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Technical people of the Interwebs, I have a question

If I were to create a table in a MySQL database with a field called emoji of type VarChar, what size would it need to hold a single emoji from all available (and future) emoji characters? I’m using utf8mb4 encoding.

#emoji #MySQL #utf8mb4 #VarChar

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in reply to Aral Balkan

Wait, your admins were stupid enough to federate with Facebook? Yeesh.
in reply to madhadron

@madhadron Not my server, not my admins. But the flagship Mastodon server.
in reply to Aral Balkan

@Aral Balkan @madhadron @Eugen Rochko Not only did they choose to federate, but they actively helped Meta to do it.

Edit: typo

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in reply to Aral Balkan

@rober see why I was against allow Meta to federate? 😔

As always they go first after trans people, then after the rest.

"If you dont act now because you weren't a trans person. Don't cry when you're attacked."




So, I'm eating a Wagonwheel for the first time since childhood. I'm not sure if they've gotten significantly smaller, or if I'm just remembering them as being larger than they were.

Probably both.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_VAII7lbke8

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probably my best prophylactic for the spambot fever of the early 2020s was that I built two simple recombinational markov-chain bots based on my twitter corpus circa 2015, put up a warning they were bots, then spent the better part of a decade watching one stranger after another convince themselves they were actually sentient and occasionally fall in love with them.
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the intensity of affect people invested into these bots was sometimes unnerving. even people who knew how these things worked would convince themselves that the bot was learning, or that it remembered their past queries, or that through the bot they had to be in some sort of secret communication with me, the botmaker.
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one of the more sobering lessons was just how little it takes for people to convince themselves they are talking to a person. and how this hallucination builds over time, the more they interact, until it becomes a certainty, something they refuse to let go of.

people consulted my bot for life decisions, kept trying have sex with it in the direct messages. one woman was going to leave her husband for my bot. I kept having to block strangers who got extremely weird about it, in different ways.

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in reply to Hugo

this is not in any way to jeer at the people who found a friend of some sort in my bot—a person-like "someone" who replied consistently, who wasn't mean to them and who could serve as a vessel for their own unrealized fantasies, their tenderness or loneliness or frustration.
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in reply to Hugo

but in the aggregate, over a span of years, watching these patterns play out again and again was sobering. a bucket of cold water to my digital animism.
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in reply to Hugo

Tangential, but: I was recently laid up for a couple of days and was recommended an American docuseries on paranormal something something—not at all my thing but I tried for specific technical reasons—and even fast-fwding, the experience of watching a bunch of young people trying in apparent earnest to force meaning into randomness (and mechanical brainwave manipulation) induced a real crisis about the whole human enterprise of knowing.
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@kissane
Advisors: ... WHY can't you finish your PhD?

Me [in month six of mutely staring at wall, contemplating futility of epistemology] Things ... on Mastodon.

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@dymaxion

exactly. heck, I talk to machines and trees and animals and inanimate objects all the time. nothing wrong with that.

I think "human-like" bots can effect a kind short circuit, a vertigo of the personhood instinct, but also nothing wrong with that per se.

the sinister bit is where that human tendency to relate and find personhood gets maximised and exploited by the ruthlessly amoral, ultracapitalist snake-oil merchants of the bilionaire destroyer class.


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Here's a good sped-up video of the container ship malfunctioning and crashing into the bridge in Baltimore earlier today:
https://defcon.social/@SomaFMrusty/112161316200529463

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A crisis response team but instead of showing up and shooting anything that moves, they show up at a moments notice with food, medicine and first aid.

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We’re working on it, which is a huge relief in Berkeley. https://berkeleyca.gov/safety-health/mental-health/crisis-services
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Finally went ahead and blocked the whole of sysad.org. Too much alt-right/antivax nuttery.


You know, for all this talk of how there's a "labour shortage", I've been seeing a lot of storefronts with "sorry, we're not hiring" signs.

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Broken Search


!Friendica Support So I upgraded my Friendica node today, and the search seems to be broken.

Anything I type into the search box just yields a blank page in the result.

Edit (mentioned in comments but I'll put it here too):
Searching tags works (/search?tag=).
The follow button is giving the same blank page issue.

The resulting blank page is pretty much immediate. Virtually no lag which would usually indicate the database lookup is hanging.

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Whosoever refuses to throw stones in glass houses is a picky yeeter.

