Ha! I think you're still misunderstanding me. (Maybe misunderstanding me more than you were previously.)
We're not using any Google service in relation to the timezones things in question. You said in your post "They shouldn’t be returning MNT for Arizona because they aren’t in Mountain time." The only reason I mentioned Google is because after reading that sentence, I googled to see what timezone Arizona is in (because I thought I remembered it was in mountain time) and my Google search seems to confirm that Arizona is indeed in the mountain time zone.
If you have a store in Gilbert, AZ, set this column to America/Phoenix. Minneapolis would get America/Chicago etc.
Exactly what I'm getting at. They should be using the "America/Phoenix" format for identifying timezones, not "MST". But they use the latter and I don't have any control over the service in question because it's owned by another team. We could nag them, but they don't really have a lot of incentive to make such a fix, so realistically that task would probably die at the bottom of their backlog. My team only consumes data from the service in question. And because it's doing things in that way, my team has to have extra complexity in our code to account for it.
The talk I'm planning to give to my team isn't going to be related to any of that. My team also runs into timezone weirdness, of course, because so does every developer, and a better understanding about such things is definitely going to benefit everyone. That story about the other team using the three-letter abbreviations in stead of, say "America/Phoenix" was just me ranting about how things are done by other teams at the company where I work.
Hmm?
Google's telling me Arizona is in mountain time. For all locations in mountain time, the service in question returns "MST" (and doesn't adjust to "MDT" for part of the year or anything.)
But Arizona doesn't observe daylight saving's time like the rest of those in mountain time.
Now, if the service in question returned "America/Phoenix" for Arizona locations and "America/Denver" (I think that's right) for mountain time locations outside of Arizona, our code would be as simple as whateverMethodInTheStandardLibraryConvertsToTimezone(dateTime, timezone). But as it is, we have to do something like whateverMethodInTheStandardLibraryConvertsToTimezone(dateTime, state == "AZ" ? "America/Phoenix" : {"MST":"America/Denver","CST":"America/Chicago",...}[timezone]).
Also, I should mention we only have to deal with U.S. states plus Puerto Rico where I work. No UTC+8:45 timezones come into play or anything, at least. Also no locations in, say, the Navajo nation in Arizona currently.
Well, I do think it's useful to be able to speak in terms of "the period of time from the middle of the dark period of the day to the following middle of the dark period" for conversations with other locals. And that's what I was talking about with regard to the days of the week changing over at "midnight" (that is, the middle of the dark period).
So, if I lived somewhere where the sun rose at 14:00 UTC every "day", I would have to keep track of the fact that the date would change to the next date (from the 19th to the 20th, for instance) every mid-to-late "afternoon". A small price to pay, in my estimation, but still a price to pay.
So, I dunno. Doesn't feel backwards to me. Folks are still probably going to think in terms of their "day". Like from when they get up to when they go to bed. Not in terms of when Greenwich gets up and goes to bed. So I do think it's worth considering things from the perspective of people who just want to make sure they get to work on time so they don't get laid off. And from that perspective, it makes more sense to say "the date changes over one hour before I get off of work" (which is "mid to late afternoon" even though it's UTC 0:00).
Yes, for sure.
Unfortunately, many moons ago before I started working where I currently work, the decision was made that they'd standardize, roughly speaking, on the timezone of the corporate headquarters. (I work in the same timezone as corporate, so that's my timezone. So it's not as bad for me as for folks who work in far-flung locations. But it's still a huge PITA even for me.)
And when I say "roughly speaking", I mean that there's plenty of data we keep in the timezone of the location it pertains to. Like store open/close times are stored in a corporate database in the store's timezone. Which... I guess honestly that makes some sense. (Well, it doesn't make any sense because DST is bullshit, but given that we have to deal with DST, I guess it makes sense to store location open/close times in the store's timezone because they want their open/close times to shift with DST. If we stored those open/close times in UTC, we'd have to do some painful adjustments to account for DST in locations that observe it.)
Oh! And we have RESTful services owned by other teams that when you refer to a location by number and it returns information about the location, it uses the three-letter identifier to indicate what timezone they're in rather than the cities (like "America/Phoenix", or "America/Puerto_Rico", or "America/Denver" or whatever), so we have to have special logic in our applications to be like "if they're in MNT and they're in Arizona then... but if they're in MNT and not in Arizona then..."
