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There’s fungi that are eating the pacific trash patch, but the issue is that there’s not much energy to be gained from plastics we use. It’s slow.

Yup. Getting tired of people saying “just write notes and reminders!”

Okay, my brain immediately deleted the memory of the reminder once it popped up, now what.

I’ve had my accounts blocked like that a few times when Mastodon was relatively new. I guess it’s an instance-specific thing?

I don’t remember the exact instance any more, since I never went back there, but mastodon.social doesn’t seem to do that.

You don’t need to choose a server with bsky, that’s it. It’s just one big blob of everyone where no one really cares what kind of content or how often you post.

With Mastodon, you need to pick a server, and then there’s funny things like “oh, you haven’t posted for a while, we’re blocking your account” or concerns that the server you chose may decide you’re not fitting. That and mastodon.social wasn’t available to register for a while as I recall.

Add to that the fact that your instance may not be federated with whoever you’re trying to share stuff to. Meanwhile with bsky it’s just “do you have bsky yes or no”.

People care about ease of use way more than whether it’s corporate or not.

Literally me. I should get to setting this stuff up, probably.

Yeah, but at least we got WFH nowadays.

May I introduce you to the concept of microdistrict. That’s how the original soviet developments were planned out - every house is guaranteed to have necessities like stores, a polyclinic, a school, a kindergarden, or a fire department within reasonable distance. Usually, walking distance. Everything is pedestrian permeable, there’s public transport connecting the “sleeping districts” where there were mostly apartments to the industrial areas where the jobs were. And yeah, playgrounds in or near every building.

Jobs in the same area as apartments isn’t really happening though, office buildings and industry tends to be away.

I just bought one of those suction cup shower head holders for my current place when I found it doesn’t have a holder. Works fine, although it’s a bit temperamental about the surface.

Those are very cheap so try getting one?

In my experience, it was an attempt to prune the stuff in old API that wasn’t useful. A successful attempt, since the backend working on it was in the same room as me and I could yell at him.

So you just gave him an excuse to go have a coffee break and wondered why he didn’t care? :P

Good question. Probably MEGA, at this point? Dropbox is also still a thing but I have no clue about how much storage you get for free any more.

Don’t use Discord as a CDN, their links expire.

I remember seeing one or two stations like this when I was a kid. The hoses lowered down after you paid, so you don’t need to be tall to use it.

I keep wishing that one day I’ll find a place to taste baklava made with pistachios. It’s always peanuts instead.

You can make it mutable really easy, too, if you need to for some reason. Most stuff you need is available off flathub, but some applications you may want have to be installed the old-fashioned way.

This is kinda my experience. If there’s an extension keeping track of schema and linting, it’s alright.

If you’re doing it by hand, well, good luck.

My personal favourite way to make configs is lua. But that’s neither here nor there.

Man, the variable scoping thing is insidious. It will never not be weird to me that ifs and loops don’t actually create a new scope.

And then you try to do a closure and it tells you you didn’t import anything yet.

Personally, I prefer duplicate keys to be eaten by the parser but I can see how it’d be beneficial to prevent them.

Wait, let is to introduce locals but local is to introduce variables available in the whole file?

…so local creates global variables? What?

…and local creates constant values?

It’s inconsistent and annoying. Expressive, yes. Gets it’s job done, yes. Absolute nightmare of a spec, YES.

The fact that JSON is a subset of YAML should tell you everything about how bloated the spec is. And of course there’s the “no” funny things.

Personally, my favourite way to write configs was using lua (because it was already part of the project so why not), but JSON does fine.