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Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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I wish they were able to find better examples of the courses and the content (not just the summary from marketing materials). The examples they provided were really tame.

in China, law enforcement is designed to protect the state and the Party rather than the people, journalism is prescribed to create national unity rather than act as a check against the system, and the law is intended to protect the regime rather than its citizenry.

Very succinctly put!

In the Constitution of China you'll find a section where it explicitly states that the interests of the group outweigh those of the individual. It's baked into the legal bedrock.

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Yeah, I read the whole thing. It was a good story but I felt that when it came time to "deliver the goods" they fell a bit short. For example, this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/final-image-global-south.png. That is under the heading "Clearly authoritarian", which seems pretty strong for such a boring sounding course.

I stand by my earlier comment.

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The headline had me hoping for things like "Xinjiang - how we incarcerated 1 million people for only $5k pp / year" or "Integrating vassel states - lessons from Hong Kong" or "The Tibet Journey" or "Propaganda for fun and profit Steve Bannon edition".

Nope 😴

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I made https://www.chorebuster.net which does that.

It's is not self hosted or FOSS but it has a one-time lifetime license or a very cheap subscription. Free 1 month trial.

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Electric bicycles are much less tiring to use and go faster / further. Quite a game changer.

With pannier bags and a backpack you can carry quite a lot of groceries.

Best way of playing Wipeout these days?

So…after watching latest Noclip video, I was having a bit of a Wipeout itch…I have a rather decent gaming computer, but I was wondering what would be the best way to play the wipeout series…was 2097 the best one? Is there a good way to get it running at decent resolution/effects these days?...

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You can play the original PS1 version if Wipeout in your browser

https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/

I don't know if that's the 'best' way, but there it is.

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a huge backlog of more than 5,600 orders

Apparently some people with money think there is going to be a big expansion in air travel.

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Yes, it's completely possible.

Kbin has it, which it calls "Collections" - see https://kbin.social/magazines/collections. Anyone can add a collection which can be subscribed to by anyone. It is very flexible and crowd-sources the work of organizing the communities into collections. I like it.

PieFed calls it "Topics" - see https://piefed.social/topics. They are arraigned into a hierarchy and are created by the the instance admin. This could give a better experience to the end user but puts more work onto the instance admins.

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I looked at the examples and really can't see much difference.

https://gameoftrees.org/got.1.html

What am I missing?

Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are surging "faster than ever" to beyond anything humans ever experienced, officials say (www.cbsnews.com)

One of the major drivers of the exceptional heat building within Earth’s atmosphere has reached levels beyond anything humans have ever experienced, officials announced on Thursday. Carbon dioxide, the gas that accounts for the majority of global warming caused by human activities, is accumulating “faster than ever,”...

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Check this out https://ourworldindata.org/contributed-most-global-co2

Don't you all get tired of the constant negativity?

Despite not subscribing to political communities and having a large number of content filters based on keywords, my feed here is still for a large part all negative articles and ragebait. Elon Musk this and Israel that. Microsoft ruining windows, AI ruining internet, right wingers and capitalism ruining the world, police being...

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  • You're using an app that has filtering
  • You know how to use the filtering feature
  • You have not installed an elon, trump, israel and a gaza filter
  • You see lots of elon, trump, israel and a gaza content
  • You wonder what to do next

I think I see a way out of this.

You can figure it out, I believe in you.

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No. We've done some work in that direction to try some things out but nothing anywhere near usable.

Lemmy.ml tankie censorship problem

I feel like we need to talk about Lemmy’s massive tankie censorship problem. A lot of popular lemmy communities are hosted on lemmy.ml. It’s been well known for a while that the admins/mods of that instance have, let’s say, rather extremist and onesided political views. In short, they’re what’s colloquially referred to...

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Sorry you stumbled into the wrong instance. Fortunately, other instances already offer alternative communities that are more active and moderated differently.

This could have been avoided if the UI included a warning about communities with problems. Like how PieFed does: https://piefed.social/post/89659

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Efficiency??

This is about the total amount of emissions, not the emissions-per-unit-of-compute (or whatever).

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Yeah, but no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

The climate doesn't give a toss how much value for shareholders is generated, all that matters is the total amount of emissions.

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This would be fine if there were no externalities.

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time being purely a consequence of entanglement. It states that the only reason that an object appears to change over time is because it is entangled with a clock.

