Raised by Wolves... 🥲

Great list. Wanted to pop in and throw Crying in H Mart by Michelle Zauner out there.

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

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.

Well now I want to see the spreadsheet too!

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

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

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

It's not a troll account. https://youtube.com/@DirtyTesla

They're back up, thanks for the heads up!

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.

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What is that music app?

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.

My friend got me Legends & Lattes.

I guess I'm off to learn Bulgarian.

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.

I didn't realize Murtagh was released, thanks!

Please post a review of it once you finish! I'm obsessed with Time Shelter and would love to see other opinions on it.

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

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.

See you on the other side everyone.

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.

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.

Accelerando by Charles Stross and Extremely Online by Taylor Lorenz.

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.

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.

This situation is just so sad.

https://www.slj.com/story/Outraged-at-Scholastics-Option-to-Opt-in-or-Out-of-Receiving-Diverse-Books-Librarians-Seek-Book-Fair-Alternatives

They could have at least made this "controversial" collection of books opt-out instead of opt-in.

Yes. It's opt-in to receive the books tagged as controversial by them.

The layoffs are related to the sale of Bandcamp to Songtradr.

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/bandcamps-layoffs-songtradr-1235758123/

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?

I highly recommend this novel. I enjoyed every minute of the read.

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.

https://youtu.be/LzN6ls_pzvo?si=5ouXGS82FIFyKe54

What book are you on now??

We can hope for redemption. https://variety.com/2022/tv/news/eragon-tv-series-disney-plus-1235325019/

Thanks! I found a bunch, now I just need to chop them up and add them into my ersatztv pipeline.