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[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 1 points 1 hour ago

And there's only so long you can play high-school kids for, of course - Alexa Demie is 33! (though her birthyear doesn't feature on her IMDB profile, interestingly enough)

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 3 points 3 hours ago

Already been said, but works okay if you type it out:

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Sorry - I meant that it's literally the username they've used. They've used the word '911', like you've used the word 'windyrebel'.

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 5 points 8 hours ago

It's okay - you can say felonious things about a felonious prez (the prospect of which was probably unthinkable at the time this sketch was made)

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 24 points 9 hours ago

The Jedi, like Blockbusters, thought they were going to be around forever, but now their premises are occupied by people indifferent to whatever it is they actually did.

 

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.”

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 27 points 16 hours ago (4 children)

There's a user here, who was '101' at reddthat, then piefed, then feddit.org, and was 911 at lemmynsfw, and is currently 911 at programming.dev, who posts a bunch of articles over a week or so, then deletes their account and moves on to another instance. They're up to something, surely. (the only real downside to this behaviour - that I can think of - is that new instances won't be able to get their posts, because Lemmy doesn't return posts for deleted users)

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 2 points 20 hours ago (1 children)

Oh, right. I was confused by this before, but I understand it now after reading yours and Otters answers, and seeing https://rss.ponder.cat/c/medicine@lemmy.ca - the bot posts to its local version of a remote community, and it federates out like it it normally does.

Am I right in assuming that - API wise - the bot only interacts with ponder.cat, and doesn't make calls to the remote instance? (I'm wondering if there's any barriers to it operating with communities that aren't on a Lemmy instance).

Does the bot resolve the human first, check what they moderate, and then resolve the community if they moderate it, or just always resolve the community, and then compare its moderators with who made the request? If its the latter, this could be a way for bad actors to crowbar a community onto your instance (assuming it doesn't purge it if things don't match up, of course).

What would have happened if Otter had sent /add https://lemmy.ca/feeds/c/medicine.xml medicine@lemmy.ca ? Would this be like that time when someone put 'google' into google.com, and the Internet blew up?

Thanks.

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 4 points 20 hours ago

Ah. Sorry - I should have clicked on your profile instead of just assuming. I can see from https://programming.dev/post/19948790 that you've interacted with programming.dev before. Clicking on your username in that post gets a blank screen (maybe that's progress?).

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 9 points 22 hours ago (2 children)

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.

 

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.”

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 6 points 1 day ago (1 children)

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.

 

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.

 

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

 

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.

[–] andrew_s@piefed.social 0 points 1 day ago

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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