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

ManyBooks.net has many nice FREE ebooks. Classic, public domain and newer CC licensed ones too.

Including a good selection of modern Sci-Fi books, Cory Doctorow’s titles and others.

Cory Doctorow’s titles on file there: https://manybooks.net/search-book?search=Cory%20Doctorow

Nice site, recommended.

https://manybooks.net

How to Generally avoid Procrastination. ReToot from @yojimbo #xp #moa https://alexvermeer.com/limit-procrastination/

we wants too. #moa #xp #mastocats #cats_of_world #cats
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RT @gayocats
1154777559055
https://twitter.com/gayocats/status/1198695288325599232

(this test thread proving that MOA can handle replies to tweet thread with aplomb. Neat)

Moa crossposter is at https://moa.party/

Because of its popularity in Chinese communities (including Chinatowns in the United States)[5] the maneki-neko is frequently mistaken for being Chinese in origin rather than Japanese, and is incorrectly referred to as a "Chinese lucky cat" [5] or jīnmāo ("golden cat"). #xp #moa

In popular culture
Chinese maneki-neko with a battery-powered moving arm

Modern Japanese superstition suggests that keeping a talisman of good fortune, such as the maneki-neko, in bedrooms and places of study will bring about favorable results and life successes.

#xp #moa

Oooooh. ☹️ #xp
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RT @avast_antivirus
A jumbo data leak—complete with Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn profiles includes more than 50 million unique phone numbers and 622 million email addresses. From the perspective of an attacker, that's a lot of information to get you started.

https://ava.st/35qBvSA
https://twitter.com/avast_antivirus/status/1198664627426476032

Have you heard about Maneki Neko? #cats #CatsOfTwitter #xp #moa https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maneki-neko

#xp #moa
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RT @CatDisapproval
I can read your mind. You should be ashamed of yourself!
https://twitter.com/CatDisapproval/status/1198659036482351104

Because I am getting to know and experimenting with a new tool (Crossposter for Twitter and Mastodon - https://crossposter.masto.donte.com.br/), I missed a configuration option, and my post above did not include the proper OP linky.

It's here, and has been very popular there too. https://twitter.com/Gurdur/status/1198192621203709952

ReToot of a ReTweet, so fellow QOTO folks don't miss it.
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Amazing, wonderful. 👍 sending over to @design_RG

RT @Gurdur@twitter.com

An aerial view of a sheepdog as it demonstrates fluid mechanics, and it also shows a sheep is a particle, while a flock is a wave.

By sheer chance, I had seen an ad yesterday for someone selling their rigs in the regional online classifieds.

Not as neat as the examples above, pics attached. Asking price is CAD$1300, about 1K USD.

Don't know how well this setup would compare to Jeff's, but the listing is here atm - will disappear soon if sold.

https://www.kijiji.ca/v-desktop-computers/st-catharines/eth-crypto-gpu-mining-rigs-rx580-8gb-gtx-1070-and-1080/1472730688

...and then you see a random post fly by and discover an intriguing fellow fediversian.

Breath of fresh air, can't find people like this in the main stream soc media hellholes. TY!!

Cats Who Code

Visited Jeff's blog earlier this morning, to see a poem he linked to, a nice one.

Noticed a link to other post, and it's a lovely article - about operating a crypto mining at home, with off the shelf components. Which paid for itself nicely, despite what we hear about server farms being unbeatable (which is true for Bit Coin, BTC)

His setup was specifically for mining Ether, and by nature that process benefit systems using Graphics cards for the processing.

Very cool project! Glad it worked out, the hardware is exquisite. He explains it well too. 🎅

http://jeffreyfreeman.me/a-badass-ethereum-mining-rig/

Rant of the Day.

It's unbelievable that Apple locks such basic UI feature as controlling the default icon sizes on iPhone and iPads.

I have an ipad mini, and like it's portability, it travels with me when I won't take a laptop, it's on my bag when a larger screen than a cell phone comes handy.

Now got an iPad 4 with the 9.7" larger screen, and honestly, the icons look weird, too large on it.

"That's the way it is, that's the way it always has been. 4 by 5 " is what web search tells me.

Other than a nice tool, which requires Rooting (aka jailbreaking) the device. 😔

For the record, here is the tool I mentioned, it seems a nice and basic right of a user - I have always had that in Windows, which mac people like to demean. Smoke that, Apple.

https://www.howtoisolve.com/how-to-change-apps-icon-size-in-iphone-ipad-resize-app-icon/