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Eternity v0.2.1 does not show spoilers properly in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Ah, I see now, thanks. I didn't know where the original post was, or I would've confirmed. I suppose I could have figured out it was for Forza Horizon in retrospect.

You can get a new line (as opposed to a paragraph) with Lemmy using 'space space enter' but I didn't realise that spoilers don't even need that.

Eternity v0.2.1 does not show spoilers properly in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 19 hours ago (2 children)

Eternity's specific issues around spoilers aside, I think other apps / platforms might struggle with that post because the spoilers aren't technically formatted correctly - the ::: that ends a spoiler should be on a new line.

lemmy-ui might've handled them as the user expected, but anything using a different Markdown library might not (including Lemmy's own backend when it comes to the HTML content field for federation)

Posts not appearing in communities when other group actors are mentioned. in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

FWIW: that post is not for 2 communities - it's for one community (/c/test at sh.itjust.works) and one user (/u/test at lemmy.ml) - I'm guessing that it's autocompleted to a thing that was different from your intentions.

(edit: the webfinger response from lemmy.ml for 'test' returns both a Person and a Group, which Lemmy can deal with, but Mastodon probably can't, so it just grabbed the first one it saw)

Screenshots of texts from other social media are pretty boomer-ish in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago

Maybe, but image posts drive more engagement than text ones. You can see on [email protected] that the text posts, which are no worse LQFs than any other ones IMO, score noticeably lower.

I like sites / Lemmy frontends that provide some kind of 'teaser' for text posts (they also show a bit of the post's body in the main feed), meaning you can often see both the feed line and the punchline for a post without going into it (it works well for 'dad jokes' for example). But the default frontend - lemmy-ui - doesn't do that, so it hobbles the potential of text posts.

Can't create a community in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 days ago

Last time that happened to me, it was because the 'name' I was using was too long (I removed some characters and it worked). There isn't the same limitation for the 'display name' field though.

How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

It is happening. If you look for news of, e.g. "Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Harris", most outlets just say 'X'.

In my results, The Guardian, the BBC, The Independent, Fortune, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The Hill just used 'X'. Politico said 'on social media'. Only Forbes did the 'formerly Twitter' thing.

A community to find or validate facts. You can also share other works of similar fact finding in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago

There used to be one - https://lemmings.world/u/communitylinkfixer

It looks like it was de-activated 3 months ago.

If you make a new one, please consider limiting it to just this community (and maybe communitypromo), and to not translating a link if the OP has also already provided a ! one, and to not translating links inside code blocks.

Drive-by bots can seem easy to make, but the problem is that they can be a bit too easy, and then end up as yet another annoying one.

suggestion: disable the option to "Retrieve a post from the original server" in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 days ago (1 children)

The processing for Mentions hasn't been added yet. But when it is, it'll likely follow the convention of letting users add them beginning with an '@'. Beginning stuff with an '!' is the convention for communities, so when you tried to Mention Rimu using one, it tried to look it up as a community.

How many subscribers does a community need to have to become self sustaining so that the active posters can retire? in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Well, there's the The 90-9-1 Rule for Participation Inequality in Social Media and Online Communities, which suggests:

Summary: In most online communities, 90% of users are lurkers who never contribute, 9% of users contribute a little, and 1% of users account for almost all the action.

So whatever number you're looking for, it's 1% of that. Not that subscriber count means much, especially for older communities that have 10's of thousands of subscribers who aren't even using the platform any more.

there is something wrong with federation of posts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (1 children)

so "creating" it if the ID were to ever not be found would lead to... well, it could have lead to exactly something like this, actually?

Yeah. It's just one theory as to what's happened - something like a 'delete post in this community' has come in, and PieFed hasn't been able to find the community, so it's happily created a new one. I don't know why it would be able to find the community, but I'll look into preventing this kind of occurrence.

It might not be what's actually happened here: it's something for Rimu to solve really (he has direct access to everything). Edit: ignore me, he's just answered, lol.

there is something wrong with federation of posts in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Shit, yeah. I think you're exactly right.

There's one community, with ID 870, that's in a Topic, but if you look at the host community's most recent post - at https://piefed.social/post/301064 - that's not in that first community (I don't know the ID, but I can see that it's not in a Topic). I don't know how the find the second community just using the website, because https://piefed.social/c/[email protected] only ever gets the first one, that stopped updating 3 days ago.

It might be that there's a call to 'find_or_create' where 'create_if_not_found' needs to be specified, because it's not being found for some reason.

Conversations like this are why I want more people, especially "normies", in the Fediverse in c/[email protected]
[–] [email protected] 17 points 6 days ago (2 children)

That comment chain demonstrates a real appeal of Reddit. Even for something like a post-episode TV discussion, a critical mass of people means that not only can you have the discussion in the first place, but there might be some extra info from someone who worked on the set, or attended an audience taping.

You can click to see the rest of the comments to see plenty wrong with Reddit too, but it's not like there's any particular drive to prevent the elements of Reddit culture that I find annoying from coming to Lemmy too.

I'd be surprised if there's ever a critical mass of people on a federated app though. If there is, it's more likely to be on something with the proper funding, that hides the details from regular users (e.g
it'll be BlueSky, not Mastodon). On Reddit, Lemmy has a reputation for being too complicated, for the mundane reason that is. Too much stuff that should happen doesn't, and the answer to why are the stuff that 'normies' don't want to hear (LW and PD instances are both a bit unstable atm), or they're so unintuitive that that they'll need answering forever (e.g everything around discussion languages, instance blocks, newly-discovered communities , etc etc).

