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- Comment on Microsoft’s ‘unhackable’ Xbox One has been hacked by 'Bliss' 4 days ago:
I’m really fascinated at how complex this was. How anyone even works this stuff out is beyond me.
I still have one sat in a drawer so I really hope they can make this into a consumer friendly hack.
- Comment on Meirl 1 week ago:
Bug fix for this was recently introduced, seems to specifically be reddit images.
git.asonix.dog/asonix/pict-rs/releases/…/v0.5.23
Should be fixed going forwards :)
Please ping me directly if you do see anything like this in future!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
It’s a little hard to give exact costs for both instances as a whole, because they share infrastructure (i.e. shared email host is one cost across both) but the server itself for Lemmy is just under 50 euros a month, plus image storage at another 15/16 USD per month (with around 2TB of images). The smaller piefed server is more in the region of 25 euros a month, with images more in the 5/10USD range. Then domain on top of that. It’s not “expensive” as such, but it is time-heavy.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
Ah ok, when you mentioned Piefed I thought you were using a piefed account for this.
So for example does this link not work for you? lemmy.zip/?dataType=Post&listingType=All&sort=Act…
Or is it only on page 2 for example?
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I’d argue quite happily that cereal is a soup - I had my cereal with hot milk this morning as it was cold outside, and I know a weirdo that eats soup cold. I’d argue there is no difference.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
We have an extra layer of complexity with Lemmy.zip because we have NSFW images, and there is no way in lemmy for me to prevent UK users (or under 18s) from seeing that content if they sign up.
Having NSFW means I need to have “highly effective” age verification in place, regardless of size, which I am obviously not going to do (I dont believe in it for a start, but also its incredibly expensive). If I turn NSFW off, like feddit.uk have, then I could do a risk assessment and all would be well, but then we’d lose things like spoilers in post images (because that functionality doesn’t exist yet) and any risque art communities etc.
I’d also have to proactively scan everything to ensure it wasn’t NSFW otherwise I could potentially be in breach of the OSA - that level of monitoring for a couple of volunteers just isn’t worth it unfortunately!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
Can you let me know a bit of detail on this? Which one(s) aren’t working?
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
Ideally someone that can check the site once or twice a day. We dont get masses of mod reports or anything like that but its just eyes on to make sure things are running smoothly!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
In terms of the OSA, there is already detection in place for UK IP addresses to prevent them connecting to the site and instead forward them to uk.lemmy.zip - I will at some point need to do the same for Piefed. This takes the sites outside of the OSA so I dont need to comply. The data is all hosted in the EU but having the misfortune to be a UK citizen myself I need to take that extra step.
In terms of the memory, its a bit misleading because the lemmy server is by far our most powerful, so we run a bunch of other stuff on there too, including backend admin tools, Oauth, grafana, matrix etc. So memory consumption will be much higher. Lemmy i think is a bit more performant than piefed but only anedotally, I dont have the comparison to back that up.
- Comment on Welcome to Lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago:
You can’t use it directly, but you can create a new account there and then import your Lemmy profile over to it and that takes your subscriptions and profile data over. You would lose your post history though.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
I’m more comfortable with Lemmy because I’ve been doing it 3 times longer than piefed, built all my own custom bot stuff, and had to get comfortable with the API. The admin side of things is also way simpler in my opinion, but Piefed offers a lot more in terms of customisation, such as plugins and custom built in pages. Pros and cons both ways to be honest. Piefed is also under very rapid development vs Lemmy which is very measured and tested. Again, pros and cons either way!
I’m looking forward to both plugins and private communities in Lemmy 1.0!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update March 2026 2 weeks ago:
PS yes those banners are way too big and no, I’m not going to fix them this month as I am just that lazy.