Damn. Now I'm ranting. Lol.
If I'm understanding what you're getting at, I think you're misunderstanding. I wasn't saying the day of the month change would happen at different times of day for different days of the month. I was saying the day of the month change would happen at different times of day for different longitudes. (I said "for different people", though "for different longitudes" or "for different locations" would have been a better way to say that.)
Yeah. I figured the day-of-the-month change should definitely happen at UTC midnight. I kindof like the idea that a day of the week lasts from before I wake up to after I go to sleep. (Or at least that there's no changeover during business hours.)
But hell. If you wanted to run for president of the world on a platform of reforming date/time tracking but planned for the days of the week to change at midnight UTC, I'd still vote for you.
Note that the Sun position is not consistent throught the year and varies widely based on your latitude.
Good call. The definitions of "noon" and "midnight" would need to be formalized a bit more, but given any line of longitude, the sun passes directly over that line of longitude "exactly" once every 24 hours. (I put "exactly" in quotes because even that isn't quite exactly true, but we account for that kind of thing with leap seconds.) So you could base noon on something like "when the sun is directly over a point on such longitudinal line (and then round to the nearest hour)."
Could still be a little weird near the poles, but I think that definition would still be sensical. If you're way up north, for instance, and you're in the summer period when the sun never sets, you still just figure out your longitude and figure when the sun passes directly over some point on that longitudinal line.
Though in practice, I'd suspect the area right around the poles would pretty much just need to just decide on something and go with it so they don't end up having to do calculations to figure out whether it's "afternoon" or "morning" every time they move a few feet. Heh. (Not that a lot of folks spend a lot of time that close to the poles.) Maybe they'd just decide arbitrarily that the current day of the week and period of the day are whatever they currently are in Greenwich. Or maybe even abandon the use og day of the week and period of the day all together.
Just the days of the week? you mean that 2024-06-30 23:59 and 2024-07-01 00:01 can both be the same weekday and at the same time be different days? Would the definition of "day" be different based on whether you are talking about "day of the week" vs "universal day"?
Yup.
I'm just thinking about things like scheduling dentist appointments at my local dentist. I'd think it would be less confusing for ordinary local interactions like that if we could say "next Wednesday at 20:00" rather than having to keep track of the fact that depending what period of the day it is (relative to landmarks like "dinner time" or "midmorning") it may be a different day of the week.
And it's not like there aren't awkward mismatches beteen days of the week and days of the month now. Months don't always start on the first day of the week, for instance. (Hell. We don't even agree on what the first day of the week is.) "Weeks" are an artifact of lunar calendars. (And, to be fair, so are months.)
(And while we're on the topic of months, we should have 13 of 'em. 12 of length 30 each and one at the end of 5 days or on leap years 6 days. And they should be called "first month", "second month", "third month", etc. None of this "for weird historical reasons, October is the 10th month, even though the prefix 'oct' would seem to indicate it should be the 8th" bs. Lol.)
I think having a way to delete accounts is legally required by some jurisdictions. And sometimes if a site does business in such a jurisdiction and are required to have a way to do that, they'll still offer that option those outside the jurisdictions in question. (It's easier to just allow everyone who asks than to have rules keeping track of who can and can't legally demand it.)
But if this is an image board hosted in Japan intended for a Japanese audience, and if Japan has no such legal requirements (or if such requirements don't apply here for some reason), then, your experience with websites that operate in/for countries where they speak your language(s) notwithstanding, it's highly plausible this site just doesn't have any way to delete accounts.
Your concern is that a breach of the site's data may leak some information about you that you wouldn't want to leak, yes?
If so, and if you can still use similar methods to navigate the site in question, use those methods to edit your account/profile details to scrub the account of anything that you wouldn't want to leak. Change it to use a fake name. Change the email address to somthrowaway email address. Change the password to something unrelated to any passwords you could possibly use on any other sites so that if the hash is leaked and brute forced, no one can use that to gain access to any of your other accounts. Delete individual posts or pieces of content that you've uploaded.
