Retrospectively
Just listened to Runaway Train from Soul Asylum and got curious about the names listed (of lost children). My pick was "Emily Tamara Pois, missing since 1992".
Found her in 2016, arrested shoplifting $1232 and possessing heroin. And motor vehicle theft the year before. Then possessing drugs before that.
I stopped looking for others. *sigh*
Suspected shoplifter injures Longmont officer during scuffle, arrest
In a struggle to arrest a 38-year-old woman Tuesday, a Longmont police sergeant’s wrist was injured, according to a police report. Emily Tamara Pois was taken into custody 11:55 a.m. Tuesday …Amelia Arvesen (Longmont Times-Call)
When it's too hot for anything else, Russian planes save the day
It is too hot.
The temperature limit of Canadian firefighter hydroplanes is 38°C, and it was 45°C in #Greece where the #fire was nearing Athens. Only the #Russian BE-200 (with a 43°C limit) was able to work, and the crew risked safety flying little above the limit. Done more than 35 flights between 14:30 and 21:00, dropped more than 400 metric tonnes of water that day (a few days ago).
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Contributing to an evidence base may be a way of highlighting the problems and shaming people with money into doing something about them.
https://www.research.net/r/PZ9J8QN
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Censorship circumvention tool helps 1.4 million Cubans get internet access
Psiphon Inc's freely available internet censorship circumvention tool has about helped nearly 1.4 million Cubans this week gain access to websites, the company said on Friday, after Cuba's government curbed access to popular social media and messagin…David Shepardson (Reuters)
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I am #flabbergasted.
Bye, xargs.
#linux #commandline
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#IRC Please get away from Freenode as soon as you can, the hostile takeover has devolved into a DNS typosquatting attack against libera.chat and no matter what you think of the new Freenode administration in general, this isn't right.
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I think I observed it being present en masse was about 2000.
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Well preview shows me nothing:
`x_{1,2} = \frac { -b \pm \sqrt{ b^2 - 4ac } } {2a}`
`parallel`
But no preview.
$$ \frac{2}{3} $$
In theory - and ideally - one does not want that the same message conveys different meaning depending on where you look at it.
For example people have been playing with the specific image display on Twitter where it shows a cropped version in the list display, and a click shows the whole image by hiding the most important part of the image outside of the usual crop.
We simply can't replicate the meaning of these jokes on Friendica because it is based on a platform-specific display choice.
This applies to text as well. We now support Markdown formatting in remote messages through another addon. How do we know whether a specific piece of plain text received from Mastodon is intended to be Markdown code or LaTeX expression if they both use backticks by convention?
We could differentiate them between Friendica nodes by using specific BBCode tags but from Mastodon or any other remote platform? We have to guess since we can't possibly know the meaning just from the message alone. And it gives this kind of funny mishaps.
I just mentioned that it is weird (not from Friendica but the whole Fediverse), since it effects to what I said above.
There is no actionable item here. Thanks for responding!
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Reasons, new adresses, how to connect(easy) and details: https://www.davidrevoy.com/article847/the-official-chat-room-moved
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So the local (opposition lead) governments renamed the streets leading to the area:
- Dalai Lama str.
- Uyghur martyrs str.
- Free Hong-Kong str.
- Bishop Xie Shuguong str.
#touché
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Singularity CPU
I want this but I'm a bit afraid that it'll create a black hole at switchon.
How systemd promised to be great and failed all the promises
This is one damn fine article about how things have degraded to the point of #systemd being created, what the promises were and how were they broken, one by one.
What great ideas went by, how were distros forced into the palace which turned out to be a "fun-house warped-mirror room" instead. And where are we now.
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Do you have a few dozen gigabytes of free diskspace and a machine that can seed it via #bittorrent?
You can help save an unbelievable trough of scientific knowledge from disappearing behind the elites' paywalls!
https://www.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/nc27fv/rescue_mission_for_scihub_and_open_science_we_are/
https://phillm.net/torrent-health-frontend/seeds-needed-scimag.php
Spread the word and seed till you bleed – for the betterment of humanity!
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It is weird though because I thought that IKEA specifically cared about employer work quality internationally and it seems weird that they would actually gave it up in the US.
But... it's the USA. I shall not judge it by European standards.
Terms of Service
spam spam spam
Almost all of them logged in first and last the same day as the account was created, posted an advertisementy bio, some even posted one ad, then left and never came back.
It takes multiple clicks and fiddle to delete those, and while they should not have been there anyway it would be nice to be able to remove them easer and faster.
As for windows that’s just dump anybody needing an explanation there should never even touch a Lego rocket.
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Professional
Porn setting
When an account is created on the site, it is given a hardI am not completely sure I want to know what's this setting for…
#funny
What's the point of spambot registrations?
As far as admin UI knows they have never logged in, never have posted anything.
What Is The Point of empty registrations?
!Friendica Support ← maybe this works that way?
Hello wo… I mean, um, here we go again
So it seems I shall rather update the instance and get it for good public use. People are getting booted from FB in raising frequency.
My fight with #Friendica goes on
The current source of fun is
worker.php
, which is supposed to run every 10 minutes or so. Looks like Friendica doesn't continuously dequeue outbound or poll inbound but it have to be done periodically. Oh my.Still, worker runs for the last 20 minutes and doesn't show any sign that she would like to finish too soon. God knows what it's doing since there's no output, no log, no none. Does a lot of web connection to unknown places for unknown reasons. Pretty low visibility.
Still direct message (PM) doesn't seem to work too well: there is no recipient.
Oh, and now I see that input field doesn't offer
Click to open/close
formatting after writingThanks go to @Hypolite Petovan
Mumbling to particularly nobody
I still have to review the config, since it's PHP you know, shall be untusted as much as possible.
So far it seems to work flawlessly, albeit pretty slow.
Some tests already succeeded to #mastodon and #diaspora (more or less).
I'll see whether I'll see this message elsewhere. 😉
Zoot Allures
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