codesections @codesections@fosstodon.org

I want to be able to tell my friends why #mastodon is better than the birdsite, so I wrote a thing: "Mastodon Is Better than Twitter: Elevator Pitch"
https://www.codesections.com/blog/mastodon-elevator-pitch/

I want this to be as persuasive as possible to outsiders, so I'd appreciate as much feedback as possible from Mastodon users

My review of @technomancy's #atreus keyboard kind of got away from me – it ended up at over 5,000 words.

What can I say? It's a *really* good keyboard, and it turns out that I had a lot to say!

My review: https://www.codesections.com/blog/atreus-review/

HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25150868

I've always known that the human brain is *way* too eager to find patterns in random noise.

But there's something about watching my brain automatically attempting to construct meaning out of random program output – output that I *know* is random because I wrote the program! – that really drives that point home.

I just came across this sentence:

> I don't know who you're.

As a native English speaker, that strikes me as grammatically incorrect, but I can't for the life of me figure out what rule it breaks.

> I'm starting to think that a QWERTY layout (with the normal asdf home row) would be more comfortable if the outer keys were shifted down like in the picture.…Or am I just somehow holding it wrong?

After a bit more experimentation and reading, I've concluded that "you're holding it wrong" *was* the correct answer in this case.

Specifically, I think I've been placing my keyboard ~8 inches too far forward, which changed the angles involved just enough to throw my pinkies out of alignment

> Does anyone else think that standard advice about finger positioning is designed for people with far longer pinkies than humans actually have?

For example, the image below (from the "touch typing" Wikipedia article) clearly seems to depict some sort of humanoid alien with fingers of exactly equal length.

I may not know what a natural typing position is, but I know it's not *that*

Does anyone else think that standard advice about finger positioning is designed for people with far longer pinkies than humans actually have?

For example, I'm starting to think that a QWERTY layout (with the normal asdf home row) would be more comfortable if the outer keys were shifted down like in the picture.

Do you feel the same? Or do I just have freakishly short pinkies? Or am I just somehow holding it wrong?

I'm not exactly sure what it is, but there's something very reassuring about being able to literally watch a live-stream of the votes being counted: https://youtu.be/-Zzb-7EH-MQ

(apologizes for the YouTube link, but I guess the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania hasn't set up their PeerTube account yet)

Hey #fosstodon folks: the Fosstodon CoC is always important, but it might be *especially* important today. A few quotes to remember:

* Fosstodon is *not* a free speech zone
* Fosstodon is *not* an advocacy space
* Do not be intentionally antagonistic
* Do not post about inflammatory, controversial subjects without a Content Warning.

Full CoC: https://hub.fosstodon.org/code-of-conduct

Be kind to each other out there, and generous with your use of Content Warnings!

@kensanata

When you describe your aerc config at
https://alexschroeder.ch/wiki/2020-06-08_aerc_config you said you're using the line

$ex = <C-^>

in your [compose::editor] section. Does that line work to let you open an aerc command line by pressing <C-^>? I ask because I couldn't get that binding (or *any* Ctrl+ bindings) to open a command line.

I asked on the IRC, and another user reproduced my issue and I filed a bug: https://todo.sr.ht/~sircmpwn/aerc2/459

But if it's working for you, maybe I just misconfigured something

I was attempting to send an email to a mailing list to discuss a blog post, and almost made the embarrassing error of sending a totally blank email.

I almost made that mistake because I didn't understand how to use the new email client I'm trying out. But I seem to have been saved by the mailing list software filtering out my blank email.

Twist: The email client, mailing list software, and blog post were all written by @sir