While I'm in a complaining mood, I wish Mastodon hadn't copied the Twitter-style “bottom card” layout. Again, this is criticism that transcends the quote feature. I like the way Discourse (the forum software we use for GPUSPH) does it: if a link is on a standalone line, it gets replaced by a […]

Bugs (or technical choices as they might be), I'm not particularly impressed by the implementation of the quote feature. I had no plan of using it anyway, so that changes little for me, and while I appreciate the control options given, the only meaningful advantage it has over a simple link is […]

Oh, that's BAD: editing a quote post to quote a different post does NOT update the quote preview, see

https://fediscience.org/@giuseppebilotta/115541951909502727

that I have edited from quoting its previous to quoting its next post, and the quote preview still shows the OLD one.

This is a bug.

https://fediscience.org/@giuseppebilotta/115541951909502727

Actually, it looks like manually adding the link (including the RE: in front) does NOT result in the link line removal, so quote posts initiated as quote posts have some additional “magic” in them. I'm now linking to the previous post […]

RE: https://fediscience.org/@giuseppebilotta/115541946883381775

The previous one failed too, in the sense that the link line was not removed. A manual link line seems to work. I'm writing this message with a link to the previous one, but I will later edit it to link to the NEXT one, just for fun.

Re: https://fediscience.org/@giuseppebilotta/115541935197716087

Since in the second test the R: was not recognized as a valid prefix to lead to the removal of the link line, this third test manually inserts a quote “the Mastodon way”, but with Re: written in mixed case, to check if the prefix […]

R: https://fediscience.org/@giuseppebilotta/115541917517614186

this second test quotes the previous test, but it uses an R: prefix instead of the Mastondon-default RE: prefix. This is a bit of a jab at the classic Microsoft Outlook misbehavior of not collapsing multilingual prefixes equivalent […]

So, the problem with these massive datacenters (not the email ones, of course; the LLM ones, just like the cryptominers' before them) is that they consume inordinate amounts of power and water, thus becoming a significant resource strain on the local communities that host them.

Would […]

Regrdless of fairness, I posit that progressive taxation (i.e. taxation whose rate increases as the income increases) is also more _natural_, in the sense that it mirrors socially how most natural phenomena already behave to avoid “excess” (for example, increasing drag force as an object […]

How does this kind of understanding transfer from physics to society?

For example, we have a general understanding that there's a minimum amount of stuff we need to survive, and that getting more will generally improve our quality of life, but there also seem to be diminishing returns […]

For example, the small-angle approximation tells us that both sin(α+β) and tan(α+β) can be approximated by α+β when α, β are small. If you're ever dealt with small values, you might be led to believe that some angular phenomemon can be described through simple linear functions where something […]