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No, it's programming.dev being on the blink (or behind in processing incoming activities). You can see by comparing the post at: https://lemmy.world/post/20496937 (made by a programming.dev user) with it's own copy here: https://programming.dev/post/20191915 - your UI might be too clever for it's own good and make looking at those posts on their own instances difficult, but the difference is that there's no comments or votes on programming.dev, but there is on lemmy.world (and other instances which have their own copy of that post).
If you were banned, it would show your profile with a 'banned' sticker. The error message is because it hasn't heard of you at all, and isn't going to resolve you because you're not a logged-in local user.
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Well, they're not going to kill Dave Filoni's baby I suppose.
The 'Ahsoka' TV show was 'fine', though overlong and occasionally silly. I watched a fan-edit recently, that fixed many of these issues, added some extra VFX, and proved once-again that a lot of these TV shows should have been movies. I don't want to oversell it, but I found the edit to be a more enjoyable, coherent and cohesive story. It's available here: https://www.kaipattersonfilms.com/ahsoka (I'm going to give his Boba Fett edits a try next)
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> The patterns of Earth’s high winds have surprisingly widespread effects on life on the ground. A [recent study in the journal Nature](https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07985-x) 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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The Penguin is great - proper HBO prestige type show. Craig Zobel directed the first two episodes (at least) - he's a name I recognise from Mare of Easttown. No idea why they cast an attractive Irish guy to play an 'unattractive' American guy, but it only distracted me a bit in episode one.
Taskmaster Australia is out now too. It's got way too many ad breaks, but it's not like I'm watching it being broadcast, and the host has said he "doesn't give a shit" if it's pirated (unlike the Taskmaster NZ host, who's said we're all going to hell). It's a good alternative / addition to Taskmaster UK, which is also on now and is still watchable, but has been on the wane the past few years.
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Fair enough. I'm not trying to recruit you, or present rivalries where none exist. We can communicate reasonably well regardless of whatever platform we prefer, which is the whole point of this Fediverse thingy anyway.
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> The Busybox developers have released [version 1.37.0](https://git.busybox.net/busybox/log/?h=1_37_stable), 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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> 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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> 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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Well, it won't help you (or me), but the the most active is probably https://hexbear.net/c/ama (the lemmy.world seems to have got nuked, and the already-mentioned lemmy.ca one is the only other one I found)
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Nice. The thumbnail image reminded me of an Open Pandora, which similarly looked like a chunky DS and ran Linux (it was mostly intended for playing emulated games). The Pandora was never that repairable though, in the sense that it was mostly a system on a chip.
Before I even looked, I thought that I bet this device is more expensive than I'd assume - the crowdfunding site is listing prices roughly between $1000 and $1500.
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It's an obscure skill, but once you've learned how to quickly sex doughnuts, there's money to be made from it.
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PieFed has some design principles, including being accessible on lower-end devices and for those with unreliable bandwidth, which mean that it's default UI is never going to look like apps which involve downloading a sizable chunk of Typescript.
I'm okay with its look. Partly because it's themeable, and there's a theme called 'Card Shadow' which looks more modern imo. And partly because Lemmy can feel quite slow showing 20 posts at a time, whereas PieFed throws 100 at a time. And also because there will eventually be an API, allowing people to view it how they want (similar to Lemmy - lemmy-ui is maybe not that great, but there's other frontends which I think are an improvement)
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That's a different Jerry! (Jerry Bell)
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I'd probably mind less if I were younger. Those in the industry are not the only ones trying to "survive 'till '25" - I'm having to make healthier life choices just to make sure I get to see season 2 of Andor.
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It's nothing like 15 minutes, but Lemmy doesn't federate posts instantly either. At a guess, there's a per-remote-instance worker that sleeps for a bit, then sends everything that's accumulated while it was sleeping. It's most noticeable when you're linked to only one other instance, and you still have to wait before getting anything. The advantages are that it's better to open a network connection, send a bunch of stuff, then close it, rather than opening and closing it for every activity, and it's more efficient to just send an Edit, rather than a Create and then an Edit if they both occurred close to one another.
