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mayneackon Robots move Shanghai city block [video]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abu_Simbel#Relocation

In the 60s a massive stone monument was moved 200m up in elevation to avoid being flooded by a dam.

mayneackon Websites hosting major US climate reports taken down

What does this have to do with government mandated websites? Seems that the US had a government website about climate and few heat deaths. If the number of heat deaths goes up this year without the websites would you think that is because the website went away (obviously not).

Seems like a website with information about climate change without a mandate about max AC is a pretty conservative strategy all things considered.

mayneackon Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?

Yeah, imo using musicbrainz/picard is great for the process of bringing something into your collection. I encounter errors like others here have mentioned, but they're straightforward to fix. Importantly, it sets up a reference to an evolving update process so changes down the line can get back to my files cleanly.

mayneackon Why does my ripped CD have messed up track names? And why is one track missing?

There are userscripts to automatically do this from sources like bandcamp: https://musicbrainz.org/doc/Guides/Userscripts

mayneackon The time bomb in the tax code that's fueling mass tech layoffs

I assume the person you're replying to is talking about the Filibuster and supermajority requirements not the direct election history. The filibuster is a senate rule not a constitutional design, so it wasn't part of the "design". Maybe they're both different ways of adding veto points to the same effect, but I think spoilers as "explicit design" is probably not how I'd describe it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filibuster_in_the_United_State...

mayneackon US Trade Court finds Trump tariffs illegal

10 seconds on google: https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/sinema-manchin-reject-biden-...

mayneackon There was a time when the US government built homes for working-class Americans

https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-housing-theory-of-every...

mayneackon Virginia passes law to enforce maximum vehicle speeds for repeat speeders

https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a63365174/palisades-fire-c...

mayneackon Walmart plans EV Charging network which will blanket the US within a few years

It definitely sucks, but it seems likely that gas stations would require it if they were invented today.

mayneackon ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation

Why does the birthright status quo need resolving? Why is there magic pixie dust based on who your parents are? None of these are fundamental truths. The US and the Swiss just chose different laws.

mayneackon ICE Deports 3 U.S. Citizen Children Held Incommunicado Prior to the Deportation

> That's not only completely unrealistic

I don't see how it's unrealistic.

mayneackon Street address errors in Google Maps

In much of unincorporated america, the most valid form of an address just uses the nearest city regardless of boundaries. Almost nowhere actually guarantees that every bit of land is even in a city limits. At the margins, addresses are unstructured free form text that is correct if it can be interpreted by a human with local knowledge.

mayneackon Adobe deletes Bluesky posts after backlash

I personally am more likely to use a social media site without brands.

mayneackon xAI has acquired X, xAI now valued at $80B

Surely a theoretically disgruntled xAI shareholder is going to have a harder time here since they're both private companies and given Elon's proximity to any potential regulators.

mayneackon McLaren invented new carbon fiber tape to build even more complex parts

My hiking poles

mayneackon Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date

People certainly talk about this _on_ bluesky. No idea how much it's escaped outside.

mayneackon Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date

Platforms age/enshittify. Twitter wasn't the first, bluesky won't be the last.

mayneackon Show HN: I made a tool to port tweets to Bluesky mantaining their original date

I think the reason it works that way is because they want strong guarantees for the future portability of your skeets. It's sort of a correction for Mastodon's reliance on server admins' goodwill.

mayneackon 'Dogequest' Site Claims to Dox Tesla Owners Across the U.S.

Destroying the market for used Teslas and the brand harms Elon Musk's personal wealth which he uses to achieve his personal political goals. Now you may or may not agree with that as a method, but the logic is straightforward.

mayneackon 'Uber for nurses' exposes 86K+ medical records, PII via open S3 bucket

I've never had that happen (sample size ~5). They accept non-citizen patients, so they probably don't make SSN a required field.

(for SSN, never tried to prevent scanning of my ID)

mayneackon Privacy Pass Authentication for Kagi Search

For me the killer kagi feature is that I can manually up and down weight domains in results. I can "pin" and always get wikipedia results or "block" and never get pintrest or raise or lower as needed. Brave search has a similar feature, but they only seem to support "block" not "lower", which is what I use a lot more often.

https://kagi.com/stats?stat=leaderboard

mayneackon America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

Were there air traffic controllers fired? I saw reports about some upper management at the faa and related, but haven't seen anything here.

mayneackon America desperately needs more air traffic controllers

It seems they clawed back the offer or never gave it in the first place.

https://www.reuters.com/world/us/trump-administration-exempt...

mayneackon US bill proposes jail time for people who download DeepSeek

There's a museum in Shanghai with posters going back to Mao that take the same strategy. Lots of highlighting American racism.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Propaganda_Poster_Art_Centre

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g308272-d18871...

mayneackon Avoid ISP Routers (2024)

Interestingly, in my part of Los Angeles, the single family homes all got fiber well before the apartment retrofit. It took me joining the hoa board and a year to jump through the hoops for Frontier fios retrofit.

mayneackon Pixelfed Hit 500K Users

There are some (incomplete) bluesky mastodon bridges/merged clients, so it's possible to be majority in one and follow people on the other if your network isn't concentrated on one.

https://fed.brid.gy/

https://openvibe.social/

mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

I think that's probably right. The difference is the content. I don't fault people for preferring the X content. It's not even all nazis.

However, this is exactly the argument that people use to criticize bluesky. What is an echo chamber if not going to a place where you get the content you want. 99% of people who think they're taking a principled stand on moderation or openness in either direction are lying to themselves.

mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

Logged out, I can only see about 80% of tweets when I'm sent the link. I can see almost 0 profiles (only very large brands and verified?), can't search, can't see replies, etc.

I think bluesky only hides people who opt in to hiding their posts.

mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

I obviously can't speak to your specific situation. As I understand it, both X and bluesky require parodies to be labeled.

From what I can tell, most content moderation on bluesky is done via labelers, which you need a pds to run, but not to use.

Both X and bluesky have semi-automated moderation processes with an inherent false positive rate. The two high profile cases I'm aware of (Jessie Singal and Laura Loomer) that were suspended automatically eventually got turned back on once a human was involved.

https://bsky.app/profile/jessesingal.com

https://bsky.app/profile/loomered.bsky.social/post/3lemtdvls...

mayneackon Bluesky's science takeover: 70% of Nature poll respondents use platform

"used to be" being the operative part of that phrase. I see no reason to stick around because of a thing that is no longer true.