SmittyHalibut @smitty@halibut.com

Firefox on Linux recently introduced a "feature" that fades out the scrollbar if you don't move your mouse. If you're like me and don't like invisible scrollbars, you can simply deactivate this "feature".

Go to the address bar and type "about:config" (without the quotes, obviously). Agree to be careful. Search for "widget.gtk.overlay-scrollbars.enabled" and toggle the entry from "true" to "false" by double-clicking it. Just close the about:config tab and you're done. :-)

(Sorry, I had to delete and redraft, since I first got the name of the preference wrong...)

#Firefox #Linux #scrollbars #GTK (boosts OK)

Anyone have two computers with TQSL installed? I have a Linux machine in the shack running cqrlog and a windows machine inside running log4OM. If like to run TQSL in the shack, but also in the house. Pointers?

One of the things I miss about the Google plus interface was how easy it was to search for/find & create small communities of interest.

I wish there was a way to do that more simply in the fediverse.

Would love to find more #writers, especially #specfic (#sciencefiction & #fantasy) writers.

There are some hashtags that can help us find one another - #amwriting & #amwritingscifi for example, but I don't thing many folks use them.

So, where are my spec fic writers at???

(Boosts welcome!)

A reminder that Mastodon and the Fediverse do NOT use cryptocurrency, blockchains, NFTs, tokens, coins, mining, web3 or anything like that.

Masto and the Fedi run on traditional servers and use a sustainable network federation model somewhat similar to e-mail (that's why Fediverse addresses look similar to e-mail addresses).

Also a reminder there are no venture capital firms or other investors either. No one owns the network, each server is independent. Masto and Fedi server running costs are paid by their owners, sometimes with donations from users.

No one is getting rich from the Fediverse, it is all volunteers with some getting donations and a few getting modest grants from foundations. Please remember this when you interact with admins or developers.

(There might be some individual users who post about cryptocurrency/blockchain, but the infrastructure this place runs on doesn't use it at all.)

Tl:dr - Decentralisation does NOT mean cryptocurrency/blockchain

#Fediverse

We do things not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy.

Yesterday art the Exploratorium gift shop, science votive candles.

Dentist: "Do you floss daily?"
Me: "Do you backup your data daily?"

Sometimes I feel like Dr. Dolittle.

What the picture doesn’t show is our old kitty, Khloe, laying on the other side of me.

Pictured are our puppers, Kolby, and our younger kitties, Flynn. He thinks I’m cat furniture.

@sophia I’m sure you’ve seen this:

Now available!

My in-depth comparative review of eight Mastodon apps for iPhone

Please boost (or share on Twitter) 🙏

https://transponderings.blog/2022/05/21/eight-mastodon-apps-for-iphone/

1994 #AlbumBowl - Semifinal #1

I hope those that made it to the Hamvention today are having a great time! How are the crowds and the weather? What was coolest thing you saw? 73!

Hi all! I'm happy to be here. Started in Ham Radio as a pandemic hobby. Spend most of my time on #HF checking into #nets and just starting to dabble in #contesting Also play with #FT8. Thanks to @smitty for recommending mastodon on HRWB. #introduction

I'm not saying David Bowie was holding the universe together, but did anyone else notice the simulation really starting to break down right after he died? Just saying... Let's restore from a save point around late 2015, and have an other go, shall we?