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The case for down voting/anonymous social negativity to strangers
  • That should have never been created.

    I agree.

    PieFed automatically stops accepting downvotes from accounts that downvote too often or who have a very negative karma. This stops the worst 3.7% of users.

  • What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?
  • video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gAT-BbyOWw

    code https://github.com/Leproide/Linux-G15-Daemon-Logitech-G110-

    I'm pretty sure it will only work with a handful of old Logitech keyboards.

    When I eventually upgrade my OS and can't compile the stack for some reason, I've got a Sun Type-7 waiting in the wings.

  • What's a unique customization on your Linux machine you think no one else has?
  • I have an old gamer keyboard with extra programmable keys on the side, which I use for cut, copy, paste, close tab, close window, etc. Logitech provides drivers/software for Windows & Mac only.

    To make it work I have a custom monkey-patched USB driver that I compiled from source, some weird daemon that interacts with the driver and some shell scripts on top of that. I'm not sure how but it works thanks to a 9 year old youtube video made by a guy from eastern europe somewhere.

  • my executive dysfunction might kill my dog
  • I have a very tidy house yet my puppy is always finding stones and bark in the garden to chew on (despite having plenty of other toys). They love it, nothing you can do to stop it.

  • How are you doing with your communities?
  • !antisocialmedia@piefed.social has 72 subscribers and my posts are getting a decent amount of votes and a few comments. Not bad for a 5 day old community!

    !sophie@piefed.social is pretty chill, just me posting pics of my dog I don't expect that to go anywhere. It's just for fun.

  • A hurricane of fire

    Source https://med-mastodon.com/@luckytran/113796085255452817

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    I found the facebook theme song

    We Want Your Soul by Adam Freeland

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    Meta hired a former project 2025 author and desantis advisor back in august
    newrepublic.com The Project 2025 Refugee Who Slid Into Your Socials

    Dustin Carmack, fresh from the controversial policy portfolio that defines the next Trump term, has landed at Meta.

    The Project 2025 Refugee Who Slid Into Your Socials

    Meta—the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, Threads, and WhatsApp—has just hired Dustin Carmack, a former adviser to Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’s doomed presidential campaign and an ex–Project 2025 employee.

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    Ask me no more - Lawrence Alma-Tadema
  • The texture of that fabric is spectacular.

  • I'm starting to become too optimistic and self-assured to fit in with the Internet anymore
  • I am hopeful that without the perverse incentives that corporate social media has, the fediverse can be a more positive place than legacy social media.

    Personally I do find it less compulsive and more thoughtful but the doom and gloom is still pretty heavy.

  • 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
  • Ah, North Korea. Now I get it.

  • Brandolini's law
  • And that is why we ban

  • Voting on the PieFed roadmap for 2025 is now open!

    We've brainstormed a few ideas for where we could focus our development efforts this year and created a post in a community for each idea.

    This is the community: !piefed_2025@piefed.social

    Now it's up to you to vote on each post to influence the priorities of those ideas! Please upvote those ideas that are important to you, ignore those that do not and only downvote when an idea seems like a counter-productive waste of time and energy.

    Vote for as many ideas as you like but be selective. Something like upvote your top 10 ideas and downvote the bottom 5, that kind of thing.

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    www.theguardian.com DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review

    DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

    DoJ releases its Tulsa race massacre report over 100 years after initial review

    DoJ report acknowledges attack ‘was so systematic and coordinated that it transcended mere mob violence’

    > The DoJ’s findings acknowledged the role of Tulsa law enforcement in the massacre, including that of Tulsa police who “deputized hundreds of white residents, many of whom – immediately before being awarded a badge – had been drinking and agitating for [a lynching]”. According to the report, more than 500 men were deputized in less than 30 minutes.

    > he was told he “could now ‘go out and shoot any [N-word] you see and the law’ll be behind you’”.

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    How do you like the (newish) User notes feature?
  • I've just looked in the DB, to see all the notes. There are only 5 notes, created by 3 users. Definitely need to make this feature more visible.

  • Meta Deletes Trans and Nonbinary Messenger Themes
  • PieFed has a trans theme, btw

  • How do you like the (newish) User notes feature?
  • We could make it easier to find by adding it to the popup that appears when hovering over a username?

  • Profit vs. ethics: the inherent conflict in large social media platforms
    www.wrecka.ge Bad shape

    The idea I keep coming back to is that the big platforms, like Dickens' Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.

    Bad shape

    The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.

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    www.theverge.com How to delete your Facebook account

    If you want to leave Facebook, here’s how to get your data and delete your account.