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in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

I remember seeing a post where a women earned her MD and folks asked why the degree had her maiden name and her response: “my husband didn’t do 8 years of med school.”

Most of my 20s was spent writing under a pseudonym because my full deadname is frankly boring as fuck and super common. I considered legally changing it that as I started using professionally, not just socially. So I’m on my third name right now and I’ve identified some names I like better than Jade but 🤷🏻‍♀️

in reply to jade pixel

@renegadejade Jade is a cool name. Too bad humans because it could just be a variable to swap out wherever.

Lindsey was supposed to be the pen name (we never technically married), but I didn’t know he was an abuser and that someday his name would make my skin crawl. It’s like he’s got his label stamped on my work. He might have funded it, but he didn’t DO it. So I’ll have to be content with confusing everyone.

in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

Thank you! 💜 When I came out to my uncle he told me it’s “too exotic” and that I should change it to Jane instead.
in reply to jade pixel

@renegadejade 🙄 Regular names are so boring. Letters can mix and match into infinite combinations. Why have the same name that bunches of other people have?
in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

@renegadejade There is exactly one Corbden 😂 Except for a train station in England and it’s only called that because of a typo.
in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

Names are one of my favorite parts of transition and I like the idea of rotating my middle name as i feel like it, using First + Middle socially/online/publishing and First + Last just for work and legal.
in reply to jade pixel

@renegadejade See, society just needs a system like that. A formula encoded into culture. Plus people who are less hung up on names being normal or permanent like your uncle.

My mom was cool with my name change in 3rd grade (just started using the nickname of my middle name), but she never has quite made the jump to Luna yet, and I started using that in ‘04. Still living as a woman with a deadname! We’ve had several conversations about it, and she starts to understand a little more each time. She’s clinging to certain pat religious answers, which… well anyway! She hasn’t deadnamed me in a couple of weeks at least. I’m plural, too, so, there’s names stuff going on there. I have just never felt too attached to my label. Most of my labels actually. I’m fairly fluid all around. Go wherever it goes.

I’m chatty. I haven’t actually talked much about this stuff in a coherent narrative because I’ve been isolated for many years. Thanks for listening.

in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

You’re welcome. And Thank you. Another plural! I am actively working through plural stuff currently. https://hachyderm.io/@renegadejade/112146051513736797

I’m autistic about names, labels, and identities. If I pursue a PhD, I want to research how queer/trans people form identities through their media consumption. Realizing all my video game characters and TTRPG characters were power fantasy the whole time. I was trying to express Jade through them. Super interested in this.

in reply to jade pixel

@renegadejade As a writer, we do that there, too. All of my fictional characters have a piece of me in them. Many of them turn out to be metaphorically autobiographical. I’ll see common unplanned themes or symbols rising up in stories I write around the same time frame. LARPing stuff, too. I haven’t really thought through what archetypes I used to play. 🤔

That’s bringing up so many threads. I tried to write one out but my word-centers are shutting down from tiredness and the weed kicking in lol I’ll go check out the plural thread.

in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

My biggest self-insert in a game sense was my Druid in WoW. Shapeshifting woman who switched between Guardian Tank Bear and Feral DPS Cat? Sounds like me. 😂
in reply to jade pixel

@renegadejade Ok I just irl made the 😮 face because guess which two vampire clans I played the most? Malkavian and Ravnos, both of which have powers of illusion and disguise. And I liked Changeling much better than V:TM, so ran a tabletop campaign for three years, AND worldbuilt my first novel inspired by that game. Basically everybody’s a shapeshifter in there!

See, I hear all these trans women all chatting about seeing this or that media and super relating to it and it’s all clicking for them with an “it all makes sense now,“ vibe, and I’ve never connected with that idea until *just now.*

in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

@renegadejade ok this is interesting… shapeshifter isn’t quite the right word for those archetypes, because I don’t get the sense that my body is physically changing, but that it’s a mask atop me, an illusion people believe. That’s why I’ve less connected with say, lycanthropes. That never clicked for me.
in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

Yay, a breakthrough! I love those. I usually play Malkavian and Brujah (again, crazy and rebel archetypes fit well). I definitely understand the mask thing. I mildly dissociated through my first year of transition because I was wearing Jade as a mask instead of *being* her. I’ve only had an identity for the first time in my life as of 6 weeks ago. It’s WILD.
in reply to jade pixel

