This will cause a huge amount of capital that was poured into the tech sector to shift elsewhere and this is a good thing. Climate change is weighing down on us and on our future as a species, all the resources we have should be concentrated in fighting it, not chasing a technological fad inflated by a bunch of scammers and mega-rich buffoons having mid-life crises on commercial social media. 18/

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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@ai6yr that all sounds indeed very much like COVID. I saw a map earlier and levels in CA were elevated. Hope you can isolate and get a few days of rest. It still sucks, even with a base immunity

@virtuosew
Everyone has their own approach. 🙂

@futurebird well I live west of the 100th meridian, so naturally I am of the view that golf ought to be entirely illegal.

Just how good is Even the Student Council has its Holes? I don’t recall a seasonal ecchi show being liked this highly overall.

@kyleve @mergesort it has improved, it’s useful now. Saying its going to keep improving at the same rate or even a faster rate is where I have problems with. Stuff is too new and too complex to be able to do any kind of prediction of where its going to be in 6-12 months. Saying its going to take over all white color jobs next year makes it sound like someone has drunk way too much koolaid.

@mattblaze About a month ago you upgraded the network backbone in my house from copper to fiber, and to this day it cannot run ATC comms.

that’s cool

It reminds me a little of the old internet. I like how relatively small it feels, and that people post content for the sake of the content, not to promote themselves. I haven’t found my usual corners yet, the ones I used to hang out in on older platforms, but I figure that’s just a matter of time. I’m not super nostalgic for the old internet or anything, but it’s nice to find at least a hint of something human-centered somewhere.

I hope it doesn’t fall apart and that it keeps growing.

I was skeptical when I switched to Linux, but then I ditched Windows on my dual boot for good. It was a hugely positive experience, and it really felt like freedom. I’m hoping this will be the same.

And don’t be mad at me if I act totally clueless here sometimes 'cause all that is new to me.

You are vastly underestimating how much work it takes to get a niche commumity going here.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/117617818111033001

So, despite what you may have read being circulated by Schumer's people this morning, Sen. Ron Wyden (OR) is not in the Schumer camp. His vote is still undeclared and will go to whomever is best suited to deliver Medicare For All. Who do you think that is? 🙋‍♂️

been reading "how complex systems fail" by richard cook, 18 short points from a doctor who studied why things break in hospitals. it was written in the late 90s and it reads like a postmortem of every outage i've ever been part of.

the one that hit me: there's no such thing as a root cause. catastrophe needs several small failures lining up, each harmless on its own. "root cause" is mostly our social need to point at someone. yesterday the us grounded every flight for hours and the official answer was "old equipment." sure. and also everything else that quietly had to go wrong at the same time.

my other favorite: complex systems always run in degraded mode. everything is a little broken all the time, and it works because people keep patching it on the fly. that's not a bug report, that's my homelab's biography.

the uncomfortable takeaway is that safety isn't a part you buy. it's something people create every day, and the "fix" after an accident usually just adds more complexity for the next one.

https://how.complexsystems.fail/

#complexsystems #sre #safety #systemsthinking

This time Hoshi finally figures out how to make a cloak work though can't find any coffee.

A Dad's 1990 Sheet Music Software Died With Its Developer, So His Son Spent Four Years Reverse-Engineering Its Files

https://lockergnome.com/reverse-engineering-score-perfect-sheet-music-files/

#ScorePerfect #ReverseEngineering #MusicXML #tech #GenerativeAI

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I recommend interested watchers to also watch Blue Miburo, another recent-ish show with kids and Shinsengumi.