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- Comment on 5 days ago:
Hardcoded means the filter is in the source code (as opposed to being in a config file or database). Whether or not it can be disabled/circumvent is irrelevant.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Having features does not make it good software. It remains true that the code quality is abysmal and there ARE hardcoded blocks based on what the dev(s) dislike.
What we see from time to time is people spreading literal misinformation about Piefed, saying that those filters can’t be disabled by an admin (they can), and/or that a fork is needed to do so (it’s not) .
I hope I am not spreading any misinformation. If any of my complaints is factually incorrect, please point it out.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
That contradicts what @skavau@piefed.social told me.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Did you put the right URL? That URL links to a comment about the 4-chan image blocking and reputation loss.
If this is the feature you consider to be missing from Lemmy, then yes, please let it remain missing. I definitely don’t want anything like it.
- Submitted 6 days ago to science@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Submitted 6 days ago to physics@mander.xyz | 0 comments
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I just want to make sure people know what they’re getting into before they decide to use PieFed. If you know about the issues and decide to use it, I totally respect that decision.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
So there are two purposes for this "bad list"
- for filtering which communities to federate with in the beginning
- to calculate user reputation score
correct?
The federation filtering is blocking IMO. It affects what comms users of the instance can find (via search).
Anyway maybe in Your PR You should make a separately configurable for each purpose. I don’t see a reason why it should be the same list.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
That’s what I thought. Thanks for confirming.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Okay. It’s still unclear to me why piracy was not picked up. It’s a very big comm.
Anyhow, good luck on the merge request! Would be great to let the admin decide what to block instead of the weirdly random selection of comms on the list now.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Piefed.co.za is less than a day old and likely has done no federation at all yet.
That cannot be true. I can see a bunch of communities federated on that website. For example, search for ‘news’: piefed.co.za/communities?search=news&language_id=…
In it, he excluded federation from communities with certain keywords that you have already bought up.
Okay. I call that a hardcoded block (that can be manually worked around).
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Just to confirm, did You find the ‘piracy’ comm in the search menu (like I was trying to)? Or did You have to manually type in the URL and subscribe first for it to federate?
If You found it in the search menu, then my understanding of the code must be wrong. In that case would You please explain.
PS: The musk community is against musk. Apologies about not using Your pronouns earlier.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Can you explain what it does then? Below is my understanding. Correct me where I am wrong.
The “bad list” blocks any community with that name from being federated. So for example if I go to a random PieFed instance and search for the ‘piracy’ community, I get no results
piefed.co.za/communities?search=piracy&language_i…
The admin can circumvent this by manually adding the community. Some big instances (including yours) have done that, but smaller ones (like the one I linked) haven’t.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I know what the code is for. And I know that your instance manually exempted the block for ‘memes’ (or perhaps your instance imported the memes community before the block came in place, idk).
Can you view any ‘piracy’ or ‘enoughmuskspam’ community on your instance? I can’t
- Comment on 6 days ago:
New users joining from Reddit aren’t dealing with self-hosting - they’re just using it.
Yes, and so I am concerned they might not know what “bad list” might be hardcoded into the software they’re using.
I will also add I have seen a lot of praise for how easy it is to host piefed from other instance owners.
Yeah, I think Lemmy needs to be made easier to selfhost. From the choice of programming language, the Lemmy backend must be more efficient and secure, so it should be the better choice for most selfhosters (exceptions being the active ones who are interested in patching the stuff they host and want to do so in Python).
- Comment on 6 days ago:
To me, the sloppy codebase means I wouldn’t want to selfhost it. And the presence of hardcoded filtering of things the devs dislike (even if it can be manually worked around) is for me a very good indicator that more shenanigans will come along the line.
If you have no problems with what I mentioned then I don’t think we have much in common ground to argue on. You can enjoy PieFed and I will continue to enjoy Lemmy.
I just want people to be informed about these things that I find highly problematic before they decide to use or selfhost PieFed.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
What are they in for? The site seems to work fine from a user perspective.
Fox News would seem like a perfectly fine source of news if you get all your news from Fox News, wouldn’t you agree?
Any community can still be manually added.
And you can still manually get any news you want from other channels, Fox News just won’t show them.
(I am not saying PieFed is as bad as Fox News, just trying to make an analogy to show that something that “seems to work fine” can be pretty bad for the users nonetheless)
- Comment on 6 days ago:
The version from 10 years ago, yeah. It’s here github.com/reddit-archive/reddit.
