theneverfox

Basically it's this system to do all kind of directional acyclic tasks, primarily based around data ingestion. It's very flexible and powerful, which also means there's a steep learning curve.

To give an example, you could have a task that gatherers a list of instances and updates the database. It could also spawn a new task for each one to check if the server is up and get the version number, and you could even have it email you to create an account for new instances.

Then from the task that made sure the server is up, you could spawn a new task that gets communities, which then spawns new tasks to ingest posts from it

And when this whole process is done, you could have it kick off a new set of tasks to do the indexing or whatever else on the up to date data set

It has some nice visualization of the process, you can allocate workers across devices, you can kick off the process through an API... You can use it to do anything from monitoring to scraping and doing map reduce on it. You could even federate and wire into activity pub directly, use their apis, or mix and match with scraping

I've never worked with crawlers and I'm not sure what angle you're going to attack this from, but if normal crawlers don't play well with the fediverse this is an option

I will say, cruise control makes driving much less tiring. I can put on something to listen to, change up how I sit, and just zone out with my thumb over the cancel button so I'll immediately slow and have time to slam on the brakes. If my cruise control would also match speed with whoever is in front of me and keep me in the lane, it would be even less tiring

That being said, the only way I'm using Tesla self driving is if I'm hyper alert and ready for my car to decide it wants to do some offroading

How does that work? Environment is everything

I don't think your sick, I don't think I am either... I think we're hunters in a society of farmers

I love the idea

I'm starting to look at airflow for my own project, not sure if you've heard of it or projects like it, but it seems like a great foundation for a scraper. I'm still evaluating options for that, but so far it's my pick

Hit me up if you get stuck or make a breakthrough, I've got a pretty good handle on activity pub and the lemmy API, and your project would add a lot to mine

I mean... They're not exactly hiding it. The expressed purpose of belts and roads is to invest in their infrastructure and partner with them to build industrial capacity. Conveyer belts and roads. They openly state they're doing it to build up trading partners and global influence

It's literally the same thing... Will they be better partners? Hopefully, it's not exactly a high bar

They're not Marxist-Leninists at all though... They're just a highly regulated form of capitalism.

The government doesn't own Tencent, they just keep a strong grip on them. They have their own billionaires, the factories have owners, companies bid to fulfill government contracts, you apply for a job and get paid what they offer. It's just capitalism

Their government does a lot more than in the US and has a lot more influence, and they do influence the market more... But that's just regulation and public services

They basically do what we did to tik tok. The US government can revoke a corporate charter for any or no reason, China just actually uses this authority actively

Yes, the World Bank and the IMF. I've even seen it personally, which is what led me to dig down the rabbit hole - I got interviewed by a world Bank employee to explain why I was installing a system for an airport, and they kept trying to guide me to explain why it was helpful...I couldn't, because it was only useful if the Internet is down, and if that happens it's probably not useful because the system had to be taken down if there's bad weather, and the airport regularly flooded during storms anyways

They were constant protests and news coverage of projects being pushed on them, and it was an open secret for the airport workers. It was for things they didn't need or want, even though they had plenty of infrastructure in disrepair already

Argentina is the classic example, they resisted and had their currency destroyed, which makes international trade hard. Other countries go so deep in debt they have IMF officials installed in their government to implement austerity measures, some even are forced to hand over their currency printing powers

Sometimes countries get into our good graces, like Peru, and they are let off the treadmill in exchange for beneficial trade deals. That's after having their resource rights sold off and letting in foreign investments to extract wealth moving forward, but mostly they're kept in perpetual debt as leverage

It's a wild and very deep rabbit hole. The information isn't hidden, it's just spun in a positive light

My first exposure to him was a movie where it seems like he was parodying himself and played with the concept of being past his prime

It was really well done, his acting was fantastic and I enjoyed it, despite probably missing a lot of context

I feel like it's a common gen X belief. So many men his age have just launched into unprompted lectures about civility politics when I've spoken with them on the topic...

It's so out of touch, who gives a fuck about the law? MAGA certainly don't. I don't either - the law is a broken tool, an empty promise of equality and fairness so the powerful can avoid the pitchforks when they do something to deserve it

They probably just ask for your name and link it to the info they already have about you

If you fill a prescription or use a credit card, that's a very solid link to your identity. The app also probably is collecting all the data it can on you to resell, most of which can be used to fingerprint you through a data broker

They might also require an ID, but all of it is probably more an intimation tactic and stunt for investors than anything else

No way I'd install their app though

Okay... But like still, that doesn't just happen. It takes coordination and planning, you can't just deport the labor force.

You can tell states to use their legal slave labor... But that doesn't just happen. If your state isn't ready for it, if they don't have the details worked out...very literally everyone will starve. I don't mean eggs are expensive, I mean you go to the grocery store and half the shelves are empty, and the rest are crazy pricey. People will die, we all will suffer

It's collapse of the Union level stuff

Belt and roads is China's attempt to do exactly what we've been doing with the global south, invest for influence and put them on a debt treadmill. Build infrastructure, pressure them to take on more debt with new projects, say it's time for austerity, open up more foreign investments, use pressure to buy up raw resources, etc

It's worth mentioning Coca-Cola... You can get American products everywhere, opening them up as a new market isn't a different strategy, it's part of the process