Wtf. Which clock is this?

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The Stars, Like Dust

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Like a blog?

Check out Wordpress, Hugo or Ghost.

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Great list, thanks!

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Something wrong with the SSL config on this instance?

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This was an absolute goldmine. Thanks!

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Nice, cheers

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You're looking for meaning where there is none. Fascism does not want to make sense, it very intentionally rejects reason and logic. To fascists, force and power is the only real politics. Few people really grasp how deep the nihilism of it is.

The chaos is an end in itself.

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Employers would absolutely love to be able to ask their pet AI "hey tell me who to fire based on their computer usage"...

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You can see how using AI to analyze a video (effectively a video, they didn't say how often the screenshots are taken but they'd need to be pretty often for it to work) of their entire work life the whole time they've been at a company takes it to another level tho, right?

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This is how it's done. USA, take note.

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Fake Jehovah's Witness

Zelensky: 'Our partners fear that Russia will lose this war' (kyivindependent.com)

President Volodymyr Zelensky believes that Ukraine’s partners “are afraid of Russia losing the war” and would like Kyiv “to win in such a way that Russia does not lose,” Zelensky said in a meeting with journalists attended by the Kyiv Independent....

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Yeah although if Russia wins it'd involve "unstable geopolitics" too.

This could be a long war.

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To fascists, hypocrisy is a virtue:

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hypocrisy-and-fascism-2018-08-12

They NEED to demonstrate their hypocrisy in order to signal to their supporters that the nasty shit they promise to do to The Other (immigrants, gays, whatever) won't be done to their supporters.

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Stacking the supreme court has benefits far beyond any single issue.

New Star Wars Plan: Pentagon Rushes to Counter Threats in Orbit (www.nytimes.com)

The Pentagon is rushing to expand its capacity to wage war in space, convinced that rapid advances by China and Russia in space-based operations pose a growing threat to U.S. troops and other military assets on the ground and American satellites in orbit....

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Remember, recently Russia vetoed a UN vote on stopping arms race in outer space.

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Report AND downvote. Reports only go to your instance and the originating instance whereas downvotes go everywhere. Highly downvoted content will get noticed by someone, eventually.

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I've seen a vanload of tourists happily taking pictures of sheep on more than one occasion. New Zealand.

Will I ever be seen as truly British?

My family immigrated to the UK from Poland when I was six. I’m 20 now, speak much better English than Polish and feel like this is my land/culture. However I have a Polish first and last name, Polish passport and “unique” accent everyone picks up on, so despite this I’m usually perceived as an outsider. It makes me...

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You might feel more comfortable in a larger city. In London every person you meet has a different accent, it's amazing.

Russia threatens Britain with retaliation if involvement in Ukraine war deepens (www.pbs.org)

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities and said it would hold drills simulating the use of battlefield nuclear weapons amid sharply rising tensions over comments by senior Western officials about possibly deeper involvement in the war in Ukraine....

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Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities

This is equivalent to USA threatening to strike North Korean, Iranian or Chinese facilities (all of whom have been arming Russia). No such threats have been made.

Just so we're clear who's escalating things.

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Yeah I was heavily into peak oil once, too.

Don't underestimate the power of literally everyone on the planet really really wanting to avoid that situation. Life finds a way.

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No - the VPN provider has another DHCP server for use 'inside' the VPN.

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In the comments on the article people have debugged their cloudflare/caching configuration for them and told them what they're doing wrong.

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Not all servers are equal. I would trust a post from lemmy.world or lemmy.ml to have valid metadata, for example. It'd be great if admins had some way to specify trusted instances (with the biggest 6 instances as initial defaults).

There would be other uses for the trusted instances concept. Automatic sharing of moderation actions, block lists, community lists, etc

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Link previews for content from untrusted instances could still be generated just as they are now.

The centralisation that has happened is a separate issue.

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I've found that if left on default settings, CloudFlare is not that great at caching. It requires a bit of configuration to really make it sing. itsfoss.com thought they were "using CloudFlare" but probably not to it's fullest potential.

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2 requests per instance - one for the HTML of the page and another for a preview image.

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Spoiler: not really envy, just the realization that they were too gormless to ever be competitive if they limited themselves to in-house resources.

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Surely their cars have general-purpose CPUs, not especially suited for this? Don't you need a GPU and gobs of RAM?

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