There’s a modern and production-ready open source alternative. It’s called Lemmy. You can find the source here github.com/lemmynet/lemmy
- Comment on 6 days ago:
If the code is bad, you realise only coders would notice it from reading that? That’s what makes it particularly insidious. The people who didn’t read the code have no idea what they’re in for.
What hardcoded bans are you referring to here? The 4chan one that can be disabled?
How about this one? ‘enoughmuskspam’ and ‘political_weirdos’ are hardcoded banned.
Also “can be disabled” does not excuse hardcoded filtering. If they’re serious they could implement a config system in an hour.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 6 days ago:
Chromium is a well-organized and mature codebase, which makes syncing changes relatively easy (also Brave’s chageset is limited in scope). PieFed is neither mature nor well-organized. Maintaining a downstream project from it would be a nightmare.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I wonder, would these users still use PieFed if they have seen its codebase? Maybe it can be one day but right now it’s 100% not production-grade software. Nonsensical hardcoded bans and blocks everywhere. >1000 lines of Python in a single file. Uses regex to parse HTML. The list goes on…
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
Usually 0/0=NaN and NaN compared with a number would be false.
Maybe the (up-down)/(up+down) is just what AmazingWizard summarized from the code. But from what we have seen of the quality of that codebase I won’t be surprised if it’s literally this expression, division by zero and all. Lol
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
I didn’t downvote your comment. But let me argue anyway.
Lots of people flock to PieFed because it is not made by the Lenmy devs who are unpalatably heavy handed in their “moderation” on the ml instance. One would hope this means PieFed offers more freedom to use the software how you like. So it’s funny that it’s even stricter “moderation” AND NOW ITS HARDCODED so it affects every instance.
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
not if both upvotes and downvotes are zero ❗️
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 1 week ago:
lol the code is so bad it’s entertaining. you should make a standalone post about this here and crosspost to !programming_horror@programming.dev
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 1 week ago:
Pretty sure some slopmaster asked an AI chatbot to make a catchy headline for the quantum mechanics we’ve known for years.
You have a quantum cat-in-a-box. The cat is in a superposition of being alive and dead. You make the “human choice” to open the box. Now the cat turns out to be dead, and it actually died 10 minutes before you open the box. So you can kind of interpret it as your choice affecting reality 10 minutes backwards.
- Comment on [troll science]: Unruh particle shower on a centrifuge 2 weeks ago:
Technically it’s not really a horizon if it “opens up” allowing you to observe events from the inside afterwards. But of course in any realistic setting (including that experiment) it will open up eventually, so no horizon. But nature doesn’t know that it will open up, so maybe it should behave like a horizon until nature knows, resulting in a criteria like you said. I think the criteria is loosely equivalent to saying “the acceleration must change the speed by almost c”, so your centrifuge probably wouldn’t lead to radiation.
But I really am not sure about any of this. The right way to do this is to actually calculate the mode function. One day when I’m better with QFT and all these stuff I’ll try to do it.
- Comment on [troll science]: Unruh particle shower on a centrifuge 3 weeks ago:
So I did a bit more reading. It seems like acceleration alone is not enough for invoking equivalence principle and saying we have Unruh radiation. If it was enough, non-blackholes objects would Hawking radiate like both of us were suspecting. Apparently physicists are quite confident only blackholes can Hawking radiate.
There is another picture that may work better for us. Instead of thinking of Unruh radiation (which would require doing serious QFT in curved spcetime calculations), we can think of the radiation coming from ripples popping up near the horizon (the black hole horizon for Hawking, the Rindler horizon for Unruh).
In this picture you absolutely need a horizon to get radiation. So on the centrifuge you won’t feel any radiation 🤷♂️
- Comment on pro choice 3 weeks ago:
For a finite game with no draws you are indeed able to.
- Comment on [troll science]: Unruh particle shower on a centrifuge 3 weeks ago:
good meme!
by the equivalence principle, even earth’s 1g gravitational field should already lead to some Unruh radiation for us, so you don’t even need a centrifuge!
but your centrifuge is interesting. from the PoV of someone at rest angular momentum needs to be conserved so as you get fatter the rotation must slow down as @herrpfad@feddit.org said. but from the troll’s PoV why should they slow down?? it’s a thermal spectrum, and acceleration is centrifugal, so why should there be a retrograde force?
i think the resolution is you don’t get exactly Unruh radiation (because your acceleration isn’t actually constant (its rotating)), but how exactly that affects the mode functions i have no idea
also let’s tag @surrealpartisan@lemmy.world