Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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An irregular reminder that calling this place "Mastodon" has a bit similar energy as saying "I just sent you a GMail."
"Fediverse" (or "fedi") is a better term.
Mastodon is just one of many software projects that talk to each other to create this multi-instance social network:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
(kudos to @axbom for this fantastic infographic!)
There are blogs, Reddit-like communities, video instances and many more, all part of fedi.
@anielsen001 @ceresbzns @briankrebs @PogoWasRight
Over here in the UK we need to seek permission from parents / guardians just to take photos in schools, i run code club etc and again the library need permission from a parent in order to take photos of any minors in the room, same goes for sports clubs etc.
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It’s worth noting that investors are starting to turn on Elon not because of his embrace of conspiratorial reactionaries or his opening Twitter up to ever more hate and harassment, they’re turning on him because he did the one thing they can’t forgive: he’s losing them money.
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Basic Vim Commands Every Linux User Must Know
I think with the fediverse you don't need to use your name,
so you could have www.stux.net linked to your account here using the provided code and probably be verified that way.
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Game devs it’s time to show me your cool shit. Reply with something cool you’re doing.
@atomicpoet We really do need to be able to cope with this. Looks like Masto.host is still closed to new users, due to load.
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9 million Mastodon accounts is extremely likely this month.
According to my math, an average of 1,115 new accounts per hour over the next 10 days would be needed to reach this milestone.
During the last hour, 1,780 new Mastodon accounts were made.
@wchr So do we counter this by telling people what big tech is doing or do we counter this by making the fediverse more appealing to people by promoting the diverse content that is on here and the fact instances don't track users, collect data or do other stuff.
Or perhaps a combination of both.
I tend to find people are so tied in to big tech, they don't care what they are doing.
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Tech giants are now spending hundreds of millions to systematically shape policy across the world, including donations and funding to policymakers, civil society orgs, media orgs and academia.
A decade ago, this may not have been clear to everyone. Now it really should be.
@ADDiane This is the nice thing about the Raspberry Pi etc, you get a PCB with components but can choose your own or 3d print a case.
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Three Quarters of Major Observatories Affected by Light Pollution
Search over 1,000 astronomy and space news releases at www.stars-n-stuff.com/news-stories
#astronomy #space #science #news #stargazing
Image: Own work, via Night Cafe Studio
I think there is certainly a need to help people either host their own instance, either via managed hosting (what https://masto.host/ are doing) or helping people find hosting and set up a domain and instance,
But it needs to be affordable for people, perhaps also need to help people develop the skills to do that via teaching, so as companies or at least small businesses take up Mastodom they can find people with a) the skills to host an instance but B) they have the knowledge of the culture here so that can be successful.
Do so by using privacy friendly DNS and other services as in not cloudflare.
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Link to your CodePen from Mastodon — and from your Mastodon to CodePen — and verified you shall be.
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Oh. my. god.
Madison Square Garden used facial recognition to identify and stop a mom from attending a Christmas show with her kid because she's an attorney at a firm who is engaged in litigation with them.
This is why it's not enough to just ban government and law enforcement use of #facialrecognition. There are so many ways private companies and even individuals can abuse #biometric #surveillance tech.
#BanFacialRecognition entirely. Yesterday.
Welcome to mastodon, hopefully you will find the sort of content you are looking for.
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This is great. Postal delivery vehicles do a relatively small number of miles in a day and then return to a central facility every night. Obvious candidate for electrification https://about.usps.com/newsroom/national-releases/2022/1220-usps-intends-to-deploy-over-66000-electric-vehicles-by-2028.htm
The west fell for their promise of doing things differently big time didn't they.
Please explain why around 450 British lives were lost retaking the country and then keeping security while a new government was built only for our political elite to make the biggest error and allow the Taliban back in.
At the same time the British abandoned many of the translators who helped them to the mercy of the Taliban
What was all the sacrifice for?
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Why is it that 99% of the time someone is asking for "a simple answer to a simple question", I have to ask them to more-fully specify their question?
It's like, "I can *probably* give you a simple answer to a well-defined question or I can give you a heavily-caveated and multi-pronged reply to a poorly-defined question."
Ah, the good, old "conservation of complexity" problem.
@explorergrace@mastodon.nz @theadmin
I think it is also good practice to know who your instance admin is, and how to contact them.
Could be a problem both technical or with another user, suggest a feature or another reason the admins are here to help.
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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