Apparently they have an official Lemmy community too

!isglitch@lemmy.world

From the sidebar:

Official community for isGlitch.com - the online-est of tech rags. Where satire meets silicon and the truth isn’t binary.

I’m not sure if satire is right for this community, but could you add a [satire] tag in the post title?

Pixelfed is most likely to be the next one, and we haven’t ruled out anything yet. It depends on what’s popular and what there is a need for (ex. someone else isn’t already hosting)

We’ve researched and/or done some prep for Bookwyrm, Loop, Friendica, Sublinks, and Mobilizon. The exact list is uncertain, but the migration will give us lots of room to grow. I’m thinking once we announce one, we can ask what people want next.

Not at all, that’s fair to ask!

Right now the focus is on moving to our new hardware, with some more details in the body of this post.

https://lemmy.ca/post/36540245

Once that’s done we will be able to spin up additional services much more easily, and it will also change our estimated financial situation (donations vs. costs etc.)

We’ve also been busy the past few months with other things (especially me) and so I haven’t been able to post updates as often as I would have wanted to. Thankfully I’ve got a lot more time in the new year so that should be different moving forward :)

Was there a certain aspect you wanted to hear back on? I can write up more details on that in the meantime

You don’t need to register as it is a free drop-in session

This is a Drop-in session. No ‘registration’ required …(BUT! Registering with Meetup will give you reminders and the ability to schedule this on your calendar.)

See also this comment in the other thread: https://lemmy.world/comment/14448522

Do you have any thoughts or plans on open-sourcing how the calculations are done? Assuming the values used in the calculations aren’t proprietary, it might be cool to do that :) That way no one can argue that the math is wrong.

You don’t have to, I think it’s rare for a company to do that, but it might fit with the transparency bit. Alternatively, if you list out where the numbers are coming from so that people can confirm the details manually.

Very cool regardless :)

My other suggestion would be to link information about the different types of heat pumps, or a guide on how to get the efficiency value. Similarly, if the heat pump question was at the end, in a toggle format so people can easily swap between the options and compare

That is odd, I’m on Boost as well and haven’t noticed this. I’ll pass it along to the team and poke around!

The outage was a hardware issue and I don’t think we changed any site configuration since then. At least on our end, having the hardware replaced seemed to have fixed the occasional hiccups we were seeing.

In the meantime, could you try clearing the app’s cache? Boost lets you make a backup of the settings, which can help give peace of mind before doing resets.

If anyone else has this problem, please do share!

We believe that the washing machine is the hearth of the modern laundry room

I was going to try and edit in some more "AI"s but it’s already near saturated

They even changed their name to SoundHound AI?

https://www.theverge.com/2025/1/9/24339817/vlc-player-automatic-ai-subtitling-translation

The popular open-source VLC video player was demonstrated on the floor of CES 2025 with automatic AI subtitling and translation, generated locally and offline in real time. Parent organization VideoLAN shared a video on Tuesday in which president Jean-Baptiste Kempf shows off the new feature, which uses open-source AI models to generate subtitles for videos in several languages.

Ok now that’s cool. Since it’s often all doom and gloom here, celebrating good tech is a nice change :)

I looked up “Parent AI”, and was disappointed

That all sounds delicious 😊

also thank you for adding photos of the process in the comments!

Wow those are beautiful, what are the flavors?

Reminds me of this one

https://youtube.com/watch?v=synJZAtH58E

when you rob a big tech company, but the employees are…

(that’s the title of the video, the clickbait isn’t me)

To those down voting:

CBC’s About That series is excellent at doing a deep dive on an issue. It makes it easier to discuss the topics with other people

Trump is wrong, and it’s helpful to know why

Discussions often feel like they’re happening within an ideological bubble.

While this can be true for some communities, I find that users here do still engage with other viewpoints when the discussions are in good faith.

I think the reason why a lot of users lean in a certain political direction is because of

• the origins of Lemmy
• users that choose to leave the older platforms may have done so for social / political reasons
• threadiverse is still relatively small

Do you think Lemmy is at risk of becoming an echo chamber for leftist views, a sort of Truth Social, Parler, Gab, etc., esque platform, but for Leftists?

I feel like we’re getting more politically diverse over time. It’s only a risk if we force a certain political leaning through moderation.

Is this a problem we should be concerned about, or is it a natural result of Lemmy’s community-driven nature?

Worth keeping an eye on to see how it changes over time

How might we encourage more diverse political perspectives while still maintaining a respectful and inclusive environment?

Mainly moderation. If a community or space is intended for a particular group, it’s perfectly fine to moderate how you see fit. If it is meant to be a general space, try to limit political biases when moderating and focus on bad faith comments.

If a post/comment was in good faith, it’s more effective to let someone explain why it is wrong rather than removing it. Chances are that others can learn from the explanation (or that they were correct to begin with, and you’ll learn something)

What are the potential benefits and drawbacks of having a more politically diverse user base on Lemmy?

The benefits are easy, I can’t think of many drawbacks. Maybe:

• More people = higher moderation costs (which can be dealt with by having bigger teams)
• More drama (we have drama already)

But we may have friends and family members asking about it

Great to hear, thank you!

Imagine driving along a Canadian road soon after a snowfall — but there’s no snow or ice on the pavement. The salt trucks and plows have not passed. Yet the roads are already clear. The technology exists to make this possible, with a system hidden beneath the pavement.

“[The] system captures solar heat during the summer months and stores it underground. Then, when winter arrives, the stored heat is transferred through pipes beneath the road surface, warming the pavement and preventing ice formation — in essence, a solar powered underfloor heating system,” engineering researchers explain.

Today in The Conversation Canada, Mohammadamin Ahmadfard and Seth Dworkin from Toronto Metropolitan University discuss how this technology, known as Borehole Thermal Energy Storage (BTES), could be a solution to Canada’s winter woes.

“Canada has the potential to lead the way by adopting BTES systems on its most treacherous roads, steep inclines and vulnerable bridges,” they write.