🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Just realized workaround is a phonetic auto-antonym

workaround - a shortcut to avoid work

work a round - to do a round of work

Auto-antonyms are my new favorite thing :)

If you ever use the phrase "the elites" it pretty much guarantees your a wack-a-do, didnt even need to read the rest of this :)

Decided to resurrect my old 2014 MacBook Pro Retina 15" and get ArchLinux working on it with BTRFS filesystem. Woot!

Just messing around.

Mastodon Feature Suggestion

I had an idea for a way to improve and balance between the concerns of both moderation and free-speech. Its a bit radical but I think in theory it could work

Imagine mastodon, or something similar, but where a user can no add hashtags to either their posts or their profile, only the ordinary text of their choosing.

Then hashtags can be added or removed by other users via a consensus mechanism where people can vote for or promote hashtags or suggest their own (not unlike how stackoverflow does it).

Then provide all the tools for users to be able to filter out certain hashtags or promote them in their own feed.

This would allow the community to vote on what is hate speech or what is not, or what is conservative vs liberal, or any other relevant quality to a post or person. Then a user can say things like "Any post that is voted by 70% or more people to be hate speech i want filtered from my feed"..

If done well this could create a system where users are able to completely moderate a system for themselves with minimal effort.

#mastoadmin #mastodon #censorship #freespeech

So I've been thinking about what work I want to do next on QOTO that might be accessible given my current busy schedule. These are the TODOs I'd like to do int he immediate future:

1) Fix character limit on mobile devices.

2) upgrade server to latest source

3) Create a static website to replace the default mastodon one that explains QOTO's mastodon instance but also our other services and directs links for them..

#3 may mean more of an edit to Mastodon than you guys realize as right now if you go to the root domain and you are logged in it will redirect you to the social media interface. We cant change the subdomain without breaking federation. So means I'll have to edit the mastodon source code again most likely.

So apparently the joke about Having a Bernie Man festival I told is a real thing. Only thing they are missing is the giant pile of money they burn to reflect the embodiment of Bernie's platform.

http://berniemanfestival.com/

Twitter is basically just a worse version of Facebook where all the users are replaced with bots.

Meanwhile everyone thinks it is better simply because there is less drama because no one is real.

I'll take the quality interactions of the Fediverse anyday over that.

I have never met anyone who wears scarves, I cant understand why anyone would. Why do scarves even exist!

I have to admit, Spacemacs is exactly what I needed to get into vim/emacs. Its so damn sexy!

#spacemacs #emacs #vim

Say these phrases out loud and see if you can figure out what they mean:

Ice bank mice elf!

Yew knead moist you're eye sir!

Hill dew lawn dairy four yew.

Eye sofa king we tall did.

If I ever write a book it will only have three sections:

1. Introduction
2. Troduction
3. Outroduction