Arthur 3 weeks ago • 100%
Great list. Wanted to pop in and throw Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner out there.
"State has ordered books by 13 authors, 12 of them women, to be removed from every public school, classroom and library"
Arthur 2 months ago • 100%
Haha I was just about to post an update as well. Great minds are timed correctly it seems!
We upgraded from v0.19.3 to v0.19.5. The release notes for v0.19.4 have all the goodies, v0.19.5 was more of a hotfix update. I will post links below to those. We also upgraded to postgres v16 which should quell some of the memory leaks we have been having causing unresponsiveness and slow performance (we'll see I'm still unsure if this will pan out.)
Thank you for the patience everyone!
https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.5_-_A_Few_Bugfixes
Arthur 2 months ago • 100%
Thank you for posting this deal, I just got to this book in my backlog and it slaps! It's extremely engaging I read it all day instead of working, I couldn't put it down.
Arthur 3 months ago • 100%
Well now I want to see the spreadsheet too!
Arthur 3 months ago • 100%
I want to love Murakami novels but the views on sex that bleed into his longer novels are very uncomfortable sometimes (looking at you 1Q84). Anyway also https://archive.is/8sNHt
Arthur 3 months ago • 100%
Arthur 5 months ago • 100%
You might be interested in the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.
Arthur 5 months ago • 100%
Ah the classic "oh it was just a joke" strat.
Arthur 5 months ago • 100%
It's not a troll account. https://youtube.com/@DirtyTesla
Arthur 6 months ago • 100%
They're back up, thanks for the heads up!
Arthur 6 months ago • 100%
Google launched "Google Wallet" in 2011. Killed it in 2015 for "Android Pay". Android Pay was killed for Google Pay. Then Google Pay was deprecated for the version of Google Wallet that you currently use.
Arthur 6 months ago • 100%
何か云って。
Arthur 7 months ago • 100%
This was my favorite quote from the article.
But neither of those books was actually checked out from the Hayden Library on his trip. One of the books was checked out from another library, and another was stolen off the shelves. Norris refused to return the books at first, and Alexa Eccles, the executive director of the Community Library Network, told me in a phone call that, when Norris eventually returned them, the barcodes had been cut out of the book covers, and the library has not been able to return them to circulation or get new copies.
Arthur 7 months ago • 100%
My friend got me Legends & Lattes.
Arthur 9 months ago • 100%
I guess I'm off to learn Bulgarian.
Arthur 9 months ago • 100%
This is awesome thank you for writing your thoughts out! I loved Time Shelter, I heard the translation to English was poor compared to Georgi Gospodinov's native language.
Arthur 9 months ago • 100%
I didn't realize Murtagh was released, thanks!
Just upgraded to a point release that should fix up some issues with federation to services outside of lemmy. Carry on everyone and enjoy. Previous release notes here: https://join-lemmy.org/news/2023-12-15_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.0_-_Instance_blocking,_Scaled_sort,_and_Federation_Queue
Arthur 9 months ago • 100%
Please post a review of it once you finish! I'm obsessed with Time Shelter and would love to see other opinions on it.
Arthur 9 months ago • 100%
Ah yes. I should have put that in the release notes. It was removed from the API unfortunately. There's an issue here asking for it to be reimplemented. https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4215
Arthur 9 months ago • 100%
If your third party app experience is feeling a little funky, you just need to sign out and in. Looks like session termination wasn't handled correctly in some apps.
Welcome to the highly anticipated update! Tons of changes in this release, but you might have noticed you were signed out. All sessions were terminated to allow for a more secure user auth flow. New post ranking algorithms and instance blocks for users are the headlining features, but there were almost 400 commits since 0.18.5 so please read the release notes if you are curious about the other big changes. Enjoy the update!
Arthur 9 months ago • 100%
See you on the other side everyone.
Arthur 9 months ago • 87%
Beeper Mini registered your phone number with Apple and connected directly to the iMessage servers. That version was killed after three days of usage. The mac mini farm still works but that's just through an apple ID email address.
Arthur 10 months ago • 100%
I'm not sure how niche this novel is since Three-Body Problem hit the mainstream, but Diaspora reminds me a lot of Liu Cixin's earlier novel, Ball Lightning. Really raw and almost unpolished hard sci-fi. Which I love but of course might be niche. Please reach out and let me know how you like Diaspora after you read it, would love to hear other opinions.
