Notices by a Claes unto himself 🇸🇪🇭🇰💙💛 (clacke@libranet.de)

@brouhaha Oh wow.

Thank you for making the effort for those less blessed. 😊

On Saturday, the Fediverse is celebrating it's 16th anniversary!

How are you celebrating?

#fediverse16years

Hahaaa! I found a still running old school GNU Social that has a shadow profile of my old #quitter.se account!

chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/43…

Thank you for hanging in there, Professor Steve. 🥰

Found it! 🤩

chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/6

@sun This goes back to two years before SPC existed!

What ancient wisdom was being written? Discussing ice cream burps with @lnxw37j1 🤣

chirp.cooleysekula.net/user/6?…

@quincy Yes, @cstross , @pluralistic and Ted Chiang have all referred to corporations as a form of slow AI that executes on a substrate of humans and paperwork. As far as I remember seeing, they each credit the other two with coming up with the analogy. 😊

@aral

@foone But why even leave tumblr? Now that Twitter is collapsing, the cool stuff I see on corporate networks is increasingly coming from tumblr.

If I didn't have Fedi and was leaving Twitter, I'd be more likely to go to tumblr than to bsky, nostr or threads, just because tumblr has better and more trustworthy leadership and cooler members.

@Moon Venting to a sympathetic ear is an important part of coping with life. We're all at capacity and investing energy in one thing means deprioritizing something else.

On the internet it's hard to know if someone wants solutions or sympathy or something in between, and people make honest mistakes, but when someone posts "not looking for solutions, but am I unreasonable for thinking X should have an option to Y" and people respond "just use Z", that is nothing other than obnoxious.

The classic of course is the ubiquitous Stack Overflow Q&"A" that goes:

"I'm trying to do X, is there a way to make Y do it?"
"Why on Earth would you want to do X?"

On the other hand even that one can be warranted, as people have a bad pattern of looking for solutions to their incidental problem at hand rather than stepping back and looking at reaching their actual goal.

On the other other hand, the above happens even when people show their work and explain the circumstances that make their problem essential to the goal.

@aral Is there at least the option to pay for it yourself?

I agree that it would make more sense for everyone to be covered, but there are degrees in hell, too.

Here in HK the free program has been cut off to 50+ only, and it's difficult but possible to buy a booster if you can find the right clinic. It's ~200 USD though, and I hear some places in the US can get them for ~100 USD.

Having a look again at what the #covid booster situation is like in #hongkong .

"From 14 December 2023 onwards, eligible citizens below may choose to receive the new generation XBB COVID-19 vaccine."

chp.gov.hk/en/features/106934.…

So they're finally out now, that's cool. The government program is just for risk groups now though, so we'll see if that means private clinics stock it too, or if they're slower, or not offering at all as was the case in early Dec. Also I wonder if they offer it together with a seasonal flu vaccine.