That is, recounts assume that any errors in the tally will be fairly small. The precise margin that triggers a recount varies from state to state, but almost every state recount rules are based on this assumption.

But modern automated ballot tally systems are vulnerable to different kinds of errors than those committed by fatigued (or perhaps even dishonest) human counters. Current systems might make small errors, but they can also fail much more catastrophically.

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Now that's a #GreatFediPost

Anyone else going to be at #Raleigh #RDU #code #club tomorrow night?

https://codeclubrdu.com/

Brey, if you don't have the votes to impeach, you just keep the investigation going for two years. You're in full control of the House and Senate, YOU decide when the issue comes up for a vote. Remember Benghazi? Yeah do that dumb ass.

And while you're doing it, you tell the American people every day that if you get control of the Justice Department in 2028, charges will be laid.

How the fuck is this not obvious to PROFESSIONAL strategists? Gimme a break.

Even if vetoed, these things matter. It commits Democrats to supporting these issues and gets Republicans on record as to their position. If populist enough, some of this stuff can withstand a veto. Even if they can't, it makes clear they will happen when the White House switches parties.

Daily bird 80 - European bee-eater

Something you can say to both ousted Republicans & dipshit donor class DNC fuckeronis :

We have given you more personal freedoms! Freedoms to work full time for your bigot billionaire bosses, openly.
You can start by wiping their asses before wiping your shitstained faces 💩😃

Re-rendered with better shadow settings...

@rebel1725 QubesOS and secureblue are legitimate privacy and security projects. Kicksecure definitely isn't one.

I remember his username now. it was deorsum. Long gone fedi friends. F to all of them.

#GraphicOfTheDay

“It is not enough to simply win power. We must use it.”

https://youtu.be/htP8AfJm6Eo

#USPol

Attention #Canadians:

If you care about right-to-repair, dislike the fact that you can go to jail for tinkering with devices or content you legitimately purchased, or don't like giant USAnian companies that try to lock every single thing up under IP laws, there is a petition you should read and perhaps sign:

https://www.ourcommons.ca/petitions/en/Petition/Details?Petition=e-7718

#Canada #RightToRepair #RepairCafe #AntiCircumvention #circumvention #copyright #CopyrightReform #petition

@evan You rang?

@SpaceLifeForm one of the joys of being an animal is not knowing about human politics, I imagine

@evan Yes, but not in that centrist self-serving way that they’ve done implementing neoliberalism since Bill Clinton and even, to a certain extent, Jimmy Carter (he started the deregulation game).

The ones usually defederated from by most instances across the Threadiverse are hexbear.net, lemmygrad.ml, and hilariouschaos.com. However, it would be weird to instance block them from PieFed.social because they look like they are still already defederated from, so there should be no need to add a block on top of that?

I am kinda glad that PieFed.social helps provide a less toxic environment for new joiners. The problem is, as you are discovering first-hand, the confusion that it creates when people have a really hard time finding this stuff out.

Now that your immediate problem is solved, do you think you’ll remain on PieFed.social, or switch to something like PieFed.zip or quokk.au?

How are you liking PieFed itself? For me it took weeks to figure out a whole new workflow, but once I adjusted I was definitely sold on it being better.

I’ve asked for #1 already (but not in Codeberg issue format) so this is good confirmation for them that such is still desired.

Looks like they like the idea and it’ll be in v5.1. Looks like they already completed part of it.

… also instance admins are not going to rerun it each time they update to the latest software, so their “surprise” came about due to the lack of #1, and bc Rimu tried to sneak it in buried amidst a rather large list of other features as if it were a tiny unimportant matter (even though he knew that it was a huge deal and extremely controversial …

Fair point.

… essentially Kickstarted PyLova to be created …

Silver linings 😊

… “hard-coded” features existed buried in the PieFed codebase …

Yeah, I remember that ‘argument’. That was annoying to deal with.

