iLikeAltitude @iLikeAltitude@qoto.org

#Tagging ... really important IMO

I'll use this toot as an anchor to collect thoughts about / ideas for / concepts of: #tagging

I've spent quite a some time thinking about what's a good way to tag posts over at *Diaspora.

The way I see things, the fediverse can be(come) a huge database of (useful/funny/informative/creative/...) content.

But in order to not get lost in an unstructured stream of toots .. and instead to be able to browse and make use of all that awesome content .. ideally, all users would add meaningful tags to their toots. #meaningfulTagging

What's other people's concept for getting the following two different things from the fediverse at the same time?

1. A 'personal' timeline .. with no more than a certain limit of say 10 toots/hour .. made up of toots from _carefully_ picked followed people.

2. An additional 'news' timeline .. with maybe even more than 60 toots/hour .. filled with toots from followed news media bots or other less carefully picked high frequency accounts.

I'd like to have both without using separate accounts.

Any ideas?

#multipleTimelines #mastodonHowTo #fediversehowto

Hey @thunderbird .. after the latest update you kindly asked for a donation to keep the project alive.

Well, I will indeed consider donating to #thunderbird .. I'll do so IF you STOP needlessly changing the UI every few versions.

The previous UI (~ v 102) was .. absolutely fine.

Now it is - yet again - noticeably slower. And the message list has too much contrast.

It's just frustrating .. to see great software that once was perfectly snappy on my old machine become slower with every update.

Thought:

#spaceElevator

The key aspect that will make the space elevator possible will be, I think:

The cable/tether will be made from a material which can be continuously repaired while in use by enzymatic processes.

Maybe it's #graphene or #cnt but it might also be some bio polymer like lignin or chitin.

I also think the structure of the cable will be made up of tubes and it'll be porous, so that it can be locally infused with a solution containing enzymes and other molecules for repair.

Fascinating blog post about the increasing challenges #electricgrid s and power plant operators are facing due to the dynamics introduced into the system by prioritizing #renewables generation.

https://bfrandall.substack.com/p/chaos

(I might mention that I am all for #renewableenergy .. but as someone with a bit more interest and education in science & technology than average I see challenges here that appear to be insufficiently addressed by current policies)

the author on twitter:
@mining_atoms

#electricalgrid #systemsengineering #systemsthinking #lifecycleassessment

Is anyone else annoyed by the Android keyboard frequently suggesting "DIW" when they wanted to write "die" (German article)?

I have literally had to correct this probably like 200 times. Including such a rarely used acronym in the dictionary almost feels like a dark pattern.

#DIW

Is there an easy way to exclude such acronyms from the dictionary?

@shiftphones

There appear to be efforts to make the #SHIFT6mq work with #postmarketOS (https://fosstodon.org/@calebccff/108245399359103437).

Are there any plans to support bringing pmOS also to the #SHIFT5me ? Could you maybe supply the pmOS-devs (@bart) with a 5me as well, so they can work on it?

This would be awesome, as I really like the #shifphones philosphy and the combination with pmOS would be perfect, but I can't afford a #SHIFT6mq .

@cryptpad ... :-| ... sorry for bothering you with this ... I just found the button to collapse the top bar ... issue resolved.

@cryptpad ... a question about the #cryptpad GUI: would it be possible to make the layout more compact and free up some height so there's more space for the content of a spreadsheet and less scrolling is needed?

Here's a screenshot where it looks like there's some mostly unused space (red) that could show document content instead. Would need some rearranging of GUI elements of course.

I'm already careful with trying use settings for my GUI that save as much screen height as possible but still only about half of my screen ends up showing document content.

Thanks anyway for the awesome platform.

#scuttlebutt

@manyver_se

When I installed and launched the android #manyverse app I looked at the getting started guide: https://scuttlebutt.nz/get-started/FAQ

It states:
"The first time you join the network there will be a lot to download and process. For real, this “inital syncing” process can take up to an hour and use a couple of gigabytes."

Is this true for #manyverse as well? Space on a smartphone isn't as plentiful as on a regular computer.

Maybe you could put an answer to that in your https://www.manyver.se/faq

Agreed. At the moment it uses huge amounts of energy.

But. There might be a not so small chance that that's going to change in the future.

The reward for blocks being mined gets halved every 4 years. Unless the price of bitcoin reliably doubles every 4 years as well, this reward will be worth less and less money in the real world.
So the incentive to spend huge amounts of energy could become smaller and smaller.
Which in turn would mean that less energy would be used in total to "mine" coins.
QT: https://social.justos.info/@chaosmonk/104948992903651954

Actually I put the wrong link to crowdsupply ... should've been these two here instead:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/sifive/hifive-unleashed
https://www.crowdsupply.com/microsemi/hifive-unleashed-expansion-board