Oh wow, I’m in this study! I’ve been completing the NZAVS every year since it started.

I can tell I’m on Lemmy because of how many ISO 8601 comments I had to scroll past to find this comment.

My government’s arguments against solar: we need to build a billion dollar storage facility for natural gas because hydo doesn’t work in dry years and solar is too unreliable.

Me: you’re saying we need gas because solar is unreliable

Government: correct, the sun isn’t always shining

Me: and hydro has dry years

Government: yes, sometimes it’s just sunny all the time so there’s no rain for the hydo lakes

Me: 🤦

What’s up? Not Grafana. I did docker compose pull on the stack (without version pinning) then recreated the containers, and now it’s fucked. Or maybe it’s not because the logs are fine but it only serves the web app but 404s on any connection to the Grafana backend.

Now I need to do some investigation into any recent changes to try to work out what’s going wrong.

Yeah I haven’t seen the lemmy.world admins online, but I’m guessing they will fix it up once they are.

Haha looks like you got done by the lemmy.world automod.

I have actually posted in a chat to ask people (including lemmy.world) to review their recent automod bans, you were not the first…

It was a spam bot a while back. And people (like you) keep getting banned on our instance (and probably others) by our automod for saying it 😅

Is it regional or for VPN users or something? I still use old reddit when I need to from search results, and I don’t get asked to log in.

To add on to your “with telescope” numbers, the number you can see with the naked eye is surprisingly small. If you are out on a clear night, you can pretty much only see stars within the milky way, and even then you’re talking the ballpark of 5000. If you’re naming them and counting them on all sides of the earth (not just those visible from your one location) you can double that if you have great eyes.

It’s probably highly dependent on what you want to do with your life. Are you trying to become an archeologist professor? Work in IT? Run a pub?

Or maybe if you knew your own date you could do reckless shit. Although you might just spend 20 years in a coma before you die.

Yeah I think upgrading the mobo would be more accurate, when it’s a big enough change that you need to replace RAM and the CPU as well.

It kind of ruins the concept if you can’t use the information to change the outcome. Or maybe just makes it sad, every time you try to save someone they die at that time anyway. Then over time you work out that the clock knew what actions you were going to do, and by trying to interfere with the people with short times you actually caused their deaths.

It would be interesting to see this update in realtime. You see someone about to get in their car, with a death time 5 mins from now. You call out “hey”, they stop, see you were talking to someone else. The date updates to 30 years in the future, as that momentary pause meant they won’t be in the place they would have when someone runs a red light.

Somewhere unseen, someone’s number changes from 20 years away to 5 mins away.

Ah I just assumed because they all look the same, but maybe you’re right!

Yeah I guess so, but every site seems to be a Shop App now so it’s hardly more than one company anyway 😅

Who is behind it and how do you know they are trustworthy? I wasn’t able to find much info but it seems it’s just some company (not a non profit / charity or anything). I know they have paid plans but it seems they also have an incentive or at least an ability to sell your purchase data?

Yip. It might not have been clear but my point was that if you have a SearXNG instance set up and running well, then Kagi may well not be worth the cost since you’ve already got most of its strengths.

If you’re there with Searx then it’s pretty similar to how Kagi works. Kagi sends requests to various search providers and has some of its own index then shows results based on the various sources.

I found Searx/Searxng slow, 5-6 seconds per query (to get a response from each source), though it seems others have it working faster. Might have been some IP or rate limiting issue.

Kagi has easy ways to raise/lower rankings and users can report AI slop pages to have them removed, but all in all Searx gives pretty good results.

There’s really no poll feature. Piefed has polls but Lemmy doesn’t.

You could make a poll by asking a question then reading people’s answers, or by linking a poll website.