Mathematics has many daughters. Nearly all are beautiful. Physics & Chemistry are dutiful & visit home often. Life science is always away on some exotic research trip, hardly has time to write. Three of the girls live at home: Statistics, Computer Science ... & The Other One.
Statistics spent some time in a sanitarium, no one talks about it. She's doing better now, dotes on mother. Computer Science puts on a suit each day for her Big Important Job. But she still never moved out. 1/ #ideas
I try now #Logseq and this is #OpenSource and I would like to like it but somewhere I can't manage to understand and use it. I don't just want to write down my thoughts and #ideas, I also want to be able to check off a #todo list… 😐
Help me out here. Like a lot of ex-redditors, I made my way to the fediverse to find a whole new world of social media. Is it confusing at first? Yes. It takes a moment to adjust and learn the difference between an instance and a server and all that. But the one thing that confuses all hell out of me is @name. Not because it doesn't make sense. I get that on the most basic level if I wanna find user @JakoJakoJako13 that's what I need to search for. But mainly because it doesn't work in the way it's proposed to work across all instances/servers/services. Which is if I search for @nfl on Mastodon or Calckey or any fediverse server I should be able to see what they posted. Most of the time, that's not what happens.
First we need to look at Lemmy because they've kinda thrown a wrench at this cog. What is this: !nfl? More importantly what is [!] doing there? Well that's the NFL community on lemmy.world. But to be super distinct, its a place. Not a person. What happens if I search for that on Mastodon? It returns nothing? What if I change that to @nfl. I get a user on Mastodon with 16 posts that don't populate on Mastodon. Same thing on Calckey but 0 posts instead of 16. Why does this happen? That user (to my knowledge) doesn't exist. On Lemmy, it's a place. A place where a collection of users congregated to make a collection of posts about the NFL. You could argue it's the same thing on Mastodon but instead of a dedicated place it's a subject and it's out in the open.
A noun is a person, place, or thing. So far in the fediverse we've concentrated on a person @ and a thing #. Mainly because the groundwork is there thanks to twitter. The fediverse's implementation of interactivity only focuses on the user. It has only looked at the @ of human interaction and not the whole noun. If this idea of connecting across servers want's to fully work then each service needs to come to an agreement on how they want to implement places !. We've got the user part down. We've got the thing part down. Only using an @ and a # leads to small talk. Need proof. See Twitter. If you want deep thoughtful discussion, you need the !. And in my analogy that is the place. And like in real life when it's all working together it leads to a community.
So I guess what I'm proposing, is as much as we hate reddit right now, Mastodon, Calckey, Lemmy, Kbin, and so on need to find a way to incorporate places together to get the whole idea of the fediverse walking.
I shouldn't have to enter a full URL to get Mastodon to populate the contents of a user or place. That's not the way we've been told this works. We're being sold on the model of @name. Well @name wants to see what !nfl is saying about #nfl over on !different. Until we standardize that, the fediverse will only ever be a half baked idea.
My birthday is in 12 days. I have been ordered to provide "ideas" for gifts. I have apparently achieved englightenment and don't want anything (other than "time" or "relaxation" or "a new job").
So far my list of (bad) ideas is just "Kobo gift card" and "Steam gift card".
What do normal people ask for for their birthdays? 'cause apparently I need ideas.
There should be a standard for digital image formats that includes an AltText field that you could set once and then where ever that image appears online the AltText is automatically made available to screen readers and curious people. Set it and forget it kind of a thing.
Exif already has an ImageDescription tag that could serve this purpose. I edit most my stuff in Gimp and it would be nice to compose that text while I am most involved in thinking about the image.
I've said it before and I'll say it again, if you believe that #Qanon#conspiracy#rightwing#cooker#bullshit then I will never be your comrade or friend as I know your #cooked#intentions end up with murdering #someone... A movement existed before "q anon" and it was "#anonymous", anonymous was #leftwing#antifascist#ideas... had nothing or any association with the rightwing extremist atrocities from these cooker Qanon fuckwits of today.
The test of a first-rate #intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“The unfortunate reality is that most people struggle to hold two #ideas in their head at the same time, let alone introducing any opposition between those two ideas.”
Hey #mastodon minds, I would like to discuss with you an old idea
Game Map with interactive panoramas, like Google Street View for 3d games
⭐ Let's think how it can be done, write in the comments
This could be an API for game developers to add a custom content creation mode to the game. Creating a routes where the camera will take pictures. And what to do with old games?
Look; if you don’t support #LandBack, you probably don’t understand what is actually being proposed. #Everything I have read and heard has been very reasonable and fair. The only folks talking about revenge campaigns are #WhiteSupremacists trying to drum up #fears. The movement is co-axial with a lot of the #ideas in the #Ecological and Green movements. It’s a #decolonizing measure. It has the potential to benefit lots of #people, including non-Natives, given that many of the proposals would dramatically improve air and water quality and increase access to food across economic class lines. These folks have good ideas. I am asking you, politely, to just, take a look
DnD and Buddy Cop crossover movie? Make it so number one... 😁
Also, I want a super happy and supportive secret nerd police captain who keeps giving them their guns and badges back when they try to quit.
As usual, I #know nothing about it, just familiar with its symbol ...
So far I have #downloaded an RSS program, #Firefox#extension and tried to make sense of them or at least use in some #relevant way ...
A thought, from a discussion this morning: one of the problems our society faces is that kindness is local (reinforced by small communities and reliant on individuals helping each other - multiple small events) and therefore not easily scalable, while competitiveness is extremely scalable. But kindness and humanity are the most important things in life. We all need to keep putting small local effort in to make sure the important stuff is at the forefront. #ideas#humanity
There's an odd social phenomenon tied to the "marketplace of ideas." It always starts with a stated intent to give voice to the marginalized, and it always ends with the establishment and protection of xenophobic hate speech against those same marginalized people.
An #LLM#AI trained on playlists and music reviews who talks with a sneer like a local record store clerk who just doesn't have time for your pedestrian tastes. #ideas But if it must, it will make recommendations.