@Gargron You too!
## Love the idea of this group
The group @theamazingweb that @digital_carver started. All those cool little hard to define web sites from around the internet you may have forgotten about. I have a feeling there is going to be some really interesting posts to that group!
## Who to Thank for the Group Server
We released a lot of new features recently, most notably the managed groups server, groups directory, and markdown formatting in posts (see https://groups.qoto.org ).
A lot of people have asked if I coded it myself and I just wanted to take a minute to say while I did do the final leg of work ultimately needed to make these features possible, this is open-source, and therefore 99% of the work done was done by others, I am simply standing on their shoulders. Aside from a few days of work on my part try to remember people like @Gargron and @noellabo and the other mastodon contributors (sorry I don't really know who all the main contributors are) are the ones who spent many months of their lives doing all the work that made what I did possible.
So while I appreciate the thanks for my part in this, if you really appreciate all the new features please don't forget to thank the mastodon devs either, if it weren't for them this wouldn't be possible.
The game is a bit primitive, but its a cool concept all the same.
Learn CSS by playing a browser game: http://www.flexboxdefense.com/
I didnt address the fact that it was wrong. I said it directly demonstrated the qualities I accused Trade of.
Not ad honimen when its literally true.
To quote him from earlier in the conversation " I just love it when they argue all races are identical despite obvious empirical facts like smart Negroes being about as rare as stupid North Asians."
https://freespeechextremist.com/objects/03cac52d-1632-48e3-b799-afd4cef4fe7a
This 'Fourier space' instead of 'Euclidean space' modelling approach could ease and enhance climate prediction.
https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/10/30/1011435/ai-fourier-neural-network-cracks-navier-stokes-and-partial-differential-equations/
You guys remember this gem from a decade or two ago?
I totally forgot about this gem from the 2000's (I think it was).. I never could remember the name of it though so I havent shared this in a while.. Thanks for sharing and reminding me!
> You can do anything at Zombo.com!
Classic, brought back to life in HTML5. (Original zombo.com still exists, but still uses Flash.)
[Warning: has sound once you press Start]
## Moderated Groups Walk-through
The following is a breakdown of how the new Moderated Group server works. If you want to start a group (becoming the owner and moderator for that group) **you can sign up here**: https://groups.qoto.org
This server is not intended for, nor does it support, regular user accounts. Its intended purpose is to host managed groups similar to https://gup.pe but adding the ability for a group to be owned and managed by an owner giving them the ability to mute, block, or silence misbehaving users as well as to make the group private so that only approved members can join.
The way it works is rather simple, similar to guppe anyone who makes a top-level post and tags the group's account name will have their post added to the group automatically presuming they have permission to post to the group. By default groups are open and anyone would have permission to post to a group. These posts can be done as either public or unlisted, however DMs will not work as they lack the permission for other users to see it. If you wish to get group posts in your home timeline you simply follow the group, that's all there is to it.
Keep in mind while all servers support groups, since it uses standard mechanisms to operate, not all servers will render groups in the same way. You will get the best group expiernce with an account on QOTO which has a unique feature whereby Groups are rendered and handled in a special way. There is a "Group directory" on QOTO, for example, that lists all groups discovered around the fediverse and lists them, ordered by how active they are. Also when you pull up the timeline for a group it renders in a way that makes group posts seem seamless. However if you are on vanilla Mastodon or some other server like Pleroma there isn't any special handling for groups; that means posts made to a group will still show up in your home timeline but it will appear as a boost made by the group account itself. So functionally it still works. This is no different than how guppe works so the expiernce with guppe based groups is no different.
After signing up please consider going to the new accounts profile setting and selecting "List this account on the directory". This will ensure that your group is discoverable and that other users around the fediverse can search for, find, and ultimately join, your group. Without this checked it will not show up in the Group Directory on other servers as well.
Moderation of the group by the account owner is not much different than a normal user account. You can mute, block, or silence users to limit their ability to see or post to the group as you see fit. Similarly a group can be made follower-only if you wish to restrict who can follow a group.
One important note, due to the special nature of a server devoted to groups a few features have been explicitly turned off to prevent abuse. A group account can not follow other user or groups, though it can be followed. As such there is also no home timeline. This prevents users from spam following to get followers to a group.
Nah, you are far too insignificant to be comparable to them in the least. Just an insignificant, grumpy, and not too bright, racist fool, little more.
I wanted to share my favorite circuit simulator to the electronics group. It isnt the most advanced and it wont replace professional tools. But its great at modeling semi-ideal components with an epic way of visualizing current and voltage that just makes it an amazing tool at getting a feeling for how circuits actually work.
Everyone should check it out and play with it, you wont regret it.
https://documentaryheaven.com/
> dedicated solely to bringing you the very best documentary films sourced from all over the internet.
Sean connery died? Seriously... how is this even possible.
He was always in one of those roles that were great, but not the center of attention. One of those actors where you know a movie would be great if he was in it even if he didnt have much screen time.
Indiana Jones and Highlander were epic for example.
RIP!
hahahah, he thinks he is high IQ... how cute. This is some first rate kruger-dunning syndrome right here.
Jeffrey Phillips Freeman
Innovator & Entrepreneur in Machine Learning, Evolutionary Computing & Big Data. Avid SCUBA diver, Open-source developer, HAM radio operator, astrophotographer, and anything nerdy.
Born and raised in Philadelphia, PA, USA, currently living in Utrecht, Netherlands, USA, and Thailand. Was also living in Israel, but left.
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