Since #electronics have been on my mind lately, I've been thinking of this ... story? situation? anecdote might be the best fit.
Doing anything every vaguely #niche, like #hobby electronics, in a small #city in the middle of #nowhere used to be quite difficult in terms of obtaining #supplies and #parts. Before the #internet, if you could plan ahead and order enough stuff at once from a big #distributor to make the #shipping charges worthwhile, #catalogs from DigiKey etc were life savers.
The other place was a branch of a #regional#chain that served most of western #Canada. They used to have branches in 7 or 8 cities throughout the #west. They still exist, but they only have a head office in #Calgary and a branch in #Saskatoon now.
Back in the day, my friends and I had a name for them. We called it "Two weeks, ten bucks". "Hey, I gotta go to two weeks, ten bucks on Thursday when I get off work. Do you need anything?"
This has been a tough weekend. Work, SiWC, oodles of schoolwork for the Master's degree, one of our cat's had an abscess, and I'm just generally exhausted. lol. Wheee.
So yesterday and today's work got folded into one.
I'm really happy with the outcome, though. I knew I wanted to do a squirrel as soon as I saw the prompt "Scratchy," and for some reason the chain came about as a really appropriate piece of all this.
Check out this photograph / digital artwork that would look great framed and hanging on your wall in your home or office or produced on a variety of products.
Mono conversion of my original photograph showing a mass of rusty chain links.
Check out this photograph / digital artwork that would look great framed and hanging on your wall in your home or office or produced on a variety of products.
Mono conversion of my original photograph showing old rope tied up in a harbour.
The #pharmacy#chain in question, which is happy to give both your #prescription (and presumably #vaccination) #records to pretty much anyone who wants them, in addition to letting them see when your prescriptions are eligible for refill, order those refills, and turn on OR OFF automatic fills for your prescripts is ...
In the past I've found #problems in #software, problems with #websites, with bureaucratic processes, some of which were significant, but they all pale in comparison to this one.
Some thoughts about #fullsearch of federated-with instances. 🧵 1/2
Conflating any ill will you have with Supernovae at #Universeodon, with the issue of search indexing on the Fediverse to justify your fediblock won't help resolve the issues around search.
It isn't global search. While we shout, lock down, and don't participate in building the additions to our protocols that the #Fediverse needs, we've been letting #Google index the Fediverse. It's already searchable and Google's new Perspectives tab is going to make it even easier. Maybe we could fight that rather than keep thinking it doesn't exist and continuing to write ineffective Facebook-viral style "I do not give permission..." copypasta?
The #Fediverse does not respect your do-not-index-my-posts flag. It never has. It can't. It's not supported by the #Mastodon API, as @supakaity explains, and nor is it supported at #ActivityPub level and will need to be added into a new AP protocol.
Every instance server from the #Misskey (#Calckey, #Foundkey), #Pleroma (#Akkoma), and #Friendica (#Hubzilla, #Streams) lineages has full search of federated-with instances as default. All these services actually pre-date the creation of Mastodon in 2016 you can read @Polychrome 's post for their commentary on such. Fediblock all of them to create your very own #Mastoverse or you could become part of building a better, safer, Fediverse? Perhaps through participating in the Fediverse Enhancement Proposals? #FEP