Klye @khird@qoto.org
Mod
Joined Sep 2018
@lapingvino Hi! I saw in your bio:
> I try to remember to tag my post languages appropriately
Could you please let me know how you do this? I see how to set a default language in the settings, but a user asked how to change it on a per-post basis and I didn't know the answer. Thanks!
@realcaseyrollins I think the championship next week will be on CBC, which is often free to stream in the US if there's not a separate American rights holder whose territory they have to respect. But for regular season games, streaming subscriptions based on conference seem to be the way it's done.
@realcaseyrollins yeah, rough equivalents:
CFL = NFL
USports = NCAA
RSEQ = SEC
That video is from the RSEQ championship - tomorrow the winners, Laval, are playing another conference's champions in the Mitchell Bowl, which serves as a semifinal for the USports championship in the same way the Fiesta and Peach Bowls do for the NCAA championship.
They play university football according to Canadian rules which vary slightly from the CFL's, the same way that NCAA and NFL rules both play by American rules but differ in certain details.
@realcaseyrollins for a taste, here's highlights of the Dunsmore Cup (Quebec conference championship) with English commentary.
By way of explanation, in Canada the goalposts are at the front of the endzone, like pre-1960s American placement. What would be a touchback on a missed field goal, punt, or kickoff* in US ball is a 'rouge' in Canadian football, worth a single point to the kicking team. Usually they're accidentally scored when the kicking team overshoots while trying to pin the opposition deep.
* On a kickoff, a rouge can't be scored if the ball goes out of bounds without being touched.
@RL_Dane I did not. I might check it out sometime, but I don't enjoy nonfiction A/V media nearly as much as I enjoy reading.
@obi @apinae @Chl0e_Girard Yuito shows quote toots, but doesn't implement all QOTO's other features
@RL_Dane that looks interesting; I might give it a read. I liked Where Wizards Stay Up Late and The Cuckoo's Egg, so it seems like a reasonably good fit.
@Absinthe hey! Long time no see. Welcome back :)
@freemo @gooseus not a clue. We've had a few other mods over the years, but I can't think of anyone who that could be. Best guess is Sphinx used to post in Chinese, and someone ran it through an online translator and came up with something like that? Having had to translate Chinese posts when resolving reports I can attest Google doesn't do a great job on it.
@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.
@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
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