[-] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago

I changed the link to nbcnews rather than businessinsider - I tested it but the paywall on there is sneaky.

The full memo is:


Dear Vice Team,

As we navigate the ever-evolving business landscape, we need to adapt and best align our strategies to be more competitive in the long term. After careful consideration and discussion with the board, we have decided to make some fundamental changes to our strategic vision at Vice.

We create and produce outstanding original content true to the Vice brand. However, it is no longer cost-effective for us to distribute our digital content the way we have done previously.

Moving forward, we will look to partner with established media companies to distribute our digital content, including news, on their global platforms, as we fully transition to a studio model. As part of this shift, we will no longer publish content on vice.com, instead putting more emphasis on our social channels as we accelerate our discussions with partners to take our content to where it will be viewed most broadly.

Separately, Refinery 29 will continue to operate as a standalone diversified digital publishing business, creating engaging, social first content. As you know, we are in advanced discussions to sell this business, and we are continuing with that process. We expect to announce more on that in the coming weeks.

With this strategic shift comes the need to realign our resources and streamline our overall operations at Vice. Regrettably, this means that we will be reducing our workforce, eliminating several hundred positions. This decision was not made lightly, and I understand the significant impact it will have on those affected. Employees who will be affected will notified about next steps early next week, consistent with local laws and practices.

I know that saying goodbye to our valued colleagues is difficult and feels overwhelming, but this is the best path forward for Vice as we position the company for long-term creative and financial success. Our financial partners are supportive and have agreed to invest in this operating model going forward. We will emerge stronger and more resilient as we embark on this new phase of our journey.

Thank you for your continued dedication to Vice and support during this time of transition.

Together, I am confident that we will overcome any challenges and achieve our shared goals.

Bruce

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From my nginx access log:

your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org"
your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org"
your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org"
your.ip.address - - [21/Feb/2024:06:50:09 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.sdf.org"

2 of the entries are "https://lemmy.sdf.org/activities/like/88bc5b6d-f11f-4245-90aa-908e43befe97" being sent twice,
the other two are "https://lemmy.sdf.org/activities/like/437327e5-a262-46bc-8ce7-1c2c5bd440b3" being sent twice

I've reported this problem to other affected servers that I've seen:
the lemmy.ca post suggests the problem was something to do with running multiple containers with the same index number;
the endlesstalk.org post suggests that re-starting the backend containers is a fix
(their answers will likely more sense to you than to me, as I don't run lemmy).

Thanks!

[-] [email protected] 125 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

A meme made in response (not by me):

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Hi. Just looking at what lemmy.ca sends my server:

From nginx log:

your.ip.address - - [20/Feb/2024:03:48:47 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 200 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.ca"               
your.ip.address - - [20/Feb/2024:03:48:49 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.ca"         
your.ip.address - - [20/Feb/2024:03:48:57 +0000] "POST /inbox HTTP/1.1" 400 0 "-" "Lemmy/0.19.3; +https://lemmy.ca"              

Dumping the JSONs reveals 3 duplicate files, all containing:

"id": "https://lemmy.ca/activities/create/0968bf93-ac05-4178-bf3f-28cdc65fc338"
"actor": "https://lemmy.ca/u/HairyOldCoot"
"object": {
  "id": "https://lemmy.ca/comment/7454502"            
  "content": "That was an episode of Sliders."
  "published": "2024-02-20T03:48:45.810068Z"

These are 3 Creates, not 1 Create and 2 Updates or anything. I've chosen a comment 'cos that's public info, but it's the same for all other activity too (Votes, Deletes, etc).

lemmy.ca isn't alone in this. endlesstalk.org sends everything twice (info posted here), as does lemmy.sdf.org and mander.xyz, but lemmy.ca is the only one I've seen send stuff 3 times. Other instances (e.g. aussie.zone, feddit.nl, lemm.ee, lemmings.world, lemmy.world, programming.dev, reddthat.com, sh.itjust.works, slrpnk.net) don't, but there's nothing obvious like lemmy version numbers to indicate the difference.

Whilst I'd prefer you didn't send me stuff 3 times, I'm mostly mentioning it because I doubt it's good for your own resources to send every activity by every lemmy.ca user out multiple times. Also, the OPs of my community are from Mastodon, so I imagine you're sending them the same message 3 times too ...

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Did someone call for IT support? (files.mastodon.social)
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After 6 years, project 4K80 (the 4K fan-edit of Empire Strikes Back) finally has some release candidates.

The linked post details why it took so long (compared to 4K77 and 4K83), and the plans for the future.

It's something I'll download when they've worked on it a little more. For now though, Adywan's 'The Empire Strikes Back Revisited' remains my favourite version.

[-] [email protected] 90 points 1 year ago

Or perhaps:

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Given the shared underlying protocol, I didn't like that if I saw something interesting on Mastodon, and wanted to post it on Lemmy, I'd have to screenshot it and/or re-attribute it to me rather than the original author.

Tails is an experimental community. Instead of announcing just what a Lemmy user has posted, it announces what a Fediverse actor has posted. This means that, so far, it's featured posts from Mastodon accounts like Mr Lovenstein, warsandpeas, George Takei, Low Quality Facts, and other interesting people. Lemmy users have been able to reply to the author, and have also replied to those other Mastodon accounts that responded.

You can see for yourself at [email protected]

(the usual rules apply: if you're the first person on your instance to do this, you'll likely get a blank screen or an error. Wait 10 secs or so, press refresh, and you should have it).

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For Season 1, it took a extra year for the FX ... so maybe this means Season 2 will appear in February next year?

Maybe they were able to get some done during the strikes. Or maybe Andor will get shoved up the priority queue. Either way, it could even be out later this year.

Looking forward to it either way. I'm sure I'll find time to squeeze in an extra rewatch of Season 1 in the meantime ...

[-] [email protected] 93 points 1 year ago

Similar vibe:

[-] [email protected] 82 points 1 year ago

Just to say, I massively prefer the name 'microblogmemes' over 'whitepeopletwitter'. That was always a weird one - posts didn't always involve white people, didn't always come from Twitter (which - technically - doesn't even exist anymore) and seemed based on a petty misunderstanding of what Black People Twitter was.

FWIW, I agree with you about the Denny's post. I'm also the moderator of a community that Stamets has quit, so I know that losing him is a blow, because he posts a lot of content. But I also know that he's a complicated human.

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[-] [email protected] 67 points 2 years ago

Right way up

[-] [email protected] 74 points 2 years ago

New home: [email protected]

Will probably post to both for a while, until we have some kind of resolution.

[-] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago

I always took the term 'bullshit jobs' to refer to jobs that produce something that society doesn't really require, and typically only exists because they need someone to deal with the output of someone else's bullshit job.

[-] [email protected] 109 points 2 years ago

lemmy.world deleted their copy of it (due to site rules, and prompted by a concerned Internet citizen)

It's probably the biggest Community in all of Lemmy, so the ramifications will be interesting.

[-] [email protected] 78 points 2 years ago

It can certainly seem that way sometimes. Shows like The Handmaid's Tale have been circling the drain of their own premise for a few years now. A big part of it, I think, is that they want to keep their main cast for as long as possible, which limits the options of what can happen.

Give me a mini-series, or even an anthology series, any day.

[-] [email protected] 95 points 2 years ago

TempleOS. All other operating systems are sinful.

[-] [email protected] 132 points 2 years ago

That's a very positive spin on quite a shitty situation (especially if lemmy.ml goes kaputt)

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