Notices by edgeworth (edgeworth@sfba.social)

@kingrat @scott So do Amazon shoppers

@kingrat I’d rank Severance over all of those. I haven’t seen it but I’ve heard For All Mankind is good

@kingrat Fortunately Recology can charge residences that don’t properly “clean” their garbage so I suppose there’s no real incentive for them to teach people either

@kingrat I guess paper recyclables can be gathered in a paper bag, however?

@kingrat And plastic utensils aren’t recyclable!

I’ve read flyers and pamphlets but I’m not sure anyone has formally explained the too-complicated rules to me, though

@kingrat Oh interesting, I didn't know about the trademark!

Looks like the fee structure is different between Overdrive/Libby and Hoopla, so it doesn't make sense for the library to "stock" public domain books for Libby. Hoopla, though, has TONS of copies of the book!

I guess this is partly why they use both services rather than only one

For several months I was annoyed that SFPL doesn’t seem to have Robert’s Rules of Order in ebook form and then today I realized it’s public domain.

But then why doesn’t SFPL have dozens of ebook copies to lend?

@kingrat I’m a fan of Tacos Al Patron or Tacqueria Guadalajara because a good balance of crunchy and savory

@annika @gallego There was a Lancer TTRPG presence at xoxofest?

@kingrat I usually check file770.com for genre industry gossip/news. Looks like they posted some publicly-available details a couple days ago

@scott I'm often one of your disappointments—both vehicles aspire to a science fiction world of wonders that is quite alluring, so I feel a frisson whenever I see one.

The reality of their science fiction futures seems more dystopian than what they try to signify, but I think in US culture we're wired to dislike the village/agrarian alternatives, too (which I only now realized while writing this)

@kingrat Yeah, good point regarding the work being done as a huge factor in the tradeoffs—there are definitely some cases where own-hardware is the better option, but it seems to me challenging to make blanket statements that are accurate.

@tito_swineflu In my experience, getting location redundancy with decent security is the more challenging aspect of managing one's own hardware.

In AWS I can easily spin up multiple datacenters in a region, and relatively easily start up additional redundancy in another region altogether without needing to do all the contract review and negotiation that would be necessary for doing the same with my own hardware.

@tito_swineflu I always wonder whether such assertions include the cost of engineers who can manage running their own hardware plus the extra costs and challenges of redundancy