Admiral Patrick @ admiralpatrick @lemmy.world

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Yep, modern. Should have clarified.

That's kinda why I tagged it "general". It's been a good decade or two since cut the cord, but I've still caught some TV in the intervening years and don't recall the bodybuilding competitions becoming any less of a thing. So, clearly, it's still popular enough to televise :shrug:.

I know the former is, but not sure if the recipient is on the hook or not.

Rule 4: Post titles should be the same as the article used as source. Gave you 20 minutes to address. Feel free to re-submit using the actual article title for the post.

Per rule 4, please use the article's actual title for the post. Thanks.

Who wants to tell them?

Vertical integration FTW

I hate to be this guy, but this is a blog site / not a news outlet and is just re-packaging an article from The Telegraph.

Original article link: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/05/15/chinese-kill-switches-found-in-us-solar-farms/

Removed per Rule 2: Please re-post from a more reputable/credible source. See: https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/daily-mail/

I thought you could? If not, feel free to re-post it without the personal attacks.

Your cited sources check out. Despite the saltiness, you're mostly fine here.

EXCEPT where you call them a moron. If you can edit the comment to remove the personal insult and reply when you're done, the comment can be restored.

If it covers the same talking points, why not post it instead of destroying this community's credibility with this rag?

Giving a garbo source the benefit of the doubt on an article-by-article basis just muddies the waters and gives an air of undeserved legitimacy to other things they publish.

Credibility and trust are built over time; throwing out a "look, THIS article is okay" every so often does not make them a credible source.

If the facts are solid, then there should be at least one other reputable source reporting on them. If only a sensationalist rag is covering it, maybe ask why that is.

I notice you aren't disputing the facts here, just the source.

This is the same argument I've seen used by people trying to legitimize Fox News and RT, BTW.

Ok, let's flip that around then. Does this make it any better?

Overall, we rate Mondoweiss as Left Biased and Questionable due to the blending of opinion with news, the promotion of pro-zionist and anti-Palestinian propaganda, occasional reliance on poor sources, and hate group designation by third-party pro-Palestinian advocates.

Trick question: it does not. Reputable outlets do not put their thumb on the scale in either direction. Just because you agree with their bias does not make them credible.

It's not what you're posting but where you're posting it from and their track record. Post it from a less biased, less sensationalized, more reputable source and I would guess those complaints will largely go away.

Nobody complains when I post one of thousands of fact checks

Those have all been from credible sources.

Has anyone ever tested those red hats for lead content?

There was an episode of QI where Stephen was playing with a device where you point its directional microphone at someone, and it plays their voice back with a slight delay making it very difficult for them to speak. The guests had to try to read a children's book aloud while he pointed it at them. None of them except Alan could do it.

I would like to buy one of those devices lol.

That's a good point. I'll have to check the default values, but on my own instance, I have very conservative limits in place, and it hasn't proven to be an issue (so far?).

Unless it's changed since I wrote the online docs for Tessreact, the modlog is part of the "Messages" rate limit bucket which is/was something of a catch-all for endpoints that didn't fit elsewhere. Even in the default config, that bucket is the most permissive due to that.

I've been daily-driving my dev version with this feature enabled for a few days, and it hasn't been an issue so far (it only does a modlog lookup if a comment is removed, so not on every comment in the tree). It's also per IP, so unless a lot of people are behind the same public IP, I don't think it's going to pose an issue. I'd have to double check, but I think the most comments it loads in a batch is close to 100, so unless every comment has been removed, that would be the worst-case number of modlog fetches.

So it looks like I'll definitely want to make this feature toggleable even if it does end up defaulting to 'on'.