Dave

@Dave@lemmy.world
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I think the USA's National Weather Service Twitter presence is a good example.

If you look deep enough you'll see caveats like "supplemental service provided by NWS" and "Twitter feeds and tweets do not always reflect the most current information", but the truth is that a lot of people (and news organizations) depend on Twitter as their main interface to the NWS, and rarely if ever go to their website.

That obviously creates a tension, which bubbles up in scares like this:

Before last weekend’s storm, the National Weather Service’s Baltimore-Washington office sent this tweet saying that because of a new Twitter policy, automated tweets that show advisories, watches, and warnings might not load.

Contrast that to a world where NOAA (the federal administration which runs NWS) has their own instance: they get the benefit of being able to disseminate updates in a consumer friendly 'social media' style and they retain full control of platform and can be sure the service won't be held hostage, or go down in the middle of a storm.

Finally: if you're reading this from the USA, consider contact NOAA/NWS to let them know you'd like a fediverse presence, I did!

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The meals will (I assume) be allocated on inmate numbers, so the animal will be reared, killed, transported, then thrown in the trash because someone doesn't want to eat it.

More generally this is the weird 'opt out' culture of food, where vegan is considered the exceptional position, which is kinda stupid, in my opinion.

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For me it's Half Life 2 because I have such a specific and vivid memory of playing it the first time in my rainy London flat in 2004.

It was this exact moment when I had the experience, for the first time in my life, that:

I'm in this world, I am a part of the game.

Funny OP calls out Half Life: Alyx as one of the best VR games, when VR is all about being 'immersive'.

But for me that moment 16 years earlier will always be the moment I first experienced being 'immersed' in a video game.

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And be sure to follow them on the fediverse: @BBC_News_Labs@social.bbc

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Speaker of the House, Mike Johnson:

It scans all the activity on your phone, or your devices, your laptop, what have you; we do all of it,” Johnson told the panel about the app

It sends a report to your accountability partner. My accountability partner right now is Jack, my son. He’s 17. So he and I get a report about all the things that are on our phones, all of our devices, once a week. If anything objectionable comes up, your accountability partner gets an immediate notice. I’m proud to tell ya, my son has got a clean slate.”

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/mike-johnson-son-monitor-porn-intake-covenant-eyes-1234870634/

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I fell in love with him after the execution of the Dasani video. Walking backward ten minute single take, amazing: https://youtu.be/wD79NZroV88

A lemmy for video streaming

Ask and you shall receive: https://joinpeertube.org/

There are even companies springing up who will run and host it for you, for a price, of course.

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We read the reviews, we figured it couldn't be that bad. It was worse. https://maps.app.goo.gl/Vd7ce36pNzdWb5vRA

Did you see spin off Practical Construction yet? That's next level production, my wife laughed at me waiting for next ep like it's GoT or something.

Also do you notice that YT never pushes PBS videos? I'm subscribed but always have to go to channel.

Since you like a lot of same as me: check out Climate Town.

Can anyone speak to the difference of the data returned in the options given, or is it the same any they're just trying to do analytics?

  • General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
  • California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) / California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA)

OP using word 'convinced' is relevant here because whilst most people in USA 'need' a car (because there is no practical alternative to driving), they are being convinced every day that a private car is the only viable solution to transport in general...

... and then of course you get everyone freaking out when someone has the audacity to suggest that installing a dedicated bike / bus lane would mean less people need a car, and that would save everyone time and money.

Also while I'm ranting, I'm so over people harping on about how they can't rely on public transit and that's why they need a car. Like reliable and affordable public transport is some magical and unobtainable goal.

But then when gas prices inevitably get crazy high, or they get in a wreck, or traffic is a mess then that's just The Way It Is and in no way an indication that maybe everyone driving a personal car for every single trip isn't the most reliable or sustainable way to run a city.

I've been really enjoying https://nebula.tv/, but yes, I wish they'd built it on top of PeerTube.

Forgive me for only TLDW and not watching, but was ack mentioned?

I've never looked back.

Indirect, but you could run a Storj node and donate the profits to a good cause of your choice.

Also, assuming you don't buy more hardware, and you believe sustainability is a good cause, then running a node in itself is a good thing.

This seems like a direction https://ground.news/ could go in.

Well yes, this is the problem isn't it:

  1. Monopoly X sucks
  2. Federated alternatives developed
  3. People complain that there's not enough content on them

Bwahaha:

4) Even if you do want a pizza, you should probably be careful with this provider. In testing, I once nearly ordered every item on the Domino's menu, which would probably have been expensive and embarrassing.

Reminds me of the old adage:

A computer lets you make more mistakes faster than any invention in human history -- with the possible exceptions of hand guns and tequila.

Not presently, see discussion here.

10/10 would visit again.

Flashbacks to when I lived in the UK and so much misinformation in the (failed) referendum to get it there.

Made me realize: Consider the average voter and then consider explaining the merits of different voting systems to them. It'll never happen.

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Here's the definition of default I'm using (from Google):

a preselected option adopted by a computer program or other mechanism when no alternative is specified by the user or programmer. (weird it specifies "a computer program or other mechanism", but whatever)

My argument is that the default meal including meat is what makes including meat the most popular choice, not the other way around.

I don't think it's over yet, hopefully cool heads will prevail with a new owners. But I think it's important to keep pressure up as users.

This. I'm a computer programmer, never been in a union, but after twenty years of startups I cannot believe how good it is to be at a small, stable, employee owned company.

Only looking back do I realize that the people doing the actual work were never in control, and just how damaging that is.

To pour you life and soul into building something (time, and time again), and then have it taken away from you again, and again.

Never going back.

Well, not necessarily, right? It could be funded any number of ways, but on YT you're locked in to either watching their ads, or paying their premium.

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I think, I hope that search engines could solve this?

Latest ep. of Strict Scrutiny podcast ("AITA? SCOTUS Edition") has a good deep dive on this.

Whatever you pick checkout Yousician if they have it. It's great for learning.

I really struggle, but with the recent and dramatic exception of the 2021 movie "Cow". I'd love to know if others find it as peaceful as I did.

It is a movie shot from the perspective of a cow.

There are no "words". Just following a cow. It's beautiful.

Sure, but you could e.g. start with slop and then let people request something different. That's what I meant by 'default'. Perhaps there's a better world?

I sure there's a fancy word in psychology, but it's like if everyone is given choice x automatically, then it shouldn't be a surprise that x seems to be what people prefer.

I've noticed a similar thing in the Subway sandwich store: there are approximately the same number of vegetables and meats available, but if you look at the menu there is just one 'veggie' option, and a multitude of different meat combinations.

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It could be set up in a way that the publications get paid per view of their articles

This is idea behind the BAT token and the Brave Browser¹. Unfortunately it won't break through paywalls, but ad blocking is pretty good and in theory is less guilt.

¹ although, there is this

Nice link, I missed that one, and it cites a study too, so bonus points there (although, the primary author giving a @gmail.com is a little weird...).

I did end up filling out form on Amen Clinic website and never could get any information beyond being told I should speak with one of their 'specialists'. No pricing info, no insurance info. Red flags all around!

Because humans don't need meat to survive.

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