The admins are asking what the threat is, and the only response so far has been “but they are evil”.
Aside from the “well duh” factor, and the fact that this wasn’t even a secret, The demo had to happen long before it was ready to ship because the FCC filings were slated to go public and they didn’t want the world to find out about the phone from that source.
This wasn’t the demo of a defective unit shipped to customers, it was the demo of incomplete software and hardware. The reception of the first iPhone was overwhelmingly positive. So much so that Google abandoned their plans for Android being a BlackBerry knockoff.
The whole thing boggles my mind. Keep in mind that a good number of “Pro” users are corporate types running PowerPoint and Excel but certainly wouldn’t stoop to using a consumer model.
In D&D this would pass a group stealth check because more than half of the group passed.
No one is leading or trailing, because no one has voted.
Polls are not even a little bit predictive this far out.
Polls contain no actionable data for voters unless they are looking days before the election and want to strategically vote in a race with more than 2 candidates.
Sinkit for Reddit does the job on iPhones. It isn’t Apollo, but it makes the web interface usable.
I’m not talking about interactions between instances, I’m talking about Google and Bing indexing Mastadon. That’s who we should be using for search.
When the rest of Hasbro’s business is tanking, they need to exploit the one property that is still making money.
Sigh. Time for another round of patents that all say the same thing, except instead of “…but using the internet” they will be “…but using AI”.
No, you are disappointed that Mastadon doesn’t have the same feature set as Twitter. The fact that you can search off instance at all is impressive. What you are asking for is like saying you should find GM cars in Ford’s search bar. Each instance is its own website. Search engines are designed to do what you want, and as Mastadon grows in popularity, it’s search results will become more prominent.
If you can’t explain how the change makes the company more money, it isn’t enshitification.
Shame on you for not laundering the money through a book deal!
(Unless you’re elected President, in which case, bully for you!)
I’ll just add that BBY and Michael’s business mode is to use the Anchoring effect year round, so they can constantly offer 40-60% “discounts”. If you paid full price for anything at those stores (BBY is out of business, but still) you got ripped off.
They simply do not know how to lose.
That’s why they believe there was fraud - they have first-hand knowledge.
If you go to that website directly without logging in, do you see the posts? It is entirely possible that there are no posts there - sports communities aren’t getting a lot of non-bot traffic.
If there are posts, how old are they? If you are sorting by top, you won’t see any posts that were posted outside your selected time frame.
If neither of those are the issue, I’d blame Lemmy.world. They have cloudflare rules that block other instances without listing them as defederated. It is possible they’ve moved to a whitelist or some other trust based model that blocks new instances by default.
This is a side effect of them having been under a near constant DDOS and other cyberattacks, and so is definitely defensible, however it ultimately hurt the UX for me to the point that I just moved to a different instance.
With Reddick and Sweat, he hasn’t been seeing the field much. That’s probably why he wanted out.
Data scrapers don’t need an API, but you are still wrong - there is a Data API for Reddit that anyone can use. If you want to use it at a commercial scale, you just have to pay for it.
How exactly do you think ChatGPT was trained?
The implication is that social media is inherently not private, and it is extremely difficult to have social media benefit you without revealing personal details that can be aggregated to identify you uniquely, if not specifically.
Definitely question the services - that’s why I’m here. I have much more control over my data here than on a commercial, ad driven platform. There is nothing available through the API that isn’t available to logged in user, and remote instances don’t have access to any of my private profile data (the entirety of which is my email address).
It is fine if you don’t like Lemmy, but I challenge you to identify a social media platform that isn’t worse without being so closed that it loses the whole “social” part. If your goal is to have a blog with 4 followers, then you don’t want social media, you want a private Wordpress or wiki instance.
As fun as this postseason has been -- and how it already has an all-timer of an October highlight with the the first 8-5-3 double play in playoff history that ended Game 2 of the Braves-Phillies National League Division Series -- one thing we haven’t seen yet is a decisive
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/11257344 >Don't forget the 8:07 start time (even though I really like the 6 o'clock starts)
Oh snap...could it be?
For those who avoid the nameless website: Maskim was spotted posed with his thumb between his first two fingers.
Book Spoilers - LoC:
> Delana opened her mouth to say that she had never heard of any Halima Saranov, and a woman appeared in the doorway. Delana stared in spite of herself. The woman managed to be slender and lush at the same time, and wore a dark gray riding dress cut ridiculously low; long lustrous black hair framed a green-eyed face that probably made every man who glimpsed it gape. That was not why Delana stared, of course. The woman held her hands at her sides, but with thumbs thrust hard between the first two fingers. Delana had never expected to see that from any woman who did not wear the shawl, and this Halima Saranov could not even channel. She was close enough to be sure of that.