Actually, I can read (barely) enough Japanese to figure out that the registration process seems to only want your email address and password. (Though I haven't gone through the whole signup process.) You mentioned uploading a file, yeah? I'm guessing the amount of stuff you'd have to do to overwrite/delete every bit of data they have on you is pretty limited.
And, yes, I suppose there's the potential caveat that that might not affect backups and such, but I'd wager a lot of the other account deletion requests you've done don't affect things like backups either.
No, see, how it would work without timezones is:
- Everyone would use UTC and a 24-hour clock rather than AM/PM.
- If that means you eat breakfast at 1400 hours and go to bed around 400 hours and that the sun is directly overhead at 1700 hours (or something more random like 1737), fine. (Better than fine, actually!)
- Every area keeps track of what time of day daily events (like meals, when school starts or lets out, etc) happen. Though I think generally rounding to the nearest whole hour or, maybe in some cases, half hour makes the most sense. (And it's not even like everyone in the same area keeps the same schedule as it is now.)
- You still call the period before when the sun is directly overhead "morning" and the period after "afternoon" and similarly with "evening", "night", "dawn", "noon", "midnight" etc.
- One caveat is that with this approach, the day-of-the-month change (when we switch from the 29th of the month to the 30th, for instance) happens at different times of the day (like, in the above example it would be close to 1900 hours) for different people. Oh well. People will get used to it. But I think it still makes the most sense to decide that the days of the week ("Monday", "Tuesday", etc) last from whatever time "midnight" is locally to the following midnight, again probably rounding to the nearest whole hour. (Now, you might be thinking "yeah, but that's just timezones again. But consider those timezones. The way you'd figure out what day of the week it was would involve taking the longitude and rounding. Much simpler than having to keep a whole-ass database of all the data about all the different timezones. And it would only come into play when having to decide when the day of the week changes over.)
- Though, one more caveat. If you do that, then there has to be a longitudinal line where it's always a different day of the week on one side than it is just on the other side. But that's already the case today, so not really a drawback relative to what we have today.
The creator of DST gets the first slap. Then the timezones asshole.
I'm planning to do a presentation at work on how to deal with dates/times/timezones/conversion/etc in the next few weeks some time. I figure it would be a good topic to cover. I'm going to start my talk by saying "first, imagine there is no such thing as timezones or DST." And then build on that.
Windows, I will always remember it being the best thing for business’s as Microsoft pushes licenses and such business related features.
Most businesses I'm familiar with deserve to have to deal with Microsoft BS.
Well, yeah. It's OpenSea. That's like saying "76% of videos on Pornhub are porn."
I'm not so sure this is universally bad advice. There are lots of kinds of axiety and my anxiety would probably literally be calmed by many of what can be called "horror movies" in the middle of the night.
From the content of this thread, I'm betting there's a lot of selection bias going on. The ones who don't scroll past. The ones who do post.
And I'll follow that pattern. I still live with my mother. Never moved out. Live in the same house I was raised in. But my mother was never really financially stable. My grandmother with whom my mother and I lived... well, she managed to keep us housed and fed with credit card debt, which honestly worked out very well.
Anyway, I was kindof the only person who really made much of an income in my household and have been financially supporting my parents for decades now. (Though my grandmother passed on a few years back and left me a life insurance policy.)
I'm 37 now.
Their healthcare system is insane (sorry Americans but it is)
Don't apologize! If anything that's an understatement. And everything else you said is on point too.
Source: Am American.
Isn't it beautiful? It's one of the few actually popular counterexamples to the Web Obesity Crisis.
Hacker News is another good example. Rest in power, Aaron Swartz.
More like 45,000 according to the monthly active users metric on FediDB. Though your point still stands. It's still quite niche.
(Serious) As a crypto-skeptic who owns some Bitcoin, what should I do with it?
This post really isn't the usual faire of this community. Sorry about that. If there's a better place for me to put this, definitely feel free to point me there.
But, to the point of my post, before Bitcoin became a widespread cult, back when all Bitcoin was was a couple of posts on Slashdot, back when mining it was comparatively extremely easy/quick/"profitable", I mined some Bitcoin. About 1/20 of a Bitcoin. Just by, like, leaving my computer on for a month or so. And I still have access to it.
