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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/war@group.lt

Our tracking system is based on data from firms, a publicly available system set up by America’s National Aeronautics and Space Administration (nasa), which was originally designed to detect forest fires. We have built a machine-learning algorithm that evaluates the location of each fire detected by firms, and assesses whether or not it is related to the war. It consists of 100 separate models built to predict fire activity in non-war years. If at least 95 of these models agree that the number of fires identified at a given place and time is abnormally high by pre-war standards, the algorithm marks these “extra” fires as war-related.

Also explained / showcased in this YouTube video: The Economist - War in Ukraine: Tracking the fighting with satellites

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 15 points 1 year ago

if Google or Meta wants to join they should to us not us to them so if they break federation we should not care and continue implement our stuff

As I understood the article, the danger is that large actors like these are too important too ignore. Too many users, too much content to neglect. So while in theory you are obviously right, in reality there will be a temptation to cater to their needs, because it seems so worthwhile.

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 17 points 1 year ago

Endlich wieder mehr Platz für relevante Nachrichten. Die Story hat zwar einige interessante Seiten, aber betrifft niemand, man kann nichts ändern, und wurde mir dafür viel zu oft angezeigt.

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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/lemmydev@lemm.ee

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/831266

Hi lemmings, I switched over from Reddit 10 days ago now but I couldn't find a mobile client that I was happy with with an experience similar to the Reddit experience I was used to. So I decided to build my own and I hope you will like it as well!

Play store link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Features:

  • Material U
  • Dark and Light themes
  • List view / Card view / Fullwidth view
  • Filter lists for hiding posts
  • Multiple accounts + switcher across multiple instances
  • Guest accounts for viewing an instance without signup
  • Search and community autofill
  • Markdown support + attempt to navigate links correctly (/u/foo will open that user instead of browser kickout. Same for /c/, !, and @)
  • Saving posts
  • full sort types
  • NSFW view options (hide, blur, show)
  • copy text and url on all posts and comments
  • add comments, replies, and new posts
  • comment replies with line indicators

Here's other screenshots:

Future plans:

  • Improving the inbox
  • Swipe actions
  • Multi-~~reddit ~~communities

Thank you for taking a look. I hope others who are migrating from Reddit like me will find the app useful and I'd love to know your thoughts!

Edit: Community for the app is here: https://lemmy.ca/c/lemmyconnect

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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/809126

If you ran Lemmy or kbin locally as a single user instance with no hosted communities and it was not live all of the time would you miss a lot pushed data? Would this data be pulled later? Would this cause de-federation?

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 38 points 1 year ago

Wann verstehen die Mods endlich, dass sie am Ende völlig machtlos sind?

Sind sie nicht: Ihr Widerstand macht

  • Missstände sichtbarer (gibt dutzende externe Artikel darüber)
  • Die Umsetzung für die Betreiber teurer

Klar bekommen die Protestierenden nicht einfach geschenkt was sie wollten, aber so ist das nun mal bei politischen Kämpfen. Gäbe es die Forderungen geschenkt, wäre erst gar keinen Widerstand entstanden.

Die Haltung der Öffentlichkeit spielt dabei eine große Rolle. Ob sich die Leute mit den Wasserwerfern oder mit den Blockierenden solidarisieren beeinflusst, wie teuer die gewaltsame Räumung ist.

Forderungen werden erst erfüllt, wenn sie günstiger sind als Alternativen.

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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

There are instance-independent links to communities, for example: FindAKbin@kbin.social.

The good thing about it is, it will keep you on your home instance logged in while visiting the target.

How to make a similar thing to link to specific posts, or specific comments?

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/meta@lemmy.click

Hi :)

Since yesterday, I cannot see posts created by me, in neither view nor search. The posts still exist, but they aren't shown to me.

Today, I also noticed the two local communities on lemmy.click apparently have 0 posts.

Not sure if these phenomena are connected. Does anybody else experience the same? Does anybody know what's going on?

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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/atheism@feddit.de

Ist schon paar Jahre alt aber ich fand's gut gemacht :)

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cross-posted from: https://quex.cc/post/13083

As seen on kbin.social

Site that shows subreddits mapped to the fediverse

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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/urbanism@slrpnk.net

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/1367812

0:23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s

But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever."


1:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s

So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same.


2:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s

So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day


2:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s

They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City.


3:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s

For example, in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point.


4:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s

The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive.


4:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s

This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada.


5:01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s

Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions.

A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to.


5:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s

American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car.


6:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s

There are dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail, and CityNerd has made a video about this if you'd like more details.


6:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s

Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line.


6:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s

This is Japan to scale, the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal.


6:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s

Here's China with it's high-speed rail map.


7:17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s

The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid.


7:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s

The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent.


8:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s

Even if size did matter, then why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island?


10:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s

The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year [note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) destroys 175 acres of farmland per day to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a choice.


10:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s

When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - whatever" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved.


11:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s

The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.

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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/notjustbikes@lemmy.ml

0:23

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=23s

But there's one lame excuse that is so common, so prevalent, so ubiquitous, that I want to talk about it and that's the excuse that "My country is too big to have trains, bicycle infrastructure, walkable neighborhoods or whatever."


1:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=87s

So when someone new to walkable cities sees an example of a great City and they realize it's clearly better than where they live, their first gut reaction is to grab any difference between the two and make that the reason as to why their city can't be the same.


2:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=146s

So why is this argument so stupid? Well, quite simply, Americans aren't traveling from Fluffy Landing to Hump Tulips every day. Canadians aren't traveling from Dildo to Spasm every day, and Australians aren't traveling from Chinaman's Knob to Useless Loop every day


2:55

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=175s

They travel within their city, so the only thing that really matters to most people is the design of that City.


3:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=185s

For example, in the United States, over 45 percent of trips - all trips - are three miles or less (that's five kilometers for the rest of my audience). These are distances that could be easily done by walking or cycling. So despite the size of the country, and the sprawliness of the cities, Americans don't actually travel that far for most trips, but unsurprisingly, almost all of those trips are taken by car because it's too dangerous to walk or cycle, and public transportation is non-existent, which again is the whole point.


4:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=258s

The problem is not cars, it's car dependency. We need to give people the freedom to not to have to drive.


4:35

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=275s

This is where Americans will claim that America is too big for trains, which is absolutely comical, because America was literally built by the railroads, and so was Canada.


5:01

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=301s

Nearly every town, city and village in the United States and Canada had a train station and was connected by rail, with very few exceptions. And almost every city and town had a streetcar line too, with very few exceptions. And every one of those places was built to be walkable, as every one of those places was built before automobiles were common. Again, with very few exceptions.

A hundred years ago, you could get a train from almost any city to just about any other city on the continent, and even many towns and villages, too. The reason those train stations don't exist anymore is because they were bulldozed, often to make room for highways, along with the walkable downtowns they were connected to.


5:46

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=346s

American cities were not built for the car, they were bulldozed for the car.


6:03

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=363s

There are dozens of city pairs in the U.S that are the perfect population and distance for high-speed rail or high frequency rail, and CityNerd has made a video about this if you'd like more details.


6:16

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=376s

Canada may be a huge country, but about 50 percent of the entire population lives in this little area, which is literally in a line.


6:27

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=387s

This is Japan to scale, the country famous for all it's trains. So yes, Canada, you can build a high-speed train between Toronto and Montreal.


6:37

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=397s

Here's China with it's high-speed rail map.


7:17

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=437s

The Schengen zone is not constant and new countries are being added every few years. For example, Croatia was just added in 2023 and Bulgaria, Romania, Cyprus and Montenegro plan to join in the near future. But if that happens, will Amsterdam need to tear up all their bike lanes, because the Schengen zone is too big? No, of course not, that would be stupid. Which is the same reason why saying America is too big for bike lanes is also stupid.


7:45

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=465s

The fact is, it is possible to build walkable neighborhoods everywhere. They have existed in every country on Earth for thousands of years, and it is possible to connect those walkable places together by high quality public transportation, to make it so that people can go from any walkable area to any other walkable area regardless of the size of the city the country or the continent.


