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Cake day: June 3rd, 2023

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  • i had this question a couple of days ago and today fell totally down the fuck spez rabbithole.

    found myself on the main discord where the coordinators were talking to uruguay about doing the “u” after columbia (?) declined. guess hearing that, both uruguay and equador wanted in.

    there was discussion of not stepping over the swiss flag in one of the letter because they were part of the coalition.

    these folks are dedicated - many commented they hadn’t really slept since it went live. kudos to all of them for the passion they showed today.

    tbh it was impressive and one of the best executed operations i’ve seen in a long time. very fun to see up close.

    working for a global multinational company i only wish we were this efficient internally ❤️









  • here’s a question, wouldn’t it be more impactful to encourage users to redact with a protest statement promoting fedverse first?

    assuming they’re doing a 30 day backup scheme then this becomes part of their working set going forward. messing with the data in this way especially if we can do it in volume might make it harder for LLMs to extract useful information from our noise.

    we then can then start deleting our posts as a second protest after that.

    thoughts?






  • not my drama but a friends… her mom has uncontrolled diabetes along with borderline personality disorder and narcissistic personality disorder.

    a couple of months ago she got and at home manicure from some shady outfit. ended up with an fungus which when asked to recount how this could have happened she kept lying and saying she didn’t know.

    she didn’t keep up with the care on it so it became infected and they needed to do surgery to remove her nail. during the surgery they discovered it had infected the bone and the tip of the finger needed to be amputated.

    they do this and send her home. my friend settles her in after surgery, went i guess to use the bathroom before leaving only to find her mom gathering her purse with keys in hand.

    as you might expect my friend was appalled and asked her where she was going. mom replies…" well your aunt asked me to drive her to the airport today "

    friend looks out the window and yes, there’s auntie “waiting on the street with her purple suitcase” 🤣

    apparently mom knew this and said nothing to aunt or my friend.

    so when you’re dealing with your drama, send thanks into the electrons that it could be much worse ☺️







  • I’m not a doctor but did study anatomy for yoga teacher training -

    Do you sit a lot? if so it sounds like maybe the psoas or hip flexor which wraps from the back around to hip may be tight or irritated. If the hip is out of whack that might take the knee with it.

    Have you tried gentle stretches to see if it helps?

    There’s great beginner youtuber called Yoga with Adrienne who has a bunch of these kinds of stretches. When i say gentle stretches, please be kind to yourself and be super gentle 😉

    There’s a big difference between pain and discomfort. If you feel any sharp pain, needless, numbness stop the stretching immediately. If it’s just achy just stay there for a bit and see if it loosens up.

    Finally as someone who had had back issues - i was told if you ever experience any sudden weakness, numbness or have trouble urinating get to the ER asap. That might be a nerve problem which is serious and needs attention.

    Please let us posted on how you get on if you’re comfortable sharing. Sending all good thoughts through the electrons for a speedy recovery ❤️





  • shower thoughts… and still on my first cup of coffee to more just musing than anything …

    if storage is the concern wonder if the lemmy roadmap might one day include an option to use cloud based storage?

    azure storage at .06/gb per month is likely cheaper and more redundant than local storage - even if you factor in calls to the blob which could be lowered via caching.

    cloud storage potentially might one day lead to a option for smaller self hosters to opt into a shared blob instance where the and cost is shared.

    in this scenario security to ensure the cloud blob couldn’t be deleted would need to be thought through (maybe splitting the password among multiple admins with each having one part of the whole?) but might be one way to better encourage more self hosting for them compute side of things.