Sidebar: can I just say I’m delighted that two years after the actual filming, HTTPS://cigionline.org still has these etchings on the glass of their courtyard doors.

I checked twitter and the algorithm showed me exactly what I should expect

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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NVIDIA Allegedly Engineered Scarcity By Funding AI Startups To Buy Its GPUs

https://www.techpowerup.com/354814/nvidia-allegedly-engineered-scarcity-by-funding-ai-startups-to-buy-its-gpus

Following the departure of now-former NVIDIA CEO, Jensen Huang, a new report has emerged alleging that NVIDIA artificially inflated the ongoing GPU and memory shortage by investing in AI startups that would go on to buy NVIDIA GPUs and build data centers. The reason behind this was to maintain the perception of ongoing high demand and to move an oversupply of semiconductors from TSMC.

I've been using this music player for the past few years, it has been fantastic, I usually keep it collapsed while I work. Until today, it was showing a useless folder name, but I've changed it so it prints the song playing instead.

@leftylabourtech Coincidentally, immediately after my last post here, I had to run an errand and turned on the radio just in time to catch Cross Country Checkup. The first half of which was on this very topic - focusing on the Microsoft and FAA outages. They really burned Sean Duffy. They had solid guests who really understood the issues and the whole thing seemed like a replay of this very thread.

As you say, word is getting out. People are getting fed up. About time. The question is if public awareness and opposition can run faster than their wealth and power consolidation. We're already at the point where government is being strong-armed by corporate lock-in.

@datum

@hausgeist

@endeavorance yaps about a lot of things but is good at joking about the world ending.

@vitalis shitposter and meme delivery system

@babe odd duck, good follow

@TheBreadmonkey odd shitposting lad, may need psychiatric intervention so enjoy whilst you can

@philnelson co-creator of restrostrange.com survivor of the great tummy ache of 2026 (too much sketti) 1/2

@catileptic @revolutionaryobject @ccl would love to watch this but Twitch seems to not be letting me.

The more I read about it, the obvious it becomes that the big news story regarding Nvidia is corruption and financial shenanigans, not the affairs or honestly even the spy rumours. The scale and potential consequences of the former far outweighs that of the latter.

I know ST:TNG is good, but it debuted when I was 2. I also know ST:DS9 is good, but it debuted when I was 8. By the time I was old enough to potentially appreciate Star Trek, the series available to me was Voyager. I started watching it from the beginning, and concluded that if this was Star Trek, it must not be for me. It was really unfortunate timing, I bet I'd like Star Trek if I was born a few years earlier, or had access to a TNG tape library or something