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I read this whilst working at a grim factory job, initially thinking "Ugh, this is the worst thing to be reading given my circumstances". The more I read though, the more I realized it was exactly what I should be reading (to illustrate that the bad things weren't specific to the place, they just sprang from human nature in dire situations)

I picked it up as part of idea to buy novellas to try to get myself back into reading books (which mostly worked).

Usually, when you open a website, that site might be pulling live data from somewhere, but it's from a database on the same server. If you click a Fediverse link, and no-one else from your instance has already done so, it seems like your instance has to contact a remote site, pull the data and render it, in the same timeframe it would have to do so with local data.

To illustrate with some possibly-new-to-you examples:
[email protected]
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What's your experience like clicking these? Does it go through first time?
I realize they'll be people for whom these work first time no problem, and they'll wonder what I'm complaining about. I'm not really complaining about anything really, I'm just wondering if my instinctive reaction has any validity.

Nicely mid-decade. Leftfield had a big influence my music tastes (I listen to a lot of Carbon Based Lifeforms now)

Usage for testing:
./get_latest_jsons.sh
./show_human_readable_timestamps.sh
If - for example - that showed that the latest JSON was 1691258704964.json:
./tcbot.sh TEST 1691258704964 0

This will show Community subscriber growth between the latest update and what happens to be currently be in the TEST folder (1691042690884.txt, from 2023-08-03), and then the data from "1691258704964" would become the new base, for the next update to compare its data to.

The REAL mode is what updates [email protected]

Requires bash, curl, bc, and jq. Don't think anything is particularly version-dependent, though.

Comments are welcome. I'm not too fussed about efficiency, as the bulk of it only runs once a day, but any suggestions for improvement are welcome.

From The Playlist's review of last year's "Corner Office":

Because it’s so drab and one-note, “Corner Office” leaves the viewer with lots of time to contemplate the Hamm Conundrum. To wit: in Jon Hamm, we have an actor who seems genetically engineered for movie stardom, a chiseled slab of masculinity who wears a suit like he was born to it, and is a magnificent actor, plus possesses an admirable refusal to take himself too seriously. He seems born of another era, a time when icons like Mitchum and Wayne and Brando filled our screens, which is part of why he was so perfect for “Mad Men.” And perhaps that’s why he has yet to find a single feature film that suits his skills; as my friend, the film critic Sean Burns told me, he’s a man, and now they make movies about boys.

So perhaps that’s why, its many other virtues notwithstanding, it’s so depressing to see Hamm as the sputtering bureaucrat, a role that any one of a hundred other actors could’ve played, in “Top Gun: Maverick,” a movie about a (59-year-old) boy, and that’s certainly why it’s so depressing to see him succumbing to the temptation of actorly dowdiness in “Corner Office.”

In the 'Wednesday 2nd August' post on [email protected] there's a few complaints about how the links don't open in Sync.

It looks like Sync only supports the '!' method of providing relative links, and not the [Link](/c/community@instance) method. It's the other way around for at least one of the other mobile apps (Jerboa, I think)

I've decided this is a Sync problem, but if that's an unpopular opinion and it's not something that the Devs feel the need to fix, then - if you really want to use a Community like trendingcommunities - the source for bot is available (see the sidebar), and it may well be that someone needs to create a alternative community with posts in the alternative format.

Sorry if you see this on Hot or whatever