Mike Taylor 🦕
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Mike Taylor 🦕's Bio
By day I am a computer programmer with Index Data, where I have been happily and gainfully employed for 20 years.
By night, I am a vertebrate palaeontologist with the University of Bristol, specialising in sauropods: the biggest and best of all dinosaurs.
I am an advocate for open access, open data and open source, and also for open peer-review though I'm beginning to think pre-publication peer-review might be a mistake. I support #LFC.
Email: dino@miketaylor.org.uk
ORCiD: 0000-0002-1003-5675
Mike Taylor 🦕's Posts
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Mike Taylor 🦕
I like to run my Firefox(*) windows at a specific width. It happens that Mastodon in multi-column mode is too wide for me to see three columns at 90% zoom, and too narrow at 80% zoom (so I see part of the fourth column).
Today I learned that if you go to about:config and choose the toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues item, you can add an intermediate zoom size of your choice.
I am now using a perfect zoom size of 82%. Very nice.
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(*) Actually LibreWolf, but that's just FF with better privacy.
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In response to this post@MostlyHarmless Or indeed a website UI.
Mentions: @MostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 And thanks for the incisive, though depressing, insight.
Mentions: @ChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
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In response to this post@ChrisMayLA6 s/weird/wield?
@mike
Ha ha, thanks, missed that first thing this morning; thanks for the typo spot! appreciated
by Emeritus Prof Christopher May ;
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In response to this post"By conflating masculinity with being an asshole, Zuckerberg is saying Yes, All Men.
And that, frankly, is an insult to all men."
https://www.theindex.media/what-does-masculine-energy-even-mean-mark/
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"What are we left with? What could Zuckerberg possibly mean by "masculine energy?" The timing of his comments – amid Meta's diversity program cuts and plans to co-host Trump's inauguration – tells us everything we need to know.
He means being an asshole."
https://www.theindex.media/what-does-masculine-energy-even-mean-mark/
"By conflating masculinity with being an asshole, Zuckerberg is saying Yes, All Men.
And that, frankly, is an insult to all men."
https://www.theindex.media/what-does-masculine-energy-even-mean-mark/
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PRO TIP: When you read that a product or service is "Now with AI!", simply read it as "Now with the ability to randomly do the wrong thing for reasons you don't understand and that no-one can usefully explain, and where no one is accountable!"
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