Notices by マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat), page 3

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Japanese atomic bomb survivors win Nobel Peace Prize - BBC News

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy5y23qgx0qo

@sean ah, perfect thanks! I had stupidly assumed that because it wasn't hardcoded in one place anymore, the validator file would have picked that up too... should have checked. Thanks fir your help! 😊

One more bit of info - when I refresh the web UI, I can very briefly see it showing "5000" as the max character count in the compose window, before changing back to "500".

Anyone have any idea how I can make this change work in v4.3.0?

#MastodonHelp #MastodonAdmin

I just upgraded my instance to v4.3.0, but can't figure out how to change the maximum post length, as this seems to have changed.

I updated the value in app/javascript/mastodon/features/compose/containers/compose_form_container.js, but this doesn't seem to have made a difference. I precompiled the assets again after the change and restarted all mastodon processes, but it's still set to 500.

#MastodonHelp #v4.3.0

Happy Taiwan National Day 國慶日 - here's some 拍謝少年 Sorry Youth to celebrate ☺️ 🍻

Sorry Youth - Undercurrent ft. Anpu｜2019 Megaport Festival

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YYNPArbfNgQ

I love this video, made up from dance clips that various people sent to the band (and some appearances by the band members themselves) ❤️
#ElephantGym #大象體操

大象體操 ElephantGym _羽毛 Feather feat. 壞特 ?te【Dance Performance Video】
https://youtube.com/watch?v=kQbM_VklL-4&si=UeqywRvcmMJS7BGi

@ericmwalk near or neat? well, actually it's both 😊

Just came across the Japanese term イケオジ tonight. But no, not because someone called me that. 😅

(Spoiler, it means something like "cool older man".)

Noticed on my morning run that a new, very nice, part of Springfield Park is now open, including a small hill to run up. 😁 🏃🏻♂️
#MorningRun

Full marks for "a pedants’ revolt" 😁

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/07/germany-influence-of-english-idiots-apostrophe?CMP=share_btn_url&sfnsn=scwspmo

@Gargron @NotFrauKadse I have tickets for next year already... Vielleicht können wir uns da mal kurz für ein Bier treffen, falls du auch wieder gehst 😁

@RustyRing sounds interesting, but where is my dinner

For anyone who speaks German (or can handle Google Translate), I've just come across this pretty amazing review https://nightoutatberlin.de/unfassbar-traumhaft-zu-yoko-tawadas-grandiosem-celan-roman/#comments

I finished Yoko Tawada's "Paul Celan und der chinesische Engel" tonight, and it's such a difficult book to describe (for me at least). One amusing fact is that this is the first German book I've read in quite a while (despite German being my mother tongue), but maybe it's not that surprising that it took a Japanese writer writing in German to make that happen. 😁

It's incredibly dense but hugely enjoyable, and veers between being very funny and somewhat dark, and I feel that by not knowing very much about Paul Celan, I missed out on lots of hidden meaning (and probably lots of fun too). It's a dreamlike story, set during lockdown in early 2020 in Berlin, of a young (I think) Paul Celan researcher called Patrik (or more often just calling himself "The Patient") in the midst of some unnamed crisis or illness who meets a mysterious "trans-siberian angel", whose grandfather knew Celan during his time in Paris.

It does really want me look into Paul Celan a lot more, and maybe even read more German literature again. I also happen to go to a reading of hers in a London bookshop tomorrow evening, on the occasion of the English translation of this book being published in the UK, so am really looking forward to that.

#YokoTawada #PaulCelanUndDerChinesischeEngel

Back at this #NowPlaying #Drums

@benjaminparry it's beautiful, but quite heartbreaking

I had never seen 火垂るの墓 (Grave of the Fireflies) before today, and it's brilliant, extremely sad but more than anything incredibly powerful. Even with the very first sentence, spoken by Seita, being 「昭和20年9月21日夜僕は死んだ」 ("On the night of September 21, 1945, I died" ) and so trying to prepare viewers for what is to come, I still wasn't quite prepared.

If you haven seen it (but most of you probably have), please do.

#火垂るの墓 #GraveOfTheFireflies #ghibli

@threedaymonk I’m a very long way away from that… And it's early days, we only just covered the passive-like form and お[…]になります　😁

This is lovely - 拍謝少年 Sorry Youth with 曹雅雯 Olivia Tsao.

I still need to somehow be in Taiwan at a time that coincides with Sorry Youth playing live. Megaport in Kaohsiung one year? 😊

拍謝少年 Sorry Youth - 袂赴啊 Late Night on the Rooftop (Live Video)
https://youtube.com/watch?v=omn6SZmsJD0&si=EpVAqXsnPPyeM84T

New level (29) in our Japanese evening class tonight, and we finally reached 敬語 (keigo, honorific language).
With some luck and some work, I may soon become a slightly less rude prick in Japanese. 🙏 😅

#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する