You might enjoy the book "Climate Leviathan". It's about all that and draws on a lot of history and philosophy.
US and friends regularly take their boats out for a drive, NK always reacts the same. It's a pretty boring news article.
Yeah user-created topics would be a fine enhancement. Various aspects of the multireddit concept have separate issues in the issue queue but they haven't been coherently tied together yet. It might be time to do that.
One way to limit exposure to negative news is a keyword filter, which I implemented 6 months ago, early on in the project: https://piefed.social/post/7576
It can be as low as only four out of 10,000 galaxies having one civilization
Well that's a new depth of loneliness I didn't know existed before. Great.
Yeah I'm pretty interested in this and Topics is only the first iteration of the idea. At the time piefed.social was basically a single-user instance so making the topics admin-manually-curated groupings was fine. Perhaps it's time to take things to the next level, tho.
The concept of 'multireddits' sounds like a bundle of related functionality and I'm not sure which parts of that you're interested in that PieFed's "topics" doesn't already do. Is it the user-created part? The subscribing part? The join-many-communties-at-once part? PieFed does some of those already but you won't see it unless you're logged in...
A page with a million checkboxes. Checking a box checks it for everyone.
That's it. Have fun!
A solid choice. I've been using it daily ( codeberg.org ) for the last year and it's pretty great!
The code review features are not as awesome as github but you won't need those.
A new contributor, h3ndrik, has made significant improvements to the filtering options for NSFW/NSFL content and I've also added some options to the same form which control when comments are collapsed or hidden.
Previously, NSFW was a yes or no option but now you can choose to have it unblurred, blurred, semi-transparent or entirely hidden.
The defaults values for collapse and hide are:
- when a comment has a score of -10 it is shown but in a collapsed state. You can click on it to expand it and read it. This has always been the case but now you can change that threshold.
- a score of -20 means the comment will not be shown. There is no way to make it visible and no indication that it was ever posted and no temptation to click on it.
You might want to review those settings to make sure they're suitable for you: https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters. If you don't want comments hidden then remove the -20 from that field or set it to -1000.
It's going well, thanks for asking. I enjoy using it and improving it every day.
Over the last year I've learnt a lot and if I started again today I'd lay some of the underlying foundations differently - in a way that supports a medium sized app instead of a small one. At the time I didn't know if it would ever grow beyond being small... Good problem to have!
They explicitly said this wasn't the solution for everyone 😊
Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on a 1/4-acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals.
They grow most of their own food, don't own cars and ride their bikes instead, use very little electricity, and forage food and materials from their local forest.
Yes, it's a bit different.
In Kbin they are user-defined. If kbin.social was online I'd share a link.
Yes, like this https://piefed.social/topics
I agree on the sensationalism in the article.
Biden stumbled and lost the tread in the opening minutes but is doing well now.
Trump is doing a good job at being Trump. Pretty tired of him ignoring the question and talking about whatever he likes and the moderator letting him.
The article links to this as technical proof https://grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-fraudulent-company-and-its-shopping-app-temu-is-cleverly-hidden-spyware-that-poses-an-urgent-security-threat-to-u-s-national-interests/
There's analysis of decompiled source code.
Now we have BBC printing stuff like this:
“It’s going to be like Mad Max.” “There will be no humanity. There will be no charity. There will be no fairness...
I fondly remember the days when rising sea levels, "sometime in 2100 or whenever" was the main climate-related thing. That was nice. Back then, the idea of tipping points was the realm of wild-eyed doomers that no one took seriously. Heat domes? Wildfires? Ocean death? Mass migration? Just science fiction.
Ahh, good times.
No one is keeping track of how enthusiastically they do it or writing official reports on it or encouraging more of it. It's the interest the govt takes in it that makes it weird(er).
This might all be made up. See https://www.nknews.org/2024/06/fact-check-north-korea-has-not-announced-plans-to-send-troops-to-ukraine-yet/
I've never heard of NK News before so - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nk-news/. Seems Ok.
In other news articles they're described as support troops or engineers. They'd be building things, cooking meals, driving trucks, repairing stuff. Maybe occasionally get a HIMARS dropped on them but certainly not storming trenches.
Two are single user instances and another is for a private group, I think it's an NGO. So PieFed.social remains the only instance for general use which lets anyone register and use.
For the last few weeks our focus has been on fixing bugs and improving stability. There have been 3 people who have launched new PieFed instances, bringing the total to 4, which brought up a slew of new issues and feature requests. Close collaboration with those new instance admins yielded many positive improvements and a slew of PRs to merge.
Despite this “under the hood” focus there were a few quite visible features added & changes made:
Bookmark (save) posts and comments
Click the three dots on any post or comment and you’ll see a Bookmark menu item. Access your bookmarks using the menu item on the Account menu. Saved posts are sorted based on when they were saved, not when the post was made.
Announcement banner on home page
I’ll link to this post from the home page so you can see it in action.
