There's a notice posted on the front door of the building. Apparently the landlord is bringing in an exterminator tomorrow and we have ~24h to empty out all the cabinets, pull appliances away from the walls, etc. in preparation for their arrival.
Welp, I did have other plans for today, but I guess not any more. ಠ_ಠ
@Adam Hunt We've been very fortunate on that front. When we were living in the basement (we've moved up a floor), we had a singular rat once. Caught it and never again saw another one. That was the worst of it.
@Adam Hunt At the time, there was a massive construction project going on at the church next door. As near as we can figure, it migrated from there and the others went elsewhere?
Well, we've done everything we could think to do. There's probably more stuff that needs to be done, bit nobody has officially given us any direction at all.
All I know is that my neatly organized kitchen is in a state if disarray that's going to be a problem for my #ADHD brain for several days before I can reorganize.
And now, in typical and possibly pre-ordained fashion, the trades people won't turn up, because of... some reason they can't even be arsed to make sound as if it's plausible. And you'll be stuck this way for days, if not weeks, if you're really unlucky.
Make sure the people handling the pesticides are certified. Our friends' house was condemned because the idiot doing the termite pesticide application didn't properly seal the poison off.
@Ehay2k So if you're in a rental and the landlord is hiring them, what are you supposed to do if find out they aren't? Ask them to stop and leave, and if they don't threaten to call the police?
@janisf You're still free to ask about certifications, and also take down their name(s) so at a minimum, you have a path to recourse if they screw up. You can also ask (out of curiosity, not accusing them) what they are applying, how long it lasts, how long you should be away, etc. if they don't know any of those answers they're probably not certified.
Fun development: ours is not one of the apartments being treated. On the plus side, had we not gone through the exercise of emptying out all the cabinets, I wouldn't have noticed the leak under our bathroom sink. Gonna have to get that fixed. :/
I think this comes under the concept of, a silver lining. But still, it would have been nice if you could have been told this before you stressed and did all the work.
!Haskell Users Group (unofficial) So, I created a #Haskell #TUI program using brick. I wanted to have it support cursor keys, as well as vim and Emacs-style cursor movement, but for whatever reason I can't get it to register C-n and C-p keypresses. C-f and C-b worked fine though.
So, my partner who's "not into anime" and insistent that she dislikes the fantasy genre may or may not have spent the past three days binging on Frieren.
Marketing spin is just wild sometimes. I literally just heard this one: "the only EV that's a Mustang", which is just another way of saying "the only EV we make". (Yes, I know Ford makes other EVs.)
I love when I'm writing software and I end up re-implementing functionality that already exists in a library I was already using because I didn't know it was there. 🙃
But now you understand the functionality much better than you used to. I implemented a really short and to me fun algorith for generating / calculating corporate dates like Week X Period Y Day z of Quarter and then I found out that someone just made a table with all the dates from 2000-2999 and was using that lol
I think centralized social media is the reason we fucked up a lot of decentralized social media.
I was thinking earlier about Lemmy, and how when Reddit did their API changes everyone tried to rush to Lemmy. Which would be fine, except everyone tried to just recreate reddit. Everyone tried to make Everything servers. Do we need ten thousand Technology subs? Not really. But people just tried to all make large general purpose instances with all the generic subs. Because they feel like they have to recreate reddit--ALL of them.
Nobody needs to run a Whole Reddit. Something like Lemmy would have been better if 99% of instances were single or limited topic. Keep the scale small, keep the moderation focused and knowledgeable.
I remember checking out Revolt, which is a discord alternative, and I think it has the same scale problem. Discord has three basic levels: channels, servers, and Discord itself which is a collection of servers. Revolt assumes that you don't want to self host a server, you want to self host a Discord. You want to self host All Of Discord. I don't think that's the case for most people! They want to run their one server!
Decentralized social media can't take a centralized approach, you can't try to recreate these horrible giant bloated behemoths but now with less budget and less moderation. You have to relearn to think at a smaller scale, the beauty of decentralization is that we can link all these smaller scale projects together.
My favorite sub was /r/AskHistorians - aggressively moderated, top comments by vetted experts, its great. Niche subs like that should have their own Lemmy server. Think thehistorychannel.social , omg it would be great. Fuck, I would _pay_ for that.
And by pay I mean I would help pay for the _hosting_ for that.
I think you’re right, and somewhere in here I think there’s an important subtlety: Somewhere along the way it seems like many of us forgot the whole concept of community.
