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Really really. Great fun when you're young and dumb and just got a car
Loops is a little federated, @dansup@loops.video is federated atm. I'm not worried about federation getting implemented full though. I'd like it to happen more quickly, but this is the same guy behind Pixelfed, which is taking up a lot of his time atm. He said all the Loops stuff will be published on Github this weekend, so hopefully the community will be able to help with that
Looks like it's skeleton code atm, but the rest is coming soon:
The repos are here, the app and web app will be open sourced this weekend https://github.com/joinloops
And just replying here to verify that it's me 👋
Thanks, will reach out if I've got questions!
Thanks!
I could also help out with basic, mostly hands-off mod duties if you're looking for that
They closed down a location near me that's been open for quite a while, so it seems like this might be different
I don't know of any academic literature on this, but you might find Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom by Cory Doctorow interesting:
Disney World is run by rival adhocracies, each dedicated to providing the best experience to the park's visitors and competing for the Whuffie the guests offer. In the post-scarcity world of the novel, Whuffie is a currency-like system that primarily measures the esteem of others, or in the case of extremely low Whuffie, their disdain.
As well as The Culture series. The author wrote some background for the series, and touches on reputation:
The Culture doesn't actually have laws; there are, of course, agreed-on forms of behaviour; manners, as mentioned above, but nothing that we would recognise as a legal framework. Not being spoken to, not being invited to parties, finding sarcastic anonymous articles and stories about yourself in the information network; these are the normal forms of manner-enforcement in the Culture. The very worst crime (to use our terminology), of course, is murder (defined as irretrievable brain-death, or total personality loss in the case of an AI). The result - punishment, if you will - is the offer of treatment, and what is known as a slap-drone. All a slap-drone does is follow the murderer around for the rest of their life to make sure they never murder again. There are less severe variations on this theme to deal with people who are simply violent.
In a society where material scarcity is unknown and the only real value is sentimental value, there is little motive or opportunity for the sort of action we would class as a crime against property.
It's been working out great for Can Can Wonderland, but they also sell a lot of alcohol. Looks like this place doesn't, so yeah let's hope they manage to pay the bills 🤞
As demand for the expansion of Glenwood Park grew, a new development gave the park one of its signature features, a unique wildflower garden that is cherished still. In early 1907 Eloise Butler, John Greer and others petitioned the park board for space in Glenwood Park to establish a botanical garden. The park board granted the request and set aside three acres of bog, meadow and hillside for the Wild Botanical Garden, the first public wildflower garden in the United States. The board also allocated a modest sum for paths and fencing of the area and on April 27, 1907 announced that the garden had opened.
The person who took charge of the garden as a volunteer was a retired botany teacher, Eloise Butler, who for years had taken her students to the park for botany lessons. Butler tended the garden for four years as a volunteer until in 1911 the Minneapolis Womans Club petitioned the park board to appoint a full-time curator for the garden. The club offered to pay half a year’s salary for a curator. When that wasn’t enough to get the park board to act, the club increased the offer to a full year’s salary if the park board would retain the position and pay the salary after that. The park board agreed. The person the Womans Club recommended to be the curator was Eloise Butler.
Eloise Butler created such a magnificent wild garden—collecting, protecting, preserving and cataloguing wild plants and offering free botany classes—that the park board named the garden in her honor in 1929. In 1933, at the age of 81, she died on her way to work. Her ashes were spread in her garden and the park board held a memorial service and planted a pin oak tree in the garden in her honor, noting that “Every plant in her garden was her living child, upon whom she bestowed her devotion and care.”
Butler was succeeded by her assistant, Martha Crone, who remained in charge of the garden until 1959. Upon Crone’s retirement, she was succeeded by Ken Avery. The shelter in the garden is named for Crone and the terrace is named for Avery. An important addition to the park occurred in 1944, when Clinton O’Dell, a successful Minneapolis businessman—he created the Burma Shave rhymes seen along highways — and former botany student of Eloise Butler, contributed $3,000 to expand the garden to include ground for upland or prairie varieties of plants, rather than the primarily woodland plants that Butler’s original garden could accommodate. O’Dell also helped form in 1951 The Friends of the Wild Flower Garden, which has contributed time and money for the maintenance and improvement of the garden ever since.
The list:
- Airport concession workers
- Bichota
- Cafe Ceres
- Colita
- Compass cafeteria at Macalester College
- First Avenue
- Guthrie Theater
- Half Price Books
- Indeed Brewing
- Kim’s
- Lofton Hotel
- Minneapolis Parks workers
- Minnesota Timberwolves and Lynx in-house video and audio crew
- Minnesota United in-house video and audio crew
- Mississippi Market Co-op
- REI
- Vertical Endeavors
It's going to be open sourced soon. It's written in PHP, and it's partially on the Fediverse (@dansup@loops.video is available via ActivityPub, but not every account). It saves on compute somewhat by having your phone do the transcoding before uploading.
All of this is just occasionally browsing @dansup@mastodon.social's posts to see what's up.
A couple of relevant posts:
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113718931392995742
It's a thing: https://www.balldo.com/
Might be worth just trying it again. It's been pretty stable so far, but has had some downtime. Otherwise, you could probably ping @dansup@mastodon.social
If you've been annoyed about loops not getting embedded, give Tesseract a try! It's a really nice Lemmy UI, and the Loops support embeds the actual mp4 file, give you browser-native controls like seeking and volume levels. The dev, @ptz@dubvee.org, is super responsive and added the Loops support impressively quickly after I just pinged him asking if it was possible.
Any details about the system? Is it something off-the-shelf, or custom-made? Is it using something fancy like transformer models? I'm guessing that would be too expensive
Looks like 19.8 has a health endpoint for pictrs:



















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Ruegen Chalk Cliffs, Germany (loops.video)
Dog's first snowfall (loops.video)
Bird stopping by for food (loops.video)
Greyhound wearing booties for the cold (loops.video)
Can't beat the speed queen 🐶 (loops.video)
What’s in your skull? (loops.video)
Coming home with a sash (loops.video)
Sunset over Mobile Bay 🌅 (loops.video)
Wandering at night (loops.video)
Kitties enjoying bubbles (loops.video)
New England Aquarium (loops.video)
Mama cat cleaning babies 😽 (loops.video)
Peaceful jellyfish vibes 🪼 (loops.video)
Bar hidden behind a gacha machine in Tokyo (loops.video)
Hamsters at work 🐹 (loops.video)
Five legged bison 🦬 (loops.video)
A visual experiment within a crystal universe (loops.video)
Life as a witch 🧙 (loops.video)
Sand and acrylic on canvas (loops.video)