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Or quit Twitter because the algorithm pushes celebrities and organizations too much, rather than actual humans?

> The rules of what you're allowed to post

Additionally, most popular generic instances allow you to post anything except for ads, explicit hate, or nsfw without a warning.

Here you go, a pigeon and cat interacting through a window https://mastodon.art/@welshpixie/108961962539795706 :)

Memes, art, cat photos, catching up with other people's projects.

Find artists: https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/tagged/art

Comics: https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/tagged/comics

Cat pictures, etc.: https://mastodon.social/@gargron

More recommendations: https://mastodon.online/@FediFollows/108521414258703203

If you would like, I'm [@karmanyaahm@social.linux.pizza](https://social.linux.pizza/@karmanyaahm) (you can see who I follow and whether they interest you)

As for using Mastodon, I would highly recommend getting an app like Tusky to have a proper 'all in one' experience.

In addition to what the sibling comment said, Beeper is a great 'all in one' bridges type of software. The client is proprietary, but still interoperable with the larger Matrix network (and they contribute to upstream too).

> Btw the parents sound like helicopter parents going by your first sentence alone, I wouldn't mind them if they think their kid has to consider careers at 14.

My middle school required career shadowing at the end of 8th grade.

I agree with the first paragraph.

> One problematic issue I can see the Pinephone have in regards to this is that there's no unified push service that works for all apps

I won't reveal exactly where this is happening because the software is still in a proof-of-concept stage, but KDE folks are working on a 'unified push service' right now.

> because just about no browser today does anything nicer than wall of XML

The browser doesn't, but you can use an XSLT stylesheet like this to make it look a little bit nicer: https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc/feed.xml

An XSLT stylesheet allows formatting XML content as HTML/CSS. Of course, I haven't solved linking people to feed readers (maybe just feedly), but it could be done with this.

Source code: https://github.com/karmanyaahm/karmanyaahm.github.io/blob/d6...

Also see https://www.vexforum.com/t/anyone-else-using-vex-for-non-com... or https://www.vexforum.com/t/vex-robotics-xylophone-player-pro.... They blur the line between toys and equipment that can do practical tasks but is made for learning.

Sorry for the ignorance, but what is the point of getting this accurate in the datacenter (outside of scientific research and measurements I'd imagine)?

Wouldn't it be easier to just make distributed servers deal with large 'packets' or large individual tasks on their own?

This would be cool to make this into an airgapped TOTP device if an RTC is added

> owner loses control

the owner retains control of distributing their voice without a major platform getting in the way

Is it really shrinking? Mastodon gained 950k users in 2021, combining with other platforms they probably gained over a million.

https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2021/12/mastodon-recap-2021/

Projects like Matrix.org are also seeing huge growth. Of course these are nothing on FAANG scale, but still far from shrinking.

I'm happy to see that Generics will make advanced and optimized data types available to all developers using libraries like this.

This sounds like an interesting service, but makes me wonder, wouldn't it just be simpler to do a Wayback machine like thing (which I think the article says is sometimes done) than to try to update all URLs.

> every PID is a service commitment involving at least some sweat equity

I think that's one of the inspirations behind sqlite.

> They’d double click on the thing and a dialog box would pop that says, “Can’t connect to database server,” and it wasn’t our fault. We didn’t have any control over the database server, but what do you do if you can’t connect to the server, so we got the blame all the same because we were painting the dialog box.

https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/

As binwiederhier said 'it is what it is' with proprietary platforms. However, you can still avoid going through Google now for the apps that do already support UnifiedPush

Additionally, supporting UnifiedPush (code and adoption by app devs) is supporting:

1. Non-google app stores (e.g. F-Droid with it's great selection of FOSS apps)

2. Google-free distributions of Android

3. Linux phones

The above amount to a small but non-trivial community, but imho supporting (or participating in) them ethically is something I like.

> I think the initial sync issue is one of the worst problems, because someone joining in to leave a quick comment will be waiting for the system to synchronize

The initial sync issue is only a problem for large accounts which have joined many rooms. Cactus comments creates a guest user for non-logged-in commenters, and an empty guest account is pretty much instant to load in my experience.

You can go to my cactus comments instance (running on aforementioned 1gb machine) to test out the speed https://karmanyaah.malhotra.cc/tech/2021/06/website-things/

When you buy a single Unifi AP they include POE injectors (i.e. a power brick that injects power into ethernet).

Or golang at go.dev

I can only speak for Vex V5 (one of the systems they teach) and VRC, but from a competition and user standpoint:

Scratch is used when coding isn't a focus, and mechanical engineering students just want to 'get the job done'.

C++ is used because it's probably the most 'pro' language. Close to bare metal unlike Python, but object oriented and stuff unlike C. C++ is used pretty much any time complex algorithms, threading, etc. are involved during competition.

Recently Vex has been trialing Python in Vexcode, but it's relatively new so they might not have built courses for it yet, if the even plan to.

It could easily be a modified version of Matrix or XMPP (omemo). The protocols, security, and audits are already there. Sending delay should be easy to add on top without hurting security.

> The way our cities are designed also plays a role - mostly they're designed around the automobile

+ kids who can't drive suffer

> the actions they're taking are right

They are right for their bank accounts.

If that was the case, wouldn't the CIA just hire those who aren't in that wide swath? Case closed according to the journalist I would think

> One would think it’s basically impossible to get millennials and zoomers into covert jobs. The youngest of this bunch of young people have spent their entire lives online, some since their parents blasted out their first ultrasound picture as a pregnancy announcement, before they’d even gained sentience.

> how exactly are you supposed to achieve this level of anonymity when you’ve flung untold reams of identifiable content across the digital world?

Assuming that that applies to every single Gen-Z or Millennial is the most "OK Boomer" stereotype ever

Netflix makes a better acronym MANGA

Technically, PGP can already do that using something like [keyoxide](https://keyoxide.org/4AF679D0ABA0ED4B07BF7B6932CA3267C8D187D...). The user experience of creating and managing keys is very bad though.

In Matrix (element.io here), you can click on one button in any room and start a video chat, and then after one more click screen share. The rooms aren't dedicated to voice/video but it definitely is very easy to do that.

It is implemented using Jitsi at a protocol level but the end-user doesn't usually notice that.

> I have to repeatedly tell Discord that I’m not a student and not interested in their scholastic channels

I am a student but I don't want to link my personal Discord account with school things, which they keep recommending, FFS.