Rob Kam @robkam@mastodon.technology

So far I've found #Hubzilla channels are the most user friendly and similar to Facebook Groups.

@userthree @Liwott @42GB @humanetech
I don't care about federation between different social media platforms, that will just add noise. I only want federation between servers of the same social media platforms.

Okay, I've found the federated alternative for Fb groups, already available right now, is #Friendica forums. Not as slick and easy as Fb groups but given time it might get there.

What is the federated equivalent of Facebook Groups? That is a virtual social group where like minded people can discuss some specific topic and share media about it. #ActivityPub

I'd started to move to #Linux. Having to use the CLI sometimes is fun, (sort of nostalgia for DOS 3.3).

Web browsing, emails, graphics, media player, office applications, text editor, file manager all work fine.

Until I struggled to get OCR, especially a screenshot reader working.

I'm still on Windows where ABBYY FineReader just works. Every boot I skip the option for #Kubuntu.

Since I last used Mastodon (18 months ago) we've moved home to the lovely North Wales #gwynedd.

My single speed bicycle wasn't up to the hills here. Yesterday I got a new Trek FX 2 disc and found that despite all the garden labouring I'm out of condition for #cycling.

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IBM open sources Power processor instruction set https://www.nextplatform.com/2019/08/20/big-blue-open-sources-power-chip-instruction-set/ #osh #opensourcehardware #cpu

Now I've got them.

Is anyone else behind Zscaler missing the images here?

Look at what's happened to the unmoderated Usenet newsgroups, they're almost entirely spam these days.

What's to stop spambots overwhelming Mastodon?

To have a #MediaWiki #wiki without the admin headache or cost of the extra infrastructure required to run it properly then use #Miraheze, free, without adverts, wiki hosting.

Disclaimer: I have no ties to Miraheze except for being a satisfied user of the service they provide. After a few years of the hassle of maintaining the wiki PHP/MySQL myself.

Hurrah, I'm now using Thunderbird portable, instead of Outlook. 😀

Fixed now, somehow the files were set to read-only.

Really I'd like to use #Thunderbird but trivial problems prevent me from doing so. For example not allowing me to simply drag and drop emails between folders.

Where to get new old stock BC547 and BC557 parts?