For real.

The law in a lot of places does not allow police to do anything to help someone, before their life has already been risked.

Unfortunately the first attempt on someone’s life can be just as lethal as a hypothetical second.

That’s nice.

Can police start believeing women who tell them they feel they are in danger, and do something about it before someone kills them, now?

What do you mean?

Any post, on any service, is technically accessible on any other instance, running any service. Actual implementation, varies.

Unless you run into it in the feed, the way to find a given post is to enter the original instance url for it into search on the instance from which you want to interact with it.

To upvote this post, for example, even from an instance that it hasn’t federated to, I can enter the url to this post on its host instance into search, and the other instance will fetch the post, allowing me to vote and/or comment.

Same goes for mastodon toots. Get the url, put into search, upvote, comment, whatever.

Depends.

Items get sent around all the time. In-network, copies are interchangeable, and the system balances them out among the libraries. AFAIK there’s no particular need for a copy to go back to the same shelf, so it doesn’t happen.

If no-one is looking for a certain item, it wont move again unless someone asks, or if the library needs space for something else.

It’s kinda nice. Every time I visit a library it can have an entirely new selection. With recent requests to that location which have been returned again, or just returns, appearing on the shelves.

Damn. Over here we have self-service hours.

Library card holders that sign up for it can get into a library building using their library card, outside normal opening hours, when the staff isn’t even there.

Sure.

Items are grouped by type (games, video, music, tools, devices, fact, fiction, for adults, for kids, comics, audiobooks) etc. Each library may subdivide things in slightly different ways, due to the fact that they vary massively in size. I think some do use DDC for some subset of their inventory. But HelMet has a lot of media and items that do no fit into the DDC system.

You can certainly find something based on how things are sorted, and if you know its there.

But since the collection is region-wide, you don’t necessarily know that. Step one to finding a copy of something is to look up what libraries currently have any. When you look that up, the shelf location is right there as well.

Many locations simply number their shelves, and then further subdivide them by a point value, and then sort alphabetically.

A Harry Potter book for example, could be on shelf 86, section 11063, by “HAR”.

Each entire shelf is usually in alphabetical order overall, too, but the numbers make it really easy to zero in on exactly where a given item can be found.

But since any book might move to any other library, at any time (due to requests or due to borrowers returning books to a different library to where they picked them up), there is the simple problem that a location can run out of space in a given section. Hence they need to be able to put items on any shelf, and still have it trackable by the system.

Otherwise they can end up having to shift hundreds of books over to make space for just a couple more items to go in the right spot in the order.

I suspect that depends.

At least at finnish HelMet libraries, you can just walk in and take any book out of any shelf, and sit down to read it. Once you’re done, you put it back in the exact same spot.

If you don’t remember where that was, then you can hand it to a librarian to re-shelve. They will check the inventory to see where it should go.

You can actually also do that yourself, since the same system is available for finding any given book currently in the library, but it works just as well for putting something back.

All of the above is allowed without signing up for a library card.

If you want to bring a book home, that’s when you go to the checkout, scan your library card, and the barcode on the book. This removes it from current inventory and logs you as the current borrower.

When you bring it back, you scan the book again and leave it on the shelf by the returns scanner. Because the book was removed from the inventory, it wont have a place on a shelf yet. Also, because the inventory of any one library here is everchanging, things may have moved around.

This system also allows you return books to a different library from where you borrowed them. Since the HelMet libraries in the capital city region all interoperate, they share collections, and the location and lending of every individual item is tracked across them all. Across four cities and 66 libraries, and even a couple library buses that visit schools and more remote spots on a schedule.

You can even browse the inventory online. See where copies of what are available, what’s available but currently lent out, request something be moved to a library close to you so you can read it, or reserve a spot in line to borrow something popular.

Kinda just gushing about our libraries. If they don’t have something, HelMet does intralibrary lending. They will get a certain book or item for you from another library network entirely (even from abroad), lend it out to you, and once you’re done, return it back to the providing network.

