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Rimu @ rimu @piefed.social
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Murders of two female students prompt calls for a ‘cultural rebellion’ in Italy

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  • I appreciate your posts, keep it up!

    • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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  • I've never seen a Lemmy DB, sorry. But I hang out in the Lemmy matrix rooms and read about admins struggling with their 300 GB databases quite often.

    • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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    • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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  • We won't 100% know the answer to that until we get there. But in 2025 fear of a lack of CPU cores is NOT what keeps me awake at night.

    Early performance results are positive. Check these links out:

    https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/

    https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/

    There are many many ways to ruin web app performance and choice of backend language is not really a big one. It's what you do with it that counts.

    https://piefed.social/ is running on a low end VPS which costs $7.50 per month. Load average is about 1.45 during the busiest part of the day. Most of the load is caused by federating with lemmy.world and that won't increase as more users come on board.

    PieFed is also really efficient with storage. After 16 months of operation, subscribed to every popular community, the piefed.social DB is 30 GB and the media storage is 28 GB. A Lemmy instance would be 10x that. I haven't bothered to add S3 storage code because we just don't need it (yet).

    Anyway, all this focus on costs and downsides is only half the coin. There are massive benefits that come from using Python:

    • Easy and fun
    • Fast development velocity
    • Huge amounts of developers know Python
    • Extensive and mature libraries with good documentation
    • Good readability
    • Cross-platform without re-compiling

    For a FOSS project where volunteer contributions from people play a big part these things are really important. There are many ways a project can fail (not just technical reasons but social & governance too) and running out of CPU is way way down on the list.

    • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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  • Welcome to the jungle

    • What features are missing from piefed, or, why aren't we reccommending piefed instead of lemmy?

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  • If you use a mobile app then whether your account is on Lemmy or PieFed makes no difference - most of your experience will be determined by which app you choose.

    • Bernstein Posits That A 10 Percent Baseline US Tariff On Raw Semiconductors Is "Not Going To Do All That Much," But PCs, Servers, And Smartphones Are About To Get Pricier By ~40 Percent

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  • Maybe reduced demand in USA will lower prices everywhere else...

    • A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse

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  • IMO poor security is more about a lack of eyes on the code. Projects that have a single developer and a lower user-base will be pretty easy money.

    • A new security fund opens up to help protect the fediverse

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  • I can't wait to find out which project has the most security holes 🔥

    Any guesses?

    • AdNauseam is a uBlock fork that goes further: it actively attacks marketers by auto-clicking every ad before blocking

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  • Google has put a lot of effort into detecting and blocking stuff like this. They call it "click fraud", if you want to look it up.

    It'll just mean they start ignoring clicks from you.

    • TIL a pack of lemmings is called a plague

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    • TIL a pack of lemmings is called a plague

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  • BE the plague

    • Show me your iOS/macOS bugs

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  • It's totally gonna work /s

    • Show me your iOS/macOS bugs

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  • Bug Report: Missing AppleScript Introduction on First Login

    Summary

    After logging in for the first time, users do not receive any introduction or guidance on using AppleScript. As a result, one of macOS’s most powerful automation features remains hidden and underutilized.

    Steps to Reproduce

    Set up a new macOS device or create a new user account.

    Complete the initial macOS setup process.

    Log in for the first time.

    Observe the lack of any AppleScript introduction or onboarding.

    Expected Behavior

    After logging in for the first time, the user should be presented with an introduction to AppleScript, including a brief explanation of its capabilities and an option to open the Script Editor with example scripts.

    Actual Behavior

    No introduction, tutorial, or prompt related to AppleScript is displayed. Users remain unaware of its presence unless they actively seek it out.

    Environment

    macOS Version: All

    Device Model: All

    User Type: First-time user (new account or fresh macOS installation)

    Reproducibility: 100% (occurs on all tested machines)

    Additional Information

    AppleScript is a core feature of macOS but is not surfaced to users who may benefit from it.

    Other macOS features, such as Shortcuts, receive more prominent onboarding.

    A simple onboarding dialog or notification could greatly improve discovery and adoption of AppleScript.

    Suggested Fix

    Introduce a brief AppleScript onboarding experience upon first login, possibly including:

    A welcome screen explaining what AppleScript is.

    A button to open the Script Editor with example scripts.

    A link to documentation or tutorials.

    • Putin threatens US over Greenland ambition: ‘We will not allow encroachments’

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    • Most Britons do not know scale of UK’s involvement in slavery, survey finds

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    • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • PieFed accounts are free and take 2 mins to create. Check it out :)

    • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • Good point, yep.

    On the other hand it would also help people find communities they are interested in but haven't subscribed to yet.

    • PieFed supports auto merging threads so you see all the comments in one post

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  • Like normal - the comments are not actually merged, they are still in reply to separate posts. The appearance of merging is just at the user interface level.

    • What is going on behind the scenes when searching for a lemmy post in a search engine?

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  • Every post has a <link rel="canonical" href="https://lemmy.instance/whatever"> tag on it which links to the version of the post on the author's instance.