Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2018
Here's a trick for #volvo #windshieldwiper blades. Volvo, in its wisdom, decided to invent a new nonstandard attachment style, which means that cheap blades you get at retail can't be mounted. However, you can make it work in a pinch if you don't feel like paying fifty dollars for new high-end ones.
1. Buy some cheap truss-style wiper blades and remove the rubber piece from the metal frame holding it. It's easiest to pull it out starting at the barbed end. Discard the flexible metal strips embedded in the groove on each side.
2. If the groove doesn't go all the way to both ends, get a sharp knife and carefully extend it. Be sure not to cut all the way through!
3. Cut the rubber edge completely away from the metal beam on the original Volvo blades. The top lip is actually an extension of the rubber edge, so this will come away too, leaving a thin gap along the length of the beam.
4. Squeeze the beam in the middle to disengage the clips holding the plastic mount to the metal rails, and remove the plastic mount. With the mount removed, you can now move the rails independently to make the gap between them wider.
5. Thread the new rubber blade into the gap such that the metal rails fit into the grooves from which you removed the flexible strips earlier. Make sure the blade goes firmly all the way into each end cap, then work inwards to seat the rubber onto the metal.
6. Snap the mount back onto the metal rails. There is a small plastic stub which fits into a corresponding notch in each rail to make sure the mount is positioned correctly, and a clip at each corner to hold it on. Make sure all are engaged correctly.
@users 31 May: Kyle gets back after a weekend out of town and sees a bunch of new advertising accounts from the past few days.
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@valleyforge sightlines? Cranes support the load from above, so you can pretty safely assume there's no obstruction over the working end of the machine. But if you're lifting a load onto a high horizontal surface, or even holding in place a load above a horizontal surface, you'd see only its underside from below.
@kreyren
> Gripen or typhoons are significantly less combat-capable
by what metric? The Saab has a five-to four advantage in max speed, and about two-to-one in thrust-to-weight ratio and wing loading (= better manoeuvrability). The Lockheed has a fifty percent greater range and about eight percent more munition capacity by weight. Obviously range is really important if you want to defend an airspace as large as Canada's, but no point in Finland is more than about 300km from the Russian border, so it's well within both craft's ranges.
@kreyren might make more logistical sense to go with the Gripen or Typhoon if Sweden joins as expected. Canada recently did a competition with the Super Hornet, Rafale, Gripen, Typhoon, and Lightning II. Lockheed beat out Saab at the end, but the understanding is that it mainly came down to Canada needing close integration with the US. Finland probably places more weight on working with the Swedes and British, thanks to their recent security agreement, where Canada placed it on working with the Americans.
@valleyforge Mergesort is also an excellent example of recursion.
@101101000 Maybe. In general (if you want advice about whether any particular site's terms qualify as a contract, you should hire a contract lawyer) there needs to be consideration exchanged to have a contract rather than a promise of a gift. So ToSs usually take the form of a statement of conditions under which the operators of a website voluntarily give you a gift: access to the service. They'll stop providing the gift if you violate the terms, but even if you don't, it's still their choice to provide it or not. Even if the ToS were judged a contract, it's written with the company's benefit in mind, not yours. So it'll guarantee you little or nothing, and typically have a clause where the website operator can modify the ToS at will and with no notice. "You get what you pay for."
@101101000 The thing is that Twitter, as a corporation, is a legal person with its own free speech rights. When you see a tweet from Trump, what you're actually seeing is not Trump's speech but Twitter's - it's not Trump saying "covfefe"; it's Twitter saying "Trump said 'covfefe'". If Twitter stops publishing Trump's content, it's exercising its own free speech rights (specifically the right against being compelled to utter speech against its wishes), not impeding Trump's.
Mechanically, Trump could craft and send whatever HTTP payload is used to submit a tweet for publication, even if the website frontend no longer offers him an input. That's his free speech right. But he has no right to make Twitter do anything in particular with that content once it's received.
