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

Choices are Good.

While in vanilla Mastodon world, getting an admin to consider allowing more than the miserable 500 characters maximum toot size is a Tall Order -- I tried a few times, and was denied almost always, in more Advanced places we see innovation and openness.

Was just surprised to find not the Usual TWO choices of Front Ends (user interfaces, or web clients) at one of the Pleroma instances I have accounts on.

At expired.mentality.rip, admin @a1batross now has 4 (FOUR!) choices at your disposal.

Pick between :

Pleroma FE, high polish, and full featured.
Mastodon FE, the usual web client most mastodonians will feel at home in.

Plus -- and this is all his customizing :

Bloat FE
And the brand new SoapBox FE, which just released it's 1.0 version.

I had seen SoapBox at other instance and been impressed. And it's nice to see it now available at FAB, EMR, jaeger.website and probably other places too.

Congrats to @a1ba and @alex !

#SoapBox #Pleroma #Alternatives #Mastodon #UI #ux

#rgxJournal for notes, Blog page coming soon.

Very clever, random anarchist.

More Cat Photos? Always welcome.

And once again, Thanks are due to Casey Rollins!

...who just sent me a pointer to another Cat lover posting images.😺

[ CW -- he's got some adult content, all under cw's. Tasteful, not trashy. ]

Which I am now editing and adding to the Discourse Forum topic and my own Blog post about Feline Photos Posters.

Casey also pointed to Catgram.jp -- a Japanese mastodon instance which seems to be the Instagram of Japanese Neko culture!

...where I found some other accounts in the Profile Directory, all cat lovers posting Feline beauty snaps.

@realcaseyrollins -- Thank you.

A couple of nice snaps from cks's photo stream attached.

#BlackCats #Cats #MastoCats #CatsOfMastodon #Meow

#rgxJournal for bookmarking

Lossless Compression of text with #GPT2... So cool!

http://textsynth.org/sms.html

June 23, Alan Turing's Birthday

"Alan Turing was an outstanding mathematician whose work has had an enormous impact on how we live today," Bank of England governor Mark Carney said on Monday. A statement by the Bank of England added that he "provided the theoretical underpinnings for the modern computer."

Turing's electro-mechanical machine, which foreshadowed the computer, broke the "unbreakable" Enigma code, which the Nazi authorities used to pass orders to their command chain. Bletchley Park, north of London, the site of Turing's work, remained secret until the 1970s.

Remembering his work, his brilliance. RIP.

After harsh punishment in the 1950's led to his suicide, many years passed until his tremendous contribution to the WWII Bletchley Park Code Breaking operation was acknowledged by the British Government.

Now he will be honoured with his portrait in the 50 Pounds bills in the UK.

See also - Live Science page

#Science #Computing #Technology #crypto #History #WWII

#rgxJournal tribute to a great human being and scientist.

Alan Turing was born today

He was gay and neurodivergent, famous for 'Turing machine,' a model for modern/general purpose computers

he was also chemically castrated by his government for being gay (instead of prison time), and later committed suicide at 41

Rest in Power, Alan

Pinafore offers many Colour Theme combinations!

In light colours, or in Dark Theme mode for those who prefer them (myself, as it’s a lot easier on the eyes for me), you can select from a varied palette.

I had taken a full set of snapshots, planning to post a new Topic with screenshots of ALL the currently offered colour schemes. So here we go.

See the Topic in Discourse Forums

#Pinafore Client for #Fediverse has power, is light, well designed and lovely to use. The Choice of Power Users.

Never seen it yet ? Introducing Pinafore, a blog post by the Author.

#FediReporter tools of the trade, recommended.