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Some folks, you just caen't reach...

So you get what we had here just last week, this week, and it's exactly why I denegrate those who would be so obtuse as to suggest an interview over Zoom or a weekly business meeting when we've got really great #FOSS solutions far superior to those proprietary offerings that mine your #privacy.

I personally recommend Self-hosting BBB, but Pikapods suggests Jitsi, yet both are pretty awesome and won't be caught data mining your medical records and selling them later.

What we have here is failure, to communicate...

#tallship #Big_Blue_Button #Jitsi #BBB

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@Pikapods

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Pikapods/statuses/117263205624883428

Some folks, you just caen't reach...

So you get what we had here just last week, this week, and it's exactly why I denegrate those who would be so obtuse as to suggest an interview over Zoom or a weekly business meeting when we've got really great #FOSS solutions far superior to those proprietary offerings that mine your #privacy.

I personally recommend Self-hosting BBB, but Pikapods suggests Jitsi, yet both are pretty awesome and won't be caught data mining your medical records and selling them later.

What we have here is failure, to communicate...

#tallship #Big_Blue_Button #Jitsi #BBB

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@Pikapods

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Pikapods/statuses/117263205624883428

Some folks, you just caen't reach...

So you get what we had here just last week, this week, and it's exactly why I denegrate those who would be so obtuse as to suggest an interview over Zoom or a weekly business meeting when we've got really great #FOSS solutions far superior to those proprietary offerings that mine your #privacy.

I personally recommend Self-hosting BBB, but Pikapods suggests Jitsi, yet both are pretty awesome and won't be caught data mining your medical records and selling them later.

What we have here is failure, to communicate...

#tallship #Big_Blue_Button #Jitsi #BBB

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@Pikapods

RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Pikapods/statuses/117263205624883428

@Rachelburch

Children's Hide & Seek Rules Explained

👧 Peek a Boo! 🐮 (You can't see me)

👧 I see you! 🐄 (No you don't. I'm invisible behind this tree)

🐄 (Marco....) 👧❓❓❓

👧 Polo?? 🐮(Marco...) 👧 Stop it! I see you

🐄 (No you don't. I'm invisible. Peek a Boo!)

#tallship #peekaboo #cow #mossy_tree #Stubborn_cow

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RE: https://mastodon.social/users/Rachelburch/statuses/117180493625637970

#SchiffSamstag #ShipSaturday

The tall ship INS Sudarshini from India, recently docked at the Brooklyn waterfront after participating in New York’s Parade of Sail.

#photography #monochrome #blackandwhite #ship #tallship #tallships #brooklyn #nyc

“So we sailed on to the sun, ‘til we found the Sea of Green.” — The Beatles 😁

Something a little different for #MeerMittwoch.

#photography #seawednesday #tallship #tallships #nyc

NOTE: This is a repost from the Fediverse-City Matrix Room.

I meant to post on the progress that @toddsundsted has been making on kristec.

You can also checkout this ambitious project itself at:

https://github.com/toddsundsted/ktistec

I've been thoroughly impressed with all of the publishing features of his Fediverse server.

Some of the shortcomings, if that's how you choose to view them, might be that it's essentially a smolweb server leveraging noSQL and an accounts database that trusts all users as literal admins.

But if you're looking to self-host, and your primary interest is in publishing your own material on the #Fediverse, then this may be just the thing you've been looking for.

I cannot atest to the veracity of his claims because I haven't actually installed or tested its capabilities, but it's indeed a laundry list of features I've been hoping to see - leaving that Twitter style cloning of communications in the past, like I've been hoping for.

So for those interested, if you're impressed with the capabilities that #PieFed and #Mitra and #Socialhome bring to the table then here's a fourth initiative that is both visionary and inciteful in it's ambitions.

Your thoughts, observations?

#tallship #FOSS #kristec #Star_Trek #Fediverse #ActivyPub #publishing

@futurebird
2/2 For sailing in general maybe you'd like to look at SailCargo.inc, or FairTrasport.eu or EcoClipper.org, or companies alike, they often sail with cargo between EU and the Americas and seek volunteers or trainees to join a trip.

