R. A. Dehi @radehi@qoto.org
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
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@Hortense Sure, I've seen flaming since I joined the internet 30 years ago. Usenet was full of flames and trolls. But Twitter is special and unique: the 140-letter format is suited for zingers and calls to action, but not for reasoning, and the tweets that "blow up" are the ones that get massively retweeted and replied to, which is to say, the controversial ones that succeed in resonating with primal emotions in the five seconds before you read the next, unrelated tweet. That is, trolls.
The way people amass large followings on Twitter is either by already being famous, by brigading, or having their tweets "blow up". And your timeline on Twitter is disproportionately made of retweets of or replies to famous people's tweets, who are selected for being trolls and flamers in a way that Usenet never approached.
The upgrade to 280 characters helped, but ten seconds instead of five is not much of an improvement.
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Powered by #emacs dwim shell command https://melpa.org/#/dwim-shell-command
- convert to qr, mp3, docx to pdf, epub to org, icns, jpg, png, grayscale, binary plist to xml, pdf to txt, gif, webp
- resize/reorient/speed up video/image
- drop video audio
- reverse geolocate image
- stream/git clone clipboard URL
- copy/move files to desktop/downloads
- join pdfs
- macOS share, caffeinate, open with, show in finder, display rotation
- http serve
- kill processes
- pdf pass protect
- batch rename
- unzip
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There's something oddly comforting about the idea that "if you're not paying for the product, you're the product," namely, the corollary: "If you can afford to pay for a product, you won't be the product." But it's bullshit. Companies don't make you the product because you don't pay - they make you the product because you can't stop them.
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Yeah, so it handles fenced code blocks, but not syntax highlighting.
I wonder if it supports fenced code blocks?
```javascript
for (let x of items) process(item, 'now')
```
Hmm, some of those worked, but not the bulleted list or the blockquote, so I guess this isn't really Markdown or close to it.
Oh neat, Markdown support is new since I last used Mastodon! Maybe I can use *italics* and horizontal separators
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and bulleted lists:
* Italics
* Bulleted lists
* Links
* Headers
* Blockquote
* Preformatted text
A link should be like [hafnium oxide](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafnium_oxide):
> It is an electrical insulator with a band gap of 5.3~5.7 eV.
And preformatted text should be like
x = 1:10
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I have just published the @nlnetlabs perspective on the @EU_Commission #CyberResilienceAct proposal vs #OpenSource:
https://blog.nlnetlabs.nl/open-source-software-vs-the-cyber-resilience-act/
We feel the current proposal misses a major opportunity. The CRA could bring support to #OpenSource devs maintaining the critical foundations of our digital society. But instead of introducing incentives for integrators or financial support, the current proposal will overload small developers with compliance work.
Talk to me. Spread the word. Read the CRA
I'm getting nice pretty Computer Modern glyphs, including \mathbb, but there's like a giant superscript that screws up the layout for my whole post. Do other people see the same thing?
Hmm, and a little broken even on the toot view.
\(\exists w, x, y, z \in \mathbb Z^4: w^4 + x^4 + y^4 = z^4\)
Hmm, seems like we do have Mathjax but it's maybe a little broken on the public timeline.
Hi! I'm new here. I've used Mastodon before though.
Do we have Mathjax here? \(x^2\) \[x^2\] $x^2$
What should I know?
I read a lot. Sometimes I learn things. I like making things. I think reading and doing are complementary.
Joined Nov 2022