I've just seen a user accidentally submit the same post to the same community multiple times (the worst I've seen is 4 times). Preventing that is some real 'web dev 101' shit. Federated apps can be an interesting hobby for inexperienced devs (like me), and mildly diverting for anyone who wants to use them as a user, but a critical mass of users?! Forget about it.

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Just joined this community, now waiting for the quality posts (piefed.social)
 

Made this while I was actually waiting for something. It's supposed to be a version of the 'sad Pablo Escobar meme', but with some kind of frog instead. Is it good? Is it shit? Thankfully, it doesn't matter.

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Example of a long take, made by a camera operator grabbing a drone mid-flight, and continuing the shot. (i.imgur.com)
 

The operator has to wear Kevlar to protect themselves from the blades. This one is from Slow Horses, but I've read that they also used in technique in Hacks.

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Hurricane Helene Isn’t an Outlier. It’s a Harbinger. (www.motherjones.com)
 

Helene was the second major hurricane (Cat 3 or higher) of the 2024 season. Record-setting Hurricane Beryl preceded it as the earliest-forming Category 5 hurricane in the Atlantic basin’s history. Beryl became a major hurricane in the month of June east of the Lesser Antilles, the first time that’s ever happened during the first month of hurricane season since record-keeping began in 1851.

While Beryl weakened before reaching the United States as a Category 1 hurricane, Helene intensified into a major hurricane and continued strengthening right up to landfall. That now puts 2020-2024 into the record books, tying the mark for the longest consecutive number of years (five) in which a major hurricane has made landfall in the United States.

For decades, I had felt in control. Not in control of the weather, of course. But in control of the message that, if my audience was prepared and well informed, I could confidently guide them through any weather threat, and we’d all make it through safely. Today as a result of so many compounding climate-driven factors, the warming world has forcibly shifted my manner from calm concern to agitated dismay.

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Every Frame a Painting: What would Billy Wilder do? (www.youtube.com)
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[Article] “Secondhand Is Feckin’ Grand”: How Clothing Swaps Took Off in Ireland (www.motherjones.com)
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Mary Fleming was on holiday in Kenya when she saw it: a mound of secondhand clothes heaped by a river, the pile so vast and unruly it was spilling into the water.

The sight shocked her. At home in Ireland she was a passionate shopper and bought a new outfit almost every weekend. Now, in East Africa, she was seeing the consequence of fast fashion and mass consumption.

A decade later Fleming, now 34, is leading a campaign to prevent waste by swapping, reusing, repairing and repurposing clothes under the inimitable exhortation: “Because secondhand is feckin’ grand.”

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Bottoms up! Ontario councillor under fire for drinking beer during meeting (globalnews.ca)
 

Lewis noted that the code of conduct does not explicitly state anything about councillors drinking during meetings but the code of conduct does make mention of councillors’ decorum.

John Mascarin, a Toronto lawyer who specializes in municipal politics, said that it would likely be irrelevant that it was not explicitly stated. “You would expect a council member who’s attending a formal meeting at which decisions will be made to treat it with the proper modicum of respect. That would include being properly attired, not using any profane language, and likely, most people would say, not consuming alcoholic beverages.”

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The shifting jet stream has magnified wildfires and plagues. What’s next? (grist.org)
 

The patterns of Earth’s high winds have surprisingly widespread effects on life on the ground. A recent study in the journal Nature shows that when the summer jet stream over Europe veers north or south of its usual path, it brings weather extremes that can exacerbate epidemics, ruin crop harvests, and feed wildfires.

“The jet stream has caused these extreme conditions for 700 years in the past without greenhouse gases,” said Ellie Broadman, a co-author of the study and a researcher at the University of Arizona. “To me, that’s a little scary, to think about the compound effects of simply adding more heat to the atmosphere and imagining how those extremes might get more extreme in the future.”

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Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be (go.theregister.com)
 

The Busybox developers have released version 1.37.0, with some 50 changes.

Its developers call Busybox the "Swiss Army knife" of embedded Linux, because in one relatively small tool, it implements not just a Unix-style shell, but also about 300 different commands that are normally external programs in their own right. As a result, it's often found inside devices that use Linux in very resource-constrained environments, such as consumer firewall/routers.

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Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids (go.theregister.com)
 

It's not just datacenters running AI that need their own energy sources. Taiwanese hardware manufacturer to the clouds Quanta has revealed the purchase of three sets of fuel cell microgrid systems to power one of its California plants, after purchasing two in April of this year.

Fuel cell microgrids, like those produced by Bloom Energy, generate electricity through an electrochemical process and are designed to operate independently from the power grid. They require natural gas, biogas, or hydrogen as fuel.

Datacenter operators across the world have voiced concern over their ability to source sufficient power for their operations – especially new infrastructure using power-hungry GPUs to run AI workloads. Many are turning to nuclear power. Indeed, Microsoft recently made a deal to reactivate a reactor at the famed Three Mile Island plant to get the juice it needs

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'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls' (www.bbc.com)
 

In November 2022, Mrs Khatun had her house insulated under a government scheme known as ECO 4. It is designed to help low-income households make their homes warmer and cut their energy bills. Insulation boards are fixed to the exterior brickwork of a house and then coated in render.
More than three million homes in the UK have had insulation fitted under government ECO schemes, which are paid for by the energy companies, with the cost passed on to all consumers through their energy bills.
The BBC revealed earlier this year that hundreds of thousands of these homes could have insulation that wasn’t installed to the required standard. Within months of Mrs Khatun getting her insulation fitted, it became clear that this was the case in her house. A surveyor’s report shows how rainwater penetrated the house leading to the damp, mould and dry rot.

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How Israel Built a Modern-Day Trojan Horse: Exploding Pagers (www.nytimes.com)
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Promo trailer for ep4 of T'Acolyte (i.imgur.com)
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