8:18

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=498s

Even if size did matter, then why isn't Maryland covered in bike lanes and train tracks, or Hawaii, or Prince Edward Island?


10:22

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=622s

The United States destroys over 750'000 acres of natural and agricultural land every year [note: the source talks about 1,200 square miles] to build sprawling suburbs. And Ontario, Canada (where I'm from) destroys 175 acres of farmland per day to build more car-dependent suburbia. That is a choice.


10:43

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=643s

When Americans say something like "U.S cities are too big and spread out to do - whatever" then yes, that's true. But that is literally the problem that urbanists are trying to solve, so it's not really helpful to restate the problem, and then use that as the excuse as to why it can't be solved.


11:26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REni8Oi1QJQ&t=686s

The Dutch make great places, while North Americans make excuses.

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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/johnoliver@lemmy.world

Dear Reddit, excellent work. Attn: r/pics — have at it...

The thread also includes "a palette so that Pixel Artists on Reddit can create accurate pixel art of your face and other parts."

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 124 points 1 year ago
  • Some of the biggest communities like r/pics, r/aww, and r/GIF decided to post John Oliver pictures and GIFs. In a tweet, Oliver approved this move.
  • In the case of r/aww, the community is also allowed to post pictures of Chiijohn.
  • r/iPhone decided to post pictures celebrating “dashing” Tim Cook.
  • r/Shitposting banned posts with the letter k.
  • r/Wellthatsucks is now a subreddit about vacuum cleaners.
  • r/Nofans is now a passive PC cooler subreddit.
  • r/Interestingasfuck removed a lot of all rules apart from asking members to not break site-wide rules.
  • r/Memes is allowing only Medieval / Landed Gentry memes. This is in response to Huffman’s “Landed Gentry” comment about protesting subreddits.
  • r/PokemonGo is now allowing pictures of John Oliver, Pikachu, or Spark.
  • r/Horny is now a “Christian Minecraft server.”
  • r/Steam members are posting about actual steam.
  • r/HarryPotter is now referring to Huffman as Voldemort.
  • Some subreddits such as r/Showerthoughts are determining close days for the community.

Glorious.

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submitted 1 year ago by Spzi@lemmy.click to c/guitars@lemmy.world

For more information about the pick: https://www.guitarworld.com/news/x-pick-multi-fx

For understanding why it might not be a good idea to buy it, watch the video.

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Unity Community? (unity.com)

Looking for communities related to the Unity Game Engine.

It's a pain to search for, since every community was made with Unity :)

Alternatively, can I force tools like https://browse.feddit.de/ to only show 'exact' matches, discarding 'contains'?

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 24 points 1 year ago

Also, der Titel lautet “Lemmy-Entwickler in der Kritik”: es geht weniger um die Software, sondern darum, dass der Entwickler als Admin offenbar zensiert, weil es ihm politisch halt doch gegen den Strich geht (gegen Russland oder China), auf einer Instanz die eigentlich allen offensteht (aber halt seine ist).

Ich würde gerne zwischen diesen beiden Rollen unterscheiden; Software-Entwickler und Instanz-Admin.

Da die Vorwürfe sich auf seine Handlungen als Admin beziehen sehe ich erstmal nicht, inwiefern ihn das als Entwickler diskreditiert.

Natürlich ist denkbar, dass die Grenze zwischen den Rollen verschwimmt (ist ja schließlich auch die selbe Person). Aber genau an der Stelle würde es für mich kritisch werden, nicht vorher.

Als Entwickler verhält er sich, soweit ich das bisher oberflächlich gesehen habe, sehr neutral und weist explizit auf die Möglichkeit hin, dass andere mit anderer Meinung ~~seine~~ die Software kostenlos nutzen können.

Und die Vorwürfe gegen ihn als Admin relativiert das auch wieder. Wem's nicht passt, kann ja einfach zu anderen Admins gehen.

Dem Risiko, er könne als Entwickler irgendwie rumtanken (mir unklar was das sein sollte, aber nur mal so hypothetisch), begegnen wir vielleicht am besten damit, selbst mehr zu entwickeln. Dann ist er irgendwann nur noch einer von vielen in der Entwicklung.

