Heimdall to host the links. SpeedDial is an in-browser alternative if self hosting is not an option.

Couldn’t agree more. Consistency and predictably; I wish more people would think - and drive - like that.

There’s no compelling reason not to, but to each their own. I’m not judging either way.

But I’m not reusing the same avatar image on multiple platforms either.

I do not, but I sleep soundly knowing there are people that do, and that FOSS lets them do it. I will read code on occasion, if I’m curious about technical solutions or whatnot, but that hardly qualifies as auditing.

I do +5, just below fine limit. Haven’t had one in years.

Situational awareness is key.

10 over on left lane (right for UK) while the other one is free? You’re the entitled speed police asshole. He’s the dumb tailgating idiot.

10 over the other way around? You’re doing nothing wrong. He’s still the dumb tailgating idiot.

I don’t condone assholery on the road, but it’s still my license and my fine if I’m speeding up for a tailgater. So if the right lane has slow traffic and I’m overtaking on the left, I’ll stick to whatever speed on or above the limit that I consider safe. Unless the tailgater has blue lights flashing, I’m not obliged to do a damn thing.

You sunuvabitch, I’m in!

Time to engage cruise control on exactly the speed limit.

Incoming lawsuit in 5…4…

Reminds me of that great classic:

• Table for 26?

• But… You’re with 13 people.

• Yes, but we like to sit on the same side of the table.

I have way more maneuverability backing into a space.

Think of it in terms of circles (well, arcs, really) . If you front park in a space perpendicular to the road, your front wheels make a large circle and your back wheels a smaller one. The parking space needs to be big enough to accommodate the larger circle. If you back into the same space, the larger circle happens on the road.

That’s Romania saying no to MAGA style populism.

The half-dragonborn has spoken.

Ah, the “don’t be evil days”. I’m old enough to remember Jabber was a thing. We really took a hard right at some point, didn’t we? Technologically speaking, I’m not getting political.

And don’t get me wrong, I’m not a BlueSky fanboy either. Their implementation of DMs simply sucks from an open standards POV. I just think they deserve a bit more credit than Zuckersoft. A lot of people I admire are active over there, reason enough for me to stick around. But I’m not giving up on Lemmy either.

I’m not even going to pretend that BlueSky is more open than any Fediverse tool designed with federation in mind from the ground up. BlueSky is certainly not Mastodon or Lemmy, but it’s not Meta AI-pushing crap like WhatsApp either.

Let’s do a thought experiment. What if we would get a Wikipedia like NGO with proper funding setting up a EU based BlueSky instance? It won’t be the decentralized dream of Fediverse, perhaps, but it could still prove useful. I think Twitter was successful because of its unified, global reaching platform appeal, not in spite of it, and the fact that users flock to BlueSky tells me that appeal is still there. Having a bit more decentralization in that mix just makes it better, but Mastodon shows that decentralization is not sufficient to give a platform a wide appeal.

As context: I’m one of those people that donates annually to Wikipedia, but I have no interest or capacity in managing a decentralized federation server in my basement. Lots of kudos to the people that do!

Surely that’s a bit unfair to BlueSky.

From my brief lecture of the underlying protocol, public instances could exist and federate, it’s only that they become quite expensive to run if done right.

https://bsky.social/about/blog/02-22-2024-open-social-web

Not to mention that the “more and better teachers” mantra should be applied all the way down to primary education.

Unfortunately our societies prioritise these things differently.

I’m not excluding hiring good teachers and TAs from the picture. I’m not excluding paying them a good enough wage to attract talent either. But that’s another conversation.

In my university days lectures were paired with seminars. And those had a max size of about 30, and a TA who would explain and help apply the lecture knowledge. The lecturer would visit seminars on rotation and ensure the quality of TAs. And the kicker? The whole gang would be there for the (free form) exam, including the grading.

In short: it can be done because that’s where we come from, actually.

And personally I hate multi choice tests, there is no opportunity to see the thought process of the student, or find and be lenient towards those that got the theory, but forgot to carry a 1 somewhere. They simplified the grading, sure, now you can have a machine do it, but thats about it.

Here’s a novel idea, maybe it needs less students per teacher. Or more teachers per student, however you want to call it.

It makes sense that they would go where the users are.

But not having a separate, European instance federated into the BlueSky network, that’s the real wtf.