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solidgrue

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I’m just this guy, you know?

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Biden announces $930 million going into ISP pockets in effort to expand internet access to out-of-touch Americans who can't read this headline (apnews.com)

The federal effort to expand internet access to every U.S. home has taken a major step forward with the announcement of $930 million in grants to shore up connections in dozens of places where significant connectivity gaps persist. Those places include remote parts of Alaska and rural Texas. The so-called middle mile grants are...

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I object to your editorial post title on the grounds that it trivializes a real issue: rural broadband access in the US just SUCKS.

Rural America is a LOT of miles of nothing with a critical minimum of subscribers. Federal subsidies make DSL available to these households while the cities enjoy unfettered access to Gigabit speeds and faster. It's hardly fair access when most of those DSL providers are Sinclair affiliates.

It's an uncanny divide just from the standpoint of access-to-internet-media, but rural communities generate a TREMENDOUS amounts of data that the Dept of Commerce, USDA and FDA all could use to track US cattle herds, crop health, soil health fertilizer use and pest controls. Backhaul is key here, and the telcos resent being paid to run miles of fiber to cover pastures with LoRA or 5G.

I forget whatever my point was, but everyone should have good Internet access.

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Community-owned broadband is a fun legal zone. Some States are moving to dismantle it, some others to protect it, all while most are mute on it.

Is a muninipality legally entitled to set up its own broadband network? Doesn't matter what you think, the telcos are spending their lobby dollars to prevent it where it has traction. Same for Tribal areas too.

We can talk about "incredibly angry" here: the telco isn't the internet I worked a lifetime to build. Demand more. #

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If you live in a market within TV broadcast range of any significant Metro, then you have access to dedicated Internet feeds (DIA, in the parlance) under tariff for a cost. That cost may well be thousands of dollars monthly recurring, but it's available. Sign on the line and wait 180 days for provisioning.

My point is, even a fraction of that access us unavailable to rural communities because there is not infrastructure, full stop. We the US taxpayers funded it, and the telcos pocketed it and crowd poverty.

This next round of funding is sorely needed but I expect the same BS because the FCC is toothless. Ptui.

How do you get a better front page on Lemmy without so much old stuff?

I find that Hot and Active give you really old stuff, at least on my instance, that's like 3-7 days old stuff. New is just new, you know new, no community-assured quality. Top is stuff I've already seen. Where do I get a better feed? Can we have like Top 7 hours? Or a mixture of "top 16 hours" and "active"?...

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First, this isn't reddit, sort by Subscribed / New.

Second, subscribe to stuff and don't be afraid to subscribe at the same time to smaller communities on other instances. Yes, you cannot group them by topic Yet™, but it's on the road map.

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Following up:

Third: Don't lurk! We need content here. Be a contributor, and don't worry about what people think. Sieze your moment, and cry, "FIRST! I posted that here."

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I didn't vote for him.

solidgrue,
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Sigh. Shem, bubby... I was there too.

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You might want to get on it before they close the API most outside bulk scrubbers operate on. July 1 might be too late.

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I removed my content on that site in protest, and will continue to do so as it creeps back in right up to the day when either my every last comment is scrubbed, or I am locked out of my accounts.

No quarter.

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I've been watching and sweeping up after subs come back online.

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If the sub was locked, it seems the changes to the comments didn't take.

Now some subs are starting to consider mass changes as spam, but for my own account I am down to a trickle I can edit by hand easily enough.

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I used power delete suite and edited the comments to read, "This content was removed by its creator in protest of Reddit's planned API changes effective July 2023."

Where to start?

So far I have a bunch of tradfri lights with a couple of hubs + Google wifi. I'm in Canada and a house I own and in a city that has good access to shipping. I'm an electrician, mostly commercial, but comfortable with computers and have done one or two projects with Arduino, so no issues with modification. I have a sense EM...

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Check out https://home-assistant.io

There's a bit of a learning curve to conquer, but there's also a helpful and engaged community, and some good discussions on the support forum.

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Beehaw.org defederated Lemmy.world and kbin.social sh.itjust.works earlier this week over concerns about moderation, nanely inadequate tooling and inconsistent standards. If you're seeing content from beehaw.org on either Lemmy.world or kbin.social sh.itjust.works, its content that was shared before the defederation occurred, and will stick around until it ages out or the local admins delete it. Nothing posted to Beehaw has been shared here, or local interactions here shared back to Beehaw since they defederated.

We can still interact with those posts locally here on Lemmy among ourselves, but the community over at Beehaw won't see it.

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Doh, you're right. I'll edit my post

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Oneplus 5T unlocked, wiped and running LineageOS 20, no Gapps.

Fite me

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Mine only ever booted OxygenOS but the one time I it needed to enable Developer Options and ADB. Totally skipped the out-of-box setup, too.

Those were simpler days.

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Fookn'ell! That's knife & fork, lad

Ukraine war narrative doesn't add up (www.msn.com)

If Ukraine is able to replace or recover damaged vehicles why is Zelensky still asking for more tanks (in Switzerland right now)? I thought the sanctions were going to trigger massive inflation and unrest in the Russian economy and their desire to support the war would disappear. I thought the Russians were out of ammunition...

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Who doesn't need more tanks? Seriously, who are you?

Theory: Reddit isn't undeleting posts, they were locked during the blackout

I've been following the status of my own reddit profiles since I deleted my contributions on Monday & Tuesday of this week. I used a browser script to download and then edit my comments, and upon a second pass to delete them. I operated primarily on two accounts I still hold....

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Thanks!

I used PowerDeleteSuite at https://github.com/j0be/PowerDeleteSuite

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At some point I'll probably spin up a self-hosted instance, and rebase my operations there. In the meantime the fediverse needs content and users to reach a critical mass.

Over time I expect instances will grow and segment into more focused, specialized instances. Federation will keep things accessible so you might not need to follow. Communities of interest will grow around the instances that best reflect the spirit of that community.

Some splits will be amicable, some acrimonious, some out of necessity, others out if principle. Most will probably be because that's just where the content ends up.

Give it time. Nobody knows how this is all gonna work at scale, but at least we're doing it.

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~~There's two icons at the top right, 3 horizontal lines that make a sort of triangle. One is the filter (Subscribed/Local/All) and the other is the sort (Hot/Active/New, etc)

I recommend setting your defaults to Subscribed/New or All/New to see the freshest content. ~~

Edit: I'm dumb. Sorry.

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face palm you're right, and I'm dumb.

I don't see anything obvious in Jerboa for sorting comments, though it seems you can in the Web UI.

In fact just today In saw another post that Lemmy and Kbin are Progressive Web apps, and can "Install" an app on your home screen via the web browser. I'll try to update this with the original post for credit, but it should be an option in the three dots or hamburger menu of your mobile browser. In Firefox, its the "Add to Home screen" option

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Another rexxitor checking in!

Im already on HAOS as a VM on my main desktop. Currently waiting on a Coral edge TPU to ship later this month so I can finish setting up my outdoor security cameras, and write some smarter automation around my security lights.

I also want to set up more indoor presence and air quality sensors. I'm considering an ESP32 project to make an all-in-one sensor with millimeter radar, light, temp, humidity and notice sensors, possibly also CO, CO2, H2S and PM2.5 sensors.

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