RSS feeds seem like the obvious replacement—how is your vibe-coded solution better?

So my proposal would be: votes are only sent to the author of a post. The author then sends an Update activity to their followers and the magazine the post belongs to. […] These properties then contain a Collection with a property called totalItems and not a list of the people who actually voted

What’s to prevent the author from faking upvotes, if the votes themselves aren’t public?

MediaWiki’s probably overkill for basic wiki functionality, but I use it for the sake of Semantic MediaWiki and associated extensions. But SMW has more of a learning curve, so it might not be worth it for a casual-use wiki.

You express your like or dislike toward the sentiment expressed by the post, not the thing(s) mentioned in the post.

As an example, imagine a post with a title like “AI is awful” (I’m sure many here has seen posts like that). A Friendica user could reasonably agree with the post and thus “Dislike” it. As in, they also find AI awful and they dislike AI, so they dislike the post, to show their disapproval of AI.

I don’t believe dislikes are meant to function like that on any platform.

In terms of software, yes. But HA can be run on nearly anything—there’s no need to buy their hardware to use it.

Having a world map that has pins on it based on location EXIF data in photos

Don’t you get that in NC already, if you go to Maps > My Photos ?

They don’t mention the cause of the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum—was the biosphere still experiencing evolutionary adjustments from the Chicxulub impact 9 million years earlier? Or was there a geological cause?

Unfortunately “climate leader” is a pretty low bar these days.

I respect the ACLU in particular for that—for adhering to their organizing principle even when it means defending groups they’re otherwise ideologically opposed to.

Syncthing uses a centralized discovery server to connect device IDs to IP addresses (although you can change this to point to your own discovery server, too).

I don’t know if Funkwhale has a similar option.

I don’t have a thermostat, but I have indoor and outdoor temp and humidity sensors, and a window position sensor. HA notifies me (via lighting color) if I should open the window because the outdoor conditions are better than indoors, or vice versa.

I checked the paper cited in that article, and it has an author correction published last week:

The Strang splitting maximum likelihood estimator had a minor error (thanks to Anders Gantzhorn Kristensen for identifying it). In the last step of the Strang splitting in the pseudo maximum likelihood estimation, the flow should have been evaluated in the observation at time t_i, but was wrongly partially evaluated at time t_i–1. When corrected, the tipping time estimate changes by 8 years.

(emphasis mine)

It makes me wonder about the environmental cost of printing and lighting those posters.

Sure—but notice that the US, UK, and many other places converged on the same behavior—which in most cases arose as a consensus among local schools that hit on similar practices without any central coordination. Which suggests that the behavior is more than a historical accident.

That’s a bit of a myth:

The history of summer holidays is clouded with myths. One popular idea is that school children have a long summer holiday (six weeks for most pupils in the UK) so that they could help work in the fields over the summer. But the current school system was developed over the course of the 19th century, when English farms were increasingly mechanised and having children helping with the harvest would only have been necessary for a small percentage of the population. Besides which, a brief glance at the farming calendar tells you that a holiday that ends at the start of September is not going to be much use for bringing in the harvest in the early autumn. So whatever the origin of six weeks off at the height of summer is, it’s not for the sake of farmers.

We should also distinguish between two types of historical explanation: people do all kinds of things for all kinds of reasons, but they tend to keep doing the things that create good results. However, they may not know what’s causing those results, and it may have nothing to do with why they initially decided to engage in that behavior. So you can have people all over converge on a certain behavior without a consistent explanation for why they’re doing it—and popular explanations (even if historically informed) may have nothing to do with why the behavior actually persists.

Is that not why schools in many places take a break over the summer?

I assume it’s because it reduces the possibility of other processes outside of the linked containers accessing the files (so security and stability).

Here’s a list of WP’s templates for adding social media links to articles—looks like they have one for Mastodon.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Social_media_external_link_templates

CasaOS is not an operating system and more like a GUI for Docker

So it’s more like Portainer?