Now that #Wordpress has jumped on the #slop train, I will jump off. For more than a decade, I have spent many an hour translating Wordpress to my mother tongue, adding what value I could to the software. As Wordpress now enables and encourages the use of so-called #AI, something that demonstrably ruins the internet, the environment and the groundwater, I will no longer volunteer for them.

I am open to the #fedibrain's suggestions for what to use instead.

https://wordpress.org/download/releases/7.0/

OK, #Fedibrain

Looking for a system that can be used to upload application documents and media (video) to a secure location, or to provide a form entry page that can be the "document" and allow for video upload alongside it.

It should all, of course, be private and only the uploader/applicant and business owner are able to see the uploaded documents.

Thinking something like #Moodle, with the business owner like the "teacher" and the applicant like the "student"... but that just isn't quite the right fit and probably overkill.

I can't really say what it's going to be used for, but the uploader could be any member of the public (therefore the ability to create an account is necessary).

Anyone have any recommendations?

Baking question for fedibrain.

I am cooking a recipe for instant baguette bread that involves 450 g bread flour, 360 ml water, 1 tsp salt and 1/2 tsp yeast. Mix the dry ingredients in a bowl, add the water, lightly incorporate for maybe 5 mins with the back of a spoon, cover, and leave to rise overnight. Then gently divide and shape (no flattening etc), and bake for 30 minutes on fan at 200° C.

It makes nice French bread.

Question: Where's the kneading? I thought kneading was an essential step in bread making?

#fediBrain #baking #askFedi

OK, I am stuck with #texlatex, specifically #babel. May I invoke the mighty #fedibrain for some help? #boosts welcome.

Thing is, I am writing a thesis on a Linux Mint 22.3 laptop. Some of the LaTeX packages are quite old, eg. Babel is nearly two years behind. The document is mainly in nynorsk, but has sections in many other languages, both LTR and RTL. I have used Polyglossia up until now. It works of sorts, but not for everything, eg. for bilingual text in a heading.

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So, boosts.

In a world without algorithms, we rely on boosts to get 'out there'. And when I see something I like, I want to share it.

However -- when others see something they like, they share it too. I get annoyed when I see the same post for the 19th time. Then I worry that I annoy people by sharing.

Is there any way to turn off seeing the same post more than once? That way, knowing that it's possible, I'd worry less about sharing.

#FediBrain

Is there any way of looking up which band t-shirt designs were available in/before 2006? I'm specifically interested in Gojira t-shirts from that period. I can find plenty of Gojira t-shirt designs, but I have no idea what year they were each released in.

#Gojira #Metal #HeavyMetal #FediBrain

Ok. I need a #fedibrain source piece of info.

I'm sending a message from Alice to Quincy. Alice knows Bob, and Barry, and Belinda, so she asks them to pass it along. She doesn't know if any of them know Quincy, although she's got a high confidence that she'll run across someone.

Ah, and she just ran into Fred. Did he know Quincy? Nope, but he's willing to pass on the message to his friends Gina, Gary, and Greg. Dunno if they know Quincy.

Now somewhere along the way there is a path from Alice to Quincy, she just doesn't know who knows who, so she just asks everyone she runs into.

At a certain point, this is going to cause Eunice to have a nervous breakdown because 47 people have asked her to pass on messages. So to minimize this, Alice will hand out messages, but they'll only have a shelf life of 5 handoffs. Or 10, or whatever. They also get thrown away after a week.

Where my question is falls asking the reason of what an I talking about? This feels like a graph or some type of n-tree, and yes a tree is a graph, let's just accept the special case.

Additionally, is there a paper or 10 that I could read up on this?

Please and thanks,
Oatmeal