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New account since lemmyrs.org went down, other @Deebsters are available.

  • ‘Are we joking?’: Venice residents protest as city starts charging visitors to enter

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  • Yeah, people definitely have a tendency to act entitled just because they've paid money.

    It reminds me of this story from Freakonomics:

    The economists decided to test their solution by conducting a study of ten day-care centers in Haifa, Israel. The study lasted twenty weeks, but the fine was not introduced immediately. For the first four weeks, the economists simply kept track of the number of parents who came late; there were, on average, eight late pickups per week per day-care center. In the fifth week, the fine was enacted. It was announced that any parent arriving more than ten minutes late would pay $3 per child for each incident. The fee would be added to the parents' monthly bill, which was roughly $380.

    After the fine was enacted, the number of late pickups promptly went... up. Before long there were twenty late pickups per week, more than double the original average. The incentive had plainly backfired.

  • Alternatives to Nova Launcher?

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  • I like it too, even though it didn't notify me when the trial was up like it said it would. I was planning on buying the lifetime (or uninstalling) but it autobilled me for a year instead.

    Anyway, here's mine:

  • How is MX Linux reigning #1 on Distrowatch?

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  • Distro watch rankings are just which page gets the most hits. Get a bunch of different IPs to load LemmyLinux and it'll be number one (and then actual people will click on it to see what it is and why it's number one).

  • As the climate changes, cities scramble to find trees that will survive: “Everybody is looking for the magic tree.”

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  • In other news, you have a little cake on Voyager - you've been on Lemmy for one year today.

  • YouTube moves to AV1 by default to the dismay of some Android users

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  • How can I test if my phone uses hardware decoding for AV1?

  • Scotland to abandon pledge to cut carbon emissions by 75% by 2030

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  • Perhaps everything after the low hanging fruit feels too politically painful.

  • Stopping a badly behaved bot the wrong way.

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  • Thinking there must be another way, I switched to Haproxy.

    Hang on, weren't you on Haproxy already? Or do you mean you switched your attention to Haproxy? (If not, what were you in before?)

    As others have said, blocking incoming stuff as high up as possible is definitely the right way, and Cloudflare is the right place for you. It's interesting that this bot wasn't caught by Cloudflare, I wonder who runs it.

  • Stopping a badly behaved bot the wrong way.

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  • I feel a company that big would write a more competent bot, but I also wouldn't be too astonished.

  • Stopping a badly behaved bot the wrong way.

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  • I was kinda hoping for another story about some clever compression bomb or similar to slow up the bot - after all, if it's hammering this little site it's surely doing the same to others, even if they haven't noticed yet. After the robots.txt was ignored I was sure, but I guess this mature, restrained response is probably the correct one discontentedly kicks can down sepia street

  • Snake on a bullet train causes rare railway delay in Japan | CNN

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  • An absolute gift to headline writers.

  • Iran sought mass casualties in Israel strike, U.S. officials say | Semafor

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  • That Jordan (who shot down some of the missiles) agrees that Iran gave warning, I think it's clear that Iran wanted to retaliate without escalating. Israel saying we'll reply when we're ready feels like they're happy to draw a line under it for now.

  • Rebase Supremacy

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  • I don't see that as a benefit tbh - if I have a dependency, I want to see why it's there as part of the commit. I'm imagining running blame on Cargo.toml and seeing "Add feature x" vs "Add dependency". I guess the idea is it's "➕ Add dep y for feature x" but I'd still rather be able to see the related code in the same commit instead of having to find the useful commit in the log.

    I suppose you could squash them together later, but then why bother splitting it out in the first place?

    I see that some use a subset of Gitmoji and that does make sense to me - after all, you wouldn't use all of them in every project anyway, e.g. 🏷️ types is only relevant for a few languages.

  • TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks

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  • If I hadn't had found others saying it was the pine nuts then I'd be worried it was a brain tumour or something.

    It was reported it could last weeks or months, so I was happy enough with only five days.

  • TIL: Eating pine nuts can occasionally cause some people to experience a bitter or metallic taste lasting from a few days up to 2 weeks

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  • I had this! It happened in maybe 2010 and there wasn't much information available online, but enough for me to figure that it was the pine nuts. It lasted for about five days and never happened again.

  • what will be my next server operating system (Fedora Server, Fedora CoreOS, NixOS), your experience and opinion

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  • I went with Fedora on my VPS because I was also planning to use rootless Podman. Quadlets and running everything through systemd with SELinux enabled is working pretty well for me.

  • Rebase Supremacy

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  • I looked at it and there's a lot of them!

    I see things like adding dependencies but I would add the dependency along with the code that's using it so I have that context. Is the Gitmoji way to break your commits up so that it matches a single category?

  • EU passes asylum and migration pact after eight years of deadlock

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  • Champions of the laws, who had been campaigning to get the legislation passed in the face of a rise in popularity of the far right before the European parliament elections in June, seized on the move as a great victory.

    Unfortunately, this might help those far-right populists by giving them something topical to rant about.

  • TIL that up to 3.7% of pregnancies have misattributed paternity where the child (and possibly the mother) thought the father was someone else

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  • Some frequently cited statistics—that cases of wrongly assigned paternity make up between ten and thirty per cent of all births—are misleading, since they are often based on data from tests requested by people who already have doubts about paternity. When the data are based on studies done for other reasons (for example, to look at inherited predispositions to conditions like cystic fibrosis), the rates of misattributed paternity come in at between one and 3.7 per cent.

    That answered my question, quoted in case it answers others', too.

  • consider the implications for a post scarcity future

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  • They do shut off ("curtail") renewable energy because it is a problem - excess power can destabilise the grid, causing brownouts and blackouts and also physically damage grid equipment like transformers and transmission lines over time.