I have been trying to put into words how I feel about this novel by Greg Egan. This novel leans very far into the "hard sci-fi" side of the spectrum and it isn't for everyone. Egan is a mathematician and a software engineer and those areas of expertise are relied on heavily to craft the world we inhabit in Diaspora. I have read this twice now, both times enjoying the technical masterpiece of Egan's world. The beginning is tough to read, it is slow and extremely verbose. There's no hand holding in the conceptual world you have been thrown into. If you are having trouble, the Wikipedia page is helpful to lean on and the glossary in the back of the book is a must to reference in the earlier chapters. As you get the hang of the world though, the story just flows forward. I enjoyed the pacing and characters journeys as well as the general theme of the novel. Highly recommended if you enjoy a technical and dense sci-fi novel.
Dear Authors and lllustrators, I want to update you regarding the Book Fairs Share Every Story/Celebrate Every Voice case. First, I want to apologize on behalf of Scholastic. Even if the decision was made with good intention, we understand now that it was a mistake to segregate diverse books in an elective case. We sincerely apologize to every author, illustrator, licensor, educator, librarian, parent, and reader who was hurt by our action. We recognize and acknowledge the pain caused, and that we have broken the trust of some of our publishing community, customers, friends, trusted partners, and staff, and we also recognize that we will now need to regain that trust. This case will be discontinued starting with our next season in January. For the remaining fairs in the fall, Book Fairs is working on a pivot plan as we speak. We will find an alternate way to get a greater range of books into the hands of children. We remain committed to the books in this collection and support their sale throughout our distribution channels. Our commitment to BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ authors and stories remains foundational for our company. Scholastic believes in the basic freedoms of all individuals. We oppose discrimination of any kind on the basis of age, race, creed, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, or national origin. We are committed to providing access and choice, and to helping young readers develop critical skills needed to exercise democracy and build a society free of prejudice and hate. Equally important, we pledge to stand with you as we redouble our efforts to combat the laws restricting children's access to books. This will not be our last communication on the matter, but we wanted to get this initial Word out. We look forward to working to create a better and more just future together. Sincerely, Ellie Berger President Scholastic Trade Publishing
Arthur 11 months ago • 100%
Arthur 11 months ago • 66%
Did you read the article further than the title? It's just a bunch of quotes from people going through the new process. The title is egregious but the content is helpful in understanding why teachers/school admin are frustrated.
Arthur 11 months ago • 100%
It's an option in all states to receive books that some legislators have declared illegal in their states.
EDIT: I think there's a misunderstanding between us here. The only issue I'm picking here is that no matter if they made the right choice or not, they did cave/give into the hardliners. Will this choice help book fairs continue and scholastic to make money, definitely. Did they cave though, also I think so.
Arthur 11 months ago • 75%
This situation is just so sad.
Arthur 11 months ago • 100%
They could have at least made this "controversial" collection of books opt-out instead of opt-in.
Arthur 11 months ago • 100%
Yes. It's opt-in to receive the books tagged as controversial by them.
Arthur 11 months ago • 100%
The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.
https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/
Arthur 11 months ago • 100%
If the choices are to continue to sell these books at book fairs and to not sell them and they are now allowing schools to not sell them, it seems like they caved, correct?
Scholastic found that it either had to give in to the hardliners who wanted to ban books for children or to not allow that, and they seem to have decided to give in.
Arthur 11 months ago • 100%
I highly recommend this novel. I enjoyed every minute of the read.
Arthur 12 months ago • 100%
So for transparency sake for the backups we are using dockerized restic with a script that dumps the database and encrypts and uploads to backblaze b2 for us automatically at 5am UTC.
I have it configured currently to
- Keep the last snapshot.
- Keep the last 7 daily snapshots.
- Keep the last 4 weekly snapshots.
- Keep the last 3 monthly snapshots.
- Keep the last yearly snapshot.
So we have a nice range of restore points if needed.
Arthur 12 months ago • 100%
https://openlibrary.org/works/OL26513113W/Time_Shelter_-_a_Novel?edition=key%3A/books/OL35858097M
Arthur 12 months ago • 100%
What book are you on now??
Arthur 12 months ago • 100%
We can hope for redemption. https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/eragon-tv-series-disney-plus-1235325019/
Arthur 12 months ago • 100%
Thanks! I found a bunch, now I just need to chop them up and add them into my ersatztv pipeline.
Help! I'm looking for interesting microbloggers who focus on the literature space (especially speculative fiction) to follow. Preferably on mastodon since I can consume the rss feed of their content.
I have been on a kick recently looking at novels where ideas become "entities" and this novel is an interesting look at what constitutes a "city".
!printsf@literature.cafe A cozy community to talk all things related to speculative fiction in printed work, including comics, books, poems, etc.
Hoping to start a community on a book/writing focused instance similar to r/printsf here on lemmy. You can find us at !printsf@literature.cafe
Currently working my way through The Glass Planet by Christopher Zyck. It's been a very enjoyable and interesting read. Reminds me a little bit of Foundation in the way it tells the story through millennia. I have such a soft spot for grand scale stories like this, they are difficult to get right.