Yeah, I’ve had a think after I made my previous reply and the questionable part mentioned isn’t the archiving, but the inclusion of the deleted/removed comments.

I still haven’t started with the script mentioned in a different comment, but if I were to do it, I’d likely be putting a one second delay on every request.

Thanks!

Got me!

I am still into that research. Yes. Research. For science!

In my response to someone, I already expressed concern about their long-term visibility–which is the reason why I even thought of doing this. I can’t do anything about “contribution to a public discussion” if those very discussions pretty much disappear. This might be showing my lack of knowledge about what federation actually is, and if it is, it’s pretty much on me.

For the second point, I already addressed it in the OP and in one of my responses. I’m pretty much not a programmer and my knowledge about it is pretty much writing a “hello world” program.

I’d rather not bother my admins (they’re already burnt-out), and with what you just said, maybe I’m better off doing it manually–if I would do it afterall. TBH, I’m scared off by the impression that saving my own posts and comments is somehow taboo.

Thanks!

Good point. I am actually not so certain if my posts and comments will remain visible after lemm.ee goes, so I am thinking of doing this as a backup.

Thanks!! I think can get started with this–like this weekend.

But this makes me wonder, if it is as easy as it seems to be, why is this not already a thing?

Hmm, reading the /user API endpoint, I think I understand some words (but hardly). ‌Thanks!

My coding skill is worse than my search-fu. While I can make a “hello world” script with bash, that’s about my level of coding skill.

However, let’s assume that I’m willing to still do it. I have this coming weekend to do the following:

1. Study the Lemmy API with the aim of extracting the JSON of:
   • all of my posts
   • all my comments and the posts where they were made
2. Create the logic:
   • extracting the posts
   • tracking the posts where the comments were made, and then extracting them
3. Write the script.

I think the worst of it would be studying the API, but programming using Bash (or Phyton–which I am totally ignorant of, but might be better for handling the data) might also give me trouble.

I’m going to need a lot of luck if I’m going this route. I dunno if it’s better than just doing it manually.

Seven. Some of them are from National Library of Luxembourg, National Library of New Zealand, Finland Web Harvest, Custom Crawl Services, Archive Bot, and Archive Team.

Seems like some entities regularly do a massive crawl of websites in an effort to archive them.

apat (4), lima (5), anim (6), pito (7)…

The lip-touching streak breaks for just one number: walo (8) and another streak starts with siyam (9) all the way to siyamnapu’t-siyam (99) by how two-digit numbers are pronounced. For example: labing-isa (11), walompu’t-walo (88).

(I think) there’s a lip-touching streak that is longer than this: walong daan at siyamnapu (890) to siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na bilyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na milyon, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam na libo, siyam na raan siyamnapu’t siyam (999 999 999 999).

But the Earth isn’t a plane.

Sure, human scaled patches of the Earth’s surface can be approximated by a similarly sized patch of a plane, but if we’re talking about tiling the entire surface of the Earth with buildings, it can actually be done using twelve pentagons or twenty isosceles triangles. We just need buildings whose footprints are roughly 1/12th and 1/20th the Earth’s surface respectively.

For the pentagon, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 12 = 42.505 × 10^12 m². With the Pentagon building having seven floors, one such building would have roughly 297.541 × 10^12 m² of floor space.

For the triangle, that’d be around 510.07 × 10^12 m² divided by 20 = 25.503 × 10^12 m². Assuming this building has seven floors like the Pentagon building does, it’d have roughly 178.524 × 10^12 m² of floor space.

The good thing about dividing into triangles, however is that it can be subdivided into four similar isosceles triangles, which can be applied recursively down to a far more realistic scale.

Doing that, we can subdivide the original triangles sixteen times yielding the following:

25.503 × 10^12 m² / (4^16) = 5.937 × 10^3 m²

And since the area of an isosceles triangle is equal to s²(√3)/4 we can rearrange things to find the side length of a compound with area of 5 937m²

s = √(4A/(√3)) = 117.103 m

I think that’s a human-enough scale for buildings.

