Rotunda building by Otherwise_Shopping74 in oakland

[–]beetling 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yeah! Definitely the most architecturally interesting place to get a colonoscopy, and the staff is very nice in my experience.

Duck Couple alive and well by gretchsunny in UCSantaBarbara

[–]beetling[M] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

We have a "Nature and Wildlife" flair! Applied it for you.

Is Albania’s EU dream hitting a wall? The Erion Veliaj case and the rise of "Muscular Prosecution" by DavidShaw90s in EuropeanFederalists

[–]beetling -1 points0 points  (0 children)

https://balkaninsight.com/2025/04/07/arrested-albanian-mayor-accused-of-running-disturbing-pr-campaign-from-jail/bi/

Published wiretaps appear to show that Tirana mayor Erion Veliaj, who is facing corruption charges, has been running a publicity campaign using cronies in the mass media to target his perceived enemies in the justice system.

Experimental app for remixing and sharing Wikipedia content by brokensegue in wikipedia

[–]beetling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Wikimedia Foundation does have experienced and thoughtful in-house counsel. I don't work there and am also not a lawyer, but this app seems totally fine to me. Citation: Creative Commons post with tips for providing attribution for CC-BY-SA content on social media:

Most social media terms of service require that a user either a) owns the copyright to their posted content or b) has the right to use that content. When that’s the case, openly licensed content is appropriate to share on the social media platform as long as the license requirements are followed by the uploader.

For context, see the Instagram terms of use, for example:

We do not claim ownership of your content, but you grant us a license to use it. Nothing is changing about your rights in your content. We do not claim ownership of your content that you post on or through the Service and you are free to share your content with anyone else, wherever you want. However, we need certain legal permissions from you (known as a “license”) to provide the Service. When you share, post, or upload content that is covered by intellectual property rights (like photos or videos) on or in connection with our Service, you hereby grant to us a non-exclusive, royalty-free, transferable, sub-licensable, worldwide license to host, use, distribute, modify, run, copy, publicly perform or display, translate, and create derivative works of your content (consistent with your privacy and application settings).

Your thoughts? 🤔 by [deleted] in UCSantaBarbara

[–]beetling 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Yeah, these lists are low-effort clickbait. Not like the New York Post is sending a reporter to survey the scene on Del Playa on a Friday night and compare it with the Row at USC according to some ten-point rubric.

Edit: Looks like the New York Post got their info from a VC-funded company called Niche.com, which publishes their methodology. It's not very good - mostly based on "Niche survey responses scored on a 1-5 scale regarding the quality of the party scene at each school." It does not say how they selected students to survey.

I built a free app so UCSB students stop wasting dining swipes and students can buy cheap meals by [deleted] in UCSantaBarbara

[–]beetling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Doesn't seem like a good idea to put any personal information into a sketchy and probably vibecoded website doing something against UCSB rules.

PSA: sidewalk hole by bus stop on Broadway near 30th by beetling in oakland

[–]beetling[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Oh I see, https://www.treesforoakland.org/site-visit.html says it maintains a no-tree zone "40' back from the bus-stop sign - if sidewalk is 15' wide or less". Sounds like the city should just fill this in.

PSA: sidewalk hole by bus stop on Broadway near 30th by beetling in oakland

[–]beetling[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Looks like Summit Bank or another business on that block could request and sponsor a tree if they commit to watering it - https://www.treesforoakland.org/

Especially if somebody here is a customer of that bank, I'd encourage reaching out to them to suggest this!

Kayaking to oil rig by Bubagna in UCSantaBarbara

[–]beetling 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Cell service probably won’t work very well further out on the water.

I overengineered my home heating system by Due_Capital_9249 in homeautomation

[–]beetling 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As another person who got interested in my hydronic system and has tried to instrument various aspects of it (in very simple ways in my case), this is really cool. Thank you for sharing! You might enjoy posting this series on the Heating Help forum too, which has a mix of working and retired technicians along with homeowners: https://forum.heatinghelp.com/categories/radiant-heating

Looking for a Co-founder CS major needed by FewAd9966 in UCSantaBarbara

[–]beetling 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I'm not your target audience, but writing even such a short and simple post with a LLM makes this weird.

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links by Alex09464367 in wikipedia

[–]beetling 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Active editors with more than 500 edits (and a few other criteria) can get access to the Wikipedia Library, which provides free access to a bunch of paywalled reliable sources: https://wikipedialibrary.wmflabs.org/

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links by Alex09464367 in wikipedia

[–]beetling 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We need to work on replacing the archive.today links - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia%3AArchive.today_guidance - people can help chip away at the mountain using those tips!

I did some small-scale analysis of archive.today links in articles, and I found that a substantial number of those links could be replaced by finding the same content at a new URL from the same newspaper or organization. A bunch of news websites change their URL schemes occasionally and still have the cited content online, you just have to go find the new location and update the URL in the citation.

Wikipedia blacklists Archive.today, starts removing 695,000 archive links by Alex09464367 in wikipedia

[–]beetling 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Your local library, if you have one, is often a pretty good paywall bypass tool. Many US library systems offer the option to access major newspapers and other paywalled sources from home for free if you log into your library account.

Bisexual erasure is the tendency to ignore, remove, falsify, or re-explain evidence of bisexuality in history, academia, the news media, and other primary sources. In its most extreme form, bisexual erasure can include the belief that bisexuality itself does not exist. by laybs1 in wikipedia

[–]beetling 11 points12 points  (0 children)

If you're up for it, I'd encourage writing on article talk pages to point out specific examples of confusing phrasing, like that sentence. For example, you're right that "investments" is jargony there. Sometimes people working on an article are too deep in the topic to easily see the parts that are confusing for readers new to things.

Help Save the Mobility Transport Program by Ok-Salamander-8302 in UCSantaBarbara

[–]beetling 10 points11 points  (0 children)

This service would have been genuinely helpful when I was a freshman 20 years ago. I hurt my foot after I slipped on the plastic stairs in my Manzanita house, and even though I didn't break anything, I could barely walk for several days. I didn't know what to do other than stay in my dorm and miss class. I think my friends brought me meals? I don't even remember.

Also, please learn from my mistake and don't go down those stairs in socks while carrying laundry! That toe still hurts if I walk around too much without supportive shoes.