Raymond Lesley @raymondlesley@qoto.org

@freemo hmm. We have a different definition of "toxic". Personally, I find those who don't care about others' feelings are the most toxic...

Steal my data *now* - if you can!

Milestone #3 achieved:

Hot Tub fully automated.. running jobs via #cron on a @Raspberry_Pi to start the filter pump in the morning and in the evening stop again, calculate how long to heat overnight and set the program

https://github.com/raymondlesley/HotTubTimeMachine

Milestone #2 reached:

Now supporting full Hot Tub control - filter pump, heater, target temperature, scheduling

https://github.com/raymondlesley/HotTubTimeMachine

I've been playing with driving the #Bestway hot tub cloud service from #Python - and am now able to release it into the wild: https://github.com/raymondlesley/HotTubTimeMachine

As the README says, it's far from complete - but I successfully turned on the filter pump from my laptop this morning, which is a milestone worth celebrating!

@freemo it's precisely the normalisation that I object to. I find the content offensive. I cannot imagine any setting where having images of firearms in my timeline is less damaging than learning what happened on yesterday's TV.

How do I filter it out, please?

@freemo oh, I see now. I'm not thinking in terms of defining a criteria beyond "images containing guns". I guess we could be more specific and say "firearms". I assume you already have similar expectations around members posting images containing nudity, "gore" and/or injury detail?

Btw: I can't see how to filter. Tusky's got an option - but it just errors. I can't find the option on qoto.org

@freemo as I said: images of guns

@freemo not suggesting any rules - I had just expected that you would mark images of guns in particular as sensitive. I'm not sure why you're resistant to the idea.

I'd overlooked the fact that I can filter - I've not used that before.. I'll give it a go.

@freemo I realise that images of, and discussion about weaponry is probably normalised in your experience - but to many, myself included, it is not something that belongs in a STEM-oriented instance.

As moderator, can I suggest that you should be seeing a good example and marking these posts as "sensitive"? Pretty please?

@freemo would you please mark your posts about weapons as sensitive? I'd rather not have to read them

@TimHarford having 11 books in your top 10 is a clear illustration of all that's wrong with statistics 🤣

@Liveotherwise tried https://tweetdeleter.com/features/delete-all-my-tweets ?

@waded that's new one on me; Transiberian Orchestra don't get played in the UK afaik.

I agree that covers don't count, though.

Good luck!

@waded your game is way more complicated than ours. We just have "Whamageddon" : aiming to avoid Last Christmas. I like yours, though... How many levels & which songs?

@freemo well done on the article. Despite your obvious anger, you've managed to keep to the facts.

FYI, qoto.org is still listed on https://instances.social

@s_gruppetta surely, range() *is* a function - a constructor - which _returns_ an instance of a class? I guess the clever bit is that the class acts a bit like an iterator... (though why it's /not/ an iterator is a puzzle to me)

@Liveotherwise have you tried https://mastodonmusic.social ? (found via https://instances.social/)

#introduction

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