Trance Music rimu • 2 days ago • 100%

Takes 2.5 minutes to build up but well worth the wait!

Trance Music rimu • 3 weeks ago • 100%

Starts pretty heavy on the vocals but gets proper trancy about 1 minute in. The original mix of this came out around 2000.

Accidental Renaissance rimu • 3 weeks ago • 87%

[https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-arrest-taser-media-68fe78b79ae65556c4efc850e142998c](https://apnews.com/article/trump-rally-arrest-taser-media-68fe78b79ae65556c4efc850e142998c)

Fediverse rimu • 4 weeks ago • 95%

Much more at [https://fediverse-governance.github.io/](https://fediverse-governance.github.io/)

Fediverse rimu • 1 month ago • 98%

We had [a really interesting discussion](https://lemmy.world/post/18805474) yesterday about voting on Lemmy/PieFed/Mbin and whether they should be private or not, [whether they are already public](https://lemmy.world/post/18813833) and to what degree, if another way was possible. There was a widely held belief that [votes should be private](https://lemmy.world/comment/11850820) yet it was repeatedly pointed out that [a quick visit to an Mbin instance](https://lemmy.world/comment/11854355) was enough to see all the upvotes and that [Lemmy admins already have a quick and easy UI](https://lemmy.world/comment/11851016) for upvotes and downvotes (with [predictable results](https://lemm.ee/comment/13768482) ). Some thought that using ActivityPub automatically means any privacy is impossible (spoiler: it doesn't). As a response, I’m trying this out: PieFed accounts now have two profiles within them - one used for posting content and another (with no name, profile photo or bio, etc) for voting. PieFed federates content using the main profile most of the time but when sending votes to Mbin and Lemmy it uses the anonymous profile. The anonymous profile cannot be associated with its controlling account by anyone other than your PieFed instance admin(s). There is one and only one anonymous profile per account so it will still be possible to analyze voting patterns for abuse or manipulation. ActivityPub geeks: the anonymous profile is a separate Actor with a different url. The Activity for the vote has its “actor” field set to the anonymous Actor url instead of the main Actor. PieFed provides all the usual url endpoints, WebFinger, etc for both actors but only provides user-provided PII for the main one. That’s all it is. Pretty simple, really. To enable the anonymous profile, go to [https://piefed.social/user/settings](https://piefed.social/user/settings) and tick the ‘Vote privately’ checkbox. If you [make a new account](https://piefed.social/auth/register) now it will have this ticked already. This will be a bit controversial, for some. I’ll be listening to your feedback and here to answer any questions. Remember this is just an experiment which could be removed if it turns out to make things worse rather than better. I've done my best to think through the implications and side-effects but there could be things I missed. Let's see how it goes.

Fediverse rimu • 1 month ago • 98%

github.com

Probably better to post in the github issue rather than replying here. [https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967](https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/4967)

PieFed Meta rimu • 1 month ago • 100%

A new contributor, "JollyDevelopment" made some improvements: * Fixed a very annoying bug where enabling the markdown editor emptied the text input field * Changed the home page so there are now separate sorting and filtering options, making the 'Popular' and 'All' home pages obsolete. They have been removed from the main menu. * Added a 'dev tools' page so developers can easily create large amounts of dummy content to test with * Added a [suggest a topic](https://piefed.social/topics/new) form "wakest" created a very efficient SVG icon for PieFed that is 5x smaller than the old .png icon. Also I did a few things: * Made wide tables scroll rather than overlap the sidebar * Communities can be blocked. Good if you regularly browse posts by 'All' which is bit of a firehose. * Some mastodon integration bugs * Wrote a guide about [how to install the PieFed mobile app](https://join.piefed.social/docs/piefed-mobile/) As you can see we don't have a lot of *really* big news to share, lately. It nearly feels like a good time to call an end to the beta test phase of PieFed's development and formally release a version. With that in mind, over the next little while, we will focus on stability and bug fixes so the first release is something people can stick with without immediately getting back on the dev branch treadmill.

PieFed Meta rimu • 1 month ago • 100%

Just a quick note to recognize that the first lines of PieFed code were published on the 28th July 2023, just over a year ago. Since then there have been 1400+ changes made by 9 people, involving adding 88,000 lines of code and removing 28,000 lines. The issue queue has 98 open and 99 closed issues. While [join.piefed.social](https://join.piefed.social) went live in October 2023, it wasn't until time off work over the christmas holidays enabled a big push to get it ready that [piefed.social](https://piefed.social) went live on 4th January 2024. Since then piefed.social has federated 190k posts, 2.3M comments and 19M votes with 1900 other instances of various types. Besides piefed.social there are 5 other PieFed instances that I know of. What a year it's been! I've grown significantly as a developer, had a lot of fun and hopefully contributed something meaningful to whatever the fediverse is becoming. Long may it continue!

