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Have you ever seen or heard of the Altair 8800?

Tech historians and people know. Important, fist personal computer ever.

Original at his post : mastodon.sdf.org/@jebug29/1034

Jess is rebuilding one, and I just found a pic, cropped here for size (Bytes, I save them).

On the future writings front, I found a new inspiration.

Had seen Pleroma nodes in the past, when first joining , but there was so much new stuff to look and try to understand that I never joined a node to see what it is like.

Now I did, and I am impressed. Wow!

Lots of nice features. Things I only dream of here, or beg (in vain, mostly) for masto admins to consider adding in their nodes.

Have been taking and saving screenshots, will prepare an extensive report via Blog when I can understand it better.

But I want to share the news, there's a lot of talent working on that project. Kudos, Pleroma project.

For the time being, if anyone wants to see and join, I found this nice node via someone mentioning it -- and I seeing their post by chance.

expired.mentality.rip is a nice one. Recommended. @a1batross is the local admin, and a competent one. Kudos.

@Yann is my newest alt ID.

@rgx @design_RG

Your message was seen here in a Pleroma node with full formating intact, and looks much nicer than plain text indeed.

As we go into the message editor in Pleroma, you have a choice of how your text will be formatted or not.

Plain text as in the dead elephant nodes.
HTML Markup code for any enhancement you want.
MarkDown, which does most of the same, much easier to use.
And BBCode — which for years was used in Forums and is similarly friendly.

Choices. Amazing. This is a new account, I had never been in a Pleroma node, and it is a very pleasant experience so far.

Ah —- No freeking Pesky 500 character max limit here. 65,555 when I started this message.

Still got 64,700 left, if I fancied writing a mini novel. :agummywink:

One of 4 screencaptures in a post I just enjoyed reading, showing the impact of the Spanish users migration to Mastodon, just before the New Year.

Here, the user numbers and posts count for Mastodon.social in the end of December.

RT from mastodon.social/@ilich/1033970

Cilla is pretty! 💕


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RT @OutwoodsCat@twitter.activitypub.actor
Teachers were back at school today. I welcomed them back in my usual sedate, professional manner. They were powerless to resist!
twitter.com/OutwoodsCat/status

Emmabuntüs sur un Pentium 4 à 3Ghz ! C'est Faisable !

Merci à notre ami Clément Lallain pour son bel article sur la mise en œuvre de l'Emmabuntüs Debian Edition 2 sur un Pentium 4 de 2003 ❤️♻️🐧💻👍

blog.lc-numerik.fr/accueil/emm

@toast @mdszy @ashfurrow @bclindner @pganssle

For myself, banning/blocking an entire instance simply because they refuse to take control away from their users and refuse to practice censorship is abhorrent to the very idea of the fediverse. If one really wants the platform making such decisions for their users and wants to be on a platform where users have no choice/voice, then shouldn’t one be over on the birdsite and let them ‘protect’ people from wrongthink?

Alternatively, we could just let users decide for themselves what they do and don’t like. Will this allow some ‘bad’ stuff to get through from time to time? Sure, of course. Is that worth it? To me, yes. I guess it just depends on whether one is actually for freedom and openness or one is just playing lip-service to such concepts and really only want freedom and openness for the Right Sort of People :shrugfelix:

* When you discover your Instance is blocked. *

After creating a new blog post, I prepare text for announcing it. This is posted at my main instance, and later I visit other accounts, search for that Status URL, and boost it from there.

In one case, I could not find the status on that normal search. Odd. What is going on?

A search for my user profile at Qoto did not bring ANY results either. It dawned on me that something was amiss...

On today's web magazine, live at : write.tedomum.net/rgx/when-you

Amazing. Just found this at hatthieves.es/

We got have a copy, so borrowing it. Gracias!

An animation of what a Black Hole might look like. Trippy.

Just discovered, from a Bing search for a book (which they have, in their library).

Web design is pretty hard to read on my laptop, but can be zoomed out for larger text.

The Information Database at the CyberPunk Project

project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/

And see their Library also at :

project.cyberpunk.ru/lib/

@Full_marx an instance owner can set any rules they want and block or ban whoever they want from a technical aspect. The owners also get to decide if they wish to block their entire instance from other entire instances, again technically speaking.

Usually when a user selects an instance they do so with the intention of picking an instance that has rules and moderation policies they personally agree with. Obviously people who join an instance want to know that they will not personally be censored but also protected from others who might harass them or otherwise be unwelcome.

On this instance, QOTO, we do **not** ban people for being right-wing, left-wing, or for holding any particular viewpoints provided they are respectful and curteous to others.

We require users to basically be kind to eachother, the most fundemental rule is to "respect a users right to disengage" In short this means if you make it clear you do not wish to interact with someone they are then obligated to leave you alone, if they dont then action will be taken.

Statements made intending to be explicitly hateful, such as explicitly racist comments, would also be against the rules (as i said, be kind to one another). But again we won't ban based on political views or personal opinions though.

#Wishlist for 2020 ?
@design_RG

I would like to see what this screenshot shows:

A post with RICH text formatting, here in Geoff's post a Quoted block, but GlitchSoc does support full MarkDown tags in Toots text.

Things like Bold, Italicized, Underlined text . Underlined links if desired - and more.

Web Clients that, like Pinafore already (see screenshot) support displaying this RICH formatting. Yes, Pinafore is awesome, thank you Nolan!
Pinafore's homepage is : pinafore.social
GlitchSoc is advanced, cutting edge Mastodon development. See it at : glitch-soc.github.io/docs/
or in person at an instance near you.
Screenshot below shows Geoff's post at Hackers Town -- hackers.town , which runs GlitchSoc.

But, wait - won't this BREAK in other Mastodon instances? Display UGLY formatting marks in line with the text? Nope.

See in a minute a screen shot of This post (pretty, here in GlitchSoc) as shown (Plain Jane) in a normal Masto instance. (kind of a let down, but no damage done)

Just found on hash in Twitter. End of October, less than two and a half months ago. User count, near 3,000.

Currently, over 6,500, and growing.

We are still looking for volunteers and talent to join Staff. A mod based in _Asia_ would be ideal for Time Zone coverage.
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RT @DocFreemo
Seems is getting about 11 new users every day, more or less consistently.

We are growing fast and I think its t…
twitter.com/DocFreemo/status/1

RT @imKarthikDeva
If you are looking to join (You should) and if you are a STEM person (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) or at least interested in it. Please consider joining : Question Others to Teach Ourselves instance.

qoto.org/about/more

RT @DocFreemo
I'd like to welcome our new moderator to the fold here at . Everyone please welcome @design_RG

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