Make this sound better: we’re aware of the outage at Site A, we are working as quick as possible to get things back online

How does this work in practice? I suspect you’re just going to get an email that takes longer for everyone to read, and doesn’t give any more information (or worse, gives incorrect information). Your prompt seems like what you should be sending in the email.

If the model (or context?) was good enough to actually add useful, accurate information, then maybe that would be different.

I think we’ll get to the point really quickly where a nice concise message like in your prompt will be appreciated more than the bloated, normalised version, which people will find insulting.

Image: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson.

Ouch

Especially:

that the leader can go beyond slogans

It’s perfect.

There’s a new fentanyl king in town. Good luck stopping it now you fuckers.

The funny part is that Congress can’t remove the tariffs by passing a bill because it would then require Trump’s signature to become law. So much for checks and balances.

Thankfully there at least a way around that.

In the United States, the president can use the veto power to prevent a bill passed by the Congress from becoming law. Congress can override the veto by a two-thirds vote of both chambers.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veto_power_in_the_United_States

He started off trying to justify tarriffs based on (his misunderstanding of) the trade deficit. At least that was vaguely relevant to international trade.

Now he just wants a show of respect, and a token one at that, so it’s tempting to just do some useless shit with helicopters to make him go away.

In exchange for electoral reform? 🤞

This sounds like good engineering, but surely there’s not a big gap with their competitors. They are spending tens of millions on hardware and energy, and this is something a handful of (very good) programmers should be able to pull off.

Unless I’m missing something, It’s the sort of thing that’s done all the time on console games.

I found this blog post which gets into activitypub location metadata and integrating it with OSM.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/

Sound promising actually.

Any suggestions for avoiding Google maps reviews? The best I can think of is looking for threads on local subreddits for e.g. restaurants. Unfortunately there’s not much of a local community on the fediverse yet.

They can do that, but I believe the various laws about openness in advertising make it pretty hard to hide ads from the client.

Isn’t the bluesky client open source? That would make it harder to force ads on everyone.

Can someone ask Rick if he wants to be PM? He would clean up in an election, right?

This novel: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

I still think Infinite Jest is in pole position:

• unqualified populist US president
• canada (and mexico?) subjugated to the US
• subsidised time (selling everything including the calendar to the highest bidder)
• catapulting garbage into giant superfund sites

edit: also I think we can be on track for both Infinite Jest and Idiocracy

Something that worries me about that is attestation. This is the advice from the GrapheneOS Devs:

https://grapheneos.org/articles/attestation-compatibility-guide

They’re asking app developers to trust their keys specifically, which would mean that the app might work on GrapheneOS, but not my fork of GrapheneOS with some cherry picked fix I want.

It would be much better if we stamped this out now, before all online services require attestation.

Lemmy format allows having an actual dialogue

It’s great for seeing existing dialogue, but I think it falls short for long term discussion between more than two people.

On a non-threaded board (e.g. forums, github issues) you can watch a thread you’re interested in. On Lemmy/reddit you only get notifications for direct responses to your comments.

I think some sort of option to watch/unwatch whole subtrees of comments would help a lot.

The Nova Scotia liberals got so desperate this last election that they promised electoral reform.

So everyone other than the conservatives were in support of it, but they still couldn’t cooperate to run candidates strategically.

The liberals and ndp could form an alliance to pass proportional representation and then immediately call another election.

I have to assume most liberals don’t actually want that to happen, and the cpc would go hard on calling it undemocratic.

That Purple Mountains album is great. It’s just heartbreaking that it ended up being a suicide note.