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  • 😂 Since I watched it last night it was fresh in my mind, but I could decipher Takeshita's hair and trunks through the blurriness, plus the white ropes. If I didn't just watch it I would not have gotten it.

    Takeshita's English is getting so much better too, he spoke a bit at the media scrum after the PPV. He's a beast!

  • Houses, Richmond Street - Lawren Harris (1911) 🇨🇦
  • Neat, does that mean you also have Canadian citizenship? It seems that our grandparents' generation were leaving Ontario for the UK more frequently than I would have expected - Ricky Gervais' father for example was a Franco-Ontarian.

    We're reminded about the Commonwealth whenever the monarchy is in the news, but I don't really know what purpose it serves beyond acting as a reminder of the history of our country. I don't believe the current generation feels much of a connection to the UK the way previous generations did. When I was a child I think there was much more of a feeling of connection (in fact two of my teachers in primary school were English expats, including a lovely little old lady named Mrs. Readey, who retired back to England once our year was done), but lately it feels like more people feel connected to the US, probably since their culture is propagated everywhere. And we generally don't think about the fact that Charles is also our king, as the monarchy has de facto zero influence on our government. I still like to periodically bring up the Commonwealth as a whimsical little nod to our history.

    What did you think of Toronto / Ontario?

  • Canada passes bill to cover birth control and diabetes drugs
  • An update on that bot, I think they realised it was malfunctioning, so now they are doing some manual intervention to make it seem more lifelike. They also edited the original comment they posted on all of the crossposts.

    Take a look at the way they comment. It has big "native Russian speaker but knows a bit of English" energy

  • Canada passes bill to cover birth control and diabetes drugs
  • That bot is malfunctioning as heck. It probably had a bit of code to comment on posts that were crossposted about a particular subject (Musk election interference in this case), but its list of crossposts accidentally included this post. I suspect all of their good bot developers are either working on Reddit, or are now sunflowers in Ukraine.

    Hey bot! Пиздец! 😂😂😂

  • Houses, Richmond Street - Lawren Harris (1911) 🇨🇦
  • Nice! A lot of great Group of Seven there.

    By the way, if you happen to be from Toronto (or will be in Toronto around the end of November) the art auction houses have their major auctions around that time. They always have public previews / exhibitions in the days leading up to the auction, which happen to be a great way to see some art up close (before they get purchased by private collectors). The previews are totally free of charge, they might just ask you your name for security purposes, but otherwise anyone can come in and look at the art. This auction house has a big previously unseen Lawren Harris coming up: https://www.waddingtons.ca/auction/major-fall-auction-canadian-international-fine-art-nov-28-2024/

    The auction houses low-key love when more people come to the previews, even if they have no intention of bidding, so I recommend taking advantage of that if you can.

  • [Feature Request] Convert WEBP to JPEG when sharing?

    (This is my first post sent from Sync, so hopefully I don't mess this up too badly...)

    This might already exist, or might just generally be a stupid idea, but here we go:

    I share images from Lemmy / Sync pretty frequently, primarily as direct images to Facebook Messenger. However, Messenger doesn't like WEBP files, and quite a few instances seem to be using WEBP instead of JPEG or PNG.

    It'd be a time-saver (literally minutes a day!) and reduction of friction if there was an option to convert WEBP to JPEG on-the-fly when sharing. Right now I have to check the image format, and if it's a WEBP I need to download and edit / re-save before sharing.

    I was going to say this would be a nice value-add for Ultra, but I'm already subscribed 🤷🏻‍♂️

    I bet this issue doesn't actually affect that many users (stupid North America and its reliance on Facebook Messenger), but it does ever so slightly annoy me, so I figured might as well shoot my shot and make a feature request.

    It's annoying enough that if Sync was OSS I would have submitted a PR already.

    All that said: Sync is great and I'm so happy it was transposed from Reddit.

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