If it makes a sound you don’t recognise, use the gun.

If you didn’t cheat that’s actually pretty impressive.

Probably not what you’re looking for, but it just occured to me that Ted Lasso might be the closest modern show to this sort of cosy/wholesome British sitcom.

Also if you want something really on the nose, I seem to remember enjoying Rev:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rev._(TV_series)

Edit: bonus recommendation for The Royle Family

Literally any chatbot, probably

The only deal-breaker for me was that the android app doesn’t persist its play state, so if I pause and do other stuff on my phone, it usually loses its place.

There’s ‘finamp’ for jellyfin which I really like so far.

I haven’t used plexamp though, so I can’t vouch for it as an alternative.

Discount JD Vance, or maybe premium JD Vance. I’m not sure.

If you talk to queer people about their shit and not your shit, you probably won’t raise any red flags.

Also, why do you want to support something you don’t understand?

Edit: I feel stupid even responding to this bad-faith (lol) question

Unfortunately we are in clown-world and the actual fucking news is rage-inducing, even with impeccable journalism.

now I’ve got more than enough new stuff every day to keep me entertained.

You mean horrified/nauseous right? Maybe I’m doing it wrong.

Is putting ‘open’ in front of something the equivalent of putting .com on the end in 1999?

Possibly, but I’m not very familiar with wordpress.

I imagined something like:

https://nextcloud.com/partners/

The idea is that I could pay someone to admin the same services that they provide to the public.

So like maybe lemmy.world and the other popular instances could offer a Lemmy instance, and maybe also offer: matrix, pixelfed, mastodon, etc etc.

There are decent options out there for mainstream services like email, web, etc. but maybe not for more niche services like lemmy.

I’ve been wondering if there’s an opportunity for instance admins (e.g. lemmy.world) to offer managed instances for user domains.

It would be great if it was easier for the average person to own a domain and use it for email, matrix, Lemmy, etc.

Building that cyanide tolerance

They should be sweet. Good strawberries do exist, but shitty ones are prevalent.

Make this sound better: we’re aware of the outage at Site A, we are working as quick as possible to get things back online

How does this work in practice? I suspect you’re just going to get an email that takes longer for everyone to read, and doesn’t give any more information (or worse, gives incorrect information). Your prompt seems like what you should be sending in the email.

If the model (or context?) was good enough to actually add useful, accurate information, then maybe that would be different.

I think we’ll get to the point really quickly where a nice concise message like in your prompt will be appreciated more than the bloated, normalised version, which people will find insulting.

Image: Office of Speaker Mike Johnson.

Ouch

This sounds like good engineering, but surely there’s not a big gap with their competitors. They are spending tens of millions on hardware and energy, and this is something a handful of (very good) programmers should be able to pull off.

Unless I’m missing something, It’s the sort of thing that’s done all the time on console games.

I found this blog post which gets into activitypub location metadata and integrating it with OSM.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/01/rebuilding-foursquare-for-activitypub-using-openstreetmap/

Sound promising actually.

Any suggestions for avoiding Google maps reviews? The best I can think of is looking for threads on local subreddits for e.g. restaurants. Unfortunately there’s not much of a local community on the fediverse yet.