kglitch

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

There are no current plans to build an app or to make an API that Lemmy apps could use. At the moment I'm focused on getting the web-based experience as good as it can get.

For now, try the PWA, it's pretty nice.

how to install the 'app'

 

In the next week or two, kglitch.social will be shutting down, to free up server resources for https://piefed.social, a new kbin/lemmy alternative written in Python.

PieFed is currently pretty new and needs people to use it a bit, to make all the bugs show themselves. Please jump in and let me know what you find!

https://join.piefed.social/2024/01/05/piefed-begins-beta-test/

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

ooo, that does sound handy!

Looks like OBS is the goto. Thanks.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Which app do you use for screen recording? That's the only thing keeping me on X11.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 7 months ago (3 children)

I apologise for my dismissive tone earlier. Thanks for putting your idea out there 🙂

[–] [email protected] 22 points 7 months ago (6 children)

...aaand this is why chatgpt is no substitute for expertise.

It's "generative" AI, in that it generates lists of words that fit together. But it has no actual understanding of anything so the stuff it generates is totally surface, middle-of-the-road whatever-you-want-to-hear.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 8 months ago (5 children)

With some ways of looking at things, the world as a whole is getting better, rather than worse.

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20190111-seven-reasons-why-the-world-is-improving

https://www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/bill-melinda-gates-foundation-goalkeepers-report-poverty/671415/

I'm pretty sure long covid and climate chaos will put a stop to that soon enough but we'll see. For now, some stuff is getting worse and some stuff is getting better.

[–] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

If going vegan is too much for you, just stop eating beef and switch to soy milk.

The emissions per calorie from beef are way way higher than any other form of meat.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

The IPCC report must be agreed upon by representatives from every country. Including Saudi Arabia, and USA. So you can imagine how "conservative" it is compared to reality. Anything slightly uncomfortable gets negotiated down to the point where the oil-producing countries are fine with it.

The 195 member countries of the IPCC sign off on different parts of the report. The summaries for policymakers are “approved,” meaning that “the material has been subject to detailed, line-by-line discussion” between the member countries and the authors. The synthesis reports are “adopted,” which implies “a section-by-section discussion.” And the full report, which this year runs nearly 4,000 pages long, is “accepted,” which means both parties agree that “the technical summary and chapters of the underlying report present a comprehensive, objective, and balanced view of the subject matter.”

https://qz.com/2044703/how-governments-of-the-world-have-responded-to-the-ipcc-report

If people find the IPCC reports alarming as they are, imagine how alarming the draft from the scientists is before the Saudis, Russians and Americans get out the black markers.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 8 months ago (3 children)

The article claims it's source is Euro-Med Monitor but https://euromedmonitor.org makes no mention of organ harvesting. No press release, blog post or anything.

Lots of other ghastly stuff though, holy shit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (5 children)

As long as a deleted post is no longer visible in the publicly-accessible parts of the site, that would be enough verification for me.

I don't know how the GDPR authorities verify compliance with mainstream proprietary closed source apps, do you?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Yes, although the server will not ignore the deletion activity if that server is running Lemmy. We're talking about Lemmy here, not the fediverse as a whole. OP singled out Lemmy in the post title and said "lemmy devs are not concerned with..."

I'm sure there is more to be done in this area. It'd be great to know for sure which software treats deletion activities properly (I'm really unsure about Kbin, I think it does not) and which does not so instance admins can make informed decisions about who they federate with. Perhaps this information could be made available right within the UI that Lemmy admins use to control their instance, rather than an obscure documentation page somewhere...

IMO having deletes federate should be part of a minimum standard all fediverse software has to meet (plus mod tools, spam control, csam filters, etc) before it is allowed to federate but obviously we're nowhere near having that sort of social organisation.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Near Ho Chi Minh city there are some tunnels like this which they let tourists go into and crawl along for a few hundred meters before coming up somewhere else. They were very very skinny, some of the tourists could not fit. Utterly terrifying places, when you think about the context they were used in.

Afterwards I paid $50 to fire a few shots from an AK-47. Surprisingly loud. Hard to imagine coping with several of them going off all around.

 

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I'm currently building an open source Kbin/Lemmy clone that will eventually replace the Kbin software at kglitch.social. It is still in very early stages of development so I expect the current Kbin setup will continue unchanged for about another 6 months. Maybe longer. There is no need to immediately move.

The new system is written in Python, using the Flask framework and a MySQL/PostgreSQL database. It's code is simple and clean with few dependencies making it easy to deploy and maintain. The code will be accessible enough to new and intermediate developers that they can contribute productively with only a small familiarization effort.

The UI design draws inspiration from old.reddit, current reddit, kbin and lemmy, in that order. The issues around onboarding and discoverability are top of mind.

Rather than aiming for massive scale and cloud deployment (and all the complexity and cathedral code that come with that) it will be for small to medium servers. This will help keep the system simple and friendly.

The codebase is still too young for others to get involved - I'm still laying the foundations that will set the tone for how to proceed. Once it starts to become more real I'll share more about it.

 

A single injection of a novel CRISPR gene-editing treatment safely and efficiently removes SIV—a virus related to the AIDS-causing agent HIV—from the genomes of non-human primates, scientists at the Lewis Katz School of Medicine at Temple University now report. The groundbreaking work complements previous experiments as the basis for the first-ever clinical trial of an HIV gene-editing technology in human patients, which was authorized by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2022.

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