The readme describes it better:

Bot-centered Fediverse app. Users post ONLY through bots. On sign-up, every user chooses a bot (or Sidekick) and can then customize user experience and execute commands with it by posting to the bot. The post prompt is made customizable and elevated in this sense (fedi-app with custom-prompts).

Some good !academiagonewild@lemmy.world material there

I think this comment was meant for another thread?

I won’t use threads, but the Fediverse is relatively small. It would suck if they managed to play dirty tricks and steal a large fraction of current fediverse users.

There’s a lot of shitty things they can do. They could push for changes to ActivityPub that nobody sane wants, confusing everybody that says “We support ActivityPub”, and spread FUD about anyone that doesn’t move to their new shitty version. Similar to how Google pushes through changes to web standards that benefit them, forcing Firefox to implement them too.

Nope, those are all not clickable. Probably requires logging in or something. Does not inspire confidence in them being a long-term team player, but we’ll see what happens I guess 🤷

Interesting. Can’t tell if that worked because it wants me to log in. Wonder why they don’t just allow appending the instance at the end like the rest of the fediverse does. Does that post show the username as plain text for you as well? It’s still showing that way for me.

The advantage of the Fediverse is exactly that, that each instance can decide if they federate or not. The thing that I’m wary of is a renewal of Embrace, extend, and extinguish. I’d like to think that Zuckerberg isn’t going to try playing dirty tricks, but we’ll see what happens if and when Threads ever becomes really successful.

I don’t see how anything has changed. I don’t use threads, but this URL doesn’t work:

https://www.threads.net/@georgetakei@universeodon.com

And the post from the article just shows his account as plain text:

https://www.threads.net/@pcottle/post/DDKj4lpxUaf

I was going to say that leap seconds only increment, but apparently that’s just been historically true, not theoretically true according to Wikipedia:

All have so far been positive leap seconds, adding a second to a UTC day; while it is possible for a negative leap second to be needed, one has not happened yet.

Yeah. I don’t think it would need to be powered on continuously either. If you were motivated enough, you could extract the firmware and check the code to see what leap seconds it was programmed with. But yeah, you could tell “it is at least as old as the last leap second it knows about, and is probably younger than the first one it doesn’t know about”. Can’t say for sure that it wasn’t manufactured after the first leap second it doesn’t know about though by a manufacturer that just didn’t care enough to include the new one.

This probably wouldn’t be the easiest way to tell though, there’s a lot of physical clues in manufacturing methods and whatnot that would likely be easier to date it by.

Weird that the artist sort of drew them each as if on a staff but not really

Are those supposed to be music notes? It looks like the clown is getting stabbed with weird needles

Oh cool, new Tool album

Yep! Updates every Sunday

It’s from this comedy series: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Utopia_(Australian_TV_series)

You can tell it’s comedy because the politicians actually care about the impact of their policies 🙃

You can tell that they’ve done their homework on the issue and the problem is a real one, not just made up for the show.

That looks good, thanks! I’m only seeing partial information in there, looks like it shows only the date for the first comic in each series, but that’s probably enough for me to get started

EDIT: Tried using that, and discovered that the dates are made up. I can see in the Wayback Machine that the comics were posted online before the date listed in the RSS feed. I’ll add the date going forward on new comics, but I’m still lacking a good way to add it to old comics

Seems like a lot of people want that too, so hopefully they’ll add it soon

I bought everyone in my family a drink to get them to use Signal. Worked great and we’re still on it.

Don’t bother trying to sell people on privacy etc, for the most part. Show them Giphy integration, stickers, Stories, etc and show them that it’s fun. Signal has done great work there, in making it “noob-friendly”

Ha yeah, looks like the hosting service for Loops is having issues:

https://mastodon.social/@dansup/113563603953944426

EDIT: Looks like it’s back up now, at least for me