mc ☕ @mc@qoto.org

Too much 'me me me' talk here, now. This instance looks more and more like the early twitter.

#notpopular #oppinion (but who cares?)

@FreeCAD
As soon as I realized that there was a new full version of your program I ran to test it very excited. I've been wanting a program like SketchUp for Linux for years. In my ingenuity I thought Google would do it when they bought @LastSoftware. And this time - I'm sorry having to say - I was also disappointed. FreeCAD will certainly be a good program - and I can say that because I have worked with AutoCAD (and other similar CAD programs) - but it is far from the flexibility of SketchUp. Unfortunately - and I suppose, in my ignorance, that it would have been perfectly possible for you to create a 'Push-Pull' tool, which truly makes the difference. I leave here the suggestion while I will continue working with version 8 of SketchUp inside Wine. :)

P.S.: Also I couldn't find the box to type commands, you know, left hand on the keyboard and right on the mouse to increase productivity.

@HannahHowe
IMO you don't mention the most iconic of them all, Pink Floyd/Roger Waters. 😉

Learn TRIGONOMETRY with Julia - Math for entry-level IT professionals, vol. 2, #mybook 💥 #newest #newbook 🆕 is available here:
https://leanpub.com/learntrigonometrywithjulia

> "Trigonometry is one of those topics that keep appearing again and again, even in very simple gamedev projects. ..."
– Fundamental Math for Game Developers, by Gustavo Pezzi on pikuma.com

> Nowadays trigonometry is used in countless work and scientific activities.
– from the Intro of the book

> "CSS, the language that helps websites become so cumbersome (...), is learning some new tricks. Soon, web developers will be able to use it to perform simple math functions. ... The trigonometry functions were approved in a late February meeting of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) CSS Working Group. ..."
– CSS is Getting Trigonometry Functions to Help Web Devs Avoid JavaScript, by Nate Swanner on dice.com

Learn Algebra with Julia - Math for entry-level IT professionals, vol. 1, #mybook #newbook 🆕 is available here:
https://leanpub.com/learnalgebrawithjulia/

> As W. W. Saywer writes in his Mathematicians Delight, “The main object of this book is to dispel the fear of mathematics.”

> “It’s no secret that knowing advanced mathematical concepts and being comfortable with learning #math will open up more avenues for you as a software #developer. …"

> The very nature of programming is mathematical.

-- from the Intro

#algebra #julialang #programming

@Harald
He should use Julia.

Newer #dielectric fluids and #powerelectronics now allow #electrostaticmotors to be better at some applications than their electromagnetic peers.

> The main advantage of electrostatic motors is their reduced critical materials use. In particular, electrostatic motors don’t require copper windings or any rare earth magnets which are getting more expensive as demand grows for electrically-powered machines.

Electrostatic Motors Are Making A Comeback
https://hackaday.com/2024/10/29/electrostatic-motors-are-making-a-comeback/

I just muted and then blocked this dude @jbwharris because it's the only thing I see when scrolling down, and it didn't disappear.
Is #qoto being #atacked ?

"...
How a healthy federated network can look like

To me, this leaves a final idea of how federated systems should be designed. The key points:

Monopolies must be under control. Large instances have a great power and responsibility. If a large provider decides to cut the connection, it will be the smaller party to be blamed. This has been the case with E-Mail, where all small providers need to comply with the rules of Google, Microsoft etc. Users expect third-parties to successfully deliver the messages into their inbox and do not question if their provider plays a fair role in the game. We believe that community-managed structures like Codeberg also play an important role. The decision is in the hand of the public and does not depend on the arbitrary decisions of a company or small admin team.

Moderation must federate well. Instead of relying on only two sides of the connection to process reports, it might be beneficial if abuse reports are also shared to other instances. An instance could automatically hide posts if they have been blocked by numerous remote servers. This prevents malicious instances from generating duplicate work on all receiving servers.

Responsible maintenance. It is good to allow anyone to selfhost software. However, putting up something on the Internet comes with some responsibilities. Unmaintained systems can cause harm, unpatched software or insecure configurations can be the entrypoint for spam or can be combined to botnets with huge impact. Please consider twice before offering a service with open registrations. If you want, we recommend forming a group of like-minded admins and taking care together. This is more efficient – and more fun!

Build a network of trust. I believe that downloading blocklists from third-parties is not the ultimate answer, but knowledge sharing is. You almost always have some remote instances which you trust. I imagine Codeberg trusting instances maintained by team members, Forgejo developers and other like-minded communities (e.g. disroot). And we trust their trusted instances, too. This repeats until a certain configurable threshold. Everyone else needs to be approved by moderators first, before the spam can reach our users. This keeps a balance between protection and manual effort.

What we can learn from the Fediverse spam for Codeberg
https://blog.codeberg.org/what-we-can-learn-from-the-fediverse-spam-for-codeberg.html

#Codeberg #Fediverse #security #spam

It took a #longtime but it's #up #again

#qoto #mastodon

#photo: Menhir du Champ Dolent

@freemo I signed out and signd in again back and loaded normally. Weird.

@freemo It's back to the same. Meanwhile have you found any explanation for this behavior? Does this happen to others or is it only me?

#Aurora #Outburst #Sequence
Taken by Alan Dyer on August 11, 2024 @ Grasslands National Park, Saskatchewan
https://spaceweathergallery2.com/indiv_upload.php?upload_id=211852

#astronomy #photo #physics #atmosphere #solarmax

#meme #fastfood #slowfood

@freemo
Nope. Today loaded on the fly. Thanks.