merylnass.substack.com/p/bayer…

I have been thinking about this for a while now, but I think it's time to actually pull the trigger. We need a database to document commercials/adverts etc.

Requirements:
- Easily record metadata in a standard format
- API available to query
- User contribution capabilities (well moderated)

Ideally I want to use something off the shelf. MediaWiki seems to check the boxes, but looking for something less complex to general users.

#lostmedia #MediaPreservation

Et acheter une voiture neuve, faire tourner à fond le marché de l’automobile, c’est écolo, n’est-ce pas ? Si j'étais dictateur 😀 je nationaliserais (ou un truc dans le genre) la production automobile et ferait produire des modèles de véhicules costauds, avec base commune, facilement réparables, exemple: Mercedes 240D
#france #macronie #idiocratie

Zohran Mamdani, the self-described "democratic socialist" and presumptive Democratic Party nominee to be mayor of New York City, has been supported by so-called "fact-checkers" and legacy media in denying that he is a Communist — but his oft-repeated past comments strongly contradict his denials. Mamdani is a member of the Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), but he denies that he is a Communist.

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The GOP provision, which blocks Medicaid funding for clinics that offer abortions, was approved by the Senate Parliamentarian on Monday and will pass with the bill by a simple majority.

thegatewaypundit.com/2025/06/s…

This October, the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine is projected to hit a once-in-a-generation milestone: 1 trillion web pages archived.

We’ll be commemorating this historic achievement on October 22 with a global celebration. Learn how you can take part ➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/07/01/wa…

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🤣 EU member states have been warned not to expect a stable trade relationship with the US, especially on the issue of EU pharmaceutical exports ahead of next Wednesday's deadline, when a pause on the imposition of US tariffs expires.

rte.ie/news/europe/2025/0701/1…

merylnass.substack.com/p/how-f…

Donald Trump to welcome Benjamin Netanyahu at the White House next Monday, July 7th radiohc.cu/en/noticias/interna…

On the Existence and Nature of God

In his piece, "Making a Monkey out of Darwin," Pat Buchanan presented a case for declaring "Darwinism" obsolete. Noted evolutionary psychologist, Kevin MacDonald, offered a retort, showing the reasoning buttressing Buchanan's claim to be defective. Others, like the team over at SpiritWaterBlood.com also weighed in on the matter. Great minds all, they never-the-less fall into the dual trap of conflating theology (the study or theory of God) with . . . stormfront.org/forum/blogs/u15…

A decade ago, Lucy Biggers was like many people in their 20s. She believed that climate change posed an immediate and catastrophic risk to mankind, that we should rapidly eliminate fossil fuels to address the problem, that renewables are up to that task, and that our wealthy, privileged lives in the West are a mark of shame.

justthenews.com/politics-polic…

in reply to Jesse Stone

Well, that's good. But people who feel shame by their work and success, and having the ability to create a good life are brainwashed. Every single country in the world had the opportunity to do what we did, but all we got were complaints, hate and jealousy. Leaders here and there wasted OUR money for illegal conquests to enrich themselves, and to keep the people destitute.
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Fchan, the federated imageboard, is apparently still alive


one of the Fchannel0 forks is still getting updated, and has an instance running.

::: spoiler link to instance, but visit only if you are completely degenerate
usagi.reisen/
:::

But it seems to be an isolated instance, as the federation appears to have been broken:
github.com/anomalous69/FChanne…
usagi.reisen/followers

more info:
fediverse.wiki/wiki/FChan

in reply to Vanilla_PuddinFudge

They broadly arent really very techy and absolutely hate the idea of anything new. So nah they broadly hate federation and adopting any new platforms.

Especially given that the fediverse already has a culture of being actively anti racism and hate they wouldnt be able to move here without getting instantly defederated and they know this. I'm sure the leftypol commies are already here.

in reply to Fizz

I think also the fediverse tends to lend itself to brainrot formats of social media: mastodon (Twitter), lemmy (Reddit), pixelfed (Instagram/tiktok), matrix (Discord). The fediverse is just trying to mimic the worst examples of the internet while 4chan is perfectly fine being its 2004 self
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Radikale Siedlergangs im Westjordanland geraten außer Kontrolle derstandard.at/story/300000027…

Bolivia Expresses ‘Deep Gratitude’ to Venezuela for Measles Vaccines Donation orinocotribune.com/bolivia-exp…

“How exactly has Britain supported Israel’s military assault on Gaza? The public has a right to know”

by Jeremy Corbyn in The Grauniad

“The British public deserves to know the full scale of the UK’s complicity in crimes against humanity. That is why I am tabling a private members’ bill tomorrow calling for a full, public, independent inquiry into the UK’s role in Israel’s military assault in Gaza”

theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

#Press #UK #Labour #Gaza #Complicity #Inquiry #Corbyn

Why Won’t MDs and Pharmacists Believe You When Generic Drugs Fail?
I recently had the honor to participate in a webinar about when generic drugs fail. It is with David Light and Katherine Eban.

