paisley_peinforte

@paisley_peinforte@calckey.social

She / Her. Snarky ex-pat. #Author. #Photoshop #Artist. Shitposter. Occasional #goth. #introvert.

Noble (Lady) of Sealand. Inventrix of Karnian Script.

Formerly Rule34Rocks on $8chan (le birdsite). Moved to calckey from mastodon.social. paisley_p_peinforte on #threads.

"Think of me as an anomaly within an impossibility, and get on with your tea."

Non-exhaustive list of likes:

#DoctorWho #RedDwarf #MST3K #OnePiece #Anime #SciFi #UK #politics #paranormal #cats #history #retrocomputing #computers #infosec #css #tech #fedi22

For DMs email me at paisley.p AT outlook.com.

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thomasfuchs, to random
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Threads has crossed 50 million signups and I’m highly annoyed that Mastodon’s signup flow is still super clunky—after years of begging the project to do something about it (it’s better than it used to be, but there’s still lots of room for improvement).

IAmDannyBoling, to Women
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Holiday update:

4th of July has been canceled due to a shortage of Independence.

Sincerely,
Women

yassie_j, to random

The UK postal code system is a legacy of the 30s and 70s. At first they did it so that only the bigger cities had their own postcodes. Postcodes were listed as Town Number.

So I would live in Birmingham 1.

In the 60s and 70s they extended it to the entire country, which meant they had to revamp some of the postal zones, so the bigger cities (like Birmingham) changed their zones, and became postal districts — where the largest settlement was the source, ie B1.

But what is amusing is that some street signs from the 60s still exist but have the old postal zone number on them.

So there’s two parts. The header/sector and point, separated by a space.

The sector are generally allocated in a spiral shape from the centre of the post town, which is usually a large settlement or city.

The sector has the district code, which is one or two letters and based on that settlement’s name, followers by two numbers. So the Birmingham District has B1 to B99.

The point covers a small handful of addresses, but in some cases can point to an entire building (eg B2 1HQ is the headquarters of HSBC).

Birmingham is B1 1AA

Coventry is CV1 1AA

Liverpool is L1 1AA

Leeds is LS1 1AA

But a postcode is so exact that it is used as a pseudo-geographical code for all kinds of metrics, like school catchment, healthcare statistics, etc, etc.

The beauty of this means that if you receive a letter and you don’t know where the town is, you can tell roughly where just by looking at the postal district. So if I know the postcode is CT1 1AA, then the letter came from somewhere in Canterbury.

To deliver a letter anywhere in the UK, you only need the building number/name and a postcode.

The other thing is that the postal district (eg B) isn’t limited to the settlement it’s named after. The B district spills out into the shires and neighbouring towns and villages. In the most extreme case, the BT postcode — from “B”elfas”t” — covers the entirety of Northern Ireland.

Postcodes are allocated to buildings, so you have to add businesses and organisations to the mix.

In the centre of Birmingham there’s six postal sectors (B1 to B4, plus part of B5 and B12), however B77 covers the same physical area because it’s way out and covers the market town of Tamworth.

London is even more insane — because of how dense it is, some parts of London have their sector subdivided even further. The inner portions of London have a special postcode system based on compass points. N, NW, E, S, etc, but not including NE (that’s for Newcastle). Also includes EC (East Central) and WC (West Central). Some of these are further subdivided by adding another letter to the sector — for example, Parliament has its own postcode of SW1A 0AA. The outer portions of London have post towns like the rest of the country.

Sometimes, businesses can be assigned special postcodes. Like HSBC, in the UK, their headquarters in Birmingham are at B1 1HQ. HQ = Headquarters. Deutsche Bank have their UK HQ at EC2N 2DB. DB = Deutsche Bank.

There are also postcodes that don’t refer to a specific building or location but refer to an organisation — these are non-geographic. One example is XM4 5HQ for letters to send to Santa (XMAS HQ), and Barclays Bank is iBX3 2BB (BB = Barclays Bank).

SuperSelena64, to random

Batman is just Bruce Wayne's Fursona

samhenrigold, to random
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seeing some new faces here! welcome. here are the ground rules:

  • there are none. there is no “using it wrong”.
  • use content warnings however you want (or not at all)
  • ignore tone policing. it can get a bit much, so…
  • …if someone gives you the ick, block ‘em.

our time is short and valuable — there’s no point in spending some of it letting some dude hound you in replies for not calling Twitter “the bird site”. that guy sucks.

enjoy your stay besties ☺️✌️✨

mastodonmigration, (edited ) to random
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Happy Enshittification Day! 💥

July 1, 2023: Reddit cuts off API access, Twitter requires login, Youtube may ban ad-blockers, Meta & Google block news in Canada...

A half-year since Cory Doctorow's seminal thesis on , how corporate platforms die (https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys), and every corporate site seems hell bend on its own destruction.

Celebrate by going to [instance address]/about, find the donations link, and make your contribution to open social media!

SwiftOnSecurity, to random

Oh no

ocsweetest, to random
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I used to think that I sucked at social media until social media sucked at social media.

Mortadela, to random Spanish
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rodhilton, (edited ) to random
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The thing that saddens me the most about the whole fedi/meta drama is a thing I can't prove, but that I think is likely because I've worked in these kinds of tech companies.

