Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.
Damn I thought The Rock had finally entered politics but it turns out his name is Dwayne Johnson :(
Successfully ran from the cops.
I was on a bike and they were in a car so I kept off the road system as much as possible. I went through a school (the kids saw the start so knew what was up - they cheered me on), through a swamp out the back and then a long bumpy ride down a railway line.
There is no rush quite like it.
Got to work only 15 minutes late.
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.
Most Filipino restaurants will have it although it’ll be pork-based not tofu.
I’m 5 paragraphs in and already I can tell this is something really special. It flows like water.
I wonder how many of those registered members are active? Maybe 38?
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.
Chaos Condo in Manila: Yowling cat, BDSM couple and Nose Job Woes Shake Up Quiet Night.
I am not kidding. Life is strange sometimes.
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 😴
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.
No commits to that repo for 6 months. Oof 😔
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.
I looked at the examples and really can’t see much difference.
https://gameoftrees.org/got.1.html#EXAMPLES
What am I missing?
You can play the original PS1 version if Wipeout in your browser
https://phoboslab.org/wipegame/
I don’t know if that’s the ‘best’ way, but there it is.
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.
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.
I think I see a way out of this.
You can figure it out, I believe in you.
No. We’ve done some work in that direction to try some things out but nothing anywhere near usable.
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