Please watch!

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CM Punk (Pittsburgh for WWE’s live broadcast ) supports trans youth amid policy change by Pittsburgh health care provider.

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#transgender #trans #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA

"Anyone who does human rights work or investigative journalism understands that in many cases, privacy is the difference between life and death. We know throughout history that centralized power constitutes such power via information asymmetry. The more they know, the more stable and lasting their power is. This is the type of domination through knowledge that makes or breaks empires."

FF @Mer__edith

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Gaza: 228 Journalists Killed in Israeli Attacks Since Start of Israeli Genocide #Palestine qudsnen.co/gaza-228-journalist…

Ford Debuts World’s First Autonomous Car To Leave Factory And Drive Straight To Shop For Repairs

According to upper-level Ford executives, the fully self-driving car is the first of its kind to be able to make a direct bee-line from the assembly line to the nearest mechanic shop.

At publishing time, Ford had released a software update for the car which saved even more time by driving to the dump instead of a repair shop.

babylonbee.com/news/ford-debut…

Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)


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I decided to make a new Facebook account to try and get in touch with some foreign friends that I really don't want to lose contact with.
This is new.
I'm guessing this is Facebook's way of gearing up for the new Australian social media laws.

The Australian government wants to have facial ID mandated as age verification for all social media.
The laws already passed months ago but they don't go into effect until December.
At which point it becomes illegal for 16 year olds and under to use anything considered social media. Even YouTube.
Whole point is to force people to accept the #digitalid
I'm sure the age restriction for social media will end up getting lifted, months after going into effect, once a large enough number of people get logged out of all their social media and get a pop up telling them to sign up for digital id, and they will because it'll be soooooo convenient.

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Lemmy Development Update June 2025


This was a busy month, with ~80 pull requests merged, as we're trying to get all the breaking changes we can added before the 1.0 release.

The release is still several months away, as even after finishing up the rest of the 1.0 milestone issues, we still have to add this new functionality to Lemmy-UI and Jerboa, and do extensive testing.

Here are some of the major changes made over the past month:

  • Added multi-communities (One of the most requested features).
  • Added a new rate limiting library.
  • Refactored the API structs and library for better usage in Rust projects.
  • Improved the migration diff checker.
  • Using an external library for checking invisible characters.
  • Votes are now removed when banning + removing data.
  • Added a GDPR style data export.
  • Storing upvote / downvote totals you gave to each user, and a setting to display that history next to their name.
  • Added ability to make a note for a user.
  • Added an RSS feed for modlogs.
  • Added an API action to get liked / disliked content.

