Stoic @engelbart@qoto.org
I vaguely remember, there was a site for bet/promises.
Something where I put my money for some kind of obligation like "I am going to contribute to GitHub for 30 days straight, and there I put my $200 to escrow account".
Can't remember what was the name of this.
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Spent 3 hours gambling with #peertube installation. I wish it would be much simpler than this.
The entire success of #fediverse relies on simplicity of maintaining it.
I lost this battle for today.
Over complicated procedure with strange and vague errors about OAUTH (which I don't even want to use) killed my intent for now.
If we want success it should be just 'docker run'.
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Are you interested in distributed systems, how Mastodon federation really works, and related implications for testing & operations? Do yourself a favor & read @nova’s excellent writeup of experiments with hachyderm.wtf. https://medium.com/@kris-nova/experimenting-with-federation-and-migrating-accounts-eae61a688c3c
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A happy Thanksgiving to everyone who celebrates it, and a happy Thursday for everyone else.
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Using Rust at a startup: A cautionary tale
https://mdwdotla.medium.com/using-rust-at-a-startup-a-cautionary-tale-42ab823d9454
Discussions: https://discu.eu/q/https://mdwdotla.medium.com/using-rust-at-a-startup-a-cautionary-tale-42ab823d9454
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This mastodon fediverse offers a lot of interesting features for refugees from the bird app, but the real question is: why is #MartinScorsese’s #Goncharov (1973) not trending here yet?
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Exploring Mastodon: volunteer-run instances are great, but require more work from those volunteers than most people realize
https://martinfowler.com/articles/exploring-mastodon.html#volunteer-moderation-means-lots-of-work
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The plural of regex is regrets.
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Understanding #Mastodon gets easier once you get the basic idea that federation between servers can be understood as homeomorphisms across hyperplanes between the Riemannian manifolds of toots, whereas the servers represent countable finite sets of discrete entities.
The idea of bookwyrm software is pretty good.
Something focused on books is something I definitely like to have in my toolbox.
Unfortunately, two days of playing with https://bookwyrm.social/ made a very negative impression on me.
I have no idea are those problems just instance related, or soft related, but it's pretty unusable.
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Years ago, Pew Research Center identified 6 types of Twitter conversation networks. How many are common on Mastodon?
Definitely #2 (unified, tight networks), maybe #3 (fragmented networks united by hashtags on popular topics).
https://pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2014/02/20/the-six-types-of-twitter-conversations/
I love the way how mangal beech parks are organized in Turkey.
The best place to spend some quality time with family on weekends.
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“I think we [journalists] got lazy as a field, and we let Mark Zuckerberg, Jack Dorsey, and, god help us, Elon Musk and their staff decide all these major journalistic questions.”
I couldn’t agree more with journalist @adamdavidson in this thoughtful and reflective Q&A about joining #Mastodon
https://themarkup.org/newsletter/hello-world/mastodons-moment #TwitterMigration
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Explanation of a fun Steam bug that causes Steam to pick a pseudo-random font for everything:
http://blog.pkh.me/p/35-investigating-why-steam-started-picking-a-random-font.html
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Super funny, I woke up inspired to write something today. 🤔
I'm going to write a post about the basics of smart contracts, writing them, and using #golang to build app and write tests.
I had some fun today with connecting toots to telegram channel.
It's pretty easy from mastodon side and I have to give credit to mastodon for that!
I am not convinced that I will keep this in production, since I don't really need this.
I did it using https://github.com/littlebear0729/Mastodon2TG as a reference code, btw.
Just for fun I'd like to repeat this with #rust.
Going to try tungstenite crate.
There is exactly one thing that is regrettable about mastodon.
It's all those endless conversation about mastodon.
Daily in timeline:
- A few hundreds of short how-to's "how to post in mastodon";
- Tens articles "what is different about mastodon vs something";
- A few attempts to enforce some rules like: "YOU MUST USE CW WHEN I PERSONALLY WANT IT FROM YOU" and other virtue signalling.
The rest is "why twitter is worse".
And there is no any trend of reducing this.
God gave us strengths to survive this period.
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