Fedinversive＠Geometry🎌🇯🇵 @puzzl@qoto.org

Whats the most important feature you'd like to see added to QOTO?

Attention: @Half_Shot@twitter.com is semaphoring that he is about to Cross the Bifrost in UD2.208! #fosdem Follow along live: https://live.fosdem.org/watch/ud2208

It’s almost 6pm in Brussels and #FOSDEM is somehow still in full swing...

#FOSDEM come learn about open, secure and decentralised comms with Matrix in Building K! Keep control over your discussion by running your server while federating with the rest of the network 🤯

Seems we had some downtime on QOTO, first time in over 2 years... investigating now

Hello everyone! This is an instance I set up for FOSDEM to use as a demo and event instance! It will shut down after the event is over!

FOSDEM is empowered by its volunteers!
If you attend main tracks or lightning talks, we are still looking for people for the heralding task (announce the speaker, ensure the talk ends on-time) & video (pointing the camera in the right direction) https://volunteers.fosdem.org/

Square packing: http://www.adamponting.com/square-packing/

Adam Ponting found a way to cover arbitrarily large (e.g. as measured by inradius) contiguous patches of the plane by distinct squares of sizes from \(1\) to \((2n+1)^2\), for any \(n\). Via https://demonstrations.wolfram.com/PontingSquarePacking/ and http://www.mathpuzzle.com/

* Memories, a visit to the Archeology Museum *

It started this morning, the thread. And over short posts, someone told a story. Of a Greek man, who lived in antiquity, by the Mediterranean side; in a city whose name is still preserved, and today is written "Marseille".

This series of posts was interesting, liked it and went to the top to find the rest.

Enjoying his post, I remembered similar thoughts, of History, and how things worked, how small bits and pieces came to me as I visited an exposition, at the Archeological Museum, in Lisbon.

Now the story is on my blog: https://write.tedomum.net/rgx/memories-a-visit-to-the-archeology-museum

You can also see a mirrored copy at our Discouse Forum at Qoto.org : https://discourse.qoto.org/t/memories-a-visit-to-the-archeology-museum-blog-mirror-here/169

** Author notes:

This is one of my favourite posts in my blog, I really enjoyed writing it, first as a series of Toots, then as a fleshed out and enriched Blog post.

I am grateful to @kashi for the original suggestion and inspiration of our new Qoto Journal hashtag.

#QOTOJournal #History #Technology #Geography

#RaspberryPi GPIO Pinout problems solved! No more colouring the pins with a marker 😀

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1639195067/the-raspberry-pi-and-electronics-printed-circuit-board-ruler

ボット作った。
https://mastodon.social/@newcomers

So I'll be hitting 10,000 followers in the next few days. My plan is that the day I hit 10K I will buy any of my followers a few free beers in Utretcht. So anyone who wants to meetup for a free beer in a few days send me a DM!

fediverse search engine
https://search.social/

So I posted some questions on our discourse about how we want to use and/or moderate the QOTOJournal hash tag. I will repeat the questions here and leave a link to the discourse at the bottom for further discussion.

Does it have to be STEM specific or can it include other fields?

Does it need to have scientific integrity (Peer review) or simply be "serious"?

Do we enforce any sort of quality standards?

Should it be restricted to only sharing ones own work or can it be for anytime someone shares serious work from any source?

Do we limit the timeline we have built-in to QOTO to only display users of the Tag from our local server?

Do we put any limits to how often people can post to the tag?

What measures, if any, do we want to use to prevent abuse of the tag?

https://discourse.qoto.org/t/special-hashtag-to-highlight-serious-posting-at-qoto-org-qotojournal-is-active-now/180/18

#QOTO

さっき、Fedibirdの機能をマージしたQOTOの方々と英語で話をしていたんだけど、

・やっぱり英語で500文字は短い
・メンションで会話
・アツい

という感想を得た。

いつも日本語で500文字長文投稿しているので、日本語なら感覚的にどのぐらい書けるかわかっているんだけど、それを英語にして投稿すると2〜3分割しないと入りきらない。日本語の圧縮率凄い。

メンションで会話するのはもの凄く快適（それはそう）。そして話に集中できる。

タイムラインでの会話は、ホームタイムラインであっても、いつもの仲間達との会話、という枠で行っている。

特にメイン言語の違う人達との会話は、中途半端に省略することがなく、様々なことを明示的に示すし、もとよりわかるように話すことを心がけることになるので、何事もはっきりしていて小気味よい。

また、わざわざ声を掛けて話をしようというわけで、彼らはとても関心が強く、熱心だ。

ちなみにこの長い日本語のメッセージ、英語に訳すと1,079文字相当になる。日本語の圧縮率凄い（大事なことなので二回言った）。

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​