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@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

  • Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next

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  • The thing about doing age verification at the OS level is the user could just install a crack that rewrites the necessary code. It'll take some heavy DRM type stuff to block that. Possibly hardware support, like a specialised TPM.

    No way can that be standardised and then rolled out quickly. If they rush it then it'll be some proprietary power grab.

    The alternative is each website and app does it separately which will be spotty and provide endless security breaches.

    It'll be a shitshow either way.

  • We’re Training Students To Write Worse To Prove They’re Not Robots, And It’s Pushing Them To Use More AI

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  • 18% is nowhere near high enough to be throwing around accusations like that. Seems like the teachers don't know how to interpret the results.

  • I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using

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  • I recommend you set the Content-Security-Policy http header so that inline javascript (commonly used for XSS attacks) cannot be executed.

    https://web.dev/articles/strict-csp

    CSP being off is not exactly a security hole but it makes security holes much more likely. By using a strict CSP configuration you close off the possibility of a whole class of holes.

    Also think about setting the Access-Control-Allow-Origin header and enable CORS on your REST endpoints.

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/Headers/Access-Control-Allow-Origin

    Again, kind of a pain in the ass but gets rid of a bunch of potential problems before they start.

  • I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using

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  • F-Droid has Drip, Bluemoon and Periodical.

  • Some communities seem to have stopped federating with Mastodon

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  • I have a mastodon.social account purely for following piefed.social accounts, to make them show up on Mastodon. There's still lots of posts coming through but as you say, some missing.

    Yesterday I fixed a federation bug which had existed for many months. I suspect that this fix has confused Mastodon a little but it will come right over time as cached data at their end expires and is refreshed. Long story. But I think it'll work itself out in the next 24 hours.

  • I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using

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  • Yeah there are other signs too. Look at those commit messages, all vague, all perfectly capitalized. All with a nice long description with bullet points.

    No one does that in a project they're building for themselves.

  • I built a self-hosted period tracker because I couldn't find one worth using

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  • I was going to recommend this to someone I know but when I realised your readme.md is entirely AI-generated, I guess the whole project is probably vibe-coded. I can't in good conscience recommend someone trust their health data to a vide-coded app because they tend to have security problems.

    Also all ai-generated code is public domain so your AGPL license is kinda empty. Might as well use MIT.

  • How does PieFed improve voting compared to Reddit/Lemmy?

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  • The Explore menu is PieFed's attempt to improve discoverability. https://piefed.zip/explore is pretty light on the topics and feeds but if you look at https://piefed.social/explore you'll see what it could be.

    Limiting downvotes to subscribers is in the screenshot I shared earlier, as "community members".

  • RE: https://hostux.social/@sab/115780945622680440

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  • Right :(

  • RE: https://hostux.social/@sab/115780945622680440

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  • Searching from search results page does not work

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  • Ah I've been receiving automatic error reports about the search for a while but couldn't figure out how people were triggering it!

  • How does PieFed improve voting compared to Reddit/Lemmy?

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    • Emoji reactions are a big one - rather than voting you can apply an emoji, which is a much richer expression.
    • Every community can have different settings for who can downvote. Here are the options:

    • If you downvote more than you upvote, pretty soon you can't downvote anymore.

  • A Kurdish uprising in Iran is an uphill battle rife with strategic obstacles

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  • Google's AI Sent an Armed Man to Steal a Robot Body for It to Inhabit, Then Encouraged Him to Kill Himself, Lawsuit Alleges. Google said in response that "unfortunately AI models are not perfect."

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  • The sycopathy is because to make the chat bot (trained on Reddit posts, etc) to respond helpfully (instead of "well ackshually...") and in a prosocial manner they've skewed it. What we're interacting with is a very small subset of the personalities it can exhibit because a lot of them are extremely nasty or just unhelpful. To reduce the chance of them popping up to an acceptable level they've had to skew the weights so much that they become like this.

    There's no easy way around that, afaik.

  • Removed

    Just joined Lemmy - sharing AI-assisted personal projects, would love your thoughts!

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  • You're absolutely right

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    Just joined Lemmy - sharing AI-assisted personal projects, would love your thoughts!

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  • Why would you write a GUI app to run a Mastodon bot? Shouldn't that be a docker container or a server?

    Also PowerShell is normally a cli tool, why would you build a gui with it when other better options exist?

    Can we see your github?

  • Is it possible to move bookmark button next to up/down vote buttons?

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  • It is possible. Let's see how many upvotes this post gets!

  • What is the current state of 'should defederate' lists?

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  • PieFed has this in the admin area:

    So admins don't need to stay on top of the latest defederation drama, just choose who to outsource that work to. From that baseline you can add more defederations manually.

  • [META] Petition for banning certain Slop Articles

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  • Sorry, there's a bug in PieFed's activity tracking which threw me off.

  • Aotearoa / New Zealand @lemmy.nz
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    New Zealanders' biometric information and other sensitive data may be handed over to the United States government under a new border security agreement between the countries

    www.rnz.co.nz /news/national/587964/government-deciding-whether-us-should-get-access-to-new-zealanders-biometric-data
  • Crazy Fucking Videos @lemmy.world
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    A man launched from a moving truck in the opposite direction - at the same speed the truck was traveling.

    mstdn.social /@nexta/116082250273036211
  • Free and Open Source Software @beehaw.org
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    Healthy expectations in open source

    www.donmccurdy.com /2023/07/03/expectations-in-open-source/
  • FoodPorn @lemmy.world
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    Something Swedish

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Alternative UI for PieFed - Photon

    p.piefed.social
  • Autonomous Vehicles @futurology.today
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    Waymo Exec Admits Remote Operators in Philippines Help Guide US Robotaxis | EV

    eletric-vehicles.com /waymo/waymo-exec-admits-remote-operators-in-philippines-help-guide-us-robotaxis/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Don't like the PieFed UI design? Try this!

    b.piefed.social
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed 1.6 is released - pronouns, private communities, quote posts and much more

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.6.0
  • MeanwhileOnGrad @sh.itjust.works
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    Tankies celebrating financial problems at the UN

    lemmy.ca /post/59576557
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Hello, flood of new people!

  • Climate Crisis, Biosphere & Societal Collapse @sopuli.xyz
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    UK govt report: Global biodiversity loss, ecosystem collapse and national security

    assets.publishing.service.gov.uk /media/696e0eae719d837d69afc7de/National_security_assessment_-_global_biodiversity_loss__ecosystem_collapse_and_national_security.pdf
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed 1.5.2 is released, with a daily time limit

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/1.5.2
  • Climate @slrpnk.net
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    Coal power drops in China and India for first time in 52 years after wind and solar records

    reneweconomy.com.au /coal-power-drops-in-china-and-india-for-first-time-in-52-years-after-wind-and-solar-records/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    We're here to answer any questions you have about PieFed's code

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    PieFed 1.5 is released - move posts, upload video files, better chat and more

    codeberg.org /rimu/pyfedi/releases/tag/v1.5.0
  • Python @programming.dev
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    Static Protocols in Python: Behaviour Over Inheritance

    patrickm.de /static-protocols-in-python/
  • Housing Crisis @lemmy.world
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    It is always cheaper to house people with support than to leave them in emergency shelters or on the streets

    thebetter.news /interview-juha-kahila-housing-first-finnland/
  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    More search options - NSFW and minimum post score

  • PieFed Meta @piefed.social
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    Deleted posts and their comments can still be read

  • Fediverse @piefed.social
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    It's about communities instead of attention marketplaces

    mastodon.social /@fromjason/115811925239381921