Notices by 🎓 Dr. Freemo :jpf: 🇳🇱 (freemo@qoto.org), page 34

@selea well there is a whole world of WM that may or may not suite you. There are varying degrees of minimalism which can be lovely, but also functional features, such as what you get with tiling WM that are really powerful and useful for productivity.

@selea Doesnt need to be i3 there are a lot of smilar and different choices too. Whats WM do you prefer now, what are looking to get out of a WM?

@design_RG

Indeed it is :) I love how I got all the colors used in the terminals to match the wall paper colors.

@eletrotupi

@eletrotupi Thanks!

Almost done setting up my new system. I decided to design a whole new theme based on Rick & Morty / STEM, seems appropriate to share it on #QOTO.

This rice is brought to you by i3-gaps configured entirely from scratch

#RickAndMorty #Rice #Linux #i3 #Science #STEM

Just realized workaround is a phonetic auto-antonym

workaround - a shortcut to avoid work

work a round - to do a round of work

Auto-antonyms are my new favorite thing :)

@Jordi hehe :)

@Jordi Well the two phrases would represent very different things.

an elite is someone int he upper class in terms of either money, power, or both.

A Lumpenproletariat is the portion of the lower class that is either simply too unintelligent or apathetic to the situation their in.

So by definition a non-Lumpenproletariat would include both lower class individuals who are passionate and intelligent about social issues as well as the rich and powerful, as well as the middle class regardless of their mental state. So it would mean something very different than what elite might mean and im not sure what context it might be a useful term, but it seems largely uncomparable.

@selea Depends if you want features and power, or if you care more about pure-opensource.

Gitlab is the clear winner in terms of functionality, but it is questionable in terms of EULA/ToS

@Jordi What about them?

If you ever use the phrase "the elites" it pretty much guarantees your a wack-a-do, didnt even need to read the rest of this :)

@yisraeldov Several reasons

1) the emacs hotkeys are nonsensical/non intuitive

2) much more hassle to configure or get working if you want to use a lot of plugins and customizations

3) Not nearly as pretty as spacemacs.

@namark

I'm not sure it would be some "overly clever algorithm". I think the algorithm would be relatively straight forward. Everytime you vote up a users post that user gets a point. The users points determines the weight of their own votes WRT what you see. An instances votes would be the sum of the votes of its users. I dont really see a need for anythiong more complicatged than that for an algorithm.

Its no different than other highly successful systems in some ways like reddit or stackoverflow, just slightly tweaked.

But yea I do agree keep the customizations optional and provide a default.

@design_RG

@Sphinx
Haha im well thanks :)

@namark
I think it could be made easy. As you downvote or uovote posts you see (not tags) that effects your trust in the individual. This could be used to imply the trust you have for the server. Blocking i dividuals would be seen as a downvote with higher weight.

Its really most of the same mechanisms we are already used to when you think about it

Decided to resurrect my old 2014 MacBook Pro Retina 15" and get ArchLinux working on it with BTRFS filesystem. Woot!

@namark Makes sense you'd get a vote/tag on your own post to get the ball rolling.

I agree you'd need some sort of reputation system. I left that detail for another post not to complicate things. But I envision a trust system where instances can dictate trust level between other instances and its users. Then when a user trusts either an instance or another user then additional trust can be inferred from that. All instances with similar policies and moderation styles would have a high trust level between them and instances with dissimilar styles would have low trust levels. Each instance could have different ways insternally to rate the trust of its individual users in theory at that point,