I’d have to look, but I’m going with ignorance of its toxicity like with other things such as radium being used frivolously .

We painted our kids’ rooms with it, painted pencils yellow with it, used it for water lines, put it in gasoline where we then breathed the leaded fumes for decades, and more.

As for finally getting around to replacing lead water lines, well, infrastructure isn’t sexy and no one wants to pay for it.

The toxic material/element lead (Pb). A lot of old water mains and service lines were made out of lead or had lead in them which leaches into the drinking water.

I don’t really understand what’s going on in the above picture, but maybe they’re changing old pipes for new ones?

Possibly replacing old, lead pipes. They’re doing a lot of that in my area because of federal funding from a couple years ago.

Wednesday’s Supreme Court arguments over birthright citizenship went very poorly for Donald Trump.

The phrase “went very poorly for Donald Trump” can pretty much universally be translated as “Went well for literally everyone else”.

The default UI makes it clunky, but I think you can go to you profile settings (https://lemmy.world/settings) and on the “Blocks” tab search for the community and add it to your blocks.

Ah, nice. I recommend that one to OP then since it’s 1st party and not an alpha version haha.

Not sure if sh.itjust.works offers Tesseract as a UI option, but you can direct ban/unban users and bulk-mod comments among other improvements to mod tooling and report actions.

If not, then I’d normally point you to the unlocked hosted instance (https://tesseract.dubvee.org/) but the VPS provider it uses is having issues right now, and my 3 hour old ticket has not yet been acknowledged.

Edit: Oh, they answered my ticket and I was able to start it back up, so the hosted instance should be working if you’d want to try it.

Bombadil was referred to as “The Hermit” before they revealed his identity when GrandElf (aka Gandalf née The Stranger) crosses paths with him.

Someone said if you forget it’s LOTR and just treat it as its own thing it’s not half bad.

Basically. I don’t forget it’s LOTR but I do keep in mind it’s not the Peter Jackson trilogy nor a 1:1 from the books.

I was really really hoping it was going to be about the fall of Numenor.

It is, but it’s slow burn and a something of an overall B-plot to the titular Rings of Power in the second season and the creation of Mordor in the first.

The main online gripe that I can agree with how the characters “fast travel” as plot demands. I just accept that as necessary to condense things down to a suitable runtime for a TV series.

He’s in Rings of Power which I guess counts as a derivative. I don’t want to start a flame war since a lot of people hate that adaptation, but I enjoy it for what it is.

The From field in email is pretty much on the honor system. You can put anything you want there, and the servers will happily send it.

This is why we have things like SPF (sender policy framework), DKIM (domain key identified mail), and DMARC (Domain-based Message Authentication, Reporting and Conformance) and why that message was in your junk folder rather than your inbox.

When your email provider receives a message from cheese_greater@lemmy.world, it looks up the DNS record for lemmy.world to see what IP addresses (among other things) are allowed to send email for users at lemmy.world. It compares those against the IP of the server sending on behalf of the user claiming to be cheese_greater@lemmy.world. If they match, the SPF check passes. If they don’t match, the check fails.

DKIM is also used to add a digital signature to each email originating from lemmy.world. The signature of the message is checked against lemmy.world’s public key (which is retrieved via DNS lookup). If the signatures match, the DKIM check passes. Otherwise, it fails.

Spam filters can then use the results of those to shunt the message to Junk if they don’t pass. The last item, DMARC, is an optional policy lemmy.world can configure to tell receiving servers what to do with messages that fail those checks. The most commonly used options are reject and quarantine (i.e. mark as junk)

Right timeline, wrong universe.

It’s probably an April Fool’s Day gag.

The image URL is: https://f004.backblazeb2.com/file/xylight-public/photon-april-fools/download.webp

Xylight is the photon dev

Civil suits do not work that way.

LOL. Based MBFC:

I noticed they similarly (and correctly) downgraded/tanked the credibility rating for cdc.gov as well.

Is there a Github for this and/or possibly a framework for the chat, leaderboard, and federated magic-link login?

I’ve thought about putting together some simple games with Fediverse login but never wanted to deal with the low level boilerplate stuff.

Thanks for a deep check and fix, especially since this was probably due to my own filtering/bot blocking. Working now :)

How does the verification work? Says it can’t verify my instance.

It’s just there and under the same domain. Otherwise, it’s a completely separate system that instance users can sign up and use. Maybe in the future they can both use the same OIDC login, but I don’t think Lemmy supports that yet.

The UI we use as our default has Peertube integration, so any videos shared from this Peertube instance (or any other) will show as inline embeds within the Lemmy client.

• Curated, “normie friendly” default experience
• Default UI is not Lemmy UI
• PeerTube instance (though not fully integrated and requires a separate account)