There’s actually a small community at !kagi@programming.dev.

It says that they found fox droppings, but, then, some years back I remember when they hired a company to have a herd of goats graze their lawn down at the Googleplex, and that has to be worse on that front.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/google-rents-goats-to-mow-the-lawn-11402182/

Instead of using noisy mowers that run on gasoline and pollute the air, we’ve rented some goats from California Grazing to do the job for us (we’re not “kidding”). A herder brings about 200 goats and they spend roughly a week with us at Google, eating the grass and fertilizing at the same time. The goats are herded with the help of Jen, a border collie. It costs us about the same as mowing, and goats are a lot cuter to watch than lawn mowers.

PieFed is an entirely different software package that’s compatible with Lemmy, can federate with it.

Lemmy is written in Rust, Mbin in PHP, PieFed in Python, and Sublinks — not sure if that’s going to go anywhere — in Java.

• lemmy.world is an example Lemmy instance.

• fedia.io is an example Mbin instance.

• piefed.social is an example PieFed instance.

• demo.sublinks.org is an example Sublinks instance.

Sometimes quote marks are just being used to show that something is a quote, not as scare quotes.

Capitalism deals with industry being owned privately.

If you want to complain about Microsoft being a publicly-traded, private-sector company rather than a worker cooperative or part of the government or whatever, okay, at least I can see where you’re coming from.

But a socialist economy is perfectly compatible with having high prices.

Speaking for myself, while I’m not really happy about some of the political baggage associated with the lemmy dev team, and additionally would be interested in participating in discussion about non-lemmy server alternatives, I don’t really want to jump into something named quite as adversarially as “cancel_lemmy”.

That’s not to say that there isn’t potentially demand for and interest in this. It just crosses the line into getting more political on the matter than I’d like to be. But I would like to point out that it may be that there are other people who feel the same way, and might exclude some users who would otherwise participate.

EDIT: I’d also point out that while it’s not specifically directed to discussion of the Lemmy software package, !MeanwhileOnGrad@sh.itjust.works has a fair bit of discussion among people who are unhappy about the political side of the lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml, and hexbear.net instances and want to discuss that.

You can have a “no local pornography” rule without also defederating from instances that have pornography.

The instance I’m on, lemmy.today, has an admin who disallows local pornography communities on the instance and explicitly says that he’s fine with users participating in pornography communities on other instances through his instance. From its server rules:

No local pornography communities (but you are free to subscribe to them on other instances if you wish).

That makes sense if you don’t have some sort of desire to block it from users on the server, but just don’t want to deal with the administrative hassle that comes with it.

While I come from more of the Rust sort of side of things, and I agree with you that I’d rather have widely-used languages having static typing (though I’ve written more Python than Rust), it’s also true that different languages have different degrees of uptake in different areas.

As things stand, Piefed, Lemmy, and Mbin all have an integrated Web frontend and backend, with third party client support via API. That is, they work kind of like Reddit does, not Usenet or IRC servers, where the backends and the frontends are entirely different projects.

I’m confident that Python has vastly more uptake for frontend Web development than Rust does. That means that it’s going to be way easier to find contributors who understand how to build a Web UI who know Python than who know Rust.

If there were a split from this approach — that is, if the UI became decoupled from the backends, and users just used Aphrodite or mlym or whatever, and the backend wound up looking something like Usenet server software, — then I think that there might be a stronger argument for doing the backend in something like Rust, depending upon how it was structured.

But I think that Rust probably creates a high bar for attracting front-end contributors who are knowledgeable in building Web systems.

I’d also point out that Reddit started out in Common Lisp — Paul Graham, who was involved with its early days, is a huge fan of Common Lisp — but eventually was rewritten in Python.

EDIT: There’s also Sublinks, in Java, but it doesn’t look like it’s getting a lot of activity.

Reddit used to have a number of people running bots that would de-AMP links. I haven’t seen anyone setting up something similar on the Threadiverse, though.

kagis

It looks like AmputatorBot is open-source and supports Reddit and used to support Twitter.

EDIT: Though…I don’t see activity from the user /u/Killed_Mufasa on the bot subreddit (moderator of the subreddit and it looks like the dev) or commits to the github repo in the past two years, so the Reddit API fiasco might have killed it.

EDIT2: No, /u/AmputatorBot is the bot account, and it’s still functional.

