🎓 Dr. Freemo 🇳🇱 @freemo@social.cleverlibre.org

Happy New Years everyone, welcome to 2021!!!

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#happynewyears

@Eki Hi Eki I noticed you havent responded to this post yet but have been active and made some post since then. This has me concerned that you may be an automated account, please get back to me shortly to alleviate that concern thanks.

@valleyforge I'm not sure its either of those to be honest. I think it has more to do with the fact that it would devalue the money supply. A penny is worth more than a penny in terms of raw material, many people keep huge quantities of pennies for their intrinsic rather than implied value.

In addition it means rounding loss for the government on things like taxes. If you buy 1.05 in stuff and tax comes to 0.19 (random numbers) you'd only be able to pay 0.15 in sales tax and the government would have lost out on nearly 25% of their tax in that particular transaction.

@ethot We gained 7,196 users this year, and that doesnt count spam accounts as we have in the past few weeks aggressively removed old accounts that didnt post spam but had spam in their account description (previously we had only removed active spammers). This effort was thanks to our latest moderator @khird who has done a phenomenal job and spearheaded that effort.

That number would have been a decent chunk larger if it werent for that.

@2ck Oh I left out the most important part. There is also a constant voltage applied around the border of the screen. This is obviously needed to allow the capacitance to be detected (your body is interacting with the electric field to become the other plate of the capactor.

@2ck its actually really simple, its just a gird of tiny plates under the screen and their capcitance is constantly tested, when a change is detected it is seen as a touch.

your phone is likely creating capacitance but on the fringe of what the sensors will register. Because when your near the edge you arent surrounding the touch point with sensors on all sides like you might in the middle it has a lower sensitivity and your touch event is therefore falling out of range.

@arteteco I am but it is by choice, I have some work i really want to get done ASAP and frankly COVID is just too rampant to do anything worthy of NYE anyway.

@icedquinn interestingly lithium is also sold in over the counter form just in lower dosage.. While I am not recommending anyone take it without talking to a doctor, any who wants it can get it.

@eldang

Ironically early on when we debated blocking GAB, which is where all this started, it was our LGBT community that urged us not to since many of the users were alts from other instances who used QOTO as a means to monitor GAB accounts for threats to their community (such as Milo doxing people).

Since we were the only really actively LGBT friendly instance that took a stance not to block GAb it wound up being a significant part of community here. Over the years we added additional features to help them along such as our subscribe feature which gave them some additional privacy when monitoring a GAB account (not needing to follow it or notify the account they are watching).

The irony is that it did, of course, get us blocked by a lot of instances that blindly blocked any instance that had an open-federation policy, but in my eyes it was an acceptable price to pay to help support our community here, they made a compelling argument to me for the need at the time and I still agree with that decision.

@datatitian @ox @distel @mcmoots

@khird

Yea no need to count it. Basically if it just becomes a burden to handle or starts clogging the timeline . Seems good so far.

@arteteco @Sphinx

@bonifartius

I agree entirely.

@trinsec @mur2501

@Deki Hi welcome to the server, great to have you here.

What areas of STEM do you work in? What sort of projects do you have going on?

Please feel free to reach out anytime if you have questions I am one of the moderators here.

@joaopinheiro Its nice to "meet" you as well :)

i can relate to that sentiment, I think seeing someones face gives us a certain feeling as to their personality. not always an accurate one mind you, but inaccurate or not it gives the person more dimension and makes them feel more real for sure.

For anyone following this bug from this thread here is a link to the issue report:

https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/issues/15472

@Gargron @zleap

@mashirozx Dawwww thanks! Kind of you to say.