Mathematician are slowly coming to a realization that, for centuries, they were working for peanuts -- now that billions of dollars are being spent on AI doing mathematical proofs.

@zodiepupper Oh, I love crochet

When they poll “Do you support Medicare for All even if it means your taxes go up?”

They leave out “…and you never have to worry about deductibles and premiums and co-pays and you won’t lose coverage if you leave your job?”

Add that and it polls through the roof

A no-brainer

@georgetakei Maybe, but to be perfectly fair, Sarah Sanders is a f**king moron to begin with, so it would not surprise me of this was legit her own doing rather than AI.. Remember folks, you don't need the "help" of AI to appear stupid. Humans have been perfecting this for a very long time. (and no, I'm not excluding myself from this)

#whoRemembers "...but it compiles!"

Godzilla is great because he represents the horrors of nuclear war but sometimes he does a little dance

This is what I want for Christmas.

The Essential

PyLova already had this feature, does PieFeds work with it or is it breaking Fediverse compatibility?

Funny how PieFed gets multiple images in posts, and now in-line comment editing/shared blocklists after PyLova introduces it. Does PieFed have any original ideas?

@carnage4life I mean, isn't this at least as much about Trump as about them? How can you predict the best way to persuade a crazy person?

@gemlog How does your monica laptop find the maria PC? I mean, I understand it uses Tailscale, but how is it set up on monica? Does Tailscale work via a central server somewhere?

I've launched a new site for Genesis/Mega Drive fans—a tool that helps ID a console's revision before buying.

https://id.megadrivers.us

And then, of course, there's my Mega Drive Tracker, which tracks modern physical Gen/MD releases—and it's got a new URL!

https://tracker.megadrivers.us

And next... ???

#sega #segagenesis #megadrive #retrogaming

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

PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features.

Donations can be made via Patreon, Liberapay or Ko-fi.

Actually, Lemmy Federate is not tied to lemy.lol since this update: lemy.lol/post/46419115

Piefed.social should decide if they want to add their instance to the Lemmy Federate. I’m not blocking anyone. In fact, there are already two Piefed instances registered to Lemmy Federate. But these instances are using generic ActivityPub client instead of specialized clients unlike Lemmy and Mbin instances.

I’m not against Piefed but I’m not gonna work for a Piefed specific code either for reasons you can imagine.

/cc @freamon@preferred.social

@apps Great idea, I'll work on extending Suggestions to Apps too :)

Taking a stuffed animal to the reception as my plush one.

A giant cosmic question mark hidden in Cepheus. My latest SHO image showcases NGC 7822 and neighboring nebulae sculpted by massive stars and dark dust. Full story: https://astronomy716.blogspot.com/2026/11/the-question-mark-nebula-in-sho-making.html #astronomy #astrophotography