Did you make this? Awesome! Anything that helps show people that buying local is better than Amazon is great.

My theory is that no only does he have a circus entourage of clapping seals almost wherever he goes, LLMs seem like a perfect match for an egotistical idiot with dementia like Trump. It can synthesize an image or tell him a reality of whatever he desires. In some ways he’s more comfortable and feels like he no longer has to answer to anyone.

I agree it should show in search. To be specific about the feature I’m talking about, I’m referencing this part of Otter’s comment:

It might also be possible for us to hide the communities from public feeds, so only subscribed users will see the communities and associated content. We need to explore that some more: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2943#issuecomment-1581485335

And the link leads to nutomic’s comment:

There is also an endpoint to hide posts from a specific community from the frontpage (/api/v3/community/hide). Note that this isnt implemented in lemmy-ui yet.

So it seems to me it exists in the current Lemmy software but not in the frontend UI? I cannot confirm but I assume that it’s adjustable through config file changes or CLI commands.

I’ve changed my mind a bit since Otter’s comment suggests Lemmy has some admin-accessible features I didn’t know about. I personally haven’t needed Reddit for several years now, and the Old Reddit redirect plugin works fine for my needs the odd time I do want to peek at a thread. My own transition period from Reddit to Lemmy was about 3-4 months, so I understand the want to wean off gradually.

I think I can support LemmitOnline’s re-federation on the condition that it will not show up on any lemmy.ca user’s All or Local feeds, unless that user has subscribed to the lemmit.online community or the bot. It also shouldn’t show by default for logged out users.

However, I still worry if it will bring overwhelming traffic, disk or other resource use for the lemmy.ca admins from re-enabling that federation. Something to consider.

Partially because the groups funding the movement consider it a business decision - give some bigoted idiots some cash, get a possible multiple times return on investment through national subsidies, and being able to force more externalized costs onto the public.

Yes, I do expect Trump will get more desparate and make more attempts at escalating, but I still think it is the best way forward. Time is our leverage, we can enact what happened with his China spat, without needing to levy ridiculous % of countertariffs. He will either back down, or even the more tariff-friendly Democrats and moderate Republicans will notice how messed up the state of trade policy is and be more inclined to fix it in Congress.

Torstar opinions and various other pieces seem to constantly be ringing the bell of “Carney’s going to fold to these tariffs any minute now!!” Or “He’s gonna have to cave eventually!” I’m optimistic about the midterms, but of course nothing is guaranteed. I think patience is needed in either case. IMO, Team Canada should try to drag out the negotiations to November, use Team Trump’s stall tactics against them. If they work out a deal, don’t implement it immediately, make sure it the terms can survive a week of potential 3am Tantrump-posting first.

Damn, imagine if I could give to every store an opt-out form, that if they didn’t sign and return the form for me, I could take an item from their store every year as a birthday gift. If it was opt-in, nobody would opt-in in that case too…

It’s now over 100k.

You’ve probably done it already, but a quick howto for anyone else (on Firefox Mobile):

• Three dot menu -> Settings -> Search -> Default search engine
• Scroll to the bottom, press + Add search engine, put what you like in the Name box
• in the search string URL box put this: https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=%25s
• Press Save, then select your newly named option for normal and private tabs as you like.

Settlements and NDAs seem to be a lot more commonplace in the USA based on reports. Surely because money is involved, that makes it voluntary, right?

And while yes, settlements usually don’t prevent people to write a book or whatever, but you are silenced in the sense you are prevented from pursuing any further justice in the legal system for any potential future victims caught by the same mishap.

This article smells of AI slop, but I’d seen an earlier article on CBC already, so whatever.

At least a review will happen to hopefully prevent this miscarriage of justice from happening again. Comparing the US system to Canada’s, the innocent victim might get compensated in some monetary way, but in return they won’t be allowed to talk about it, no party will admit they did anything wrong and a similar incident may easily happen again.

I guess when compared to FAANG/Silicon Valley salaries you are probably right.

Very few people need to code in assembly, or COBOL

But those who do are paid the big bux, that’s for sure. Many big banks still have their backend off of COBOL code originally written in the 90s, only with flowery UI updates over the years.

Trump is taxing Americans on products coming from Canada. And he’s calling Canada the nasty one?

I’ve already heard of the name before, I know them for their police body cameras. One can make an argument that Axon’s systems don’t have the same extensive and interconnected surveillance network that Flock has, but the same type of data on people’s personal lives seems to be collected for a similar end-purposes which is the problem, more than the specific brand of the tech.

Plus, what’s stopping Flock from acquiring Axon and obtaining the data that way?

Get ready to Drain AIPAC’s Funds Again

They aren’t in it for me, but Micron nor SK Hynix give any shits about me either.

I don’t think so, domestic electronics manufacturers have an enormous need for memory that is performant but doesn’t necessarily need the top-of-the-line, and probably China’s government is pushing to reduce the need for imported memory components from Korea or Taiwan as well, so demand for production is there coming from both the private and public sector.

Micron doesn’t seem interested in competing for consumer memory anyway, since they exited the consumer memory market. Latent demand exists for memory at not-outrageous prices so good for CXMT for filling that niche.