🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

Too many Bad News, can't stand looking at my fave news sites lately.

Time for some nice Cat pictures? This one just found on FB, by Ines Dias from Portugal. Great looking kitty.

#cats #mastocats #meow #CatsOfMastodon

Now I've seen everything.
https://youtu.be/nULLslguF6A

Transmitting Power thru the Body for Wearable #IoT sensors...

"SkinnyPower: enabling batteryless wearable sensors via intra-body power transfer"
https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3356250.3360034

@freemo That makes a certain amount of sense in my warped mind. Weird crap happing all over the world, people start to panic, they turn to "mainstream" systems that everyone is familiar with to try to keep up with everything.

I'm a nerd girl... still skimming under the surface of the net with irc and gopher and even I didn't know about the fediverse until very recently.

Now that the initial wave of panic has passed, the weird is a little more normal, boredom is settling in, people are exploring again.

I like the ice berg image of the internet. The tip being what everyone thinks of as the internet, the deep web being all the systems and routes and servers that make the internet run, the darknet being places you find on Tor...

With that imagery, the "known internet" really is like surfing. The deep web is like scuba diving, and the darknet means learning to pilot a sub. It seems to me like the fediverse is like snorkeling.

Funny thing about the fediverse... I really only found it because of twitter. Shelter in place, so much shut down, I started digging around in old info files on old tech and found my info for my old twitter that I hadn't used in 8 freaking years LOL.

I logged in, tooled around because I found a decent opera sidebar extension for it, then I thought... there's gotta be something better than this... right?

Thank you fediverse for existing.

So, I just discovered the fediverse in general in the last couple days. Like any time I find something new to me and interesting, I dove in head first with an obsessive need to learn more. I was like Hermione in a new library.

Here are 2 things I wish were different tho. First I wish all the instances used the same software, namely whatever qoto is using. In my exploring I have tried out a few instances and this one by far seems the best to me for its customizeability with things like blocking entire domains (I personally think this is better than an instance blocking another instance) and the lovely huge character limits.

Second thing I wish was different is the toot button. Would it be so bad for it to just say "Send" instead of Toot? I get where it comes from, but I've seen some people take mastodon less seriously because of it being called tooting, it kinda gives off a hipster vibe of trying too hard to not be "tweet," and it sometimes just makes me think of stupid fart jokes lol.

Other than those two points, I am loving the fediverse and my mind is blown with how explosively active the Federated timeline is.

Do you know this one?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ELD2AwFN9Nc

@freemo

Posted to twitter, hopefully it is OK to share here, but doing so to help spread the word. Lets hope this sort of innovation carries on way after this crisis is over, so we always innovate and always have access to ventilators regardless of geographical location.

Lab On The Cheap
@LabOnTheCheap
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Check out the MIT E-Vent project which is developing designs for DIY ventilators for <$100 to address the shortages around the world. https://labonthecheap.com/ventilator-for/
@MIT

#openscience #openhardware #COVID19