No no, in that demo it was already 95% completed :)
I just added real-time chat to PieFed (no page refresh needed to see new message) so that's cute.
I limit my calling out to my areas of expertise.
I think these are the logic test questions (or similar).
Reasonably difficult! I can see why an AI assistant would sometimes help and sometimes really not.
He's 20 and thinks he's educated.
Are SPA architectures are an industry-wide mistake?
Buried at the end of this year's instalment of my semi-annual series on network and device reality is a mystery: multiple, independent data sets from the Web Performance community indicate sites built as Single-Page Applications ("SPAs") receive, on average, only one (1) "soft navigation" for every
Most SPAs seem to only serve one or two 'soft' navigations after the initial 'hard' navigation (the one that loads the entire app upfront), meaning the cost is not being amortized across many requests, negating the whole point of the architecture.
People think the modlog is a way to keep mods accountable to them but it's more like the other way around.
Admins can apply an AI tag to communities (including remote ones on Lemmy instances) and then all the posts in those communities automatically get the AI tag. Same as NSFW.
That sounds like plenty. Cool!
Change the number on the end of the URL to see your 2024 year in review too! Or 1999... Or 10000..
Thanks.
Yeah the wiki feature is very much at the MVP stage, with an emphasis on minimum. It'd be good to flesh it out.
Yes this is completely doable. Please add it to the PieFed codeberg as an issue so we don't forget.
I guess the images would need to be saved into a community account rather than the author's account.
It's a wiki in the sense that authorship is shared but you're right making broken links go to a 'create a page here' form would be much better.
Wow, very interesting to see Sync doing so well in comparison!
But I thought a lot of the advantage of async is it's ability to handle many concurrent requests? What happens if you run the same tests but this time with 100 requests in parallel?
Yes, go ahead.
Keep the hashtags and @ bits towards the end, as you did here, and PieFed will more reliably generate the post title.
You have the option of using an instance that blocks those people. And links to Sputnik & RT.
Check this out:
Which conversation would you rather be a part of?
Wohoo, 8%.
Pretty sure they could get it to 80% by just blocking a bunch of obviously fake news websites and taking down the accounts of those intentionally spreading them.
Yeah. There are various limitations and problems with this feature so I'm just trying it out in a very small way at the moment.
Hopefully by defending the threadiverse against LLM slop content the net amount of ground-up puppies will be lower than if we didn't.
When I coded this originally, a month or so ago, there were a rash of accounts that were only doing LLM-generated posts but after they were banned a few times they haven't come back. With luck we won't need this feature anytime soon and I can disable it.
A visible AI tag. By default all it does is put a "AI" badge on the post. Viewers need to opt in to hiding AI-tagged posts if that's what they want.
It is opt-in (just like NSFW) but people on Lemmy lack the functionality to be able to opt in, so we need to manually fix up their posts sometimes.
Like this:
No, that is set using the 'Set flair' menu item. :)
Burano, Venice
The whole island is like this, not just one street.
Mongolia
Don't bother going to Mars, just go to Mongolia.
Around Guilin, China
Technically this scene is 'inhabited' because of the building at the bottom.
PieFed 1.4 is released - emoji, federated stackoverflow and AI content filters
This is our biggest release yet, including more finished tasks than any of our previous ones. Below is a summary of the highlights:
Posts & communities can be labelled as AI-generated and people can choose to hide all posts tagged that way. Very similar to how NSFW works.
Comments can be marked as an Answer, like on StackOverflow.
React to posts and comments with an emoji.
Hide an individual post from yourself, without blocking the author.
PieFed is now in the Yunohost app store, making initial setup easier.
When banned from a remote instance you cannot make local-only posts in their communities.
Honeypot to automatically IP ban badly-behaved crawlers.
Aspartame's long-term health risks revealed in new study
In the first long-term and real-world reflective study of its kind, scientists have uncovered new detrimental health impacts of the artificial sweetener aspartame that echoes those found in shorter research.
When the researchers conducted spatial learning and memory tests using the Barnes maze, the aspartame mice at four months consistently moved more slowly and covered less distance during training than animals in the control group. They also took nearly twice as long on average to locate the target escape hole, showing impaired memory recall (however, this was inconsistent and not seen as statistically meaningful). By eight months, performance gaps widened even further, with two out of six aspartame-treated mice failing to complete the task at all.
It makes you dumb, unfit and fat (around the organs).
Easily set up your PieFed instance using YunoHost!
After 5 months of chipping away at it, PieFed is now an installable 'app' in the Yunohost store! It's been there for a couple of weeks actually but until this weekend it had a scary red exclamation mark because some automated tests hadn't ran yet. But that's gone now so I feel confident about recommending it to others.
