#FreeSchool <---> Hashtag @freeschool@qoto.org

Tech giveth, and Tech taketh away

People have been taking from people more than giving for a long time now,,, Not much escapes that iron lock.

Money and Tech are the similar in that - 'they' (manufacturers / banks etc) give but then over time needing paying back more:

via inflation for using money
for adverts for receiving electronic things
and general debt-based spirals when using debt.

Tech in similar hands of mainstream people, not much different:

Tech giveth, and Tech taketh away
For Tech is in the same mainstream hands of people that don't really care.

If people have been taking more than giving for a long time, then Tech is not much different in the main managed development by government.

Those within in it need be extra careful standing on those shoulders and taking / buying from those hands even if it looks a bit more friendly..

Fediverse teaches you as in real life, it's good to try a bit but there is no sense to people sometimes - they are lost in themself or something else.

After 3 tries of contact, say your experience (publicly probably) and leave them for a bit. Copy and paste this text you sent them to the next person that doesn't answer at all.

Maybe after a long while things would have changed. But don't hold your breath or wait too long. It's like waiting for their death. Move on already / give it time.

(Not intended to any existing people - just hose unanswered who won't see this anyway - but those claiming to be pro-active - you guys simply suck air!)

THE LIST OF PEOPLE...
...OK, won't list them now,
Perhaps those who claim to be accessible or a people person later... Anyone claiming to be on a conquest for our mutual things I'll list later since they are asking in profile or messages... failing their own test... but the rest of the people I might let slide even though they answer other people
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#QOTO - Welcome to the QOTO instance

An inclusive, Academic Freedom, instance

All cultures welcome.

"I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others." - Socrates

A Mastodon instance for scholars in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) and all yearning to learn.

Hate speech and harassment strictly forbidden.

TL;DR: Be respectful, and don't harass other Fediverse users.
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Demonstrating support for or defending ideologies known to be violent or hateful is a bannable offense. This includes, but is not limited to: racial supremacy, anti-LGBTQ or anti-cis-gender/anti-straight, pro-genocide, child abuse or child pornography, etc. While we recognize questions and conversation regarding these topics are essential for a STEM community, in general, doing so in bad faith will result in immediate expulsion.

All discussions between mods are public, as we believe that transparency is the best way to show everyone how we put words into practice.

Additional services:

QOTO Groups - https://groups.qoto.org, a server devoted to moderated groups on the Fediverse.
NextCloud - https://cloud.qoto.org
GitLab - https://git.qoto.org
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FunkWhale - https://audio.qoto.org
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Discourse - https://discourse.qoto.org
Matrix chat - https://element.qoto.org

Unique Features

Inline math Latex support - Use \ ( and \ ) for inline LaTeX, and \ [ and \ ] for display mode.
65,535 character limit for toots (usually 500)
65,535 character limit for profile bio (usually 160)
Full text searches - usually you can only search hashtags and usernames
Groups Support - Accounts which represent groups (such as those from Guppe) are now tagged with a group badge and are specially rendered so the messages relayed by a group appear to be originating from the user.
Dedicated Groups Server - The fediverses only moderated groups server open to the public.
Group Directory - Groups are federated in the group directory which, like the federated timeline, will list all groups followed by anyone on our server.
Markdown Posts - You now have the option to select markdown formatting when posting.
Circles - You can now create circles with followers in it. When you make a post you can select one or more circles to privately post to and only users of those circles can see your post.
Per-toot option allowing for local-only toots that wont federate with other servers
Local-only toot default - You can now optionally set all toots to be local-only and prevent all your posts from federating outside of the local server. Without this setting you can still select local-only on a per-toot basis.
Domain Subscriptions - Bring another instance's local timeline as a feed in Qoto, no need to have an account on another server again, just import their timeline here!
Favorite Domains - Our last release allowed us to add remote timeline as a feature where you could pull up the local timeline of a remote instance as its own column. Now you can also add domains to a favorite domain list which makes it easier to access and bring up the timelines by listing them directly in the navigation panel.
User Post Notification - Users now have a bell next to their name where the follow button is. This will send you a notification every time they makes a new post.
Keyword Subscriptions - Create custom timelines based off keywords not just hashtags, you can even use regex for advanced matching
Account Subscriptions - This allows you to follow a remote accounts public toots in your Home timeline without actually following them. NOTE: This will not circumvent a user's privacy settings. It only delivers the same notifications as following someone via existing RSS feeds would allow, that is, it brings the RSS feed of their public posts into your home timeline this features behaves the same as the default functionality on non-Mastodon instances such as Misskey, Friendica, and Pleroma.
Misskey compatible quoting of toots
Colored follow button - The follow button seen in the feed and in profiles (the one that can be optionally turned off in settings) will now be colored to indicate follower status. Gray if not followed, yellow if followed, blue if following, green if mutual follow
Bookmarking of toots
Support for WebP and HEIC media uploads
Optional instance ticker banners under usernames in the timelines that tell you what server a user is on and what software it is running (ie pleorma, mastodon, misskey, etc) at a glance.
Optionally display subscribe and follower buttons directly in your timeline feeds.
Remote Timeline Quickview - From any post or profile there is a link to bring up the remote timeline locally, right in QOTO without needing to open a new window.
Professionally hosted with nightly backups
light modern theme with full width columns (not fixed)
Several extra themes - including mastodon default and mastodon default with full width columns (not fixed)
Read/unread notifications - Unread notifications now have a subtle blue indicator. There is also a “mark all as red” button added.
Rich-text rendering - We now render rich-text from other servers, so servers which post in a formatting that includes things like bolding, quotes, headers, italics, underlines, etc, will render in the statuses.
Rich-text Stripping - The user option to partially or fully turn off the rendering of rich-text.
Registration Captcha - A captcha is now required to signup for a new account, reducing spam.

