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Isn’t picts-rs just something that runs on one server and just handles converting and resizing images? The new remote media storage stuff could run that, but the point is to allow more centralised servers so not every instance needs to individually store, process and transmit media.
Not just media, things like searching the Fediverse can be handled by a dedicated server, shared (or not) by multiple servers. Also spam detection, link preview generation, etc.
We will implement a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider (FASP) that will allow sharing storage and media processing between servers.
This is pretty big too, as the cost and legal risks of hosting this user content is high. They’ve clearly thought about the media moderation problems too:
We will build a reference implementation of a Automated Content Detection service, again as a new Fediverse Auxiliary Service Provider with an open protocol.
This will allow server owners to opt-in to use external tools to scan content for spam, illegal materials, etc in order to help them fight bad actors; they could self-host these tools if they choose to do so, or share the infrastructure with other servers for better efficiency.
Another problem is that system requires agreeing on what a week is, and there’s disagreement over if Sunday starts or ends the week.
When Shakespeare mentioned it in Romeo and Juliet it was already old. The proverb “a cat has nine lives, for three he plays, for three he strays, and for three he stays” is older than the USA. Nine is often seen as an magic/auspicious number in Anglo-Saxon culture, which the US is very influenced by.
The multiple lives thing goes back to the ancient Egyptians, who believed cats were divine creatures and were incarnations of the goddess Bastet (who had the power to reincarnate herself nine times). The Bastet link makes me think that nine is the “right” number of lives.
The “download” buttons link to images that end in ~large.jpg but if you change them to ~orig.jpg you get the original images (they even still have the EXIF data).
Thanks, I accidentally a word
Hopefully the techies don’t destroy all the backups and it can be put back online once this current madness is history.
Pure water has a pH of 7.0, which is neutral, although it will draw in C0₂ from the air and form carbonic acid so I guess you’re technically right. Sea water is slightly alkaline.
I would like to see more finely-grained feedback than just “no”. Particularly as it forces the voter to justify why they’re downvoting.
Some posts/contents are bad because they’re spam, abusive, or against the rules, or in the wrong place - downvoting these is useful crowd-sourced moderation, particularly for things that don’t warrant a mod report.
Some are just indisputably wrong and it’s a useful signal that the poster is talking rubbish. Then there’s the grey area.
Sometimes it’s just that the poster’s opinion is unpopular, and people are downvoting to suppress views they disagree with - I think that’s not a good thing for a discussion and encourages echo chambers. I like the idea of one of the downvote options being “I disagree” and that basically not doing anything.
I believe Piefed let’s you restrict downvotes to people that are subscribers. I think that’s a good solution to idiots downvoting from all just because they’re not interested in or understanding the post and/or the community it’s in. I also wonder if people even understand that they’re not training an algorithm, just dragging people’s posts down.
No, they used female as an adjective when describing their friend. I agree it’s unpleasant when people talk about “females” but that’s not what happened here.
No, I never got to a happy place with this feature. I was trying to parse the wikitext (the markup language used for MediaWiki) but it’s a hairy beast so I thought about parsing the output html instead. Then the site started being really unreliable and I put the transcriptions on the back burner.
Just in case everyone doesn’t already know, urine can provoke jellyfish stingers to release even more venom. Use vinegar or rubbing alcohol instead, or, falling that, seawater.
I just got back from watching this - when I found my other half hadn’t heard any spoilers it was an obvious choice what to watch. I’d read the book four years ago, so I remembered the story but not all the details.
We both had a great time and would heartily recommend it. Ryan Gosling filled out the character to a fuller extent then I remember from the book (I think Weir has gone on record admitting that character depth is his weak spot) and I can’t fault the supporting cast. The score is excellent - lots of choral elements that suits the majesty of space. The visuals made me glad I was seeing it on the big screen.
They really speed-ran the early part of the book, but it would be a very long film if they added everything and I think it’s a good adaptation of the book, and fairly faithful. They did include the setup (in a Chekhov’s gun sense) to some things that weren’t then mentioned; I wonder if that’s as a nod to the book readers or if the rest is on the cutting room floor.
I hear they’re going to do Artemis next, which I didn’t read due to the abysmal reviews. I think it’ll be worth watching as I expect they’ll fix the flaws (which iirc was partly that it was just Watney again but in a unconvincing female role) but I won’t read the book first.
“The reason that tech generally — and coders in particular — see LLMs differently than everyone else is that in the creative disciplines, LLMs take away the most soulful human parts of the work and leave the drudgery to you,” [the author] says. “And in coding, LLMs take away the drudgery and leave the human, soulful parts to you.”
wtf is he talking about? You get to do spec writing, code reviews, QA and debugging - this is far from the joyful part of coding.
Funny that Flatpack is one of the most popular distros.
My email uses greylisting which is where the first email received from a server gets a “busy” response - the idea being that spammers just fire and forget whereas real mailers will retry.
Unfortunately, some senders take so long to resend that it’s timed out. The second time will work though. Unless they have multiple servers. Some have so many servers that you have to do this a multitude of times until you lose the will to login or forget what you were going to do anyway.
They do give a clue as to a reason/excuse why not in the article:
Also, they come up with so many false positives that it’s a huge job to check over the reports for something usable.