#europe #immigration #migration #sailing #sailship #tallship #sailcargo

Letzte Meile zur PEKING ab 30. März • Last mile to PEKING
🪢💨🌊⚓️❤️ 🛟
#peking #viermastbark #fourmastedbarque #flyingpliner #pliner #windjammer #tallship #großsegler #capehorn #kaphoorn #clipper #steelhulled #hamborgerveermaster #seemannsgarn #hafenmuseumhamburg #schuppen50 #deutscheshafenmuseum #hamburg #RQTD #pekingfreunde #viermastbarkpeking #pekinghamburg #peking1911 #freundederviermastbarkpeking

Reflection of the brig #StLawrenceII alongside in Lunenburg at dusk on Saturday. #tallship #reflectionphotography #reflection #lunenburgnovascotia #maritimephotography #sailingvessel #brig

@gabek @gcrkrause

#ROFLMAOPMP!

I love perusing the various stats, and this particular one left me with that pain in your side from serious gufaw gufaw's, ... Sulu outranks Eugen - now THAT, is fricken' funny! And he's also organically ranked above @gargron too, lolz.

Now, the sad part about this, and one would need to have been a Fedizen going back for a few years, is that as a techno early adopter, #Wesley_Crusher was summarily and relentlessly flogged and ridiculed until he was driven from the Fediverse by selfish, jealous little children here in the Fedi about 5 years ago.

I mean, sure, Wesley Crusher was a total goombah on #TNG, while #George_Takei is a superhero from #ToS, yet in real life, #Will_Wheaton was among the first generation of (albeit, minor) celebrities to embrace #DeSoc and the #Fediverse, and our local stable of miscreants (every social network has them) hounded, maliciously trolled, and harassed him until the only conclusion that could be arrived at was that the Fediverse is a hostile environment not worthy of belonging to.

That really angered me, but at least everybody loves #Sulu :)

#tallship #FOSS #Star_Trek

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Ever seen one of these?

I had a classmate that used to bring his to class every night. Just slung his satchel w/the keyboard over his shoulder and carried this in his arms up the elevator and down the hall to class.

It's a Pronto Series 16, running at a blazing fast 8Mhz, and that's a 5.6 MByte removable hard disk there too. Pronto Computers was located in Torrance (my hometown) just down the street from Epson and Ashton Tate (dBase II, III)

Heck I can't even remember the guy's name, but he worked in some local aerospace company and fancied himself an ubergeek; if this box is any indication he sure was, lolz.

So what's so special about this machine? Well, if you ask any 50 people about an IBM compatible computer that ran on an intel 80186 CPU they'll prolly all tell you there was never any such beast - but there was, and this was it (I recall it was fast as fuck, so they prolly pioneered manufacturing production machines that were ahead of their time, while IBM and the clone manufacturers decided to skip a generation and take their time working on a platform that leveraged the 80286.).

The hard disk was light years ahead of its time too - portable Zip Drives (100MBytes) didn't appear on the scene for another ten years, but this was an actual miniature hot swappable Syquest HDD spinning at I believe, the standard of 3600 RPMs.... I can't be sure though, but it was nice listening to that quiet buzz saw sound just singing along.

We were in a Pascal class together, so he would show up, insert a disk, boot to UCSD P-System and off he would go. The rest of us would too, but we had those noisy 5&1/4" floppy disks that made all those cute noises in our IBM 5150 PCs (4.77MHz 8080 CPUs), lolz.... Well, we did have a few XT's w/HDDs, some VT-52 like terminals for the PDP-11, and some 3270 terminals too connected to a mainframe at the main campus in Sandy Eggo.

His #Pronto was a screamer for sure, and I'd only ever seen an amberchrome monitor for mini computers at work, which were much larger. The graphics (Yah, we actually called them graphics at the time) were superior to what we could do w/o an expensive #Princeton_Graphics #CGA card and matching .51mm dot pitch color monitor too.

I had lots of minis, super-minis, and a few mainframes at work, but in the personal computer world there was literally nothing that could perform like this 8MHz 186... nothing. It was a screamer!

But alas, after him spending close to five grand, the IBM 3270 PC/AT was soon to be released, relegating that guys 186 hot rod to the annals of forgotten songs and unsung heroes. The new #AT_Class machines kinda trickled in though, so if you wanted one of those you got to the computer lab early. They also supported HD Floppies w/1.2MB storage - a vast improvement over that of the earlier, so-called Double Density 360KB floppies, although there were some issues moving data between those two formats that required a few tricks - like loading an earlier command.com (kinda like sourcing another shell once you ssh into a box)... Okay I'm rambling.