In total, there’s 85 899 345 920 such buildings, covering the Earth.

If one such building has 7 floors, it’d have at most 41 559 m² of floor space.

EDIT:

Hit enter too soon. Additional proofreading.

Damn, I discovered a small mistake in the calculations partway through. Corrected.

[email protected] for an instance-agnostic link.

I was actually thinking “It’s just 100 × $100 bills, how thick can it be?” until I did the calculations just now. I found the value of 0.0043 in for the thickness of a 100 USD bill somewhere online and did the calculations.

(10 000 USD) × (1 bill / 100 USD) × (0.0043 in / 1 bill) 
= 0.430 in
≈ 1.0922 cm

I greatly underestimated the thickness of a stack of 100 USD bills. At just over a centimeter thick, I doubt I can even roll using the short side (for a smaller circumference).

Some stupid ideas:

• Roll the bills and stuff them into a condom. Shove it up my ass. It might feel uncomfortable for the next couple of hours, and a few more hours after that, but hey, 10k USD, right?

• I have a bunk bed that is made out of hollow metal tubes. Roll the bills, insert into a plastic bag and drop it into one of the vertical tubes holding the bed up. It should fall all the way down, with no way to see it unless you already know it has fallen inside it.

• Put the bills (flat) inside a plastic ziploc bag and shove it inside my PC. I’ll insert it between my SSD, or underneath the motherboard.

Of those ideas, I quite like the first two. Easiest to do is the second one, so that’s probably what I’d do.

I always found the Gilgamesh -> Holy War conversion far more useful for the Omega Weapon fight, especially if the fight is over before I even manage to use half of the 10 items the conversion gives me.

With a low enough level, and a powerful enough junction setup, every single fight (even the final boss fight) is complete child’s play. Too bad I didn’t already know that on my first playthrough.

That comment about phone apps is so true! One time my SO tried playing Outer Wilds in JP, I had my phone out ready to to decipher kanji via JP handwriting support. We competed on who can get to a definition of the kanji or word the fastest, and I won almost everytime. Whereas I tried to do it via handwriting, my SO tries to sound out the word first, and then search it via romaji.

A huge difficulty with those JP SNES games is that

• if a word (or a part of one) is presented as kanji, I have no idea which stroke or strokes a bunch of pixels is supposed to represent!
• if a word is presented as kana, I have no idea where the word starts or ends, especially if it is part of a sentence I can barely recognize any words in.

Reminded me of that time I tried playing JRPGs in Japanese to shore up my target language input. In between the pixelized kanji and lots of uncommon vocabulary, I gave up thinking I was just too early for that kind of thing.

I suppose playing Chrono Trigger and FF8 in JP was not a very good idea. I also have my doubts since some of the earlier consoles had JRPGs using kana exclusively (due to the state of character encoding at the time), and reading all-kana text is just a headache I am not prepared for.

EDIT:

Reworded some stuff for clarification.

I’ve never fished at all, but I’ve seen some people do some sort of fishing (with a fishing pole) along the coast. I haven’t really stayed long to observe what they do, but I saw that it involves a lot of waiting, and I feel increasingly awkward watching a guy do some fishing so I left. It might be that the spot that guy chose (or the area in general) just doesn’t have enough fish, being in the city and all. That, and pop culture (including some anime) characterizing fishing as needing patience and the capacity of being incredibly still while being capable of incredibly fast movements. Like a ninja meditating, only to do intensely quick movements to pull in the fish even before it had the chance to react.

Thanks for clarifying the misconceptions I had. I’ll look forward to having an opportunity to do some lure and fly fishing.

I can’t really explain it, but it is akin to tuning it out. Basically ignoring it as it it were tinnitus.

Of course it can only be done if you can afford not to engage it (or engage in it such that you can fake engaging in it). IDK, it’s really hard to explain.

It was okay. Nothing much but relaxing after Palm Sunday services.