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Satellites Keep Photobombing Space Images. Astronomers Need a Fix in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Because SpaceX satellites are coated in special reflective materials to reduce brightness. That requires the satellite to be oriented the right way to reflect the light from the sun away from the planet, so it only reduces brightness of the satellites in the operational orbit. Satellites immediately after deployment are far more visible.

Renters Are About to Get the Upper Hand | The Wall Street Journal in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

We need more housing.

Renters Are About to Get the Upper Hand | The Wall Street Journal in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, but without money from investors they'd have to cover the construction costs from taxes, so it's not free either.

And government run initiatives have to be very careful with how they set their goals. If the legal mandate is to maximize the number of apartments constructed, and the people in charge are rewarded based on the number of apartments they created on paper, then the result will likely be the bare minimum of what counts as "apartment", even if it's not something most people would want to live in. That means that government initiatives need to specify in high detail what the quality of the apartments should be.

Investors have the goal of getting their money back through rent, so they will usually ensure that what they pay to build is something people will actually want to live in and pay money for. If the housing shortage is severe enough they too can get away with pretty crappy places, but if there's enough housing available that renters can be a little picky, any investor who built bare minimum apartments would regret their choice.

Is there any reason Lemmy isn't doomed to repeat Reddit's path? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmygrad is blocked from federating with most other instances but still is a pretty large instance. Though that instance in particular is not very likely to look towards IPO.

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Rule (i.redd.it)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Is there any reason Lemmy isn't doomed to repeat Reddit's path? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (4 children)

It could happen if there was a very popular instance that didn't federate with others.

So, Is [email protected] blocked ? If yes, why? in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Because lemmygrad is pretty huge and other instances don't want their new users to be met with a flood of tankie content, most instances are blocking lemmygrad.

Renters Are About to Get the Upper Hand | The Wall Street Journal in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, rent control does have issues in the long run. Less profit for landlords does mean less money invested in new construction by people looking to make a profit. Less new construction eventually leads to shortages. It's great for those who already have housing, but those searching for a place to live have it more difficult under strict rent control. Though with how long construction projects take from planning to opening, this effect takes decades for any change to be noticeable.

Reddit down amid major protest in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

As far as I can tell, Lemmy also auto-accepts moderators, but you can only do it with people who have posted or commented in the relevant community, because the "add as Moderator" button only shows up there.

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Subscribed communities copyer (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/808717

I made a little thing to more easily move to another instance:

A way to quickly grab a list of your subscribed communities.

Go to your list of subscribed communities, /communities/listing_type/Subscribed/page/1 and create a bookmark with the following code as link:
code
javascript:(function() {
    const currentHostname = window.location.hostname;
    const table = document.getElementById('community_table');
    const anchorTags = table.getElementsByTagName('a');
    const communityUrls = [];

    for (let i = 0; i < anchorTags.length; i++) {
      const title = anchorTags[i].title.substring(1);
      const parts = title.split('@');
      const community = parts[0].trim();
      const domain = parts[1] ? parts[1].trim() : currentHostname;
      const communityUrl = `https://${domain}/c/${community}`;
      communityUrls.push(communityUrl);
    }

    const urlsText = communityUrls.join('\n');

    navigator.clipboard.writeText(urlsText)
      .then(() => {
        alert('Community URLs copied to clipboard!');
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        alert('Failed to copy Community URLs to clipboard:', error);
      });
})();
Clicking this bookmark will automatically copy a list of all your subscribed communities and format the links so that you can pop them in the search bar of another instance to subscribe to them from another account. It can only scrape what's on screen, so if your subscribed communities list is several pages long just click the bookmark for each page.

Subscribed communities copyer in c/[email protected]

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I don't have a script to automatically subscribe to a list of communities on a new account yet, that's a bit more difficult...

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Subscribed communities copyer (feddit.de)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

7 comments fedilink

I made a little thing to more easily move to another instance:

A way to quickly grab a list of your subscribed communities.

Go to your list of subscribed communities, /communities/listing_type/Subscribed/page/1 and create a bookmark with the following code as link:

code

javascript:(function() {
    const currentHostname = window.location.hostname;
    const table = document.getElementById('community_table');
    const anchorTags = table.getElementsByTagName('a');
    const communityUrls = [];

    for (let i = 0; i < anchorTags.length; i++) {
      const title = anchorTags[i].title.substring(1);
      const parts = title.split('@');
      const community = parts[0].trim();
      const domain = parts[1] ? parts[1].trim() : currentHostname;
      const communityUrl = `https://${domain}/c/${community}`;
      communityUrls.push(communityUrl);
    }

    const urlsText = communityUrls.join('\n');

    navigator.clipboard.writeText(urlsText)
      .then(() => {
        alert('Community URLs copied to clipboard!');
      })
      .catch((error) => {
        alert('Failed to copy Community URLs to clipboard:', error);
      });
})();





Clicking this bookmark will automatically copy a list of all your subscribed communities and format the links so that you can pop them in the search bar of another instance to subscribe to them from another account.

It can only scrape what's on screen, so if your subscribed communities list is several pages long just click the bookmark for each page.

Reddit's backend seems to be entirely down now in c/[email protected]