I've completed "Scratchcards" - Day 4 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/4
Paul Stone
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I'm a firmware engineer by trade. I aspire to be a positive influence on those around me. Democrat/socialist, FOSS, married, stands with Ukraine 🇺🇦.
Adolph Hitler and Joseph Stalin have both been Time's Person of the Year. It doesn't make a distinction between good and evil.
I just completed "Gear Ratios" - Day 3 - Advent of Code 2023 #AdventOfCode https://adventofcode.com/2023/day/3
Corey S Powell24 hours of Earth's rotation, with the camera locked to the sky instead of the ground. We're all hanging out on this spinning rock.
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth
Brilliant video by Bartosz Wojczyński. https://artuniverse.eu/gallery/190705-rotation24h #nature #wonder #earth
@Teri_Kanefield Good point!
@Teri_Kanefield Sounds good to me. I find discoverability on Mastodon to be subpar.
For example, Terri, you didn’t use any hashtags in your post. I believe that means that your post is not discoverable outside of your instance. Searching on arbitrary words across instances is deliberately disabled (I would say crippled) in order to prevent dogpiling.
I have also found it quite difficult to look people up on Mastodon.
@starbreaker Part of the problem is that I was using Ivory, which is an app for iPhone. It's a little more clear on the website that you have to supply a hashtag. Honestly, it's work for me to find anything on Mastodon. As much as I want to like Mastodon, I'm pretty sure I will end up on another site which has better discoverability.
The search UI is horrendous. If you can’t input arbitrary strings, but can only search hashtags, then convert the arbitrary string to a hashtag, or at least tell the user why the search results are coming up blank.
I discovered why Mastodon search is so useless. It’s deliberately crippled, to prevent searching for arbitrary strings, because it could be used to search for posts to dogpile. I guess you can only search hashtags?
Pam Leitterman@paulstone @Teri_Kanefield @wrigleyfield
Yes! Humor and laughter are vital to setting aside rage so we can regain perspective, resist ragging on each other, and remain engaged in our common pursuit of a just and healthy democracy.
Here's one of my favorite laughs - a surprised and laughing baby:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L49VXZwfup8&t=37s