And Bitcoin is worth can be sold for $62,000 USD per bitcoin right now which makes my little 1/20 of a Bitcoin tradeable for about $3,100 of real money.
Now I know that blockchain is just straight up a scam. But I've still got this Bitcoin in a wallet on a hard drive in my posession. (I know, the wallet doesn't actually "contain" the Bitcoin. Leave me alone.)
The obvious thing to do with it would be to sell it now, but that would leave some poor chap(s) holding a $3,100 bag in a way that I wouldn't feel great about.
I could just sit on it forever. I suppose I could sell it and donate the proceeds to some cause I thought to be worthy or anti-crypto. If there were enough crypto-skeptics had cryptocurrencies and wanted cryptocurrency to die in a fire, they(/we?) could coordinate to use our collective cryptocurrency in a way that most damages the market and hopefully hastens a crash-to-zero. (But the likelihood that there'd be enough cryptocurrency in the hands of crypto-skeptics to pull that off seems low.) Or I could print out my private keys, delete them from my hard drive, and ceremonially burn the papers while chanting "web3 is going great".
And maybe this post is just me asking like-minded folks to give me permission to just sell it and leave someone holding a bag so I can buy myself a new OLED TV. Heh.
Whatever the case, I wanted to hear you folks' takes.
Edit: Thanks for the input, everyone. I'm gonna sell it.
Washington Post: Leaked documents reveal patient safety issues at Amazon’s One Medical
I linked to MSN because (at least for me) it wasn't paywalled. The original source for the article can be found on the Washington Post's website here but is paywalled.
No, Cocomelon, what are you doing!?
This was on the Netflix login page until pretty recently. I can't be the only one who thought it was unintentionally... suggestive, right?
Animutations
Please tell me I'm not the only one still obsessed with these things.
Edit: Woah. I am the only one still obsessed with Animutations, aren't I? They're mine! All mine!
What linguistic constructions do you hate that no one else seems to mind?
It bugs me when people say "the thing is is that" (if you listen for it, you'll start hearing it... or maybe that's something that people only do in my area.) ("What the thing is is that..." is fine. But "the thing is is that..." bugs me.)
Also, "just because <blank> doesn't mean <blank>." That sentence structure invites one to take "just because <blank>" as a noun phrase which my brain really doesn't want to do. Just doesn't seem right. But that sentence structure is very common.
And I'm not saying there's anything objectively wrong with either of these. Language is weird and complex and beautiful. It's just fascinating that some commonly-used linguistic constructions just hit some people wrong sometimes.
Edit: I thought of another one. "As best as I can." "The best I can" is fine, "as well as I can" is good, and "as best I can" is even fine. But "as best as" hurts.
I know nothing about Helldivers. AMA.
And if you disagree with any of my answers, you're just wrong.
Red Dwarf - It's Cold Outside
"Vindaloo" is a running joke in the series Red Dwarf to which this song is the theme song.
Banned From [email protected]
Apparently I'm banned from [email protected] now. That's a community for posting AI-generated images.
My feed is set to "all"/"new". So I see every post that comes into the Lemmy servers that lemmy.world federates with. Or at least those that come in while I'm on and browsing.
I downvote what I don't like. And I don't like AI-generated images. I downvote any that come across my feed. I don't seek out AI-generated images to downvite. (That feels too much like brigading.) So, I wouldn't, say, go to [email protected] and downvote every post there. Just the ones that "organically" come across my feed.
Today, I clicked "downvote" on a post from [email protected] and the down-arrow wouldn't change color to register my downvote. Lemmy's error messaging is lacking, so I had to go to my developer tools to find out for sure, but the server clearly indicated the reason why it wouldn't accept my downvote was because I was banned from [email protected] . (I can downvote posts on other sh.itjust.works communities.)
So, apparently one of the mods of [email protected] noticed I downvoted some posts from [email protected] and had never upvoted any posts in that community and decided to ban me.
I'm honestly not really sure whether I or they (or both or neither) am/are in the wrong here. But I was interested to see that just downvoting could get me banned from a community.
Anyone else been banned from any communities for similar behavior?
Is it safe to take a second pill a few hours after the first if the directions say "1 to 2 tablets?"
