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YAY! #QOTO just passed 10,000 users today! So awesome. Thank you to all our users and friends it has been an amazing journey so far!

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#mastodon #fediverse #mastoadmin #science #STEM
QT: [https://qoto.org/@users/103906246971932233]

I wanna create a Java programming social group and call it "The Garbage Collective"

#Java #Programming

I'm looking for a free, open source and self hosting friendly project management tool. I'm thinking something flexible like Trello. To be used by a group of loosely connected queers to organize tasks.

Got some tips? How do you organize tasks within volunteer groups?

Wrote my own FOSS license terms just so I can stuff them in a drawer and never use them. Never use your own licensing terms without an attorney's advice, and try to avoid ever doing it, because people are familiar with licenses like GPL, MIT, Apache, MPL, etc. and a "custom" license can cause confusion and uncertainty.

@codesections @aral They've revised the announcement in response to criticism:

A Note On Web Applications Added to the Home Screen

As mentioned, the seven-day cap on script-writable storage is gated on “after seven days of Safari use without user interaction on the site.” That is the case in Safari. Web applications added to the home screen are not part of Safari and thus have their own counter of days of use. Their days of use will match actual use of the web application which resets the timer. We do not expect the first-party in such a web application to have its website data deleted.

If your web application does experience website data deletion, please let us know since we would consider it a serious bug. It is not the intention of Intelligent Tracking Prevention to delete website data for first parties in web applications.

So Apple just threw the baby out with the bathwater and killed offline web apps (unless you’re cool with all your data being deleted if you don’t use an app for a week). You’d almost think they had an App Store to promote or something.

https://webkit.org/blog/10218/full-third-party-cookie-blocking-and-more/

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FOSS for the win. We switched to Jitsi Meet: no issue at all for 4 people in 3 locations (2 at home, 2 at the office).

The office people want to do a remote gettogether (a "5 à 7") next Friday, I'll suggest we do it with Jitsi. 🍺🍷🍸

When something is so obviously true that you don't have or need reasons, that's exactly when you should search for some.

One thing that I find amazing is how I feel good about society online. Mastodon has been good for me; my role-playing games seem to move online without issues; been writing and video-calling friends and family; and in a weird way we're all in this together: it's a global outbreak affecting a global society and I feel connected to all the places facing similar struggles (some more, some less, depending on where they are on the timeline).

Epidemiology is hard. If you see someone who is not a trained epidemiologist posting numbers that are out of line with those reported by WHO etc., they are almost always wrong. Either they are using words to mean something different than you (or they) think they mean, or they are missing crucial concepts about how epidemics & public health data work.

This is still true even if they have a lot of graphs in their Medium thinkpiece.

I have tried many different pieces of software and now settled done on the optimal config for me. This is my first #screenshotsunday. The picture shows #Sway, #Waybar, #Kakoune, #Alacritty, and #fishshell. The color theme is #gruvbox, the fonts are #DejaVuSansMono and #Inter.

I strongly recommend having arguments about things you disagree about, and especially double-cruxing them. <https://www.ericherboso.org/2016/01/the-double-crux-game.html> Up until today, this was all just a theoretical recommendation, but… wow does it help.

I think I'm finally starting to see the meaning of “what do you think you know, and how do you think you know it?". I'm probably right about this thing I'm arguing about, but my reasons for believing it right now are stupid (and are the same reason I didn't believe it earlier).

I'm having an actual proper productive argument, where we're following an actual truth-seeking procedure.

On the internet.

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I love the Fediverse.