It seems when adding a YouTube link to a post the summary for the video appears in a different language. Is this a setting I can address or this a server side occurrence? Please see the attached for reference. Anyone else notice this?
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"Tin Plate Special" for Brenda Allen, "Vice Queen" pandering trial, Los Angeles (1949)
Photo: Herald Examiner / LAPL
Backstory at source:
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Brenda Allen with her attorneys, and a deputy (1948, 1949)
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her women brought in about $80,000 (current dollars) a day. Allen took half the top, a third went to corrupt cops, doctors, lawyers, judges, and bail bondsmen, and the rest was divided amongst the girls.
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This absolutely delights me! The open source AI reveals that the secret, "super sophisticated," stock pumping models are not as sophisticated as they are said to be.
(And the way this has been spun is to focus on China being a threat. What rubbish!)
These guys did what scientists should be doing! They published their work!
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A new A.I. model, released by a scrappy Chinese upstart, has rocked Silicon Valley and upended several fundamental assumptions about A.I. progress.Kevin Roose (The New York Times)
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Ethel Patricia Kennedy, complainant in a breach of promise suit against Fire Commissioner John Cullerton, wearing a fur stole and a coat, standing in a park in Chicago (1924)
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Ethel told the papers she was 25, but she was listed as 24 in the 1920 census, 4 years before, so she was likely closer to 30.
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As with many of these types of news items, there was no follow up in the papers. Cullerton, who died in 1937, could have pulled in favours, or maybe the case never actually made it to court. Unfortunately I can't find out what happened to Ethel.
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Wrote something about how the decision to purge the PCLOB could trigger the EU no longer allowing US internet companies (incl. Meta, X, Truth Social) to operate there in short order. Also, why it sometimes helps to understand how gov't works before you smash things. www.techdirt.com/2025/01/27/t...
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In his latest “drain the swamp” move that will actually flood the entire ecosystem, Trump demanded the Democratic members of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board (PCLOB) resi…Techdirt
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A 504 is typically because httpd has to much latency connecting to php-fpm, though it can be that php-fpm is having and issue connecting to dbServer. If you have your entire server stack on one machine (or container) you can configure the servers to use sockets instead of TCP/IP This can help when you have congested network traffic. Keep in mind that this still applies if you are only connecting your server stack via local host as it is still effected by they TCP/IP stack.
note: 504 are typically never from client connecting to httpd or you would never see the message, you would just time out.
note: If you need any of this translated to English please feel free to ask questions . I do not think google is up to it.
note: Sockets can also be better for security as this is one less vector of attack on your server from remote.
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I have the BlueSky gateway active for some days now.
In general it seems to work. I can follow BlueSky users here. When I like a BlueSky post it shows up at the BlueSky end also.
The option to comment is not active. Reshare en quote share is active. Resharing here at Friendica of that BlueSky post results of a reshare of the contected account at BlueSky. Do not see it here at Friendica itself. Maybe it takes time.
The option to change the handle at blueSky with the Friendica one still does not work.
(setting at; settings - sociale networks - bluesky import/export, last checkbox option )
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Worthwhile piece by @anneapplebaum on whether Elon Musk is making it impossible to have free and fair elections, and whether Europe can stop his influence (or largely curtail it).
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#tech #elections #democracy
He and other tech oligarchs are making it impossible to conduct free and fair elections anywhere.Anne Applebaum (The Atlantic)
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Sonnet 116 - CXVI
Let me not to the marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds,
Or bends with the remover to remove:
O, no! it is an ever-fixed mark,
That looks on tempests and is never shaken;
It is the star to every wandering bark,
Whose worth's unknown, although his height be taken.
Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks
Within his bending sickle's compass come;
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error and upon me proved,
I never writ, nor no man ever loved.
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Estoril Race Track!
5 laps, and I felt could go on forever. It's far from flat!