They do their darndest to make physical media as accessible as the internet, and it’s freaking free (for the most part, some things have a fee).

That’s how it should work everywhere.

I enjoyed Vivaldi for a bit.

But the second time I opened it to find my tabs, browsing history, and literally all other user data, gone… Months apart, with thousands of saved bookmarks and hundreds of tabs lost each time.

I never went back. Deleting everything is just completely unacceptable.

I never found anyone else who’d had it happen, but twice was a pattern I didn’t care to repeat.

When everyone else is selling poison, selling something actually edible is a pretty good move.

AI free art (aka theft free art) is like cruelty free cotton. A lot of people do, and should, care.

You tout a 80 dollar price, entirely ignoring that indie games are often sub-40. Nice ragebait.

Unfortunately the peace plan includes the US blocking Ukraine joining from their end, too.

In my very first reply to you:

If there isn’t an overabundance of food (as you yourself admit, housing is insufficient).

This whole time I’ve been trying to tell you, “no, that is actually a problem” because you started off by minimizing the contribution of corporate interests to the housing problem. I guess I should have made the the implied “as well” more obvious, but it was always there.

You didn’t start off with “we need more housing”. You started off with “it’s not the companies and they are good actually”.

So no, I wasn’t gonna reply with “yes, and”. I didn’t have the option because what you started with needed actual refuting, first.

Did I at some point say we don’t need more housing?

Protip: switch to “yes, and”.

You won’t get a positive response by continuing with “no, actually”.

I believe these same corporate forces are a major reason why housing isn’t being built. Hence my focus is on them, not simply “build more homes”.

In my city, homes are being built, but only by the rich for the rich. I’m finnish, btw.

enshrine in its Constitution a commitment never to join the North Atlantic Alliance.

Why?

You planning on invading again?

Several good points among the 28, but sickeningly lined with caveats to feed into US pockets, and huge eyebrow raising ones in terms of Russian dearmament. (In that it is absent)

Well then, we’re back to some people cutting their costs by doing all the things I said above. You dismissed them all as if reasons why they’re not practical are reasons why they’re impossible.

No. I dismissed them as insufficient to show up in the stats. In order to significantly impact the situation, the alternative needs to be valid for any individual. Not just some.

All those landlords have the exact same incentives to charge as much as they can get away with, to subdivide properties and to exploit their renters as corporate landlords do.

Duh. But are you really going to claim single property owners competing with every other single property owner, wouldn’t have different results than duopolistic companies carving up cities and throwing their weight around in legislation?

Have you considered that larger companies are also able to act to maintain the low supply?

Real-estate and construction overlap a great deal, and that influence also grows with consolidation.

And thanks for linking to a study that confirms what I’m trying to say? 3-7% of the largest bill most people have is not nothing.

Does that percentage account for wage stagnation? Which is also exacerbated by mergers.

Everything else is caused by low supply and such.

A few comments ago you were clamining low supply is the only problem.

there is no recent increase in vacancy rates

You’re looking at the wrong stats. When people are forced to spend more on necessities, they don’t cut necessities. They can’t. They’re necessities.

They cut luxuries.

One such relevant stat, would be piracy spiking. Not to mention the spike in homelessness if we are talking about the US.

You yourself point out that housing is not keeping up with need. Things can absolutely be getting worse (and they are), while at the same time not showing up in vacancy rates. The well-off can be moving into new homes faster than the poor are moving back in with parents. Or going homeless.

Another stat is the average age at which people buy their first home increasing.

Another is the ratio of renters increasing in relation to owners.

investment companies are seeing that housing is shooting up in value already, due to low rates of building, hence making it a more attractive investment relative to other things. So they buy them up and charge high rents - but at the same time all the individual owners of rental property also see that they can charge high rents, and do so. All we’ve done is swapped who is screwing renters, not by how much.

