under one term “Fediverse”. "

https://fediverse.party/

https://fediverse.party/en/fediverse/

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

"The Future?

At the moment, several projects in the space are working to adopt new supplementary protocols, with the intent of building better bridges between one another. The proposed development might end up looking like this:"

There's The Federation -- and The Fediverse.

"Many newcomers to the federated web may hear of a casual reference to the fediverse, and may be curious about what that term means. A simple explanation might be that it’s a portmanteau of “federation” and “universe”, but it’s actually a little bit more complicated than that. Let’s dive into the nature of this beast, along with some of the history that comes with it.

At present, there are two supernetworks in the federated social communication space, and they run on different protocols. They are known as The Fediverse, and The Federation. While both supernetworks function in similar ways and even have similar aims, they each come from a different history of development, and by extension, a different stack. The overlapping series of networks can be referred to in macro as The Free Network."

From a nice page here! https://medium.com/we-distribute/a-quick-guide-to-the-free-network-c069309f334

Ever wonder what is out there in The Federation?

"The Federation refers to a global social network composed of nodes that talk to each other. Each of them is an installation of software which supports one of the federated social web protocols. "

https://the-federation.info/

The Contacts list in Friendica is where you can see all of your contacts. Two types, which are shown in separate places in mastodon, all together here.

* Mutual Friendship : we follow each other.

* You are a Fan of : I follow that user, he/she does not follow me yet.

From the small icons in the Right column (see highlight in green), we can directly send a DM (in mastodon, called PM in Friendica). Or :

- View contact's Network Activity (posts, etc)

- View their Profile pages directly.

- Unfollow them with one click. ("Drop Contact")

And when you start peeping, people take notice. 😉

Soon I got my first Follow Request notification in my Friendica account.

After posting an image in Mastodon network, it showed up on my Friendica new posts really soon.

From there, a reply was quickly posted, which also quickly shows back in masto universe.

The inter-connectivity between fediverse networks is still amazing to me, newbie that I am.

I just used a Search on my Friendica account. Searching for users in other networks is fully supported. So:

@joe@instance.name will pull the profile link to an existing user, and you have the option of Following them.

Send a request in, and soon connection happens.

In this case, /me being followed by alter-me. 😜

From a Mastodon net post, found on Friendica.

https://nerdica.net/display/a85d7459-185d-d70a-3f08-587322786869

Street artists covering up #swastika graffiti.

Source: https://www.minds.com/newsfeed/1044222037155196928

Just found a post by a system administrator with comparisons between Friendica, Mastodon and Hubzilla.

Interesting read, heading there now.

https://blog.windfluechter.net/content/blog/2018/08/25/1747-friendica-vs-hubzilla-vs-mastodon

You can also browse the Global feed, Like posts there, Comment. Or even Follow the post's author.

And discovering new posts, you might also discover new networks - like Diaspora, which this user posted from.

Now -- What's Diaspora ?

https://diasporafoundation.org/tutorials

Nice relaxing moment by the river.

from : https://diaspora-fr.org/posts/df8043b0b6cb01379f8411671e93ecc6