I agree on the sensationalism in the article.

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.

LOCK HIM UP, LOCK HIM UP

Yes, as Andrew said, languages are added automatically as content using those languages arrives from other instances.

This is not ideal. I think we need to improve something either in the initial setup or the admin UI.

You can work around this by subscribing to a community that uses the language you want. Or you could manually insert a row into the language table in the DB - ensure the value of the ‘code’ column is the standard 2 letter language code for your language. Which language is it?

How do you know that?

I will learn enough judo to throw you into the sun

best line

Damn I thought The Rock had finally entered politics but it turns out his name is Dwayne Johnson :(

I’m 5 paragraphs in and already I can tell this is something really special. It flows like water.

I’ve written some code to make this work, please give it a try.

I enjoyed this book on sociopathy in society https://www.amazon.com/Sociopath-Next-Door-Martha-Stout/dp/0767915828

I’m not 100% sold on the contagious idea but certainly every latent socio and narc has had a masterclass in recent years which would tend to embolden them.

I looked at the examples and really can’t see much difference.

https://gameoftrees.org/got.1.html#EXAMPLES

What am I missing?

That’s so good to hear!

I’ve paid close attention to performance because I’ve seen the huge expensive servers people are renting for their instances (Mastodon, especially) and it’s difficult to see the financial sustainability of that.

Once I fix the logo issue, you’ll want to deploy the latest code. To do this, change into the PieFed directory and then run ./deploy.sh to pull down the latest changes from codeberg and restart all the services, etc.

Definitely a bug! I’ll get right on that one.

Nice to see people trying PieFed out. How was the setup process & documentation?

Why the National Guard took so long is an interesting question but the more important one is why didn’t the FBI, etc notice the absolute state of the maga-verse in the weeks leading up to Jan 6th? All their plans were out in the open, even I knew what was going to go down and I’m just a random internet person on the other side of the world not the NSA or whatever.

They had weeks to prepare but instead got caught with their pants down. It was completely negligent. Heads should roll.

Fucking Telegram. There *has* to be a reckoning for that platform sometime.

This would be fine if there were no externalities.

Yeah, but no https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox

The climate doesn’t give a toss how much value for shareholders is generated, all that matters is the total amount of emissions.

Efficiency??

This is about the total amount of emissions, not the emissions-per-unit-of-compute (or whatever).

Yeah that’s pretty much it. Then that gets amplified by recommendation algorithms and toxic social media ecosystems, of course.

IMO getting a bit into the psychology of why people want to believe this crap is pretty key. Narcissism, cognitive bias…

Check this out https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon. Go into the ‘sources’ folder and start clicking around. A lot of the disinfo sites are in separate files but https://github.com/rimu/no-qanon/blob/master/sources/default.txt contains most of them in a big disorganized pile.

Also take a look at https://www.reddit.com/r/QAnonCasualties/ to understand the human cost at the individual & family level.

Google “Alt-right pipeline” to learn about how they’ve intentionally crafted a radicalization process. Also see https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P55t6eryY3g.