Another short teaser - including Elyas?
[https://twitter.com/i/status/1696584844615225795](https://twitter.com/i/status/1696584844615225795)
SHOW SPOILERS: BBFC content guide reveals episode titles, content warnings
THE WHEEL OF TIME is a fantasy series; in this episode, Moiraine reunites with an estranged family member and a disguised malevolent force makes its presence known.
Show spoilers abound - turn back now!
[Kempski] Handing out 10 awards from the Eagles-Browns preseason game
A forgettable night, but 10 awards for it nevertheless.
Worth it just for the Mariota breakdown.
Shutting down Philly bots for lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4645104
> Hey all, > > Over the past week or so, I’ve been fighting with the bots running on Lemmy.world. Their CloudFlare protections often threw up errors which caused the bots to choke and die during games. I have been trying to figure out how to work around these issues, though the errors weren’t particularly clear in pointing me toward what needed to be corrected. > > This morning, I received a DM from a user (not an admin) letting me know that the bot account @[email protected] had been banned for spamming the mod log. To be clear: there was definitely a bug in the bot - one I had already fixed but hadn’t pulled to the machine running the live bot. The bot got stuck trying to unsticky a post about every 30 seconds. Even though the issue was more annoying than damaging, banning the bot was the right call in this situation. > > That being said, despite their policy requiring bots have contact info for their maintainers, no one at Lemmy.world has contacted me about this. I’m not really surprised about this - the lemmy.world admins are constantly fighting DDOS attacks, and dealing with rogue bots isn’t high on their priority list. > > Another concern is that Lemmy.world is having ongoing federation issues with some instances, including Fanaticus.social, that has been going on for weeks. These instances have not been defederated, however some combination of Lemmy bugs and CloudFlare protection has effectively defederated them. I understand that they are working to address this, but again - this is not lemmy.world’s priority right now. They are working with the admin of fanaticus.social, but despite promises that they will fix it, things are still not resolved. > > So, all of this has led me to the decision to stop running bots on Lemmy.world. This isn’t intended to be some kind of retaliation or protest, it just doesn’t make sense to continue. Lemmy.world has enough of its own problems to deal with, and I don’t want to contribute to their headaches. I personally am frustrated with their lack of availability, so I’m moving my primary login to lemma.ee so I can reliably access communities that don’t live on lemmy.world. > > I am going to continue to run the Philly bots for Fanaticus.social. For those not familiar with it, it is a smaller instance focused on sports communities. The admin is the lead on the Lemmy port of Redball and I’ve been working with him since the start of this effort. Since it isn’t heavily loaded, that instance can survive bot hiccups here and there, and the admin can reach me quickly if there is a serious problem. > > I’m open to running some bots on other instances, though I’m going to hold off on running the NFL bot on anything other than fanaticus until we’re confident that it is stable. I’ll also be avoiding running bots on “big” instances. I don’t think hosting communities on instances with a larger number of users is a good idea, particularly if that instance is already having performance or security issues. I’ll briefly state that I think that the fediverse should have large instances for users, small instances for communities. Without digging into that tangent, if you are interested in discussing it further, I’ve started putting some detailed thoughts about it together here. > > Redball is open source, so anyone is free to run it on whatever instance they choose. I’ll encourage any questions or discussions about Redball on Lemmy be posted here in [email protected]. > > Thanks for understanding. And go Birds/Phils! > > C
Shutting down Philly bots for lemmy.world
cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4645104
> Hey all, > > Over the past week or so, I’ve been fighting with the bots running on Lemmy.world. Their CloudFlare protections often threw up errors which caused the bots to choke and die during games. I have been trying to figure out how to work around these issues, though the errors weren’t particularly clear in pointing me toward what needed to be corrected. > > This morning, I received a DM from a user (not an admin) letting me know that the bot account @[email protected] had been banned for spamming the mod log. To be clear: there was definitely a bug in the bot - one I had already fixed but hadn’t pulled to the machine running the live bot. The bot got stuck trying to unsticky a post about every 30 seconds. Even though the issue was more annoying than damaging, banning the bot was the right call in this situation. > > That being said, despite their policy requiring bots have contact info for their maintainers, no one at Lemmy.world has contacted me about this. I’m not really surprised about this - the lemmy.world admins are constantly fighting DDOS attacks, and dealing with rogue bots isn’t high on their priority list. > > Another concern is that Lemmy.world is having ongoing federation issues with some instances, including Fanaticus.social, that has been going on for weeks. These instances have not been defederated, however some