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…

Auto ban sounds terrifying and definitely won’t be abused

I don't feel that strongly about it. I think I just blocked Lemmy.ml and dbzero or whatever the hell it's called.

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.

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.

I gave up on peertube (especially the app) when I couldn’t find a server with open registration. And it is one of the messier services to host that I’ve tried. I dont even want to post videos. I just wanted to find cool videos and follow them.

Instead of recommending “peertube” itself we should point to servers that have open registration or even better, peerseek.video since the platform is useless without decent discovery tools.

@bstn_n yaay happy to hear thank you! •ᴗ•

@jb@neo.tokyonight.city

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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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Going through my list made me realise that I don’t have favourite episodes; I have favourite scenes 😅

Anyway, here are mine:

1. 86 Part 2 Episode 12 - You know which scene I’m referring to

2. Umamusume Season 2 Episode 13 - The greatest

of all time

3. Medalist Season 2 Episode 3 - Would have been my top sports scene if not for Umamusume

May not be considered masterpieces by most, but they are masterpieces to me:

1. Gundam SEED Episode 33 (of the remastered version) - Best

of all time

2. Sword Art Online Episode 9 - Most hype for its time

Too hard for me to rewatch, but I’d consider them masterpieces:

1. DanDaDan Episode 7 - You know which episode I’m talking about

2. +1 for Violet Evergarden Episode 10 - You know which episode I’m talking about

And of course

3. Oshi no Ko Episode 1

Notable exclusions for having too many standout episodes:

• Gundam: Witch from Mercury
• One Punch Man Season 1
• Frieren

RE: https://newspapers.se/@dn/117619136590873701

Tjeckerna protesterar mot precis samma reform av public service (via skatten istället för oberoende licenser) som redan genomförts i Sverige med precis det resultat Tjeckerna *INTE* vill se.

@drq @darkcat09 @ralen maybe megabytes per hour should already be written in C... (or Rust, better)? Because once site is successful, megabytes would become gigabytes?

But instead of forcing everyone to code in efficient, but hard languages, I am myself thinking about building transpiler of Python to C. I have some ideas how to implement the object model... but definitely it would not be one man show project...

I primarly do gaming videos and livestreams.

I like Rumble and have decent interaction on my gaming videos and livestreams.

Bitchute is filled with botviews. I had 0 comments on any of my videos the past 3 years and had triple the views compared to YT or Rumble.

Odysee I don’t really like it. I had no views or comments on any of my videos (syndicated with my YT channel)

Peertube sucks. I feel I can’t find videos without going through several instances. Really hard for uploaders as each instant has their own rules and file/length size.

My channels

YT

Rumble

Bitchute

Odysee

Jujutsu Kaisen s2e4 occupies a special place in my heart.

@TexasObserver "and she remained a stalwart advocate of the magazine until her death in 2007. Her irreverence and irrepressibility continue to help define the Observer today.

This explains why I like you all so much!

Dario #Amodei, CEO of #Anthropic, is out here in broad daylight saying that they will cure cancer, heart disease, mental illness, and Alzheimer's in 10 years. Which...could we get any more Elizabeth #Holmes?

Now, the medical people, including the CEO of #EliLilly have already weighed in on what utter nonsense this is, and I'm not a medical people even on the internet, so I'll leave that to them.

But I will say that I have taken more than one company through IPO and/or merger-acquisition, and if one of my CEOs had started behaving like this, there would have been serious discussions about the feasibility of the enterprise as currently driven.

Why? Because we weren't a #cult. Anthropic and the rest of the #tescreal crew are cultists. Desperate cultists hitting all the marks; doomsday, miracles, esoteric hidden knowledge, and now, messianic.

This IPO is a nothing but a bag pull to leave the taxpayers holding the debt. Just like #Tesla. Just like #OpenAI.

The Jensen Huang story basically boils down to "don't bother about AI; enjoy wearing the clothes that you like, and spend plenty of time having fun with people you fancy".

@tuxedocomputers das ist „schade“, bei mir nicht. Auf entsprechenden Gerät neuinstaljation, vollständiges löschen, starten live Modus, Installation und nach Neustart sehe ich nur das tuxedo Symbol, und wenn ich esc drücke kommt die passwortabfrage, siehe Screenshot