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Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.

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You might enjoy the book "Climate Leviathan". It's about all that and draws on a lot of history and philosophy.

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US and friends regularly take their boats out for a drive, NK always reacts the same. It's a pretty boring news article.

I just had an idea that people smarter than me have probably had long before I heard of Lemmy.....but I don't see it implemented, so I'm sharing it anyways!!!

Ok, so one of the bigger problems I see on Lemmy is the fact that I subscribe to dozens of different communities, but my feed is always the same. News news news technology technology technology....

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Yes, like this https://piefed.social/topics

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Yes, it's a bit different.

In Kbin they are user-defined. If kbin.social was online I'd share a link.

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It's going well, thanks for asking. I enjoy using it and improving it every day.

Over the last year I've learnt a lot and if I started again today I'd lay some of the underlying foundations differently - in a way that supports a medium sized app instead of a small one. At the time I didn't know if it would ever grow beyond being small... Good problem to have!

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Yeah I'm pretty interested in this and Topics is only the first iteration of the idea. At the time piefed.social was basically a single-user instance so making the topics admin-manually-curated groupings was fine. Perhaps it's time to take things to the next level, tho.

The concept of 'multireddits' sounds like a bundle of related functionality and I'm not sure which parts of that you're interested in that PieFed's "topics" doesn't already do. Is it the user-created part? The subscribing part? The join-many-communties-at-once part? PieFed does some of those already but you won't see it unless you're logged in...

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Yeah user-created topics would be a fine enhancement. Various aspects of the multireddit concept have separate issues in the issue queue but they haven't been coherently tied together yet. It might be time to do that.

One way to limit exposure to negative news is a keyword filter, which I implemented 6 months ago, early on in the project: https://piefed.social/post/7576

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The article links to this as technical proof https://grizzlyreports.com/we-believe-pdd-is-a-dying-fraudulent-company-and-its-shopping-app-temu-is-cleverly-hidden-spyware-that-poses-an-urgent-security-threat-to-u-s-national-interests/

There's analysis of decompiled source code.

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I agree on the sensationalism in the article.

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This might all be made up. See https://www.nknews.org/2024/06/fact-check-north-korea-has-not-announced-plans-to-send-troops-to-ukraine-yet/

I've never heard of NK News before so - https://mediabiasfactcheck.com/nk-news/. Seems Ok.

In other news articles they're described as support troops or engineers. They'd be building things, cooking meals, driving trucks, repairing stuff. Maybe occasionally get a HIMARS dropped on them but certainly not storming trenches.

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No one is keeping track of how enthusiastically they do it or writing official reports on it or encouraging more of it. It's the interest the govt takes in it that makes it weird(er).

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No, not really. Autism is pretty distinctive, there's far more signs to spot than being quiet and awkward.

Advice on best way to replace personal Atlassian Jira subscription

I'm currently paying a moderate amount to atlassian to host jira for me, and I'm looking for a FOSS way to replace it. I don't use it every month and I've decided it's not worth continuing to pay, plus I want to transition to FOSS wherever I can. I just feel trapped. I'm sure people here know the feeling when using...

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It depends what you were using Jira for - it has a lot of features, most of which you were probably not using.

Trac has a wiki, tickets and git all in one - https://trac.edgewall.org

NextCloud has a plugin called 'Tasks' which looks similar to Trello.

Forgejo is similar to github - https://forgejo.org/

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I don't think trac has any kind of kanban UI to it, btw. They might have added it by now, it's been years since I used it.

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A solid choice. I've been using it daily ( codeberg.org ) for the last year and it's pretty great!

The code review features are not as awesome as github but you won't need those.

Lemmy is a failed Reddit alternative

I first joined Lemmy back during the big Reddit exodus of last year. I like many others wanted an alternative to Reddit, and I thought that this might've been the one. I made two accounts, one on lemmy.world and another on sh.itjust.works, in the June of last year that I used on and off for about 4 months....

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Sports - https://piefed.social/topic/sports-fitness
Gaming - https://piefed.social/topic/gaming
Science - https://piefed.social/topic/science
Cooking - https://piefed.social/topic/food
Gardening - https://lemmy.world/c/gardening

It is understandable that you didn't find those communities, discoverability is a real issue with Lemmy. I have tried to solve this by curating communities into groups of Topics - https://piefed.social/topics

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I've been reading your posts. You make excellent points very often, clearly drawing from a deep knowledge of the region.

However continually calling people names and insulting their intelligence will tend to stop them from really hearing your message and just inflame the situation. You could just not type that stuff and then everything else you type would have more impact. It'd be a pity to waste all that effort.

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Yes your frustration is totally understandable. It is a very heated topic and a lot of bad faith arguments are thrown around.

Sometimes I remind myself not to hope that the person I'm replying to will understand my reply or acknowledge that I'm right - instead I post my reply for the lurkers to read, who are far more numerous. The lurker has not publicly said anything so their ego is not fixed on defending their position and they are more likely to receive what I contribute with an open mind.

With this wider context, the goal changes. When the target audience shifts to the readers then there is no longer a need to continue a long back and forth discussion (the person replying to me will never change their mind anyway!) once I have made my point clearly. It's ok if the other person has the last word if by having it they discredit themselves by demonstrating a closed mind - the lurkers will see it.

I hope this helps.

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The only other country where divorce is illegal is Vatican City.

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I had the intellectual rug pulled out from under me like that, once. Someone I met minutes before saw deep inside and knew exactly where to push to make everything fall apart. It was brutal, took me days to recover.

