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a museum in Iceland
a museum? when it comes to phalluses i believe it is the museum: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_Phallological_Museum
Huh? That press release quotes the The Environment Agency’s Director of Water and National Drought Group chair saying "Simple, everyday choices – such as turning off a tap or deleting old emails – also really helps the collective effort to reduce demand and help preserve the health of our rivers and wildlife" and includes "Delete old emails and pictures as data centres require vast amounts of water to cool their systems" in its list of ways people should save water at home.
I admit I made this post without clicking through to the actual press release or seeing more than the paywall preview of the article; for a humorous post like this, i think just the headline from a paywalled article (if it's from a reputable source) is sufficient. Now that you got me to read the actual press release, I see I was correct to assume that 404media's amusing headline was in fact accurate.
How would you suggest they report this story differently? Highlighting the ridiculous part is what makes it worthy of reporting on it in their context at all.
With the Mac SE and II, the switched to ADB, which looked like a PS/2 port, but you could daisy chain your mouse, keyboard, and other inputs like tablets or joysticks all into one jack in the back of the computer.
The port looks similar - both are mini-DIN - but ADB has four pins while PS/2 has six.
ADB was first introduced in 1986 on the Apple IIgs, and later was used in all Macs from the SE until the iMac. For the first few years there were two ADB ports, but in 1990 (maybe starting with the Mac IIsi?) they reduced it to one and started shipping keyboards with ports to daisy chain the mouse from.
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update: this article caused her to resign from her Ministerial position the next day.
ok i am going to accept failure and explain the joke: your comment did not, in fact, mention the buffalo being male. but i was pretending to have read it with the assumption that the "he" you were referring to was the buffalo, and the tagged individual who was a hazard to members of its own species was in fact the millionaire who died. get it now? 🙄
if you carefully re-read your earlier comment and mine, you will hopefully see the joke i was attempting to make
He probably had a tag for just that exact individual. Odds are it was issued because that individual was a hazard to the local area and or other members of the species.
Good comment but how do you know the buffalo is a he?
compare the rendering of the test output (which i also wrapped in backticks to tell the markdown rendering to render it as code) in my other comment on lemmy vs on piefed.
Essentially, it is not possible to reliably identify the URLs in code (in a language that is not known to either PyFedi or its markdown parser), because they sometimes are adjacent to otherwise-URL-valid characters which actually terminate the URL in whatever syntax is being used inside the code block. So, even though it is sometimes harmless to auto-linkify inside a code block, it is also often wrong and therefore should not be (and generally is not) done.
But also, code formatting should be available as a way to disable auto-linkification when a post or comment author wants to (as I did in my original comment).
URL perfectly clickable from PieFed
PieFed W
that is not a W... i surrounded the URL with backticks, which means it should be treated as code and not made into a link.
cc: PyFedi developer @rimu@piefed.social
I had a glance at the source and don't see a very quick fix, but I think the solution involves getting rid of the auto-linkification here and instead have that be done by the markdown library. This issue indicates that the markdown library PyFedi is using is capable of doing that.
diff --git a/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py b/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py index 329b19be..108276c5 100644 --- a/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py +++ b/tests/test_markdown_to_html.py @@ -37,6 +37,12 @@ class TestMarkdownToHtml(unittest.TestCase): result = markdown_to_html(markdown) self.assertTrue("<pre><code>code block" in result) + def test_code_block_link(self): + """Test code blocks formatting containing a link""" + markdown = "\ncode block with link: https://example.com/ \n" + result = markdown_to_html(markdown) + self.assertEqual("<pre><code>code block with link: https://example.com/ ", result)it currently produces this failure:
====================================================== FAILURES ======================================================= _______________________________________ TestMarkdownToHtml.test_code_block_link _______________________________________ self = <tests.test_markdown_to_html.TestMarkdownToHtml testMethod=test_code_block_link> def test_code_block_link(self): """Test code blocks formatting containing a link""" markdown = "\ncode block with link: https://example.com/ \n" result = markdown_to_html(markdown) > self.assertEqual("<pre><code>code block with link: https://example.com/ ", result) E AssertionError: '<pre[24 chars]ink: https://example.com/ ' != '<pre[24 chars]ink: <a href="https://example.com/" rel="nofoll[61 chars]e>\n' E - <pre><code>code block with link: https://example.com/ E + <pre><code>code block with link: <a href="https://example.com/" rel="nofollow ugc" target="_blank">https://example.com/</a> E + </code></pre> E + tests/test_markdown_to_html.py:44: AssertionErrorHTH, and thanks for writing free software!
For some reason this post caused me to search to see if there are types of birdseed which are not suitable for ducks. From a few minutes of reading, I'm relatively sure now that at least all common types of birdseed are fine for them. But, along the way, I found this LLM slop
https://plantnative.org/can-ducks-eat-bird-seed.htm(URL rendered unclickable since it is spam) which strongly implies that ducks are not in fact birds:- "Yes, ducks do eat bird seed. Although bird seeds are specifically prepared to meet the nutrient demand of birds. But still, bird seed can be served as a snack to ducks in limited amounts."
- "Bird seeds are loaded with nutrients and can be beneficial for ducks the way they are for birds."
apparently in 1857 "I have been informed by a European acquaintance" was sufficient sourcing for something to be published in Scientific American :)
somewhat relatedly, it's 2025 now so you can actually link to a thing instead of just posting a screenshot of it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/that-giant-sucking-sound-doesnt-exist/
i wonder why this screenshot (and OP's text which includes the fact that this comes from scientific american, which is not included in the screenshot) both say 1847 while the text on the SciAm website says it's actually from 1857 🤔