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

"BeOS: The Alternate Universe’s Mac OS X"

A nice article by Erin Pinheiro just posted on Hackaday.com. Recommended reading for anyone interested in UI and system design, Op Systems, evolution of comp tech.

https://hackaday.com/2020/01/09/beos-the-alternate-universes-mac-os-x/

"Meet The BeOS
Could you imagine emailing someone a video file in 1995? Be Inc. did.

BeOS was, at the time, a foray into a new way of doing home computing. The features it introduced that were brand new at the time are now ubiquitous — things such as preemptive multitasking, journaling filesystems and an uncluttered desktop design.

In a way, it was forward-thinking enough that if you look at a screenshot of it today you’d swear it was just any other modern Linux environment, ’90s graphical aesthetic aside. "

You like emojis?

Like, REALLY like them? How about 7,315 of them? All in one instance, no kidding.

See them, get them, download the whole set at : https://fedimojis.feuerfuchs.dev/fedi.absturztau.be

Find a place to host your files, videos, mastodon or other social media instance? Yesterday I discovered this one, which is similar to the French Chatons -- https://chatons.org/en

"librehosters is a network of cooperation and solidarity that uses free software to encourage decentralisation through federation and distributed platforms. Our values connect transparency, fairness and privacy with a culture of data portability and public contributions to the commons. "

https://libreho.st/

#FOSS #hosting #fediverse

A Guide to Fediverse Drama, seems a nice thing to have.

Just getting started and the Drama, yeah. LOL...

http://go.kibi.family/Documents/fediguide.xhtml

Posts are dated from 2017, but I have been reading some good materials from the same vintage and many things are still current.

#Fediverse

Great cat photo, appropriated from Blitz.

OP: https://freespeechextremist.com/objects/169a0609-c853-4f4d-80f2-6d9716b9dc30

#Cats #mastocats #CatsOfMastodon #meow #CatsOfTwitter

Larry, official #Cat of number 10 Downing Street, in London. Currently, the best natured occupant of this building by far.

#Cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #xp
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RT @Filmquotebloke@twitter.activitypub.actor
Finally got @Number10cat to pose for me @10DowningStreet and I am as happy as...well...Larry!
https://twitter.com/Filmquotebloke/status/1214576423274516480

#wise

On the popular trends.

#1 in France at the moment.

Today I discovered and joined a new instance. Amazing how we cross paths and discover things at random points. Serendipity, is a Thing.

This instance is called Expired Mentality, RIP.

Source of the name? I will quote :

" yep, thanks to hysterical Gab dev for this name. https://youtu.be/TveK9Sfwtvo?t=96 "

LOL.... 😜

op : https://expired.mentality.rip/notice/9qmKRuKbWVnVjT8uKO

** Want to see and get to know a Pleroma Node? I vouch for https://expired.mentality.rip/ **

@a1batross Worth mentioning that GlitchSoc instances ( cutting edge branch of Mastodon development, various cool instances running it right now) , GS instances already support MarkDown formatting in text.

Which looks very pretty in the GS instances, and does NOT mess up or break normal Mastodon nodes. The same message shows as a plain Jane, no makeup, girl next door on a Monday morning version. lol...

Example below? GlitchSoc posted, with MarkDown rich text, and viewed in Pinafore client.

** Things to Keep an Eye out For **

A client for mobile devices that support the Enhanced Text format that Pleroma users enjoy in their instances.

We here in mastodon world, can always wish for, but they have it, NOW.

Mobile clients still not supporting these extensions, but I was just chatting with an admin of a Pleroma node who is building a fork of Tusky -- which will offer that and more.

Not released yet, he's waiting for Tusky release v.10, since his code is based on development versions of Tusky itself.

Thanks @a1batross !! Look forward to seeing it!

Please note the Source -- The Atlantic is a wonderful magazine. Thank you Bernie, time to bring US into the modern day and age.

#Health is an Essential Service, not a profit driven endeavour. Or so it is, in many developed countries. #xp

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2020/01/how-much-does-it-cost-have-baby-us/604519/
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RT @SenSanders
Cost of having a baby with health insurance today: $4,500
Cost of having a baby under Medicare for All: $0

We can afford Medicare for All. What we can't a…
https://twitter.com/SenSanders/status/1214612324599898113

Midnite Moonshine. 💕 Even her name is beautiful.

Blue shine on the fur of this gorgeous #BlackCat .

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #xp
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RT @DebbieMidnite
Me has not been on de twitter for awhile. Mama wuz in de hospital at Christmas! Her had a fing called numonia. Her wuz vury sicky. Her couldn’t breethe! Her is finally better, fanks to de good care, snuggles, & kisses me give her! Me mak…
https://twitter.com/DebbieMidnite/status/1214433198370967554

Please look at this status for an important explanation on WHY we don't have more reasonable limits on Toot size, or an easier to change limit.

By Design. Mr Mastodon head developer thinks it is best done so.

https://busshi.moe/@mewmew/103444186467997545

Blog post in gestation on this topic...

My thoughts on why the cramped 500 characters maximum Toot is a relic which Mastodon developers should consider revising. Or making easier to change, for the few instances that allow their users more modern space and limits.

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Geez...

I have encountered the hard core Twitter user mentality in some admins I have made this request to.

They were users there for years, are used to the short burst posting, which I as a Forum user find baffling, unattractive and a general pain in the butt, to be perfectly honest.

There was a time, in the older days, when twitter started and ran over SMS. The 140 character limit came from that, as people had voice and SMS access, not mobile data.

The cramped space, terseness resulting from it, I could understand in that situation. But we have left that long behind.

I usually don't feel attracted to responding to the very short one liners. To call that "micro blogging" is a weird distortion of what I consider blogging to be.

I do write long posts in mastodon, and much longer form in Blog posts; have a hell of a time to post an announcement in Twitter for those in their measly 240 chars.

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OP at my new Pleroma account, which thankfully doesn't have this Fossilized limit in place.

RT of : https://expired.mentality.rip/notice/9qlo8uV1Tez2DauhEG

Sharing a tip and recommendation for music lovers everywhere...

"This is my go to for finding good stations. I have found a bunch of really good ones that don't have any commercials and very few station calls. "

http://www.internet-radio.com/

Thank you, friend... OP : https://twit.social/@souldessin/103443647347663966

This one seems to have one advantage compared to my own setup -- there's mentions of Columns being adjustable in width, which is a nicety I have only found in ONE client for Mastodon so far --> Whalebird.

https://github.com/h3poteto/whalebird-desktop/releases/tag/3.0.0

Found at another instance, a fellow user suggesting a way to use the FULL width of our modern laptop/desktop screens.

A big pet peeve of mine, if you know me. (got mine running and quite happy)

Here's his/her suggestion :

"Another tip is to use the the browser addon Stylus and then add a userstyle like https://userstyles.org/styles/154943/mastodon-variable-width-variation to make it fill whole the screen. You have to edit the userstyle to include your instance though. "

OP at : https://mstdn.io/@shellkr/103405434903544190