*banned 4 MarkDown love* @design_RG@social.cleverlibre.org

Another nice page on the same site -- adding Themes to Mastodon!

https://wiki.nixnet.xyz/books/masto-tweaks/page/themesskins

The author describes how to obtain a fully fleshed theme like the ones in use at Toot.cafe or Witches.Town from their Github depositories (links provided!)

And then, you could modify either of them to your own liking.

I really like the custom theme Renato Lond created and uses at his instance - https://masto.donte.com.br/

Green background is easy on the eyes, while some contrasting elements add pizzazz and make it easier to find controls and scroll bars (these, sometimes are blurred into the Dark Themes I prefer) Screen cap of the default Web client view attached.

@realcaseyrollins Most of the time people come looking for a social experience, discovering new things, learning and having a nice time in their limited spare time.

So avoiding unwanted content or conflict is important to most people, I think. For a long time I avoided Twitter for this and other reasons (their brain dead 140 characters limit was also so stupid as to defy my comprehension, to be perfectly honest)

And I found a really clear reference for any system admin sympathetic enough to their Users and budding Writers plea for MORE space than the freeking 500 chars hardcoded into Mastodon source.

(** at Gargron's insistence, and not in a config file as I would think it should be; would make the changes MUCH easier.)

https://wiki.nixnet.xyz/books/masto-tweaks/page/character-count

@realcaseyrollins I don't see the fact that people want to avoid untrammeled speech as a problem -- we are all here in seach of different things, and conflict is not on most people's lists of reasons to be here.

I like the fact that there are different places and you can visit and see, find nice local feeds to chat more closely with people.

It only would take a few storm troopers determined to make havoc to disturb things a lot if there were no controls or doors to stop them. State sponsored actors included.

@realcaseyrollins@mstdn.social @pschwede @pigeonkami One post total, and she seemed a nice person, pity.

Good luck and have fun, @phoebe

@pschwede @pigeonkami And she never even settled here.

A really interesting book it seems (mentioned by Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing article) but rare are very high priced copies.

Bummer.

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0955006139/downandoutint-20

"The clever, bizarre and poignant DIY housewares that fill the pages of Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts have stories to tell.

They communicate the textures of the lives of ordinary Russians during the collapse of the Soviet Union, they highlight alternatives to factory design and disposable goods, and they speak volumes about what goes on in other people's homes--how they spend and scrimp, how they make do.

Home-Made highlights the best of the everyday objects made by ordinary Russians during and around the time of the Soviet Union's decline."

Initial post on Cory's thread is https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1216379601976356864

Cory Doctorow just posted a really nice series of Tweets, and at the end cited this article as inspiration.

#Tech #science #computing #parallel computing #xp
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RT @doctorow
(this thread inspired by @jjn1's column in today's Guardian)

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jan/11/we-are-approaching-the-limits-of-computer-power-we-need-new-programmers-n-ow
https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1216380499712606209

#Math and #Cats all in one post.

Great #photography too. #xp
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RT @CTrustme@twitter.activitypub.actor

https://twitter.com/CTrustme/status/1216390547780382722

...and then people ask, why do you need more than one instance??

For an active Local feed, for example, when things quiet down and you can hear insects chirping in your normal main one...

@float13

Excellent catch -- he is indeed. For 20 years now. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Kubrick

Someone still operating a twitter account with his name, then, since he died before twitter was born.

@snow

From Z's status : https://hackers.town/@zpojqwfejwfhiunz/103468609517484112

* Not an Emergency, but an alarming thing to receive in the morning *

...and then you wake up to an alarming SMS message.

Happened before in Hawaii, last year, and this morning in Southern Ontario. Toronto is a large metropolis about 40 Km or so from a Nuclear power plant in Pickering, ON.

The image is the SMS sent out -- by mistake, and that nonetheless must have rattled many people.

CBC article has lots of details -- and thankfully it was NOT an emergency but a mistake.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/pickering-nuclear-generating-station-1.5424115

@pigeonkami Hello and welcome!

I think you don't have to worry, as you are curious and the person you want to read is posting publicly and referring to it, not a secret.

There's lots of good things here in the Fediverse, which is more than Mastodon -- there's video, music, file hosting, blog services, all kinds of nice projects to get involved in and to explore.

Hope you enjoy it here, pegeonkami. Welcome.

@snow

Toronto, Canada has some excellent architecture. This is a nice example, although the Winter bleak landscapes are not a favourite for me.

High on my loved list are TD Towers, by L. Mies van der Rowe. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toronto-Dominion_Centre

Buffalo, NY, not far away also has lovely ones. #xp
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RT @blogTO@twitter.activitypub.actor
Behold, the most beautiful places in Toronto during the winter http://bit.ly/36DcBR1 #Toronto
https://twitter.com/blogTO/status/1215365151265828865

@snow A nice image for the thread?

And a "Happy Birthday HAL!" article that was published by Wired in 1997 -- HAL's birthdate in the novel as written by A.C. Clarke : https://web.archive.org/web/20111026014624/http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/5.01/ffhal_pr.html

#scifi #art #writing #books #technicolorrainbow people might like this one too.