@renegadejade Wow! Yeah the crazy vibe was also part of the Malks and Changeling. Another archetype is anything that can hide in shadows, disarm traps, and use poison 😂

Congrats on feeling at home in yourself!

in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

I’ve never read nor played Changeling but I’ve heard from several trans people that I would relate strongly to it.
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@renegadejade Lots of “quirky beings from an ethereal world trapped in human bodies” vibe.
in reply to jade pixel

@renegadejade First ed. preferably. They made major worldbuilding changes that took the magic spark out in 2e. I think there’s a new reboot now but I haven’t looked into it.
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And I’m sorry you have to deal with that confusion and mark on your work.

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Holy shit.. #Apple, can I get a refund?

Unpatchable vulnerability in Apple chip leaks secret encryption keys

https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/03/hackers-can-extract-secret-encryption-keys-from-apples-mac-chips/

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in reply to stux⚡

That indeed is an interesting question, that I would like to have a legal answer to, you know, from a product liability and consumer rights perspective.

If something is broken, you have a right to get it fixed (at least in a limited way where I live). If it can't be fixed, you have a right for reverse transaction.

I wonder if this applies here. In my opinion it does, but #IANAL

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why would you be eligible? You were the one trusting a black box

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I just had a realization.

It was (and is) always so confusing when The Bad Straights claimed “gay people getting married will ruin the institution for everyone.”

But I think they always meant that if two men or two women can get married, then marriage must not be defined by a man obtaining a woman as servant/property & securing exclusive rights to her labor, identity, & body.

And without that, they can’t even imagine what purpose marriage could ever serve.

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in reply to Catherynne M. Valente

Sure. Similarly, the whole "hurf durf Imma gonna marry my dog!" bs makes me want to ask how they're going to get the dog to sign health care proxy paperwork.
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@rmd1023 It’s the same terminal thought though.

If marriage isn’t about owning a woman & rights to her, then it must be meaningless, because to them, that servitude & captivity is totally bound up with the very concept of romantic love.

And if marriage is meaningless then it makes just as much sense to marry your dog etc.

They just can’t imagine a meaning outside man leads/woman serves/woman can’t get away

in reply to Catherynne M. Valente

Everything Republicans support is about:
1. Getting & keeping cheap labor
2. Preserving unfair & unsustainable social hierarchies
3. Maintaining white supremacy
4. Making the already rich, even richer
5. Imposing religious dogma on non-evangelicals
6. Bolstering the fossil fuel industry that's frying a planet & undermining democracies
7. Tax evasion
8. Converting government into a grift where taxpayers pay, without taxpayers benefiting or having a say in policy
9. Donor maintenance
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@Npars01
Don't forget dropping safeguards and laws protecting workers and public welfare...ie water pollution.
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@Npars01
That's because we don't have an Attorney General..3 1/2 years missing in action.
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@GatekeepKen
Garland hired Jack Smith, an expert in mobs, despots, and their finances.

That's pretty astute.

Until the money behind Trump's fascist movement is investigated, prosecuted, and finally legislated, American democracy isn't safe from the billionaires frying the planet & democracy.

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@Npars01
Garland is incompetent. Period
He was well aware of the time factor. Every expert I've heard agrees, he dropped the ball while claiming time wasn't his guide, but getting all the facts. We don't need all the facts. Smith has overwhelming evidence, in triplets.
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@GatekeepKen
Garland began the denazification of the DOJ with the prosecution of Charles McGonigal & Jeffrey Clark.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2024/02/16/fbi-charles-mcgonigal-sentenced/

https://www.politico.com/news/2022/06/23/law-enforcement-trump-official-coup-00041767

He hasn't been able to oust Chris Wray to do the same with the FBI.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/2023/06/19/fbi-resisted-opening-probe-into-trumps-role-jan-6-more-than-year/

Reminder: GOP still had control of the DOJ's budget when he was appointed & Garland's requests for funding was thwarted by Republican controlled congress & government shutdowns
https://www.cnn.com/2023/05/04/politics/house-republicans-doj-fbi-funding-divisions/index.html

https://time.com/6336404/government-shutdown-republicans-january-6-cases/

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Yes, but hasn't been able too, is not an excuse. The FBI is rotten to the core.
Nicole, pardon the language ,but he's a pussy. He's so afraid of Looking political , when the other side does it and could give af.
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@Npars01 add in replacing political discourse with violence and a lust to expand and you've got textbook fascism.*

Good thing the GOP isn't about violence in place of political debate and hasn't talked about invading Mexico and Canada.

