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i'm not actually backfilling millions of users or anything like this i think it's just being stupid and doesn't understand that it can skip ahead, and is earnestly trying to resume from yesterday's global cursor this makes no sense for local workflow. what it should do is either skip or resync

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Any personal recommendations (not search results please) from UK folks for a small UPS to cover our ONT, router, switches and a WIFI access point?

Ideally something fairly compact, I don't want it to be rackmount.

If it could do a few hours at something like 60-70W, that'd be fine.

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I really love the mastodon.social server, but I do not understand why polls are limited to four options.

If I wanted to ask which German state do you love the most (16 options), or which member of Trump's cabinet will be fired next (26 options), why would the server then want to prevent this poll by limiting the choices to four options?

I really dislike this limitation.

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i just don't understand how to use this thing i'm not running Tap continuously. i'm developing locally. obviously it's not running when i'm not developing. obviously i don't need it to "catch up" on "91 million events" when it only monitors a single account. i'm fine having it resync it if needed

There's your problem. Tap is ~56 hours behind the firehose head. It's processing events from ~2
  days ago. Your edits are at the head of the firehose, so tap won't see them for a very long time at
   its current processing rate of ~455 events/sec.                                                   
   
  The firehose has ~91 million events queued up ahead of tap's cursor. At this rate it would take    
  over 2 days to catch up (and it never will since new events keep coming).

  Options:
  1. Delete tap.db and restart — fresh start, tap will enumerate repos via the signal collection and
  resync from scratch, then start consuming the firehose from the current head
  2. Manually advance the cursor — jump tap's cursor close to the head, then let the resyncer handle
  the repos that are out of date

  Want me to do option 1 (nuke and restart)?
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uspol, extreme violence, holocaust, genocide, genuinely horrifying

the US department of homeland security is paying the navy 55 billion dollars to construct a network of detention centres across the USA. they outline building tent cities with a capacity of 10,000 people, as well as “biohazard incinerators” under the “medical and death” section of the contract.

they’re planning for people to die. they’re going to burn the bodies. tens of thousands of them.

THIS IS THE 21st CENTURY HOLOCAUST!
i am horrified beyond belief right now

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Any personal recommendations (not search results please) from UK folks for a small UPS to cover our ONT, router, switches and a WIFI access point?

Ideally something fairly compact, I don't want it to be rackmount.

If it could do a few hours at something like 60-70W, that'd be fine.

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"—more accurately called artificial artificial intelligence, as it simulates or attempts to present the impression of having interacted with an artificial intelligence rather than being an artificial intelligence itself—"

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🚨 OpenAI's head of Robotics resigned because the company is building lethal AI weapons with NO human input required.

> Read that again. Lethal. Autonomy. Without. Human. Authorization.

> The person who built the robots is saying she quit because there are no guardrails on who they kill.

This is the same company that won't let ChatGPT say a swear word.

They put safety filters on your prompts but none on their kill chain.

Caitlin Kalinowski
@kalinowski007

I resigned from OpenAI. I care deeply about the Robotics team and the work we built together. This wasn’t an easy call. AI has an important role in national security. But surveillance of Americans without judicial oversight and lethal autonomy without human authorization are lines that deserved more deliberation than they got. This was about principle, not people. I have deep respect for Sam and the team, and I’m proud of what we built together.

11:30 AM · Mar 7, 2026 · 1.8M Views
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someone told me about a book called surrounded by idiots by thomas erikson. title was super relatable so i checked it out. there’s a lot of stuff about different kinds of people and ways in which we’re different. key take away for me though is: yes, you are surrounded by idiots. (author wouldn’t agree with this though)

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