www.motherjones.com Hurricane Helene isn’t an outlier. It’s a harbinger.
A meteorologist's terrifying prediction, and our catastrophic new normal.
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Hi, no sorry, I'm not active on Reddit. I don't have backend access here either, so wouldn't be able help out if something went wrong.
I asked in that issue whether Lemmy finds community via to/cc (it does). Does PieFed do the same?
Yes - PieFed does the same. It looks in 'audience', then 'cc', then 'to'. It has to, to support all the platforms that haven't adopted 'audience. It's a convenient field, but PieFed won't be affected if Lemmy goes through with removing it.
Would this also open up the possibility of a topic/context being part of multiple audiences/communities?
Not at present. If you do something like cc: [community1, community2] it will only go to community1 (on both Lemmy and PieFed). There's so many activities that are effectively duplicates, both in normal operation and when platforms are bugged (both Lemmy and Mastodon have gone through phases of sending the same activity multiple times), that you need a way to make sure you're only processing one. On PieFed, this is done by having a UNIQUE constraint of the 'ap_id' column of the Post table (the ap_id of your post is https://community.nodebb.org/post/103806), so it means you can't have the same post in more than one community.
'us' seems a mite too conventional for a plural pronoun if you're intent on re-inventing singular ones.
Anyway, you could at least commit to the bit, and actually mark your account as a bot, instead of just saying you are one. There's likely some instances where bots that aren't marked as bots are against their terms of service.
More so 'other Fediverse socials'.
Here's an example on PieFed, that's a PixelFed user tagging their photos with 'dailyphoto' and then sharing via a.gup.pe on Mastodon: https://piefed.social/tag/dailyphoto
Lemmy has mangled that script a bit.
Where it says '%24%7Bpage%7D', it should a dollar sign, an open curly bracket, the word 'page', then a close curly bracket.
It displays a bit better at the source (click the multi-coloured fedi-link thing).
The only way I can think of is to use the API to get all communities, and then filter out the ones without local subs. So a basic BASH script would be:
#!/bin/bash
echo -n '' > /tmp/allcomms.txt
page=1
while true
do
communities=$(curl --request GET --url "https://walledgarden.xyz/api/v3/community/list?type_=All&page=%24%7Bpage%7D&limit=50" --header 'accept: application/json' | jq .communities[])
if [ "${communities}" == "" ]
then
break
fi
jq -r '[.community.id, .counts.subscribers_local] | @sh' <<<$communities >> /tmp/allcomms.txt
page=$(( page + 1 ))
sleep .5
done
while read id count
do
if [ $count -eq 0 ]
then
echo "$id has no local subs"
fi
done < /tmp/allcomms.txt
(It'll take a few minutes to run)
After that, how you purge the communities with those IDs I'm less sure of. My guess would be:
Get a login tokin:
JWT=$(curl --request POST --url https://walledgarden.xyz/api/v3/user/login --header 'accept: application/json' --header 'content-type: application/json' --data '{"username_or_email": "YOUR_USERNAME","password": "YOUR_PASSWORD"}' | jq -r .jwt)
Use Admin/Purge from the API:
curl --request POST --url https://walledgarden.xyz/api/v3/admin/purge/community --header "authorization: Bearer $JWT" --header 'content-type: application/json' --data "{"community_id": ${id}, "reason": "no local subs"}"
As long as purge lets the community be recreated again (which it should do), then that should be okay.
Don't take my word for any of this for an in-production Lemmy server, though. Test first!
Whatever the views are about MBFC, Tesseract integrated it better than LW's bot. If you don't like MBFC, it's just an option in your user settings to turn it off for Tesseract, whereas the bot caused a bunch of problems that weren't even related to concerns about accuracy and bias. Drive-by bots can be annoying, because it leads people to believe there's legit content where there isn't, and not every client respected LW's bot use of spoiler Markdown, so they ended up with a massive comment from it that dominated the screen.
That's what they're doing though, isn't it? They have an account on Friendica, and they've used it to make a post within a Lemmy community (the community being !chat@beehaw.org in this case).
I saw a post recently that was from Friendica to Lemmy: https://libranet.de/display/0b6b25a8-2267-afe6-6e6e-34b123429965 was to https://beehaw.org/post/18472167
Maybe you can copy whatever they did (or ask them).
For Season 1. (Season 2 has different credits.)
If you're trying to do this at feddit.org, it's because the 'Nimi' field is too long. It looks to be about 22 characters, but the max length for an actor at feddit.org is 20.
For each instance, the restriction can be viewed from the command line with: curl https://feddit.org/api/v3/site | jq .site_view.local_site.actor_name_max_length
As things are atm, Lemmy users will likely also need to also fetch this video by pasting the URL into search (there's no backfilling, and channels still don't seem to automatically update - e.g. see https://lemmy.ml/c/thelinuxexperiment_channel@tilvids.com?dataType=Post&sort=New).
If Lemmy / PeerTube inter-op was better, there'd be less need for Lemmy users to be doing what they're currently doing with posting them separately. (It's good that more people will see this video, but it effectively leeches votes and comments away from the original creator).
