robryk @robryk@qoto.org

@_thegeoff

E.g. I recently received a document (https://www.oeffentlichkeitsgesetz.ch/downloads/befreite-dokumente/efd/2025-03-12_scan_2025-10-10-16-14-11.pdf) as a result of a FOIA-style Swiss federal law. As previously agreed upon, some attachments were omitted entirely (because they would most likely not have been releasable and I didn't care for them). Amusingly, the titles of those attachments (which we actually discussed earlier in person) were redacted from the attachment list.

I suspect that the reasoning was similar: there was very little chance of me complaining about that.

@_thegeoff

Also, underredacting is irreversible, while overredacting isn't. There like are more incentives to avoid underredacting (because there are people with potentially clear and demonstrable harm from such a mistake) than overredacting, too.

@islieb Soll das nicht lieber "letzer Tag" sein? :)

@_thegeoff

How do you get the liquid in and out of #31?

@_thegeoff

:)

On one hand, mirroring the numbers makes the whole thing appear "unnatural" as opposed to causing people to realize that there's nothing natural in the normal one.

On the other hand, if someone already realized that the normal one is just as natural as the other one, mirrored numbers make them notice that letters actually have orientation.

My university's association of student mathematicians had such a clock, and some people would bring it and replace the lecture hall clock before the linear algebra lecture that would introduce the concept of orientation.

@_thegeoff

Yes. (Well, with the face mirrored but numbers not mirrored, I guess.)

@_thegeoff

Another similar thing you could do: remake one of the clocks to be its mirror image (preferably one in the science classroom, to underscore the hardness of describing rotation directions).

@penguin42 @mjg59 @leo

I expect that would be extortion (threatening to report a crime _unless someone does something_ is usually extortion, with some narrow exceptions when that something is ~undoing the effects of that very crime -- so "give that back or I will report the theft" is generally fine).

@ret like https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy ? :)

@BahnAnsagen

Ist das wirklich wahr, dass es normalerweise nur ein Platz im Lok gibt? Ich dachte, dass fast alle Loks zweites Platz haben, für ein Lehrling, Helfer, oder Prüfer. (Für Kontext: In Polen müssen Zuge, die eine Geschwindigkeit von IIRC 60 Studenkilometer überschreiten, von zwei Lokführer geführt werden. Es ist auch nicht selten, lange Güterzuge zu zweit zu führen, um vorgehen bei allfällige Probleme zu vereinfachen.)

@mcc Most likely; the extensions are largely meant as annoyance reducers. (Though there might be rare cases of people following some instructions when installing them without understanding what's going on.)

@mcc

There are browser extensions that allows one to do remote interaction without providing instance name all the time. I think they either recognize the dialog and inject instance info, or recognize the dialog and do the redirect themselves.

Former is obviously usable for you if you could convince them your thing is a valid target for that too. Latter could only be useful if you changed the authz model from "oauth via the instance" to "favourite a specific post to cast a vote".

@QasimRashid Do you mean "should, because it's a just outcome" or "there's a legal rule that forces that" when you say that every case must be reviewed?

@kuba Owe mają dwa zastosowania: organizowanie małego eventu (<10 osób) ze znajomymi lub organizowanie publicznego, potencjalnie dużego eventu. IMO odpowiedzi w obu przypadkach mogą być różne.

@mark

I suspect you meant @ehtelescppe

@aeva

In case you wanted to use this to simulate tides, there'd be lots of way ahead of you once you do that: tides are very not neat, because not all of Earth is covered by deep enough water (and so they happen on a ~daily cycle, but how high they are and what's the phase offset, and even what's the shape of the function of tide height over time depends on terrain shape in some complicated way).

@whitequark @esoterra

I suspect this is some kind of fallout from instances silencing other instances years ago.

Mechanistically, you get notified when sender's instance sends something to receiver's instance. The sending instance might refuse to do so, or the receiving one might refuse to accept (generally based on either the identity of the sending instance or the sending user).

Whether you can call up a post (by URL) in your Mastodon client[^1] is a question of whether the post's hosting instance is willing to serve it to your (which in practice might be more restricted than viewing it using the sending instance's web UI; how do they know who's fetching? -> Authorized Fetch) and whether yours is willing to contemplate storing the post at all (see the case above).

What appears when you look for replies to a particular post is more mysterious for me.

[^1] I'm less sure about other fedi instance software