Don McAllister

@Donmcallister
16 Followers
667 Following
223 Posts

Founded ScreenCastsOnline back in 2005 converting my hobby podcast delivering Apple-related video tutorials into a full time business.

Prior to that, spent many years in Corporate IT and the Civil Service in many roles.

Bitcoin enthusiast and evangelist

Bitcoin not Crypto

ScreenCastsOnlinehttps://www.screencastsonline.com
Bitcoin Writinghttps://bitcoinmagazine.com/search?query=Don+McAllister
Don McAllisterJan 28, 2023
Show threadBjoernJan 28, 2023
@dsilverman you can also try https://followgraph.vercel.app there you can check which account others follow
Followgraph for Mastodon

Find people to follow on Mastodon by expanding your follow graph.

Don McAllisterJan 28, 2023
Show threadJon BradburyJan 27, 2023
@ianRobinson yeah if it comes to that I’ll just have last tweet pinned, not here anymore find me over at… stops it being used, and also means late comers who think where the hell as x got to aren’t just left head scratching
Don McAllisterJan 28, 2023
SundazedJan 28, 2023
#defund
Don McAllisterJan 28, 2023

Good grief.

From: @dmvrg
https://sigmoid.social/@dmvrg/109766816580874897

dmvrg (@[email protected])

[Google] MusicLM: Generating Music From Text "We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as 'a calming violin melody backed by a distorted guitar riff'. MusicLM casts the process of conditional music generation as a hierarchical sequence-to-sequence modeling task, and it generates music at 24 kHz that remains consistent over several minutes. " https://google-research.github.io/seanet/musiclm/examples

Sigmoid Social
Don McAllisterJan 28, 2023

Mastodon tip to find and follow like minded people...

1. Open post that you like and has previously been "Favourited" or "Boosted'

@[email protected]
1. Tap on "Favourites" or "Boosts" label at bottom of post
2. Tap on user to view profile or just tap "Follow"

@ivory
1. Tap on icon on right.
2. Tap on "View Favourites" or "View Boosts"
3. Tap on user to view Profile or
4. Tap on icon on right
5. Tap on "Follow"

#mastodontips

Don McAllisterJan 28, 2023
Greg GardnerJan 28, 2023
@icecubesapp this is the great thing about open source. Something annoying you in the app? Fix it yourself! 😁
Don McAllisterJan 27, 2023

Brilliant summary of Mastodon by @glennf

https://tidbits.com/2023/01/27/mastodon-a-new-hope-for-social-networking/

Mastodon: A New Hope for Social Networking - TidBITS

With centralized, ad-driven social networks in disarray and suffering from misinformation, harassment, and declining users, can the long-simmering Mastodon microblogging system offer a distributed future for conversation and community?

TidBITS
Don McAllisterJan 27, 2023

Good to see that https://movetodon.org is back online. Invaluable tool to follow bird site friends on Mastodon.

@Alexgfox

Movetodon: Finds your Twitter Friends on Mastodon

Don McAllisterJan 27, 2023
KornyJan 25, 2023

To clarify: to #vote in the UK in any sort of #election you will now need photo ID - and it's biased to make it easy for older people to vote and harder for younger people.

Student ID and 18+ Rail ID aren't acceptable. 60+ Rail ID is. Driver's licences are, even if expired.

A list of valid ID is at https://www.gov.uk/how-to-vote/photo-id-youll-need
If you don't have photo ID you can apply for a free voter ID at https://www.gov.uk/apply-for-photo-id-voter-authority-certificate

Please share especially to young people or those without licenses #ukpol

How to vote

An overview of voting in the UK, including voting in person, postal and proxy voting, and voting if you're abroad.

GOV.UK
Don McAllisterJan 27, 2023
Show threadCraig HockenberryJan 27, 2023

It also feels like something at the end of the show bears repeating: @Gargron, and all the other folks who have been working tirelessly for the past seven years, saved our asses.

To all of you who had the foresight to build Mastodon, a sincere THANK YOU. We're in your debt.