A bunch of scenes in Kentucky route zero,

You know, just yesterday I was trying to think of games that have untextured polygon art, because there are some that I really like the aesthetic of. Kentucky Route Zero is a good example.

• Carrier Command 2

• Kentucky Route Zero

• Out of This World/Another World (though that’s getting back into the era where untextured polygons were a technical requirement rather than a stylistic choice)

• Avara. Honestly, the graphics here aren’t that amazing, but I was kind of missing the lonely feel of it; some levels had a sort of wind sound playing and the graphics gave it a really cold feeling that I was kind of nostalgic for. Looks like it was open sourced and ported to various platforms.

• Ex-Zodiac, kind of a Star Fox-alike.

• Rez

I don’t know if all of these are strictly untextured. Like, Carrier Command 2 might implement its pixelated displays with textures, or there might be glow or something like that done with textures. But the general aesthetic is untextured stuff, and it’s kind of impressive to me how nice some of these look.

Some of these (Avara, Out of This World) are getting back into the era where computers just couldn’t reasonably do texturing, and Ex-Zodiac is aiming to evoke Star Fox, which had that technical constraint. But some of them are just interesting aesthetic decisions. I do like what the modelers managed to do.

It has some of the effect that low-resolution pixel art does — makes the brain fill in the detail that isn’t there.

Fallout 76 has a location, Alpine River Cabins, which is rigged up to have random screams and suchlike play, along with some other rigged things, like doors randomly opening and closing.

I remember the first time I ran across them, walking by the road that ran near the cabins, and was like “what the hell?”

The alert sound of a USB device connecting

Is this a Windows thing or something?

EDIT: On Linux, if you somehow knew that some USB device had been connected, but didn’t know what, I’d run sudo journalctl -krb — I believe that the kernel will always log a message when a new device is connected. Also, lsusb -t would show the layout of the USB tree and what devices are where on it.

The governor had control of the California National Guard until Trump became involved, and certainly did not need Trump to be involved if California needed it to be used.

Might as well demand demilitarization of Alaska, Hawaii, and California too, since Russia ran parts of those at one point as well. I mean, heck, why settle for just the Baltics?

That sounds like a hardware limitation more than anything.

According to one of OP’s follow-up comments, he says that it works if he puts a random SIM in without service on it, so it’s not a limitation on his phone, at any rate.

EDIT: Actually…hmm. Now that I think about it…was I using Bluetooth tethering on my phone at the time rather than a WiFi hotspot? I was just remembering being startled that the phone would link the laptop to a WiFi network, and I’d used multiple approaches (WiFi, Bluetooth, USB) to link the phone at the time.

When Finnish engineer Ari Kurvi takes a hot shower or turns up the thermostat in his apartment, he’s tapping into waste heat generated by a 75-megawatt data center 5 kilometers away.

Cats had figured out this “make use of waste computing heat” stuff long before humans had.

That would be cellular to wifi tethering.

No, like…what he’s trying to do is to put the phone on an existing WiFi access point, then have the phone itself act as a second WiFi access point:

This phone is broken (broken screen) and was given to me, so I figured I’d use it as a WiFi extender, but I guess I can’t.

He’s trying to use it as an ad-hoc range extender. Like, he presumably has one device that can’t see the existing wireless access point, is out of range, so he wants to put the phone somewhere that’s still in range of the first access point, then chain access from the phone to his device by having the phone act as a second wireless access point.

Android can do that — I’ve done it — but this check that shouldn’t be done and disrupts his use case is causing him annoyance.

Mbin shows only a comm… magazine logo and its name, but instance URL is hidden.

Hmm.

That’s a little annoying, but if you have your mouse hover over the name, it looks like mbin has a pop-up showing the instance.

On that note, I finally tried Comcast’s xfinitywifi service this month, and was pleasantly surprised. They run a WiFi hotspot service accessable to Comcast users, but non-Comcast subscribers can also get a la carte access for $10/month. It’s not a full drop-in replacement for cellular data — no system of WiFi access points is going to have that degree of coverage — but if you live in an urban area, an awful lot of the place is within range of an access point, and my experience thus far has been that it’s considerably faster than running off cellular data.

“Hotspot” is always going to be referring to having the phone act as a WiFi wireless access point, rather than USB or Bluetooth tethering.