I kinda liked that guy, and kinda didn't. Most of the other students didn't care for him too much. He was arrogant and one of those, "Mine's better than yours" sort of person, but he was competent, friendly with me, generally speaking, for a guy who was wound real tight, and I could tell he didn't get any pussy, so I kinda felt sorry for him too.

I should mention that there technically were a couple of other manufacturers out there during that era shipping 80186 computers, but I've never seen any of them and don't know anything about them.

Well, that's about it for that era, I just thought that I'd share that little bit of computer history with everyone. I hope you enjoyed reading about this truly innovative machine and it's brief time on the market.

#tallship #IBM #Pronto_Computer #retrocomputing @SDF :)

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Reprinted from the Fediverse-City Matrix room, with permission from the author (myself):

I was just participating in another discussion elsewhere on the connotations and perceptions relating to a global feed of the entire known Fediverse, as it pertains to what various platforms call it (in their selector tabs).

Lots of suggestions, and every platform uses a different nomenclature. Some use 'global', some use 'live', and there's a few others as well that try to convey that type of extremely busy feed.

But then I touched on the subject of Local feeds - not all Fediverse platforms utilize this type of concatenated feed. I related that the Hometown fork of mastopub was [at least one of] the first to incorporate this as both a feed, and a type of post that is localized to only that particular instance.

I also, because I've read his contention, included the Dev's reasoning on having such a utility as a feature - because he intended Hometown to be a Fediverse platform that could encourage a Highly localized "community".

So you can select the other various, common types of scope for a post when making a post, as well as posting something that is only viewable to other users on your local instance - thereby supporting the 'local community only' aspect that has eluded and mostly deluded users on other platforms.

Why "deluded", because having a Fediverse account in the minds of most folks coming from the deprecated, monolithic silo space is something that has been heavily promoted by Fedizens as one of the reasons why it's better to use the Fediverse instead of those impersonal deprecated silo systems.

And that's simply not true.

Take me, for example. I have several accounts and interact using them with different circles of people (I won't get into the power of recursive circles as they were implemented in gplus). So I'mma just use mastodon.social, one of the biggest monolithic-like silo instances in the Fediverse, as an example here.

People there, most often n00bs from the November Rain or later) talk about the sense of "community" they have there, when they're really only speaking of the connections they have by following and being followed by not just people on that instance, but across the entire Fediverse.

The sense of community that almost everyone in the Fediverse perceives is mostly a compilation of the follows and followers that they each have, and is unique to themselves alone.

For example, I prolly know 4 or 5 people on each instance I have an account on. My community is comprised almost entirely of the direct connections I have made with others across the Fediverse at large, and yes, people on platforms with 'local-only' feeds to see my posts, know them to be local, but so do folks on other instances watching their 'global feeds' (or home feeds where someone they follow includes a follow of my account).

So to me, in my experience, my community is comprised of those who I've made connections with and the people they are connected to, with very little traffic from the local instance I am on at any given time.

To think that you're going to have a community on mastodon.social consisting of people primarily from that instance is a bit naive, IMO, coz your default feed grows exponentially with foreign user's posts the more you connect with anyone - not just the people you follow that are local to your instance. You see something, you interact because it's interesting, pertinent, or relevant to you - you don't do that because you've discerned that you will only interact with local accounts... that just ain't natural, human tendency.

So the creator of the Hometown fork realized that one type of vehicle in the feature set to mark this kind of delineation was that of the ability to post and see in your feed, local only posts, with the overt assertion that Hometown is a fork that in part, is a platform that can facilitate the social diaspora consisting of a 'mostly local' community.

Even entire instances, named or stated as localized geographically or topically, as having publicly open registrations miss this mark in a big way - people for whatever reason, want a Fediverse account, pick a host/instance, by whatever criteria, and then inadvertently end up creating their own diaspora of social connections across the entire Fediverse anyway.

nostr, Bluesky (when it eventually fully supports other instances), Threads (yeah, I know, it's a bastard, lolz), Minds, and other, bigger instances or monoliths, don't try to capitalize on this notion of "Your instance is your community" because overwhelmingly, it just isn't the case in reality.