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to home@lemmy.zip | 34 comments
- Comment on Some images are click to enlarge, others just take you directly to a different link; also image uploads 3 weeks ago:
In order to keep image storage size down, we convert all uploaded images to avif format. Keeps the image size down but decompresses in high quality
- Comment on Some images are click to enlarge, others just take you directly to a different link; also image uploads 3 weeks ago:
Hi, there’s currently an issue in the lemmy ui where it doesn’t handle avif format images very well and makes you open it in a new link instead of enlarging it. Its fixed in the next version of lemmy, whenever the devs decide to release it (likely 1.0)
- Comment on Steam Next Fest - February 2026 is live with tons of demos 3 weeks ago:
Ive been waiting on last man sitting for absolutely ages but it appears to have changed quite a bit from the original idea. Gonna download it and see if its been worth the wait!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 4 weeks ago:
No worries - let me know if you come across any other broken ones. I can’t always fix them but happy to take a look.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 4 weeks ago:
Sure, lemmy.ml and lemmy.zip both use an image proxy, so we take a copy of the image from the remote server and give that to you instead of a direct link to the remote server (better for user privacy by stopping things like tracking pixels, ip leaks etc).
In this case, it was an image from imgur that lemmy.ml was already proxying via the lemmy.ml server, which we were then trying to proxy from lemmy.ml. I’m not entirely sure what the issue is with lemmy.ml, but we’d appeared to have a rate limit and we couldn’t get a copy of that image from lemmy.ml. Instead, we now bypass the proxy from lemmy.ml and just serve their image from their proxy instead, as it’s already doing the exact same thing ours is. The trade off is that you have to visit lemmy.ml to get that image (same as you would for most other linked images on the web) but at least the image works.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 4 weeks ago:
Does this work for you now?
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 weeks ago:
ok thats good, an old version of android is the main culprit usually. can you link me to a post where you’re seeing image failures and i can look into it further?
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 5 weeks ago:
Are you using an android device?
- Comment on A new homelessness law in Wales is being called 'world-leading' 5 weeks ago:
Some good ideas in this bill, care leavers given some priority for example, but as always with Welsh Gov - where’s the money? This will just cause even higher council tax rises. And with what properties do they expect LAs to provide to people? It’ll just see an increase in HMOs and crime rates as the private market will see an opportunity to force as many people into one building as possible (moreso than already)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 1 month ago:
Thanks, appreciate it!
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 1 month ago:
The actual lemmy database sits around 110GB at the moment. And that’s with almost 3 years of posts/comments from all over the fediverse, so I think that’s a reasonable storage amount.
I don’t know of a way of seperating out local vs federated in terms of content to be able to check it’s size, it’s all held in the same table(s) with a local flag if local. There is probably a way, I’d need someone smarter than me to work it out though.
Our biggest risk to storage at one point was prometheus and keeping hold of massive amounts of log files so that we could work out when and where we were being attacked from. By implementing a full challenge in cloudflare, we’ve been able to stop that which is why that graph comes down a bit.
The biggest storage issue is images, which is 2.1TB at the moment. There is a way to clear this up a bit with some software, but it’s apparently got risk, so low down the priority list at the moment as object storage is cheap and doesn’t affect the server directly.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 1 month ago:
Glad you enjoyed it, took me far too long to write it and chuckled to myself the whole time 😅
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 1 month ago:
Thanks for being here! :)
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 1 month ago:
I just get weird looks when trying to explain it to people, but it’s so awesome. Such a cool idea.
- Comment on Lemmy.zip & Piefed.zip Server Update February 2026 1 month ago:
❤️ whichever is best for the people donating, we just try to provide as many options as possible
- Submitted 1 month ago to home@lemmy.zip | 46 comments
- Comment on Valve will face that £656m UK lawsuit accusing them of overcharging Steam customers, as tribunal rules it can go ahead 1 month ago:
Had a nosey further into this, I was assuming its backed by epic or something like that although nothing obvious jumps out.
There’s a list of FAQs on the website too, most of which are demonstrably false, which makes me very curious as to why this random person feels they speak for me, which they don’t, and what backing they have here. All very strange.