Good timing, I was just wondering about the API and posted a question over there 👍

Good call, edited to add a warning

Is this a thread for recommending communities that aren’t politics, news, memes, or tech? If so, here’s some comic-related communities:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected]
• [email protected] (generally NSFW!)
• [email protected]

And a few other miscellaneous communities:

• [email protected]
• [email protected]

I don’t know of any academic literature on this, but you might find Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow interesting:

Disney World is run by rival adhocracies, each dedicated to providing the best experience to the park’s visitors and competing for the Whuffie the guests offer. In the post-scarcity world of the novel, Whuffie is a currency-like system that primarily measures the esteem of others, or in the case of extremely low Whuffie, their disdain.

As well as The Culture series. The author wrote some background for the series, and touches on reputation:

The Culture doesn’t actually have laws; there are, of course, agreed-on forms of behaviour; manners, as mentioned above, but nothing that we would recognise as a legal framework. Not being spoken to, not being invited to parties, finding sarcastic anonymous articles and stories about yourself in the information network; these are the normal forms of manner-enforcement in the Culture. The very worst crime (to use our terminology), of course, is murder (defined as irretrievable brain-death, or total personality loss in the case of an AI). The result - punishment, if you will - is the offer of treatment, and what is known as a slap-drone. All a slap-drone does is follow the murderer around for the rest of their life to make sure they never murder again. There are less severe variations on this theme to deal with people who are simply violent.

In a society where material scarcity is unknown and the only real value is sentimental value, there is little motive or opportunity for the sort of action we would class as a crime against property.

Some good [email protected] material there

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Scott_(YouTuber)

I was going to say that leap seconds only increment, but apparently that’s just been historically true, not theoretically true according to Wikipedia:

All have so far been positive leap seconds, adding a second to a UTC day; while it is possible for a negative leap second to be needed, one has not happened yet.

Yeah. I don’t think it would need to be powered on continuously either. If you were motivated enough, you could extract the firmware and check the code to see what leap seconds it was programmed with. But yeah, you could tell “it is at least as old as the last leap second it knows about, and is probably younger than the first one it doesn’t know about”. Can’t say for sure that it wasn’t manufactured after the first leap second it doesn’t know about though by a manufacturer that just didn’t care enough to include the new one.

This probably wouldn’t be the easiest way to tell though, there’s a lot of physical clues in manufacturing methods and whatnot that would likely be easier to date it by.

Yep! Updates every Sunday

It’s from this comedy series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)

You can tell it’s comedy because the politicians actually care about the impact of their policies 🙃

You can tell that they’ve done their homework on the issue and the problem is a real one, not just made up for the show.

That looks good, thanks! I’m only seeing partial information in there, looks like it shows only the date for the first comic in each series, but that’s probably enough for me to get started

EDIT: Tried using that, and discovered that the dates are made up. I can see in the Wayback Machine that the comics were posted online before the date listed in the RSS feed. I’ll add the date going forward on new comics, but I’m still lacking a good way to add it to old comics

Ha yeah, looks like the hosting service for Loops is having issues:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113563603953944426

EDIT: Looks like it’s back up now, at least for me

I tried poking around the HTML and didn’t see any way to tell the original published date. If you see some way of determining that, I can definitely add that in

Thanks, I think you’re posting that because the link is better for mbin? I tried to include the right format in the body, but I’ve edited it to use the format you’re using. Went over to view the post from moist.catsweat.com (great name btw, works nicely in the Firefox tab bar ) and it seems like it works now?

What do you mean by Loopless? I’m running GrapheneOS with sandboxed Google Play services that isn’t logged in to any account and the app works normally as far as I can tell. At any rate, might be worth posting about in [email protected], someone else might be having the same experience as you.

TIL, thanks!

There’s advantages to being passive aggressive, like making the other person feel like an asshole. Only works if the other person has the capability to feel shame, though.

Oh, I don’t think the web version allows for browsing videos at this point. It’s still in heavy development. I can log in on the web on Firefox, but that just lets me change account settings and whatnot.

Might be worth flagging that to @[email protected]. The FAQ page states unambiguously that Loops won’t do that:

https://loops.video/help-center/frequently-asked-questions

Might just be ill-advised copy/paste of legalese. If he’s asked about it and defends the TOS with that in it, then I’d start to worry

Good points, still getting the hang of what communities are into the loops content format. And yeah, just trying to spread awareness of Loops to people that like the format, since it’ll help the Fediverse grow.