Sundar @digital_carver@qoto.org

What I like the most about the #fediverse is the randomness in the
social interactions among the people from different instances and the diverse niche content you find.
#mastodon #qoto #UFoI

So I'm watching the 1976 "the boy in the plastic bubble" and it got me thinking.. there is a scene where he says hje doesnt take showers and doesnt smell because there are no germs...

So if people who are in sterile tooms all their life are truely germ free... that must mean all sorts of things... no BO, you never smell, do you even need to brush your teeth, you wouldnt get plaque or anything if there are no germs to consume the food on your teeth... Does it also mean they have no gut bacteria..

and aside from all those dise effects, which im curious about... how do you even steralize a human in the first place, even if they are born that way and go in from birth, surely your born with bacteria on you.. how do you steralize a human and if you cant how do they not die from this...

Another term of allowing students to ask me questions anonymously during class. >800 Q in 66 Chem101 lectures, and always a different flavour to the ones I get via traditional hand-raising (the ones below aren't at all representative, just some fun examples)

ChatGPT on What are some non-european contemporary philosophers and social theorists who write about imagination

ChatGPT on the same question without "non-european"

jesus christ wolfram alpha, I'm sorry I asked

They have a Roomba that can clean stairs now, which sucks on so many levels.

Checklists dwindling
To do list is running dry
Is this happiness?

#haiku #poetry

Revised document attached. Removed Metatext and replaced it with Mastoot per someone’s suggestion. :-)

Me in class: “Looks like no one managed to finish the reading, that’s on me, clearly I assigned too much today. Let’s discuss [X] instead.”

Students: 😮🤯🥹

It’s really powerful for students when the role model at the front of the classroom takes responsibility & shows imperfection. The more I #Teach the more I realize showing weakness teaches humaneness & combats impostor syndrome, & is one of the things my students most often say they loved when a course is over. #teaching #academidon #histadon

Is there any #OpenSource #desktop application to manage equipments/parts catalog?

I want to find any equipment/parts fast enough. Please boost so that I can get more suggestions.

Close-up of a wax plant (Hoya carnosa) that shows the fuzzy corolla and fused male and female reproductive parts (gynostegium). Flowers emit a cinnamon/chocolate scent, especially at night, and are pollinated by moths. #botany #Apocynaceae #flowers #pollination

I've often wondered why open-source orgs like @mozilla @nextcloud #Canonical and others don't take a more active role in the fediverse. All of those orgs should not only be actively running #Mastodon accounts, but should also be posting content to #PeerTube and honestly even running their own instances of both. In the case of Mozilla, it would make a ton of sense for them to host both Mastodon and PeerTube instances as an open alternative to Google.

Thoughts on that?

I think that there are some misconceptions about how hashtags, and more specifically searching for or following hashtags, works on Mastodon.

Unlike Twitter (and other centralized services), you cannot “follow” or search for a hash tag and expect to see all posts using this hashtag across all instances. If you want this, you will have to use a “group account” instead of or in addition to the hashtag.

What excites me most about this place right now: I’m tempted to actually start posting and sharing my thoughts again. Engaging in the discourse, as they say. The other socials became intimidating places to actually converse in the last few years. Pleased that our nerdy little community is here, and growing.

Maybe we can actually do this thing.

After all these years, it's still so difficult to figure out "what specific thing is making my computer run slow right now".

#computers #performance #gripes