Rimu

@Rimu@piefed.social
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Joined 11 months ago

Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

Parallel federation sending is a big deal because it'll mean servers can be physically located further away from lemmy.world (once lemmy.world upgrades, which could be a while).

Looks like CMYK support is coming, if I read the release notes right. That has been a sticking point for a loong time.

Don't forget that Trump is completely inept and this time doesn't have any help from people even trying to be "the adults in the room". He's made some huge huge promises and I just don't think he has the ability or the team to make much of it happen.

Being registered "as a republican/democrat" is weird.

Electoral college is weird AF

One party trying to stop people voting is weird.

Queuing for hours to vote is weird.

Purging voter rolls is weird.

Rallies are weird.

Townhalls are weird.

Flags everywhere is weird.

The orange one is super weird.

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I've had a Tidal subscription for about a year. It's recommendation algo is way way better than Spotify and there are none of those spammy 1 minute tracks that Spotify has because 'artists' have gamed the system.

They don't have a Linux app but the PWA works fine. Minimize the window to reduce CPU usage (I know that sounds crazy but it actually works).

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Your votes are already public.

People say this all the time, but it's not really the case.

I don't think privacy is a binary thing that one either has or does not - there are degrees of privacy. Currently what we have is mostly private, requiring either technical skill or admin access to circumvent. This is a pretty high bar which 99% of people would not be able to reach. You're proposing removing the bar entirely because it is not high enough.

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To fascists, hypocrisy is a virtue:

https://hac.bard.edu/amor-mundi/hypocrisy-and-fascism-2018-08-12

They NEED to demonstrate their hypocrisy in order to signal to their supporters that the nasty shit they promise to do to The Other (immigrants, gays, whatever) won't be done to their supporters.

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Yeah although if Russia wins it'd involve "unstable geopolitics" too.

This could be a long war.

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Just because Tesla made a lot of bad choices, that doesn't mean all EVs for all time will always be more expensive.

Windows 2000 was the peak - rock solid with no visual fluff. XP was 2000 with a childish skin on it and it's all downhill from there.

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It's too early to say, as the method of accounting for 'active user' changed recently.

Seems to me like Lemmy is "consolidating". Some people are leaving but the community is deepening in norms, understanding, commitment and cohesion. This shows up as better content and discussions all the time. Spam is snuffed out quickly, more communities have better moderators. Our infrastructure is maturing and the software is getting better.

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This might just be for government computers, not the entire country - see https://www.ft.com/content/7bf0f79b-dea7-49fa-8253-f678d5acd64a

Still, the overall direction and intent is clear.

I coded an Alexa Skill once. It was tedious and a garbage platform. After a while it was delisted for spurious reasons, even worse DX than Google and Apple app stores. Complete dumpster fire from start to finish.

All obsolete now that LLMs are here. I don't think any devs will miss it.

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When I started working on PieFed I was all enthusiastic about the idea of moderation tools. But when it came time to actually code that functionality it was like pulling teeth. Just. Sooo. Boring. It took weeks longer than it should have, for that reason. This was really surprising to me because I'm deeply passionate about moderation and 'gardening' a community.

That's the thing about open source, people just do the fun stuff. There's always some fun stuff to do which distracts from the boring-but-necessary.

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She didn't commit voting fraud. She granted access to voting data to people who should not have had that access.

Tina Peters was convicted of three counts of attempting to influence a public official; conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation; official misconduct; violation of duty; and failure to comply with an order of the Secretary of State. The jury acquitted Peters of three counts: conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, criminal impersonation and identity theft.

https://coloradosun.com/2024/08/12/tina-peters-verdict/

Fedi garden is just someone's website, they can put whatever they want on it. No big deal.

I will learn enough judo to throw you into the sun

best line

By making really short songs.

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Why the National Guard took so long is an interesting question but the more important one is why didn't the FBI, etc notice the absolute state of the maga-verse in the weeks leading up to Jan 6th? All their plans were out in the open, even I knew what was going to go down and I'm just a random internet person on the other side of the world not the NSA or whatever.

They had weeks to prepare but instead got caught with their pants down. It was completely negligent. Heads should roll.

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If anyone is concerned that there is only 4 months until the election, remember Jacinda Adern became opposition leader 3 months before the 2017 election and won - https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41675801

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Netlify has the highest network data transfer fees. If you're going to use them, you must have a CDN.

Russia on Monday threatened to strike British military facilities

This is equivalent to USA threatening to strike North Korean, Iranian or Chinese facilities (all of whom have been arming Russia). No such threats have been made.

Just so we're clear who's escalating things.

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my social media feed

Is it possible that social media is the cause of this anxiety?

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I've seen a vanload of tourists happily taking pictures of sheep on more than one occasion. New Zealand.

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When the wildfire smoke turns the air orange.

like this

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I'm sure kiwifarms and stormfront will appreciate this service. Read between the lines in the FAQ.

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You might feel more comfortable in a larger city. In London every person you meet has a different accent, it's amazing.

That's some God tier linux wizardry

TikTok quantified the precise amount of viewing it takes for someone to form a habit: 260 videos.

Kentucky authorities note that while it might seem a lot, TikTok videos can be just a few seconds long.

“Thus, in under 35 minutes, an average user is likely to become addicted to the platform,” the state investigators concluded.

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/12/g-s1-28040/teens-tiktok-addiction-lawsuit-investigation-documents

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"What do you have to lose?"

Umm. Their lives, apparently? Such an irresponsible statement.

Durian.

Texture of banana but with a huge seed. Tastes like a strange combination of rotten eggs, whipped cream, vanilla ice cream, diced garlic, onions, cheese, and... caramel?

It's fucked. Never again.

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Employers would absolutely love to be able to ask their pet AI "hey tell me who to fire based on their computer usage"...

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GPUs these days use a whole lot of power. Ensure your power supply is specced appropriately.

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And if he doesn't pay the fine he goes to jail, right?

... he goes to jail, right?

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Yes, it's completely possible.

Kbin has it, which it calls "Collections" - see https://kbin.social/magazines/collections. Anyone can add a collection which can be subscribed to by anyone. It is very flexible and crowd-sources the work of organizing the communities into collections. I like it.

PieFed calls it "Topics" - see https://piefed.social/topics. They are arraigned into a hierarchy and are created by the the instance admin. This could give a better experience to the end user but puts more work onto the instance admins.

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In that list, only Lemmy has voting or comments in a tree, both key features that make reddit into reddit. If I was going to put together a list of reddit alternatives, those last 3 wouldn't be on it.

Then try harder. If the receptionist at his building is enough to stop them then they're shit at their jobs.

Public costs, private profits. The usual.