Oh wait.

*If there was such a thing as a textbook definition of fascism. Most scholars agree there isn't. It's too amorphous.

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@Npars01
I would argue that 1, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 are all subservient to 2, 3, and 4. The former are just there to achieve the latter


There's this little Chinese restaurant that Katy and I like to order from occasionally. Because this is Canada, the fortune cookies tend to have English and French on them (one language on each side of the paper). They're manufactured in such a way that when I crack them open, I usually see the French side first, which usually isn't a problem.

I'll admit that my French is not as good as my English, but I'm more or less bilingual. This time though, I swear the French side of the fortune was generated by a Markov chain or something. I was actually forced to read the English side to figure out what they were trying to say.

The French side:

Vos yeux délicieux, voire dynamiques, ont fait naître un admirateur mystérieux.

The English side:

Your dynamic eyes have attracted a secret admirer.

Am I just forgetting how to speak French, or is this a really clumsily constructed sentence?


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tesla owners finally complaining about some of the cars' features bc apparently your spouse can watch your car's progress on the app at home and see where you stop. you can even see which seats are being used so "both backseats" suddenly registering on the "heat map" is giving away the cheating lol

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funny how it took cars to tell on cheating for people to realize how dystopian today's tech is

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2004: Wake up sheeple!

2024: Woke as a pejorative.

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in reply to Mx. Luna Corbden

Some people are just like that. They're so desperate to be seen that they contradict themselves.

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Millenials having "little to no loyalty in the workplace" is a sign of *progress*, not concern, you fucking deliberately obtuse coercive capitalist fucks.

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in reply to Hannu Ikonen, MD

I learned the hard way that loyalty to a job is not repaid in kind. Why bother with it?
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@kelpana
"You can love the Army all you want, it ain't necessarily gonna love you back," applies to a WHOLE lot of organizations.

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@_L1vY_ @kelpana Never heard "necessarily" in that before. The caveat fits in the former case, too.
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@Ralph058 @kelpana It may in fact suit certain people very well. But I sure wouldn't count on it for most!


Content warning: Threads


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The biggest struggle of my artist life is explaining to people that I draw slime girls that are entirely sfw. I think they are underrated in non-porn settings 😁

#SlimeGirls #MastoArt

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How do you stay focused on one thing? (Question in a panel)

No. I embrace my ADHD mind and some of the best ideas and flashes of inspiration come from me doing something else and then thinking "hey, what if I....."

Instead of forcing neurodivergent people to focus on one thing, why don't you build an environment that allows us to play to our strengths. I guarantee you it'll cause less stress and heartache.

#neurodivergent #AuDHD #ADHD #ActuallyAutistic @actuallyautistic

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in reply to Kit Muse

I just read your posts and my brain instantly went to the thing that made my whole week so chaotic. Didn't want to derail your topic. I just wished there was at least a few moments this week in which I would have had a chance to focus on "one" thing. But it is impossible when everything seems to be of equal importance. (context: I'm currently in an onboarding process.)
Anyways, I'd love to learn about your tools!
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One of the things I don't hear talked about enough in the ND community are the two D's Dopamine & Dissonance. If we're doing things that create disonance in our minds, it isn't going to work out, and if we're doing things that don't bring the blessed dopamine, same thing = no go.

I mini detailed my system in another post. My website is down for restructuring, but this is exactly what I want to talk about over at Chicken Yogi & Unscramblet. @morothar





https://shakedown.social/@chopaganda/112139783920694196 chopaganda@shakedown.social - Twitter literally suspended the people who outed the Nazi instead of the Nazi himself. Why? The Nazi asked Elon to suspend them.

And some of you reading this still help to keep Twitter alive. Get the fuck off that shit and don’t look back.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2024/03/after-appeal-to-musk-x-suspends-accounts-that-outed-neo-nazi-cartoonist/



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I kinda feel like this whole Threads federating discourse is like a referendum in the #Fediverse.

It's not really, because though who want to federate with Threads will, and those who won't won't - or chose an instance appropriate to their desires. It's the quintessential win-win of the Fediverse.

