Rimu @ rimu @piefed.social

Web developer. Lead developer of [PieFed](https://join.piefed.social/)

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"a documented history of migrant abuse" is such a nice way to put it.

A quick search for "libya migrant mass graves" brings up this - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159951

That's not 'migrant abuse'. That's somewhere on the spectrum between genocide and mass murder.

I remember when MS made the perfect control panel in Win 2k and XP then spent the next 20 years making it worse and worse just because.

And here we are.

Yep, I'll document it in some way. A FEP seems overkill as it's really just adding a bit more data onto Actors and Activities, not a big deal.

You say that like it's a bad thing.

Lemmy users missing out is THE reason they'll become PieFed users.

I did the DB structure changes at the same time as the ones needed for community flair as they're quite similar. Might be able to do the rest tomorrow.

Tags, aka hashtags, are instance-wide (not just in a community) and interoperate with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Mbin. Anyone can make a new hashtag and they are completely unmoderated.

Flairs are a limited list determined by each community's mods and are only used in that community. They will federate with other PieFed instances and with Lemmy (when they finish coding what they're calling "tags", a really unfortunate choice of name).

Watch this space.

IMO framing this as a way to protect the feelings of the poster sets us up to debate how people should react to downvotes. That was my initial reaction, anyway. It's not a productive discussion, too much judgement.

But there are heaps of other good reasons why you might want to just show a single number (upvotes minus downvotes), for everyone, not just when viewing one's own content.

• cleaner, less cluttered UI
• simpler code?
• people don't need to know how many downvotes a comment got (their own comments OR other people's), all that really matters is the aggregate score

Reddit and PieFed both just show one number - the score - and it works fine. On PieFed you can hover your mouse over the score to get a tooltip that breaks it down into up and down but afaik no one cares.

If other people can see that I got downvoted a lot but I can't then every little snarky comment about how many downvotes I'm getting is going to trigger extreme FOMO and the urge to turn the downvote hiding feature off. An unknown amount of downvotes is worse than knowing how many downvotes there are.

You want to be more welcoming to the people who freak out about downvotes? The people for whom the slightest criticism is a huge problem?

Title updated.

I think this is a case where changing it to "lies" won't violate the community rule "Title must fairly describe link contents. If your title differs from the site’s, it should only be to add context or be more descriptive"...

Results of the study:

Notably, all our treatments surpass human performance substantially, achieving persuasive rates between three and six times higher than the human baseline.

UP TO 6 TIMES MORE PERSUASIVE!!1

we demonstrate that LLMs can be highly persuasive in real-world contexts, surpassing all previously known benchmarks of human persuasiveness. Their effectiveness also opens the door to misuse, potentially en-
abling malicious actors to sway public opinion [12] or orchestrate election interference cam-
paigns [21]. Incidentally, our experiment confirms the challenge of distinguishing human- from
AI-generated content [22–24]. Throughout our intervention, users of r/ChangeMyView never
raised concerns that AI might have generated the comments posted by our accounts. This hints
at the potential effectiveness of AI-powered botnets [25], which could seamlessly blend into on-
line communities .

Oh shit.

I'm conflicted.

Making those poor bastards work 12 hour days, 6 days per week for small money is pretty fucked.

Sending them to somewhere that may be a death camp is worse tho.

Feels like the article set up a false dichotomy.

You're going to have to prioritise.

Find changes that:

Save a decent amount of money Are low risk Don't take too long to do Can be easily backed-out of

Also, turn off chat heads. Such obvious engagement bait.

There are probably a variety of mindsets that will do it.

For me, I think it was just really wanting to get away from being under the boot. Get away from the walled gardens. Like that feeling after using LinkedIn, except for the OS. Hearing the call of freedom, authenticity and humanity.

Increasing amounts of code running on my computer and in the online services I use will be written by generative AI.

Emphasis added by me.

Thing is, it's not black and white most of the time - usually a developer is using Gen AI as an assistant in some capacity. There are a wide range of ways to do that with really big differences in how firmly their hand remains on the wheel of where things are going. Only in the most extreme "vibe coding" scenario would it be fair to characterize the code as "written by AI".

There reaches a point somewhere on the spectrum of dependency on AI where quality would suffer and developer capacity-building would be stunted. Where that point is, is a more productive question than a binary Yes or No to all AI.

I heard you like spreadsheets so I put a spreadsheet in your game so you can spreadsheet while you game

"Do you regularly watch videos by Jordan Peterson?" kinda needs to become one of those before-first-date screening questions.

Cool, but now SSH into a remote server and then try to open nano. It doesn't.

After using it for 3 weeks I concluded that as Kitty breaks the fundamentals all the nice shiny isn't worth it.

Elon Musk, the de facto head of DOGE, lowered expectations of the group’s savings from $1 trillion to $150 billion by the end of the fiscal year.

So, a failure even on their own terms.