Paul Sutton @zleap@qoto.org
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
Is this who Indiana Jones refers to in Temple of doom. ?
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Free-agent CB Stephon Gilmore signing with Vikings on one-year, $10 million deal https://www.nfl.com/news/free-agent-cb-stephon-gilmore-signing-with-vikings-on-one-year-10-million-deal #NFL
@nfl@a.gup.pe
Torbay Children's Week, Paignton - UKs longest running Children's Festival
https://childrensweek.co.uk
20th - 24th August 2024
Torbay Regatta
August 24TH - 26th 2024,,
Tprbay, Devon
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On the topic of alt text:
Being offered a chatGPT solution when the problem is that people need to put in effort, feels like asking for a sandwich and being served a bowl of dry dog food.
Like, yes technically this solves the problem, but I don't want it, and the fact that this is what you're offering and you feel so clever about it, speaks to a profound disrespect for me and my access needs.
@xChaos @hszakher @RadioAzureus @nixCraft
Yeah, good point you get to know languages, and how they behave, when programming in that language you have to think outside the box as to what the program is doing, what you want it to do, and how the end user(s) is or are going to interact and use the software.
I guess it is why in other areas people talk about doing something by ear, eye or tough, you can make a judgement call that is really accurate just using senses and your knowledge and experience of doing those or simiar tasks.
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Ranked: The 10 Best Countries for Women
https://www.visualcapitalist.com/ranked-the-10-best-countries-for-women/ #infographic #ranking #women #countries
Just ban clothing, it would make stop and search a thing of the past in a lot of cases.
I am no hiding anything on my person,l i have nowhere to hide it.
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‘Nobody ever saw anything like this before’: how methane emissions are pushing the Amazon towards environmental catastrophe
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/aug/17/methane-climate-crisis-amazon-peat-permafrost-vegan-heat-pumps?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
@hszakher @xChaos @RadioAzureus @nixCraft
Or they just goto ChatGPT ask for a program to do X then it does it all for them, they can then pass themselves off as an expert or
programmer.
I have seen this happen and just dispair.
Going forward we could end up with a whole generation with people within who can't actually code at all unless they have these tools.
File format is an open standard so in 10 years time when the software is going to be different (perhaps) we can still read /; write those files.
Future proofing data within the files
Climate issues to one side, insulating homes makes sense as it makes homes warmer, keeps heat in where it is meant to be, for many people this is the difference between remaining healthy or falling back in to ill health.
Citation for this idea: Common sense as it is blatently obvious.
What if Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse parted ways; CW: long (over 2,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse beyond Mastodon meta, potentially inflammatory
But i use both WriterAs along with Peertube, I like the fact that publishing on either can also appear here,
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What if Mastodon and the rest of the Fediverse parted ways; CW: long (over 2,000 characters), Fediverse meta, Fediverse beyond Mastodon meta, potentially inflammatory
Food for thought: Maybe the Fediverse should actually split.
Leave Mastodon to its own devices. Leave them the term "Fediverse". Let Mastodon "be the Fediverse". Let "the Fediverse" and "the Mastodon network" be all the same. Just what absolutely every last newbie who came over from the Birdsite thought is the case. Just what many Mastodon users still think is the case. And exactly what not exactly few Mastodon users want the Fediverse to be.
Let Mastodon's many proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-only solutions work perfectly with no interference from outside.
And leave Mastodon to be EEE'd by Threads.
Everything else could throw out all Mastodon-specific kluges and hacks and finally concentrate on pure standard ActivityPub plus FEPs. It could make full use of object types, regardless of how Mastodon renders them. It could introduce nomadic identity via ActivityPub without constantly having to check how well it works with Mastodon. It could implement a standard permissions system with no regard for how it'll work with Mastodon. For Mastodon will never implement anything they can't claim having invented themselves.
It could assume the name "Social Web" in the place of "Fediverse".
Its users could finally live the cultures of wherever they are and make use of the features available to them. They would longer have to deal with Mastodon users who try hard to force them to adopt the Mastodon culture and throw away the culture and most of the features of their home.
It could become acceptable for Social Web projects to introduce by-server-type filters and use them to block Mastodon as a whole. This could keep out the invaders who try to enforce their own foreign culture.
Such a step would also show which Fediverse projects are actually independent and which ones are nothing but add-ons bolted onto Mastodon. Because they will have to choose a side.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb
Leave Mastodon to its own devices. Leave them the term "Fediverse". Let Mastodon "be the Fediverse". Let "the Fediverse" and "the Mastodon network" be all the same. Just what absolutely every last newbie who came over from the Birdsite thought is the case. Just what many Mastodon users still think is the case. And exactly what not exactly few Mastodon users want the Fediverse to be.
Let Mastodon's many proprietary, non-standard, Mastodon-only solutions work perfectly with no interference from outside.
And leave Mastodon to be EEE'd by Threads.
Everything else could throw out all Mastodon-specific kluges and hacks and finally concentrate on pure standard ActivityPub plus FEPs. It could make full use of object types, regardless of how Mastodon renders them. It could introduce nomadic identity via ActivityPub without constantly having to check how well it works with Mastodon. It could implement a standard permissions system with no regard for how it'll work with Mastodon. For Mastodon will never implement anything they can't claim having invented themselves.
It could assume the name "Social Web" in the place of "Fediverse".
Its users could finally live the cultures of wherever they are and make use of the features available to them. They would longer have to deal with Mastodon users who try hard to force them to adopt the Mastodon culture and throw away the culture and most of the features of their home.
It could become acceptable for Social Web projects to introduce by-server-type filters and use them to block Mastodon as a whole. This could keep out the invaders who try to enforce their own foreign culture.
Such a step would also show which Fediverse projects are actually independent and which ones are nothing but add-ons bolted onto Mastodon. Because they will have to choose a side.
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Mastodon #Fediverse #SocialWeb
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Lesser known: Before NASA and the Apollo program, Margaret Hamilton worked with mathematician and meteorologist Edward Lorenz.
From 1959-1961 she programmed weather simulations on his LGP-30 computer. Those projects were the precursors to his famous 1963 paper that marked the birth of chaos theory.
https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-hidden-heroines-of-chaos-20190520/
https://mastodon.social/@mcnees/110907153207130442
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Tell the FCC: ⭐️Satellite mega-constellations need #environmental #review⭐️
We should look before we leap.
The number of satellites in mega-constellations that power satellite internet has ♦️increased by 127 times in five years♦️, in large part because of SpaceX.
At peak deployment of these disposable satellites, 29 tons of metal will re-enter our atmosphere per day.
That’s almost like a Jeep Cherokee falling from space every hour.
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"In The Beginning Was The Command Line" An essay by Neal Stephenson that talks proprietary operating systems and FOSS operating systems. Written in 1999. https://lemmy.ml/post/19268678
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How to Decolonize Our Battle Against Climate Change #decolonizing #emissions #fossilfuels #ClimateChange #inequality https://countercurrents.org/2024/08/how-to-decolonize-our-battle-against-climate-change/
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Hamas also agreed to a deal made a while back which Israel nixxed. They recently requested that deal be honored @zleap. Israel's JOB for the people who allowed it's creation is to clear the indigenous land-owning people out of the way for a middle east war for petro products and palestinians are in the way, so they all must die, or leave, per the Zionists. They AREN'T INTERESTED in a truce. @Miro_Collas @palestine
US pol: We need to investigate James Comer
Seems more like paranoia
Interested in Technology, Science, Chemistry, Education, Fediverse, GNU/Linux and free software.
Joined Mar 2020
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