::: spoiler Full list of changes by user

Lemmy:
- Improve migration diff check and fix old migrations (#5204) dullbananas
- Implement multi-community (fixes #818, fixes #5340) (#5601) Nutomic
- Add endpoint to get Liked / Disliked comments and posts. (#5616) dessalines
- Add permitted display characters check for post titles (#5692) SleeplessOne1917
- Adding Modlog RSS feed. (#5708) dessalines
- Decrement fail_count instead of reset to 0 (ref #5716) (#5717) Nutomic
- Leave mod teams on account deletion. (#5721) dessalines
- Throw error if the removed code_migrations.rs needed to run but didn't (#5723) dullbananas
- Fix assumption that is_err always means the local site doesn't exist, which may cause the local site's keypair to be regenerated (#5724) dullbananas
- Simplifying transaction call (#5703) (#5726) momentary-lapse
- Switch to library for rate limit (fixes #5550, fixes #5548) (#5731) Nutomic
- Dont run scheduled tasks at startup (ref #5716) (#5732) Nutomic
- Adding proper NSFW filtering to search, based on user settings. (#5733) dessalines
- Move lemmy_api_common structs to view crates, make a lemmy_api_utils crate (#5735) SleeplessOne1917
- [0.19] Decrement fail_count instead of reset to 0 (#5737) Nutomic
- [0.19] Update user count from local_user table instead of person table, and only count users with accepted application (#5738) Nutomic
- Mark some *Action struct fields as serde(skip) (ref #5532) (#5739) Nutomic
- [0.19] Only use HTTP/1 (#5744) flamingos-cant
- [0.19] Dont run scheduled tasks at startup (#5732) (#5745) Nutomic
- Pin cargo-workspaces version (#5746) Nutomic
- Test case for activity send errors (#5747) Nutomic
- Revert "[0.19] Downscale proxied thumbnails (#5686)" (#5751) Nutomic
- Resolve objects as part of search api call (fixes #5740) (#5752) Nutomic
- Specify rust 1.81 (#5754) Nutomic
- Update extism (#5755) Nutomic
- Fix lemmy_federate test (#5756) Nutomic
- Fix lemmy_federate test (again) (#5757) Nutomic
- Use invisible_chars library (#5759) dessalines
- Rename timestamp fields to _at (#5761) dessalines
- Upgrading deps. (#5764) dessalines
- Adding ability to make a note for a given person. (#5765) dessalines
- 0.19 specify rust 1.81 (#5766) Nutomic
- Remove feature full for api_utils (#5767) Nutomic
- Rename upgrade check migration to run first (#5768) Nutomic
- Remove private instance check for get image (fixes #5763) (#5769) Nutomic
- [0.19] Remove private instance check for get image (#5770) Nutomic
- Make search query mandatory (#5772) Nutomic
- Parallel sql format (#5773) Nutomic
- Keep rustup home dir between ci steps (#5775) Nutomic
- Enable urlencoding for pictrs proxy parameter (fixes #5749) (#5776) Nutomic
- Upgrading ts-rs, and adding feature flag (#5777) dessalines
- Implement multi-community search (fixes #5778) (#5779) Nutomic
- Use binstall for diesel-cli (#5780) Nutomic
- Move db_perf check to unit test (#5781) Nutomic
- Fixing a few optionals. (#5782) dessalines
- Small lemmy_api_common/db_views fixes/tweaks (#5783) SleeplessOne1917
- Keep totals of upvotes and downvotes given to each user. (#5786) dessalines
- Test migrations improvement (#5788) momentary-lapse
- Replace most uses of context.reset_request_count() with clone() (#5790) Nutomic
- chore: replace nightly API Duration::from_days with Duration::from_secs (#5791) Integral-Tech
- Add incoming activity hook for plugins (#5792) Nutomic
- Remove ts-bindings null check from CI. (#5795) dessalines
- More re-exports (#5796) SleeplessOne1917
- Delete scripts/ts_bindings_check.sh (#5797) Nutomic
- Fix migration local_image_person (#5799) Nutomic
- Optimize migrations (#5800) Nutomic
- Adding GDPR-style data export (#5801) dessalines
- Move config updated check to unit test, use diffy (#5803) Nutomic
- Removing an existing deferrable constraint, and fail test if any constraint is deferrable. (#5806) dessalines
- [0.19] Reduce false positives in URL blocklist to reduce scunthorpe problem … (#5807) Nothing4You
- Remove creator_*_actions fields from api (ref #5532) (#5808) Nutomic
- Set Accept: Vary header for federation endpoints (fixes #5632) (#5809) Nutomic
- Remove votes when ban + remove data for a site or community. (#5810) dessalines
- Fixes for "Move config updated check to unit test, use diffy" PR (#5812) dullbananas
- Remove outdated comment about deferrable constraints in triggers.sql (#5813) dullbananas
- Fix db_perf.sh (#5815) dullbananas
- Optimizing person_content_combined migration. (#5819) dessalines
- Fixing docker_update.sh script to not add context. (#5820) dessalines
- Optimizing a few more combined migrations (#5821) dessalines
- Better way to check if we should accept activity in remote community (#5823) Nutomic
- Rename rate limit columns (fixes #5805) (#5824) Nutomic
- Send Undo/Dislike activity (fixes #4465) (#5825) Nutomic
- Add post_actions.disable_notifications (fixes #3042) (#5826) Nutomic
- Revert "Use same federation keypair for all new users and communities (#5709) (#5830) Nutomic
- Drop table person_ban (fixes #5828) (#5831) Nutomic
- Use vec_into (#5833) dessalines

Lemmy-ui:

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Or see the full list of changes at the links below:


An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

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