Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥 @peterdrake@social.cleverlibre.org
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Interesting #Mastodon tools for newcommers
Scheaduler
https://scheduler.mastodon.tools
Crossposster for instagram and twitter
https://moa.party
Instances search engine
https://instances.social/list/advanced
Some data about the federation
https://the-federation.info
The wiki
https://en.mstdn.wiki/Main_Page
Bot wiki
https://botwiki.org/bot/?networks=fediverse&opensource=true
Curated list of mastodon related stuff
https://github.com/tleb/awesome-mastodon
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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I resent that my computer, the most complex and powerful machine I'll likely ever use, is turned on by some pissant little five-cent plastic button like it's a shitty VCR from the 90's. I want a massive ornate copper knife switch, as long as my forearm, with the lower position hand-lettered "HALT" and the engaged position labelled "COMPUTE." When I go to use my computer, I want it to know I MEAN it.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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NaN is the loneliest number
@rojo Having no further information, yes!
Misconception: a programmer works alone. Teamwork is everything.
Here's my longer essay on How To College:
https://sites.google.com/a/lclark.edu/drake/courses/drakepedia/plan-change-evaluate
U.S. is denying passports to Americans along the border, throwing their citizenship into question
"almost all of them Hispanic, living in a heavily Democratic sliver of Texas"
I've had a couple of blind students in the past. You might think, "great this stuff is all online, so it'll be easy to access!". Turns out ... not so much. https://www.washington.edu/accesscomputing/accesscsforall
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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tech privilige on mastodon
"if you don't like where you are, go make your own instance" is uncomfortably like "if you don't like your neighbourhood, build a house somewhere else" -- it presumes a whole shitload of privilege and resources.
Instead, it's much better to point people to the list of instances, e.g. the list of essentially free housing they can trivially move to. Just think before you say "just do [enormously difficult technical thing] lmao" like it's eating ice cream.
People in the Pacific Northwest: are you ready for the big quake? https://www.oregon.gov/oha/PH/Preparedness/Prepare/Pages/PrepareForEarthquake.aspx
I'm assuming this is an operating system.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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Is there a way one can toot here...and the same gets posted on Twitter & Gab too?
@freemo Hmm. Tusky (Android) has a button for emoji, but there's no apparent way to search them and they aren't organized in any particular way. 🤷
@freemo "Ah-h-h-h-h-h-h," as Frank Herbert would say, "-h-h-h-h-h."
@freemo Is there a way to see a list of all the available emoji, or at least to search for one?
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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F*b*k gets even worse : deletes years of cross posts without warning.
Facebook has removed all cross-posted tweets
https://techcrunch.com/2018/08/28/facebook-has-removed-all-cross-posted-tweets/
Interesting study from 2015: playing multiplayer video games increases civic engagement. https://academic.oup.com/jcmc/article-pdf/20/4/381/19492375/jjcmcom0381.pdf
@Surasanji Thanks -- I'll give that a try!
@Surasanji So ... mist the soil instead of pouring a cup in there?
@Surasanji I pour a cup of water on the roots once a week. The soil seems bone dry to me, but several people have told me anything more would be overwatering.
@Surasanji Surprisingly, no -- Portland refuses to fluoridate its tapwater.
- Siva Afi
- https://tgc.link/siva-afi
- Cascadia 9.0
- https://www.cascadia9game.org/
CS professor, game designer, and fire dancer ordinaire.
Joined Aug 2018
