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  • Almost everyone in the US had an ancestor that immigrated not that long ago, and if people didn't do it within at most a couple generations, you wouldn't see anti-immigrant sentiment.

    Puck political cartoon, January 11, 1893, "Looking Backward":

    https://lemmy.today/pictrs/image/3968c98b-d1ce-411d-9c96-7e8d9d81263f.jpeg

    Caption:

    They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over.

  • c/amish on Lemmy.

    You want !community@instance and it'll make an appropriate link.

    !amish@lemmy.world

  • The title is a bit click-baity.

    Steam had a setting where it would only run Proton on games on which it had been verified to work. Some people would inadvertently flip this setting off. Now the setting is gone, so they can't accidentally do this.

  • If your phone is Android, NewPipe is an open-source, third-party client that permits setting quality. It's on F-Droid (the big open-source app repository) if you use that, and probably on Google Store as well.

  • Thanks.

    EDIT: There isn't an --embed-auto-subs, but there is a --write-auto-subs.

  • I'm not really following video DRM, but my understanding is that Widevine won't run in a VM with a virtualized video card like that.

  • It really depends on how one is applyng mods. Bethesda does have their own mod site and in-game support for modding, and that's pretty straightforward (and the only option on consoles). That will limit what mods are available.

    I do kind of wish that there were one cross-platform open-source universal "game mod" program that could support multiple online services. Would like to have Wabbajack-like functionality (apply a whole set of curated, tested-together mods) as a base too, as that'd lower the bar.

  • We were also running transponders on tankers even when they were refueling aircraft around Ukraine (albeit in friendly airspace).

    The refuelled aircraft (at least some of which were F-35s, if not all, as someone geolocated a picture during the conflict) were not running transponders, though (and in the case of the picture of the F-35, had the radar reflectors removed).

  • I mean, you don't need anything; it'll work with no flags. I have these:

     
            $ cat ~/.config/yt-dlp/config
        --embed-subs
        --embed-metadata
        --embed-chapters
        --embed-thumbnail
        --sponsorblock-mark=all
        $
    
    
      

    That'll just embed some useful metadata in the file.

  • You might try again. I was blocked for a couple weeks after I pulled a bunch of videos from a channel using yt-dlp, and for a while YouTube required an account (which I will not get) from that IP. But a couple weeks later, things were working again.

  • If Google really wants to, they can crack down on yt-dlp, and I assume that if enough people are using it, they're likely to do such a crackdown. Like, this works for the moment, but...

  • Nebula seems like it has the same types of videos I like to watch.

    I mean, Nebula is commercial service and I assume that they'd profile, the same as YouTube. Like, if you're okay with that, you can get YouTube Premium.

    Of course, I can get into PeerTube as well.

    I'm still skeptical that this is going to scale sufficiently either in bandwidth or in amount of content.

    https://peertube.fediverse.observer/ for people who want to try it, though.

  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mitch_McConnell

    He served from 2007 to 2025 as the leader of the Senate Republican Conference, including two stints as minority leader (2007 to 2015 and 2021 to 2025), and was majority leader from 2015 to 2021, making him the longest-serving Senate party leader in U.S. history.

    He hasn't been the Senate majority leader for a while, which is why he got some of his prominence.

    I wouldn't really expect that there'd be news about him in 2025 more than there would be another senator.

  • I have, before, posted one item that I thought was interesting on !technology@beehaw.org to !technology@lemmy.world, as I know that beehaw.org has defederated from lemmy.world and the item was interesting and otherwise lemmy.world users wouldn't have seen it.

    I don't think that I'd try to mirror the complete content of a community, though. I mean, different communities may have different interests.

  • I mean, I don't know about you, but I didn't cover that much ancient history either.

  • I mean, I'm interested in military history, but I wouldn't have put it in a standard curriculum. It's not really a globally-significant event. You don't have a whole lot of time allocated for history, much less military history, and you gotta triage what you cover. We had a very small amount of time for World War II, which was much-more significant, and I don't think my classes even did the Korean War at all.

    EDIT: It looks like The Operations Room did a video on YouTube on Operation Paul Bunyan. They kinda rely more on memoir stuff than would be my ideal, but they're usually at least decent. I don't think I've watched this one.

    EDIT2: No memoir stuff in this one.

  • I don't know what the map behind the guy is showing, but if it's showing the distribution of federal (maybe just BLM?) land, he's got a point. Like, maybe the answer isn't "make public lands non-public", and should be "make non-public lands public", but some states contribute a great deal more than others do to the share of pool of public lands. Those states can't make full economic use of a lot of their land, when other states don't have that constraint.

    Here's a list with percentages. Utah has the third-highest percentage of public land in the US, at 75.2% of their territory.

    https://www.summitpost.org/public-and-private-land-percentages-by-us-states/186111

    At the other end, you have states like Rhode Island (which I can sort of understand, as it was one of the first states and has a high population density) at 1.5% public land, and Kansas at 1.9% public land. Kansas doesn't have Rhode Island's excuse. If you're Utah, you're probably going to be pretty grouchy if you're looking at Kansas and comparing your own situation.

    kagis

    Yeah, sounds like that's what people are arguing about.

    https://gardner.utah.edu/blog/economics-public-lands/

    The authors, which include three researchers from the Kem C. Gardner Policy Institute, found that (1) on average, federal lands are not likely to be as economically productive as private lands, (2) states are likely to have management costs equivalent to federal agencies, and (3) states can cover land management costs with land-based revenues if they have access to fossil fuels and timber resources, and prices for these commodities are relatively high.

  • Hmm.

    Maybe they're trying to do LLM-generated articles and are screwing up?

    Problem is, some of the text doesn't seem like something that an AI would come up with. I mean, I can get minor errors, but describing an entire nonexistent init system without some kind of directive in that direction?