Glenn a.k.a. Don Blanco @donblanco@octodon.social
Retired I.T. - expat life in Mexico - aspirational writer, hacker, activist, musician, genealogist
me: cool article, maybe I'll follow this person
*scrolls down*
"Husband, Father, godlovingbornagainchristlover...*
me: NOPE alt+left-arrow
Finally got a few things sorted. Konsole starts oh-my-fish, which starts tmux. Learning basic tmux commands is good. Then use Kakoune in place of vim for basic editing. Need to brush up on all command options. Also, love it that oh-my-fish has a theme named after Isao Tomita! https://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/05/08/music/isao-tomita-japanese-pioneer-of-synthesizer-music-dies-at-84/
@nowplaying had a brief stint in a SRV cover band - true story...
Get frustrated with software - google 'giving up on _____' - find my own post from last year where I state that I'm giving up on this software. So I've already used it and given up on it once before. I guess I thought this time would be different?
Oh well, guess it's time to go try the other software I mentioned last year, now that I am actually running Linux for my main box...
@wxcafe sorry, I'm not downloading a file from someone on the internet...
happy solstice, tootsters! ☀️
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in a nutshell, it's about autonomy. it's about social media autonomy for every person on the planet. all 7.6 billion of us. nobody else telling us to do, what to say, and nobody else forcing us to see things we don't want to see.
this means Pleroma is being built for an entirely new scale of fediverse: one with billions of nodes. it's also why Pleroma supports alternative transports such as TOR and I2P out of the box.
it also is a major differentiator between Pleroma and Mastodon. in the Mastodon model, there's maybe a few million islands which host a few thousand people each. to contrast, in our model, everyone who wants to host their own instance does so. that means everyone can choose to have total social media freedom.
but it's not just social media, we also intend to use the same underlying tech to enable real-time communications with the same capabilities as the social media side of things.
and it's universal: different frontends for different preferences. like Mastodon but don't have the resources to run it? use Pleroma with Mastodon frontend and apps. like GNU social? Pleroma's default frontend was modelled after it. like diaspora* but want to talk to your fediverse friends? use Feather. like the alternative Mastodon frontends like Pinafore and Brutaldon? they work too.
hate spam and harrassment? we have a mostly as yet untapped framework called MRF which can be leveraged to automate moderation of an instance.
want to modify it? drop by #pleroma on freenode and we help with that too.
@charlag @tomharris ah, thanks! To Tom, I would simply suggest watching Cowspiracy. It is primarily a film about the horrible environmental damage we do by feeding plants to animals and then eating them. No vivid animal cruelty 'shock' moments. This video is what caused my wife and I to become vegan 2.5 years ago.
@aral note to self - when visiting Europe, more Barcelona, less London...
@aral every time I paste a dat:// link into Beaker and hit return (or use Paste and Go) it fails - but Try Again brings it right up. Not sure if this is coming from your site or just a bug...
@venatus When I read about it in Anathem (Neal Stephenson) I thought it sounded like an insane fiction... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathem
@charlag @tomharris Just curious - where exactly are these vegan articles? Couldn't find any from Tom as far back as June 1...
Sometimes I forget how amazingly cool it is that I can sit here typing on my computer (w/ 43" 4KTV) and look up above the screen to watch clouds draped across the top of green mountains. I'm only a few thousand feet from the tops of the mountains, and less than a mile from the base. The lake behind me sits at almost a mile high here in western Mexico. This is why I retired early. This.
TIL - emacs stands for Editor MACroS...
After becoming frustrated with Vim/NeoVim and just getting color schemes to work right and save, I ended up installing emacs. I mean, I'm retired and I have time. Also, I may have a streak of masochism...
@deadsuperhero Wow. Some things just can't be unseen! 😱
@bremner @craigmaloney yeah, I can't top that *golf claps* lol
@Ricardus hey @djsundog - ask you wife about this one. Can't wait for the play-by-play hahaha
just discovered how to put NeoVim into terminal mode - superpowers! :\
