I have many friends who won't get off Twitter becauee they follow journalists and subject-domain experts and are addicted to realtime, breaking news.

If large news-gathering organizations mandate their news staff to have presence elsewhere, or provide tools to let them simultaneously post and engage in other places, that will go a long way toward breaking the bottleneck.

Did they get 'truthy' from The Colbert Report?

I have family that lives in San Jose and this is a common topic of conversation at family gatherings.

Everyone that bought houses got them years (and decades) ago, before all this insanity. On paper, their property values have gone up, but so have their property taxes. Those who locked in their mortgages at fixed rates at least aren't seeing their monthly payments go up, but those who took out HELOCs to fix something up have watched the payments multiply.

If they sell, they're worried a big chunk will be taken out for capital gains and they will have to move far away or even out of state for what they could afford. Those with college age kids worry that their kids will never be able to live near them (so they can see their grandkids). And those retired on fixed income are watching as property taxes and high local inflation chips away at their savings.

It's a strange quandary. Doesn't seem sustainable.

https://about.flipboard.com/fediverse/how-to-get-started-in-the-fediverse/

This one was posted a little while ago: https://sh.itjust.works/post/22602330

Oh man, wish I had known about this earlier. Sorry I missed it.

Combine an ESOP with a Public Benefit or B-corp and you get a pretty spicy variation on how a business can be organized.

The repository included the private portion of the platform key in encrypted form. The encrypted file, however, was protected by a four-character password, a decision that made it trivial for Binarly, and anyone else with even a passing curiosity, to crack the passcode and retrieve the corresponding plain text.

It's like installing a top-of-the-line alarm system for your house with camera, motion detector, alarm, and immobilizing gas, then leaving the unlock password on a PostIt under the welcome mat.

I intentionally kept historical imports out, since Reddit is blocking APIs under the guise of limiting AI scraping.

My main point was setting up an easier way for low-tech mods to set up a parallel community, then nudge users to move over.

They do realize this could encourage some idiots to try this and end up hurting a lot more people?

Could there be a one-click way to automatically 'import' a Reddit subreddit over to a Lemmy community? Meaning, create it, import the sidebars, welcomes, rules, graphics, etc. so it looks familiar to regular users. If not, at least a step-by-step tutorial on how mods could do it.

Another option would be to provide something like a crossposting Chrome or Firefox extension that lets people simultaneously post content to both Reddit and Lemmy. Give them a smooth transition path.

Lastly, the Bluesky concept of 'pluggable algorithms' is one way to make it so users can choose whatever sort works best for their interests.

No shit. People have known about the perils of feeding simulator output back in as input for eons. The variance drops off so you end up with zero new insights and a gradual worsening due to entropy.

Threads for daily games of favorite MLB teams. Where people posted realtime takes during the game.

Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has an original, captured WW-II U-505 submarine: https://www.msichicago.org/explore/whats-here/exhibits/u-505-submarine/

Being near a lake, they had a slightly shorter distance to travel over land. Here's a time-lapse of them moving it into place: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUuQIpVuhCg

Richmondside just started there a couple months ago. They should give them a chance to get on their feet.

The sibling sites in Oakland and Berkeley are not known for hard-hitting muckraking journalism, but they do a solid job covering local issues and go deep into election campaigns.

Thank you. Looks like I'm not alone and people are doing more detailed testing. I'll just wait till the dust settles.

I tried downloading and running the 405B locally through LM-Studio. Got an error message saying invalid tokenizer. Then tried it with ollama. That didn't work either. Going to try the 70B tomorrow.

Not sure it's possible to run the larger ones on a Mac laptop.

Uday and Qusay say what?

https://www.home-assistant.io/voice_control/