@davidgerard what always bugged me about llms in foss is how reliant it makes you on big software-service companies, which i thought was exactly the thing free software as a movement wanted to avoid in the first place. i have my qualms with the FOSS movement but it really feels like they're blatantly not even bothering to stick by their own principles anymore

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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@KalenXI yeah that's worth a terrified shriek.

Can confirm that my new album Allostasis, which will not be released on Spotify or other mainstream streamers, has generated more money via pre-order sales, literally BEFORE it has been released, than my entire catalog through all my different projects has generated on Spotify over 13 years.

Bandcamp, Mirlo, Tiger.

🐅

https://kristofferlislegaard.com/p/preorder-allostasis/

#music #ambient #electronica

@Kahte 😘

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

any other update?

I want to make some videos, but I do not want to add them to TY, I am looking for an alternative, unfortunately I know Vimeo, but this is not what I am looking for.

Original post

I have an alt account on there which I can’t access, and lestat says it’s down

Does anyone know what’s going on? I miss the place

Paging…

@Sal@mander.xyz

From Sal on matrix:

From what I can find, the managing director of the company that runs serverspace.io (ITGLOBAL.COM NL), which is the company that rents me the VPS space, was arrested by Dutch authorities. The infrastructure in Amsterdam was disconnected without warning when this happened. Since my latest database backup is unfortunately not very recent, and because there is still hope that the severs will come back up, I am waiting and hoping that I regain access to the data. They originally published some somewhat optimistic message, but as of today their website is inaccessible.

https://www.comnews.ru/content/247454/2026-09-21/2026-w39/1007/globus-dlya-itglobal-umenshilsya

https://theins.ru/news/297340

I could not find any statements from Dutch police or really any source other than IT Global themselves. But, this event may be related to “Dmitry Gachko” (owner of ITGlobalcom Rus) being added to this sanctions list: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dec/2024/1484/2026-07-13

I recieved no warning, and I did not know about the ownership structure of serverspace and did not consider that the infrastructure was exposed to this risk. I figured “VPS in Amsterdam from a Dutch company” was rather safe. But “Dutch company operating in NL” does not mean the same as Dutch owned…

@ArneBab Jetzt funzt es 👍🏻

BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG, BONG

Be sure to check out our Play Next page to find some gems https://www.gamingonlinux.com/play-next/

#Linux #SteamOS #SteamDeck #SteamMachine #Gaming

@LetsRoc
… but also, was… 😂

@oli als Paint-Connoisseur stört mich daran, dass es sehr offensichtlich gefälscht und nicht mit Paint gemacht ist. Worauf will das Bild mit der Paint-GUI hinaus?

Das Bild in der Malfläche ist viel höher aufgelöst als die Malfläche und die GUI. Die Figur hat im Gegensatz zur Kotze Spuren von Antialiasing, was Paint nicht macht. Auch solche Pinselstriche lassen sich mit dem ausgewählten Pixel-Malwerkzeug kaum realisieren und die Schriftart passt auch nicht :'(

@sinbad@mastodon.gamedev.place For a lot of people I think first and foremost it's about scratching an itch and always has been. We're not in the days of the early GNU project any more - a lot of the motivation is about doing X but (better, cheaper, faster, ...) as opposed to e.g. an FSF notion of software freedom

i'd only order a pizza with pineapple on it if there was somebody with me who hated it. it's not really worth it otherwise, since there are quite a few better pizzas you can get. but if you've got a pineapple hater at the table, then the pineapple pizza is a GREAT choice, probably the best one to pick in that situation

@gorobar Kannst du nochmal ohne Torbrowser schauen, ob es jetzt funktioniert?

Sollte jetzt wenn AV1 nicht als unterstützt genannt wird auf h264 zurückfallen:

https://www.draketo.de/kreatives/lets-read#lets-read-technophob-videos

Torbrowser muss ich noch prüfen …