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 15 points 1 year ago

"And, as Putin said yesterday, one of the tasks was to demilitarise Ukraine. In fact, this task is largely completed. Ukraine is using less and less of its weapons. And more and more it uses the weapons systems that Western countries supply it with."

Ah, the subtle differences between demilitarization and upgrading to NATO standards.

If his statement had ever anything to do with reality. Probably just feel-good words directed at the domestic audience.

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ah cool, die kannte ich noch nicht: Smash Cruiseshit

Forderungen

Die Aktivist*innen fordern den sofortige Stopp dieser kapitalistischen Ausbeutungspraxis. Kreuzfahrtunternehmen sollen für die ökologischen und sozialen Schäden, die sie verursachen, zur Rechenschaft gezogen werden. Es braucht gemeinschaftliche Perspektiven und Wirtschaftsprozesse, die allen Menschen ein gutes Leben ermöglichen!

„Es müssen neue Wege gefunden werden, wie Menschen ihr Bedürfnis nach Erholung befriedigen können. Wenn Erholung die Zerstörung von Lebensgrundlagen bedeutet, befinden wir uns in einem Teufelskreislauf, der uns nur immer weiter in die Krise treibt und verheerende Folgen haben wird“

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 81 points 1 year ago

I like what /r/pics did.

We – the so-called "landed gentry" – appreciate that Reddit is made great by its users. Uncompensated contributors populate the platform's many communities with their content, just as volunteer moderators keep spam and bigotry at bay. Since neither we nor Reddit would be here without you, it was only fair to let you determine what /r/Pics should include... and you overwhelmingly chose to feature only images of John Oliver looking sexy. (Seriously, the final vote was -2,329 to 37,331.)

As such, /r/Pics will henceforth feature only images of John Oliver looking sexy.

It's great, have a scroll. No intent to derail, here's the thread on !reddit@lemmy.ml: https://lemmy.world/post/206467

I wonder if a similar stunt would have been possible for /r/antiwork. Any ideas? How about: "You must rest on weekdays. Posts and comments are only allowed on weekends."

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 19 points 1 year ago

Whenever you see inserted words, please imagine an awkwardly moving but very colorful parrot squawking it.

The ability to ~~find and~~ make these ~~connections~~ prrrofits is incredibly important to ~~many people~~ ourrr sharrreholders, and ensuring that active communities are able to remain [a] stable and active ~~(and open)~~ source of prrrofits is very important forrr us!

Our goal here is to work ~~with~~ the existing mod team ~~to find a path forward~~ into exile and make sure your subreddit is usable for the ~~community~~ company which makes its ~~home~~ monnney here.

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 15 points 1 year ago

"There is no such thing as a free lunch", they said :(

To pull more of the article into the comment section:

The Republican Study Committee (of which some three-quarters of House Republicans are members) on Wednesday released its desired 2024 budget, in which the party boldly declares its priority to eliminate the Community Eligibility Provision, or CEP, from the School Lunch Program. Why? Because “CEP allows certain schools to provide free school lunches regardless of the individual eligibility of each student.”

Of note is that the CEP is not even something every school participates in; it is a meal service program reserved for qualifying schools and districts in low-income areas. The program enables schools that predominantly serve children from low-income backgrounds to offer all students free breakfast and lunch, instead of means-testing them and having to manage collecting applications on an individual basis. As with many universal-oriented programs, it is more practically efficient and, as a bonus, lifts all boats. This is what Republicans are looking to eliminate.

It’s the kind of provision that many would want every school to participate in. Why not guarantee all our children are well fed as they learn and think about our world and their place in it, after all?

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 18 points 1 year ago

I find this post at a moment when the show has already started (as can be seen on https://blackout.photon-reddit.com/ and https://reddark.untone.uk/ )

But the article is 3 days old. It seems many did not expect that much unity from subreddits going dark. 2.5 billion affected subscribers is quite something!

I'm still in hopes they change their mind in light of recent events. Don't think they will though.

[-] Spzi@lemmy.click 17 points 1 year ago

Most Switch Owners Are Women, Gamers React Poorly

Interesting title. As if "Women" and "Gamers" were two distinct groups.

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