For Threads, there's the additional advantage in that it means they can offer the equivalent of 'undo send' (like in Gmail), since deleting a non-federated post is easier and more reliable than deleting a federated one. But 15 minutes is crazy high - like the Source says, it makes a nonsense out of trying to do things like comment on a live event.
(In contrast to the above, PieFed will send this Note out instantly. It's all a trade-off between the pros and cons of different approaches, innit)
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He's posted before that Day 1 sales covered the cost the device itself, so a decent chuck of everything after that will have been pure profit. It was probably always doomed, what with YouTube being YouTube, so it doesn't look like he's too shaken up about it.
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All the links in this post already have that attribute, so I guess it's already added.
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HBO Max, for the brief period of time it existed, had a more fitting 'bumper'. Hacks, which started out as a 'Max Original' still had it in season 3, but The Penguin, which was a Max Original until it wasn't, has the fuzzy version (I've had players that struggle with it a bit, but I doubt HBO gives a shit about the quality of my experience pirating their stuff)
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Fuckin' hell, is it Monday again already? Suppose it is, technically. Anyway, still listening to In Waves by Jamie XX. I've tried listening to other stuff, but I'm finding them all fatally flawed by not being In Waves by Jamie XX. The last track, a distinctly Irish reversioning of Carl Sagan's Pale Blue Dot, continues to amuse me.
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Oh. I subscribed to this post because I hoped someone would be able to give an answer too.
It's been a day, so before I forget and on the basis that some answer is better than none at all, I'll have a crack:
400 Bad Request isn't much to worry about, it doesn't mean anything is malfunctioning and it can happen for a gazillion reasons. One is you've joined a new community and someone Likes a comment you don't have (particularly if it's nested in other comments you also don't have). Another is if someone Likes a post or comment by a user on an instance that you've defederated from (your instance is defed'd from lemmygrad and hexbear whereas lemmy.ml isn't)
As for 499, that seems to be a client issue, and that client mostly seems to be beehaw, who are stuck on an old Lemmy version and being increasingly wonky (in the other direction, they often reply in HTML rather than JSON and randomly decide that their communities' inboxes don't exist, so I wouldn't worry about stuff from them either)
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One witness complained that the security was concerned about food and beverages being brought into the theater, but did not catch Loibl's guns.
Sounds about right.
Also, the issue of obsessive fans is currently being highlighted by the plight of Chappel Roan, who now seems uncomfortable with the level of fame that she'd previously strived for.
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Shocking stuff. Last time I met Tim, he offered me a glass of water, and didn't even THINK to ask me if I had rabies. So insensitive!
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I think this is the film that introduced Thomasin McKenzie, and it's by the same director as Winter's Bone, so it's worth the watch imho.
There's more than one way to do this, of course. For group-based forums like piefed, I think the most promising way is to automatically create a local community for each person that someone wants to follow. Incoming activity is then put into the appropriate community, and so you have a consistent UI of UserA has posted to technology@wherever, and UserB has posted to [UserB's community]@piefed.social. This avoids the '2 websites in 1' look that can happen when a site wants to display both lemmy-like communities and mastodon-like microblogs. I haven't done too much work on it, in case this idea gets shot down in flames. So far, what I've got is: 1) A user searches for another remote user, e.g. `@freamon@pixelfed.dk` 2) When they're found, the user is offered the opportunity to create a 'Follower Community' (for want of a better name. I've been using 'fan club', but that's maybe a bit naff) 3) The community is created, formatted from the profile id, so `[https://pixelfed.dk/users/freamon](https://pixelfed.dk/users/freamon)` becomes `[https://piefed.social/c/pixelfed_dk_users_freamon](https://piefed.social/c/pixelfed_dk_users_freamon)` 4) A follow request is sent to the remote user (from the user doing the search, or a dedicated bot account, maybe) 5) Incoming activity will just be to activitystreams and followers, so there won't be any matches in 'to', 'cc' or 'audience'. In that case, 'attributedTo' is looked at, using the same conversion as above: so something from `[https://pixelfed.dk/users/freamon](https://pixelfed.dk/users/freamon)` will be sent to `[https://piefed.social/c/pixelfed_dk_users_freamon](https://piefed.social/c/pixelfed_dk_users_freamon)` if it already exists. 6) The posts will show in the community like any other. Other users can then subscribe to the community in the normal way, and get updates whenever the remote actor publishes something for their followers. 7) Posts from Mastodon would need another post-type to look their best (something that simulates how they look over there). Posts from Pixelfed already display well using Masonry: On pixelfed:  On piefed:  8) Post replies and upvotes (maybe) should make their way back to remote user, the same way they do if they'd actually made a post in a local community. Random thoughts: There would need to be an Undo Follow sent if the community was deleted. A local community called `c/pixelfed_dk_users_freamon` looks a bit ungainly, but there's likely a way communities like this could be rendered as something like `[SELF]` in the homepage feed. I realise pixelfed are planning to implement Groups, but that hasn't really worked out for mastodon, so we'll see how it goes. I think the ability to follow individuals will still be useful. The remote user could be made a moderator for the local community, and it set to 'mod posts only' so it would only contain stuff from them. This approach doesn't require any database changes. I've just bashed this together for now - looking to get your thoughts before I continue ...
