Klye @khird@qoto.org
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Joined Sep 2018
@realcaseyrollins Yup. Hornbostel-Sachs 314, and all classifications with a leading three are stringed.
xkcd ran something similar recently.
@bctnry@mastodon.social you've never heard of the term Baha'iphobia, or you've never heard of them being persecuted? I think you're right on the former count (I've never heard it called that either), but not on the latter (it certainly happens).
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Bah%C3%A1%27%C3%ADs
@freemo Sure but there's a wide gulf between "we can take on the US government with these weapons" and "we can raid villages and hide until the Americans get bored and go home". In particular, the militia types who think they constitute any sort of an effective check on the government can't feasibly pursue the latter strategy, because the military's already operating on its home turf. If you transplant the Taliban from the mountains of Kandahar to those of Colorado, there's no way they aren't completely overrun just as fast as they took power this week.
I think the militia might have a role to play in a hypothetical civil war scenario, if the army splits so nearly down the middle that they can tip the balance one way or the other, but then they're fighting alongside F-15s and nukes anyway.
@freemo Were the Americans strongarmed into signing the agreement though? My understanding was they wanted out because an isolationist administration was in power, and they just wanted the Taliban to stop doing terrorism long enough that the army could leave without being accused of abandoning the civilians to the terrorists. @swiley
@AlexLevesque Advertising is one of the few things that results in a banning here. I try to catch QOTO accounts when they spam, but unfortunately we can't do anything about accounts on other instances. If you come across advertising from a QOTO user, please help out the mods by filing a report.
@freemo @swiley Well it was his peace talks that set up the problem, right?
> Washington under then-president Donald Trump signed a deal with the Taliban in February 2020 that limited direct military action against the insurgents. That allowed the fighters to gather strength and move quickly to seize key areas when President Joe Biden announced his plans to withdraw all American forces by the end of this month.[[1]](https://cbc.ca/1.6141568)
> If the Taliban meet their commitments, all U.S. troops would leave in 14 months [from February 2020]. U.S. troops are to be withdrawn to 8,600 from about 13,000 in the weeks following Saturday's signing.[[2]](https://cbc.ca/1.5481070)
If the government agrees not to engage in direct action against you and to withdraw its military, you no longer need to take it on at all, with or without F-15s or nukes.
The Democrats criticised Trump for reneging on the nuclear deal with Iran that Obama entered into, so now that Biden was faced with a deal with the Taliban that Trump entered into, they had backed themselves into a corner politically. Had they not made such a big deal that Trump was setting a *bad* precedent, Biden could have followed the precedent without coming off as overtly hypocritical.
I think the broader point, that a force comprising solely small arms is almost certainly incapable of defeating the US military, still stands. If the Taliban had retaken the country while the US forces were still actively trying to hold it, you'd have a much better counterexample.
.py is the file extension for Python scripts, not the TLD of a URL. :)
Here's the [software](https://github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py) and here's the [documentation](https://mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/stable/).
Look into mastodon.py - it doesn't provide exactly what you're asking for, but it exposes the tools you'd need to script a solution yourself.
Yeah until they come out with a traditional laptop rather than a sub-ultrabook thing, this falls in the category of "interesting, but not for me". I moved up from 15.6" to 17.3" eight or nine years ago and I was so much happier for it. 13.5" isn't even in the conversation.
Right now I work on a laptop that has dual 2.5" hard drives, an optical drive, and a dedicated numpad. It cost less than the cheapest kit these guys sell sans memory, storage, and wifi.
@freemo
1. Text in the search bar should probably be left-aligned, not centred
2. Search results are empty even if I search for text I see in your posts
3. Possessive "its" shouldn't carry an apostrophe
4. The icons under "News and Events" confuse me - I can understand why the article might be represented with a scroll, but not why the roadmap gets a church or the other article gets a parcel
5. Using GitHub's logo for GitLab links is probably frowned upon by the IP holders
6. Dunno what the icon resembling a pair of pillows is meant to signify
7. None of the links in this section are News and Events anyway
8. "comming soon" -> "coming soon"
9. "12th st." -> "12th St."
10. A direct link to the Matrix channel might be nice if possible
@DavidBond My suggestion is to check out the #followfriday tag - unless you have more specific things you're looking for, it's hard to make a useful recommendation.
@worldsendless Not that I'm aware of - in the general case, a person's alts are not all guaranteed to be on the same server, so you'd need to switch webpages anyway.
There are some standalone web clients not affiliated with any particular instance, but I don't have enough experience to say if they'd work with your requirements. If you're interested, you might look into Halcyon and Pinafore, which are the two I can recall. Please do let me know what you discover, or if you come across any others! Might come in handy in future; you never know.
@worldsendless Most phone clients support multiple accounts. On Tusky and its derivatives, it's a two-step process:
1. swipe from the left to open the navigation panel
2. tap the profile picture of your other account
Statuses also have a menu option to "open with" your other account. This saves you the trouble of navigating to it after switching.
@freemo Yep I'm going to bring it to their attention this week. It's still in development so probably just something they don't yet have a test case for.
@freemo Thanks, I'll try to remember that.
@freemo Ahh okay I see. It's a problem with Syphon.
When I signed up, I used matrix.qoto.org. But then it gave my fully qualified username as khird:qoto.org. Syphon (probably incorrectly) proceeded to send future requests to qoto.org instead. I logged out and back in as khird:matrix.qoto.org and it seems to be working.
@freemo I can't get the markdown to work. There's supposed to be a line break after the close paren and the close angle bracket
FormatException: Unexpected character (at character 1)
<!DOCTYPE html>
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@freemo I don't quite know why, but the matrix server isn't working with the Syphon client - going by the errors, I'd guess the server is sending HTML content somewhere that Syphon doesn't expect it.
Seems to be working once I switched to Element though
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