Patient Gamers rimu • 1 month ago • 77%

store.steampowered.com

Finally time to pull the trigger on this one! EA has a big sale on lots of other titles, too.

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. rimu • 2 months ago • 100%

NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio has released a video showing how wind and air currents pushed CO2 emissions around Earth’s atmosphere from January to March 2020. The video’s high-resolution zooms in and sees individual sources of CO2, including power plants and forest fires. This global map of carbon dioxide was created using a model called GEOS, short for the Goddard Earth Observing System. GEOS is a high-resolution weather reanalysis model, powered by supercomputers, that is used to represent what was happening in the atmosphere — including storm systems, cloud formations, and other natural events. This model pulls in billions of data points from ground observations and satellite instruments – and has a resolution is more than 100 times greater than your typical weather model. More at [https://www.universetoday.com/167872/our-carbon-dioxide-emissions-have-a-mesmerizing-side/](https://www.universetoday.com/167872/our-carbon-dioxide-emissions-have-a-mesmerizing-side/)

Opensource rimu • 2 months ago • 91%

In this paper the author highlights how both engineers and social scientists misinterpret the relationship between technology and society. In particular he attacks the narrative, widespread among engineers, that technological artifacts, such as software, have no political properties in themselves and that function or efficiency are the only drivers of technological design and implementation.

dailygames rimu • 2 months ago • 100%

Move the dots until none of the lines overlap.

Web Development rimu • 2 months ago • 100%

ishadeed.com

> > > CSS Grid support has been widely available since March 2017 in all major browsers. Yet, here we are in 2024, and I still see few people using the grid template areas feature. > > > > > It’s no surprise that many avoid template areas as making sense of the grid is challenging enough. In this interactive article, I aim to shed light on this feature and, hopefully, convince you to use it more often. Once you see the simplicity and power of template areas, you may reach for them much more frequently. > >

Python rimu • 2 months ago • 94%

Porting from Django+React to a Django+HTMX based stack

PieFed Meta rimu • 2 months ago • 100%

Over the last 3 weeks there have been significant contributions from h3ndrik and myself. ### H3ndrik ### * Many many under the hood improvements. Simplifying code & improving performance. * Better lightbox * Improve post teaser layout ### Rimu ### * Mod log which shows all moderator actions * The “Rational discourse toolkit” block in the bottom right is now optional - instance admins can turn it off in the settings. * Staff role - some admin tasks can be delegated to a supporting role which can do limited things. Which operations the supporting role can do can be controlled with checkboxes. This is nearly complete and just needs a bit more elbow grease.  * [A.gup.pe](https://a.gup.pe/) integration - These are a kind of basic community / group function built on Mastodon. About 20% of new posts on piefed.social are coming from Mastodon, mostly via a.gup.pe. These groups include * [https://piefed.social/c/photography@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/photography@a.gup.pe) * [https://piefed.social/c/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/actuallyautistic@a.gup.pe) * [https://piefed.social/c/auscovid19@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/auscovid19@a.gup.pe) * [https://piefed.social/c/fedibikes\_de@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/fedibikes_de@a.gup.pe) (German) * [https://piefed.social/c/classicalmusic@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/classicalmusic@a.gup.pe) * [https://piefed.social/c/histodons@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/histodons@a.gup.pe) * [https://piefed.social/c/actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/actuallyadhd@a.gup.pe) * [https://piefed.social/c/bookstodon@a.gup.pe](https://piefed.social/c/bookstodon@a.gup.pe) * Community wikis - moderators can create pages that serve as a resource for the community. Each page has revisions that can be reverted to. See a demo at [https://join.piefed.social/vlog/piefed\_wikis.mp4](https://join.piefed.social/vlog/piefed_wikis.mp4).

politics rimu • 2 months ago • 100%

www.heise.de

The largest crypto super PAC is called Fairshake and is practically the same size as Make America Great Again (MAGA), the main super PAC supporting Donald Trump, who is making his fourth run at the White House: MAGA has raised $178.6 million through the end of May, Fairshake $177.9 million.

China 中国 rimu • 2 months ago • 86%

www.nytimes.com

More than 400 pages of internal Chinese documents provide an unprecedented inside look at the crackdown on ethnic minorities in the Xinjiang region.

dailygames rimu • 3 months ago • 95%

A page with a million checkboxes. Checking a box checks it for everyone. That's it. Have fun!

