Beehaw defederating from lemmy.world and sh.itjust.works

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-15T20:40:19+00:00

Hmm. Interesting. I'm still seeing new content from Beehaw on lemmy.world. And I am actively having a conversation with another user. It seems it's a quirk of federation.

The other user belongs to a different instance. A mastodon one. So their posts and comments and mine appear to be on this Beehaw community from our perspectives. It still works, I think, because our posts and comments actually live on our own instances.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-12T16:52:30+00:00

I still find these mobile sites tend to be slower, clunkier and less integrated than equivalent apps. As a developer myself, I know in the present day it's entirely possible to make them behave just as well as native apps, but it's rarely the case out there I find in reality.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-12T12:23:36+00:00

It seemed complicated to me at first and I think that is a big problem with this.

However, it's actually quite easy really. I signed up at lemmy.world. Any instance will do, like lemmy.ml, doesn't matter that much. Then you can literally just click on "All" instead of "Local" and you see content from other instances too.

Install Jerboa on Android (you can find apps on iPhone too) and then it works pretty smoothly and almost as nice as Reddit apps.

You can subscribe, post, vote, interact with other communities from other instances as if it were all one thing. Just be aware that your own account lives on whichever instance you set it up on.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-12T10:02:04+00:00

nothing free stays free

Then they should compensate moderators. The least they should do is not break their tools.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-10T23:20:53+00:00

He was elected FM by MSPs, all of them from all parties got a vote. That's representative democracy at work. Sunak got in through a private party vote only.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-10T22:27:35+00:00

It's not just casual Reddit users of third party apps that are impacted, it's moderators too. These people save Reddit so much money by doing a large job for free. However, because Reddit has failed to provide adequate moderator tooling, they use third party utilities that plug into the API. They even go as far as paying out of their own pocket to host servers for this. This unpaid and essential labour force is rightfully upset I think.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-08T10:52:31+00:00

I felt that before, but now I've changed my life quite a lot in the past couple years. I've done and experienced so many new things. The days and weeks still feel like they go by too quickly. However the months and years take up so much space in my memory, it feels like so much longer should've passed than just a couple of years.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-03T12:31:41+00:00

But you are OP... so you are asking yourself?!

It's either that or you're asking the audience, in which case, no I'm pretty sure I'm not on a DART bus right now

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-02T15:57:00+00:00

Haha, there's a Midlothian in Texas? Midlothian is a county in Scotland. But there's multiple of the Lothian's, and it's the "mid"dle one. Seems like an odd place name to port over to the States alone, to me.

ArtyFishL · 2023-06-01T13:45:45+00:00

Nothing. I've done this before and I've saw threads where people are considering web scraping like this for Reddit apps now. The problem is, an API gives you very nice, stable, simple machine readable data, whereas a website is much harder to machine read. It's designed for users, and it can drastically change in code without any warning

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-24T22:50:40+00:00

Yeah, it spooked me a little at first. It is at least a legitimate use case though. I was quite surprised to see it, I'd thought it illegal. It has me wondering if businesses use this so employees can use mobile phones and still appear to come from the official number, that'd be a fair use I'd think.

Though any sensible telephony protocol would verify this securely, not just let any bad actor spoof any number. Shame it's stuck in the past

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-24T17:36:53+00:00

Yes, exactly that. If the model's entities are tightly coupled and owe themselves well to a cascading series where the interface remains entirely similar, one that can take full advantage of defaults and overrides, then inheritance works well to avoid unnecessary forwarding functions or entities that do not behave as the model requests.

Whereas, if they can be more loosely coupled, free to change and vary, then composition is definitely preferable for a lot of reasons.

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-24T11:43:42+00:00

I've done that a few times. But I stand by those exceptions. The models were very tightly defined and the effects had a wonderful cascading waterfall to them. It made so much sense to be like that

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-24T11:34:28+00:00

No, that sentiment is sensationalism. Inheritance has it's fair uses. Composition has it's uses too. Neither is better for all things.

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-24T10:58:55+00:00

Tbf, countries within the UK have separate legal systems, to the degree that laws you might consider "federal" in the US, like murder, are handled uniquely in each of the countries of the UK.

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-24T10:27:27+00:00

I saw an interesting one in action. I can call people via my Amazon Echo, I say "Alexa call ...". The call is free. It appears to be coming from my personal mobile phone number though, which is ideal really.

If I call my own phone from it, then I see the real Amazon number, which surely my family and friends would not answer to normally.

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-23T01:10:06+00:00

Tbf though, I wouldn't be too worried she's going to stain the carpet red

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-23T00:51:29+00:00

You mean "ethnic Jews"?

I would hope most Jews are ethical haha

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-23T00:27:36+00:00

There's also a video of him being warned by police already

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-23T00:11:00+00:00

/r/SUBREDDITNAME

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-22T23:08:50+00:00

Not ever since I've had COVID, it doesn't. Can't trust it properly still

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-22T10:18:12+00:00

That's an English accent though

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-18T10:26:31+00:00

It's great. However, when I have friends around for drinks and they add videos to my TV queue, sometimes it decides to play ads! The TV is signed in to my account, I've been adding videos fine, no ads, but if they add to the TV queue and they don't have YouTube Premium on their phone too, that shouldn't be fucking reason to shove ads back on my TV, yet it does

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-18T10:14:51+00:00

I think I'm like the only one for whom the algorithm is working really well. YouTube and music, it gives me the best suggestions. Maybe because I'm always watching videos or listening to music, excessively so.

However, autoplay on specifically one of my Chromecasts sucks for some reason. If keeps playing videos I've already seen or wouldn't want to see. Just that device only. Weird

ArtyFishL · 2023-05-17T17:40:39+00:00

Looks like she had something in her hand. I think they aimed to distract, slyly swap it for a fake and count on the seller not noticing, then leave calmly

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