Japanese language
Translation is complete enough to be usable, thanks to karasugawasu
Hashtags have a RSS feed
Topics and Communities have had a feed for a while but now hashtags do too. Thanks to Dave Lane for the idea.
Automatic archive.ph link on some link posts
Some websites are especially important and really need an archive link. When the poster does not provide one, PieFed will add it.
Ctrl + Enter to submit a post or comment
While typing a new comment you can hit this key combination to submit the comment. Thanks for reminder about this forgotten issue, Jeena.
“Features for growing healthy communities”
I wrote a blog post describing some of the admin features that are available for rooting out bad apples.
Some people felt I had gone too far, perhaps rightly so.
General thoughts
It is encouraging to see more instances sprouting up and to have code contributions from even more people. Activity in the repository has never been higher and the Matrix channel is becoming quite chatty!
I am traveling overseas while working my day job so it is difficult to put as much effort into PieFed as I have in the past. When I return home in August there will probably be a large chunk of paid work to do alongside my regular job so I expect to be quite busy then too. Fortunately there is a trend towards me doing less coding myself and more merging in other people’s code so PieFed development will continue on regardless.
PieFed is entirely free and open source and has not received any grants or funding. If you find it useful and would like to support the project, please consider donating using Patreon.
Yes, I've been using it continuously since then.
UK's energy bills were £22bn higher over the past decade than they would have been if Conservative governments had not cut “green crap” climate policies.
£9bn due to not having built more cheap onshore wind, £5bn due to poorly insulated homes, £5bn due to low solar deployment, £3bn because new homes were built less efficient.
Prosecutors claimed four members of family paid staff a pittance and gave them little freedom to leave Geneva mansion
A Swiss court has handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion.
The Hindujas, who were not present in court, were acquitted of human trafficking but convicted of other charges on Friday in a stunning verdict for the family, whose fortune is estimated at £37bn.
Prakash Hinduja and his wife, Kamal, were each sentenced to four years and six months in prison, and their son Ajay and his wife, Namrata, received four-year terms.
See also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMnNosUBBWM by a guy who actually did the tutorial properly and has a more productive time of things
It’s time to imagine a future where lawns aren’t the norm – and homegrown habitats are.
AFP videos show the China Coast Guard (CCG) brandishing knives, ramming ships, and using tear gas against Filipino soldiers. China says the CCG was 'professional and restrained.'
Videos show the China Coast Guard (CCG) brandishing knives, ramming ships, and using tear gas against Filipino soldiers. China says the CCG was 'professional and restrained.'
AFP videos show the China Coast Guard (CCG) brandishing knives, ramming ships, and using tear gas against Filipino soldiers. China says the CCG was 'professional and restrained.'
Ethical, easy-to-use and privacy-conscious alternatives to well-known software
A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.
With just a fraction of people responding to political polls, Harvard experts are suggesting that pollsters "call" AI chatbots instead.
Instead of asking humans who they would vote for, try to understand the nuances of their thoughts and concerns, let those messages bubble up to candidates so they can adjust their campaign to meet voters' demand, instead of that, why not just segment humans into a bunch of shallow stereotypes (the socialist Millennial, the conservative Boomer, the liberal city dweller, the rancorous rural voter who feels left behind...) and then have some AI agents replicate how those people would respond?
Surely nothing could go wrong.
Sharrock can recite the entirety of the Harry Potter books, remember every school lesson she had, and recall what she was doing on any given date.
> > > Imagine being able to remember every single day of your life, all the way back to when you were a newborn. > >
> > > Australian woman Rebecca Sharrock is one of only 60 people in the world with a highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), also known as hyperthymesia. > >
In a unanimous verdict delivered today by a jury at Guildford Crown Court, Just Stop Oil supporters Nathan McGovern, Rosa Sharkey, and Louis Hawkins were found not guilty of causing criminal damage exceeding £5,000. [1] During the trial, Judge Sellers ruled that none of the defence’s three arguments...
> > > On 28 April 2022, Just Stop Oil supporters blocked the entrances to Clacket Lane Services on the M25 by sitting in the road with Just Stop Oil banners. They also decommissioned the petrol pumps by breaking the display glass and covering it with spray paint. This action was taken in support of their demand for the UK government to end all new oil and gas projects in the country. > >
> > > In a unanimous verdict delivered today by a jury at Guildford Crown Court, Just Stop Oil supporters Nathan McGovern, Rosa Sharkey, and Louis Hawkins were found not guilty of causing criminal damage. > >
Any jury may consider that the law itself is unjust. It is an important principle and indicates public opposition to aspects of law, in this case, the 'lawful' behaviour of fossil fuel corporations.
Every mod action would automatically create a new post. Anyone could see what is going on and express their approval / disapproval with votes. Maybe even comment on the post.
It should probably be a local-only community (no federation) to avoid clogging up other instance's "All" feed with mod actions?
What do you think of this idea?
