The treaties for landmines and nuclear weapons have had some effect. I think, maybe.

This sounds like it could be a community rather than a software function?

Great detail on the fur and nose, especially for a phone.

2-3 times a week is nothing. 2-3 per day is completely fine.

It would only be used for the most flagrant accounts, ones with some level of automation - dozens of posts per day with almost no comments. That sort of thing.

I too find content on other networks (mostly Mastodon, occasional YouTube) and post them here. Often a few per day. But it’s all completely manual and I usually rewrite the description, add hashtags, etc. And I’ll interact with people who comment on the posts. Cross-pollination of content is normal and good.

There’s a point though, usually enabled by using some extra software tools like the one above, where someone ends up flooding their target communities, not responding to comments on the posts, looking inauthentic when they repost OC which plainly isn’t theirs and causing extra moderation work because their content is in the wrong places. Sanitation is the most obvious example of this but there are others.

Despite this, a lot of people upvote and comment on their posts. I don’t know if

1. they’re even aware of who the author is. Most apps do not emphasise this strongly so it’s easy to miss.
2. if they are aware then are they aware that the author is ignoring them and won’t learn from the feedback they’re getting?

… Or if they don’t care. Maybe they’re just content with the conversation in the comments without the OPs involvement. That’s valid (although not the kind of conversation I personally want to be a part of).

It’s probably a combination of don’t know and don’t care. For those people, labelling sanitation et al as a bot would seem heavy-handed. That’s why I’m leaning towards creating an in-between state, for these kinds of centaur accounts.

YSK that I’ve tagged all those accounts as bots on piefed.social.

Unlike on Lemmy, on PieFed people can choose to still see bot-generated posts but have them semi-transparent which makes them easy to scroll past OR interact with if you want. As well as the Lemmy option of just filtering them out entirely.

e.g. like this example:

I’ve also been thinking that a binary “this is a bot” or “this is human” flag is too limited and we need a third option - “this is a reposter” and people could choose to make-transparent, filter out or show their posts independently of the bot-or-not setting.

Very interesting and lots of detail on the 5 year plans. Thanks!

FYI every post you make is tagged as NSFW

After reading this I checked my backup system and found it hadn’t worked for the last month because a disk was full.

Woops!

This must have been going on for decades. Ridiculous, humans.

Yup. If there’s anywhere that can absorb the umm influx of 5000 stir-crazy men all at once, it’s Pattaya. Plus every bar girl from Bangkok will be there to lend a hand - it’s only a couple of hours drive away.

If sanitation would tick this box in their settings then all their problems would go away:

But they won’t, because that would let people filter them out.

War is not rational. Do not expect it to make sense.

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It is. All their posts are.

Those are good examples of what the article was describing - competence porn

Mudslide at the same place in 2025: https://english.news.cn/20250708/6b0e5cd0569c4a2ca1abd79a34ef12bc/c.html

https://www.ecns.cn/m/news/cns-wire/2025-07-08/detail-iheteaat0107462.shtml

Reopening after 6 months of work - https://english.news.cn/asiapacific/20260103/bf6d652a5fea498c8dea5605e6b39f27/c.html

I could find no English-language sources for whatever happened in 2024. This in Chinese media says that the road was closed for weeks in 2024 - https://h5.ifeng.com/c/vivoArticle/v002vutFidcZz18BnO8HnR2kq9AfXY3LztN2w-_WZBxXchLQ__?isNews

Today I tested 6 different desktop environments. Gnome, KDE and Mate all successfully propagated the system light/dark mode to Firefox. Xfce did not, same as LxQt and Openbox.

I use LxQt so the problem seemed more common to me than it really is. Probably 80% of Linux users will be using a desktop environment that is not broken.

It is likely that I will revert the change.

The community did express a strong preference for dark mode and I do want to find another way to respond to that. Probably incorporate it into the onboarding process or make the sun/moon icon easier to find.

It really isn’t.

Pick one of the tasks and write down the steps to get it done. Then within those steps, write down the sub-steps of those. Be as detailed as you like, more is better. The idea is to get each of the steps small enough that it’s trivial to do right now so you just go and do it. Then on to the next trivial thing.

They’ll be trying to do whatever their training task is.

https://hackernoon.com/the-parable-of-the-paperclip-maximizer-3ed4cccc669a