combination of Lemmy bugs and CloudFlare protection has effectively defederated them. I understand that they are working to address this, but again - this is not lemmy.world’s priority right now. They are working with the admin of fanaticus.social, but despite promises that they will fix it, things are still not resolved. > > So, all of this has led me to the decision to stop running bots on Lemmy.world. This isn’t intended to be some kind of retaliation or protest, it just doesn’t make sense to continue. Lemmy.world has enough of its own problems to deal with, and I don’t want to contribute to their headaches. I personally am frustrated with their lack of availability, so I’m moving my primary login to lemma.ee so I can reliably access communities that don’t live on lemmy.world. > > I am going to continue to run the Philly bots for Fanaticus.social. For those not familiar with it, it is a smaller instance focused on sports communities. The admin is the lead on the Lemmy port of Redball and I’ve been working with him since the start of this effort. Since it isn’t heavily loaded, that instance can survive bot hiccups here and there, and the admin can reach me quickly if there is a serious problem. > > I’m open to running some bots on other instances, though I’m going to hold off on running the NFL bot on anything other than fanaticus until we’re confident that it is stable. I’ll also be avoiding running bots on “big” instances. I don’t think hosting communities on instances with a larger number of users is a good idea, particularly if that instance is already having performance or security issues. I’ll briefly state that I think that the fediverse should have large instances for users, small instances for communities. Without digging into that tangent, if you are interested in discussing it further, I’ve started putting some detailed thoughts about it together here. > > Redball is open source, so anyone is free to run it on whatever instance they choose. I’ll encourage any questions or discussions about Redball on Lemmy be posted here in [email protected]. > > Thanks for understanding. And go Birds/Phils! > > C
Shutting down Philly bots for lemmy.world
Hey all,
Over the past week or so, I’ve been fighting with the bots running on Lemmy.world. Their CloudFlare protections often threw up errors which caused the bots to choke and die during games. I have been trying to figure out how to work around these issues, though the errors weren’t particularly clear in pointing me toward what needed to be corrected.
This morning, I received a DM from a user (not an admin) letting me know that the bot account @[email protected] had been banned for spamming the mod log. To be clear: there was definitely a bug in the bot - one I had already fixed but hadn’t pulled to the machine running the live bot. The bot got stuck trying to unsticky a post about every 30 seconds. Even though the issue was more annoying than damaging, banning the bot was the right call in this situation.
That being said, despite their policy requiring bots have contact info for their maintainers, no one at Lemmy.world has contacted me about this. I’m not really surprised about this - the lemmy.world admins are constantly fighting DDOS attacks, and dealing with rogue bots isn’t high on their priority list.
Another concern is that Lemmy.world is having ongoing federation issues with some instances, including Fanaticus.social, that has been going on for weeks. These instances have not been defederated, however some combination of Lemmy bugs and CloudFlare protection has effectively defederated them. I understand that they are working to address this, but again - this is not lemmy.world’s priority right now. They are working with the admin of fanaticus.social, but despite promises that they will fix it, things are still not resolved.
So, all of this has led me to the decision to stop running bots on Lemmy.world. This isn’t intended to be some kind of retaliation or protest, it just doesn’t make sense to continue. Lemmy.world has enough of its own problems to deal with, and I don’t want to contribute to their headaches. I personally am frustrated with their lack of availability, so I’m moving my primary login to lemma.ee so I can reliably access communities that don’t live on lemmy.world.
I am going to continue to run the Philly bots for Fanaticus.social. For those not familiar with it, it is a smaller instance focused on sports communities. The admin is the lead on the Lemmy port of Redball and I’ve been working with him since the start of this effort. Since it isn’t heavily loaded, that instance can survive bot hiccups here and there, and the admin can reach me quickly if there is a serious problem.
I’m open to running some bots on other instances, though I’m going to hold off on running the NFL bot on anything other than fanaticus until we’re confident that it is stable. I’ll also be avoiding running bots on “big” instances. I don’t think hosting communities on instances with a larger number of users is a good idea, particularly if that instance is already having performance or security issues. I’ll briefly state that I think that the fediverse should have large instances for users, small instances for communities. Without digging into that tangent, if you are interested in discussing it further, I’ve started putting some detailed thoughts about it together here.
Redball is open source, so anyone is free to run it on whatever instance they choose. I’ll encourage any questions or discussions about Redball on Lemmy be posted here in [email protected].
Thanks for understanding. And go Birds/Phils!
C