In my recent interactions with teenagers, it feels like everyone wants to be the person with a billion followers. There’s no consideration for who those followers should be and what kind of relationship you should have with them. It’s just “number go up!”
cosigned, all of this! Cosocial began an experiment with a Lemmy server, but quickly found we didn’t have a space for what people seemed to think it should be, the whole “all of Reddit” idea.
Mastodon.social is itself a demonstration of this problem, and its paradigm encouraged things like counter.social, and even Spoutible - clones wanting to be “the new Twitter” and feeling like they needed the “everyone must BE HERE AND HERE ONLY” in order to survive.
the great thing about being able to create any sub on any server is that you have somewhere to go when one server or sub isn't run the way you like. That's the entire democratic benefit of the fediverse.
@roofuskit But instead of any sub on any server people tried to make every sub on every server in an attempt to replicate a gigantic corporate website without having anywhere near the resources to do so
It's really interesting to consider an instance not as a source of identity, but of topic and moderation hereof. How would things differ if you didn't register with a particular instance - you posted to it when the topic and people were right. Instances would be like mailing lists or groups.
Of course, that leaves identity unhandled. In ActivityPub that still requires an instance, so I don't know how different it *can* be, but I really think you got the right idea.
>Do we need ten thousand Technology subs? Not really. But people just tried to all make large general purpose instances with all the generic subs. Because they feel like they have to recreate reddit--ALL of them.
yeah idk why there isn't a better way to consolidate all the different "technology", " programming", "memes" boards into combined views
This is probably correct; I took a gander at Lemmy before deciding to stay on Reddit, because instead of r/cyberpunkgame for example (the subreddit for Cyberpunk 2077), you had... 8(?) individual replacements all with like 80 people in it. At most.
@WhyNotZoidberg yeah honestly the other problem with Lemmy is that I think the only reason people use Reddit is because there are so many people there. Not because they love how Reddit works.
Yeah, Reddit is the successor to the old usenet groups and quite frankly a lot of games have better communities on Reddit that on their respective official forums. Which is why I still use it, 90% of the subreddits I have joined is for games I play.
For a new network to be able to saddle that responsibility so to speak there has to be some very thought thru adaptations happening.
@WhyNotZoidberg that is the default problem of each and every social media platform. No people => No Posts => No people. The fediverse is somewhat breaking with this because of federation, but as you pointed out: we have to utilise it better.
this is activitypub by design at this point. Creating a magazine/group is done on a server. Only very large instances will get enough traction that others will follow the group on another instance. So the key problem is that the larger the instance the bigger the groups become, the better the group will spread. And the larger that community.
Until that instance goes down, losing a lot of big communities at once!
It could be partially solved by introducing additional hash tags. But yea
@thegibson I've been a big proponent of just going back to forums but it's a hard sell for most people. Especially because old forum software is a lumbering mess of baggage and new forum software just...sucks...
yeah! When people ask me why a federated thing isn’t like Twitter or Reddit these days I just say, “No, but nothing is. Maybe it’s just that the Twitter / Reddit you knew is dead? Other things are different.”
Part of it to is that decentralized social media is sold as more similar to what's it trying to replace than what it actually is. The usage isn't necessarily 1 to 1 but a lot of people walk into it like it will be the same and are turned off by having to learn and remaster a new way to engage.
I think decentralization should build on its strengths and be more clear and honest about what it is.
yes yes yes this!!! lots of projects could get lots of acquisition but they're too busy setting themselves up as The Entire Thing rather than just pieces of it
@zeolith Not really the same thing. A forum-based system is centered on posts and topics, a microblogging-based system focuses on individual users. There's also a pretty big UI difference when it comes to reading a conversation influenced by those differences.
agree and i think this is a symptom of the bigger open source problem which is, is our vision of a better world simply an open source clone of what the corporations do? i think none of this software really solves any problems people acutally have and is therefore destined to be niche toys for nerds forever
while revolt but server focused would have probably done better, lemmy would need something like an address book to find the correct one I think, an maybe some new paradigm? Like from one reddit account I can participate in many topic but with lemmy? I could participate from a mastodon account but what about posting? Unless I'm missing something it would require a mechanism like asking a bot on the lemmy instance to boost my post or something
I think that's more valid for something like Reddit clones than Twitter clones. I'm on what is nominally a topic-specific server, but my followers/follows are scattered across a hundred servers. "Topics" are far more porous here. What you're choosing is the mod team.
