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  • Federated Blogging Platforms

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  • @sabreW4K3 Plume doesn't appear to be active, unfortunately 🥺

    There's a notice on the official Join Plume website saying the former developers don't have the time to maintain it anymore. Most of the former public instances now throw up errors of various kinds.

    WriteFreely ( @writefreely ) is alive and well. I was seriously toying with the idea of setting up a blog through its main instance, which is called Write.as Professional. The sticking point for me was that the official on-platform monetisation tool (Coil) appears to be dead, and doesn't support members-only posts (like Ghost).

    Ghost, when federation goes live, looks like it will be the best option for my blog.

    WordPress plus @pfefferle 's plugins is another great option, depending on what you want to use it for. (There's no shortage of WP plugins!)

    As for Lemmy, I could see a blogging-focussed front end being created for it, in the same way FediBB put a traditional message board front end on it, but one doesn't appear to exist at present.

  • I'm thinking seriously about getting Google out of my life, and trying NextCloud.

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  • I'm thinking seriously about getting Google out of my life, and trying NextCloud.

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  • @denshirenji @asklemmy On photos, does NextCloud Photos or Memories play nice with Digikam or any other desktop photo gallery applications? And what about Immich?

  • Ideas to build a federated StackExchange alternative

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  • @lemmyreader Here's a starting point for a fediverse StackExchange: Make sure it's interoperable with Lemmy.

    Now, you may not get the full feature set on Lemmy, but you should be able to interact with it from Lemmy as if it's a group on there.

    StackExchange #Fediverse #Coding

  • So despite climate change, Australia's federal government has just committed an extra $3.25 billion into building a toll road and a 20-lane freeway widening.

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  • @AllNewTypeFace Of course there were.

    For commuters:

    More densification around existing stations and tram lines instead of suburban sprawl.

    Upgrading buses across Melbourne to a 10-minute minimum frequency and straightening out existing bus routes.

    Rolling out high-capacity signalling and automatic train control across the Melbourne suburban rail network

    Building Metro 2 from Newport to Clifton Hill would double the number of trains that can run on the Hurstbridge and Mernda lines.

    Building the Doncaster Railway.

    Building the Heidelberg to Box Hill section of the SRL first.

    Extending the 48 tram to Doncaster and giving it dedicated lanes for more of its journey.

    And then for freight, there's a bunch of things too:

    Converting more suburban lines to dual gauge.

    Converting more regional Victorian lines to standard gauge

    Electrifying regional rail and freight services

    Building more multimodal facilities near existing rail lines.

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    So despite climate change, Australia's federal government has just committed an extra $3.25 billion into building a toll road and a 20-lane freeway widening.

  • The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

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  • @alcoholicorn Yeah, that's not how it tends to work in Australia.

    What happens is a state government puts up a good chunk of time construction costs (as much as half in some cases), plus public land.

    In some cases, the freeway already exists, but the state government wants one more lane built, because it thinks that will ease congestion (as happened with sections of the Tullamarine and Monash Freeways in Melbourne).

    It gets handed off to Transurban, who builds it under a long-term operating agreement (30 years is common).

    In some cases, the agreements have clauses saying railways that compete with the toll road can't be built.

    As the end of the lease approaches, Transurban offers to build one more lane — in exchange for extending the agreement.

  • The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

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  • @alcoholicorn It is when it has been privatised to a company that pretty much pays no tax (hi Transurban!), for roads that taxpayers helped to pay for, and those toll roads connect car dependent suburbs that have next to no public transport.

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    The toll road scam: A government-made monopoly you pay for.

  • So the RTA's own modelling showed the Rozelle Interchange would be a traffic disaster—but generating more toll road trips for Transurban was more important.

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  • @Gurre @fuckcars The road lobby's big answer to the mess they've created with the Rozelle Interchange is to build a second road tunnel under Sydney Harbour.

    Engineers at the inquiry into the Rozelle Interchange fiasco have already testified that will only create traffic jams elsewhere on the road network: https://aus.social/@ajsadauskas/112383313109173146

    Just one more lane, bro!

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    So the RTA's own modelling showed the Rozelle Interchange would be a traffic disaster—but generating more toll road trips for Transurban was more important.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    "It's going to be a bloody disaster": Tell me again about how the second road tunnel under Sydney Harbour won't make congestion worse?

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    How to remove a freeway...

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    The saga of Waverley Park — Melbourne's car-dependent suburban AFL stadium with a planned seated capacity of over 150,000 (not a typo!)

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    So WestConnex was totally going to solve traffic in Sydney by adding more lanes for cars. Just a few teething problems on the Rozelle Interchange and it'll all clear up, they said.

  • Sydney has opened up consultation on a strategy to reduce car traffic and make the city more walkable

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  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Sydney has opened up consultation on a strategy to reduce car traffic and make the city more walkable

  • Engineering @lemmy.ml
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    Why Boeing needs to be run by engineers and not bean counters

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Are microplastics from car tyres contributing to heart disease?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    What should I add to my '90s website?

  • Asklemmy @lemmy.ml
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    Are there currently any Substack replacements that integrate with ActivityPub?

  • In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

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  • @joannaholman @degoogle Good point.

    If it were run as a private company, I think the solution might be just to pay actual humans as employees.

    If it's a community-run project, the challenge would be to come up with a robust moderation system...

  • In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

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  • @bsammon And this Archive.org capture of Lycos.com from 1998 contradicts your memory: https://web.archive.org/web/19980109165410/http://lycos.com/

    See those links under "WEB GUIDES: Pick a guide, then explore the Web!"?

    See the links below that say Autos/Business/Money/Careers/News/Computers/People/Education /Shopping/Entertainment /Space/Sci-Fi/Fashion /Sports/Games/Government/Travel/Health/Kids

    That's exactly what I'm referring to.

    Here's the page where you submitted your website to Lycos: https://web.archive.org/web/19980131124504/http://lycos.com/addasite.html

    As far as the early search engines went, some were more sophisticated than others, and they improved over time. Some simply crawled the webpages on the sites in the directory, others

    But yes, Lycos definitely was definitely an example of the type of web directory I described.

  • DeGoogle Yourself @lemmy.ml
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    In an age of LLMs, is it time to reconsider human-edited web directories?

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Some good news for anyone who loves RMTransit's public transport explainer videos, but doesn't like Google and YouTube.

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    Concerned about microplastics? Research shows one of the biggest sources is car tyres

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    If you care about the planet, please make sure you sit down before you start reading this post about ExxonMobil.

  • Fuck Cars @lemmy.ml
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    Looks like the Boring Company's Las Vegas tunnels are going about as well as you'd expect from an Elon project...

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    Quick heads up: Melbourne's Public Transport Users Association is now posting videos on Mastodon.