That's why I think that a serious free speech platform has to be pay-to-use. Once you enter a *contract* with someone to publish your tweets, you have contractual rights (still not free speech rights) to see him honour the deal. Sort of the reverse of a non-disclosure agreement - if you sign an NDA you can be sued for certain speech even though your free speech rights would ordinarily protect you in doing so; what we would want is the mirror image where the provider can be sued for failing to utter certain speech even though his free speech rights normally shield him from having to do so.
@davidrevoy If I understand correctly, your method restricts you to colours with 33% luminosity. If you want to do this with the full RGB colourspace, you might do red/green/blue/white as options. Then you say your origin is O=(0.5, 0.5, 0.5), and each colour corresponds to a vector pointing in the direction of the associated vertex of the [0, 1]³ cube representing the RGB colourspace: R=<0.5, -0.5, -0.5>; G=<-0.5, 0.5, -0.5>; B=<-0.5, -0.5, 0.5>; W=<0.5, 0.5, 0.5>. Multiply each vector by its percentage, add it to your origin, and your total can reach any point in the cube.
If everyone votes for the same colour, you get it at full saturation and brightness. You'll still get a grey if the RGB votes are evenly split, but its lightness can vary depending on the proportion of votes cast for white.
@yogthos@mastodon.social well that's what you hired for. Software interview questions of the form "write a program that does X"/"now change it to do Y"/"see? your program to do X was flawed because it wasn't extensible so you had to completely rewrite it to do Y" give preference to candidates who overengineer things from the beginning.
This has to do with the Content Security Policy interfering with self-hosted scripts. There are good reasons for doing this - in particular, some types of files users upload, like SVG images, can contain arbitrary JavaScript. I think the MathJax code just needs to be added to whatever whitelist exists for necessary scripts, but I'm not sure how to do that (and it's probably @freemo who has to make the change anyway).
I tested this by disabling CSP in my browser (Waterfox preferences security.csp.*) temporarily - but I do not recommend this as a permanent workaround for reasons outlined above.
@realcaseyrollins I'm not 100% sure how blocking rules work, but I think the tagged user will still see any replies, assuming he hasn't already blocked their authors too. If that's the case, then I gotta agree with @ckoppelman@mastodon.online - your followers are going to see your post and, if they reply, either inadvertently or deliberately dogpile the the user who's trying to disengage.
If replies to a blocked user inherit that status, despite having a tag in them, then obviously this objection collapses, but I don't think that's the case.
@Sphinx have a boost too :)
Klye
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The instances about mastodon has never been really keep connect to each other.
Because of each domain controller have their own opinion based on where they are, this could be because of their physical location or their mindset and vision.
Mastodon.social blocked pawoo.net( located in JP, the biggest mastodon instance) media function.
This is just one of examples,
If you ask me why this is happening? Because we are human being, it's OK have different opinions sometime.
The bright side is every boat is going to the same direction. We keep connected one way or another.
@s8n more precisely, we refuse to censor what content one can access from QOTO. Our own users are held to the rules on our about page, and violating the rules can get your content removed or your account silenced/suspended, so QOTO shouldn't originate any hateful content itself. It's analogous to Postel's Law: "be conservative in what you send, be liberal in what you accept".
For the most part this works really well - our content is acceptable to most instances, and our users are generally willing to behave reasonably. There are exceptions - as @oskay mentioned, some server admins can't stand that we even federate with instances that allow content they wouldn't want to see; on the other side, we have removed users who can't bring themselves to follow the rules. But you can't please everyone.
@Biggles so the mastodon default is 500. QOTO runs a modified version of the software with a limit of 65k. However, the app I think you're referring to is published by the official Mastodon team, which takes the position that Mastodon is for *micro*blogging and if you want to write longer posts you should not use Mastodon. They have at other times resisted making changes to the interface to accommodate longer posts, so it wouldn't surprise me if this were a deliberate ideological choice to maintain Mastodon's "purity" as a microblogging platform.
Most interfaces hide everything past the first 500 chars behind a "show more" link or button, as everyone's kind of come around to the idea that longform instances exist and you need to accommodate their toots in a way that doesn't break the interface, even if you don't permit them yourself.
@nadeera many mobile apps allow you to add multiple accounts, so you can maintain a presence on multiple servers. It's not quite "one account" but probably the closest you'll get.
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