Over-the-counter diphenhydramine, for instance, at least in my country, says adults can take "1 to 2 tablets every 4 to 6 hours."
If you decide "my symptoms aren't so bad; I'll just take one" and then two hours later your symptoms are still bad (or worse), is it safe to take a second tab then? And if you do, should you wait until "4 to 6 hours" after taking the first tablet or the second to take an additional tablet? Does it depend on the drug? (Maybe it's fine for diphenhydramine but not for ibuprophen?)
I'd imagine blood levels of any particular drug tend to quickly spike and then exponentially decay back to undetectable levels. If you take two tabs, I'd imagine that graph is just twice as tall. If you wait a couple of hours between tabs, it's got two spikes and the second is a little higher than the first (but not as high as the two-tabs-at-the-same-time spike.)
If the concern is total concentration of drug in the bloodstream at any one point, a second tab a couple hours later is less of a concern than two tabs at the same time. If the concern is total area under the curve, then probably there's no difference between two tabs at the same time and a couple of hours between. If the concern is total time spent with a blood concentration of such-and-such, I could see there being more concern with taking a second tab just a couple of hours after the first.
And maybe there are other effects that I'm not aware of. Maybe if the blood concentration kicks up to two-tabs-at-once levels, the liver kicks into high gear, clearing the drug out quicker, but if you go a couple of hours between tabs, the liver neve kicks into high gear or some such.
And maybe this question hasn't even been well studied and maybe there's not really any good answer. But if there is, I'm curious.
Of course AI is a bubble. It has all the hallmarks of a classic tech bubble. Pick up a rental car at SFO and drive in either direction on the 101 – north to San Francisco, south to Palo Alto – and …
This guy's one of the few and the brave actually saying publicly that AI is a bubble. I think most other public figures are scared to be proven wrong and made to look foolish. Doctorow's not committing to the idea that AI will never have any use, but at least he's countering a lot of the ridiculous claims the "AI Industry" is making lately.
What are some of the things you haven't eaten in so long they basically don't even register as edible any more?
I've got a pretty severe sensitivity to -- of all things -- sugar. (I know, "sugar" isn't very precise, but I'm pretty sure it's either glucose, fructose, or sucrose.) I virtually never eat anything with added sugar or anything with any significant amount of natural sugar. And I've eaten that way for like 20 years now. I'm practically blind to half the produce department (any "sweet" fruits like apples, pears, cherries, grapes, oranges, etc) at the grocery store, let alone the candy isle.
Revisiting Steamboat Willie and the Public Domain
First off, I'm not a lawyer, I'm not your lawyer, none of this is legal advice. Go get legal advice from a lawyer.
A lot of us know by now a little about how Mickey Mouse being in the public domain (at least in the U.S.) works. You can use the version of Mickey from the animations (Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy) that entered the public domain this year because they were released in 1928. So long as you:
- Don't use them in ways that would make it seem that your work was made by Disney and
- Don't use any elements of Mickey from later works which are still under copyright.
So no Donald Duck. No Goofy. No gloves. You can't make his pants red. Etc. Right?
However, let me present a few movie posters from 1928 which are now in the public domain:
[!A black and white movie poster for the animation "Steamboat Willie" reading "Disney Cartoons present a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. 'Steamboat Willie'. A Walt Disney Comic by UB Iwerks. Recorded by Powers Cinephone System". Mickey Mouse is at the helm/wheel of a steam-powered paddleboat and is depicted wearing gloves. Given that the image is in black and white, the gloves are white.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_Mouse_Color_Stock_Poster_(Celebrity_Productions_era,_1928).jpg)
[!A color movie poster for the animation "Steamboat Willie" reading "Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse in Steamboat Willie." Mickey Mouse is depicted at the helm/wheel of the boat pretty much in the same pose as in the opening scene of the movie wearing a blue hat, red pants with yellow buttons, and yellow shoes. (But no gloves.)](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Steamboat_Willie.jpg)
[!A color movie poster reading "Celebrity Productions Inc. presents a Mickey Mouse sound cartoon. A Walt Disney Comic. Drawn By UB Iwerks. The world's funniest cartoon character. A sensation in Sound and Syncrony. Sound Recorded By Powers Cinephone, The Voice of the Movies." Featured on the poster is Mickey Mouse in color with yellow gloves, red pants with white buttons, and brown shoes.](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Mickey_Mouse_Color_Stock_Poster_(Celebrity_Productions_era,_1928).jpg)
Yellow gloves! Red pants with both yellow and white buttons! Yellow and brown shoes! And a green hat to boot!
