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[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I just realized that you posted this comment the day before Trump told Trudeau that Canada should become a US state 👀

(Unless I'm missing something I don't think the idea had been discussed recently prior to that...)

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 days ago

It looks huge on a Mercator Projection map even though it isn’t that large.

In the Mercator projection it appears to have about the same area as Africa, while in reality it is about a 14th of it. But, I wouldn't say that "isn't that large": if Greenland was independent it would be (and Denmark is, because of it) the 12th largest country in the world.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

I used that link to look up the source. It wasn’t here so I posted it here. I do the same with archive links.

Do you post MBFC links on articles from outlets they classify as "unbiased" too, or just the "biased" ones?

As others have pointed out many times before, the entirely flawed premise behind MBFC is that centrism correlates with credibility and/or factualness.

I didn’t report this and don’t have a problem with it.

cool 👍

In general, the fact that they don’t disclose the country they operate out of is problematic

Who doesn't disclose where People Dispatch operates out of? MBFC? Yeah, they don't, because they're lazy hacks who's job it is to impugn the reputation of anyone doing any journalism that isn't in service of the status quo.

since we can’t know if they’re operating from a place where telling the truth is illegal.

A couple minutes of research shows that (although their contributors are all over the world) their legal entity People's Dispatch Ltd. is registered in New York. So, the way things are headed, I guess actually you might be on to something here soon 😬

Edit: I should also say that it’s important they’ve never failed a fact check. I don’t really care about them having editorial bias as long as we know what it is.

The notion that any outlet could have no bias in what they decide is and isn't worthy of reporting on, especially the people MBFC says are unbiased, is ridiculous. And it's usually not difficult to see what an outlet's bias is without relying on a 3rd party using their own bias to classify someone else's.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

Wow, a lot of people emotionally disagree with that quote. You can tell because 30+ down voted and you maybe see 1 of them commenting to take a stance.

Cowards who are afraid of reality deserve no respect.

Maybe... it got all those downvotes because it was a ridiculous thing to post in reply to an article which is simply reporting facts without any bias whatsoever, and posting that comment here in this context appears to be an attempt at discrediting Petro (who is, in fact... a leftist 😱 ...watch out) in response to his standing up to to Trump?

And maybe all those other people downvoting it didn't bother replying because I had already posted my reply (which adequately pointed out the absurdity of it) right after the comment was posted? 🤔

principal skinner out of touch meme, top panel "Wow, a lot of people emotionally disagree with that quote." bottom panel "Cowards who are afraid of reality deserve no respect."

[–] [email protected] 21 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (3 children)

I'm curious, do you think there is some bias in this article? What is it?

In case you doubt their translation, you can find the original source of the statement by Petro here.

Is there some other source, which you consider less biased, which has published an English-language translation of his response to Trump?

Or, would you consider any reporting at all of this head of state's response to be intrinsically biased?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I see. What a mess.

The instructions at https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-docker.html mention that the docker image (which that page tells you to just pull and run) has its "sources hosted at" https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker and has instructions for running it the image without docker-compose.

But, the Dockerfile source for the image is actually in the main repo at https://github.com/searxng/searxng/blob/master/Dockerfile and the searxng-docker repo actually contains a docker-compose.yaml and different instructions for running it under compose instead.

Anyway, in the docker-compose deployment, SEARXNG_BASE_URL (yet another name for this... neither SEARXNG_URL or BASE_URL, but apparently it sets base_url from it) is constructed from SEARXNG_HOSTNAME on line 58 here: https://github.com/searxng/searxng-docker/blob/a899b72a507074d8618d32d82f5355e23ecbe477/docker-compose.yaml#L58

If I had a github account associated with this pseudonym I might open an issue or PR about this, but I don't and it isn't easy to make one anymore 😢

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Organic Maps is great, but see also OsmAnd.

The former is faster and easier to use but the latter has a lot more features.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Hey, Paul, should I eat this mushroom I found?subtitled gif animation of Star Trek: Discovery's Astromycologist Commander Paul Stamets (played by Anthony Rapp) saying "Absolutely not.", scaled down to a nearly unreadable size because that is the only way i could get lemmy to accept it

[–] [email protected] 7 points 4 days ago

yes, when the month is written non-numerically (and the year is written with four digits) there is no ambiguity.

but, the three formats in OP's post are all about writing things numerically.

In some contexts, writing out the full month name can be clearer (at least for speakers of the language you're writing in), but it takes more (and a variable amount of) space and the strings cannot be sorted without first parsing them into date objects.

Anywhere you want or need to write a date numerically, ISO-8601 is obviously much better and should always be used (except in the many cases where the stupid formats are required by custom or law).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Changing SEARXNG_HOSTNAME in my .env file solved it.

nice. (but, i assume you actually mean SEARXNG_URL? either that or you're deploying it under some environment other than one described in the official repo, because the string HOSTNAME does not appear anywhere in the searxng repo.)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (4 children)

https://docs.searxng.org/admin/settings/settings_server.html says you need to set base_url, and that by default it's set to $SEARXNG_URL.

however, https://docs.searxng.org/admin/installation-docker.html#searxng-searxng says that if you are running it under docker the environment variable which controls base_url in the config is actually BASE_URL rather than SEARXNG_URL.

(possibly whichever variable it is is currently empty, which might make it construct a URL based on the IP address it is configured to listen on.)

[–] [email protected] 12 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

What the people here saying this "seems legit" are really saying is that, if the site is providing DRM content which you want to see, then it is indeed using this for its intended purpose (which is to prevent you from recording and/or retransmitting the stream). This is true, but, it doesn't mean that the site isn't also collecting your device identifiers and using them for some nefarious privacy-invasive purposes. And of course, they most likely are.

So if I were you I would look for a pirated streaming website instead of running this proprietary software to watch a DRM'd stream. (The pirated site will probably also be privacy-invasive, but they won't get your device ID... and you're more likely to be able to block its ads.)

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