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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
@jdp23 @rra @jonny @noracodes @rwg i would define “The Fediverse” as the set of servers and resources on the Internet which encode social interactions and relationships in a linked, machine-readable, open(-protocol, not necessarily public), and interoperable fashion, drawing on the definition of the Web as the set of servers and resources on the internet which encode human-readable documents in a linked, open(-protocol, not necessarily public), and interoperable fashion
the The for me emphasizes that all of these networks are ultimately connected, by nature of being open platforms sharing the same Internet
this is perhaps a more progressive definition than is really vernacular
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
otherwise, seven new scripts were added, and a ton of work was done on Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which continue to be a real challenge to encode
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
Unicode has added a new data file, DoNotEmit.txt, which collects information about characters and character sequences which “should not” be generated in newly authored texts and for which suitable alternatives exist
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
lots for legacy computing once again in this release, including:
• a whole host of missing characters for Amstrad CPC, Apple II, TRS-80, Sharp MZ, Sharp X1… <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement.pdf>
• five symbols for Smalltalk <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21234-terminals-smalltalk.pdf>
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
also new in Latin: capital ram’s horn; capital and lowercase S with diagonal stroke
re: WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
Unicode originally designated these characters, proposed in 2023, for a 17.0 release, which is a frankly glacial pace and i’m glad people succeeded in getting them to move it up
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
most importantly to me personally, Unicode 16.0 comes with U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA, U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA, and U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
these letters are siblings to the long‐encoded character, U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE. they originate with an American phoneticist notation and are used as part of the orthographies for many Salishan and Wakashan languages, spoken in the Pacific Northwest
see the proposal for more details: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23191-three-latin-additions.pdf
wake up nerds, new Unicode® is out
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if you ever go to a Mexican restaurant/fast food place and they *don't* sell Jarritos as a drink option, don't eat there fr fr
@packetcat and like, to be clear, all the worst critics of mastodon? they’re mastodon users. we make fun of other people who go after the software not because they’re critical, but because they haven’t spent enough time here to know where to throw stones. this has always been the case.
same wasn’t true on cohost. people spending time there were nurturing delusion, not honing a critical mindset. and that’s partially because unlike mastodon, on cohost there was absolutely nothing you could do to make things better. the ship was doomed.
@packetcat the thing that tempers my sympathy is these people knew this was the end. the writing was on the wall for most of its existence. folks actively turned away from reason and nurtured a cult mentality when they promoted that space.
they could have invested that social energy elsewhere. mastodon genuinely did miss their absence.
baldur’s gate has really good writing but thankfully i could not care less about the worldbuilding of the forgotten realms so i don’t have to get fannish about it
do you think i will finally beat baldurs gate 3 before the new zelda comes out
yes i know Cohost did not actually aggregate RSS feeds, what it did was worse
if Cohost had features other than this feel free to let me know in the comments
anyway, if you used to be on Cohost and want a different site which is just a glorified RSS aggregator plus comment functionality, Dreamwidth is still up
@packetcat oh absolutely, it’s a major service you’re providing and i think you deserve everything good which comes your way
the reality tho is that helping people never makes that kind of money because helping people is not the goal of capitalism. and personally i find it inspiring that some people go and do that work anyway, even though they aren’t getting paid what they should, because those are the kinds of people who live lives of service and make community possible
but some people don’t see that inspiring picture. they just see the negative side, the capitalist exploitation, and throw up their hands and give up
@packetcat yeah but i mean, you’re not taking an annual tech salary for moderating and maintaining the space, you’re just paying bills
suburban-ass motherfuckers talking about Mastodon like it’s a bad thing our communities aren’t bankrolled by anonymous benefactors
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
