It simply can't be done.
@lowqualityfacts This one time, a French guy ordered 10 items in Rome and received 509 items.
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PieFed v1.9 is released - Shared Blocklists, Auto-bans and TOTP
cross-posted from: piefed.social/…/piefed-v1-9-is-released-shared-bl…
New features
- Shared blocklists - these are like feeds except instead of listing communities to join it lists people to block. To to Account -> Blocklists to find this feature. Changes by the blocklist author effect all the people who subscribe to the list, causing them to block the list members. They federate, so you can subscribe to blocklists on other instances.
- Edit comments inline, without loading a separate page - wjs018
- Fediverse statistics at piefed.social/statistics
- 2-factor authentication (TOTP) - can be added to your account in the ‘Security’ page in your settings.
For admins
- Auto-ban based on the bans that instances you choose, with keyword matching on the ban reason. Go to /admin/users/auto_ban. Try putting ‘piefed.social’ in as the instance and ‘spam’ as the keyword filter. It’ll cut down on the work involved in running your instance SO much.
- Voting pattern graph on user profiles to help spot automated voting.
- Reset the password of any user.
- Lots of inauthentic behaviour reports for finding bots and serial downvoters, see /admin/votes and PM me for an instructional video. It’s a lot to take in but the video will explain it all.
API
- edit matrix user id when saving user profile data.
- scheduled post endpoints - wjs018
Plus a lot more bits and pieces, browse the list of recent releases in the 1.8.x line at codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/releases for details.
To upgrade from 1.8.x or earlier
git pull git checkout v1.9.x
Then,
./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker2.sh
Donations
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Low Quality Facts
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Tonight's Low Quality Ad is for this Axolotl Night Light.
What do you call a baby axolotl?
An axolittle.
Well it's been fun folks, I'll see myself out.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DT3S44DV/ref=cm_sw_r_as_gl_apa_gl_i_NHTAH6YEPDDDPAGB7VWH?linkCode=ml1&tag=lowqualityfac-22-20&linkId=55f909ea360740714036e7ef88e08a9d&gaOptInStatus=true
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Microsoft's Outage Showed Me Just How Distracting Email Can Be - Kev Quirk:
https://kevquirk.com/microsofts-outage-showed-me-just-how-distracting-email-can-be
alcinnz
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The Secret of Monkey Island, 13 versions, side by side - The Paninos Off-line:
https://monkeyisland.pages.dev/
CW: Made with LLM assistance.
via https://roytang.net/links/2026/#fb264c53e616887334d00d67a4648658
alcinnz
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The efficiency trap: why optimising everything can backfire, badly - Steven Strogatz & Alex Townsend @ The Guardian:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2026/nov/08/the-efficiency-trap-why-optimising-everything-can-backfire-badly
CW: Includes "AI" discourse, could apply to entirety of ML but specifically refers to LLMs.
via https://roytang.net/links/2026/#50b1e7d569b5e50e8ebcfb0c21ffe5ab
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Decentralized social media for environmental research
www.biorxiv.org/content/…/2026.11.06.764567v1
(Found with Aftergleam, a private reader for new research papers.)
Decentralized social media for environmental research
A. Chai-allah, A. Ghermandi, N. Fox, D. Van Berkel bioRxiv · 10.64898/2026.11.06.764567v1 · ecology · submitted 2026-11-12
Abstract
Social media data are reshaping environmental research. However, recent ownership and policy changes on centralized platforms like Twitter/X have motivated many users to seek new alternatives while simultaneously accelerating data restrictions for scientists. Decentralized social media, particularly Bluesky and Mastodon, are emerging as alternatives for users seeking greater control over their data and as a more stable and sustainable source of data for researchers. This rise may be instrumental in revitalizing the role of social media in environmental research. This study aims to provide a first-of-its-kind analysis of the potential of these new sources for environmental research, demonstrating their potential usefulness through the examples of climate change discourses and people’s appreciation of wildlife. We find an increased adoption of Mastodon and Bluesky, with high linguistic diversity, even if dominated by English. Wildlife image content reveals broad taxonomic diversity, with plants, birds, and insects dominating the records. We find this pattern broadly consistent with that observed on the popular citizen science platform iNaturalist. Climate change discourse is found to broadly reflect the scientific consensus on both platforms, with contrarian claims remaining uncommon. This suggests that researchers may benefit from less polarized opinions and misinformation, arising from interactions that are less driven by engagement maximizing algorithms implemented in other platforms. Our study illustrates the promise of decentralized social media as a new data source for environmental scientists and paves the way for their broader use in environmental research.
maybe it'll help to block anyone with ".ai" in the useragent
ok. anyone who has ".ai" in useragent who isn't mastodon gets a redirect to robots.txt
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Safari on Apple HomeView - Webkit:
https://webkit.org/blog/18608/safari-on-apple-homeview/
@NanoRaptor Oh goodness, what size dilator is that one for?
"Hmm, we could be doing better progress, let's step it up a size"
*diesel engine fires up*
*reversing beeps*
alcinnz
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2026 Self-Host User Survey Results - Ethan Sholly @ selfh.st:
https://selfh.st/survey/2026-results/
alcinnz
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Sprout Pi Mainboard - certain things @ CrowdSupply:
https://www.crowdsupply.com/certain-things/sprout-pi-mainboard
Might any of you find this helpful?
@rhempel @Unlikelylass @inthehands
You can automate production, and you can even automate production of the machines that produce, but at some level you run into a thing that has to be built by a conscious being who is motivated to get it right, or else it probably won't be. (...because there are infinitely more ways to be wrong than to be right.)
The oligarchs and managers always want to believe that whatever piece they're in charge of is one that can be automated.
...and maybe it can be -- but first you need someone to make that automation, and to ensure that it works properly... and you need to keep them around to fix it when it breaks, keep it oiled properly, and presumably update it as the need changes.
(This made sense inside my head; I apologize if the sense got detached on its way out the door.)
@woozle @Unlikelylass @inthehands It's perfectly clear and aligned with what I was trying to express.
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It's my birthday today!!
yayy!!!
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10:30pm improv shows are rough. I really hope there are more than 5 people in the audience.
@a_cubed wow!
What's your favourite thing about university?
@evan
I started out in theorem proving and applications to mathematics. I'm now an expert in information ethics. I made that shift while in the same job.
This is super disappointing and completely avoidable.
It’s not like Apple (and everyone else) didn’t know that Apple was making a screen that resizes.
@chockenberry yet there ARE plenty of games that would look great on 1:1.41 screens
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fakeman_pretendname@feddit.uk
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Unfortunately, not really.
The Fediverse alternatives to YouTube are not functional equivalents like Lemmy or Mastodon are to Reddit and Twitter.
