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gisiger

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Adult Educator | Coach | Nerd | formerly known as Wortgefecht | ¯_(ツ)_/¯ | 🇨🇭

I'm a historian by training and an adult educator by profession. I've been named a #watch enthusiast by some, but it's not the worst thing I've been called. I also collect vintage #FountainPens and am a passionate advocate of writing with pen and paper.

DoB: 15 messidor CLXXXIII ER

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@gisiger@nerdculture.de avatar gisiger , to random

is good now, and if you want to feel like you actually own your PC, make 2026 the year of Linux on (your) desktop

I did that 15+ years ago—and never looked back!

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/linux/im-brave-enough-to-say-it-linux-is-good-now-and-if-you-want-to-feel-like-you-actually-own-your-pc-make-2026-the-year-of-linux-on-your-desktop/

@publicdomainrev@mastodon.social avatar publicdomainrev , to random

Fifteenth-century handwriting as seen in The History of Ink (1860), a book including beautiful samples of penmanship from 1500 BC to 1834 AD: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/the-history-of-ink-including-its-etymology-chemistry-and-bibliography-1860

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@publicdomainrev

This is a post for the community here!

@gisiger@nerdculture.de avatar gisiger , to random

And what did you observe yesterday?

I can't credit the source, this image got sent to me without.

A pink full moon dominates the night sky, with the shadow of Terry Pratchett’s Discworld turtle and its four supporting elephants cast across its surface.
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@FediTips@social.growyourown.services avatar FediTips , to random

The situation happened because all groups were on one server, so when that server went down all the groups did too.

FediGroups is a good immediate solution for getting groups up and running again, but it's also a single server so it's vulnerable.

As a long term solution we need to have groups hosted on many different servers. If one server goes down, groups on other servers could carry on.

Techy people might be interested in hosting/forking Guppe from source at https://github.com/immers-space/guppe

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@TechDesk@flipboard.social avatar TechDesk , to random

How to tell if the article you're reading was written by AI. Lisa Larson-Kelley for @FastCompany writes 5 easy steps you can use to help spot AI's "emotionally forgettable" writing.

We love her idea of a support group for the em dash lovers out there!

https://flip.it/LllTek

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@harry_wood @TechDesk @FastCompany

There's also a thing called the toupee fallacy …

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/toupee_fallacy

@gisiger@nerdculture.de avatar gisiger , to random German

📚 Warum regelmässiges Lesen dein Leben verändert

Lesen verbessert nicht nur das Wissen, sondern hat weitreichende positive Effekte auf die kognitive Leistungsfähigkeit, die psychische Gesundheit und die sozialen Fähigkeiten. Eine britische Langzeitstudie mit 17.000 Teilnehmern zeigt: Kinder, die bereits im Alter von sieben Jahren gut lesen konnten, erzielen im Erwachsenenalter ein signifikant höheres Einkommen – im Durchschnitt 5.000 Pfund pro Jahr mehr. Dieser Vorteil bleibt bestehen, selbst wenn Intelligenz, familiärer Hintergrund und Bildungsweg berücksichtigt werden.

Lesen stärkt auch die geistige Gesundheit. Eine Metaanalyse aus dem Jahr 2017 belegt, dass strukturierte Leseprogramme depressive Symptome signifikant lindern können. Ausserdem verlangsamt regelmässiges Lesen den geistigen Abbau im Alter und kann die Lebenserwartung um durchschnittlich zwei Jahre erhöhen.

Mehr dazu in meinem neuesten Blogbeitrag:

👉 https://text.tchncs.de/gisiger/warum-lesen-dein-leben-verandern-kann

@NickEast@geekdom.social avatar NickEast , to bookstodon group

I've been going with the "When I've read it I put it on a shelf where there's still some room left." 🤔 😁

bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble


Six panel meme of various book arrangments. Title: How do you arrange your books? 1. Height 2. PERSONAL SIGNIFICANCE 3. Colour 4. Stacked 5. Alphabetical 6. Chronological
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@NickEast bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group @fantasybookstodon @speculativefictioncomedy @bookbubble Random, but I call it Dynamic Storage. That sounds more sophisticated :blobcatdunno:

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Bloggers / newsletter writers take note: in the new Mastodon 4.3 release, if you go to settings > verification, you can now turn on "Author attribution". So when someone posts a link to Cybercultural, I think they now see my Mastodon profile alongside the link. Very cool. https://blog.joinmastodon.org/2024/10/mastodon-4.3/

Author attribution in Mastodon
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@ricmac Is this the fediverse: creator meta tag, that was mentioned in a blog post in July? Is that meta tag still necessary?

cc/ @Gargron

@CultureDesk@flipboard.social avatar CultureDesk , to bookstodon group

What's better for the environment: A paper book, or an e-reader? NPR spoke to industry experts about the rise of digital reading, how the publishing industry is reducing waste, and whether using a fossil-fuel-derived plastic e-reader is a better option than a paper book. The short answer, according to professor Mike Berners-Lee (yes, he is his brother): It depends.

https://flip.it/h5yJmA

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@CultureDesk bookstodon@a.gup.pe icon bookstodon group

"If you buy an e-reader and you read loads and loads of books on it, then it's the lowest carbon thing to do," Berners-Lee said.

Imho, most people using e-readers fall into this category. I certainly do. I'm currently reading my 29th book this year and I went fully digital years ago.