Yunohost is a linux distro for servers that has a web gui for installing and managing services, that takes all the hassle out of self-hosting. How to get started with Yunohost.
@squirrel@piefed.kobel.fyi and @michael@piefed.chrisco.me have had good success setting up their instances already: https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1561141/thanks-to-rimu-ericgaspar-and-tituspijean-yunohost-has-a-working-piefed-setup
Single gene that can directly cause mental illnesses identified
In a breakthrough study, scientists have discovered that a variant in one gene, GRIN2A, can directly cause mental illness – something previously believed to be the result of several mutations working together. What's more, these conditions often present in childhood instead of more commonly during…
New: Automaticlly turn remote fediverse links into local links
A PeerTube provider for general use, hosted in northern Europe.
One of the long-standing issues we have in/on the fediverse is that when I have a link in my post that goes to another post on my instance, people on other instances will click that link and be taken to MY instance, where they can't comment, don't have an account, aren't logged in, etc and they will try to log in using their login credentials for their home instance then wonder why it doesn't work.
When someone links to https://lemmy.world/post/39832275 and I'm on piefed.social I want to see https://piefed.social/c/news/p/1544770/national-parks-ordered-to-check-gift-shops-for-dei-type-items not the copy on lemmy.world!
As of PieFed v1.4, links like that will automatically be converted to link to the local copy of the post, where 'local' is whatever is local for the reader. See the linked video where I demonstrate this in action.
RSS feed - score filter
I’ve just added a score parameter to the community RSS feeds so you can get a RSS feed of posts at or above that score. e.g. https://piefed.social/community/fediverse/feed?score=20
If there is interest then we can add more filters, for flair/tag, etc. But from the server logs it doesn't seem like many people use RSS.
Labelling or hiding AI-generated content
In PieFed v1.4 it will be possible to label posts as having AI generated content. Labelled posts will get a little badge near their title, similar to how nsfw and nsfl content is labelled. Mods and authors can change this value on a post in the same way they do flair and nsfw, using the little tags button in the bottom right or in 'More options' when editing their post.
Account settings for blocking:
Similar to how NSFW works, each user can control how those posts are listed on the home page, etc. The default is 'Label as AI', which just adds the badge. People averse to AI-generated content might want to change this to 'Hide completely'.
Also similar to NSFW, entire communities can be assigned as 'AI content' and that will auto-tag every post inside as being AI generated. If the community mods have this value unset (e.g. Lemmy communities, which don't have this functionality) then th
What if Stack Overflow, except federated?
PieFed v1.4 will have Stack Overflow-like functionality: the person who posted a question will be able to choose which of the replies are the answer, by clicking the green tick icon in the bottom left. Chosen answer(s) then have a highlight and a green tick at the top of them.
This is off by default - communities have a checkbox on them that needs to be toggled to turn it on. So only some communities will have it.
To Lemmy instances, these questions and answers will look just like normal posts and comments, without the highlight and tick. So people using Lemmy will be able to contribute.
Designating which comment is an answer involves federating a new Activity:
{
"id": "https://piefed.social/activities/answer/hgb4iO4b8UAFRTn",
"type": "ChooseAnswer",
"actor": "https://piefed.socialz/u/rimu",
"object": "https://piefed.ngrok.app/comment/224",
"@context": ["https://www.w3.org/ns/activitystreams", "https://
20 baggage handlers arrested at Auckland Airport for drugs
There have been 43 arrests, including 20 baggage handlers, as part of a crackdown.
police had seized two consignments of drugs, totalling 630kg of methamphetamine worth $220 million, and 112kg of cocaine worth $50.4m
One gang in particular may have a set of baggage handlers which they will almost hire or rent out to another gang, to take a cut of the profits.
Managed PieFed hosting with fedihost.co
FediHost is a managed fediverse hosting service. With a couple of clicks you can be up and running with your own Mastodon or Peertube instance.
If you’d like a PieFed instance of your own but don’t want to deal with setting up a server, installing PieFed, and maintaining it yourself, get in touch with the team at fedihost.co! They’re currently offering reduced-price PieFed hosting to a limited number of instances as part of a beta program.
They’re looking for a mix of new and established PieFed instances so they can better understand real-world resource usage and what people need. Final pricing is to be determined based on how things go but if you look at what they charge for Mastodon, etc you can see it's very reasonable - https://fedihost.co/pricing
See https://fedihost.co/beta-program for the fine print.
Send them an email at contact@fedihost.co to get things started!
The Qtile Window Manager: A Python-Powered Tiling Window Manager
My journey from XFCE to Qtile, a tiling window manager written entirely in Python, including setup, configuration strategies, and real-world config examples.