#52weeks52halfmarathons #halfmarathon #running #Estoril #Formula1 #F1
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A late afternoon 12km trail run at about -11C.
We had a lot more snow, but a few days ago the usual warm "Fön" wind with gusts of more than 100 km/h literally blew it away. At the moment it's just cold, very cold, and it can be quite difficult and even dangerous to run because of the ice that often covers the trails, including wells like the one in the picture.
#Garmin #Beatyesterday @running #TrailRunning #Running #RunnersOfMastodon #Tirol #Laufen
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@stefanonegri @Lee6 Yes, I've thought of that too. As far as I've heard, the biggest disadvantage of spikes is that running on asphalt and similar surfaces, even if only for a while, becomes quite uncomfortable.
But I still want to try it out – what I will probably do is the following with an old pair of #running shoes:
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@stefanonegri @Lee6
Apart from using the removable spikes like EXOspikes (kahtoola.com/traction/exospike…) you can do the “hack” trick with these here: BestGrip (Swedish brand) best-grip.se/product/bestgrip-…
Can recommend both products.
AFAIK there are also resellers on the European continent.
EXOspikes allow you to run, hike, and thrive with cross-terrain winter traction on snow mountain trails to icy roads and everything in between.Kahtoola
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@recollir @stefanonegri @Lee6 thx!!
The spikes from BestGrip look very promising!! And after looking for a local dealer, I see that they are not only used for running shoes but also for all kinds of tires! Always wanted to feel like a tractor on ice when running 😁
vonblon.cc/produkte/bestgrip-s…
Schraubspikes von Best Grip haben eine Hartmetall-Spitze, sorgen für besten Halt auf rutschigen Untergrund und eignen sich für jedes Gummiprofil. Jede Größe Lagernd für Reifen, Räder, Raupen und Schuhe.www.vonblon.cc
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We're living in the most embarrassing timeline here in the US, barreling full speed ahead toward idiocracy.
The irony is that all the stupid hurts the head of people with a brain, to the point where they really don't want to read the news anymore because it's all so awful. I mean, to be fair the news is usually 95 percent bad, but it's also not usually 95 percent despair.
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Immigrants are the essence of America and I am not supporting BS attacks on immigrants. I never have and never will.
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Okay, here’s some user stats on #Flipboard:
One place for all the stories you care about. Join the Flipboard community to discover and share what inspires you.Flipboard
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I can lash a mini tripod ($2 on eBay) to the top of a quad-sected tent pole with 4 equal sections with internal elastic to make a tripod. This gets me about 2' off the ground. I can lash a mini t...The Great Outdoors Stack Exchange
Thanks for the links. I see that making them into an actual tripod involves lashing them together. I could see doing that if I am stationed somewhere taking lots of pics. But, when taking just a few pics and not having much time for setup (such as a quick selfie at a summit), I find use of a single trekking pole reasonable (although sometimes I can't stick it into the ground which may be solid rock).
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RealClimate: There's been a bit of media whiplash on the issue of AMOC slowing lately - ranging from the AMOC being "on the brink of collapse" to it being "more stable than previously thought".Stefan (RealClimate)
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... gerne möchte ich die Empfehlung aus dem offenen Brief der 44 Experten/Wissenschaftler aus Ihrem erwähnten Papier als Fazit für LeserInnen mit wenig Zeit hinzufügen:
"Wir, die Unterzeichnenden, sind Wissenschaftler, die auf dem Gebiet der Klimaforschung arbeiten, und halten es für dringend erforderlich, die Aufmerksamkeit des Nordischen Ministerrats auf das ernsthafte Risiko einer großen Änderung der Ozeanzirkulation im Atlantik zu lenken. Eine Reihe wissenschaftlicher Studien der letzten Jahre deutet darauf hin, dass dieses Risiko bisher stark unterschätzt wurde. Eine solche Änderung der Ozeanzirkulation hätte insbesondere für die nordischen Länder, aber auch für andere Teile der Welt, verheerende und irreversible Auswirkungen."
