FYI under the hood, all reactions are recorded as an upvote. No need for both.

Check this out

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Scarborough+Shoal/@15.100266,117.7601408,35574m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x33eac40a29e58811:0x68aa73d0f15ed504!8m2!3d15.2191312!4d117.7402694!16zL20vMDYzbnp3!5m1!1e1?entry=ttu&g_ep=EgoyMDI2MDgxOS4wIKXMDSoASAFQAw%3D%3D

It’s almost an atoll, the water is very shallow over a wide area. China can ‘reclaim’ the land and make a static aircraft carrier out of it, like Guam. They already did this in some similar islands, the Spratly Islands: https://www.uscc.gov/research/chinas-island-building-south-china-sea-damage-marine-environment-implications-and

and nearby, Subu Reef.

also Mischief Reef and Gavin Reef, Johnson South Reef, and more.

Needless to say, this completely tanks the ecology of the area and makes traditional uses by locals impossible.

Not yet, there is no publicity released code by the powers that be so we can do it locally, only some sketchy reverse engineered stuff that might not work. At present you need to use googles API to check a Synthid watermark, which is far from ideal.

I’m not pretending there isn’t a class war. That would be silly of me.

When people start acting like the class war is happening right here between their fellow fedi citizens, that’s when it becomes a bit unhinged.

Yes I’d love it if people only voted on posts they have taken the time to fully read but that ship has sailed so we might as well do the same for reactions.

Ok this functionality is working great now. The problem I had was caused by having the ‘Only moderators may post’ setting ON for the community, and the rss feed bot account is not a moderator.

I made these as examples:

!bbc_rss@crust.piefed.social

!aljazeera_rss@crust.piefed.social

!rnz_rss@crust.piefed.social

!positive_rss@crust.piefed.social

!long_reads_rss@crust.piefed.social

It’s a good place for China to put a bunch of radars and anti ship missiles. Maybe an airstrip too.

Yes, that message needs tweaking.

Another thing that can cause that message to be displayed is if mods have not been active for 3+ months. In that case it’d be best to talk to the admin team on the source instance.

I’m wary of making it easier for spammers to find abandoned communities, however.

Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion.

Slopcoders are flooding it.

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Yep. I’m sure we’ve all learned a lot since then.

We know that socialism has in the past made the same trade-off between the environment the economic growth. That the environmental damage wasn’t even worse might have more to do with how bad they were at growing their economy than anything else. I don’t know, I wasn’t there.

It’s going to take more than eating the rich. Workers will need to be continually on their guard against the centralization of power and the emergence of a disconnected elite that happened every other time socialism was tried (and every time capitalism was tried, to be fair).

Take it easy. artyom might just be mistaken you don’t need to turn it into a class war.

Yes.

I was referring to the past. Chernobyl, Baku, Aral Sea, Norilsk, Liaoning, etc all of which were very messy places while being run in a command economy.

It’s a compelling argument but I’d find it even more compelling if historical countries like USSR and China where the working class “won” had better environmental records than they do.

lolsob

Oh yes, re: ephemeral - the retention policy for a community has to be set by an instance admin so wherever you have your rss communities will involve getting an admin to set that for you, once you’ve created them all.

Yes the latest release of PieFed includes this functionality.

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2285233/piefed-v1-7-11-is-released-finding-and-adding-people-to-follow-posts-from-rss-feeds-and

For example, !aljazeera_rss@crust.piefed.social

It is off by default (most instances will not want to be a source of so many bot posts) but if you make an account on crust.piefed.social you can make some communities and add feeds into those communities. BTW right after you add the feeds the community will be empty - only new RSS content from that point on will be added as posts.

You could check with the piefed.zip admins to see if they plan to turn this on or not.

I’m still working out the kinks - !bbc_rss@crust.piefed.social doesn’t work yet for some reason. Hopefully will be fixed this weekend.

I believe it is working but will switch myself to manual approving to see for sure.

The next billion dollar company will be a wrapper around Claude that strips out the em dashes.

I got an email from a client last week asking me to install an AI-generated list of containers onto a server. The key container, the database at the center of the whole system, has commits from Claude in it’s git repository. Great start guys.

They outsouced the software architect job to a chatbot and then had a veteran of the industry who has been around since the internet equivalent of the big bang install a handful of docker containers. Reverse centaur to the max.

It’s going to hurt in 12 months time if they realise the reason why everything sucks is because they built on sand. But they probably won’t even realise why the project failed because their chatbot won’t be able to tell them why.