For what is effectively a forum, yes, server-per-topic makes sense, as long as the user-traveling-federation is seamless (as it mostly is on Mastodon).
@Crell Yeah I'm more talking about Reddit-clones, Discord-clones, etc. Fedi has its own problems with trying to replicate Twitter or whatever too but it's different than the whole topic-based posting thing.
This really shows when you search for any kind topic and get 100s of communities called exactly the same, all with like 9 subscribers. All abandoned of course.
A good counter example is startrek.website that only does Star Trek related stuff
Definitely. People's habits from cemtralised social media follow them everywhere, to the extent that they cannot imagine why they would have to choose a server/instance. I'm sure that's a breaking point for Mastodon too, even though it's arguably the best on this front. Not knowing which instance to pick, and being scared of the term "self hosted". It was our job (the know-whats and know-hows) to make the info about those places easier to understand and capture.
@Dobody @lori See, that's the thing that I like about the fedi. If I don't like a server's policies, I can migrate to another without being totally cut off from my contacts.
These days I self-host, so I don't have to worry so much about disagreements with my admin though. This also would not be an option elsewhere.
@me Sorry abt that, maybe I wasn't clear. The ability to choose servers is the fedi's core strength, but it's also what makes it hard for people who haven't been introduced to the concept or who aren't as tech savvy. The terms "server", "selfhost", "federated", "instances" scare some people away, and it's our job to show them it's not scary and signing up is in fact painlessly simple. Otherwise they just conveniently stay in Meta's silos.
I have a stainless steel travel mug that I have my coffee in (almost) every day. It's supposedly dishwasher safe, but I still usually hand wash it.
A few months after I got it, the paint started peeling. Within a year, it had all completely peeled off... except for the logo, which is painted over top of the said peeling paint and still in pristine condition.
a few years ago I moved somewhere with a significantly lower crime rate than the place I was leaving, with the result that my car insurance became more expensive.
The problem with being a programmer with ADHD is that it's often more fun to build a chainsaw from scratch than it is to chop down a tree by hand with an axe.
high demand groups, specifically Mormonism, but generally applicable
High demand groups must always have an enemy. This enemy must constitute an existential threat to the group (real or imagined). It's what enables the group to make the demands it does of its members. The ends need to seem to justify the means, though actually achieving those ends are unnecessary. In fact it's not even desirable, because once they do, they need to manufacture a new enemy.
This understanding gives interesting context to the Mormon obsession with the quote "there needs be opposition in all things." There literally does.
I miss the days when a simple TUI application could easily fit on a 1.44MB floppy disk. Just compiled a simple program I've been working on and it's over 8 freaking megs! That's absurd!
I remember when a full featured application was a kilobyte to 60 kilobytes and was extremely fast getting work done. And the user interface was quite good and thoughtful
I've been slowly migrating my media collection over to a newly created Jellyfin server. It turns out that virtually none of my anime collection is from this century.
@Spacegoat No server (does sshfs count?). Just a big 'ol drive with a bunch of media files and a handful of DVDs I haven't ripped yet. It's just that Jellyfin is picky about the directory structure.
@Spacegoat Actually I had some stuff on Nextcloud when I wanted to watch it on the actual TV (via an Amazon Fire Stick), but it was a very non-ideal solution and kept locking up and crashing the browser.
aye. I've been a long time Plex user, have a lifetime Plex pass I bought forever ago. I've been thinking about switching my setup over to something else, like jellyfin, for years now because of the direction and decisions Plex keeps going and making. But it all really works quite well and has mobile TV interfaces, so I just keep sticking with Plex. Plex is really the only media server I've really used. Always curious to hear about others experience making the move.
Pi is an irrational number. This means that its digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating. Every possible finite combination of digits is therefore contained therein. This would technically include a digital representation of every possible copyrighted work.
Just because an irrational number's digits continue indefinitely without ever repeating, does that necessarily mean that it contains every arbitrary finite sequence of digits?
Is there at least one finite sequence of digits that isn't represented in pi? If so, there are probably an infinite set of finite sequences of arbitrary numbers not represented in pi.
*something something* Cantor's infinite set of infinite sets...
OTOH, if every finite sequence of arbitrary digits is represented in pi, then we should be able to find in pi a representation of, say, Euler's number to any given precision...
@Bob Jonkman So I've been told. I also took it as a given that the numbers never repeat. I have a mathematical proof for at least the non-repeating part now at least.
@bobjonkman No. Consider 1.0100100010000100001..... This is irrational but it doesn't contain any sequence of digits containing digits other than one or zero.
