Klye @khird@qoto.org
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@sunflowerinrain this sounds more like an error in how long a horse can gallop than geography. You can easily look up the speed of a gallop and the distance, and conclude that even at a fairly conservative estimate of twenty miles an hour, a two-hundred-mile journey would be a long day of riding, but a doable one.
See also Gandalf leaving Edoras for Minas Tirith (350mi away) at a gallop, and exhorting Shadowfax to "show us the meaning of haste!"
@mitch I think that's in a third-party repo. F-droid isn't responsible for their content.
@astrojuanlu that's fair. It certainly has historical relevance - its ideas would shape the transition from Subversion-style version control systems to Git-style DVCSes - more so than describing a current distinction. I mentioned it mostly because the more recent works I'm familiar with (e.g. "A Generation Lost in the Bazaar") are attempts to refine or refute Raymond's ideas, so CATB is sort of "required reading" if you want to understand them.
It’s a little dated at this point, but “The Cathedral and the Bazaar” is probably the most notable work to tackle the subject in depth.
@freemo also my phone died last month, which locked me out of QOTO for a bit. I've recovered enough to come back, and I'll be able to run my scripts now to identify the potential spammers as we talked about. Should have them by the end of the week.
@freemo Sort of. From 1998 to 2005, Nevada sold "allodial title" if you prepaid your life expectancy's worth of taxes up front. It wasn't complete sovereignty, but it meant it wasn't subject to a substantial chunk of state property law (property tax, liens, etc.).
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@elpalabrista mira el Templo Baha’i de Santiago. También tomé una foto del interior a escondidas. Impresionante.
@freemo en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_pitch_standards_in_Western_music
@mitch if you have the original in a format that lilypond can import, you can define your own StringTuning and output dulcimer tabs. Might need to transpose it up as I assume the dulcimer can't hit all the notes on the guitar fretboard, and maybe invert or thin out some chords to get them to one note per string, so not entirely an automated process but reasonably doable.
See e.g. the third example at https://lilypond.org/doc/v2.25/Documentation/notation/custom-tablatures
@freemo okay, thanks! I'll start building a list today and hopefully have it ready the weekend (I use the Mastodon API, so rate limits constrain how fast I can populate the list).
I don't remember Michael by that name - to my recollection, it's been you, arteteco, rgx, me, trinsec, and barefootstache. Maybe he was before I got involved or I didn't know the real name behind one of the above handles. In any case, I'm very thankful for the help.
@freemo I still have my scripts. The real time commitment is manually verifying each "hit" based on my heuristics - I don't just ban people because the script thought they looked suspicious; there can be legitimate reasons to have an account that shares some features typically associated with spammers.
Anyway, I took some time off to see family about a year ago and by the time I came back the backlog was more than I could manage (at the end of 2022, Musk had started making unpopular changes at Twitter and daily influx was really high here). If I sent you a list of ~1k potential spam accounts later this week or early next, would you have the bandwidth to vet it? I think I can handle new accounts at the rate they're created, just not get through the backlog on my own.
@Infrapink sure! But the nineteen-day months are coprime to the seven-day weeks, so there's no synchronisation that gets disrupted. There's nothing like Easter where it always falls on a Sunday - it's almost always "N days after the equinox" with a couple exceptions that are "N days before the equinox" or "N days after the eighth new moon", whatever day of the week or weekend it turns out to be.
@Infrapink happy New Year to you too!
Off the top of my head, I can't think of any complaint a Baha'i would have with the days of the week changing. Baha'i dates are computed relative to the spring equinox and the eighth new moon following it. The seven-day week does exist, but it doesn't affect the placement of any holy days.
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@mitch he definitely hit the nostalgia buttons there. Makes me sad for the old Flash content that never made it to modern formats, kinda like a childhood VHS you'll never view again. At some point you watched it, put it back in its cardboard sleeve, and that was the last time, only you didn't know it then.
A Full Page of Non-Stop Lies
Staring Contest
and many more
@mitch it has one-time passwords as a second factor. What do you mean by passkeys, key-based authentication like you get in SSH? I'd like that.
@Colarusso at ten and eleven, my favourite books were Garth Nix's Abhorsen trilogy. I can't think of a reason not to recommend them.
I have an unopened soft drink can sitting in a fairly cold part of my home, and at night it's now cold enough to reduce the pressure of the carbon dioxide inside the can to almost exactly atmospheric pressure. Each time the heat cycled on or off, it caused a metallic ping as the slightly domed lid inverted to equalize the pressure.
Wasn't until this morning that I figured out where that noise was coming from.
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