evasive_chimpanzee

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[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Yeah, the focus the landscaping part is weird. It seems more relevant to me that 5 years ago, he was in high school, rather than that he did landscaping.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Seriously, I think a big part of solarpunk ethos is combating the notion that everything has to always be available 24/7. Society pays a lot to deliver every convenience like fruit out of season from the other side of the world.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's such an easy thing to predict happening, too. If you did it perfectly, it would, at best, maintain an unstable equilibrium and just keep the same output quality.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 10 points 3 months ago

Plenty of federal facilities have garbage reception. I think it's probably due to the bureaucracy involved in telecoms installing their hardware on sensitive property. The White House in particular probably has lots of thick walls/armor attenuating signals, too.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 25 points 4 months ago

The article isn't clear enough about this. This pump is nowhere close to the fires, and the water coming out of the pump doesn't get anywhere close to the fires, either.

The purpose of the pumps is to take water from rivers and send it to wealthy farmers. The farmers didn't even need the water, anyway, this time of year.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 6 points 5 months ago

It depends on what type of licensing. One way it could be beneficial to them (and this is me purely speculating with no checking) is that any work done from outside of their company on their code base is basically free labor. Yeah, they'll lose some potential revenue from people running their own instances of the code, but most people will use their app.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 1 points 5 months ago

Feeder can do keyword filtering on titles, but not on a per feed basis, and only with simple wildcards. I've been able to filter out a bit with it, though.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 points 5 months ago

Oh wow, they really did a good job of explaining it. It's not too complex. I think it probably would be able to filter out some of the fluff.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago (4 children)

If it's open source, you could perhaps tinker with the algorithm. My main desires for rss feeds are:

  • a way to filter out fluff affiliate link articles (e.g., 8 best gadgets on sale for prime day)
  • a way to cluster articles on the same topic (i don't really need to read 5 articles about the same news item)

Any clue if nunti could do that?

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 4 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They want to merge with Albertsons, who owns the other half of grocery stores: Acme, Safeway, jewel osco, and a bunch more.

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Recyclability, too

[–] evasive_chimpanzee@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I don't understand why people like Facebook marketplace. It's so transparently a way for them to just gather more shopping habits data on you, and it's too easy for scammers to use. They act like having an account somehow makes it harder to scam.

I would much rather support the website run by a skeleton crew that has no unnecessary features than get a few bucks more on FB marketplace. If I'm selling something that I've used, it's cause I want to get rid of it, anyway.

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