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@freemo not only from this account i might add, i'll try to collect a few examples. happens relatively sparingly though.

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@freemo the attachment seems to be missing, i have seen this sometimes in the last weeks. it's not just the file missing but the whole attachment seems to have been lost.

ohai.social/@archaeohistories/
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Archaeo-Histories  
Amber Bear Amulet (1700-650 BC) of Hunter, was found in 1887 AD in a peat bog near Slupsk, Poland. Almost 4 inches long, 1 inch wide, 2 inches high...

Amber Bear Amulet (1700-650 BC) of Hunter, was found in 1887 AD in a peat bog near Slupsk, Poland.

Almost 4 inches long, 1 inch wide, 2 inches high, it is dark reddish gold and translucent. Its rounded body, shortened stubs for legs, ears, snout with two holes for nose and round eyes, gives it appearance of bear cub.

Age of artefact is in dispute although it is thought to be at least 3000 years old. Some scholars believe that it is dated 8500-6500 BC, from Maglemose culture.

Szczecin Museum

@Miro_Collas
milei: *reforms
left: *blocks reforms
left: LoOk tHe rEfOrMs aReN't wOrKiNg!!1

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my american dream 

@nosleep one of the differences are americans are still angry at not being what we are supposed to be, while most of the world has embraced hypernormalization.

@drrimmer yup, known for decades now. most recycling in germany is thermal :awesome_rotate:

โ€˜They liedโ€™: plastics producers deceived public about recycling, report reveals theguardian.com/us-news/2024/f Companies knew for decades recycling was not viable but promoted it regardless, Center for Climate Integrity study finds. #greenwashing

@Sophistifunk the same people go to bali for holidays or on giant diesel powered cruiseships :)

shitposter.club status, please repost for visibility 

moon asked to relay that SPC is down due to database corruption. he does not have time to deal with it right now, so it will be down at least until tomorrow afternoon.

Me and the other directors at my new company have been toying with a new idea, paying people for the work they do on interviews (well sorta).

Basically the idea we are toying with is when we give a programming test as part of the interview we basically offer them the choice of either doing a toy project that has no value to us as a company, or giving them the option to fix any outstanding tickets on one of our open-source projects with a bounty attached to it. This way if your programming test gets accepted you stand a good chance of getting the job AND get paid the bounty.

Programming tests never sat right with me because it seems like a huge time investment to ask of someone who might not get a job. So I wanted to make the process more fair and beneficial to applicants.

Would love to hear what thinks about this.
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Please reboost! Trying something new, everyone is guaranteed an interview! Open interviews! For a limited time no one will be skipped (except for c...

@fabio
> Do you have a huge 100GB database and you want to clean up old stuff? Sorry, you can't. There are some non-official solutions for compacting the events, but they're all likely to break your db - and none worked so far in my case.

github.com/matrix-org/synapse/

WIP: github.com/matrix-org/synapse/

> Then you'll get all the join/leave events of that busy room on your db, with no way of deleting them, and nothing to do unless your users exit those rooms.

fair enough, room state doesn't get purged.

> Did you start your instance by toying with the default SQLite backend, and now that it's become big you want to move to Postgres? Sorry, no official guides provided, only unofficial procedures scattered across a bunch of blogs.

github.com/element-hq/synapse/

did that, worked fine.

> Do you want to change the name of your server? Sorry, you can't. All the events are tightly coupled to your server name. The advised solution is to simply start a new instance.

you can't just change half of an accounts identifier. you can't with other protocols like activitypub or mail either. they could add an event for account migration though, as clean solution.

like other software and protocols, matrix definitively has it's flaws (like that big groupchat rooms suck) but does other things right as well.

How is it that in 2024 I still can lose half an hour of my work day trying to get a stupid journal article, from a major journal that my university pays for, to open?

I usually route around this bullshit, but I wanted to actually get the publishers copy for once. Bad decision.

I guess this is why scientific peer review has pretty much moved to blog posts about stuff in arXiv...

#Science #sciencepublishing #publishing #openaccess #bullshit #academiclibrariessuck #publishersuck

haha holy shit after some fucking around i got suspended accounts to work with nitter
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