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Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • what about 3 dashes --- oooo

  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • Oh cool -- I think I might start using emdashes a bit now, too!

  • UkraineRussiaReport – Conflict footage & news with strict POV flairs and neutral titles

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  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • The testing instance is not a source of traffic so the quota would have no direct effect on it. The savings there are a result of what's happening on other instances.

    I'm showing that the vote quota reduced federation traffic for the whole threadiverse by 30% to 50%. What's happening there is lemmy.world, etc, where all the communities are, are sending less votes to everywhere (including to my testing instance). It's the community hosters that send copies of the votes to everyone, not the instance hosting the voter.

    This is a huge win, especially for instances that host a lot of communities like lemmy.world, sh.itjust.works, etc.

  • Light falling through the trees

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  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • That graph is from a testing instance which has no users and only receives federated content. So the traffic shown there is only from federation.

  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • Don't use the 0% one ;-)

    I often copy and paste post bodies into https://gptzero.me/, that one is great.

    Whenever you see an emdash, especially with no spaces before or after it, that's a pretty strong tell. But I never take action or level an accusation on that alone until I've run it through gptzero.

  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • Imagine you're sailing a boat across a large ocean. You can do your maintenance and take care of small problems now while the weather is calm or you can wait until the storm arrives and then run around like a headless chicken and probably sink.

  • The Voting Quota has ruined my workflow

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  • Ah, that was not intended!

    I've made it so that when a vote is rejected the post is still marked as having been read.

    In future when you use a LLM to write posts you must tick the 'AI generated' checkbox in the 'More options' part of the form. It's the rules.

  • "Ultimate" guide for literal beginners

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  • Good question.

    A GUI will be easier to get into - you can use a gui file browser app to learn the layout of the file system, you can use a GUI text editor to change config files, that sort of thing. It'll mean you can do a few basic things intuitively which will be less intimidating. So from a maintaining momentum and morale point of view it might be best to have a GUI initially even though you have to learn all the cli stuff eventually anyway and you'll most likely be running a headless server on real hardware eventually.

  • "Ultimate" guide for literal beginners

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  • Self-hosting is a very individual journey - everyone wants different things and finds they own way to meet their own requirements. So there isn't really one guide that covers everything.

    Anyway, as a general road map:

    1. Create a Virtual Machine on your PC. Install Linux inside the VM.

    2. Play around in the VM to learn Linux basics. When you break the OS you can just wipe the VM and reinstall.

    3. In the VM, try some docker containers until you're comfortable-ish with docker.

    4. Maybe try Yunohost in the VM. You might find Yunohost saves you a lot of time and hassle.

    5. Get hardware suitable for your goals.

    6. Install Linux, configure networking and docker containers on real hardware.

  • (content in post body)

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  • I believe I've probably solved this now but it relies on other instances upgrading to the latest code which could take a few days.

  • Allow us to collapse images in comments, or hide them by default

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  • I've just tweaked PieFed to make the images in comments display the same size they do in Lemmy.

  • Space @beehaw.org
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    Beautiful aurora seen from ISS in 4K video

  • Execs Confused and Horrified by the Huge AI Bills After Thinking They Could Replace Workers for Free

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  • If you've ever spent 10 minutes using an AI agent, you'd know that there's no way to predict how many tokens it's going to use before you give it a task. It can be $0.20 worth sometimes or $20 other times. Or anything, really.

    It's only after watching it churn away for a few minutes that you can assume it's gotten stuck and have the option of pulling the plug before the bill gets run up too high. But you need to watch it like a hawk and you need to be the one paying the bill otherwise you're not going to care (e.g. workers using AI at work aren't paying for it, their company is).

    Taken in aggregate across a month, that unpredictability might average out or it might explode.

  • Upvotes turn green but number doesn't change

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  • Thanks for your kind words, despite our differences on this.

    I get that people want to show support and encourage each other. There's a point, though, where it gets indiscriminate and wasteful.

    In my analysis of voting patterns I think it's pretty clear that this intervention only impacts a tiny number of people and that the quota level is set so that 99.98% of people (or 98% if you ignore the less-engaged users (why, tho?)) will almost never use up their quota.

    You're in that 0.02% so it feels different for you.

    There are a ton of other ways to support the fediverse. Find interesting content to post, write nice comments, moderate some communities, improve the docs for Lemmy, translate the UI, report a bug in the issue tracker, report spammers, spread the word on mainstream social media, donate money, and so on. Get creative.

  • A Cunning Stunt - Can Count Binface Win?

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  • I love that a joke candidate has more chance of beating Farage than a real one.

    I would love it even more if real candidates had a chance of beating Farage but let's be realistic about the state of UK politics. I'll take my love where I can get it.

  • Upvotes turn green but number doesn't change

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  • There is probably a way that PieFed can decline votes from client apps that doesn't wreck them! I'll look into that.

    There is no list but if you post in !piefed_meta@piefed.social asking for instances like that then maybe some will volunteer to host you.

  • Allow us to collapse images in comments, or hide them by default

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  • I'm not seeing a lot of images in comments. Can you link me to some examples?

    You can hide comment images by using this custom css:

    .comment_body img { display: none; }

  • Solarpunk @slrpnk.net
    Rimu @piefed.social

    Tracy Chapman - New Beginning

  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    The Lancet got a bunch of scientists to figure out what needs to change in our food production

    www.thelancet.com /journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(25)01201-2/abstract
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Still a long way to go on the Mastodon integration front

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed now has a font for people with dyslexia

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed v1.7 is released: Following People, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.7.0
  • Python @programming.dev
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    LWN.net

    Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future

    lwn.net /SubscriberLink/1078367/eaa511915870fdb2/
  • Australia @aussie.zone
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    Almost three tonnes of cocaine found buried under Sydney property in Australia’s biggest ever seizure

    www.theguardian.com /australia-news/2026/jun/22/almost-three-tonnes-of-cocaine-found-buried-under-sydney-property-in-australias-biggest-ever-seizure-police-say
  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    According to Wikipedia, the winner of the Iran war is...

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/2026_Iran_war
  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Coastal village in Italy

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Temple at sunset

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Yellow grass during golden hour is too easy

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Laos river scene

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Mongolia, 2012

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    One of the places we walk our dog

  • InhabitedBeauty @piefed.social
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    Spray coming off the sea in late afternoon catches the sun

  • Programming @programming.dev
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    Rsync author responds to online outrage about his usage of LLMs

    medium.com /@tridge60/rsync-and-outrage-d9849599e5a0
  • Space @beehaw.org
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    New telescope could find 100,000 planets

    phys.org /news/2026-05-peering-milky-side-roman-unveil.html
  • Android @lemmy.world
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    Google's Android-powered laptops are called Googlebooks, and they're coming this year

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2026/05/googles-android-powered-laptops-are-called-googlebooks-and-theyre-coming-this-year/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Browsing PieFed using Vivaldi's 'follower tab' feature is very nice