Shibaprasad Bhattacharya @shibaprasad@qoto.org

"In the end, only three things matter: how much you loved, how gently you lived, and how gracefully you let go of things not meant for you." -- Buddha

While China tightens its grip on Hong Kong, we must keep fighting for freedom of speech and privacy: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/07/business/hong-kong-security-law-tech.html
To do our part, Tutanota enables everyone to get an anonymous & encrypted email account for free: https://tutanota.com/ #freedomofspeech #privacy #HongKong

A really interesting story on The Guardian; how a couple of homeless people in London, UK, managed to build an underground bunker and live on it for almost two years undetected. Right inside Hampstead Heath park, adjoining a very expensive neighbourhood.

https://www.theguardian.com/news/2020/mar/05/invisible-city-how-homeless-man-built-life-underground-bunker-hampstead-heath

Tutanota is currently blocked in Russia. If you are affected by this outage, please use the Tor browser or a vpn to access Tutanota.
https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/tutanota-and-tor/
#censorship #surveillance #privacy #HumanRights #FreeSpeech

Did you know #QOTO has one of the highest user retention rate of any server in the fediverse?

We do not and have never deleted inactive accounts. Despite this ~25% of our registered users are still active after over 2 years of operation. Compare this to most other servers and we see typically a retention of ~10% or less.

To me this is the most important statistic to measure the health and success of a server, ultimately it tells me the people who come to QOTO ultimately enjoy it here and want to stay!

#fediverse #mastodon

@realcaseyrollins If you are refusing to use a persons pronouns because you suspect or even know something about their genitals and think you have a right to use that to invalidate their gender, then yea, that would make you a bigot. You are showing intolerance by doing so. IT is a demonstrating of intolerance regarding a persons choices, the hallmark of bigotry.

Keep Jupyter Notebook Running Even After Browser is Closed

Keeping the browser tab open to run Jupyter…

https://towardsdatascience.com/keep-jupyter-notebook-running-even-after-browser-is-closed-9a1937b7c615

Any artists want to help out on a very small project for some $$$? If done well there may be future projects in it for you.

I basically need a series of space-themed flat-design style cartoons done that will be used to create scrolling animatioins for a website (I will do the web side just need an artist to do the cartoons). Attached is a stock photo of a rough example of the style I'll be needing it in, though personal artistic license is welcome.

#art #artist #cartoon #cartoonist #drawing #work

If you can't convince then confuse - Budget 2020

Interesting Fact: Microsoft was originally a nickname Bill Gates peers gave him for having impotence and a small penis. However it caught on and Bill decided to roll with it.

@shibaprasad Tennyson's Ulysses gets better every year as I get older.

"I cannot rest from travel; I will drink life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those who love me and alone."

"For Gandhi, criticism implied 'the desire to improve the object criticized.'"

Write Better Python Code Today

Your fellow programmers will thank you for it.

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/write-better-python-code-today-3c7566a695e2

Lists in mastodon were completely useless until we added the new features to QOTO for subscribing to remote instances local timelines and other subscriptions. There is a certain satisfaction in making a useless feature useful. It felt like wasted space before.

If you can't tell I'm super happy and excited about all the new features we added. So much fun getting to use them and knowing we are the only english speaking instance to have these features :)

Today is the day: Our founder Matthias Pfau and Prof. Sascha Fahl explain how you can use the Internet more securely. Join us tonight at Leibniz University: http://technik-salon.de/2020/01/23/digital-aber-sicher.html