Posts by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
(DIR) Post #APIR6HwNXQQPvnGpto by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-05T14:33:36Z
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#introduction Studied biology as a youth. First computer I touched was a PDP 11. Entrepreneured until I got it dot bombed out of me. Did most of the jobs there are in software development. Currently a soon to retire scrum master. Fart around with Arduino, Raspberry Pi, etc. Mostly just burning my fingers with a soldering iron. Words of wisdom, "Get off my lawn!"
(DIR) Post #APMr9UjCjru3bVxMMS by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-07T17:38:28Z
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Has anybody played with the Mastodon API? It looks to be pretty straightforward but there's always a gotcha lurking. I hope to get some time to beat on it toward the end of the week. If I learn anything interesting, I'll report back here.#mastodonapi
(DIR) Post #APMtqYw7AUlx13evXE by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-07T18:14:42Z
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@freemo Thanks. I'm not good enough to dig into a large, complex code base. I just want to see if I can automate some actions like posting an update from an IOT-connected sensor.
(DIR) Post #APOUSSwL5t3SgZQY3U by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-08T12:39:32Z
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@leo The internet regards Elon Musk as a failure and routes around him.
(DIR) Post #APUpFGbL2dzc9yNeAC by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-10T13:43:53Z
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@m8urnett Need a poster on the Death Star that says "_____ days without a job site accident"
(DIR) Post #APV9SpS4mG2f5wnBbc by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-11T17:43:44Z
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@sgul @freemo Wikipedia says 7-day "weeks" go back to Babylonia, including one day a week for making offering to the gods and avoiding prohibited activities.https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babylonian_calendarOf course, other systems since have used different approaches including the French Revolution attempting to create a decimal calendar of 10-weeks.Most calendar systems are lunisolar with the sun's position determining year length and the moon's phase determining month length. Reckoning weeks was more or less optional and of little interest.And since prehistory is, by definition, before anything was recorded we can only speculate from limited findings how, or even if, time was recorded. It seems likely that some tribal leader made scratches on something to tally lunar months and maybe solar years.
(DIR) Post #APVB5bmfcyy3x8Tr96 by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-11T18:05:28Z
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@freemo @sgul Ah! Let me attempt to answer your actual question a bit more directly.The Jewish people adopted the Babylonian calendar systems during the Babylonian Exile so for Western purposes we can mark the observance of the Sabbath and a 7-day cycle beginning sometime around 600 BCE. Of course every lunisolar calendar requires intercalary "leap" days to reconcile the lunar and solar cycles so "counting by Sundays" isn't easy over very long timeframes.The last major revision to the Western calendar was, as others have noted, the switch from Julian to Gregorian, a process that took a couple centuries.
(DIR) Post #APVCDrsHmric7ybqfA by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-11T18:18:09Z
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@freemo @sgul You probably could, as an exercise, extrapolate calendar systems forward and backward in time then attempt to align them. Any system that used a 7-day weekly cycle would allow aligning by weeks to "line up the Sundays." The hard part is that each system used a different approach to intercalary days to correct slippage.
(DIR) Post #APllxJtJ4hUIyWr1qC by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-19T18:13:40Z
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@freemo @Gargron @trinsec @khird email sent and cc: to @freemo BTW I was chastised for being on this instance because it was on a block list for being insufficiently gay friendly. The reasoning made little sense to me but I took a look at qoto.org policy and decided that the person chastising me was, from my perspective, overreacting.
(DIR) Post #APlmbXHygHWG6yZQuW by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-19T18:17:38Z
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@freemo @Gargron @trinsec @khird From:Don R-Cjeffery.freeman@qoto.org bounced, so here's the email:To:hello@joinmastodon.orgCc:jeffery.freeman@qoto.orgSent:Sat Nov 19 12:03:27 CST 2022Subject:Removal from directoryGood day,I am, I suppose, a member of the "Twitter Migration". I arrived at qoto.org as it advertised as STEM-oriented. Indeed it is and I'm pleased to be on that instance.The moderation policies matched my belief that moderation should be light handed in most cases but firm enough to give me options. Blatantly illegal content is blocked by policy and I have an array of options to further restrict the posts I see. So far, I have seen nothing even remotely offensive so I assume the policies are working.I understand that qoto.org has been removed from your registry without cause. I found qoto.org through joinmastodon and I can confirm that it is no longer listed as a Technology instance. This saddens me because it means fewer like-minded people joining this instance.I ask you to reconsider your reasons for removing qoto.org and return it to your registry.Sincerely,Don Rideaux-Crenshawdgrc@crowswood.com,@lePetomaneAncienOnward,Don
(DIR) Post #APmN9bC6GT5AQ2MZU0 by lePetomaneAncien@qoto.org
2022-11-20T01:10:52Z
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@freemo When the time comes, ask. You deserve to have users cover expenses. It is after all, free as in speech, not free as in beer.