But some of the arguments thrown around have a vibe of electioneering about them. So in that spirit:

  • Vote federate with Threads! (35%, 58 votes)
  • Vote never-federate with Threads! (64%, 104 votes)
162 voters. Poll end: in 1 day

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in reply to Chris Were 🐧📰🌱☕

I don't even think of Threads unless I see someone bringing it up here. Not something I'm interested in personally. I enjoy the lack of corporate-ness here.

If I were to go in any direction on the Fediverse beyond here it would be toward Pleroma not Threads.


in reply to The Gibson

why don’t Threads users simply get mastodon accounts if they want to to explore the fediverse? What possible value does Threads offer to its users besides lock-in?
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@pcbeard

This is perhaps rhetorical, but:

A) They don't have to figure out how to find and sign up with a Mastodon instance. If they had an Instagram account, a Threads account was automatically created for them.
B) They don't know something better exists.
C) They don't care.

I do not agree with these points, but they're the most likely motivators. I'd known that Mastodon existed for years before the pandemic gave me the free time to actually look into it, so I kinda get it.


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#ZhenHouseZhenBonkwave a #lifestyle show inside #lambdaMOO

https://anonradio.net:8443/anonradio

Hopefully we will be able to go live. Otherwise an extra extra special episode next week.

Otherwise / anyway enjoy @yoniden 's Transmission Received From Galaxy Nine.
https://yoniden.bandcamp.com/album/transmission-received-from-galaxy-nine-nine

Planned topic is discussing what makes a #home . My home in LambdaMOO received a LambdaPost parcel from @me with some wonderful MOO technology inside.

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in reply to screwlisp

It wasn't actually on Lambda 😀 It was over on CyberSphere. I was aware of Lambda.. and maybe had an account to learn on, but it wasn't primary, and I don't recall any of the account info. I do still have an "active" account on cybersphere.
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@cinja
I heard of cybersphere in another lifetime, maybe. LambdaMOO is where I am now.
@yoniden @me


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I'm going to get a bread knife which I will use maybe twenty minutes a week, depending on how often I bake. My induction stove is in use for a few hours a week, tops; the microwave for maybe ten minutes total.

There are hundreds of people within walking distance. How many of us need to have tools and cleaning supplies and gadgets that spend the majority of the existence idle? All of us, probably.

Makes me wonder about the feasability of a social-purpose org renting essentials out dirt-cheap...

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in reply to pixx

...which, I mean, is kinda what some small businesses do, except they need to turn a profit.

I wonder how little a laundromat could get away with charging if it was run as a co-op...

in reply to Anna

@annaymone I mean, come to think of it, that's basically the point of a library, isn't it? Books are the ideal case of this because most books will not be read by most people, and people can read a different book while they wait for the one they want, so you can just get a copy of a bunch of books, and let people read them, and pay for it with taxes so low that it's not even noticable.

What I'm hearing is, libraries need to expand 😁

@Anna
in reply to pixx

Yep! that's the whole idea behind library socialism. in the extreme case you borrow literally everything, from tools to furniture. lots of potential there. not sure how practical it is to implement nowadays, considering libraries are continually struggling to get funded as is
in reply to Anna

@annaymone Hmm, kinda the opposite, no? The more useful you make the library, the easier it is to argue for funding it?
@Anna
in reply to pixx

idk governments local or otherwise don't seem to be interested in funding social programs in any real capacity, so many are already running on deficits

where i live the local city council is looking to redirect library spending to EMS due to lack of funding

it might be possible to get enough people to support a levy for something like this, but i'm not sure what that'd take

in reply to pixx

@annaymone Though, this is one place where the co-op structure offers some resilience.

If you charge an ownership fee (with exemptions for people who cannot afford it, or some such), then the government cannot basically shut you down at will by cutting off your budget.

On the other hand, if that's a serious threat then the community really needs to fight that, too, because it implies that there's going to be a whole _host_ of other issus, too.

@Anna
in reply to pixx

so much upfront costs for something like this, but i'd love to see these kinds of libraries and contribute to their flourishing
in reply to Anna

@annaymone Yeah, and I... happen to make enough that projects like this are something I could maybe actually _do_, if I get my shit together first.

(Though not without risk; I'm not in a position where I can just write a blank check, buy stuff, and be totally fine if the thing explodes - but even being in a position where the risk is _manageable_ is a big deal.)