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‘Good Will Hunting’ Bench in Boston Public Garden Becomes Robin Williams Memorial

Power outage hits Balkan states as heat overloads system, minister says ( www.reuters.com )

PODGORICA, June 21 (Reuters) - A major power outage hit Montenegro, Bosnia, Albania and most of Croatia's coast on Friday, disrupting businesses, shutting down traffic lights and leaving people sweltering without air conditioning in the middle of a heatwave....

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I would appreciate this mbfc content on smaller less well known sources but imo we can assume Reuters and other big names are already trusted.

Also this article is a simple reporting of unambiguous events that undoubtedly occurred so there's really no need to check the source. It's not an interpretation of a political situation.

Just trying to save you some time.

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How do you know that?

I Will Fucking Piledrive You If You Mention AI Again — Ludicity ( ludic.mataroa.blog )

How stupid do you have to be to believe that only 8% of companies have seen failed AI projects? We can't manage this consistently with CRUD apps and people think that this number isn't laughable? Some companies have seen benefits during the LLM craze, but not 92% of them. 34% of companies report that generative AI specifically...

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I will learn enough judo to throw you into the sun

best line

"Moderation tools are nonexistent on here. It also eats up storage like crazy [...] The software is downright frustrating to work with" - Can any other instance admins relate to this?

After a year online the free speech-focused instance 'Burggit' is shutting down. Among other motivations, the admins point to grievances with the Lemmy software as one of the main reasons for shutting down the instance. In a first post asking about migrating to Sharkey, one of the admins states:...

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When I started working on PieFed I was all enthusiastic about the idea of moderation tools. But when it came time to actually code that functionality it was like pulling teeth. Just. Sooo. Boring. It took weeks longer than it should have, for that reason. This was really surprising to me because I'm deeply passionate about moderation and 'gardening' a community.

That's the thing about open source, people just do the fun stuff. There's always some fun stuff to do which distracts from the boring-but-necessary.

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Some gentle pressure applied here might change that https://codeberg.org/swiso/website/issues/255

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I have the official Signal Desktop flatpak installed through Discover. It exists.

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Yeah, I think it's that one. Does Discover pull it's content from flathub.org?

It says "by Signal Foundation" on it and 900,000 people have installed it so it seems good enough to me.

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Chaos Condo in Manila: Yowling cat, BDSM couple and Nose Job Woes Shake Up Quiet Night.

I am not kidding. Life is strange sometimes.

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Also across the hall there is a phone that rings for 10 full minutes, every day.

And the aircon smells like mold.

And the windows are stuck shut.

And the bathroom smells a bit like sewer.

Sorry, got on a roll there.

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I wish they were able to find better examples of the courses and the content (not just the summary from marketing materials). The examples they provided were really tame.

in China, law enforcement is designed to protect the state and the Party rather than the people, journalism is prescribed to create national unity rather than act as a check against the system, and the law is intended to protect the regime rather than its citizenry.

Very succinctly put!

In the Constitution of China you'll find a section where it explicitly states that the interests of the group outweigh those of the individual. It's baked into the legal bedrock.

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Yeah, I read the whole thing. It was a good story but I felt that when it came time to "deliver the goods" they fell a bit short. For example, this: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/final-image-global-south.png. That is under the heading "Clearly authoritarian", which seems pretty strong for such a boring sounding course.

I stand by my earlier comment.

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The headline had me hoping for things like "Xinjiang - how we incarcerated 1 million people for only $5k pp / year" or "Integrating vassel states - lessons from Hong Kong" or "The Tibet Journey" or "Propaganda for fun and profit Steve Bannon edition".

Nope 😴

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No commits to that repo for 6 months. Oof 😔

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Yes, it's completely possible.

Kbin has it, which it calls "Collections" - see https://kbin.social/magazines/collections. Anyone can add a collection which can be subscribed to by anyone. It is very flexible and crowd-sources the work of organizing the communities into collections. I like it.

PieFed calls it "Topics" - see https://piefed.social/topics. They are arraigned into a hierarchy and are created by the the instance admin. This could give a better experience to the end user but puts more work onto the instance admins.

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These guys have 2 weeks of training.

Also, war is hell.

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Yes. The process is the same on kbin.social except the admin has been AWOL for months. So don't expect a response.

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I think so?! Seems to be a trend!

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Employers would absolutely love to be able to ask their pet AI "hey tell me who to fire based on their computer usage"...

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You can see how using AI to analyze a video (effectively a video, they didn't say how often the screenshots are taken but they'd need to be pretty often for it to work) of their entire work life the whole time they've been at a company takes it to another level tho, right?

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This is how it's done. USA, take note.

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Turn on captions.

Around 20 minutes in the scene changes to another part of the battle. It's inside an APC and the soldiers have the door open, wanting to disembark but they're taking too much fire. Soon the APC is hit badly enough that everyone has to get out anyway...

Absolute nightmare.

Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men ( www.researchgate.net )

Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.

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Thanks for grabbing the chart.

My Stats 101 alarm bells go off whenever I see a graph that does not start with 0 on the Y axis. It makes the differences look bigger than they are.

The 'outsiders, gendered' which is the headline stat, shows a 1% difference between women and men. When their gender is unknown there is a 3% difference in the other direction (I'm just eyeballing the graph here as they did not provide their underlying data, lol wtf ). So, overall, the sexism effect seems to be about 4%.

That's a bit crap but does not blow my hair back. I was expecting more, considering what we know about gender pay gaps, etc.

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Really great comments at https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/reviews/. The reviewers are very nice about it but do point out some big issues towards the end.

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