Lemmy's spoiler format is ::: spoiler VISIBLE HIDDEN 1 HIDDEN 2 ::: As described [here](https://join-lemmy.org/docs/users/02-media.html) The regex I've come up with is `:{3} spoiler\s+?(\S.+?\n)(.+?)\n:{3}` It won't do spoilers inside spoilers, but that's a pretty niche case. The changed code is viewable on [GitHub](https://github.com/trentm/python-markdown2/compare/master...freamon:python-markdown2:lemmy-spoilers) Any thoughts or suggestions for the regex before I create the PR? I'm assuming that if I create a PR, and if they accept it, they'll (eventually) release a version with it in, and the line in pyfedi's requirements.txt can get version bumped. This seems like the 'proper' way to do it, but it's a bit long-winded, so maybe there's a better way to do it.
I've been thinking about what to do about cross-posts (e.g. where the same link is uploaded to both fediverse@lemmy.world and fediverse@lemmy.ml). In terms of them being annoying, I don't yet know what to do about that. My progress so far, and what it requires: The Community table has an extra field (xp\_indicator), for the field which determines if something is a cross-post or not. It defaults to URL, but it could be the title for communities like AskLemmy. The Post table has an extra field (cross\_posts), which is an array of other post ids (Note: this would lock PieFed into using Postgresql) New posts, for local and ActivityPub, are checked to see if they are a cross-post, and the relevant posts are updated. This also happens for local edits and AP Update. In the DB, the posts in the screenshot looks like: ``` -[ RECORD 1 ]---------------------------------------------------------- id | 27 title | Springtime Ministrone url | https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/springtime-minestrone cross_posts | {28,29,30} -[ RECORD 2 ]---------------------------------------------------------- id | 28 title | Springtime Ministrone url | https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/springtime-minestrone cross_posts | {27,29,30} -[ RECORD 3 ]---------------------------------------------------------- id | 29 title | Springtime Ministrone url | https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/springtime-minestrone cross_posts | {27,28,30} -[ RECORD 4 ]---------------------------------------------------------- id | 30 title | Springtime Ministrone url | https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/springtime-minestrone cross_posts | {27,28,29} ``` In the UI, posts with cross-posts get an extra icon, which when clicked bring you to another screen (similar to 'other discussions' in Reddit) In terms of hiding duplicate posts from the feed, I don't yet know. If it was up to the back-end, it would require some extra DB activity that might be unacceptable speed-wise. This update would mean though, that a future API could provide a response similar to Lemmy for posts, so apps/frontends could merge duplicates the same way some of them do for Lemmy. Likewise, if there was a 'Hide posts marked as read' feature, it could regard any post ids in the cross\_posts field as also being Read. I have to wait a few days until the quota on my ngrok account resets (something in the Fediverse went crazy, I'd guess), so I thought I'd share here in the meantime. Also, it means the PR doesn't come out of the blue, and it can be discussed beforehand. (also: it turns out I can't spell 'minestrone')
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andrew_s@ piefed.socialaka freamon
Codeberg: https://codeberg.org/freamon?tab=activity
Anything from https://lemmon.website is me too.