[-] Arthur@literature.cafe 9 points 1 week ago

Raised by Wolves... 🥲

[-] Arthur@literature.cafe 16 points 3 weeks ago

Teenage Engineering is a hardware design firm that Nothing contracts with for hardware design. They aren't a division of Nothing and they don't work on just earbuds.

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"State has ordered books by 13 authors, 12 of them women, to be removed from every public school, classroom and library"

[-] Arthur@literature.cafe 10 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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/2024-06-07_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.4_-_Image_Proxying_and_Federation_improvements

https://join-lemmy.org/news/2024-06-19_-_Lemmy_Release_v0.19.5_-_A_Few_Bugfixes

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[-] Arthur@literature.cafe 14 points 4 months ago

You might be interested in the documentary "It's Quieter in the Twilight" about the engineers who keep the Voyagers alive.

[-] Arthur@literature.cafe 11 points 5 months ago

Ah the classic "oh it was just a joke" strat.

[-] Arthur@literature.cafe 20 points 5 months ago

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@literature.cafe 17 points 6 months ago

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.

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submitted 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) by Arthur@literature.cafe to c/meta@literature.cafe

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

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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@literature.cafe 14 points 9 months ago

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@literature.cafe 12 points 9 months ago

iOS 17 uses a small gpt-2 based model for predictive text.

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Update from Scholastic (literature.cafe)

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

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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@literature.cafe 10 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

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.

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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.

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Percy Jackson Timeline (literature.cafe)

I just finished the mainline series the other day and the thing I keep thinking about is how much happened in such a short timeline overall. Especially in the final book, things really move along at such a quick pace. My executive dysfunction can't handle it.

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!printsf@literature.cafe

A cozy community to talk all things related to speculative fiction in printed work, including comics, books, poems, etc.

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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

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