    How to delete your Facebook account
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    macOS Automator is really cool: Add a custom action that works in all apps (such as sort lines in selected text)
  • AppleScript really is amazing and I'm surprised Apple doesn't publicize it more. There's nothing like it.

  • www.theatlantic.com The Anti-Social Century

    Americans are now spending more time alone than ever. It’s changing our personalities, our politics, and even our relationship to reality.

    The Anti-Social Century
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    Anyone else here self-hosting on absolutely shit hardware?
  • Have you looked into using zram?

  • !antisocialmedia@piefed.social - documenting the antisocial behavior of social media corporations

    !antisocialmedia@piefed.social is dedicated to antisocial behavior of social media corporations, censorship, algorithmic bias, filter bubbles, privacy and psychological effects of mainstream social media.

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    www.404media.co Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves

    Meta AI put a Redditor into "an endless maze of mirrors" as part of a new AI feature it is testing.

    Instagram Begins Randomly Showing Users AI-Generated Images of Themselves

    Instagram has begun testing a feature in which Meta’s AI will automatically generate images of users in various situations and put them into that user’s feed. One Redditor posted over the weekend that they were scrolling through Instagram and were presented an AI-generated slideshow of themselves standing in front of “an endless maze of mirrors,” for example.

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    www.inkl.com Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’

    The social media giant Meta has loosened its public rules on hate speech as Mark Zuckerberg seeks to curry favour with Donald Trump

    Facebook lifts restrictions on calling women ‘property’ and transgender people ‘freaks’

    In an update to its hate speech policy on Tuesday, spotted first by The Independent, the apps' parent company Meta deleted numerous clauses banning specific derogatory statements about protected groups, while adding detailed exceptions for anti-trans speech.

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    Trump ally joins Facebook board
    www.yahoo.com Trump ally joins Facebook board days after Nick Clegg’s exit

    Cage fighting tycoon and close Donald Trump ally Dana White has joined the board of Mark Zuckerberg’s tech empire Meta.

    Trump ally joins Facebook board days after Nick Clegg’s exit

    Mr White’s appointment was announced on Monday and comes as Silicon Valley seeks to build closer links to Mr Trump

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    www.rnz.co.nz Meta donates $1.7 million to Trump's inaugural fund

    The donation is a departure from past practice by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who declined to endorse a candidate for the election.

    Meta donates $1.7 million to Trump's inaugural fund

    The Wall Street Journal, which first reported the news, said the donation was a departure from past practice by CEO Mark Zuckerberg and Meta.

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    www.rnz.co.nz Meta dumps fact checkers, Zuckerberg admits more harmful content on the way

    Mark Zuckerberg admits more harmful content will appear on the platforms now.

    Meta dumps fact checkers, Zuckerberg admits more harmful content on the way

    "Fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've created," Mark Zuckerberg says.

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    One person's right to exist is more important than someone else's right to say that they shouldn't
    notes.kvibber.com Post by Kelson, @kelson@notes.kvibber.com

    One person's right to exist is more important than someone else's right to say that they shouldn't. This should be *ahem* self-evident. A platform saying "you shouldn't advocate for whole classes of people to stop existing" is not taking sides, but is in fact taking the middl...

    Post by Kelson, @kelson@notes.kvibber.com
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    Boudin - Deauville - O rio morto - 1890

    Eugène Boudin was especially good at clouds and water and loved to paint port scenes. At the time the paintings that sold best were ones of the idle rich hanging out at the beach so he did a lot of those too.

    Plenty more at https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Wikidata:WikiProject_sum_of_all_paintings/Creator/Eug%C3%A8ne_Boudin

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    The Myanmar Civil War, as of December 2024
  • It's the State Administration Council with it's 4 factions Vs the rest.

    Looks like mostly tribal/ethnic groups although Karen seems split into two.

  • How am i supposed to learn C# ?
  • For bash, there is Linux, a shit ton of distros, even BSD, MacOS and Solaris uses it. For python, there are games and qtile window manager. For C, there is dwm. I don't know anything like these for C#, except Codingame

    It seems like you find an environment that requires the language and then kinda sink-or-swim? If so then yes, your whole approach is wrong. You need a process with a lot more structure. Get a Udemy course or a book from the library.

  • What's the deal with male loneliness?
  • Yeah I agree that response was uncalled-for.

  • Monet - Meadow with Poplars - 1875
  • They're sooo much better IRL, it's another level entirely.

  • The Gust of Wind - Renoir, 1872

    Here is a magical glowing evocation of that morning when a young man stood on a hill watching a faint wind suddenly disturb the grasses and managed to make it stay there forever. Now we can stand there too and watch the grass flowing in the wind. This is to escape time and experience eternity.

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    rimu Rimu @piefed.social

    Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Mbin.

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