While I'm not as concerned with MBFC as many others are, why not use Wikipedia's RSP as the datasource? Made by the most reliable user-generated platform in the world, it's a great list of controversial sources and is completely open. Changes are also infrequent enough so that adding to the database by hand would be quite easy.
I also echo the concerns raised below on the uselessness at a glance due to the accordion hiding the only information and purpose the bot was created to serve.
I believe in being as local as one can. One cannot always assume that those global data links will be up the way the world is going. Also if you think email security is bad in the US then how is it better to ship data half way around the world. Makes no sense to me. The US is not suppose to spy on US citizens in the US but every thing that passes a border is up for grabs as far as I know.
Nicely put. I seem to remember some government type trying to say it was not spying to record your data and mine it as long as a human did not access it. Kind of a similar thing Google says about Gmail.
Wasn’t it the CIA directory that lied under oath then later said it was the least dishonest thing he could say. He got away with that too.
Bitcoin is stupid, but the point of Unicode is that we have a symbol for everything that has a commonly recognized symbol or representative value, or even uncommonly recognized.
If ⅌ gets a character, or all the symbols of the Byzantine musical notation system, I’m not sure why a typically recognized symbol for a cryptocurrency shouldn’t.
The weird bit is that they put together a petition. All you really need to do is submit a proposal and show that it’s a notable symbol and not owned by anyone in particular or a brand icon.
There really isn’t a difference between a character and an emoji beyond an emoji being a stylized rendering of a character, or a character whose use is intended as a pictograph.
They’re all just Unicode code points, although I suppose there’s some distinction between the characters with more context specific meaning or the ones that are more apt to modification a la 🧑⚕️👩🏿⚕️. But you’ve also got 💲 and $, where “bold dollar sign” is often represented as green, but “dollar sign” tends to be represented in contextual style. Is ☣ a character or an emoji? What about the thousands of “other symbols” as defined by the Unicode spec which may or may not have special character renderings depending on your platform and font?
And yeah, I didn’t know that character existed, so now it’s doubly confusing why anyone is asking for anything. The symbol has meaning, and it’s in the big book of meaningful symbols. Not sure what more they want.
There’s no ambiguity. Emoji are characters in the emoticons code block (U+1F600…U+1F64F). Emoji are indeed a subset of characters, but anything outside that block is not an emoji.
Gotcha, so ⌚(U+231A, miscellaneous technical block) isn’t an emoji, despite it clearly being a pictograph, and there are only 80 emoji?
I feel like this definition isn’t in line with either the lay definition of emoji, nor the technical definition
Emoji are pictographs (pictorial symbols) that are typically presented in a colorful cartoon form and used inline in text. They represent things such as faces, weather, vehicles and buildings, food and drink, animals and plants, or icons that represent emotions, feelings, or activities.
People often ask how many emoji are in the Unicode Standard. This question does not have a simple answer, because there is no clear line separating which pictographic characters should be displayed with a typical emoji style.
Emoji are seriously just Unicode characters that sometimes get rendered as a fancy image. That’s it. There’s an entire bit about how different characters have different conventional presentations and a codified system of “default” for image or “text”.
The presentation of a given emoji character depends on the environment, whether or not there is an emoji or text presentation selector, and the default presentation style (emoji versus text). In informal environments like texting and chats, it is more appropriate for most emoji characters to appear with a colorful emoji presentation, and only get a text presentation with a text presentation selector. Conversely, in formal environments such as word processing, it is generally better for emoji characters to appear with a text presentation, and only get the colorful emoji presentation with the emoji presentation selector.
That’s why there’s things like ☣️ and ☣. Same codepoint, but different presentation hints. (I’m assuming that our various systems will do the right thing and capture the presentation hints, otherwise I’m going to look very odd putting the same symbol over and over :-) )
If you can, I recommend taking a full image of the old device and dumping it onto the new one (since the new one is bigger, this should work just fine. This will preserve all filesystem IDs and partition table quirks that may be triggering windows to repair itself.
You can do this with a command like:
dd if=/dev/sda of=/path/to/full_image.dat
Where /dev/sda is your old disk (may be sdb or sdc, use blkid to find out)
Then do the opposite on the new drive
dd if=/path/to/full_image.dat of=/dev/sdb
Where /dev/sdb is your new drive (may have a different letter)
If you can plug th both in to the same machine, you can copy the image directly
dd if=/dev/sda of=/dev/sdb
There are other dd params that may make the copy faster, but they don’t change the result. Note that dd is silent when working, but you can send signal USR1 to get progress
Ctrl-z to interrupt dd bg To continue the dd job in the background kill -s USR1 $(pgrep dd) to get a progress message
I’ve been on Lemmy for over a year and run my own instance. I haven’t seen a single MBFC thing in any community I’ve subbed to.
I pay out of pocket to run my own instance. If I ban you from it, tough shit. I don’t have to adhere to some free speech fantasy you read on some libertarian blog and that’s part of not being tied to corporate governance. If it’s so bad, stop wasting time making new accounts over and over just to post edgelord memes.
MXRoute is about a decade old and based in Texas. It’s in that “unix philosophy” category of doing something well and stopping there so you won’t get them advertising their new crypto wallet or AI software on you. It’s mostly geared for more technical bring your own domain type of usage. If you’re wanting to use it more as a forwarder and want to store the history locally (or if you don’t email files) there’s a “lifetime” plan available.
I thought ebooks are cool for a while but the smell, the memories, the sound of paper books. It’s my childhood. Life is the whole experience and nowadays I don’t even watch movies until I have a proper setup first, which sometimes also means stimulants. It’s why cinemas are still a thing.
We can strip it down to just clean, raw information but the noise enriches the taste.
This is why I make and eat my spaghetti bolognaise the same exact way every time as my mom did before even though it is deeply flawed and no Italian would want to ever talk with me ever again if they knew. It’s an intimate, personal experience.
!truecomics - Examples of and discussions on the classic “The Outbursts of Everett True” 2-panel comics from the early 1900s, in which a portly man objects violently to everyday wrongdoing. This has been taking off recently.
Armagetron Advanced - a Tron light cycles clone that was a blast for a long time. They even released for free on steam. I’ve not played in a long time, but now want to jump back on
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