For the record, I experienced the same behaviour yesterday the 14th of July, but it didn’t take long. I tried again 5 minutes later and friendica.world was back. Today, it took way longer. 9:38 CET friendica.world is back it seems.

18 July, 09:42 CEST: 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn’t respond in time. @ruud@lemmy.world

15th of July, 8:24 CET, 504 Gateway Time-out. The server didn’t respond in time.

I asked Claude 3.5 Haiku to write me a quine in COBOL in the bs2000 dialect. Claude does now that creating a perfect quine in COBOL is challenging due to the need to represent the self-referential nature of the code. After a few suggestions Claude restated its first draft, without proper BS2000 incantations, without a perform statement, and without any self-referential redefines. It’s a lot of work. I stopped caring and moved on.

For those who wonder: https://sourceforge.net/p/gnucobol/discussion/lounge/thread/495d8008/ has an example.

Colour me unimpressed. I dread the day when they force the use of ‘AI’ on us at work.

I’m using friendica.world more since the 6th of July. My first login on the 6th failed. Since then I haven’t experienced any trouble logging in. Everything is usable since the 7th and performance is a lot better. I’ll report back whenever I experience trouble.

LibreCalc and python for the win! I just love from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, import json, import re, import urllib.request.

Friendica.world is down again. I read @ruud@friendica.world’s explanation yesterday. I hope they figure it out.

It’s down again right now. I see the @ruud@lemmy.world is working on it.