K‮ly‬e @khird@qoto.org

@mur2501 Norway is mountainous. Mountainous countries tend to be better at snow sports like skiing, but flat countries are better at ice sports like hockey. Large countries with varied terrain are competitive at both.

@Zoohouse

You can add it to your "Getting Started" page by making it a "Favourite domain" at https://qoto.org/settings/favourite_domains or import it into your home timeline by making it a "Domain Subscribe" at https://qoto.org/settings/domain_subscribes - just a matter of your preference how you want to consume it.

@Zoohouse

You could see the one you mentioned at https://qoto.org/web/timelines/public/domain/linuxrocks.online for example.

@Zoohouse yes! I think you have to use the web interface, and set up a domain subscription.

Tip for anyone composing in #Frescobaldi:

If you want to use MIDI input but get errors about an "invalid running status" when you attach a physical MIDI instrument, your instrument or interface may be generating SysEx messages that Frescobaldi can't understand. To work around this, you can use an app like #VMPK - in VMPK's "Connections" menu, set the input to your MIDI hardware; and in Frescobaldi's "Preferences" dialogue, set the input to VMPK. This makes your instrument change the internal state of VMPK's keyboard, and VMPK then generates appropriate MIDI events reflecting those changes. Since it's tolerant of SysEx messages in its input but won't generate them in its output, this effectively filters the stream to make it safe for Frescobaldi to consume.

As a bonus, you can see the keys light up on the VMPK interface to reflect the notes currently sounding, which may be more intuitive than reading the #Lilypond source Frescobaldi generates. If you also set something like #FluidSynth as the output in the "Connections" menu, you'll be able to hear what you're playing, too.

@timorl Instances that block us often brag about it. If it's a Mastodon instance, check their /about/more page near the bottom. If Pleroma, it's sometimes on the /about page.

@freemo

Here's a much cheaper one with greens:

https://mechanicalkeyboards.com/shop/index.php?l=product_detail&p=4295​

@unnnmslymchlmps

You might be thinking of [natural units](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_units). If you based your system on G and c, where G is the gravitational constant and c is the speed of light, to convert time to distance, you multiply by c; to convert energy to distance, you multiply by (G/c^4).

It's more usual to do the reverse; that is, to express everything in terms of energy rather than distance. This is why particle physicists express almost everything in terms of the [electron volt](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronvolt), which is really a unit of energy.

@mur2501

Probably, but that doesn't stop it from being funny.

@tombies@social.tchncs.de @dv8

@bonifartius It baffles me that Signal is still going. I used it from 2014 (as TextSecure) to 2019 and the experience was one of constantly having to work around the developers' decisions that everyone should use the app according to a certain paradigm, which never seemed to line up with my habits.

They had this weird double view of who uses the app. On the one hand they imagined that everyone was using the app for top secret dissident activity - it had no functionality to export a plaintext backup, only encrypted; it nagged you every time you saved an image because other apps could now read it; it blanked the screen when shown in the overview, and so on. But in other areas they slavishly followed the latest UX "best practices" - it enforced everyone using Apple emoji for uniformity; it kept up with trends involving "sticker packs"; it had a mercifully short-lived phase in which *your* messages changed colour on a per-conversation basis, but your interlocutor's were always grey.

Eventually a bug overwrote the encryption keys, causing me to lose all my messages and rendering my backups useless. I do miss some features of the app (it unified my SMS and encrypted messages in a single view nicely) but I'm so glad to be free of that ecosystem.

@QOTO

Just to note:

I did in fact see Michelle's post within two hours of it appearing, and suspended the account the next day after securing moderator consensus. I don't know if the other mods were blocked and I (the junior mod here at QOTO) escaped notice, or if I was simply the first to look at it. QOTO mods see [this discussion](https://qoto.org/web/statuses/105359847175216540) for details. The other account referenced in that convo was [@p0l6rb36r](https://qoto.org/admin/accounts/256176).

I think I also saw and ignored Nikon's post since I recognised the clip as a fairly common meme that doesn't really indicate support for Naziism. The problem is, even if a mod isn't blocked, how many want to watch yet another stupid resubtitled Downfall video? So videos where the thumbnail looks innocuous won't get any scrutiny (and in fact, that's what happened here - not a single person bothered to watch the video and report it). But when taking screenshots to report, dishonest actors can pick more offensive frames.

I recommend rolling back the IP blocks. Both michelle and nikon used the site via Tor and I don't think cutting off Tor users in general is a good idea. On the other hand, if you do want to block Tor, only blocking those two addresses is ineffective. The email blocks (both 10minutemail domains) look good though.

TL;DR: Blocking mods doesn't really seem to have been the problem in this case.

@Gargron @arteteco @Sphinx @freemo

@freemo

I don't know it's a misunderstanding as much as just a carelessness or lack of rigour with the vector math (mixing observers without accounting for time dilation when adding velocities leads to errors at relativistic speeds). The sum of the velocity of B as observed from A and the velocity of C as observed from B is not necessarily the velocity of C as observed from A.

@Science

@freemo

> All that matters is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light relative to me the observer.

More generally, since this is true for all observers:

> All that matters is that nothing can go faster than the speed of light relative to *any* observer.

Which is exactly what is meant by saying the speed of light is a "universal speed limit".

@Science

@awethon It's technically incorrect, but common in casual speech. "Used to do so" is the more formal or proper equivalent, which contains the full infinitive.

@awethon It's correct, but maybe a bit awkward having so many forms of "use" in one sentence. Some possible changes for a more natural sound:
"I have not" -> "I haven't" (US) or "I've not" (UK)
"used to use it" -> "used to" (casual) or "used to do so" (formal)

@lucifargundam You generally can't do that in the USA; federal law prohibits putting anything in a mailbox unless you pay postage. However, the restriction does not apply to mail *slots* that feed directly into the building.

@blinkwarp use the googlebot user agent instead.

https://qoto.org/@khird/105397853408353279