Why have fewer meetings when you could just send your AI clone instead?
Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.
Here's some development highlights from the last 3 weeks and who contributed:
Freamon
Markdown parsing improvements and let us use a different variant of Markdown than Lemmy does. Poll federation - Mastodon accounts can vote on PieFed polls, and receive votes from PieFed users for Polls they've posted into a local community. PeerTube integration - New channels arrive with 10 recent videos, their player is embedded in the PieFed post, new posts are correctly restricted to channel owners, and arrive into PieFed automatically. Manual post-retrieval from remote communities function Improvements to federation that led to an 80% drop in the amount of spam cleanup work admins need to do (some post deletions on remote Lemmy instances weren’t being imported into PieFed properly).
Rimu
A minor dark mode improvement. Made the Poll UI and database. Made a start on federation with Pixelfed and Discourse. An admin tool to list communities that need to be assigned to a topic. Update translations from crowdin - French is finished thanks to wazaby. Steady progress continues on Japanese translation. Much better topic list layout. Imported many PeerTube channels into piefed.social and assigned them to topics. Top-level topics added to the main menu under ‘Topics’. Soft deletes - post deletion can be reversed for up to 7 days.
Tallship
Suggested PieFed use 'soft-break' Markdown Testing User Follows from various platforms Reporting that the use of Mastodon's trademark was problematic
General comments
We are reaching the end of the initial roadmap I sketched out 6 months ago at the start of development. There are just a handful of small tasks to do before the “beta test” phase ends.
With Lemmy to PieFed federation pretty solid, we are entering a phase of diversifying to other platforms. The first other platform, PeerTube, involved a lot of work that hopefully paved the way for future platforms to be integrated more easily. Pixelfed is going live with Groups support very soon. Exploratory work has been done on integration with Discourse although disappointingly they have implemented federation as an optional plugin so fewer Discourse forums actually federate than I initially hoped. NodeBB looks interesting.
In general the Fediverse has reached a steady state in terms of user numbers which gives us space to slow down and reassess. There is not as much of a sense of urgency or bursting-at-the-seams that there was a few months ago. This might be a good time to start to pay down some of the technical debt we have built up. It’s not that the code is bad, it's just that it’s structured in a way that made things easy in the early days but is no longer serving us as well as it did.
Very soon it will be good to have a discussion to create a roadmap for what comes after the beta ("1.0"). I’m thinking - more platforms (Mastodon, Friendica, etc), community wikis, API for mobile apps, better accessibility and can’t wait to hear other ideas from the community.
Check out my new film Adrift: http://vimeo.com/simonchristen/adrift Update: Thanks so much for all your comments! I am reading them all and enjoy them a lot!…
Thanks to amazing work by @andrew\_s@piefed.social, PieFed can now federate with PeerTube - channels from a PeerTube instance show up as communities in PieFed and each video is a post which can be voted on and commented on.
To get things started I've done a bit of crowdsourcing and added all the interesting, active and cool PeerTube channels I could find! Check these out:
Linux
https://piefed.social/c/thelinuxcast\_channel@tilvids.com https://piefed.social/c/linuxuserspace\_channel@tilvids.com https://piefed.social/c/veronicaexplains@tinkerbetter.tube https://piefed.social/c/thelinuxexperiment\_channel@tilvids.com https://piefed.social/c/linuxappsummit@tube.kockatoo.org https://piefed.social/c/hacker\_culture@kolektiva.media
Other
https://piefed.social/c/blitzcitydiy\_channel@makertube.net - electronics and music
https://piefed.social/c/simon.caine\_channel@tilvids.com - general technology
https://piefed.social/c/thunderbird\_channel@tilvids.com - thunderbird email client
https://piefed.social/c/ewen@makertube.net - photography
https://piefed.social/c/icesheets\_climate@tilvids.com - climate
https://piefed.social/c/shifter\_cycling@video.canadiancivil.com - cycling
https://piefed.social/c/transit@video.canadiancivil.com - transit
https://piefed.social/c/urbanism@video.canadiancivil.com - urbanism
https://piefed.social/c/coreyartusimagery@makertube.net - art
https://piefed.social/c/dot\_social@flipboard.video - fediverse podcast
https://piefed.social/c/thegiddystitcher@makertube.net - crafting
https://piefed.social/c/linuxappsummit@tube.kockatoo.org
https://piefed.social/c/submedia\_channel@kolektiva.media - anarchy
https://piefed.social/c/solarpunk@kolektiva.media - documentaries
https://piefed.social/c/boilingsteam@peertube.linuxrocks.online - gaming
https://piefed.social/c/justsomeguy@comics.peertube.biz - comics and movies
https://piefed.social/c/comicuno@comics.peertube.biz - comics
https://piefed.social/c/blender\_channel@video.blender.org - blender
https://piefed.social/c/4742f338-1ded-4798-bd85-93e8de367476@peertube.touhoppai.moe - krita tutorials
Rimu @piefed.social Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.