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@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • Class war solves most issues

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  • Yep. I'm sure we've all learned a lot since then.

    We know that socialism has in the past made the same trade-off between the environment the economic growth. That the environmental damage wasn't even worse might have more to do with how bad they were at growing their economy than anything else. I don't know, I wasn't there.

    It's going to take more than eating the rich. Workers will need to be continually on their guard against the centralization of power and the emergence of a disconnected elite that happened every other time socialism was tried (and every time capitalism was tried, to be fair).

  • Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for scraping, while Meta does it without consequence

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  • Take it easy. artyom might just be mistaken you don't need to turn it into a class war.

  • Class war solves most issues

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  • Yes.

    I was referring to the past. Chernobyl, Baku, Aral Sea, Norilsk, Liaoning, etc all of which were very messy places while being run in a command economy.

  • Class war solves most issues

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  • It's a compelling argument but I'd find it even more compelling if historical countries like USSR and China where the working class "won" had better environmental records than they do.

  • An amazing directory: /proc

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  • Thank you!

  • Tools for PieFed instance admins, in 5 minutes

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  • lolsob

  • RSS subscription bot?

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  • Oh yes, re: ephemeral - the retention policy for a community has to be set by an instance admin so wherever you have your rss communities will involve getting an admin to set that for you, once you've created them all.

  • RSS subscription bot?

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  • Yes the latest release of PieFed includes this functionality.

    https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2285233/piefed-v1-7-11-is-released-finding-and-adding-people-to-follow-posts-from-rss-feeds-and

    For example, !aljazeera_rss@crust.piefed.social

    It is off by default (most instances will not want to be a source of so many bot posts) but if you make an account on crust.piefed.social you can make some communities and add feeds into those communities. BTW right after you add the feeds the community will be empty - only new RSS content from that point on will be added as posts.

    You could check with the piefed.zip admins to see if they plan to turn this on or not.

    I'm still working out the kinks - !bbc_rss@crust.piefed.social doesn't work yet for some reason. Hopefully will be fixed this weekend.

  • Does follower approval work?

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  • I believe it is working but will switch myself to manual approving to see for sure.

  • Don't paste the AI.

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  • The next billion dollar company will be a wrapper around Claude that strips out the em dashes.

  • Don't paste the AI.

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  • I got an email from a client last week asking me to install an AI-generated list of containers onto a server. The key container, the database at the center of the whole system, has commits from Claude in it's git repository. Great start guys.

    They outsouced the software architect job to a chatbot and then had a veteran of the industry who has been around since the internet equivalent of the big bang install a handful of docker containers. Reverse centaur to the max.

    It's going to hurt in 12 months time if they realise the reason why everything sucks is because they built on sand. But they probably won't even realise why the project failed because their chatbot won't be able to tell them why.

  • Tools for PieFed instance admins, in 5 minutes

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  • It's fine until your instance gets dragged into a defederation you never intended to and a months-long blood feud begins.

    Other than that, pretty clever if I do say so myself.

  • Tools for PieFed instance admins, in 5 minutes

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  • Ok, 6 minutes. But it's 5 if you skip the bit where I say hello and get to the main content.

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Tools for PieFed instance admins, in 5 minutes

  • 'Most prolific' member of online extremist network 764 sentenced to 77 years in prison

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  • In this case knowing he looks exactly like how you'd expect seems relevant.

  • French civil servant drugged us to make us urinate on ourselves, say accusers

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  • The Asian Trump is in a prison cell in The Hague. Hopefully they manage to convict him before USA Trump finishes his rugpull of the ICC.

  • fail2ban behind reverse proxy (nom)

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  • I did not, it seemed complicated and rabbit-hole-y.

    In the end I just added an Anubis-like feature into PieFed. It works great.

  • Music @lemmy.world
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    ZZ Top - La Grange (Easy Rider)

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    ‘Crazy, crazy moment’: Clarke Gayford unboxes his two Emmys

    www.stuff.co.nz /culture/361022043/crazy-crazy-moment-clarke-gayford-unboxes-his-two-emmys

  • I don't enjoy the Internet any more

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  • It really makes a big difference.

    I've greatly reduced my Mastodon usage because of the daily "oh shit this link goes to AI slop again, sigh, close tab" experience. It's such a drag.

  • Holy rule of pride shirts

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  • In PieFed the 'AI generated' checkbox is in 'More options' when editing/creating a post.

  • fail2ban behind reverse proxy (nom)

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  • I used fail2ban as an anti-scraper strategy for a few months. It helped with the really basic scrapers that only use one or a few IP addresses.

    But then they adapted and started using hundreds or thousands of different IP addresses, each one only making a couple of requests. fail2ban became counter-productive as it slowed my server down - the log files it was monitoring became massive under high load and it needs to scan the log files often to check if an IP has been seen before.

    I'm not saying don't try it, I'm saying it's only effective in some situations.

  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    First test flight of largest all-electric aircraft used just $5 of electricity

    arstechnica.com /gadgets/2026/08/first-test-flight-of-largest-all-electric-aircraft-used-just-5-of-electricity/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed v1.7.11 is released - Finding and adding people to follow, posts from RSS feeds and more

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.7.11
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Open source runs on good faith

    join.piefed.social /2026/08/14/open-source-runs-on-good-faith/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Did PieFed 'steal code' from Pylova? Let's look at what happened

    join.piefed.social /2026/08/14/did-piefed-steal-code-from-pylova-lets-look-at-what-happened/
  • Programming @programming.dev
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    AI Software Development – What Does The Data Say?

    codemanship.wordpress.com /2026/08/12/ai-software-development-what-does-the-data-say/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    What PieFed blocks out of the box - and how to unblock it

    join.piefed.social /2026/08/13/what-piefed-blocks-out-of-the-box-and-how-to-unblock-it/
  • Electric Vehicles @slrpnk.net
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    97% of car buyers in Denmark choose electric cars

    thedriven.io /2026/08/11/denmark-joins-norway-at-ev-pinnacle-as-97-per-cent-of-private-buyers-opt-for-electric-cars-in-latest-month/
  • Feminism @beehaw.org
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    ‘We are still here’: a day in the life of 12 Afghan women

    www.theguardian.com /global-development/ng-interactive/2026/aug/11/day-in-the-life-of-12-afghanistan-women-taliban
  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    'It's amazing': Aucklanders get first look at new City Rail Link station

    www.rnz.co.nz /news/regions/933067/it-s-amazing-aucklanders-get-first-look-at-new-city-rail-link-station
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    What PieFed's "social credit system" actually does

    join.piefed.social /2026/08/06/what-piefeds-social-credit-system-actually-does/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Hide & mark a post as read without voting on it

  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world
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    The futility of existence

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Anti-fascist PieFed features

    join.piefed.social /2026/08/04/anti-fascist-piefed-features/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Trans-friendly PieFed features

    join.piefed.social /2026/07/28/trans-friendly-piefed-features/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed 1.7.9 includes Anubis-like scraper blocking

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed is 3 years old today

  • Astronomy @mander.xyz
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    See stunning images in this year’s Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition

    edition.cnn.com /2026/07/24/science/astronomy-photographer-of-the-year-2026