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52 Weeks, 52 Half Marathons
Stage 04 completed
Estoril Race Track!
An old Formula 1 track still in operation.
I came here to watch many races 1984-1996
Prost, Senna, Piquet, Lauda, Mansell and many other legends.
The track was all mine, and I was very lucky not to need rain tyres.
#52weeks52halfmarathons. #halfmarathon
#running #Estoril #Formula1 #F1
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Just an explosion of terrible things happening this week. This is up there among the worst, just totally pausing work by NIH and other health organizations. A pause can destroy years of work 😢
cnn.com/2025/01/24/health/nih-…
#democracy #autocracy #health
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American media coverage likes treating scandals as devoid of context.
People keep dissecting Elon’s “Roman Salute” meanwhile he’s doing public Zoom calls with Germany’s right-wing party and saying there’s “too much focus on past guilt” and “children should not be guilty of the sins of their parents, let alone their great-grandparents.”
When people show who they are, believe them.
forbes.com/sites/tylerroush/20…
The world’s richest person has heaped praise on the Alternative for Deutschland party in recent weeks ahead of the country’s upcoming election.Ty Roush (Forbes)
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Sonnet 113 - CXIII
Since I left you, mine eye is in my mind;
And that which governs me to go about
Doth part his function and is partly blind,
Seems seeing, but effectually is out;
For it no form delivers to the heart
Of bird, of flower, or shape which it doth latch:
Of his quick objects hath the mind no part,
Nor his own vision holds what it doth catch;
For if it see the rud'st or gentlest sight,
The most sweet favour or deformed'st creature,
The mountain or the sea, the day or night,
The crow, or dove, it shapes them to your feature.
Incapable of more, replete with you,
My most true mind thus maketh mine eye untrue.
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@markh it’s so good.
“…replete with you, / My most true mind thus maketh mine eye untrue.” Is such a nice way to end it.
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If a programming language is defined by prompts that instruct a computer on what to do then a WYSIWYG editor is a form of programming language. Here’s why:
However, by definition, traditional programming languages offer more opportunities for expression, and WYSIWYG editors generally lack syntax and grammar that typical programming languages have.
But if we define programming as “instructing a computer to perform tasks,” then WYSIWYG editors fit as a visual, domain-specific “language” for programming layouts and styles.
Okay, in Star Trek, why isn’t Lt. Uhura more important?
She’s the bloody comms officer! Nothing on that ship happens without her!
Talk to aliens? That’s Uhura’s job. Send a message from the bridge to engineering? All Uhura. Ensuring the Enterprise ain’t hacked? Again, Uhura.
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!New To Friendica I have tried to make some channels. Attached is a screenshot of the settings for an example channel.
Seems as if they should work, but posts only occasionally show up in them. And the few posts that have appeared over the last couple weeks don't seem to have a common element to them, i.e. they are not from any particular instance.
I'm wonder what is going on and whether I can fix it.
#Friendica #FriendicaSettings #FriendicaSupport
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Aha! Maybe that's it! I'll give it a try.
EDIT: That seems to be it! At least I'm seeing some posts in my channels. Thanks!
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it's in German, and it's not even a video description/summary, but rather "a description of youtube"
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I did some private link experiments, and one time I got the youtube video embedded, another time I got the "youtube description, in german", and yet another one just got posted as clickable text ... but I also think my experimen
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it's in German, and it's not even a video description/summary, but rather "a description of youtube"
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I did some private link experiments, and one time I got the youtube video embedded, another time I got the "youtube description, in german", and yet another one just got posted as clickable text ... but I also think my experimenting co-incided with some slow internet, so maybe I should re-do them some time ...
(I think I just wanted to know the differences between the "link or media" and "link" icons. 😅🙈)
(and no, I haven't set language to German in any Settings — and I've actually set it to collapse posts in e.g. German for me)
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