I'm not saying that there aren't Fediverse instances are successful in cultivating small communities consisting of connections with others on those particular instances, but the most successful of those are the instances that have actually disabled Federation on those instances, lolz.... There's lots of examples of that, which is kewl - to each their own.

But the tendency of everyone to follow the Ew! Shiny! paradigm of simply liking and following what you like irrespective of whether it's on your local instance or not is the lions share of how people interact with each other.

Your thoughts, observations?

Attached graphic attrib: A Jack Russell, happy as can be, sitting in the pilot's seat flying a Cessna, not knowing WTF he's doing.... but he's really happy! The caption reads: "I have no idea what I'm doing".

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #social_networks #community #local_communities #global_communities #connections #follows #followers

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Questions always follow after such, 'salty talk', or 'nautical nomenclature', or in #Star_Trek terms, #technobabble.

What's the difference between a mizzen topgallant sail and a main royal staysail? Just a few rules is all it takes, but in today's world, one need only avail themselves of the basic Marconi rig on a single masted sloop. There's a mainsail (the big triangular one aft of the mast), and a jib, or foresail. Typically, when speaking about a jib (the one forward of the mast), people will typically categorize them into about three classes:

• a #Genoa (big one - low wind conditions)
• a #Jenny (also called a #working_jib for most wind conditions)
• a #Storm_jib - smallish, for reduced sail area in high and gale force winds.

If you're rigged to run one jib, you're a #sloop; two, and you're #cutter rigged.

tl;dr: Unlike elections, rigging is a good thing. Without standing rigging you have nothing to hold your masts up in place and they'll just snap or fall over. Without running rigging you have no way to control your sails, hoist them up, or catch the wind.

So when it comes to sailboats, it's a very good thing that they're rigged :p

#tallship #silly #rigging

Perfect book for a tall ship, plain sailing, high sea adventure lovers.

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World: Amazon.co.uk: Sofrin, Will: 9781419767067: Books
https://www.amazon.co.uk/All-Hands-Deck-Modern-Day-Adventure/dp/1419767062

#tallship #aubreymaturin #PatrickOBrian #royalnavy #highseas #sailship

Three masted barque #Alvei both afloat and on the slip in @townoflunenburgns last week. #tallship #visitnovascotia #lunenburgnovascotia #shipphotography

@youronlyone

And my friend....

if that wasn't abundantly clear enough, here's a much better explanation, lolz.....

https://invidious.fdn.fr/watch?v=x5Q6-wMx-K8

#tallship #you_can_haz_cheezburgerz 🍔 #Big_Bang_Theory #Star_Trek #spock

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@leftout @alex Ummm…. k,

I’mma Trekkie. All my life.

I gotta say thank you and also admit that I’m embarrassed ss a result of spreading that falsehood for prolly two decades. It was based on my direct recollection that our minds shape within us as we add and recall various experiences in life.

Let me take this opportunity to say, “Fuck your therapist” too, for had you cited, S1:E18 TNG I would have been awkwardly embarrassed, outraged at myself, and thought you a dikhed for thrashing me publicly. You are too kind, and a statesman in trekkering (if that’s even a freaking word, lolz).

Because of your subtle pointer, not pointing to the episode itself butt to the provenance of the saga’s chronology, I took your queue and went to the sources at StarTrek .com, Etc., and did my due diligence.

“Home Soil” was in fact the episode with Captain Picard and crew, and Ugly… Ugly giant bags of mostly water was the actual line converted over communication links off the Enterprise obo the:

• Crystal life form (wikis)
• Microbrains (IMDb, but I think this is wrong)
• Crystalline Entity (something from my own recollections, but I think I may be conflating with another episode again)

In the second utterance, where the quote comes from, it’s:

“Ugly bags of mostly water” which is kinda fucked up if you’re the ugly bag and you think you’re the bees knees of the universe, lolz.

Anyway, I need to go back and watch the episode again and regain my clarity.

