Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2018
@QOTO First, it's commendable that you are soliciting suggestions - and nothing I say here is any more than a suggestion. Rest CW'd for length (1328 chars hidden)
I'd condition the larger allocations you're contemplating on the user demonstrating utility, in something like a grant process. Someone who wants extra space says "I want to do X [project], for which I'm requesting Y [amount of space]." Then it's up to you, as the holder of the purse strings, whether to allocate your space in that way. You can be more or less selective as warranted by how much space is requested, how many requests you're getting, and how much space you're willing to endow the service with. If the amount of space requested is excessive, you doubt the applicant's claim as to his intended use of the space, or you simply think it's not a beneficial thing to subsidise, then he will have to look elsewhere.
The user isn't entitled to extra resources by virtue of having a high post count or any other marker of "status". It's your personal gift, and publicly imposing on yourself a set of rules about how you give that gift would encourage people to game those rules, that they might benefit thereby. To the extent that people would otherwise put your gifts to higher use by not participating in this gaming, such rules are probably counterproductive. Following them consistently would make your decisions more transparent, but I doubt they'd prove an effective replacement for simple good judgement.
@QOTO "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure." If you tie certain benefits to post count, for example, it creates an incentive for people to toot every half-baked thought that occurs to them in order to inflate their post count. I voted no because I think it is better for community health not to have that sort of thing happen, but to just cap uniformly instead.
@QOTO Keep in mind the inherent sampling bias when you rely on user engagement (responses to this poll) to evaluate attitudes toward engagement as a criterion for benefits.
@freemo I used the DuckDuckGo browser for Android, version 5.32.1, which is the latest available from F-Droid. LaTeX rendering doesn't work at all in standalone client Tusky, but I doubt there's much you can do about that. As far as I'm aware, there are no zoom settings for the browser so by default it's at 100%.
@freemo The horizontal bar on your radical sign seems to have a white border which obscures other symbols near it.
@mikelga No, aeronautics R&D. Both of your pictures were of aircraft, so I knew what to look for.
@mikelga That one's a Sikorsky VH-60N White Hawk operated by the USMC's Marine Helicopter Squadron One.
@mikelga It's a Boeing C-17A Globemaster III operated by the 21st Airlift Squadron of the USAF's 60th Air Mobility Wing.
@sashahamilton Are you sure about the units? 12 mi/gal ≈ 17 km/gal, but 12 gal/mi ≉ 17 gal/km
@morre Do you mean "retcon"? From "retroactive continuity"
@freemo Nice. Not that I'll block either - I'm just in favour of techniques like this that give users more control over what content they want to see. Played a big role in me choosing this instance in the first place.
@denikombucha@playvicious.social In French, the exceptions follow the "BANGS rule": adjectives describing [B]eauty, [A]ge, [N]umber, [G]oodness, or [S]ize precede the noun, while all others follow it. I speak hardly any Spanish but I'd guess that the rules are pretty similar given how closely related these two Romance languages are.
@MutoShack@functional.cafe It's not what I'd expect naïvely, but thinking about it, skipping blank lines is probably more useful. Bring able to pipe a command's output to another's input was pretty important in old-style Unix. Since many programs treat empty lines specially, the default setting is good if you want downstream programs to act correctly.
@TheGnuMaster opposition to the Extradition Law Amendment Bill, which would expand the circumstances under which a person in Hong Kong can be sent to the mainland for trial
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@mancavgeek As an Admin of #QOTO I'd like to speak on the record here.
As we make clear in out ToS we dont block other instances but we DO censor. We believe in free speech in the sense that you wont get blocked for simply holding an unpopular opinion. But anyone who attacks others, insults them, or acts aggressive towards others are, and have been banned. We do NOT tolerate racism.
As others have pointed out, none of our users are hateful or racist. On the few cases that happened it resulted in a ban.
I generally suggest people ban instances based on what they do or do not tolerate from their users, rather than some ideological response to some key words in a description.
If anyone in this thread actually knows of an example of any user on QOTO not living up to what I described please let me know, we will take care of them.
@peterdrake I guess that would be appropriate eyewear for a dog who's *searching* for something?
@bsoluco You post on your own instance. Your posts show up in the federated timeline for people on other instances.
@hasmis glacially so?
@TheOges@mastodon.social I think that lil guy could be the Ticats' updated logo
@MOTT
Hm I haven't used GNOME since v3 came out basically unusable. But searching around I see this is used to zoom partway back out after setting the scaling to 200%:
xrandr --output eDP1 --scale 1.25x1.25
