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We've now reached the point in the country where the BBC News is suggesting £1 meals on its home page 😩
@olearycrew not noticed it on my instance but then I do see it on Basecamp and that costs enough money, so it's not always the freeness that precludes CDNs 😄
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
boosted
Few things to clarify common #Mastodon misconceptions.
Yes, you can:
- discover & follow accounts across servers
- switch between local or federated news timelines
- easily block users, even de-federate entire server
Try it for yourself, it’s easy, in mobile app or Web UI:
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RT @mchmarny
For those who find #mastodon server selection during sign up too complex:
- go to https://joinmastodon.org/servers
- select topic of interest
- click '…
https://twitter.com/mchmarny/status/1588492803021344768
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
boosted
#feditip: add .rss to the end of most pages you see on a Mastodon server to get an RSS feed for your RSS reader.
Level 2: go about your day without internet, then in the evening settle down at your Computer Desk with a nice cup of tea to RSS-digest the day's shitposts.
Level 3: Aggregates your RSS feeds into epub format. Load the output onto your 2000's e-ink e-reader via USB cable. Sit in an overstuffed armchair with a nearby lamp, say aloud "Ah, yes, today's internet" and sip your port.
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
boosted
Hello, world.
I'm dipping my toe into the federated waters, so I might as well do an #introduction.
I'm a data engineer primarily dealing with #Spark in #Scala. When I'm not extolling the virtues of functional programming at work, I'm probably watching birds, playing board games, or scorekeeping at a baseball game.
I'm not much of a poster, but hey, maybe someday I'll start clogging your timeline up with some of my (currently bad) bird photography!
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
boosted
Here is my #introduction
I'm a computer programmer by trade. Sold my first programme in 1982 at age 14 (the text adventure Magic Mirror, http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/tech/advent/mm/ ). I work mostly in software for libraries, especially using standards and open APIs.
I'm also a palaeontologist, specialising in the gigantic sauropod dinosaurs. I've named a few dinosaurs including Xenoposeidon. Publications at http://www.miketaylor.org.uk/dino/pubs/ — blog at https://svpow.com
I'm also a musician (folks clubs etc.)
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
boosted
Hi, Jorge here. My #Introduction
I am originally from Spain, but I have been living for nearly 20 years in the #UK, lately in #Sussex.
I work with satellite images, producing geological maps and cross-sections. I work in mineral and oil&gas exploration.
My interests are #cycling, #photography, #synth music/instruments and current affairs.
I write in #English and #Spanish.
#geology #EarthScience
#remotesensing #earthobservation
#space
#synthesizer
Tom Barber Mars Data Engineer
boosted
📣 For fellow Mastodon rookies - I understand that ‘favouriting’ things doesn’t amplify them to your followers in the way that ‘liking’ would have on Twitter
So if you want to share something, you need to ‘boost’ it
Trying to get my head round a different threshold for sharing things on here!
@robyn@tech.lgbt Did you paste the copy and paste bit into the search box on your logged in page? Its not entirely clear as I found out today.
@emiliano I did have access to the data, it's on a who needs access basis. I did have fun though working through loads of spec pdf docs to work out how the encoded telemetry is decoded into something meaningful and also how to convert C based bitwise operations into Golang versions which was all new to me.
The fun difference is, these days, you wouldn't be able to do this project because of all the 3rd party dependencies build chains rely on, back in the 80s that wasn't a concern 😄
@emiliano There's plenty of uninteresting stuff, but its what you make of it I think, treat it as a learning exercise. The most boring are generally where I get frustrated being foreign and I'm tasked with working on something where I'm hobbled by the fact I'm not cleared to see all the data or whatever.
Most interesting was a few years ago where I ported some of the old Voyager spacecraft ground data systems from Sun OS to "modern" Go systems in AWS.
@engelbart I work all the hours! 😩
Its tongue in cheek really, I very much enjoy it but it can be quite intense.
I haven't done an #introduction so I guess I should introduce myself.
My name is Tom, I'm a #Data and #Cloud platform engineer at #NASA JPL and I've been slaving away there for the past 6 1/2 years.
I also enjoy educating, open science/data and #opensource software in my spare time.
I'm also #autistic to add to the entertainment.
The Mrs woke up at 9:45AM and went back to bed at 2PM....
Oh no, definitely not jetlagged
@dylanparry I fully subscribe to that notion 🙌
@dylanparry In some ways its the same in others its not. Make sure you use hashtags as search is different. To find users just stick their full handle in the search box. Because of the federated nature you can find things across all servers, but some servers run different or custom versions of mastodon so features will vary depending on where you reside. #introduction