This is a distinction without a difference. You’re saying the chicken came first, while I’m trying to explain chickens come from eggs, and the entire relationship between the two.

Increased consolidation increases the co-ordination of price hiking, hence increasing “how much” screwing is going on. But that doesn’t mean a tiny bit of screwing can’t get it started.

I’m saying it has gotten so bad because the problem feeds itself. By allowing more investment, the screwing gets harder.

All we’ve done is swapped who is screwing renters, not by how much.

This is a truly insane take. You’re saying if all rented properties were owned by single landlords who owned no other properties, rents today would still be just as high?

You are bending over backwards to dismiss my points.

Yeah if you literally only 100%, or close to it, of housing in a city, that’s true. But no company does in anywhere I’m aware of.

I’m not even sure what you’re saying here. Did you misunderstand my point that they don’t need to own 100%?

There are cases of massive consolidation but the largest competitor acquires like 17% of housing

That is MASSIVE consolidation! If a huge 10% of homes are unneeded, that means they can set the price for 7% as high as they want!

People can move in with parents

Boomers are selling their homes to these companies, because the payout is ludicrous. They pay so much more than what the home is worth, because the return of renting it back to someone needing a home is literally limitless.

move to a cheaper region unaffected by the attempted market abuse

You know why it’s unaffected? Fewer jobs. The pensioners selling their homes can move out there, sure… But the people who need homes in the area they just sold their old home for millions in? Not so much.

share with more people

Right. Because these companies aren’t chopping big apartments into smaller units so they sell each room individually. Are you suggesting people start sharing studio apartment closets?

some people will not pay the higher rents

Some is not enough. The whole reason this works is that these companies can squeeze people on necessities, because someone always has to buy from them. To fight this, everyone has to have access to a better option, so that these companies have zero customers. Because as long as they can squeeze someone, they can squeeze harder than any luxury industry could ever dream of.

I just don’t think that we have any evidence of the high cost of housing being due to excessive company involvement in housing.

This has literally been studied. It’s not about what you “think”. You are ignoring current economic facts.

We are seeing housing crises across the western world in all sorts of cities and all sorts of distributions of ownership.

No shit. When someone finds a way to make profit, the method gets copied. No to mention that stuff like airBnBs skirt regulation and often literally operate against local law or building rules. My very first point was that companies don’t need to own much to start hiking local prices. Heck, you could be just one wealthy individual who owns two extra houses, and by setting your rents high, contribute to the problem.

There is a thru-line here, but because it’s so pervasive, you’re saying it can’t possibly be it.

For companies to cause problems they have to buy so many homes they can abuse their market share by forcing rents up

Not necessarily. Your logic only applies to non-necessities. For a necessity, all you need is to own enough of the industry, that you’re the only option for some people. If there only exists enough housing to just barely house everyone who needs a home, then you could own only 1%, and set the price to whatever you want, because someone will have to live there. Everywhere else is occupied.

which you would see as an increasing vacancy rate

No, you wouldn’t. There is no rent that is so high people will decide to live on the street. They’ll keep paying, until they actually can’t.

Again, this logic only applies to non-necessities. If you hike the price of food, people don’t stop eating. They stop bying luxury goods.

And no, if there isn’t an overabundance of food (as you yourself admit, housing is insufficient) they can’t just switch to the competition, because the competition does not have the capacity to serve everyone.

New omegamart product line?

That’s the one.

I also need to work out how to do automatic certificate renewal and if that’s even worth doing

This is what certbot is for. For example, with nginx, you just set up the webserver to be reachable via your domain.

You then install and run certbot, and it will aquire, install and configure, and then set itself up to auto-renew, a certificate. All with just one command.

With Nextcloud specifically I also don’t like the fact that you can’t change the domain after the initial setup

Yes you can?

I’ve done it thrice now.

Is this some limitation of the docker AIO stack?