@fesshole how would they know it’s yours?

@lain summer skin / winter skin

i am a firm supporter of changing your name to anything regardless of your own gender. if a woman wants to be named jeremy then jeremy she will be. godspeed

Yes blocking whole instances is pretty efficient.

This feature might not end up getting used much. That happens a lot but until we try it we won’t know. But it’s a pretty big thing on a lot of platforms, like Bluesky, so I think it’s worth a try.

Minister of Foreign Affairs of #Ukraine Andrii Sybiha has reacted to russian ideas of a "new security architecture in Europe":

💬 "putin is floating ideas for redrawing Europe’s security order. In his dreams, he sees himself at Yalta in 1945. The problem is, to propose ideas on that scale, you first need to win a world war.

Last time I checked, russia had spent four years and eight months "nearly capturing" the village of Mala Tokmachka in the Zaporizhzhia region.

@lain summer skin / winter skin

"Italy’s data protection agency has fined Facebook parent company Meta €805m ($887m) for accessing users’ photos without their specific consent.

Through the Facebook application for Android devices, Meta accessed photographs, videos and related metadata belonging to Italian users “without obtaining specific consent and without properly informing them”, the authority said in a statement.

Meta said it would appeal the decision. A company spokesperson said “we strongly disagree” with the assessment by the regulators “and the disproportionate level of the fine”.

In late October, authorities in New Mexico ordered Meta to pay $25bn for misleading the state’s residents for more than a decade about the use of their data – a record fine for the company, which slammed it as a “tax” on freedom of expression.

Saturday’s latest fine is among the largest an Italian authority has imposed on a tech company.

In 2021, Amazon received a more than €1.1bn fine for breaching competition law.

That sum was subsequently reduced to €752m on appeal.

The Italian penalty imposed on Facebook relates to its gallery suggestions feature, available since 2023, which suggests photos and videos from a user’s phone gallery as ideas for posts as they are browsing."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/nov/15/italy-fines-meta-887m-for-accessing-android-users-photos-and-videos

#EU #Italy #Meta #Facebook #Android #DataProtection #GDPR #BigTech

@nitot @booteille Hello ! Est-ce que la conference est captée et le replay est/dispo en ligne ?

Yes I expect it will be a mixed bag. But we all know how much blocking new people need to do to make this place livable so hopefully this will help people get to that state quicker.

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.

@CJPaloma @MaddieM4

There are many sermons given to "the faithful" about how "you all come to church but that's not enough you need to really believe and help bring more people to church to be saved... etc."

I think a lot of people go to church and enjoy it but don't really think much about what they *really* believe.

Speaking about Christianity there is a lot of variation in how important that is. But the most conservative churches want to take over the world and thats... not great.

@davidgerard Here's a paper from October that studies this: (Early) AI Compute Asset Pricing
https://arxiv.org/html/2607.12156

it's trans awareness week, so be aware. i could be anywhere.

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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Stop talking about swords after you lost all the votes.

#midterms #uspol

Thank you @Algot
for the clever rhyme.
I look forward to seeing
in a weeks time,
your wonderful puzzles
with pictures as clues,
that help lift the Fediverse
from its end of week blues.
✌️😁👍

My apologies, this is what I gathered from other users in combination with Pixelfed (or loops?) allowing LLM contributions at some point. I should’ve done some research to confirm before assuming it was true.

Now that I am doing some research about it, could someone explain what this commit is about? Skill markdown files are for LLMs.

Relevant blog post

@taco_shale032@lemmy.ml @jonathan@piefed.social provide us proof for your maga tactics, don't just shout fake news

I use both, starting another flamewar doesn’t seem positive for either project.