Me: *explaining to people that Silicon Valley is just a TV show and that it's not really like...*
Big tech: hold my beer

For the millions worldwide with tinnitus produces the perception of persistent ringing and other phantom sounds. We’ve never known what causes it, but a new study reports on what could be the strongest biomarker yet. Read more from @ScienceAlert:

https://flip.it/P5Ys9r

#Science #Health

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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@eblu I hope you can find somewhere you like online!

agreed on Frieren lol, too many to list

Little Witch Academia ep. 8.

Preaching to the Perverted (1997)

#movies #kink #UK #cinema #cinemastodon

@neil have a lovely day, wrap up warm if you're off galavanting in the woods :)

For a while, I was under the impression that all spiciness, or burning sensation in food flavoring, would come from capsaicin, the compound that causes it in chili peppers. Then I realized that Sichuan peppers are a quite different kind of heat. Wasabi (horseradish) is different yet again.

How many hot-flavored compounds are there? At least five!

Kalsec: "The Elements of Heat"

kalsec.com/insights/crafting-t…

tower defense game

What a legend.

#ThoughtProvoker

It is 'funny'. Countless people today express how #AI has made it so much easier to figure stuff out that previously involved a whole bunch of manual activities and investigation.

Basic example are the AI summaries at the top of search results, that may obviate the need to click through to individual websites (to the detriment of site content creators).

But also way more complex tasks, such as "Plan my 2wk sightseeing trip to Thailand with this and that price/quality criteria and personal preferences".

Today a #LLM may honor that request. But as our corporate web is based on #Ads and #SurveillanceCapitalism, as soon as there's consolidation in the AI sector you can bet that #LLMs services will pounce in these practices too.

And it will bring #Enshittifaction to new unprecedented heights. With #BigTech in firm control, elites and shareholder raking in the Big Money, serving marketeers, normal people truly become the product: Lambs to the slaughter.

Auto ban sounds terrifying and definitely won’t be abused

Instead of sharing the wealth with employees or even investors, the #MagnificentSeven take their profits and invest in #AI startups, who use that money to buy compute from the same companies that invested in them. The money gets counted twice, as sales for both the startup and the Mag 7.

Do I have this right? Can't it get counted again?

An industry doing cool shit but unable to ever maximize paperclips, has to be seen as capable of crazy shit to keep the "dollars for candy" turnstyle spinning.

The secret to my success is simple: No success and no secrets

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.

Maybe an unpopular opinion, but I have mixed feelings about the social/community implications of shared block lists.

It's essentially social blacklisting, and while it gives people more options for controlling what they see, I'm not entirely convinced it's healthy compared to manual blocking of users and servers on an individual level.