codl 🐝 @codl@chitter.xyz

Honestly scraping wikipedia's "in the news" section is probably a better idea than scraping wikinews

@tenna oh my god

wikinews's top story right now is four paragraphs about an earthquake from a week ago off the coast of China that has not done any damage. the earthquakes from yesterday that have affected millions are nowhere to be seen. I love neutral

thinkin about that news aggregator i found years ago that was like, ohhggg the news is so partisan nowadays. so much politics. i will only show the news from wikinews, that way i know it is neutral and objective

@niss yeah but now you won't have to interact with it

https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/01/30/cargo-sparse-protocol.html damn cargo is becoming normal, you dont have to download the wholeass crates.io index every time anymore

@ben is your kid secretly a DMV employee?
LOL = Let's Obtain License
WTF = Write on The Form
BRB = Beepbeep, Registration Bureau
IDK = Inspect Da Kar

@ben the dmv is those "is your kid texting about X" memes but on turbo mode

someone's getting canceled because their consent bone clipped out of the skybox

there was more context to this post initially but it's better like this

it turns out gamers also like flowers and jesus christ

what a week

someone else do it for me

i was going to post on the activitypub.rocks forum but i read a few posts first and now i'm tired

youd be surprised how much of my work as a mod is doing vibe checks on other instances' mods lol

i mean as a mod when i see someone remote acting like a shit, the first things i want to know are
- is this a mod? if so this is a bigger deal
- if not, who are their mods
so far finding this out involves clicking thru to the remote instance myself, looking at an about page, etc

it's already pretty janky that /api/v1/instance can only show one person, but it's also a mastodon thing, not a standard

there just needs to be a way to point at an AP collection from nodeinfo or whatever saying "these are our staff"