Ethan Brown @ewb@social.ewb.io

A talk I gave this past fall on #spam battles fought at @doodletweet@twitter.com : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7q1xVEW_vI

First time watching "Coco". There really need to be father-daughter moment trigger warnings on these things.. 😭

You know everyone is always like "Donald you're being so selfish, you only think about yourself", when he has spend everyday playing in a literal shrine to Mickey. #mickeymouseclubhouse #teamdonald

Though I don't really want this, part of me _really_ wants a legitimate reason to use a fire extinguisher. 🔥

Maybe this is coder me talking, but have we considered just dropping "and" and only having the comma? #oxfordcomma

I always use markdown to take notes, but only in Vim, never an actual markdown viewer. I have to imagine it would look nice though...

I'm finding wet January to be much easier than dry January ever would have been.

c-span is really having a moment: https://www.c-span.org/video/?507663-1/joint-session-congress-counting-electoral-college-ballots

Neat approach to modeling non-linear equations on a quantum computer: "It modeled any nonlinear problem as a Bose-Einstein condensate."
https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-quantum-algorithms-finally-crack-nonlinear-equations-20210105/

Neat tool to test for ad trackers on websites. Wish it came with a badge, I'd wear it proudly. https://themarkup.org/blacklight

@Sandra @kensanata this is exactly what I'm trying :)

@kensanata
There's not really good docs I found, but was reading the PR : https://github.com/tootsuite/mastodon/pull/7998

Also in the server admin section of Mastodon there's a blurb.

@kensanata
I think even the profile search is enough to get started, no need to aggregate toots. Maybe the opt-in for listing oneself could be controlled at the instance level, i.e. you can tell your instance to de-list you, and it will no longer return your profile when requested by a profile aggregator.

Anyways, I'm new here :) let me get a feel for things first ..

@galaxis
@kensanata
Reading a bit about relays, I think it's not exactly what I would want. I like the idea of my instance being just me and the people I follow. Adding content from a relay seems like it would pollute.

@kensanata
Amazing! Thanks!

@kensanata
The search is a good start, I think. Can you point me to why a centralized search is frowned upon? I get that centralization is something we are trying to avoid, but in this case it seems useful. Are there other arguments?

@trunk Please add me to Machine Learning & Artificial Intelligence, Physics, Python. #Trunk