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Chinese climbers stuck on cliff for more than an hour due to overcrowding
  • That quotation and the other one in the article seem to be from comments on the social media posts, not comments from people actually on the cliff.

  • Queer.af mastodon instance has been shut down by the Taliban
  • I have two .af domain names that got suspended as well. I don't even think they had a single DNS record set right now, but I had short-term plans for them. Oh well.

  • Meta documents show 100,000 children sexually harassed daily on its platforms
  • Fair point, but we should celebrate any privacy wins we can get. That privacy is a consideration at all is a good start.

  • Uncontrolled chemical reactions fuel crises at LA County's two largest landfills
  • I recently asked about this while touring a landfill in northern California.

    Only some types of waste can be composted, and large scale compost buyers are very picky about what went into the compost. Residential compost tends to have very unpredictable contents, so it's basically impossible to sell it to anyone but small businesses or individuals, and some of these programs end up giving it away for free.

    But yeah I don't think most of this could be turned into compost anyway, especially at this scale.

  • Left the water running
  • It's a render. Sorry for the Reddit link, but this seems to be where the artist posted and discussed it:

    https://www.reddit.com/r/LiminalSpace/comments/so0ppq/90_of_my_time_was_spent_making_the_falling_water/

  • I use arch btw :3
  • This should help.

  • Rule: With the utmost sincerity, I cannot recommend viewing this AI-generated image. (NSFW, Extreme Parental Guidance Suggested)
  • With the utmost sincerity, I recommend deleting this and erasing all known copies.

  • Businesses can discriminate against their customers? Alright then...
  • It's complicated and the implications and scope are not entirely clear.

    The court stated that creative works such as web design qualify as a form of speech, and that the first amendment does not allow the government to use law to force creators to speak any message — especially one with which they disagree. Essentially, any business with something that might be considered speech as its product or service may be free to discriminate against protected classes. We aren't sure how far this will extend in practice, but I expect many will test it.

    In this case of this post, it depends on what is being sold.

    Edit: wrote this before my coffee and thus neglected to point out what replies said: political affiliation is not a protected class in America and these signs are a bit misleading. See replies.

  • TIL human bodies can incinerate and turn to ash and dust instantly during a rapid implosion
  • There have been credible reports that they had initiated an emergency ascent, though I am not sure if this is a certainty. If it's true, they were definitely aware that they were in serious danger long enough to make and enact that decision.

  • Owners destroyed the soul of their own house
  • I found a real estate listing for the house (yes, you could own this beauty), but I don't know if posting it would count as doxxing per community rules, so I won't. In any case, this is not a business.

    They want £300k+. Based on what was written, the whole idea was minimal maintenance and maximum room for parking. The back yard/back "garden" is the same as the front: just a bunch of tile. The interior is less offensive, but just what you'd expect: very modern, lots of black and white and bold shapes.

  • There’s a twitch
  • With the right circumstances, you can sometimes see the actor's pulse on their neck. Sometimes they'll hold their breath or breathe slowly, but there's not much you can do about the heart.

  • Interesting difference from Reddit: Upvotes/Downvotes are not anonymous
  • I don't quite follow this. It might be a slow query with a full scan, but you could select on user-id, join post-ids with community-ids, and aggregate how a user votes in various communities, or do an export that joins votes and posts to analyze for word-clusters they up/down or whatever.

    I think they mean you couldn't exclusively pre-aggregate it to a vote tally on the post record and not track it per user. It must be tracked on a per-user per-post basis (in some way).

  • LIVE: CBS confirms, debris from Titan submersible indicates rapid and catastrophic implosion. The people on board are believed to be dead.
  • The 19-year-old reportedly told family he was terrified. It was Father's Day and his father is very interested in the Titanic, so he went anyway. He was just trying to impress and relate to his father.

  • Oh cool
  • At that point, many structures would not provide adequate protection. Sometimes I miss Oklahoma weather, but... not like that.

  • Has reddit addressed the forced restoration of deleted comments in interviews?
  • Yes, that's also happening. But many users have reported deleting or editing comments and finding those specific comments restored hours later.

  • Vote for the name of this new Kbin and Lemmy iOS app under development!
  • Good news: it is not iOS only. I'm not sure why the poster put that in the title. It is going to be cross-platform. The beta sign-ups are evenly split between platforms. @hariette has posted about this a few times.

  • Reddit's unpopular changes were inspired by Elon Musk's layoffs & cost-cutting
  • Neither, though it behaves a bit like a mirror. It is a Twitter client that fetches data server-side.

    Brief summary here: https://nitter.net/about

  • Does kbin allow 3rd party apps / development?
  • there's nothing stopping anyone from making mobile apps are alternative web front-ends

    The biggest thing stopping people is the fact that the API does not actually work. As far as I can tell, every API endpoint (slowly) returns:

    {
        "@context": "/api/contexts/Error",
        "@type": "hydra:Error",
        "hydra:title": "An error occurred",
        "hydra:description": "Internal Server Error"
    }
    
    

    In order for anyone to build new clients, the API first needs to be finished. Unfortunately, the choice of using PHP/Symfony is going to hinder that due to its incredibly low popularity. I got my start in software engineering by professionally writing PHP, but I haven't touched it in at least 15 years.

    I'm currently trying to find my way around kbin-core, and it is a mess. There are almost no comments (and some commented-out code with no explanation), huge amounts of what I assume are stubs, and the commit log is a nightmare (commit descriptions are meaningless and repeated, like four commits in a row with only "Post expand fix" as a description).

    This needs a lot of work before anyone should start trying to build API integrations.