Small metal object with clip on top. Clip spins around the object body and can be attracted to a magnet (so made of steel probably). Object body does not react to magnet (so made of brass maybe). Cone shaped tip seems to be made of some kind of plastic....
Windows Copilot Newsletter #22 just dropped - Meta releases LLaMA 3 and chatbots ‘all the things’; Microsoft makes a big investment with geopolitical implications; ChatGPT continues to confabulate scientific citations…
📕Book Review #22 for 2024 is Toshikazu Kawaguchi's Before Your Memory Fades. This volume of Kawaguchi's Before the Coffee Gets Cold series is set in the city of Hakodate on the island of Hokkaido and not in Tokyo. I felt that the end of this one was a bit rushed, and with more storylines, compared to the other two volumes I have read. I like the book but not as much as the first two. ☕☕☕review @bookstodon@books#books#bookstodon#fiction#Japanesefiction
Until now, development has proceeded pretty loosely - we work on whatever seems cool at the time. This is fine but if we collaborate on a decision about priorities then perhaps we'll all be pulling in the same direction a bit more often. If the decision is made in public with all stakeholders, perhaps we'll get some buy-in....
Federating from local communities #4. You have this as #22, but I've never seen any problem with signatures. I'm subscribed to /c/playground from a server that just dumps out activity into a file, without even checking the signature, so I'd say it's a problem of not being sent at all (I see the activity from local users, but not from remote users). I've had success in test environments for this, but not piefed.social.
Improving error messages #24. More get_requests should be surrounded by 'try ... except', so it doesn't crash / say 'oops, something has gone wrong' if, for example, you enter an unresolvable domain in that form.
Subscribe to anything #20 is something people want.
Mitigate impersonation attempts (related to #52). Piefed doesn't currently check that the domain in the id and the actor's domain match. See this post, where the 'original on lemmon.website' points to a bbc news article. Technically, communities can announce anything - we can check that it is the community actually sending it, but not whether what it announces actually happened. Matching domains helps, so users can verify for themselves.
I need to investigate setting up piefed in production, partly because I keep blowing through my ngrok quota, but mostly because many of the Issues on codeberg don't become apparent or relevant in testing.
I agree with you that getting the fundamentals right for what is currently here is way more important than trying to change it into something else (i.e. do a few things well, rather than lots of things badly)
I find my experience here has been mostly solid, so I think you mostly have your priorities right. It's also fun to see experimentation with new features every now and then, so I'm not sure I would even like to see a shift towards focusing only on important stuff.
Better handling of video content #147 (I am also interested if PieFed can integrate better with PeerTube, for example an option to browse PeerTube channels)
"Announce does not federate properly with Lemmy" #22
I think there's a lot of potential in better integration with services outside of the Threadiverse, and this is something Lemmy has been notoriously bad at (and its developers seemingly uninterested in). Not that PieFed should become like Kbin and serve two separate functions, but there's a lot to be achieved in both ends by making the services more interoperable. There might be some sort of place for both boosts and hashtags, while leading @mentions might sometimes be justifiably hidden. More than important I guess I would find it fun.
As for what's urgent, ensuring core functionality and GDPR compliance seems like a fair priority.
Es ist doch immer wieder erstaunlich, wie Dinge einfach nahtlos* funktionieren, wenn man einfach nur alles richtig macht.
In meinem Fall: nachdem ich den Unterfadengreifer drei mal auseinandergebaut, gereinigt, zusammengebaut, und in der Anleitung nach Fehlerquellen gesucht habe, ist mir aufgefallen, dass die Nadel falsch herum in der Nadelstange steckte, was ich natürlich bisher als Fehlerquelle ausgeschlossen hatte… 🙈
(oder vielmehr: mit Naht. Sehr guter Naht. Ohne Fadenschlaufen.)
The old machine works amazingly well under "normal" circumstances, but for this use case with the nice thick thread and the four layers of leather + 2 layers of canvas, I think I bit off more than I could chew. After a few tries with a normal jeans needle, I had to resort to a thick 130/#22 needle with an eye big enough for the thick thread. Sewing the pockets was a challenge, and I had to hand-crank the machine most of the way and take care not to lose stitches on the thick rolled hem.
For me it’s: “Chronic cannabis use during adolescence impairs emotional development in adulthood” “Over achievement in crisis situations is an indicator of ADHD” Both of which provoke “Hmm, ya probably, and fuck you too”
(Primary Sources by Corrine Manning, Continued part 2. CW: mentions of assault)
The Fantastic Four were humans first. They were four humans, Reed, Sue, Johnny and Ben, who were particularly devoted to their country. They took it upon themselves to try to beat the Russians in the space race, but when building the ship they failed to consider the effect the atmosphere’s cosmic rays would have on it, let alone on their own bodies. When the ship crash-landed they all had fantastic abilities: Reed, to stretch (Mr. Fantastic!) and Johnny , to burst into flames (The Human Torch!). It’s the last two, Sue and Ben, that I find particularly interesting. Sue now had the ability to become invisible (Invisible Girl), and Ben was transformed into an orange monster with incredible strength (The Thing). Even though the four pledged to use their power to help mankind, there’s something about Ben and Sue that feels different. Initially, Invisible Girl’s ability is useful for intellectual purposes but also seems like the highest form of self protection—to disappear. And Ben, The Thing, loses all recognizable human features, making him distinctly different from the others. The transformation leaves him frustrated and hostile. Unlike the other three who can blend into the human race, The Thing can’t. He is visibly stuck outside of it, which results in moments of fantastic rage. “Well maybe they’re right! Maybe I am a monster!”