I can well imagine others being opt-out or hard-coded at first and then upon push-back being converted into opt-in.

There was another feature/set of features that were opt-out and poorly communicated before the vote-limiter, maybe a year ago. I don’t remember what it was though. I recall it went over just as poorly as the rate limiter and made me view Rimu in a different light.

Speaking of, the last I knew the shadow-censoring daily vote quotas are not opt-in, but rather turned on by default, being instead opt-out.

That’s my understanding as well. I had to ask my admins to remove it.

Only if looking at their actions rather than words 😜.

Haha. Yeah. I do think their call for a vanguard kind of gives away the game (wiki: “According to Lenin, the purpose of the vanguard party is to establish a dictatorship of the proletariat").

Okay but by FAR the biggest change there in PieFed subscriber numbers was due solely to fedinsfw.app, which in turn resulted from the demise of lemmynsfw.

And it begs the question for me: how many MAUs did Lemmynsfw have, compared to fedinsfw.app? Like, yes PieFed gained ~7k MAUs, but how many more did Lemmy lose? I doubt they were equal, which again illustrates the overall pattern of decline across the Threadiverse instances.

Absolutely. According to Fedindex, it looks like Lemmynsfw may have only had 3.6k MAU when it crashed. FediNSFW is now at ~3.6k MAU. So, weirdly it came out to be an even exchange.

PieFed stats are still fairly similar to what they were before, right?

Looks like Fedindex is putting Fedinsfw creation on 02-18-2026. Fediverse-Observer data, puts Piefed at 4816 MAU on 02-17-2026. Piefed is at 6742 MAU and Fedinsfw only at 3583 MAU, leaves non-Fedinsfw Piefed at 3159 MAU today.

Last time Piefed was below 2k MAU (1990 MAU) was 2026-01-20. So, up ~59% in 10-ish months, not bad, percentage wise.

Personally I think that a more nuanced take might be to look at the increasing number of instances total - even if they are only tiny ones, that’s still something? Otoh, pound for pound, Lemmy already has both those AND the huge buckets of users, so perhaps it’s not worth digging into such, bc in essence such matters are already baked into the comparison between platforms anyway.

Looks like Lemmy has had 63 new instances since 2026-06-08, 20 still active (Piefed: 18 new, 8 still active). So better percentage fro Piefed, better volume for Lemmy.

From 2026-07-28 to 2026-10-27, Lemmy alive servers went from 321 -> 294 (Piefed: 66 -> 59). So, with the increased total threadiverse MAUs, it looks like some consolidation is happening.

And even if we do bring in the porn instance into the comparison, as the largest PieFed instance, it is still far smaller than the largest Lemmy instance, by quite a large margin. Also, people may literally have multiple accounts - one for porn and another for other matters, for separation.

I only hope that Rimu considers why Mbin became so irrelevant, especially after the huge start given it by the demise of Kbin: Mbin does multiple things yes, but it does neither of them well.

With you there. ‘Whole ass 1 thing, rather than half-assing 2 things’.

PieFed has numerous layout concerns too, such as making it exceedingly difficult to distinguish between downvotes vs. upvotes in the overall count (+151 & -100 is enormously different than just +51 & -0, or +71 & -20 - that is outright information that PieFed obscures and in many cases makes nearly impossible to get readily).

This has legitimately been a huge annoyance for me on web (and a reason I prefer Voyager). I made FR about this too.

I’m quite curious how they are going to implement it.

Very exciting indeed!! 😄

Looks like it’s already live. Looks like it’s only contained to users. I was hoping this could also be an admin feature to help stop scraping (with automation only 1 instance has to be hit by a scraper before the subscribed instances are ‘inoculated’). Added another FR.

@jbz "Or Russia."

"Yeah, Russia's fine too."

I've said it before, and I'll say it again.

Fascism is the enemy you cannot defeat. All you can do is wound it, drive it back into the depths, and teach your children to watch the waves for its return.