@Anna
in reply to pixx

I assume you've checked ... but tons of libraries have lending programs for tools, kitchen appliances, etc. Those reading along at home can start here: https://localtools.org/find/ or check with your local public library!

CC: @annaymone@freeradical.zone

@Anna
in reply to khm

@khm @annaymone I'm aware, yeah; I stayed in a town in Ohio for a while that let residents check out a _bike_, and I was pleasantly impressed. (They also had totally-free public transit AND A TRAM so I was wowed)

Thing is, I'm fairly sure my local library... isn't that, and probably won't ever be. I'm thinking in terms of things I can actually do to improve the situation...

@Anna @khm
in reply to pixx

Get yourself appointed to the library board! I served on ours for five or six years and it gave me the chance to get involved with defending good ideas

CC: @annaymone@freeradical.zone

@Anna
in reply to khm

@khm @annaymone I doubt I _could_, and I don't know how long I plan on sticking around here (...a year, at least, given the lease that I was too stressed to remember was longer than I intended to sign for >_>)

I'm not sufficiently aware of what things look like around here to be capable of doing a good job, frankly. If I was here for the long term, and had already been here long enough to have a clue, then I'd be very interested in doing so 😀

@Anna @khm
in reply to pixx

ooh.. i've thought about this stuff before. i first thought about it with laundry machines, but i'd love to see it applied to more things


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Problem Adding User to Circles under Fennec


!Friendica Support I recently upgraded to the latest version of Friendica. It's fantastic, but I'm having some difficulty adding users to circles from the mobile web interface using Fennec (a Firefox port) on Android. I can navigate to a user's profile, open the sidebar and check or uncheck circles, but it doesn't actually seem to do anything.

I am not having this problem with LibreWolf on Debian.


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To any Threads users who happen to stumble on this post.

Hi!

You are going to see a TON of pushback being here. That's not your fault though. You see, we've all become free of centralized services which make you a product rather then a user. So to some, allowing Meta to federate, is like drinking poison and not expecting it to kill you.

With that said, my hopes is that this will give you the opportunity to see how much better it is to be a USER and not the PRODUCT.

Leave Meta. We have cake.

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My instance admin has chosen not to federate with Threads yet. I applaud his decision. He said it seems better to wait and see. I can't help feel that with Meta there will be some evil turn of events so I don't know if I want them to federate ever.

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When I forget to actually make my point, that’s a stubtoot.

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How to #REGEX

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@eilonwy Last time I tried this I wound up on a Zoom call with the Kremlin


Content warning: Animal Crossing

#acnh


At some point (apparently last December) a new #Friendica version came out and I hadn't noticed. Finally got around to upgrading, and it seems to be running much more smoothly than the previous version.

Also, there's a "channels" feature now? Gonna have to look into what that is.


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No matter what, we will reach Net Zero. Whether that’s emissions or humans remains to be seen.

#climateCrisis #NetZero

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I'm betting on Mother Nature here. Humans probably won't make it long term, but life will continue and evolve into new and creative forms. Whoever is around in a 100 millon years will see...

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Content warning: thoughts on capitalism


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A SEO expert walks into a bar, tavern, pub, grill, public house, irish bar, bartender, drinks, beer, wine, liquor.
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Asks if he could have cookies for himself and his 735 friends


TIL that #LambdaMOO doesn't recognize && as having a higher operator precedence than ||. That led to a fun little bug.


What started as a seemingly simple request (adding sake to the menu at my #LambdaMOO sushi bar) has snowballed into me writing a whole drunkenness subsystem.
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Still tweaking the parameters a little. The way it was, one glass of sake could get you pretty obnoxiously drunk for a good period of time. I toned it down a bit to something slightly more realistic.


Today while I was out, I saw a guy at a busy intersection holding a handwritten sign. Obviously, I assumed he was panhandling, because people frequently do that there.

As I approached, I saw that his sign only had a URL on it. Out of curiosity, I visited it. Turns out it was some bitcoin mining scam.

While this was definitely a novel marketing approach, I wonder how they figured this particular tactic would instill confidence in anyone...

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I've seen this in Ottawa, Canada. Also crypto messages in graffiti. I guess that is part of some "edgy" or "subversive" marketing game that the crypto bros want to play. Just gimmicks by morons, for morons.

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