Parker Banks @pbanks@fosstodon.org
Joined Nov 2020
I finally got rid of my cellphone, in favour of a $5/month home phone.
There's a great C programming tutorial by Dan Gookin on YouTube. However, the audio is out of sync, so I uploaded a properly synced version here. https://youtu.be/yY9onY4BhZc
#programming
In honour of this weekend's dump, here's a chart of when Bitcoin is at its lowest and highest in the average week.
https://pbanks.net/2021.html#the-weekly-bitcoin-dump
#crypto #bitcoin
Who has done the most for FOSS?
The survival rate of hypertensive rats whose diet included butter, lard, perilla oil/lard, margarine, or partially hydrogenated soybean oil.
https://doi.org/10.1248/jhs.50.108
Demonstrates a benefit of animal fats and animal/seed blends over common forms of processed vegetable fats (though doesn't include coconut oil, etc.).
If anyone wants users data from the last 50000 toots on Fosstodon, it can be downloaded here: https://pbanks.net/personal/data/Fosstodon50k.7z
Among Fosstodon users:
Each year your account has been up is associated (not necessarily causally) with a 30.2% increase in followers.
Each 1% increase in the number of people you follow is associated with a .304% increase in followers.
Each 1% increase in the number of toots is associated with a .566% increase in followers.
This is an interesting article on the topic https://carlchenet.com/foss-passive-consumerism-kills-our-community/
Does anyone think FOSS advocates are as prone to consumerism as anyone? Instead of MacBooks it's Pinebooks, marked-up X220s, or "I use Arch btw". I definitely have a tendency of it sometimes.
Parker Banks
boosted
Well, this is an unexpected advance:
https://journals.aps.org/prapplied/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevApplied.15.014053
It's basically a universal radio, picking up all frequencies at once, up through the more useful microwave bands (though this prototype doesn't quite get to the highest 5G band).
Even though it's based on quantum effects, it's likely going to be able to be miniaturized as it doesn't require extreme cold or anything exotic.
Whereas each ten-fold increase in followers is associated with a 2.225 increase in the odds of getting a boost.
On Fosstodon, every ten-fold increase in followers is associated with a 1.451 increase in the odds of receiving a reply to a toot.
Want more replies? Post on the weekend, but not on Friday.
Fosstodon user data, Nov. 17, 17:58 - Feb. 2, 17:56
Here's a graph of the most popular apps used to post to Fosstodon (data from Nov. 17 - Feb. 4).
I started playing with the Mastodon API, to put together some statistics on Fosstodon. @kev Is our rate limit the default of 300 requests every 5 minutes?
What's everyone's opinion of Urbit? The Feudal governance seems like a fun experiment. But the cost of 0.025 ETH for each of 2^32 planets seems pretty money grubbing.
#crypto #urbit #government
These ETH fees are ridiculous. Will ETH 2.0 save the situation, or will something else (iota, cardano, polkadot, etc.) gain dominance?
Joined Nov 2020
