LocustOfControl

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LocustOfControl,

It could be that it’s more normalised, or that post-Covid people don’t want to share public transport as much.

Whatever the reason, it’s good news as the more cyclists there are, the more that planners will have to take them into account - making it easier for more to become cyclists. Let’s just hope the momentum continues to fuel this virtuous cycle.

LocustOfControl,

I love it, I hop to see more.

In Henry Ford's abandoned city of Fordlândia (reddthat.com)

Henry Ford dreamed of establishing Fordlândia, a rubber plantation city in Brazil, to ensure a steady supply of rubber for his automobiles. He invested millions to build the city from scratch, and included luxuries for the workers such as an 18-hole golf course and a dance hall....

LocustOfControl, (edited )

To be honest, that’s an AI summary of the Portuguese post. I clearly didn’t check it properly before posting and I don’t know much about Ford himself.

Remember Hanlon’s Razor.

e: The Portuguese post seems to be largely based on this Guardian article, that also describes it as utopian:

Ford believed fair treatment would make his workers more responsible citizens and, in the process, solidify a client base for manufacturers. The Rev Samuel Marquis, one the heads of Ford’s employee relations office, once proclaimed that Ford’s cars were “the by-products of his real business, which is the making of men”.

But some of Ford’s social ideas were highly sinister – most notoriously his anti-semitism, which featured prominently in a newspaper he himself printed, the Dearborn Independent.

LocustOfControl,

Yeah, it’s not very clear, sorry. I’ve edited.

It was $2 million in supplies and materials for the city, but the total venture lost him ten times that.

LocustOfControl,

Did you mean to link to right at the end? (You can remove &t=422s if not)

LocustOfControl,

I don’t think you read the article. The data shows that walking and cycling went up massively, as well as increasing public transport use. This is good, and the article as a whole politely makes points compatible with this comm.

LocustOfControl,

It’s a study. People are normally paid to participate in studies because otherwise no-one would bother doing them.

It’s not meant to change the city overnight, it’s a study to test how people’s behaviours change if they reduce the number of cars they own, which is what we want (ideally to zero, of course).

In summary, IT’S A STUDY.

I might have felt the punchline of this comic more than any other, and I've been reading Dinosaur Comics for MANY years now (lemmy.world)

Alt text (which is actually, and always has been, the title text but we all just call it the alt text: “wipe questions about old star trek episodes from MY mind and there simply wouldn’t be anything left, and i would be as blank as Uhura was when her memory was wiped by Nomad, the space probe created by the collision of an...

LocustOfControl,

I’ve stopped even seeing that - if I were describing it to someone who’d never seen the comic I don’t know if I’d remember to mention it.

LocustOfControl,

I’d missed that, luckily. Or I blanked it out.

LocustOfControl,

This mods need to pin this shining example of awful dad humour.

LocustOfControl,

Looks good, but this bit made me raise an eyebrow or two:

Powerful Mod Tools

This is patently false - the like of Beehaw are thinking of moving off of Lemmy because the moderation toolset’s almost non-existent and the devs don’t seem to think it’s important.

LocustOfControl,

I can’t believe that there’s never been anyone that didn’t make that mistake. Probably not enough to justify keeping a counter dedicated to it though…

LocustOfControl,

I see that the admin came back and now there’s a few admins there and all is well 👍

More an update for others, since I expect you already know!

LocustOfControl,

Definitely, unless the original source was very inefficiently compressed, it’s not worth the time, effort and quality loss to save a small amount of space.

LocustOfControl,

There are plenty of projects that take donations/payments that don’t make profit but stay afloat, normally through the team behind it paying the bills. I guess it depends what the running costs actually are, and if it’s for people or e.g. servers.

Abandoned railway station in Georgia’s breakaway region of Abkhazia (reddthat.com)

On the eastern coast of the Black Sea is the Georgian region of Abkhazia, or the independent Republic of Abkhazia, depending on who you ask - Abkhazia has been recognised as an independent state by Russia, Venezuela, Nicaragua, Nauru, and Syria; however, Georgia and most of the UN consider Abkhazia a sovereign territory of...

LocustOfControl,

More photos: boredpanda.com/abandoned-architecture-james-kerwi…

LocustOfControl,

I was thinking that I associate green on flags with the middle east, and then I read:

the green and white stripes represent the tolerance that allows Christianity and Islam to coexist

LocustOfControl,

I have Bitwarden, RES and uBlock Origin, plus Enhancer for Youtube.