I'd imagine all of these posters qualify as creative works that would have gained copyright protections as soon as they were made/published. And the copyright on these poster illustrations have all now expired, leaving these posters in the public domain. (Copyright-wise, at least. Trademark is a whole other kettle of worms.)
So, theoretically, all the elements you see in those posters should be fair game today. Which leads me to believe that theoretically there's no reason why people who use the public domain version of Mickey Mouse in their own works ought to avoid red pants with yellow buttons or yellow shoes. Yellow gloves are probably similar, but the case for white gloves being safe to use is probably weaker given that the only images I could find from 1928 where Mickey's wearing white gloves are black and white illustrations.
I say "theoretically" because of course law is complex and (again) I'm not a lawyer and who knows what legal arguments Disney's legal department could come up with. But I don't see any reason off the top of my head why using red-pants, yellow-shoes, yellow-gloves Mickey in your own works (so long as you don't include other elements that legitimately didn't become a thing until 1929 or later and didn't infringe on Disney's trademarks) wouldn't be virtually just as safe as avoiding colors when using the Mickey Mouse character.
All that said, I'm definitely open to being set straight on this. I just hoped to get a little discussion going about this.
Is the SFC the Future of the Free Software Movement?
I've been thinking about this for a while now.
Richard Stallman has been practically synonymous with Free Software since its inception. And there are good reasons why. It was his idea, and it was his passion that made the movement what it is today.
I deeply believe in the mission of the Free Software movement. But more and more, it seems that in order to survive, the Free Software movement may need to distance itself from him.
Richard Stallman has said some really disturbingly reprehensible things on multiple occasions (one and two). (He has said he's changed these opinions, but it seems to me the damage is done.)
He's asked that people blame him and not the FSF for these statements, but it seems naive to me to expect that to be enough not to tarnish the FSF's reputation in the eyes of most people.
And Richard Stallman isn't the only problematic figure associated with the Free Software movement.. Eben Moglen (founder, Direct-Council, and Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center which is closely associated with the FSF) has been accused of much abusive and anti-LGBTQIA+ behavior over which the Free Software Foundation Europe and Software Freedom Concervancy have cut ties with the SFLC and Moglen (one and two).
Even aside from the public image problems, it seems like the FSF and SFLC have been holding back the Free Software movement strategically. Eben Moglan has long been adamant that the GPL shouldn't be interpreted as a contract -- only as a copyright license. What the SFC is doing now with the Visio lawsuit is only possible because the SFC had the courage to abandon that theory.
I sense there's a rift in the Free Software movement. Especially given that the SFC and FSF Europe explicitly cutting ties with the SFLC and Moglen. And individual supporters of Free Software are going to have to decide which parties in this split are going to speak for and champion the cause of the community as a whole.
I imagine it's pretty clear by this point that I favor the SFC in this split. I like what I've seen from the SFC in general. Not just the Visio lawsuit. But also the things I've heard said by SFC folks.
If the Free Software movement needs a single personality to be its face moving forward, I'd love for that face to be Bradley M. Kuhn, executive director of the SFC. He seems to have all of Stallman's and Moglen's assets (passion, dedication, an unwillingness to bend, and experience and knowledge of the legal aspects of Free Software enforcement) perhaps even more so than Stallman and Moglen do. And Kuhn excels in all the areas where Stallman and Moglen perhaps don't so much (social consciousness, likeability, strategy.) I can't say enough good things about Kuhn, really. (And his Wikipedia page doesn't even have a "controversies" section.) (Also, please tell me there aren't any skeletons in his closet.)
Even if the community does come to a consensus that the movement should distance itself from Stallman and Moglen, it'll be difficult to achieve such a change in public perception and if it's achieved, it may come at a cost. After all, Stallman is the first person everybody pictures when the FSF is mentioned. And acknowledging the problems with the Free Software movement's "old brass" may damage the reputation of Free Software as a whole among those who might not differentiate between the parties in this split. But I feel it may be necessary for the future of the Free Software movement.