He shouted: told her to leave it alone.
Then people will look at you and think, Oh boy, she’s crazy, I’m not messing with her. No one will mess with you.
Sue’s difference within the group goes beyond gender: her abilities changed and strengthened over time. Initially, her powers were ridiculous, useless. Even when under the protection of invisibility she could be made visible from someone touching her. Her power does very little to deter Miracle Man or the Submariner, villains who use her to get to the others.
“Ah! I thought so!! It’s a human! An invisible Human!”
“Oh!”
“Stop struggling! No one can escape Prince Namor.”
Seeing that her plight is helpless, Sue Storm becomes visible again.
Issue #4 The Sub Mariner.
“Too bad invisible girl!! It won’t work! I know you’re there! Become visible! The Miracle Man commands you!! Ahh! That’s more like it! And you must obey me!! I am your Master!! Signal the other member of the Fantastic Four!! I shall defeat them forever, here and now!!”
Like a girl in a trance, Susan Storm aims her small flare pistol into the sky, And…
Issue #3 Miracle Man
In the Submariner’s case, Sue’s defensive invisibility is active. To be passive, for Sue Storm, is to be visible—to give in to her visibility. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman affirms that though most hypnotic states come about from a place of choice, traumatic trancelike states do not. Celeste, the nun, even in the joy that she experiences within her disassociated states, complained that they were often “inopportune.”
[ T]hey had increased in frequency (occurring about once a week) and duration (lasting anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes) and she felt less able to prevent their onset at inopportune times or to snap herself out of this state when necessary.
Though a sense of calm can settle on the body, there’s also something frustrating in the acknowledgement that what’s triggering the response doesn’t deserve the response. As in, sometimes it comes from a friendly hand at the center of my back, a misunderstood phrase, or even a moment that requires intense concentration, when I’m just on the brink of figuring something out. In these moments, the more I want the state to end the longer it holds. There is something to be said here about memory— what we can recall and how we can use it. You don’t have to believe me but here’s what I can say, that for most events and situations I have a good memory, an ability to remember what is said in a conversation, the gestures someone else makes. Like anyone, there are places where I fail, moments when my experience does not seem to be chronicled or digested by my consciousness. According to Freudian psychoanalysts, consciousness is something passive. We naturally bring experience into our consciousness. It is an effort to keep consciousness and experience separate. Freud uses the example of a beach ball being held underwater, and that once it’s under, muscular defenses have to remain to maintain it, because naturally, experience and consciousness want to become one. It happened so suddenly, all by itself. Herbert Fingarette and Donnel Stern assert that consciousness might not be as passive as we think. We actually have to coax our consciousness to digest our experience. To, as Stern puts it, “haul up a rock from the bottom.” Dissociation is not, in that sense, defensive. It is the personality’s last resort, when all other defensive measures have been overwhelmed. Seeing that her plight is helpless, Sue Storm becomes visible again. We only know what we can express through language, and its through language that the dissociated pieces can be reconstructed and placed together again, free of trauma and full of a new meaning. Through language we develop the ability to “correctly” process the event, to haul the rock upward. We must, Fingarette says, “conceive consciousness as active, not passive. It is something we ‘do.’ We are ‘doers,’ and consciousness is the exercise of a skill.” Reed: Just as I thought! You have greater powers of invisibility than you suspect, Sue! The problem is… How do you learn to control those powers? Fantastic Four Issue #22
London, January 2004
Dissociation is the inability to reflect on an experience. I am a secondary source. I have two primary sources.
A document saved as “It” that is dated, what I assume to be the day after my assault January 27th, 2004 (which I didn’t access until June 28th, 2008). I do not remember writing this despite the fact that I recognize it as my own writing. This document contains physical details that I don’t remember and in some cases do not believe. What I wrote gives the sense of flickering in and out. Even then, the events of the night come in the form of questions:
“Did I choose to sleep through it? Did I really wake up when I felt his fist knock against my jaw? Did I really apologize for the sound my teeth made?” Somehow the cosmic rays have altered your atomic structure…
I guess we have to be a little in love with our storyworlds to sustain a life in writing, right? So yes, absolutely. Every now and then I reread something of mine and go, "Whaaat? I wrote this? Really?! Coool!"
But, there are also (like most of us on this hashtag, I suspect) moments when I am absolutely mortified by ungainly paragraphs, purple prose, awkward phrasing and typos by the million. And we all know draft zeroes are things that most of us dread to return to reading.
But, the moments of joy are what sustain me. I suspect they sustain (most of, your mileage may very) you too.
It's really rare to see Chika fan art with her original silver hair. Obviously I absolutely adore her pink hair, but there's something great about silver as well. It makes her look super elegant, you know? But nothing can beat the pink!
Added Bugs to Keep my job (sh.itjust.works)
Very small valve part? (lemmy.world)
Small metal object with clip on top. Clip spins around the object body and can be attracted to a magnet (so made of steel probably). Object body does not react to magnet (so made of brass maybe). Cone shaped tip seems to be made of some kind of plastic....
Let's decide on some development priorities
Until now, development has proceeded pretty loosely - we work on whatever seems cool at the time. This is fine but if we collaborate on a decision about priorities then perhaps we'll all be pulling in the same direction a bit more often. If the decision is made in public with all stakeholders, perhaps we'll get some buy-in....
What psycholgy research finding hit a little too close for you?
For me it’s: “Chronic cannabis use during adolescence impairs emotional development in adulthood” “Over achievement in crisis situations is an indicator of ADHD” Both of which provoke “Hmm, ya probably, and fuck you too”