#tallship — Public Fediverse posts

@tubetime @FunkyBob

That was a great video. Thanks @Tube🍂Time! I found myself continually unforgivably, dismissively muttering, "So what? So what? So what?" (Recalling that I still have 3 tube testing machines) until you got to the ESD and especially EMP - one might wonder why much of our defense industries settled entirely on LSI, then VLSI, etc., etc., instead of backup primary systems incorporating this "In between" manufacturing technology that you pointed out, which would certainly have benefited from advances in microminiaturization just the same - mostly, anyway.

But then there's that dialog that for some reason just came to me from "White Squall" where the Captain of the Cuban warship smashes the binnacle compass with his rifle butt and Jeff Bridges exclaims in Spanish, "Real sailors need only the stars overhead to navigate".

That was a really kewl project you built. How do you source the parts nowadays for things like nuvistors? There's very few Electronics surplus/liquidator type stores out there anymore.

I'm still trying to suss out whether Chister the Molister in the pic below is a villainous deer in the headlights of having his superspy cover blown, or if he's the inspiration for that other cartoon character of scandalous nature.

#tallship #nuvistor

16.0 Alpha 1 has arrived...

People ask me how come I often don't know these things... It's simple really. I'm on kernel-generic-7.2.4-x86_64-1 running #Slackware -current and don't actually bother to look up from the work I'm doing cause 16 is just a distro's version number, but 7.2.4 is a kernel. Officially, Slackware 16.0 Alpha is available w/the Linux huge 6.18.x kernel while 7.2.4 is in /testing.

Me, I'm just rolling along in production as I have been for close to 30 years now w/ Slackware - current looking back on the next upcoming release like it's something from yesterday lolz.

I do the same thing on #Debian (14/Testing/Forky) I just upgraded my kernel to 7.1.12+deb14-amd64 - so I'm not running that far behind the ultra-bleeding edge of Slackware, or what Arch and Gentoo users are either.

Anyway, you're going to hear more about the upcoming Slackware 16 release as the weeks go on and if there's one thing I can advise you of it's don't get caught up in the guessing game bullshit - Patrick will release it matter-of-factly w/o any fanfare and pretty much all bets will be wrong. The most you can do is to ask, "Is it soup yet?".

So here's the thread, and Patrick's response to the OP (who's running 7.3-RC1)

#tallship #FOSS #Linux #distros
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@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

@mgorny

#lolwut

You've completely lost me with that assertion.

You prolly don't remember when we did #Gentoo installs from "Stage 1,2,3" tarballs, or when one of the oldest Linux Distros, "Sorcerer Linux" spawned other source based distro forks like #SourceMage, and #Lunar_Linux, yet I fail to glean what the heck your referring to when you relate these to SystemD... I mean.... Huh?

#tallship #FOSS #Slackware -current #Debian_Trixie (Testing) #Arch_Linux

http://sorcerer.silverice.org/

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@james

That's really interesting.

I chose that (this) machine because it has no character count limits so I can publish lengthy articles and blog posts - HowTo's, tuts, travel or recipe blogs (you never know, lolz), Etc, where I'm not concerned with #Markdown or other text formats.

I guess this is 5s glaring testament to the lack of viability of mastodon as any sort of actual community building platform (even mastodon .social doesn't really have any real semblance of community), because I never actually even pay attention to the local timeline here - it's completely irrelevant to me... My #friends in the #Fediverse are scattered across the #diaspora (no pun intended) of the Fediverse (Which, IMO, does include Diaspora, lolz).

I treat most other servers the exact same, with the exception of SDF, which really is a true community independant of any single platform infrastructure, including Fediverse servers... I do indeed watch my local timeline on our "private" server there quite closely, because other #SDF members are there and there aren't any of those rude #twitugees about. The other SDF Fediverse server is full of self-entitled #shitposters that came along during the so-called, "November Rain", so I filter a lot of those goombahs out of my streams there. I guess that's what it's actually like over on #Twitter.

If, on the other hand, this particular server is starting to garner a bad reputation, then maybe I should consider looking elsewhere where there are similar technical facilities available.

After running a public mastodon server for two and a half years (it took a whole year to get everyone to migrate away so I could close that hog down, and then almost three years of running an invite only Pleroma server (such a fricken' dream), it's no real surprise that I view mastodon as a mostly deprecated platform due to lack of innovation and feature adoption (much to the chagrin of the userbase as evidenced in the repo's issue tracker over the years) as well as it's lack of suitability for horizontally based "SmallWeb", self-hosted deployments.

You can do it, but why, when there are so many other clearly better Fediverse server platforms?

Don't get me wrong though; mastodon is a good, solid infra upon which to base the deprecated monolithic silo schema -just not until you start to approach the 20,000 user mark. If that's someone's goal, to launch a vertical scaling #monolithic_silo (that only supports plain text and a paltry 500 character count limit per post), then mastodon would be a platform I would wholeheartedly recommend to someone.

Nah, just kidding! 🤣 I'd still recommend a capable fork like #Hometown or #glitch_social lolz.

That's just my 2¢ FWIW 🙂

#tallship #FOSS #ActivityPub

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@rashmi @[email protected]

Rashmi, there's s couple of things going on here.

First, the so-called "great #TwitterMigration" frenzy has subsided. #Fediverse growth continues organically now and stats show a majority of #twitugees have returned to from whence they came.

Second, many are just now realizing that mastodon is just one among many Fediverse platforms, and sorely lacking in features, so a lot of folks are moving to other kinds of Fediverse servers.

Be patient & scale back 🙂

#tallship

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@jeffmcneill @anders @atomicpoet

Yes, there are some good #IPFS enabled Fediverse servers. #Quanta and I believe #Mitra too, to name a couple.

And #Wasabi can provide an affordable storage soltion too, that is easy to implement:

https://wasabi.com/

I hope that helps!

#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #twittermigration #twitugees

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@wndlb @clay @arinbasu1 @admin @silverpill @trishussey

Hi Wendell,

To be certain, it's a complicated matter under the surface, and to some degree a bit more non-trivial than the average user who is not concerned with #Privacy conscious issues is prepared to devote time to read and implement (it's not actually difficult).

Most #twitugees are of this disinterested mindset.

Here's two current or emerging solutions:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep/src/branch/main/feps/fep-c390.md

https://fosstodon.org/@keyoxide

#tallship #Keyoxide

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