As for the irrational number pi, I think maybe it is unknown whether it contains all sequences of digits, but I don't know where to quickly check that.
Mastodon is the ONLY space where I receive racist comments to my posts
Mastodon, for me, is often indistinguishable from today’s Twitter
And now that Bluesky is fully operational, you can’t use “oh, that’s just the Fedverse” because I posted there at the same time and it’s NOT the same experience at all
Fix this shit or this “thought experiment” will not survive the shifts that’s happening
@cmdr_nova I saw this explained in another thread. They're not coming from "racist instances". People just keep signing up for new accounts on big instances to evade suspension, so its a game of whackamole/death of a thousand cuts.
I've scrolled so far I've scrolled past all this dopamine like 3 times already. I'm so high on dopamine right now I'm spinning in circles trying to catch my tail and I'm not even a cat and I don't have any tail. Could be this ain't dopamine tho...
OK, I'll be "that guy" because someone has to! This is the most terrible structural formula of an organic molecule I've seen in a long time. It sure doesn't look like dopamine.
i would like the people who are like "who needs content warnings just opt out using filters" to know that i am now on my 7th spelling of "us politics" for my filters
I don't know, but to avoid that explore tab, I switched to tusky. I know, I could've customised something but sometimes it's just better to use simple methods. FYI, I'm not American, so I don't exactly want to see those posts anyway and neither I would be able to get the context behind them.
I think about 1/3 of the crap that makes it through my filters is bare screenshots. Unfortunately people who don’t put alt text on images are also unlikely to use content warnings.
I feel like a lot of people who complain about using CWs don't get the point of them VS filters. The way I use them, I use CWs for things that would annoy or upset most people like spoilers for a movie or TV series, or discussions of politics or spiders or whatever. And as convenient way to shorten long posts too.
But I also use filters because I have a couple of specific topics that I know I have issues with, that aren't things many people would think of putting a CW on. And sometimes I use hashtags when I want a post to be responded to or discoverable.
Filters aren't a replacement for CWs, nor should they be. Same goes for hashtags. They're not intended to fulfil the same functions. And in the time it takes to type 10+ hashtags, one could simply put in a CW.
I have a messenger bag that I typically carry around with me. Sometimes things go in there and I forget about them.
Katy was looking for something and discovered that for some reason I had put our marriage certificate in there. The last time I needed the physical certificate was years ago, so it must've been sitting in there and I've just been carrying it around with me unknowingly for quite some time.
I imagine I should probably find a better place for it.
I should probably also go through it to see what else I've put in there and forgotten about.
In what may be the first time in the history of the world that anyone has done this, I just managed to use super glue without getting any on my fingers.
I've stated before that I'm not the CW police and I'm not going to dictate how others should use them, but if you're looking for a general guideline on when you might consider using them, this seems a reasonable guide:
I find that hlint is a great tool for pointing out where your code can be improved, but sometimes its suggestions are... interesting. Case in point, it just recommended changing
map (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -}) $ zip as bs
to
zipWith (curry (\(a, b) -> {- ...stuff... -})) as bs
I hope, for the sake of the poor soul at the other end of the finger, folks take this opportunity to learn from aviation regulators and use the "Swiss cheese model", possibly even with the no-blame or just-culture add-ons. E.g. skybrary.aero/articles/just-cu…skybrary.aero/articles/acciden…
Since it's more than one bad patch, it's a systems failure on many levels, right?
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Convincing a large portion of critical systems operators to install your garbage in kernelspace so you can make money telling them a Security Product, rather than a system of practices & policies, is keeping them safe, IS a cyberattack.
@irelephant it probably wasn’t a cyberattack. My post was a joke though, riffing on a famous Arthur C Clark quote - perhaps you missed the reference? "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
Income inequality is an abstract concept sometimes hard to visualize, except when a Downtown Brooklyn thrift store needs to employ 3 full-time security guards, one at the main door and two at the drop-off door.
@A Sweet Gentleman Today was quiet on the sidewalk in front of the thrift store, probably because of the heat, but usually there are several unlicensed merchants selling second-hand wares out of a sheet right in front of the thrift store.
@A Sweet Gentleman It's close, but Goodwill is way more corporate than the private Parisian flea markets, which makes the contrast with the sidewalk peddlers even more marked.
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All I know is that my neatly organized kitchen is in a state if disarray that's going to be a problem for my #ADHD brain for several days before I can reorganize.
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I really don't know how that's supposed to go.
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