Musings by @rg

A place to jot down ideas, notes, pointers.


Z(1) = Y + W(1)

A #Fortran Statement in this #Vintage #computing input device.

The famous “punched cards”, which each cold hold 80 characters or one line of programming instructions or data for processing.

I learned this language, and created my assignments in decks of those cards.

Back in November, when I was starting in mastodon, we had a delightful thread about it, which included this image. @k11m1 — see it here

#QotoJournal #History #Technology #Programming

May 17, 2020, 8:32 PM

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Intro

To love is sometimes to let go, respect someone's need to be out and observe, marvel at so much the world has to offer. Sometimes people have a hard time accepting that, while part of a community, or in a closer relationship with someone, all humans have curiosity and it's rich to see and let it blossom.

I offer this post to my friend Coralie, we met very recently, and yet she has such a sensibility, that it saw deeply into my heart and soul.

Yesterday she surprised me, messaging privately and offering a comment that delighted me — that she could perceive my inner nature so clearly.

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Pleroma, have you met ?

I have a lot of curiosity for the different places and software we encounter on the Fediverse, if we are open minded and like to travel and see places.

I love Travel in the physical world, and similarly, am enchanted by travel in cyberspace, through the many corners and alleys, express lanes and boulevards, parks, of the Fediverse.

There are some ugly areas, which I carefully investigated, months ago; a quick look from the shadows, incognito, and it was clear it wasn't a good place, so I left never to return.

Now some of those corners are changing, still there but moved to new communication protocols — we don't see their posts anymore.

Mastodon is not all there is, not even close. It is the largest part of the Fediverse, in terms of instances (servers) and registered users.

But there's more and that is a good thing.

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We are always looking for Talent.

A transcription of a Long Form Toot earlier this morning, fully composed on the fly, in my toot Editor at my main Mastodon instance.

Very lightly edited for Blog publishing, adding links and references only, content was ready. The views in the post are my own, but I believe they reflect the values which make our instance a vibrant and pleasant place to be in.

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Furry Friday and Caturdays are great

And it's #FurryFriday but also #FF or #FollowFriday ... In fact, I am late in posting this, a pretty Blog version of my original Discourse Forum post. And now it's #Caturday even

So I thought — why not post a neat Referral to our feline loving Fediverse accounts that are present in these hash tags ?

#cats #mastocats #catsofMastodon #meow #Kittens

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Proposing a new Feature to Mastodon

This post intends to highlight a proposal for a Mastodon Feature enhancement. It was originally posted as a Toot here, and later copied in stripped plain text format at Qoto.

The core idea is simple — to allow a user to post Long Text, while collapsing it for display in the various timelines. For aesthetic reasons, as it will look better in a crowded TL listing.

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Qoto.org Added new Features

In January of 2020, the admin and lead maintainer of Qoto.org, Dr. Freeman, made some large code changes to the mastodon instance.

These are so significant, that added to other previous enhancements they highlight that Qoto is now a more featured Fork of the vanilla Mastodon project.

Some features at the instance had been added previously, and were intended to offer support to the needs of the local users — primarily Science, Tech, Engineering and Math interested professionals, students and curious minds.

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Qoto.org Added new Features

In January of 2020, the admin and lead maintainer of Qoto.org, Dr. Freeman, made some large code changes to the mastodon instance.

These are so significant, that added to other previous enhancements they highlight that Qoto is now a more featured Fork of the vanilla Mastodon project.

Some features at the instance had been added previously, and were intended to offer support to the needs of the local users — primarily Science, Tech, Engineering and Math interested professionals, students and curious minds.

Read more...


Qoto.org Added new Features

In January of 2020, the admin and lead maintainer of Qoto.org, Dr. Freeman, made some large code changes to the mastodon instance.

These are so significant, that added to other previous enhancements they highlight that Qoto is now a more featured Fork of the vanilla Mastodon project.

Read more...


Pinafore Client deserves a Discussion and Support Forum

A new Pinafore client discussions Forum is now online at Qoto's Discourse Forums

We now have a new sub-forum, dedicated to the powerful and fast Pinafore client for Fediverse instances — Mastodon, Glitch-Social, Pleroma are all supported.

I am a big fan of Pinafore, since first trying it. It is a popular client with power users, as it is FAST and Light, plus has elegant design, clean UI and many nice features.

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