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Still lots of things to do :)

Lemmy has been at it for years at this point while piefed only started up a bit over a year ago I think? In any case, I have only been a contributor for maybe a couple weeks, so lots of catching up to do!

Relevant issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/665

tl;dr - it's an issue with the pillow image library in python. It's on our radar though. I got posts working, but you have to click through, the thumbnail still isn't animated.

IIRC it is intentional that world isn't there to help spread out users to other instances.

Well, it can federate with lemmy instances and there are way, way more lemmy users/communities than there are piefed user/communities. If you want to see the local communities on a piefed instances, it would be at /communities/local. This is the page for piefed.social.

Ah, I'll have to try that out. I kind of forgot that the Playstation even has a browser.

Most of my plex users stream via Playstation, an area where Jellyfin has essentially been locked out. I let my users know how they can access my Jellyfin for the upcoming loss of remote play, but almost all of them opted to just pay the $2/mo to keep using their Playstation client.

Not sure where this falls on lemmy's roadmap or if there is a github issue for it, but you can turn off notifications in piefed per post or comment. You can also enable notifications for posts/comments that aren't your own if there is a thread you want to keep tabs on.

The theory that the lead maintainer had (he is an actual software developer, I just dabble), is that it might be a type of reinforcement learning:

• Get your LLM to create what it thinks are valid bug reports/issues
• Monitor the outcome of those issues (closed immediately, discussion, eventual pull request)
• Use those outcomes to assign how "good" or "bad" that generated issue was
• Use that scoring as a way to feed back into the model to influence it to create more "good" issues

If this is what's happening, then it's essentially offloading your LLM's reinforcement learning scoring to open source maintainers.

Really great piece. We have recently seen many popular lemmy instances struggle under recent scraping waves, and that is hardly the first time its happened. I have some firsthand experience with the second part of this article that talks about AI-generated bug reports/vulnerabilities for open source projects.

I help maintain a python library and got a bug report a couple weeks back of a user getting a type-checking issue and a bit of additional information. It didn't strictly follow the bug report template we use, but it was well organized enough, so I spent some time digging into it and came up with no way to reproduce this at all. Thankfully, the lead maintainer was able to spot the report for what it was and just closed it and saved me from further efforts to diagnose the issue (after an hour or two were burned already).

Wow, I hadn't realized until you pointed it out that you can't delete pm's (I guess without getting admins to fiddle with the db). I still use my lemmy account to moderate some lemmy communities, but I am appreciating using piefed as my threadiverse consumption platform more and more.

You have clearly never driven on 93 through Boston where the person you replied to said they are from (aka the Big Dig). It is basically an entire highway that is underneath the city. There are many on and off ramps, lanes suddenly become exit only, complex multi-lane exits that branch...it's intimidating. As somebody that has lived in the Boston area for 15 years now, I still mess things up.

Official response from Greg Bernhardt

It's years since I last used PhysicsForums, but found it immensely useful in the old days while going through my undergrad physics degree (it was less useful for PhD courses). I am not morally opposed to providing AI attempts at an answer in threads where nobody else chimes in. However, using real accounts that belong to other users is wildly over the line. I was surprised to see this wasn't really called out in the official response thread by the existing users as that is the part of all this that is the most egregious to me.

IIRC, piefed's private votes are disabled for "trusted" instances. You can see which instances are trusted here.

I have a PhD in and am a practicing physicist in the field of rheology. I think this is an interesting way to explain viscoelastic materials to people. My go-to example is usually Silly Putty, but cats are something that just about everybody has some experience with.