cassolotl

cassolotl, 11 months ago to cymru

My friends and I, who are co-directors of a fledgling makerspace/hackspace CIC in Wales, have started crowdfunding to raise enough money to move into full-time premises: https://www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/machspace

We're all on low incomes and our town council is broke, and our community sorely needs free and cheap ways to socialise comfortably indoors, and to make and repair things to save cash.

We're willing to put in the elbow grease to make it happen - can you chuck in a few quid?

[#crowdfunding #makerspace #hackspace #Wales #Cymru ]

cassolotl, 11 months ago to Futurology

This is the "average all comments per month" graph of the whole Fediverse right now. :D

Source: https://fediverse.observer/stats

#meta #fediverse

cassolotl, 11 months ago to uk

Hello! I have a question for people running smallish makerspaces in the UK - like, a big room with several tables in?

How much (approx, ballpark) do you spend on consumables per month? (Refreshments, 3D printer filament, woodworking bits, any other supplies.)

Also how many members do you have?

I'm asking because we're applying for a grant to cover running costs and we're being asked for an estimate of what we expect to spend, but we don't yet have premises. We'd be allowing members to use e.g. filament, tea bags, etc. for free, if we get the grant. So I do need to know how much it costs in the first place, even though you probably usually do get it covered by people buying/donating for what they use in most hackspaces!

[#makerspace #makerspaces #hackspace #hackspaces #UK ]

cassolotl, 11 months ago to uk

UK petition: Nationalise all public transport and make it free for everyone at all times

Sign petition: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/639987

Track signatures: https://petition-track.uk/check-petition/639987

Closing date: 26 December 2023

You can sign if you live in the UK (regardless of citizenship) or if you're a UK citizen (regardless of where you live).

[#UK #petition #PublicTransport #environment #trains #buses ]

cassolotl, 11 months ago to random

"Mastodon reminds me of the early days of Twitter."

You say that like a compliment but it makes me nervous........

skye, 11 months ago to random German

my firefox addon that displays alt text on mastodon has been broken for like a week and i am very much suffering 😩​

llamasoft_ox, 1 year ago to random

If you've ever used an E Ink device seeing one do colour is quite remarkable.

cassolotl, 1 year ago to queer

Hi folks, happy #Pride!

I make pride flag handwarmers, and I've got the following in stock for £16 per pair plus P&P from the UK:

• #trans x2
• #intersex
• #bisexual
• #nonbinary (c'est moi!)
• #pansexual
• #asexual (c'est moi aussi!)

Plus a bunch more in luxury merino with silver sparkles, and socks, which are more expensive - see more here: https://wiki.polyinpictures.com/w/For_sale#Handwarmers

DM me if you would like to buy anything! This year, 75% of proceeds go to https://www.machspace.org.

Bisexual pride flag handwarmer, basically a knitted ribbed tube with a hole for the thumb - dark blue, purple, hot pink.
Intersex pride flag handwarmer, basically a knitted ribbed tube with a hole for the thumb - yellow with a narrow purple stripe.
Nonbinary pride flag handwarmer, basically a knitted ribbed tube with a hole for the thumb - black, purple, white, yellow.

cassolotl, 1 year ago to internet

Today on the #Twitter subreddit, people are posting to say that they're unable to upload any unaltered Pride flag as a profile banner, and also that the site is causing them to automatically follow accounts they don't like such as Ben Shapiro (alt-right bigot) and SpaceX (one of Elon Musk's companies)...

cassolotl, 1 year ago to random

Short survey for #nonbinary people about NAMES

https://forms.gle/VtbNbHS5SjKgS77UA

I will publish the results. Also please tell your nonbinary friends about it, let's get several hundred thousand participants so we can once and for all find out the quintessential Nonbinary Name™️

Thank you!

cassolotl, 1 year ago to meta

I feel like it's worth mentioning, re; quote-boosts/QTs, that we can't "just add the feature to Mastodon" in a federation - it's a lot more complicated than a lot of people seem to realise?

The argument about whether or not we should add QTs is an important one, but once we get past that there's the issue of federation.

Mastodon is one software of many using the ActivityPub "skeleton" code. If ActivityPub doesn't have QTs in its code and Mastodon adds a QT feature, any non-Mastodon software (or even server) has to work out how to interpret Mastodon's QTs. If it isn't Mastodon-compatible, QTs will just break. They might even break in a way that harms the person being QTed. And what if someone on another server boosts/reblogs that broken QT?

Also, since we on Mastodon can follow people who are using federated software that isn't Mastodon (e.g. instances/softwares that look and behave like Instagram, YouTube, Facebook, etc), how does that work? Would people on Mastodon be able to QT people on not-Mastodon? How are the OPs going to feel about that? Would they even get notifications about it, since QTs aren't in the ActivityPub "skeleton" of federation?

And since we're a federation of separate servers even "within" Mastodon, there's also the question of how older/outdated Mastodon servers will handle incoming QTs. If you're on an older version of Mastodon and you follow someone on a newer instance and they QT someone, what would that look like? Maybe someone has intentionally chosen a fork of Mastodon with QTs turned off. Can people on other softwares QT them, and how would they feel about that?

[#meta #Mastodon #MastoMeta #MastoDev #QTs #QuoteBoosts #QuoteToot #discourse ]