Garden Elements:
wind, sun, rain, microbes, fungi, plants, wood, insects, soil, stone, compost, birds, larva, worms, frogs, snakes and other small animals,

Processed / Man-made Elements:
straw bales, plastic canvas (tarp), plastic cups and water containers, water hoses (don't like / use little), compost containers.

Exchange in Latin = quid-pro-quo ...

█ quid-pro-quo █
Something for something; that which a party receives (or is promised) in return for something he does, gives or promises.

Other random

█ status quo █
The existing state of affairs.

█ qoto-noto-quoto █
The logical habit of writing qu instead of q in qoto.

Tetris Music !.... 🎵 ⌨️ Audio Gaming related 💻 👾

10 songs in 10mins [No big intro]

Dedicated to Alexey Pajitnov...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexey_Pajitnov

and Willis for breaking Tetris (aka: "Blue Scuti")
https://invidious.fdn.fr/@bluescuti1771

...and to You on The Fediverse ! (whoever you are, say a quick hi!)

🎤 Record something if you like to share about what you ❤️ and send to FreeSchool 💾

boost! 🚀 + + 🔔 for #Tetris #Music #mixes #audio #FreeSchool #Games #Podcast #Update #Audio #retro #RetroGaming

#Tetris #documentary + #film download links...

█1.█ Tetris - From Russia With Love [175mb] OR STREAM
https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=m4hGYJdE54E

SRT Subtitles = https://subsaga.com/bbc/documentaries/factual/2012/tetris-from-russia-with-love.srt

█2.█ Tetris [2023] Torrent with Multi-Subtitles = ALL LANGUAGES!
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#Tetris #Music #mixes #audio #FreeSchool #Games #Podcast #Audio #retro #RetroGaming

OTHER INFO (OPTIONAL / BONUS)

Tetris
release year
1984
developer
AcademySoft
publisher
Freeware
category
Logic
genre / theme
tile-matching, puzzle-solving, falling block puzzle
platform
Electronika 60 (1984), PC DOS (1986)

Tetris (Тетрис) is a tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov in the Soviet Union on an Elektronika 60 while working for the Soviet Academy of Sciences at their Computer Center in Moscow with Dmitry Pavlovsky, and Vadim Gerasimov ported it to the IBM PC.

Tetriminos are game pieces shaped like tetrominoes, geometric shapes composed of four square blocks each. A random sequence of Tetriminos fall down the playing field. The objective of the game is to manipulate Tetriminos, by moving each one sideways and rotating it by 90 degree units, with the aim of creating a horizontal line of ten blocks without gaps...

https://www.oldgames.sk/en/game/tetris/download/8910/

Tetris: From Russia With Love

= Business, Economics, News & Politics, Technology / 14 Comments

Tetris is probably one of the most famous computer-games that have ever been developed. Alexei Pajitnov creater this simple, yet addictive game in 1984 as a student at the famous Soviet Union’s Academy of Science. It initially worked only on the Soviet Elektronika 60 Computer and got very popular among staff members and students at the Academy of Science in Moscow. It’s worldwide popularity became Tetris, after Nintendo published it on their video-game console and the gameboy. This resulted in millions of dollars of royalties – but not for the developer himself, but the Russian government. Poor Alexei.

AND Wiki:
https://docuwiki.net/index.php?title=Tetris:_From_Russia_with_Love

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"I really like learning about other people's problems.
And problems they have solved..."

[ yeah me too! ]

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=fp4XibpIc5M&t=4m35s

If you can use the bored people online, you have unlocked a big treasure.... Time.