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computers would be so much cooler if documentation

The #GitHub feature we've all been waiting for: Disabling that Copilot nonsense.

There's a new wave of joiners here, some coming from sites other than the usual Twexits of the recent past. Some of them are posting objectionable stuff.

Report, if it rises (perhaps I should say "sinks") to that level, but if you're just blocking you can remind yourself why:

1. Copy the link address to the objectionable post.

2. On the user's profile, paste that link (along with the date and any comments you want to make) into the Personal Note field.

3. Block.

Public libraries are instrumental supporters of learning and development at all levels.

https://action.everylibrary.org/how_do_school_libraries_prepare_students_for_success_in_college_and_the_workforce

A quick visit to Skara Brae yesterday afternoon, after completing a bit of research on the other side of Skaill Bay. I was lucky enough to have it all to myself, bar the wonderful staff that it.

#skarabrae #prehistory #prehistoric #neolithic #archaeology #archaeologist #orkney #orkneyislands #visitorkney #visitscotland

A key mark of totalitarianism is government and party ownership and control of the means of speech and information. The party, through its main apparatchik, owns Twitter. The government wants to own TikTok. The only free speech is the fascists' speech.

Social Web Foundation  (I am an advisor) warns that having an unfactchecked Threads on the fediverse is a recipe for misery and mischief: https://socialwebfoundation.org/2025/01/12/content-policy-on-the-social-web/

Give us your tired, your poor Your fed-up memers longing to spill tea Displaced creators of your fleeting roar Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me!

RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:tofd2yb5syc5avm7gg5orb2e/post/3lg2vx5obvs2j

Town of #Verdun hooks residents up with loanable sports gear such as skates for outdoor activities #Montreal

https://montreal.citynews.ca/2025/01/18/make-people-move-verdun-hooks-residents-up-with-gear-for-outdoor-activities/

The Fediverse is a network of thousands of independent servers, running lots of different kinds of software. Some of them are Mastodon servers, some of them are Pixelfed servers, some of them are PeerTube servers... there are dozens of different kinds!

But all of them are connected together into a single social network called the Fediverse. You don't need to be on the same server to follow and interact with someone, in fact you don't even need to be on the same type of server. People on Mastodon can interact with people on Pixelfed etc.

There is a non-technical guide to the Fediverse at https://fedi.tips/what-is-mastodon-what-is-the-fediverse and a list of reasons why it's on so many servers at https://fedi.tips/why-is-the-fediverse-on-so-many-separate-servers

You might also want to check out this animation that explains why the Fediverse exists: https://framatube.org/w/4294a720-f263-4ea4-9392-cf9cea4d5277

#Fediverse #Pixelfed #Mastodon #PixelfedTips #FediTips

No billionnaires at FOSDEM by @how

"If Jack Dorsey would donate $250 million to free software every year, certainly that would make a valuable recognition of his debt to the Ruby language and all the free software that he made a fortune on. But would it really compensate for all the assholiness Drew describes in this article? I think not. Billionaire money, although certainly long due for redistribution, should not be a way of passage downwards through the glass ceiling. They can look down upon us all they want, they’ll never be part of us, because what makes us, us, is not something that can be bought."

https://oxygen.offdem.net/t/no-billionnaires-at-fosdem/463

#fosdem #offdem

"We may no longer be a epistemologically literate society any more but #books still have value to enough of us for them to still be a business. However, the problem lies in finding ways to promote & sell because #microblogging only lends itself to promoting texts & creators that have a strong element of #showmanship.
I am pondering whether, again paradoxically, video & podcasts might not lend themselves better to promoting and selling books than newsletters and blogs."
https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/notes/2024/interim-3/

🎶 I scritched the cat and she liked iiit 🎶

Since I'm seeing new folks arriving, a few thoughts for you:

1. Take a moment to read: https://fedi.tips

2. Hashtags are your friend. Follow them. Use them. Capitalize each word in them

3. You will miss things. That is the point

4. For accounts you don't want to miss, click the bell in the profile or make a list

5. Boost the toots

6. Be here to make connections

7. No algorithm means post what you want

8. Add alt-text to images

#Mastodon #TikTok #NewHere

Thank you Mastodon and the Fediverse for being an example of communicating without billionaires and US venture capitalists calling the shots. We're going to need more of this.