🎓 Doc Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@qoto.org

@freemo @gpowerf That would surely expose you to a whole lot more of it, but as i said it's perspective, the way we interact is also different with things. As @gpowerf said there are many variables to take into account.

I think one thing QOTO has going for it, in favor of making things less hostile is that we have more than 1k words to express our opinions, so we are in a much better and more complex environment which allows for a better expression of our beliefs.

@freemo it took me a long time to choose a server! I eventually gravitated to qoto because I liked the description of it, it sounded like a place that respected free speech and was populated by people who largely wanted to do good and discuss their academic work.

Seems like I made a good choice!

@gpowerf QOTO is very much the exception IMO. We have a fairly exceptional history of civility and inclusion you just wont find on other servers or networks.

@freemo maybe my perspective is skewed because I've only ever existed in qoto.

So the US congress vs TikTok, they are expressing concerns about data finding its way back to the Chinese government, while at the same time when Facebook hands over information about a young lady who had an abortion to the local authorities this is perfectly acceptable to the users of these platforms.

@freemo

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Oh, I see it now.

Typical. :P

@freemo

Here's a video compilation of Apple ads from 1981->

https://youtu.be/UcBlKg2HerQ

The ads I'm talking about begin at about 11:00,

In particular, here's an ad that "proves" GUI is better than CLI for average workers. (joke)

https://youtu.be/UcBlKg2HerQ?t=3274

and one of my favorites:
https://youtu.be/UcBlKg2HerQ?t=4450

and the "I'm a Mac, I'm a PC ads...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0eEG5LVXdKo

Whether Mastodon has 5K or 5M users doesn’t matter. You only need to follow about 500 of them to get a pretty rich social media experience that doesn’t suck like ad driven social media.

@freemo Michael Leunig! Excellent Australian cartoonist. Plenty more examples of his often-insightful work at https://www.leunig.com.au/works/cartoons

Random first trial post: today, March 14th, is the 29th anniversary of the Linux 1.0 announcement.

Of course, there are other arguably more important dates in Linux history, but this is one of them.

Replying to all the random individuals that seem to think that I’m “endorsing” one of the Fediverse products over any other, and seem to be making a big deal over #akkoma vs #mastodon etc.

That’s not the case. I’m actually a horrible MIS person, and I would never want to maintain my own server. I’m a programmer for chrissake!

The same way you should fear me if I hold a soldering iron, you should be very very nervous if I were to do any server management.

So all credit (or blame) for the choice of Fediverse platform goes to @monsieuricon, who maintains kernel.org and just made it really easy for me to try this out.

… and on a similar note: not only am I not much of a MIS person, I’m also not much of a social networking person.

I foresee a lot of disappointment in the future of any followers of this account 🔮.

@freemo Yea the design decision to allow image names to fall back to docker by default was plenty questionable but is now definitely on the wrong side of history. It's funny that it's by their own hand and amidst a wave of supply chain and typosquatting attacks

Will the United States collapse before the end of this decade?

#USPol #InternationalRelations #world #corruption #covid19 #war #bank #debt #economy #politics