Carlos Tirado / Tremendo @Tremendo@mastodon.cloud
This is me: https://keybase.io/tremendo
What is on my mind? The SpaceX launch of the Falcon Heavy is. I am super excited and inspired by it, hoping the POTUS will stay quiet for today and not ruin my renewed faith in humanity.
Are we talking newmatter here? http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a15050414/incredible-hypatia-stone-contains-compounds-not-found-in-the-solar-system/ brought to us by the Geometers?
After long break I was reminded to come here by a post on Hacker News. A look at local and federated timelines reminded me I eventually need my own instance, for which https://startuplab.io/post/deploying-mastodon-on-digital-ocean
Oh yes, I loved Eowyn's story in the books and they just didn't do her justice in the movies https://www.themarysue.com/the-story-of-eowyn/
The beacons of Minas Tirith are lit! Gondor calls for aid… And Rohan will answer. Muster the Rohirrim!
Every now and then (maybe once a year) I feel like re-watching the Ride of the Rohirrim. I did just now. I love that scene. #frisson These article captures it well http://www.gamesradar.com/the-best-bit-in-lord-of-the-rings/
I believe this is the version I heard, and hated it: https://youtu.be/uFJcbIgWsos
The music at Chipotle was playing the sorryiest version of Eyes Without a Face ever
Well this is interesting, both the local and federated timelines have been overrun by posts in Japanese, which I don't speak, or read.
I had grown comfortable using WMail as my GMail app and I keep it open all day. Now they want me to upgrade—practically forcing—to an alternate app called Wavebox (it's still free and open source, just "suggesting" you should upgrade to their Pro version) which tries to be everything not just email. I reject the whole notion, I rather just go back to having a permanent browser tab open for GMail.
I feel so good about my drawing abilities now http://www.autodraw.com/
These tabs are nice. It would be cool if I could open an extra number of them, for example follow different conversations/threads on each, or a particular hash-tag, or… a topic-specific list (like Twitter's).
If that is so, then the natural tendency would be to eventually consolidate into "silos" or niches, perhaps by affinity or, sadly likely, by popularity, where the first movers by default have more users and more influence.
Another possibility is for an instance administrator to manually select a pool of other instances to subscribe to, necessarily excluding all others. That is, the "Federated" timeline would include toots only from that select group of other Mastodon instances, not from everywhere.
Wondering how does the Federated Timeline work. How does one instance get updates from all other ones? Only way I can think of is that there has to be a central stream or firehose to subscribe to, or an index of instances that each can subscribe to. I may need to download and study the source code, but of course, I don't have time for that.
I was already disappointed with my pretty dumb "smart" TV from LG. Atypical for me, I bought a 3-year extended warranty for it, which _just_ expired. Guess what? It has now malfunctioned, screen went dark (apparently a known issue). I'm never buying so-called "smart" TV again, a big, and dumb, monitor with a stick HDMI tuner will work a lot better.
OK, if by design, like in email, a username refers to a specific server/instance/domain, then I cannot be sure that tagging say, @someone, will actually link to the account I intend to link, right? Identity *is* hard. Let's go shopping!
Too quickly the need arises for verified accounts, which I wonder is it even possible in this multi-server, multi-instance platform? Now that I think about it, could my same username be used by someone else in another instance?
The March for Science is happening in Phoenix too http://www.phxmarchforscience.com