Sorry. That's my bot. There's comments in the latest post it made about why it died (the SD card on which it was running went read-only). If it's not pissing it down, and the thought of it all doesn't seem overwhelming, I'll mooch into town and see if any cheapie shops are selling 'em.
The first link in the cross-post chain is to https://piefed.social/post/413111, which is for the channel, and shows that it was made 4 weeks ago, and includes a comment from the main LW admin.
Your suspicions about this video seem off, but if you want to keep them, they should be directed at person who posted this old video into Lemmy, not the video's author. As well as a PeerTube instance, Jeena has a PieFed instance, and it seems reasonable enough for him to use his own channel to discuss things that have affected him and are relevant at the time.
What's even weirder is that this video was already posted to !videos@lemmy.world by Jeena a month ago, and OP commented on it then. It doesn't get picked up as a cross-post (by either Lemmy or PieFed) because PeerTube has 2 different formats for its URLs (a recent change to PieFed means they get they will do from now on, but it doesn't apply to old posts).
Looks like it's this vid: https://framatube.org/w/9dRFC6Ya11NCVeYKn8ZhiD
You shouldn't read too much into being banned from 50 communities - it's just a fudgy workaround for being banned from the instance.
If you want to read up on people's objections, there's load of comments at https://lemmy.world/post/18805474 and the GitHub Issue it links to at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967
I'm not personally in favour of ideas about voting privacy (I think it's a bit anti-Fediverse and hampers backfilling), but those who disagree tend to feel more strongly about it than I do, so I try to avoid arguments about it.
I think they still need a separate user account. For one thing, a PeerTube channel is 'attributedTo' the user account, in the same way that Lemmy communities are 'attributedTo' the moderators. A Group belongs to at least one Person, it can't belong to itself. Another is that it allows for creators to comment on videos, and either be recognised as the 'OP', or as a fellow content creator.
In terms of rendering things like Likes and Dislikes, it has the info in the backend, so it may as well. They don't Announce votes like Lemmy does, you have to activitely fetch them, so the channel as it exists on PeerTube provides a definitive source. Likewise, there's all sorts of reasons why comments get out of sync, so the channel provides an authoritative place where you should be able to see them all.
There is a friction though. I like the idea of a place that only open to people willing to create content, and isn't interested in signups from 'lurkers', but providing a mobile app doesn't seem compatible with that.
they seem to only give accounts to creators
That doesn't seem unreasonable to me. I'll get in trouble for saying it, but I think that PeerTube is for video channels what Lemmy should be for communities. It should be that if you want to start or moderate a community, then you sign up to Lemmy, but if you just want to interact with one, you use a user account provided by software that's fully geared up around users (e.g. Mastodon).
Ignoring for the moment that Lemmy's federation model hasn't been widely adopted, and that comments from Mastodon that appear in Lemmy often have annoying Hashtag / Mention spam, my fantasy version of a post in a Lemmy community would look something like https://tilvids.com/w/wjTD7fp9qy4KmTkBdSoWyc, which was created by a PeerTube user, but has been commented on and voted for by users from Mastodon, Sharkey, PieFed, other PeerTube instances, and MBIN.
Amongst those subscribers, commenters, and voters should be Lemmy users, of course. In this thread, it feels like PeerTube is being criticised by people who want to use it in a way that it's not designed for, because they can't interact with it from their Lemmy account. If inter-op was better, there'd be no need to create a new account anywhere, and it would have a network effect - the channels that people are trying to discover would already have been brought in by other users, and findable through a conventional Lemmy search. Also, the votes and comments from Lemmy users that are currently going to whoever takes a PeerTube video and posts it in the likes of !videos@lemmy.world, would instead be going to original creator. This would also aid discovery (since people would be more likely to see the channel in 'all'), and might have also some incentivising influence on the creator.
Basically, I blame Lemmy.
Loïc Nottet - Mr/Mme (Bruxelles)
I don't understand French, but found this music video to be captivating nevertheless.
You don't need the Fediverse, we have the Fediverse at home ...
(the top image is a screenshot of a post that was on Lemmy, but then it was removed.)
Hurricane Helene Isn’t an Outlier. It’s a Harbinger.
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
Bottoms up! Ontario councillor under fire for drinking beer during meeting
globalnews.ca Bottoms up! Ontario councillor under fire for drinking beer during meeting | Globalnews.ca
A London, Ont., councilor can't recall whether he was drinking a beer or a zero beer after being caught drinking a frothy, amber liquid during a televised council meeting.
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 shifting jet stream has magnified wildfires and plagues. What’s next?
New research shows that the patterns of Earth’s high winds have led to serious problems on the ground.
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.”
Busybox 1.37 is tiny but capable, the way we like Linux tools to be
go.theregister.com Busybox 1.37 is out – tiny but capable
Self-proclaimed Swiss Army knife of embedded Linux moves slow and fixes things in latest release
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.
Not just AI datacenters needing own power: Taiwanese server-maker Quanta has bought microgrids
go.theregister.com Server-maker Quanta buys microgrids to make AI hardware
California utilities couldn't deliver for hyperscalers' favorite hardware slinger
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
'Botched insulation means mushrooms grow on my walls'
www.bbc.com Mould misery as botched insulation sparks calls for action
MPs and Citizens Advice urge the government to address regulation of the sector.
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.