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@freemo right, 538 weight pollsters by quality & adjust for house effects. They do a much more methodologically-sound job than just blindly "importing every poll known to man."

Trump briefly cleared his predecessor's rating once, but he's 4-7 points back now. So, given that you made the claim today, I wondered if you're maybe looking at a single pollster - Rasmussen, for example - with a big Republican house effect.

Edit: I see you mean Gallup. Still gonna go with the aggregate myself, to increase effective sample size, but I appreciate you providing the extra detail.

@freemo this isn't the first time you've claimed Trump has a higher approval rating than Obama did. I wonder if you are looking at a certain pollster who makes this claim, because the aggregate/average doesn't really support it:

projects.fivethirtyeight.com/t

@freemo

I'm unclear on the animation aspect - do you need a cartoonist to provide animated images, or one to provide static images which you will move around via JS?

Any further info you can provide about how many images, how quickly they have to be produced, etc. would help me see if it's something I could reasonably expect to succeed at.

@snow Yes, the report contains the identity of the user who filed it.

@greylaw89 Signal used to use that. As I recall it was, even then, disabled in Iran because Google had a particular interpretation of the export control laws that considered it a sensitive encryption scheme.

@realcaseyrollins what is "spiritual warfare" in a non-charismatic context? I believe that's the only context in which I've heard the phrase.

@crackurbones

Some animals can see polarisation of light, but I don't think phase is a meaningful property in this context. If I just draw a sine wave on a piece of grid paper, its phase is undefined until I add axes showing where the y=0 crossing is in relation to the x=0 crossing.

Further, we very rarely see pure monochromatic light; we are mostly exposed to unsaturated tones composed of anywhere from several to infinitely many frequencies at varying intensities. We can't even tell what frequencies a white light comprises without special instruments (this is why we can substitute LED or CFL lighting for incandescent, despite having a very different spectra).

@freemo what are these percentages of? Number of licences written, projects using each, sloc governed by each…?

@mngrif that takes me back. In fact, that might've been the first open-source software I put onto a device. And now Linux has been my daily driver for a decade, I've had Cyanogen/Lineage on my phone for the past five years, OpenWRT on my router for about the same... but it all started with RockBox on a little Sansa.

It's a gateway drug, parents.

@lnxist yes - but using those terms makes you sound inexperienced, like someone who reads ¼” as "one fourth of an inch" rather than "a quarter inch". It's not wrong, but a bit awkward and falls oddly on the ear. KiB &c may be used in writing, however.

More commonly the SI prefixes are used for both and if the distinction becomes important (& context is insufficient) one clarifies "decimal kilobyte" or "binary kilobyte", and we just agree to ignore the purists who complain about the sanctity of the Greek roots.

@whirli get 0.18.2 from github - they fixed the problem but it's taking fdroid a while to publish it.

github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe

@freemo Could this be achieved by a bot from within Mastodon? I'm thinking something like ChanServ on IRC networks, crossed with mailing-list forwarding.

You'd send, for instance:
(a)groups CREATE Moderators

(a)groups ADD Moderators (a)arteteco (a)design_RG (a)mngrif (a)surasanji

Each step can give you a confirmation that the group name wasn't in use, that the bot could find the named user to add, that you had the right permissions, etc.

Now you send:
(a)groups TO Moderators Hi, fellow mods!

The bot messages all group members, copying the privacy settings of your TO toot:
(a)arteteco (a)design_RG (a)mngrif (a)surasanji
(a)freemo said to Moderators,
Hi, fellow mods!

Later on you could send:
(a)groups REMOVE Moderators (a)surasanji
if you don't want that user to be part of the group anymore.

The bot might also implement commands like MUTE/UNMUTE
to restrict certain members from using TO,
PRIVILEGE/UNPRIVILEGE
to invest other members with op status,
OPEN/CLOSE
to enable self-service enrolment,
LEAVE/JOIN
to use self-service enrolment in an open group.

I've used (a) to avoid tagging and annoying my example users; it's meant to represent @ though.

@design_RG So is there a functional difference between favourites and bookmarks (beyond the latter not working on vanilla instances/clients) or just a different icon? I've been using favourites in that role since I joined, and it's unclear why I'd want to use bookmarks instead.

@QOTO when did the second O change from "others" to "ourselves"?

@freemo @design_RG @realcaseyrollins Yeah I haven't used the web interface much since Tusky got full-length toots. It doesn't look great here - much like those twitter crossposts littered with "RT" on the federated timeline.

@Pezhman

ما هم خوشحالیم که با ما عضو شدید
(ببخشید، فارسی هنوز یاد می‌کیرم)

@freemo @design_RG

Could local users still see federate-only toots by going to the federated timeline? If so, it would be really nice to apply such a setting to the arxiv bots. That both keeps the local timeline tidy and makes it pretty easy to find the bots for anyone who wants to subscribe.

@celestialchik

Interesting how it's dominated by politics in the West and Northeast (urban-rural divide especially), but by sports elsewhere (South Carolina hates Ohio? Clemson vs OSU).

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