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
@laurheth Grit your teeth through crunch time.
If crunch time is "always", that's a problem.
More helpfully, schedule some time for personal projects.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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#2697 Y2K and 2038
It's taken me 20 years, but I've finally finished rebuilding all my software to use 33-bit signed ints.
https://xkcd.com/2697/
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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🇳🇱
I just realized... my lighter gets lighter when I light 'er
@brandesstoddard Very heisty!
Also makes sure a gorgeous map doesn't go to waste. @dysonlogos
1. A student in office hours requested a game of Go.
2. Reviewed a bunch of student work.
3. The Shut Up & Sit Down podcast.
The hacky sack circle outside my office window seems like it's been going on continuously for like two months.
birdsite
The current wave of new users is intense, but I shudder to imagine what will happen if Twitter actually goes under.
Is there a way to format block code using markdown on #qoto? Triple backticks don't seem to work:
```
def mean(a, b):
sum = a + b
return sum / 2
```
@nKiaru You do have to select "markdown" using one of the buttons under the area where you compose the toot (on the web interface).
@undefined @nKiaru qoto, at least, supports markdown, so in theory you can use `single backticks around inline code` and triple backticks for block code:
```
def f(x):
return x + 1
```
(Hmm, it seem to have lost the indentation.)
@undefined @fannyseneart That's a PAINTING?!
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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@nKiaru Not sure entirely what's going on here, but maybe close() should be super.close()?
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
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I tried to take a photo of a grasshopper on my windshield, but now it looks like it's gigantic and destroying the town.
@Drosmel Absolutely! I tell them, "If you have a question, you're not the only one. Others may not say so, but they're glad you asked."
I don't know that they believe me, but I keep saying it.
Peter Drake, he/him, LFHCfS 🔥
boosted
I mentioned this in a private message to someone recently about why a small handful of servers block qoto. I wanted to reiterate it here for the new comers on QOTO who dont know the history:
So there are some servers out there that demand every server int he network block every instance they do, and if a server doesnt block an instance they block then they block you in rettatliation.
Their reason for this is quite flawed but it goes like this.. If we federate with a bad actor instance and we boost one of their posts then their users will see it and defeat the purpose of the block. The problem is, this isnt how it actually works. If they block a server and we boost it, they wont see the boost, thats how blocks work.
The issue becomes even more complicated when you consider the fact that these servers, by virtue of their policy, have huge block lists where they block tons of major servers. So in order to satisfy them we too would have to block a huge number of servers.
This means you have a choice, you either join a server that isnt blocked, but has a huge block list themselves, or, you join a server that doesnt block and be blocked by a small handful of servers. Obviously that means on QOTO you will have bigger view of the world than you would on any of these others servers. In fact QOTO has onne of the largest federation footprints of any server in the network.
I want to also explain why we choose the decision we did. Years ago when this controversy started and servers across the fediverse started blocking there was a divide of people taking sides. WOTO was one of the few servers that didnt take sides and allowed people read content from any server (but with strict hate speech rules). This caused a huge influx of people,s pecifically from the LGBTQ community, onto our server. It turns out many people relied on us not-blocking for their physical safety. There were big name biggots (like milo yanappolus) who were on the network. They used their accounts here to watch his account for doxing so they could warn themselves and their community and protect themselves accordingly. In fact we added a feature just for them called subscriptions which allowed them to monitor accounts without following them so they could do so anonymously.
In tthe end for the safety of the LGBTQ community here we refused to engage in mass server blocking and instead encouraged our users to block servers on an individual basis and provided access to block lists for them to do so. But some really misguided servers blocked us anyway.
Thankfully the servers blocking us are few and far between and are limited to only the most excessive and aggressive block lists. As I said, QOTO has one of the largest federation footprints on the fediverse,
- 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
