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@ rimu @piefed.social

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Web developer. Lead developer of PieFed

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

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  • I'm not pretending there isn't a class war. That would be silly of me.

    When people start acting like the class war is happening right here between their fellow fedi citizens, that's when it becomes a bit unhinged.

  • PieFed 1.7.12 detects AI generated images

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  • Yes I'd love it if people only voted on posts they have taken the time to fully read but that ship has sailed so we might as well do the same for reactions.

  • RSS subscription bot?

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  • China’s military drills do not alter Philippines’ legal claim to Scarborough Reef

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  • It's a good place for China to put a bunch of radars and anti ship missiles. Maybe an airstrip too.

  • "This community needs more moderators" Might need a little more info

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  • Yes, that message needs tweaking.

    Another thing that can cause that message to be displayed is if mods have not been active for 3+ months. In that case it'd be best to talk to the admin team on the source instance.

    I'm wary of making it easier for spammers to find abandoned communities, however.

  • The August 17 outage, and the work ahead

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  • Since April, monthly commits have grown from 1.4 billion to 2.9 billion.

    Slopcoders are flooding it.

  • German state bans pro-Palestine group over ’antisemitism’

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  • I'm not seeing that in their post history. They share a wide variety of posts about all kinds of things.

  • Orange 🧡

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  • 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.

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

  • 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
  • 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