I don't know how this missed the rounds on Fedi.

OpenAI's "proof" of Navier–Stokes has several glaring errors.

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/news/openais-navier-stokes-proof-called-into-question

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

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@R_3_T_3_C_H True. Just harder to get these kinds of effects!

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

@stux
😆☠️😆

@lisawilliams A string or ruler would be great options for him.

@ramsey @simon_brooke it’s been spun as a sex scandal but when it was first reported it was absolutely about espionage and racketeering. of course oligarchic media are circling the wagons.

disney and cbs have gone all in on ai. they’re massively screwed.

This morning's Low Quality Ad is for the Beardy Dish Brush. I respect this realistic take on gnomes, because if gnomes were real then humanity would immediately force this smaller, weaker species into subservience and make them clean for us.
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BUMPS! I tell you!

Thank you for correcting me. A lot of the so-called “hard-coded” stuff that people accused PieFed of having ended up not being hard-coded at all, and in fact was opt-in, so even less mandatory than opt-out. But I see from the link that some of the blocks are indeed still opt-out so I need to adjust my thinking.

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…

@smattymatty We have been swatting waves of those off for a while now - sorry they found you too! If you've got the bandwidth and interest, there are several mod/admin backchannel chats of varying degrees of formality that track and advise on these things. Lots of sharable blocking tools you can grab, too, for pre-emptive avoidance (if you haven't already loaded some).

agreed on Frieren lol, too many to list

@niss makes this noise at you

what an excellent week it has been for the idea that our society should be organized around increasingly complex computer systems controlled by unaccountable private entities

Another magical aspect of viewing this painting: It was unlikely I'd ever get to see it.

It was considered "unexhibitable" for decades, in part because of how it was made. This painting is on raw canvas -- the "white" portions are just unpainted canvas. But canvas yellows, picks up stains.

So the restorers at the Harvard Art Museums took a high-stakes gamble on a restoration process. They even did it outdoors, in public, where people could watch the process. #art https://youtu.be/ilce1SzfLWw