Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 3

@igeljaeger I think animated avatars are pretty cool, I just dont have the skills to make one, or the time to learn

@Tulikaa the bluest :)

@ErikaDesign Yes it is and gab.com is probably the biggest offender of pro-racist garbage sadly.

@ErikaDesign Make sure you block the server and not the user if that is your intention. There are only about a dozen or so servers, and not very big ones, that have that sort of content.

@ErikaDesign Also feel free to report things as you see fit, though try not to report spam if you know a servers decision already.

What server/user is this?

@ErikaDesign Mastodon isnt really anti-nazi, though QOTO (this server) is, in the sense we have no people like that locally.

Mastodon is about each server being able to set whatever rules they want for themselves. Each server can also decide which other server they wish to federate with.

The idea is that because you as a user can block whole servers, not just people, it is easy for you to create the type of world you want. If you mute all the pro-nazi servers (there really arent very many) then you will not see nazis anymore. This is different than say twitter where you'd have to block each person individually and not really get anywhere on the whole.

@snow Everything counts. The only person your competing with is yourself :)

@snow Indeed, I'd happily do it for free.

@snow Partly that. I also think its cause I love coding so on saturday and sunday while im taking it easy im still thinking about what i want to do on monday and by the time monday rolls around I'm excited to get to doing it!

@blipp I recently decided to do the same, just without using my phone. Its great isnt it.

With that said the one thing that bugs me is the need to manually sync your phone. If it used google drive or a similar service it could completely avoid this need. Its possible to setup yourself but I really wish it was a first-class citizen as far as features go.

So apparently according to my Git activity graph I work hard as fuck on mondays!

https://git.qoto.org/freemo

So I have been having a lot of fun using Spacemacs (Emacs + Vim) lately as my new IDE. Its a game changer for sure. One thing I find particularly fun is the "pretty-mode" extensions I managed to program into it (had to write my own layer that I derived from some existing code). I'll explain each aspect of pretty-mode in a second but first check out some screen shots at the bottom of this post to see what it looks like.

If anyone wants to replicate my configuration the full setup is here: https://git.qoto.org/freemo/pretty-spacemacs

Pretty-git is the most functionally useful of them all. When you make a git commit it helps you format your git message using the standard format where you start with one keyword classifying the commit (such as fix, feature, refactor, etc) then a colon, then the text. It provides a list of selectable keywords and adds it to the git message. Moreover it can replace these keywords visually with descriptive icons (such as a little red bug for bug fixes). Later when you look through the git history you see these icons where the keywords should be making for a very nice visual representation.

My favorite is the pretty-code. Its a simple idea, it replaces certain keywords of phrases in code with equivelant mathematical symbols. So, for example null/nil/none will be replaced with the empty-set math symbol (a circle with a slash through it), similarlity stuff like not equals (!=) will be replace with an equals mark with a slash through it. You can fully customize what symbols are replaced and what it is replaced with. Also when you cursor over a symbol it temporarily reverts back to the keyword it replaced so you can see what it means. Searches and of course the underlying code itself (and in git) is unchanged.

pretty-shell is just a shell with some nice font-awesome fonts to make it pretty, usually informative so different icons might represent if a directory is a git repository or if it has staged changes and what not.

Finally pretty-outline. This basically just gives bullet points (useful in org-mode and note dating) some pretty icon representations rather than circles. Pure eye candy on this one.

#Emacs #Vim #Spacemacs #IDE #programming #CS #IT #coding #code

@Tulikaa Looking forward to learning more from your posts, great to have you.

So I have been having a lot of fun using Spacemacs (Emacs + Vim) lately as my new IDE. Its a game changer for sure. One thing I find particularly fun is the "pretty-mode" extensions I managed to program into it (had to write my own layer that I derived from some existing code). I'll explain each aspect of pretty-mode in a second but first check out some screen shots at the bottom of this post to see what it looks like.

Pretty-git is the most functionally useful of them all. When you make a git commit it helps you format your git message using the standard format where you start with one keyword classifying the commit (such as fix, feature, refactor, etc) then a colon, then the text. It provides a list of selectable keywords and adds it to the git message. Moreover it can replace these keywords visually with descriptive icons (such as a little red bug for bug fixes). Later when you look through the git history you see these icons where the keywords should be making for a very nice visual representation.

My favorite is the pretty-code. Its a simple idea, it replaces certain keywords of phrases in code with equivelant mathematical symbols. So, for example null/nil/none will be replaced with the empty-set math symbol (a circle with a slash through it), similarlity stuff like not equals (!=) will be replace with an equals mark with a slash through it. You can fully customize what symbols are replaced and what it is replaced with. Also when you cursor over a symbol it temporarily reverts back to the keyword it replaced so you can see what it means. Searches and of course the underlying code itself (and in git) is unchanged.

pretty-shell is just a shell with some nice font-awesome fonts to make it pretty, usually informative so different icons might represent if a directory is a git repository or if it has staged changes and what not.

Finally pretty-outline. This basically just gives bullet points (useful in org-mode and note dating) some pretty icon representations rather than circles. Pure eye candy on this one.

#Emacs #Vim #Spacemacs #IDE #programming #CS #IT #coding #code

@snow Here ya go: https://pasteboard.co/IQPBNnW.gif

@Tulikaa I know all the BBC comedy stuff has very strong left lean, as do the british overall. Which makes me skeptical but I am also not certain that would carry over to their news, I'd imagine they try to keep the two rather seperate. Which is why I havent formed an opinion yet on if the news has lean or not, partly because I dont have BBC on my TV.

@M Absolute 0 doesnt exist, its like asking about something moving faster than light.

@ErikaDesign Happy to help

@snow mastodon is weird, you upload it as a *.gif but it converts it to mp4 to ensure that all browsers can play it.

I'll host the original gif somewhere so you can have that. Hold on.