My fix was

  1. disable “Block Ads” in Enhancer for Youtube
  2. add this to uBlock under “My Filters”:

<span style="color:#323232;">! from https://gadgetstouse.com/blog/2023/05/15/bypass-ad-blockers-not-allowed-on-youtube/
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, yt.config_.openPopupConfig.supportedPopups.adBlockMessageViewModel, false)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.adBlocksFound, 0)
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, ytplayer.config.args.raw_player_response.adPlacements, [])
</span><span style="color:#323232;">youtube.com##+js(set, Object.prototype.hasAllowedInstreamAd, true)
</span>
LocustOfControl,

You confused me at first, but I guess you’re thinking of the Tardis - that’s a police box, not a phone box! British phone boxes are always red, I think.

LocustOfControl,

This is a great photo, is this someone’s personal collection?

LocustOfControl,

Yup and, as the article states, electric cars are even worse.

The abandoned Mark Twain Branch Library (now demolished) (reddthat.com)

The Mark Twain Library in Detroit opened in 1940 and served as an important community hub for decades, hosting events and providing a safe space for neighbourhood children. However, as the surrounding area declined in the 1990s, the library’s finances deteriorated and it was forced to close and then only open two days a week....

Valle dei Mulini, Italy

Vallone dei Mulini, also known as Valley of the Mills, is a historic valley located behind Piazza Tasso in Sorrento, Italy. The valley gets its name from the flour mills that were built there as far back as the 13th century to grind grain. Over time, a sawmill was also established to provide sawn wood....

LocustOfControl,

Aw, the main image didn’t upload. Your reply made me notice, thanks 😁

The abandoned Ta Prohm temple in Angkor, Cambodia (reddthat.com)

Ta Prohm is a 12th century temple located near Siem Reap, Cambodia that was originally built as a Mahayana Buddhist monastery dedicated to King Jayavarman VII’s mother. It has been abandoned and reclaimed by the jungle since the 15th century. The temple is known for the trees that have grown out of its walls and roots....

LocustOfControl,

tep snails = two snails?

Detroit’s abandoned Silverdome stadium (reddthat.com)

The Pontiac Silverdome stadium in Michigan was once hailed as the finest in the world when it opened in 1975. It hosted major events for decades but fell into disrepair after losing its main tenants in the 1980s and 90s. The stadium struggled financially and was sold for just $583,000 in 2009. It continued deteriorating with...

LocustOfControl,

You have a very fitting username for this post 🤿

LocustOfControl,

KKR?

LocustOfControl,

Firefox + uBlock is my suggestion too, it makes mobile browsing bearable.

LocustOfControl,

That seems to be a pretty serious set of problems.

LocustOfControl,

Thanks for asking this, one of the devs in the AMA was talking about Bittorrent for sharing the serving of instance-hosted files in a way that made me think “sounds like you want IPFS”. Now I’m not so sure.

LocustOfControl,

As a user, I don’t want to share my downloaded images if people can use that to datamine my Lemmy browsing, so I wouldn’t use it.

Yes, instances could do the bulk of the sharing, but then that’s just downloading and rehosting images with extra steps.

Something like Veilid would be more interesting.

LocustOfControl,

I was going to point out the ⭐ bookmark feature, but I see you’re on kbin - I guess they don’t have that feature?

Shouldn't we be switching buses with light railway? (lemmy.tf)

Even if you think what you would say is obvious, please add. This is genuinely something I think makes sense regarding local bus routes given the longevity of light rail and how infrequently routes change, but I also suffer from confirmation bias, so I’m hoping for reasons this would be a terrible idea but obviously would...

LocustOfControl,

I’d never heard of grassy tramlines, I love them! I’ve never seen any anywhere, and I’ve been all over Europe, they are either quite rare, or I haven’t been paying attention.

Which mobile apps are you using to access your Navidrome server?

I’ve been using substreamer to access my Navidrome server from my android phone initially but I just came to learn about Tempo, which is also a nice app. What I like about substreamer among others is the option to let it download fanart from an external source by itself bypassing navidrome. There might be more nice apps, so...

LocustOfControl, (edited )

Over the last few days I’ve tested substreamer, DSub, Symfonium, Ultrasonic and Tempo. I thought that Symfonium was the clear winner (once I’d found the setting to use a local cache) with DSub being next. I wanted to be able to browse albums by genre - others might not care and rate them differently.

Symfonium is closed source and not free, which might be a deal-breaker for some, but it’s a small one-off payment to an indie dev which is A-OK with me. Turns out it’s the same dev that wrote Yatse (xbmc/kodi remote) which I’d also paid for.

edit: Ah, the other comments hadn’t federated - I see I’m in good company!

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