K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@peterdrake I saw that. It wasn't clear to me in what way Mastodon requires a central server that IRC doesn't. They both need servers - neither is a peer-to-peer protocol - but both work with a federation of coequal servers AIUI.

@groundie there's a particular external dependency that's broken, related to the website tickers. If you block miy.pw in your adblocker, you should see things back to normal.

@freemo were you the original author? It reads like your writing style but I wouldn't be shocked if you'd adapted an existing document.

@alex

@Liberonscien It'd make things that occur at regular intervals X times a year more annoying, since only two and five come out to a whole number of months anymore. Twelve is highly composite so we have a lot more options.

What would really make things easier is for the sun, moon, and planet to be orbitally resonant, so you can use integer math to line your months and years up; and the moon and planet being tidally resonant so dividing things into days can also be handled with integer math. For example if you had a lunar month of exactly 32 days and a solar year of exactly 384 days, your society can invent nice eight-day weeks and everything lines up beautifully.

On the other hand, the complexity of aligning months and years to calculate the date of Easter was a major motivation for the study and development of math and astronomy, so maybe you don't want to make life *too* easy on your world's inhabitants.

@jengommerman I don't have a Twitter and haven't used any myself. The one I most often see discussed is Moa Party.

@realcaseyrollins I always thought it was meant to be a phobia in the sense of repulsion, not fear. Like how engineers apply hydrophobic or oleophobic coatings to surfaces to repel water or oil respectively.

@realcaseyrollins the Vanier Cup (national championship) in two weeks will be broadcast on CBC, which is free. Sometimes you need a Canadian VPN to access their streaming service, but I don't think there's an American rights holder for this event so my guess is that CBC won't geofence it.

@realcaseyrollins good on you for the integrity! There's a paid service but I don't know that I'd recommend that at this point - maybe if you liked it and wanted to subscribe for a season or something.

@realcaseyrollins It's Canadian football (three downs, wider field, *much* better punting rules). The main carrier is TVA but you can usually find a bootleg stream if you poke around

@jengommerman you can of course run a crossposter for your account only, but I don't think the main QOTO timeline will ever be accessible wholesale from Twitter.

@realcaseyrollins Dunno if this would appeal but the USports playoffs are ongoing. This week (Loney Bowl, Yates Cup, Dunsmore Cup, Hardy Cup) is wrapping up by now but there's still a quarter to go with Laval over Montreal 17-14, so that might still be interesting. Next Saturday are the Uteck and Mitchell Bowls, Vanier Cup the week following.

@shadowsonawall You can do that, but Pixelfed is generally more tailored to this kind of use case. It's still on the Fediverse, so Mastodon users can boost and like your images.

@tetrislife they're normally 20 bytes, per below source. So 40 characters [20 bytes * (2 characters / 1 byte)] in the normal hexadecimal encoding. If you encode them in Base32 you need only 32 characters [20 bytes * (8 characters / 5 bytes)] and it's an alphanumeric case-insensitive encoding. Still not short, but at least an improvement.

https://crypto.stackexchange.com/questions/32087/how-to-generate-fingerprint-for-pgp-public-key

@markpaine