From one Trekkie to another, thanks for the nudge in the right direction, fuck your therapist (again, cuz your instincts were better than his/hers), and here’s some personal questions, stuffs, I have for you…

My all time fav episodes:

1. The Balance of Terror (S1:E14 TOS - 1966) - Romulan Captain played by the same actor (Mark Lenard) as Sarek in later episodes, series (like TNG), and movies, through s few franchises.
2. The Inner Light - after either ten minutes or a whole lifetime, Picard returns to his cabin to play a flute bestowed upon him by a strange probe of remembrance of a people past, and sadly, extinct - he carries with him their hopes, loves, and dreams, the rest of his natural days, as a complete life experience.
3. Don’t fuck this up coz I’ll gig your ass, lolz - What we’re Captain Kirk’s last words?
4. Another major fav of mine is TNG’s, “Yesterday’s Enterprise” who’s Captain had even more balls than Captain Janeway, who in turn, had more balls than Captain Kirk, lolz.

As my profile and contact info clearly states, I’m a FOSS and Privacy Advocate, shoulder that mantle quite seriously, and even though I thought him initially to be a dweeb write in, came to appreciate Will Wheaton as Wesley Crusher and note that it was not one of our finest hours when we let the destructive child snimals out of their respective cages to drive him from the Fediverse - yeah, I was there when those teenage pieces of shit did that to him - even @Gargron , who held great sway back then, couldn’t contain or filter those 💩’s.

https://www.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/9bimug/why_did_mastodon_run_off_wil_wheaton/

You have a wonderful day, evening, or afternoon, whatev time it is where you’re at and thanks again for the gentle bump to fact check myself with this errata.

#tallship #Star_Trek #Star_Trek_you_bitches #Kirk #Picard #Janeway #TOS #TNG #humanity #sacrifice #rememberance #conflation #memory #recollection #I_can_haz_Cheezburgerz? 🍔

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@derPUPE

OMFG!

Is that the kewlest thing or what?

#Trekkies! Take note! 🚀

Thank you so much for sharing, and hats off to my friend @RyunoKi for the red alert!

#tallship #Star_Trek #tos

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@killyourfm

I couldn't find a single source there that didn't try to send me to the project disrespecting Google Playstore too install a proprietary, closed source app.

As fellow #Fedizens, I'm wondering where the #FunkWhale link is.

Anyway, I tried, but ask I found were data mining deprecated legacy silo options.

#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #DRM_Free

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@killyourfm

I couldn't find a single source there that didn't try to send me to the privacy disrespecting Google Playstore to install a proprietary, closed source app.

As fellow #Fedizens, I'm wondering where the #FunkWhale link is.

Anyway, I tried, but ask I found were data mining deprecated legacy silo options.

#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #DRM_Free

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@killyourfm

I couldn't find a single source there that didn't try to send me to the project disrespecting Google Playstore too install a proprietary, closed source app.

As fellow #Fedizens, I'm wondering where the #FunkWhale link is.

Anyway, I tried, but ask I found were data mining deprecated legacy silo options.

#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #DRM_Free

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@killyourfm

I couldn't find a single source there that didn't try to send me to the project disrespecting Google Playstore too install a proprietary, closed source app.

As fellow #Fedizens, I'm wondering where the #FunkWhale link is.

Anyway, I tried, but ask I found were data mining deprecated legacy silo options.

#tallship #Fediverse #FOSS #DRM_Free

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#deutscheshafenmuseum #schuppen50 #viermastbarkpeking #hamburg
Foto: @jansiegfoto
🪢💨🌊⚓️❤️🛟
#FlyingPLinerHeritageFleet #peking #viermastbark #fourmastedbarque #flyingpliner #pliner #windjammer #tallship #großsegler #capehorn #hamborgerveermaster #seemannsgarn #hafenmuseum #hafenmuseumhamburg #schuppen50 #deutscheshafenmuseum #deham #hamburg #RQTD #pekingfreunde #viermastbarkpeking #pekinghamburg #peking1911 #freundederviermastbarkpeking

Yes. lunny filed for registration of, I believe, 3 marks. One is fully registered now, and transferred along with the keys (control of the project, as the longest standing owner of the project) to one of the two for profit companies in Hong Kong.

The entire community is reeling, and everyone is just trying to take a deep breath and absorb what is really going on, as we cannot be completely sure yet, before jumping to rash decisions, although we’re already looking at a couple of particular possibilities.

That’s about all I can say at the moment.

Sorry I can’t offer you more at this time.

#tallship #Gitea #FOSS #git #forge #forgefed #ActivityPub #forgefriends

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