Alternatives to Twatter

[Kim]

My problem with Mastodon is that you follow someone because their toots are interesting, only to find that they are an industrial booster, causing my timeline to completely fill with re-toots that don't interest me and just endless tedious virtue signalling. 

For that scenario, you can hide boosts on a per-user basis.

I think it's still badly in need of some sort of option for only showing you the same boosted toot once.  And keeping track of where you last got to in the timeline.

[Polar Bear]

Musk's shithousery...

[quixoticgeek]

Musk's shithousery...

"the email account for the Twitter press office now automatically sends out poo emojis in response to requests"

Wtf.

In other news, mastodon has passed 10000000 users...

J

[Polar Bear]

One thing that you can say for Musk and that is that he appears to have no sense of shame, morality, decency or integrity when it comes to social media super twattery.

Just my opinion though.  I am sure that many love him or at least they do until Musk's mutants turn their gaze their way ...

[Cudzoziemiec]

In other news, mastodon has passed 10000000 users...

J

couldyoupleaseputsomepunctuationinthatsowecantellataglancewhetheritsahundredthousandamilliontenmillionorwhateverokaythanks

[quixoticgeek]

In other news, mastodon has passed 10000000 users...

J

couldyoupleaseputsomepunctuationinthatsowecantellataglancewhetheritsahundredthousandamilliontenmillionorwhateverokaythanks

There's 7 zeros.

J

[Kim]

This is what metric prefixes are for.  10M.  Easily understood without any of those ambiguous dots and commas.

[bhoot]

It's 100 lakhs (my Indian colleagues have been training me!)

[andrewc]

As Mastodon.lol is closing down, doe anyone have recommendations for another server ?  Leftish, with a decent userbase.  Ideally something that's not reliant upon a single person who's likely to shut it down when they get peeved. 

[cycleman]

YACF 

[Cudzoziemiec]

It's 100 lakhs (my Indian colleagues have been training me!)

Thank you! So it's 1 crore.

[Cudzoziemiec]

In other news, mastodon has passed 10000000 users...

J

couldyoupleaseputsomepunctuationinthatsowecantellataglancewhetheritsahundredthousandamilliontenmillionorwhateverokaythanks

There's 7 zeros.

J

1,00,00,000
or maybe
100,00,000
(not vitally important IMO where you put the commas, or whether you use commas or dots, just as long as there's something to break up the row)

[Captain Nemo]

Vitally Important!

If you must use a physical delimiter use a comma. Otherwise things get messy once you have a decimal point in there.

When I did big engineering sums back in the day (limited time on the company's IBM main-frame and Dog forbid you sought permission to apply for authority to book time on the UMIST brain...) and had to write it all down manually, a space every three was the norm (so that even the French could understand it, since they insist on using a comma as a decimal point).

Though I much prefer standard mathmatical notation (10^7). You don't even have to count the number of zeros or give it a name.

I have often wondered why we have to work numbers arse about face?
Reading from the right:
Units, Tens, Hundreds, Thousands, Ten Thousands, Hundred Thousands, Millions (modern uasage), Ten Millions, Hundred Millions, etc.
I can only surmise that since our numbers are derived from Arabic numerals - and they read from right to left.

[Kim]

Shirley big-endian makes sense as we read the most significant digits first?

"Two hundred and thirty four" makes more sense than "four, thirty and two hundred" in most contexts, as it naturally emphasises the hundreds.

The exception if of course dates, where BRITONS are traditionally little-endian and USAnians are middle-endian, presumably because the written form is derived from the spoken form.  ISO dates spare us from this nonsense by making dates work like other big-endian numbers.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Yeah, presumably numbers are written big-endian because that reflects the way we say them.

As for commas and dots, it doesn't matter does it? Because it's customary in traditions that use dots, to use a decimal comma (and vice versa). Thought there might be some that dots and decimal points.
Or
Not sure about British dates being little-endian though. Historically they were also often middle-endian, in writing as in speech. With the month written as a word, it doesn't matter. Today is Friday, March 24th, 2023. Or 24th March 2023. Or even 24 Mar. 2023 or 24-III-2023. III-24-2023 would work but I've never seen it.

[quixoticgeek]

Yeah, presumably numbers are written big-endian because that reflects the way we say them.

As for commas and dots, it doesn't matter does it? Because it's customary in traditions that use dots, to use a decimal comma (and vice versa). Thought there might be some that dots and decimal points.
Or
Not sure about British dates being little-endian though. Historically they were also often middle-endian, in writing as in speech. With the month written as a word, it doesn't matter. Today is Friday, March 24th, 2023. Or 24th March 2023. Or even 24 Mar. 2023 or 24-III-2023. III-24-2023 would work but I've never seen it.

1,000.001
1.000,001

One of these is written in the continental style, one of them is written correctly.

Which is which ?

The , Vs . Thing can trip a lot up. A friend put in a meter reading do 50,25 of gas on their Belgian supplier's website. Which filtered out the , And billed the for 5025. A 100x greater than used bill...

The time sheet system at work requires house logged in the form 4,25 for a four hour and 15 mins worked. Not awake one day I typed in 4.00. the system ignored the . And decided I'd worked a 400 hour shift in a single 24 HR period... Which was fun to explain to the boss...

I wish this was standardised.

J

[Auntie Helen]

I have problems the whole time with spreadsheets at work which I then work on at home. Presumably to do with language/regional settings, but some tabs can have a decimal point and others a decimal comma. The spreadsheets I submit with my tax return are like this - fortunately the Finanzamt seem to cope with it.

[Cudzoziemiec]

1,000.001
1.000,001

One of these is written in the continental style, one of them is written correctly.

Which is which ?

!!!!

Let this forever be remembered as the occasion QG said something Continental might not be as good as the British equivalent!!!

[ian]

For bonus points, in Tobleronia it’s 1’000’000.

[Cudzoziemiec]

For bonus points, in Tobleronia it’s 1’000’000.

Some calculators use that too. Maybe they're as supplied to Credit Suisse.

[quixoticgeek]

Well that's a first. Seems that something I said on Mastodon attracted the attention of some fascists, one suggesting killing leftist people. The second sent me a deep fake video of biden with a TERF rant.

Have blocked both instances, and my instance admin has done the same. First time we've had to dk this.

J

[Mrs Pingu]

Anyone got a invite code for Bluesky?

[Asterix, the former Gaul.]

1,000.001
1.000,001

One of these is written in the continental style, one of them is written correctly.

Which is which ?

!!!!

Let this forever be remembered as the occasion QG said something Continental might not be as good as the British equivalent!!!

Working in world shipping when many documents were still hand written it was vital to get numbers right. I soon learnt the what was which and vice versa.  Context was crucial. No computers for ages and the first ones worked off floppy discs. Did I tell you about the time I met Charles Dickens?

[Mr Larrington]

Was he in the tavern with Matthew Hopkins, Jacob Rees-Mogg and Thomas Tallis?

[citoyen]

presumably because the written form is derived from the spoken form

As in "Remember, remember, November 5th"?