!neodb@lemmy.zip is pretty much an everything database, so you can feed in films, TV, books, comics, music, etc and it can replace all the separate databases that have largely been bought up by Big Tech (often Amazon), like IMDb, Goodreads, etc.

It’s originally Chinese, so English language reviews are thinner on the ground at the moment but a lot of people are enthusiastic about it and I am hopefully it’ll soon take off.

Man-Thing!

Depends on if the despot is one of ours or not.

Usually if they aren’t then the West is backing the overthrowers. The tricky thing here is we weren’t backing any side so there will be a bit of a diplomatic scramble to figure out where the land lies.

Ultimately as we’ve happily worked with terrorists and despots in the past, we’ll have no issues bending our “morals” to accommodate another one.

The real test will be the Kurds. Turkey couldn’t openly support HTS but it’s thought that they have al-Golani the green light as they were making no progress with Assad. Turkey won’t want Syria to break up as that would be the start of a new Kurdistan so how will they deal with what comes next.

It’ll also be interesting to see what the West do as he and HTS are currently designated terrorists.

But this trademark is clearly them establishing themselves as not-milk and plenty of vegan products term themselves like this (“No Steak Pie”) without issue, it’s only dairy products that this ridiculous standard applied to them.

I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter seem to have no bother. Perhaps it’s just Big Milk at work.

It’s worse than that - the scorpion might stick to its promise but hops off half-way across to be replaced by a far less amiable scorpion.

Well that’s shit.

Seems like a case for Holly Fairhead, Northern Detective, in The Case of the Unsavoury Savouries. The blockbuster sequel to Trouble at Treacle Mine.

Coming soon: What’s Up Me Duck? A thrilling tale of drug smuggling using waterfowl.

And you’d know all about profit.

I’d suggest they are taking the piss but that is part of their job.

This would be an interesting idea. There have been open source ecommerce solutions for a long time (Woocommerce is very popular), you could bolt AP to something like that and you’d have the next evolution of the Fediverse. Someone runs an instance for vintage clothing or fanzines or crafty things or art and individuals can set up their stores on it with the instance processing payments in return for a small cut to keep the lights on. Allow options like auctions or crowdfunding and things get even more interesting.

They’d usually release the name when it goes to court, often when someone is charged. As they’ve only been arrested its’s a bit early.

A lot of instances are hosted by Hetzner which has servers in Germany and Finland. Although that might not be what they mean by “legal presence”.

The figures make Reddit the fastest-growing large social media platform in the UK and represent a growth of 47% on the same period in 2023. The leap took Reddit above LinkedIn and X into fifth place on the table of UK social media platforms, which is now topped by YouTube after it overtook Facebook, reaching more than 44 million adults.

Reddit, renowned for its devoted user base who refer to one another as Redditors, appears to have been boosted by updates to Google’s search engine this year.

Farhad Divecha, the managing director of the UK-based digital marketing agency AccuraCast, said: “Google’s latest algorithm update in the first half of 2024 gave Reddit a big boost in organic search traffic. I think that has probably contributed a lot.”

That’s intriguing. Google sign an agreement with Reddit to mine it’s content to feed to it’s AI, then boost it in search results, driving more people to it, increasing the amount of content that it can mine. Nothing sinister going on here.

Now do Hubzilla!

Beans

Even if she kept the kids out, her partner can’t have missed it, even if the it’s a lie about leaving the drawer open. After all, a visitor heard the child from downstairs.

The court was told the mother concealed the baby’s presence from her siblings by hiding her in the drawer of her divan bed, and kept her secret from her partner, who often stayed at the house.

So no-one else in the house knew? That seems unlikely.

Probably Bandcamp.

OnlyFeds - new instance funding model: Admins gone wild. The feddit.uk one would be a bit like Calendar Girls meets Austin Powers.