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Rimu

@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • New Zealand internal report warns of Chinese military forays in Pacific

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  • Be that as it may, China or anyone driving a couple of their boats around in international waters is pretty harmless and no big deal.

  • Thrust into an AI role

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  • It depends on your company.

    If you are running public-facing code, security is going to become a huge deal in coming months. So use AI to find all the security holes in your stuff before the hackers do.

    If you have lots of databases and APIs for internal use, create a MCP server so agents can do anything with your data and APIs.

    If your data is even a little sensitive and you don't want to send it all to the USA (read up on the CLOUD act), look into running models locally and the hardware investments you'll need to make.

  • When do you think the oil shortages will begin?

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  • It'll be uneven.

    I know people in Philippines who no longer cook at home because they haven't been able to afford LPG for the last 2 months. So their "shortage" (under capitalism there are no shortages, just prices you can't afford) started a long time ago.

    I doubt USA, as an oil producing nation, will see proper shortages ever. They'll just stop exporting their surplus. America First.

    Other rich countries that don't produce / refine oil will be getting properly desperate around end of July / August, yeah.

    Time to shamelessly plug !fuel_crisis@piefed.social

  • W Social: a Broken Ghost Town?

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  • If Bluesky's throttling you can stop your entire app from running, it's not decentralized.

  • Authoritarianism acts as a psychological bridge for dark personalities, study finds

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  • [They] use disciplined rule-following and punitive authoritarian beliefs as a socially acceptable way to express their hostility.

  • Piefed account - user blocks not hiding comments

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  • FYI this will be fixed in the next release of PieFed, due this week.

  • German lawyers: Ban on far-right AfD 'likely successful'

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  • 'Successful' in the very narrow sense that it would be legal to do so. But not successful in actually changing anyone's politics or the material conditions that give rise to the AfD.

  • TIL about Calcio storico fiorentino which is a form of football where players brutally fight each other

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  • Irl fight club

  • Python @programming.dev
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    LWN.net

    Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future

    lwn.net /SubscriberLink/1078367/eaa511915870fdb2/

  • It seems possible to go over the file storage quota

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  • Thanks, I'll look into it.

    50 MB is extremely conservative, feel free to use more.

  • Feature: Topic Fly Out

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  • Thank you :D

  • Feature: Topic Fly Out

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  • I like the idea, a lot.

    But the way it works now is really easy to make it work on both a mobile and a desktop - just squish sideways and move the sidebar to the bottom. Anything more interesting would require quite a bit of skill and more maintenance work to upkeep.

    I expect that the projects that are completely focused on the frontend (the ones trying to do all screen sizes like Blorp or Photon, not the mobile apps) will have more capacity and interest to take something like this on. The PieFed project has a ton of things besides UI to deal with so leaning too heavily into that area would come at the expense of others, which we can't afford to do.

  • Do you host your own AI?

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  • The other day I made a machine learning model that classifies images as either 'a certain type of undesirable image' (no, not porn) or 'any other image'. It is 96.4% accurate and takes 14 ms to classify one image (using CPU only - with a GPU it could be 5x - 10x faster).

    I plan to offer this as an API service that social media networks can use to filter posts.

  • Feature: Topic Fly Out

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  • Featured

    Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?

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  • I'm rollicking through Return to Castle Wolfenstein. Die Nazis, die.

    $5 on steam, works on Linux.

  • A Moment in History: FreeBSD vs. Linux vs. Windows 2000

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  • Office 2000 was totally fine too. Apart from clippy.

  • Hong Kong housing complex.

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  • despite all my rage...

  • Suggestions for running a mailing list (listmonk)

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  • I'd hook up https://easydmarc.com/ for a couple of months to monitor deliverability, just while you're bedding it in.

  • Almost three tonnes of cocaine found buried under Sydney property in Australia’s biggest ever seizure

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  • The vision in my head was a huge truckload of it in one big pile that you can dive into like scrooge mcduck.

  • 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

  • [META] Are paid for, closed source projects, being advertised on this community, appropriate?

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  • 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

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    Christchurch is back on

    www.stuff.co.nz /culture/360979971/once-lifetime-was-more-concert-it-was-christchurchs-rebirth-party
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    MUST READ

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    What worked at 100 users broke at 5,000

    join.piefed.social /2026/05/12/what-worked-at-100-users-broke-at-5000/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed v1.6.23 is released

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    The 10 biggest climate risks that NZ faces

    www.rnz.co.nz /news/environment/594507/climate-change-commission-report-urges-decisive-action-as-major-risks-loom
  • Palestine @lemmy.world
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    The West’s bubble of illusion about Israel - and about itself – is finally being burst

    www.middleeasteye.net /opinion/west-bubble-illusion-israel-about-itself-finally-being-burst