Jules the fairy @Jules@computerfairi.es

Plenty of people are advertising instances to switch to, but why should you switch? Here are some reasons:
• Community: Some focus on a certain topic. With those, the "local" timeline is useful to talk about that topic.
• Theme: Some have custom theming or language tweaks that might be fun.
• Performance: Flagship mastodon.social is slow sometimes! Even if you don't notice it might be taking a while for your statuses to propagate.
• Tweaks: Some have extra customizations, like the doodle pad.

Is there a thing that collects hashtag search results from, say, every instance known to instances.social (or any other large-ish list)?

Otherwise sharing links to hashtag-y things with none-mastodon people is often either "here's mastodon social, i'd rather not always link to that, but it knows the most toots" or "here are 5 links to the results on some smaller instances, please click them all"

The blogosphere suddenly became aware of the existence of Intel ME "spying at you" to paraphrase some catchy titles. If some authors seem to discover that technology, the truth is it is here for almost 10 years!

So, in order for you to make your own educated opinion, I tried to summarize the facts concerning Intel ME and the current state of the community knowledge about that technology.

https://itsfoss.com/fact-intel-minix-case/

#InfoSec #Privacy
#Intel #IntelME #Minix
#Mythbuster

Here is 5 instances #under1000

https://elekk.xyz : gaming
admin: @noelle

https://mastodon.gamedev.place/ : gamedevs (very new)
admin: @aras

https://tenforward.social/about/more : star trek themed
admin: @guinan

https://photog.social : photography
admin: @ambassador

https://scholar.social/: teaching and academics
admin: @socrates
Lets decentralize a little.

new folks:

please remember to make heavy use of CWs

they are there because they are useful to reduce harm for folks

instead of being forced to read a post in order to determine if they want to interact with its contents or not (which is not a choice), you can know what the post is about and choose whether it's worth engaging that or not

I want mastodon to have a timed mute feature.

Hello witches. I've finally opened my shop. It's not complete yet but you'll already find some cool stuff on it :) https://www.etsy.com/shop/godsavethequeer https://witches.town/media/Doh6hju61RadVj9UAjM https://witches.town/media/ATA33mEXU_WNrEuQcSQ https://witches.town/media/eWrgGZ0FN-uoUi_LAYU https://witches.town/media/0aV4ACTXblbQ5QA7RH8

Progress report on the Mastodon Light Theme:

https://icosahedron.website/media/1vYdj3yQ6cwMVadEb-g

It looks like it's pretty okay so far, but I'm gonna need a bit of testing round on this to make sure it's fine.

Anyone willing to beta test this? I can publish the theme real quick on Github.

How do you deal with your students giving up, getting demotivated or stuck and not asking for help?

I know it's partially an anxiety thing but I'm not sure how to get around it.

extra: if possible, how do you get around this in a static, text environment?

#education #teaching #tutoring

does anyone know about a software that one can write examinations in, that is specifically for testing students programming knowledge/practice? also i want to be able to write the tests, so premade tests aren't what i'm looking for

the thing is i want to give my students a test, and have automated grading, and would be glad if the software wasn't just for basic tests but could also evaluate and test the output of code.

thank you :)

"Radioactive traces detected all over Europe likely come from a 'very important' release in Russia" http://www.irsn.fr/EN/newsroom/News/Pages/20171109_Detection-of-Ruthenium-106-in-France-and-in-Europe-Results-of-IRSN-investigations.aspx

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And on that note, does anyone have codes of conduct or anti-harassment policies they particularly like? We'll be doing our own thing, but input (particularly regarding what you've found works well or poorly) would be much appreciated!

(Boost if you like, I suppose? More input is good.)

Have you ever wondered why we love spicy food, why we fall in love, why life exists, why a tesseract intersecting an n-dimensional hype͠rpla̴n͠e wi҉th͜ va̧ry͠i͠n͠g̕ g̢͢͝e͢͜͢om̶͞et҉̶r̡͠y̡̕ s̨͟ţ͘ú̀͟ck̢͝ ̵͡i̸n̶̛ a̕͏n͢҉͏ i̧͡ń͟fí҉n͠ìt̸͞e͏͞ ̷ça̢͟͞u͢sa͢l̛͡i̵̛t̵̡͜ý͝͡ ͝͠lơ҉o͢p̛ d҉͏͞e̵͞҉̶ś̵͟͠͝t̵̵͞͝r̴̵̢̛o̡͠y̡̢͢͝ş̵͡ ̴́ţ̷̴̡h̶̕͘͏e̸̵ ̨́̕u͏̢͠n̶i̢̡v̛͞e̸͝ŕ̶͜s̕̕͞e̢̧̕͝

I need coffee