No comic today, since it's Sunday in 1950 and he hadn't started doing Sunday comics yet. Here's another SMBC take on Charlie Brown, you can read the rest here since the image is too tall to upload directly:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2011-12-07
I might start posting other artists' takes on Charlie Brown on days when there's no comic, if I can find enough. If anyone's got pointers to other works, that'd be appreciated.
IMO copying communities from Reddit as-is was a mistake long-term, but was maybe necessary short-term so that people wouldn't be confused. If I had my druthers, I'd make a new system where communities are uniquely identified purely as [!UUID@lemmy.instance](/c/UUID@lemmy.instance) (though still with a human-friendly display name). You don't get to create a community that namesquats something like [!gaming@lemmy.world](/c/gaming@lemmy.world). All posts would be made with hashtags like Mastodon, and then each community would just configure "Include all posts with this tag in our community". The big issue then is who moderates tags? I think a system like Bluesky has would work well, as you mention. People can moderate tags and other people can follow their work, or not.
If that was combined with seamless account/community migration, that would solve a lot of moderation issues. If you mod a community and the admins suck, just move it to a new instance. If the mods of a particular community suck, start your own. They won't be able to monopolize a common name, so it's much easier to get traction.
On the long-ago internet, there were many, many different software options that supported the same protocols, and they were also a lot more configurable generally speaking
Lemmy is pretty good about that, actually. It's interoperable with Mastodon via ActivityPub, and there's other projects like MBin that work nicely with Lemmy.
I was also curious, here's a good answer:
https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/670199/how-is-dev-null-implemented
The implementation is:
static ssize_t write_null(struct file *file, const char __user *buf,
size_t count, loff_t *ppos)
{
return count;
}
Neat! Do you pick one instance to load comments from? I notice that this comment isn't showing up immediately, so wondering if there's federation delay or the like.
I've definitely had some moments like that...
She knows what she wants out of life ๐ค
The wikipedia article on her says:
As the only female character in the strip's very earliest days, Patty often acted as a sort of hen, looking out for the younger characters; however, she also set the tone for the strong female characters in the Peanuts universe.
If this is looking out for them, I don't want to know what happens when you cross her ๐
Hopefully we'll still be posting about it on the Fediverse by the time the end of the strip rolls around in 2074 ๐ค
You're both on .world, which isn't federated with hexbear, which is the most annoying instance. They'll brigade other communities, for example the recent thread over at https://jlai.lu/post/11504685 (view it from that instance to see the hexbear comments)
I browse all sometimes from an instance federated with hexbear and I roll my eyes quite a bit whenever I do
The whole image is too tall to upload to Lemmy, so here's the first two panels, and the rest can be seen at:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/brown
Make sure you hover over the comic image and also press the red button at the bottom for 2 additional jokes
Some background on this comic:
It's going to be pretty funny if they get one of these bots to accept their "coupons". It's been upheld in court that the bots can agree to things in a legally binding manner for the company. I hope this sort of thing works, because it's the only way companies will have real support, if the bot costs them more money by being stupid.
Here's the source with even more: https://ryanharby.com/new-stuff/2019/10/18/fresh-no-name-halloween-costumes