They get more money from advertisements if you use the free version. Is an adblocker able to remove the ads from Spotify’s audio fred?

(And if it does, does it block Spotify from getting paid for the ad anyway?)

Using the unpaid version doesn’t really deny Spotify much any income. Better just move completely away to better platforms.

94.3 F is 34.6 °C. The body temperature is 36 to 37 °C. Therefore, the thermal camera shows the temperature a little bit wrong. It’s unlikely that the butt would be much colder than 36 °C.

This agreement has been coördinated with USA and i therefore not merely a suggestion by one side of the war.

There are many parts on it that are known to make it impossible for the Russia to accept the agreement, and there are points that the Russia will abuse if it ever signs this agreement.
Things that tell that the Russia is not expected to accept this:

• 7] Ukraine would get a definite date of EU accession – apparently regardless of whether it fulfills the criteria or not
• 13] The Russia would never agree to implement educational programmes in schools and across society as a whole that promote understanding and tolerance of different cultures. Especially eliminating racism is diametrically opposed to the base values the Russian government has been emphasizing in the school curriculum. If that was done, people in the Russia would notice what lies they had been fed until the yesr of signing the agreement and would be sure to revolt.
• 17.2] Returning all detained children would be a tough thing to do because the “new parents” were promised by the Kremlin liars that they’d have the children forever. As their own. (As their own slaves…)

(Furthermore, a Finnish translation talked about both sides ensuring their armies will filly respect the gemeva conventions. This would mean completely retraining all of the Russia’s military, also making it clear to them that what they had previously been explicitly trained consists mostly of war crimes. How.would that show in their support to Kremlin? Heh. But, I cannot see that part anywhere in other sources, and the Finnish article said their text had been translated by an “AI” (and then “proof-read by a reporter” meaning that maybe this part was just hallucinated by the bot.))

I found articles with essentially the same content from May and June of this year.

Maybe they could design a plane that very extensively shares components with the current Gripens, but an engine is such a big component in such a crucial location that I would be very surprised if you could just swap them like that.

Would be an interesting way for Ukraine to become a nuclear power again.

If they can fly with such a noisy thing, they can also be rescued using land-based vehicles. If you are evacuated in a device like this, you will absolutely get shot in the process. Or a faster FPV drone will catch this one, with the person having nowhere to escape.

Much easier to hit an aerial target of this size than one obscured by scenery.

Would you happen to know which Russian bomber planes have more than just one person in the crew?

I think the nazi bar argument holds only partially for Lemmy. But yes, I do largely agree that especially lemmy.ml really does a stellar job tarnishing the image of this section of Fediverse.

Yeah, I had to figure out how to find the originals of those two diagrams to see the y-axis. But the numbers are what I got hovering the mouse cursor over tge original diagrams, rounded to the two (different… Oops.) accuracies you see there.

Ironically I think its only a VERY small amount of users that are talking like its a “us vs them” mentality for Lemmy/piefed.

Absolutely!

But it is scary how easily a tiny minority can end up looking like the majority if it’s the only one that bothers voicing its thoughts! I used to be active on an F-website operated by the same company that operates “Threads”, and damn I had to write often that “come on, this thing was said by maybe four people, in a group of 15 000. It is very unlikely theirs is actually a very common way of thinking!”
Here people are maybe a little bit more able to understand this phenomenon, but we are human beings all the same. In other words, rather stupid. Therefore, I believe it’s good to always be afraid that all kind of cognitive biases are active in people’s heads, needing to be countered :)

The graphs show, BTW, that between April 2025 and and December 2025 the number of Lemmy users who have been active in the past month has moved from 54 000 to 35 000 and that the number of PieFed users who have been active in the past month has moved from 400 to 1700. (And for Mbin: 900 to 700).

Let’s make sure the combined number of these three will be at least 60 000 next year this time!

I wish this enmity didn’t exist.

It’s in nobody’s interests, really.
Yeah, I’ve got very good reasons why I prefer PieFed over Lemmy, but a bigger Fediverse is a better thing, so Lemmy is definitely not a bad thing. It’s just can be argued to be less good than PieFed.

But still, good is good, even if something better exists.

I don’t think PieFed’s developers are developing it in order to damage Lemmy. I believe it’s developed simply because the developers believe it’s a good project that should exist.

It’s going to damage the Fediverse as a whole if we launch some kind of a “browser war” between different Fediverse serverside softwares!

Today I read that it happened in an underground shelter. So, the ceiling most likely remained largely intact, simply getting repainted with an interesting black fade radiating from an artistic round-ish dark red smudge.

“Blyaaaaaaaa-splort!” 🍝

In the video they say that only one of the two pilots were ejected back then in 1975, so at least in those days a Su-24 would not eject both seats with one ejection command. This one did, so it probably was not a Su-24.

The video also mentions that this happened because the other joystick was made shorter than usual. Therefore, it might indeed have been a weird technical defect, but I don’t think we have a good reason to assume it was the same as shown on this video, as the result was slightly different.

So… Apparently the ejection system works so that if either person in the plane activates it, both seats are ejected, some seconds apart from each other.

The interesting thing here is: What has actually happened?
As far as I can understand, there are two main options:

• Intentional ejection
• Technical defect

And both of those sound like awesome things!
If it was intentional, then it basically has been a case of someone not wanting to bomb Ukraine but also knowing they cannot defect, and considering the other orc in the plane to be so full of shit that the world is better without him. That would be a sign of a trend that will wreak havoc from within the Russian armed forces.
I would say that a pilot is not going to activate the ejection through incompetence. Not even a Russian pilot, as little trained as they are in comparison to other countries’ pilots.

And if it wasn’t intentional but a technical defect instead… Well, that would then mean that the Russian planes are so worn out from overuse that this kind of technical defects start taking place. That’s a good way of reducing the amount of pilots directly and also reducing the motivation to both stay as a pilot and to enter a training in order to become a pilot. Remember, planes as much easier to replace than competent pilots!

The other kids will be very unlikely to ever find out.

Isn’t this a screenshot from Star Control 2?

At least the Codeberg git repository is called pyfedi, which I think could be the original name of this? Py comes from the programming language used, Python. And Fedi is, well, Fedi :)

And then maybe PyFedi became PieFed because Rimu is from New Zealand and those DAMN KIWIS are SERIOUSLY MAD ABOUT PIES! 🤣