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- Comment on Tens of thousands shelter as typhoon slams into Philippines 4 days ago:
- Comment on Tens of thousands shelter as typhoon slams into Philippines 4 days ago:
150 kph is not crazy fast in normal situations but in Philippines half the houses are basically shacks made from thin bits of wood and a few sheets of corrugated iron. So they don’t have a lot of staying power.
Combine that with the path of the storm going straight to Cebu City, where 5 million people live.
It’s not great.
- Comment on I am curious about hosting my own lemmy/mastodon server 4 days ago:
IMO Lemmy/PieFed is safer to run because the community mods will delete anything illegal, which will delete it for you, too. About 5 instances host 95% of communities worth joining so it’s easy for us to coordinate defense.
Mastodon is thousands of instances and more wild west. Bad stuff can come from anywhere.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
What a nightmare. Everything gets much harder at their scale…
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 1 week ago:
It that a lot of money? I can’t tell anymore.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 1 week ago:
Yes if it’s that old if they was possible to fix it’s problems then surely they would have by now…
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Please test PieFed.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 1 week ago:
Lucky for you, python is quite readable and the person who wrote it is available to answer any questions you might have.
- Comment on Why are people using the "þ" character? 2 weeks ago:
On piefed, that character is automatically converted to ‘th’.
- Comment on Selfhosting Sunday! What's up? 2 weeks ago:
Installed qbittorrent and downloaded a few seasons of Linux isos onto a vps. Discovered accessing those files over SSH to be too slow to play them without buffering so installed filebrowser to get them via http which worked well.
It’s been a long long time since I used bittorrent and wow it works so much better these days.
- Comment on Fediverse alternative to Facebook is what's really missing 2 weeks ago:
I had a browse of the code recently. It’s really well put together, I think they have a great foundation it just needs to be optimized. I’m hopeful about friendica.
- Comment on pareidolia 2 weeks ago:
For people using Lemmy, it’s not different.
For us, it’s way better. https://join.piefed.social/features
- Comment on How should Lemmy sort posts so small communities can compete? 2 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting algorithm!
IMO the Lemmy scaled sort would be ok if it wasn’t as powerful.
Try the scaled sort on PieFed.social, the amplification isn’t as strong and I just tweaked it to filter out bot posts.
- Comment on Beware when following communities/magazines on Mastodon 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, don’t do that.
You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.
- Comment on 4chan faces UK ban after refusing to pay ‘stupid’ fine 3 weeks ago:
hell yeah
- Comment on Pope slams 'collective failure' of world hunger affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
Nice one.
Estimates vary but USAID saved roughly 90 million lives over the last 2 decades so going without that money over the next decade could mean 45 million die. Or ’only’ 22.5 million if USAID funding is restored to normal levels in 5 years.
Whatever the exact numbers, it’s pretty easy to blow past the 6 million mark…
- Comment on search engine megathread? 3 weeks ago:
Me too!
- Comment on Pope slams 'collective failure' of world hunger affecting millions 3 weeks ago:
Simple maths demonstrates that Trump’s USAID cuts will lead to more deaths than the Holocaust. I wish I could find the blog post that ran the numbers but I can’t.
- Submitted 3 weeks ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 2 comments
- Comment on At least 64 dead, 65 missing in Mexico floods 3 weeks ago:
hmm a lot of floods lately, I wonder why
- Comment on I've recently turned into a blocker. 3 weeks ago:
Ask your admins about that - PieFed has that feature but only admins can do it and it’s instance-wide.
I’ve done it to a couple of high volume posters who are fine until they start commenting.
- Submitted 4 weeks ago to games@lemmy.world | 40 comments
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 4 weeks ago:
That could happen in the future but at the moment and in the past surely we lost more mods as a result of their community being dead than from their community being too active. But we don’t hear from them because they feel rejected and like they failed so they slink away quietly.
- Comment on Discussion: Long-term need for automation tools for moderation 4 weeks ago:
99% of communities need more content, not less.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 4 weeks ago:
Thank you for this counter-weight!
- Comment on Forklift driver who won £1m on rushed to hospital after ‘three months of partying’ 4 weeks ago:
Around 70% of lottery winners lose it all, with about 1/3 declaring bankruptcy, often within three to five years of winning.
- Comment on Delusions of a Protocol 5 weeks ago:
Cloudflare caching can solve this. Cache based on the user agent.
- Comment on F-Droid says Google’s new sideloading restrictions will kill the project 5 weeks ago:
I never realised that f-droid was compiling from source and assumed the app devs were providing compiled binaries and saying “trust me bro”. That was fine to me and I’ll still want a marketplace app that gives me access to foss apps so I hope they can find an acceptable compromise.
- Comment on Seeking recommendations for federated Q&A forums on Linux and software issues 5 weeks ago:
I’ve been thinking about adding Q&A features to PieFed for a while… Initially just the ability to set a comment as the solution to a post and then give that comment more emphasis in the UI. What else do we need?
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 5 weeks ago:
Install a floppy drive. No one gonna steal a computer with one of those.