PieFed Meta rimu • 3 months ago • 100%

A new contributor, h3ndrik, has made significant improvements to the filtering options for NSFW/NSFL content and I've also added some options to the same form which control when comments are collapsed or hidden. Previously, NSFW was a yes or no option but now you can choose to have it unblurred, blurred, semi-transparent or entirely hidden. The defaults values for collapse and hide are: * when a comment has a score of -10 it is shown but in a collapsed state. You can click on it to expand it and read it. This has always been the case but now you can change that threshold. * a score of -20 means the comment will not be shown. There is no way to make it visible and no indication that it was ever posted and no temptation to click on it. You might want to review those settings to make sure they're suitable for you: [https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters](https://piefed.social/user/settings/filters). If you don't want comments hidden then remove the -20 from that field or set it to -1000.

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. rimu • 3 months ago • 83%

youtu.be

Creatures of Place is an insight into the wonderful world of Artist as Family: Meg Ulman, Patrick Jones, and their youngest son, Woody. Living on a 1/4-acre section in a small Australian town, Meg and Patrick have designed their property using permaculture principals. They grow most of their own food, don't own cars and ride their bikes instead, use very little electricity, and forage food and materials from their local forest.

NZ Politics rimu • 3 months ago • 100%

www.rnz.co.nz

Former Green MP Golriz Ghahraman has given her first in-depth interview after her arrest for shoplifting and subsequent resignation from Parliament, telling 1News it was an act of "self-sabotage."

PieFed Meta rimu • 3 months ago • 100%

For the last few weeks our focus has been on fixing bugs and improving stability. There have been 3 people who have launched new PieFed instances, bringing the total to 4, which brought up a slew of new issues and feature requests. Close collaboration with those new instance admins yielded many positive improvements and a slew of PRs to merge. Despite this “under the hood” focus there were a few quite visible features added & changes made: ### Bookmark (save) posts and comments ### Click the three dots on any post or comment and you’ll see a Bookmark menu item. Access your bookmarks using the menu item on the Account menu. Saved posts are sorted based on when they were saved, not when the post was made. ### Announcement banner on home page ### I’ll link to this post from the home page so you can see it in action. ### Japanese language ### Translation is complete enough to be usable, thanks to karasugawasu ### Hashtags have a RSS feed ### Topics and Communities have had a feed for a while but now hashtags do too. Thanks to Dave Lane for the idea. ### Automatic archive.ph link on some link posts ### Some websites are especially important and really need an archive link. When the poster does not provide one, PieFed will add it. ### Ctrl + Enter to submit a post or comment ### While typing a new comment you can hit this key combination to submit the comment. Thanks for reminder about [this forgotten issue](https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/86), Jeena. ### “Features for growing healthy communities” ### I wrote a blog post describing [some of the admin features that are available](https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/) for rooting out bad apples. Some people felt I had gone too far, perhaps rightly so. ### General thoughts ### It is encouraging to see more instances sprouting up and to have code contributions from even more people. [Activity in the repository](https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/activity/monthly) has never been higher and [the Matrix channel](https://matrix.to/#/#piefed-general:matrix.org) is becoming quite chatty! I am traveling overseas while working my day job so it is difficult to put as much effort into PieFed as I have in the past. When I return home in August there will probably be a large chunk of paid work to do alongside my regular job so I expect to be quite busy then too. Fortunately there is a trend towards me doing less coding myself and more merging in other people’s code so PieFed development will continue on regardless. PieFed is entirely free and open source and has not received any grants or funding. If you find it useful and would like to support the project, please consider [donating using Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/PieFed).

United Kingdom rimu • 3 months ago • 97%

www.carbonbrief.org

£9bn due to not having built more cheap onshore wind, £5bn due to poorly insulated homes, £5bn due to low solar deployment, £3bn because new homes were built less efficient.

United Kingdom rimu • 3 months ago • 100%

www.theguardian.com

A Swiss court has handed jail sentences to four members of Britain’s richest family for exploiting Indian staff at their Geneva mansion. The Hindujas, who were not present in court, were acquitted of human trafficking but convicted of other charges on Friday in a stunning verdict for the family, whose fortune is estimated at £37bn. Prakash Hinduja and his wife, Kamal, were each sentenced to four years and six months in prison, and their son Ajay and his wife, Namrata, received four-year terms.

Gaming rimu • 3 months ago • 91%

www.youtube.com

See also [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMnNosUBBWM](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMnNosUBBWM) by a guy who actually did the tutorial properly and has a more productive time of things

World News rimu • 3 months ago • 98%

www.rappler.com

Videos show the China Coast Guard (CCG) brandishing knives, ramming ships, and using tear gas against Filipino soldiers. China says the CCG was 'professional and restrained.'

