Sir Engineering Dad 🔧⚔️🇯🇪🌍 @engineeringdad@qoto.org

@ajroach42 it's fantastic that such a gem as #mastodon was just waiting in the wings ready to go when #twitter imploded.

Here's your irregular reminder that:

Twitter was a multi-billion dollar company with thousands of employees.

Mastodon is a niche hobbyist product run by volunteers

The fact that we're being seen as a viable alternative to them is an admission that a federated, decentralized future is not only possible, but desirable.

Mastodon is not one thing, or one place. It's a network of many things and many places. We don't have a spokesperson (I mean, there's me. I'm the official spokesperson for 💯 of the fediverse, but beyond me there is no spokesperson) we don't have consensus on moderation or blocking or tools or what is good and what is bad. Some of us are professional SREs and Sysadmins, some of us aren't. Some of our instances have been around for 5+ years, some won't be here in six months.

And that's good! All of it, every last bit of it is good.

We're wrestling power away from the billionaire class, in real time, and reclaiming it for the People.

@bykimbo @admin

On here? I can recommend looking into lists, they're kind of additional timelines for your own use. So if someone spams a lot but you'd still like to be able to see their posts fairly easily, you could dump them in a list timeline that you name 'Spammy people I follow' or something. :)

😞 I just realized that Elon musk unban Andrew Tate... 🤦🏾‍♂️ That's one of the worst decisions....Twitter is slightly becoming more and more toxic with this kind of decisions. #riptwitter.

Solving dependencies for conda packages used in computational chemistry is spectacularly annoying. But while I'm at it -- why not write something here.

It's been three months of work with machine learning, and over four full years of theoretical modelling overall. I learned an important lesson: the values your model predicts are not important. It is relatively easy to make a prediction using numpy, scipy and a bunch of polynomials.

It is far more important to know the applicability domain of the model, its error and trust intervals of obtained parameters. Clean the dataset, reduce the number of parameters, write out the necessary equations and try to reduce the error using first-principle approach. Modern science studies deviations and reproducibility, and rarely values themselves. Which is a good thing.

Jeg skal selge julekort på Grafills julemarked i Oslo om et par uker! Og skal prøve å fikse brukbare prints av noen tusjtegninger. Kanskje også launche en Patreon for å holde meg motivert til å jobbe mer med prosjekt tegneserie. Julekortene er disse her:
-Grevlingen og hovmesteren
-Yippee ku yay
-Bro'maker Andersen
-Love Quacktually
-Reisen til Ulestjernen / three wolf julestjerne

1 for 50 kr, 5 for 200 kr. Kan også bestilles med 25 kr portotillegg, jeg lover å drodle på konvolutten

Wow, on a beautiful cold morning, the sun wakes up and shines through the trees... Such magical light✨

Love it? Boost it 📣
Share this magic view around the world to enchant Mastodon✨

#sunrise #netherlands #potd #photography #photographer #dutch #magic #followfriday

Let's bring #FontsonFriday to Mastodon...The beautifully rich Romanesque font in Bancigny church, Aisne, France. Grey Tournai marble...

This is like being the first one to turn up at the disco

My Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen, Criminal (Law) Mastermind, Counsel to His Majesty and honoured companion to this crazed goodboi Mr Leon Kazakos KC https://toot.community/@leonkazakos

I'm two weeks into this #Mastodon experience, and feeling increasingly comfortable with its charm, authenticity, and #community.

I love #NoAds and #NoAlgorithms, pervasive on other platforms, trying to part me from my money or telling me how I should think.

Newbies like me may find the attached article useful: https://www.wired.com/story/how-to-get-started-use-mastodon/

#MastodonTips #socialmedia

People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration

@mikegalsworthy I hate Brexit.

Hunt’s “science superpower” stuff is all very silly.

There are three clear science superpowers in the world (by researchers, output volume, equipment mega-structures, etc) - they are:

1) the EU (with UK in)
2) the US
3) China

The order varies depending on criteria used. But Brexit broke the first of these — and removed us from the driving seat of an actual science superpower. Further, it’s diminished Britain’s science on purely national terms too. There’s been a colossal chilling effect.

The most notable thing about today’s budget was the total absence of any obvious ideas underpinning it, except those of the accountant who only knows how to cut costs but not how to deliver a business strategy. This government is bankrupt.