The notion that Meta is looking to embrace/extend/extinguish the fediverse is laughable. The entire fedi userbase is a rounding error for Meta. They arent looking to take down the fediverse, they're trying to take down TWITTER.

They want the celebs and journalists back. Take advantage of Twitter's tarnished reputation.

yassie_j, to random

I definitely think part of The Verge’s commentary is sexism. This idea that tech is for men or that perhaps because the Fediverse is a little bit technical means women can’t do it. It’s like something from the 1920s. Not including the fact that women have been programmers since Ada Lovelace and beyond.

There are plenty of women on here who are definitely not technical and who get by just fine. Perhaps the robust moderation and blocking tools appeal to women who’ve gotten tired of an endless supply of dick pics and misogyny on other platforms, something that the techbro sausage fest that is electronic journalism can’t wrap their heads around.

RE: https://snowdin.town/objects/e2408164-88d1-4562-b4ed-75702924d2b7

Mjo321, to random

If you're pretty, you're pretty; but the only way to be beautiful is to be loving. Otherwise, it's just, "Congratulations about your face."

aristeon89, to Futurology
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On the controversy.

When I joined the fediverse I was told that its decentralised nature made it impossible for a big corporation to take it over. Then why are people so afraid of Meta?

I didn't come here to be isolated from the outside world. I just don't want to be controlled by one single corporate entity.

But some activists seem to think we should build a different kind of wall and be hostile to anything "commercial".

I'm not up for that.

westly, to random

The following film has "adult situations"? So, they're gonna, like, get acid reflux and try to set up direct deposit?

Popehat, to random

Normalize saying “I have absolutely no idea what the fuck is going on”

maxkennerly, to random
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I doubt Prigozhin achieves much, and he's just as horrible a person as Putin.

But I do think it is good for humanity to see an example of corrupt elites initiating a war, failing badly at it, then turning on one another. Hopefully it makes other corrupt elites think twice.

kainoa, to random

Oh, and... here's another teaser for what's coming up 😉

RE: https://i.calckey.cloud/notes/9ge5p526kjoe64je

chrisschmitz, to Ukraine German
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The situation in is very concerning :fella:

GeePawHill, to Russia
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Gentle reminder: you are watching a confrontation between high-ranking mobster lieutenants, every one of whom has demonstrated high levels of skill at deceit, crime, manipulation, and violence.

Please go slowly in interpreting posts, tweets, and even official and semi-official sources.

tess, to random
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Given that the streaming services are now permanently memory-holing shows for tax write-offs, it becomes a moral imperative to pirate these shows (if only for archival purposes).

Headline: "Paramount+ Cancels Second Season of Star Trek: Prodigy, Will Remove Series from Platform"

https://www.tor.com/2023/06/23/paramount-cancels-star-trek-prodigy/

chjara, to random

never mind the show's back off

professorhank, to Russia
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"The dildo of consequences rarely arrives lubed"

https://www.thedailybeast.com/feud-between-moscow-and-wagner-group-turns-to-all-out-war?ref=home?ref=home

atomicpoet, (edited ) to fediverse

I feel like I’ve thoroughly debunked the “Google killed Usenet” narrative.

The problem with these “embrace, extend, extinguish” (EEE) narratives is that, facts be damned, the myth is too compelling.

Never mind that has never worked against open source. Never mind that open source projects like Linux, Git, and the Web itself continue to thrive. Never mind that the entire world is populated by open projects that killed their proprietary equivalents—rather than vice versa.

If a story sounds good, people won’t just believe it, they’ll double down even when you show them facts.

The problem is that it’s the supposed “fans” of open source—in this case, the —that believe in the EEE narrative the most. They’re the architects of their own fear, uncertainty, and doubt. They’re the ones trumpeting doom and gloom, telling all newcomers that they should cower in fear. Again, facts be damned, the narrative of EEE is too compelling for them.

Microsoft, Google, and Meta don’t have to say anything to make people scared for the future of the Fediverse. Fans of the Fediverse do that for them.

RE: https://calckey.social/notes/9gcnedufbc43ioyt

rezzyreksya, to random

I have zero clue how learning to code anything through video tutorials is so popular because:

  1. 90% of tutorials are excruciatingly slow
  2. Nothing is annotated and you're constantly scrubbing forward/backward to spot something they glossed over
  3. The thing they're telling you is often wrong anyway
  4. I can't listen to music while I'm doing it
rezzyreksya,

@smitten I think videos can be quite good for learning a lot of things, the visuals are a really useful component in so many areas.
But programming is not one of them. And 90% of coding tutorials seem to be on youtube
Doesn't help that every search engine these days is total garbage so I can't find anything anyway.

daringfireball, to random
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★ More on Preemptively Blocking Facebook’s Imminent ActivityPub Entry
https://daringfireball.net/2023/06/more_on_preemptively_blocking

shoq,
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@reflex @protecttruth
It’s nearly axiomatic that prohibitions don’t solve problems, as much as create new ones. But if people want to communicate off the grid, that’s their choice. I doubt many will make it, and admins that defederate could be committing platform suicide in the longer-term.
I would prefer we realize that Meta coming to decentralization proves it works, and start building more and better small-socials that people prefer over big.

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