That's my take, anyway. I'll hop down off of my soap box, now. But I wanted to bring this up, hopefully let some folks whose ideals align with those of the Free Software movement about all this if they weren't already aware, and maybe see what folks in general think about the future of the Free Software movement.
"# More Replies" Option Does Not Work For Me
Often times, when looking at the comments on a post, some comments are hidden and replaced by a button that (in Lemmy-UI) says "1 more reply ➔" or "2 more replies ➔" (or in Lemuroid says "1 more replies") or some such. I assume the intent of this button is to cause the hidden comment to be shown, but the button never works for me.
I have similar issues in both Lemmy-UI and in Lemuroid. In Lemmy-UI on Firefox (on a Raspberry Pi 4 running Arch Linux Arm, but I doubt that matters), if I click the button, it turns into a loading graphic which spins forever. If I tap the button in Lemuroid, a loading bar appears at the top of the screen for a little under a second and then disappears, but the "1 more replies" button remains and the hidden comments do not appear.
Given that this is an issue in both interfaces I use, maybe that means it's a Lemmy issue and not specific to Lemmy-UI or Lemuroid? Not sure.
Looking in Firefox's Developer Tools, it appears that when I click that button, it does send a request to the server and the response is a 200. There's no output in the "console" tab when I click the button.
I did go look at the issue trackers for both Lemmy and Lemmy-UI, but haven't found any relevant bugs.
Actually, I'm not really sure what criteria are used to decide whether a post should be hidden by default. But I do moderate one community and if the hidden posts are the ones that are most downvoted or some such, it's probably important for mods to be able to see those hidden posts.
Thanks in advance!
Edit: Well, today it's working in Lemmy-UI but only in some threads. In Lemuroid, the one that did work in Lemmy-UI just shows as expanded without me having to expand it, so I'm not sure about Lemuroid. Weird.
Thomas Jefferson on Intellectual Property
>If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of everyone, and the receiver cannot dispossess himself of it. Its peculiar character, too, is that no one possesses the less, because every other possesses the whole of it. He who receives an idea from me, receives instruction himself without lessening mine; as he who lights his taper at mine, receives light without darkening me. That ideas should freely spread from one to another over the globe, for the moral and mutual instruction of man, and improvement of his condition, seems to have been peculiarly and benevolently designed by nature, when she made them, like fire, expansible over all space, without lessening their density at any point, and like the air in which we breathe, move, and have our physical being, incapable of confinement or exclusive appropriation. Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property. . . .
—Thomas Jefferson
We now live in a world where Steamboat Willie is no longer under copyright in the U.S.
Never thought I'd see the day.
How would you go about making a rubber dog toy?
I've got a bit of a conundrum. I've got a 10 pound chihuahua whose entire world is a very specific 1.75 inch diameter rubber ball. (And when I say "entire world", I'm understating.) She's gone through a handful of this specific brand and model of rubber ball as old ones have gotten to the point of being too damaged to be safe.
But now the manufacturer has discontinued that line of ball and we're on our last one.
The few other models of rubber balls the same size that I've been able to find have been summarily rejected by the dog. I'm not sure quite what her criteria are for rejecting a ball, even. But I know she'd be a very sad dog indeed if we didn't manage to procure a suitable substitute.
So, at this point, I (and the dog too) am desperate enough to start thinking in terms of maybe crafting a ball as much like the one this dog currently loves to play with.
Of course my primary concern is safety. I wouldn't want pieces of rubber coming off of the final product to be ingested and cause blockages or anything. Nor any danger of blocking an airway.
The ball I'd be apeing is composed of natural rubber. I know you can get liquid latex like this stuff that air dries. Anyone have any idea if that would be suitable for this application? (Or would it be insufficiently durable after drying?)
I've got at my disposal a 3d printer and the skill to design 3d-printable molds. Hopefully the process of molding a ball could avoid heating the mold enough to deform it. I don't have any experience with printing anything but PLA and TPU. But I might be convinced to branch out into ABS or some such if necessary.
I'm just hoping to get some pointers and suggestions. I and my chihuahua thank you all in advance!