Free and Open Source Software rimu • 3 months ago • 100%

A great resource that makes it quick and easy to find alternatives to Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Adobe and many more.

politics rimu • 3 months ago • 98%

futurism.com

Instead of asking humans who they would vote for, try to understand the nuances of their thoughts and concerns, let those messages bubble up to candidates so they can adjust their campaign to meet voters' demand, **instead of that**, why not just segment humans into a bunch of shallow stereotypes (the socialist Millennial, the conservative Boomer, the liberal city dweller, the rancorous rural voter who feels left behind...) and then have some AI agents replicate how those people would respond? Surely nothing could go wrong.

nostr rimu • 3 months ago • 88%

www.businessinsider.com

[archive.ph link](https://archive.ph/uXdXN#selection-2141.0-2157.353)

www.rnz.co.nz

> > > Imagine being able to remember every single day of your life, all the way back to when you were a newborn. > > > > > Australian woman Rebecca Sharrock is one of only 60 people in the world with a highly superior autobiographical memory (HSAM), also known as hyperthymesia. > >

Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics. rimu • 3 months ago • 99%

juststopoil.org

> > > On 28 April 2022, Just Stop Oil supporters blocked the entrances to Clacket Lane Services on the M25 by sitting in the road with Just Stop Oil banners. They also decommissioned the petrol pumps by breaking the display glass and covering it with spray paint. This action was taken in support of their demand for the UK government to end all new oil and gas projects in the country. > > > > > In a unanimous verdict delivered today by a jury at Guildford Crown Court, Just Stop Oil supporters Nathan McGovern, Rosa Sharkey, and Louis Hawkins were found not guilty of causing criminal damage. > > Any jury may consider that the law itself is unjust. It is an important principle and indicates public opposition to aspects of law, in this case, the 'lawful' behaviour of fossil fuel corporations.

PieFed Meta rimu • 4 months ago • 100%

Every mod action would automatically create a new post. Anyone could see what is going on and express their approval / disapproval with votes. Maybe even comment on the post. It should probably be a local-only community (no federation) to avoid clogging up other instance's "All" feed with mod actions? What do you think of this idea?

AI rimu • 4 months ago • 88%

www.theverge.com

Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you.

PieFed Meta rimu • 4 months ago • 100%

Here's some development highlights from the last 3 weeks and who contributed: ### Freamon ### Markdown parsing improvements and let us use a different variant of Markdown than Lemmy does. Poll federation - Mastodon accounts can vote on PieFed polls, and receive votes from PieFed users for Polls they've posted into a local community. PeerTube integration - New channels arrive with 10 recent videos, their player is embedded in the PieFed post, new posts are correctly restricted to channel owners, and arrive into PieFed automatically. Manual post-retrieval from remote communities function Improvements to federation that led to an 80% drop in the amount of spam cleanup work admins need to do (some post deletions on remote Lemmy instances weren’t being imported into PieFed properly). ### Rimu ### A minor dark mode improvement. Made the Poll UI and database. Made a start on federation with Pixelfed and Discourse. An admin tool to list communities that need to be assigned to a topic. Update translations from crowdin - French is finished thanks to wazaby. Steady progress continues on Japanese translation. Much better topic list layout. Imported many PeerTube channels into piefed.social and assigned them to topics. Top-level topics added to the main menu under ‘Topics’. Soft deletes - post deletion can be reversed for up to 7 days. ### Tallship ### Suggested PieFed use 'soft-break' Markdown Testing User Follows from various platforms Reporting that the use of Mastodon's trademark was problematic ### General comments ### We are reaching the end of the initial roadmap I sketched out 6 months ago at the start of development. There are just a handful of small tasks to do before the “beta test” phase ends. With Lemmy to PieFed federation pretty solid, we are entering a phase of diversifying to other platforms. The first other platform, PeerTube, involved a lot of work that hopefully paved the way for future platforms to be integrated more easily. Pixelfed is going live with Groups support very soon. Exploratory work has been done on integration with Discourse although disappointingly they have implemented federation as an optional plugin so fewer Discourse forums actually federate than I initially hoped. NodeBB looks interesting. In general the Fediverse has reached a steady state in terms of user numbers which gives us space to slow down and reassess. There is not as much of a sense of urgency or bursting-at-the-seams that there was a few months ago. This might be a good time to start to pay down some of the technical debt we have built up. It’s not that the code is bad, it's just that it’s structured in a way that made things easy in the early days but is no longer serving us as well as it did. Very soon it will be good to have a discussion to create a roadmap for what comes after the beta ("1.0"). I’m thinking - more platforms (Mastodon, Friendica, etc), community wikis, API for mobile apps, better accessibility and can’t wait to hear other ideas from the community.