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@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.

https://github.com/TeamNewPipe/NewPipe/releases/tag/v0.18.2

@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.

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@Pezhman

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@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.

@mngrif yep we had a bunch of 3TB drives (they were the flood-affected Seagates not WDs, I was wrong above). So we bought some pcie cards that gave enough sata ports, and got a giant desktop tower case that could hold it all. Not much to it.

If your disks are different sizes it's more complicated. Each vdev limits to the smallest disk size (wasting 3/4 of your 2tb disks). So you probably want 2 vdevs in a pool, disks allocated by size. Downside is you spend 2 parity disks per vdev not per pool.

@mngrif

I used to run a 30tb data store in zfs at the lab. I chose the doubly-redundant setting RAIDZ2, used commodity disks, and scanned for failures a couple times a week. If all the disks were good, I took a snapshot. If one had failed (which did happen as we got bit by the WD flood victim drives) I did the switcheroo & rebuild first.

The system ran debian off a separate SSD and didn't use the zfs system for swap or anything except data storage. Served it on the network as a samba share.

@Tulikaa when you compose the toot, there's an icon of an eye, possibly with a slash though it. Make sure it isn't selected.

@realcaseyrollins

Tor switches circuits every ten minutes, which is going to cause you to reconnect with a new IP address (or if you keep it active on the old connection, you lose the benefits of a constantly changing route).

@freemo

I think the uniaxial distribution in the US has led to a shift in terminology. Imagine the candidates' positions were rotated 45 degrees or so to lie mostly horizontally. Now their relative positions probably line up better with common use of the terms "left" and "right".

A true pure libertarian (ACLU?), is now left- libertarian.
The Libertarian Party, shown pure right, is now right-libertarian (& the overall most libertarian).
The Green Party, shown left-libertarian, is now pure left.