A techbro desperate for cash is detained for 13 hours after leaving a non-functioning, vibe-coded anti-fraud device in a Swiss hotel lobby during the Davos conf

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"My husband complains about the cold," the man said. "Can you teach me a spell to keep him warm?"

"I can teach you to bind hair into a net to catch heat," the wizard said, "using arcane counting and a pair of fine wands."

After a while, the man said "Isn't this knitting?"

"This, too, is magic."

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#TwinCities Workers #Strike Against #ICE. Two Hundred Cities Follow.

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As two hundred and fifteen cities prepare to walk out today in solidarity with #Minneapolis, the whole world is watching.
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It automatically adjusts depending on how often the source posts articles. Presumably the idea is to avoid sending frequent requests to small servers that rarely publish. This does mean that if an account only publishes once a month or so, it'll probably take a day or so before you see the article.

It used to be configurable on a per-feed basis, but looking now I think that setting went away. It can still be configured in the database I believe.

The way Friendica does RSS polling is pretty broken. You're supposed to make conditional requests so that the feed only needs to be built when it genuinely has something new, and you're supposed to respect the retry time. That way you can request much more frequently without overloading the server. But implementing that would require database schema changes.