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That community looks to be brand new - the bot needs more than 1 day of data to pick up on a trend (typically it needs 7). I guess that the other community got Streisanded.
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The importance of the local feed shouldn't be underestimated - it's one of the reasons that the 'rglullis' communities have struggled (as discussed on https://lemmy.world/post/20236330)
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There's a lot of drama in that Issue, and then, at the very end:
Thanks for sharing your concerns here. We have been progressing use of our SDK in more use cases for our clients. However, our goal is to make sure that the SDK is used in a way that maintains GPL compatibility.
the SDK and the client are two separate programs
code for each program is in separate repositories
the fact that the two programs communicate using standard protocols does not mean they are one program for purposes of GPLv3
Being able to build the app as you are trying to do here is an issue we plan to resolve and is merely a bug.
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If you're not already aware, there's a service at https://rss.ponder.cat that also does this. The post at https://lemmy.world/post/20508996 shows how you can use the bot to send articles from RSS feeds to a particular community.
I'm guessing that anybody using this tool would need to be careful with it, since a new post every time a feed updates could get spammy. A separate issue is that posts that are just links to external sites, with no summary, don't always engage people much (we're all reluctant to click, because of how broken the modern web is).
Sorry to be negative - it does look like a cool project.
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I dread to think how many books GRRM's former assistants have smashed out in the time it's taken him not to write one.
Anyway:
James S.A. Corey's hit sci-fi series The Expanse was set in our own solar system, and leaned heavily into the politics of various human factions vying for dominance while an alien threat looms at the edges of awareness. Yes, the protomolecule was dangerous and mysterious and shook up the status quo, but at the end of the day it was always the humans and their decisions which drove the story forward. By contrast, The Captive's War feels more like Mass Effect, the sort of space opera which features a wide array of aliens where you never know what you'll see on the next page.
As a big fan of Mass Effect, this book sounds something I'd like to read.
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There's no way the Beeb could afford Slow Horses - so much of it is shot in London, and not like some other city pretending to be London, but actual London. The expense of it is a flex for Apple, but it would've put off less cash-rich producers.
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In the movie poster, I understand that the actor "chose to look right down the barrel of the camera to you, the viewer… because, without words we communicate with our eyes". The problem I have with it is that the thing she is communicating is not "I'm a wicked witch", but more "is this photoshoot over yet?" or "what shall have I for dinner?".
As well as her looking a bit indifferent, it also doesn't like the person next to her is actually whispering anything, because you typically use your hand to cup the space between the mouth and the ear for that, and the hand is too low down and too far away.
So I can see why fans would want to edit that original picture.
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MBIN makes upvotes visible, but PieFed doesn't. The thread you linked to is about PieFed anonymising votes, so they aren't revealed on instances like MBIN.
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I haven't seen it, and I've no BTS info, but I imagine it was like Star Wars Acolyte: it cost so much and ended up looking shoddy for the same reason - it's had the living shit reshot out of it. For reshoots, they use smaller stages and everyone involved has had less time to prepare, and it creates continuity problems when it's stitched back in with the original photography.
Typically, Disney knows when something isn't working, and their first strategy is to order rewrites and reshoots, and when that doesn't work (as is often the case), their second strategy is to seed the idea that it's 'woke', and use the predictable nerdrage from the usual grifters as cover for any legitimate criticism.
(I'm not being entirely serious with the suggestion that Disney seeds the 'woke' idea, but it's certainly so useful for them it'd almost be more crazy for them not to)
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No, I didn't like it much either. Some interesting ideas, but I think I'm starting to actively despise soft-reboots, which too much of Romulus is. I don't want to be reminded of a better movie with a more iconic lead, and I don't have the same nostalgia fetish that a good chunk of audiences seem to have.
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OP had an account at .ml and it was banned from the entire instance. Their LW account has been banned multiple times from .ml's asklemmy community (this probably what this post is about, rather than .world's asklemmy community but I didn't want to get involved).
andrew_s
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Don't know if you know, but there's another community - albeit on .world - for this game: !satisfactory@lemmy.world
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Oz was barely in this episode, but it was reasonably strong nevertheless. Speaking of 'strong', the avclub has a real beef with Mark Strong replacing John Turturro, but it didn't bother me as much as them.
I don't like it when TV shows suggest that women could murder people in ways that a typically-built woman couldn't (strange them, and then hoist them up into a noose, in this case), but I guess it's okay since - in-universe - it's not a charge that's intended to be scrutinised much. There was also some 'drama school' depictions of cRaZy pEoPle in the Asylum that threatened to make things seem a bit silly, but it mostly managed to keep its tone.
At the end, I thought she was going to kill the kid, which wouldn't have made sense for her character, but that's the vibe my brain picked up on.
I've no idea how Oz is going to worm his way out of this one, so I'm looking forward to next week's ep!
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Technically, this should be in !dontdeadopeninside@lemmy.ohaa.xyz rather than this community.
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For 'Action Horror', I've liked The Hunt (2020), Ready or Not, Totally Killer and Strange Darling (technically not a horror, but it's about a serial killer)
I watched Red Rooms recently, and that's French (Canadian), so if anyone asks you what you watched recently, you can say 'Les chambres rouges' and sound all intelligent and stuff.
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You can see the video that was originally quoted here: https://xcancel.com/billmaher/status/1844938477512675654#m
Bill Maher seems aggressively unfunny to me, but the gist of the video is that it's a open letter to Chappell Roan (who is pro-Palestine), saying that Israelis aren't colonisers, because the Bible mentions that they built a temple in that area before others in Middle-East settled there. It seems like a questionable claim to me, and there are plenty of replies to the video disagreeing with him.
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unsure of how to federate it with Lemmy directly
I think this will be a struggle.
In Lemmy terms, everyone here is a 'Person', sending a 'Note' activity for the fediverse@lemmy.world 'Group'.
With Castopod, it classes your podcast as a 'Person', and each episode as a 'PodcastEpisode'.
If Castopod classed your podcast as a Group, the same as PeerTube does for video channels, then integration would be relatively easy. A Group for a podcast would make more sense to me, but FunkWhale have made similar decisions, probably due to the dominance of Mastodon within the Fediverse.
As mentioned, you could probably tag your episodes with the address of a pre-existing Group (e.g. a community on Lemmy), but that pre-supposes that Lemmy knows what to do with the 'PodcastEpisode' type (a quick look on their GitHub suggests that it currently doesn't)
andrew_s
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Yes.
(if it didn't already have it, Lemmy would fed this out with a 'fuckcars' hashtag, so it's not like you guys are completely free of all this hashtag malarkey).
andrew_s
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As someone viewing Lemmy posts from outside Lemmy, I hope your PR can get submitted!
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.
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.
Brutal book review. > “Revenge of the Tipping Point,” is a genre bender: self-help without the practical advice, storytelling without the literariness, nonfiction without the vital truths, entertainment without the pleasure, a thriller without actual revelation and a business book without the actionable insights.
www.motherjones.com
> 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.”
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.”
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](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.”
go.theregister.com
> 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.
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
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. 
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')