PieFed does all kinds of stuff but I talk about it in public.

e.g. https://join.piefed.social/2024/06/22/piefed-features-for-growing-healthy-communities/

Despite this I’m sure someone will arrive shortly to describe all the times I didn’t document or communicate clearly enough.

Hmm this version has 8 more people on it than the one I saw yesterday. Maybe it’s being actively maintained, despite the attention.

Cool cool, thanks for your work :)

Definitely give freelancing a go. Don’t use websites / apps that claim to be freelancer marketplaces, they’re all overrun by people from low wage countries. Instead, find companies in your local area and approach them directly. Approach not as someone looking for work but as a business looking to create a partnership with another business.

Are the reposts automated or are you manually copy and pasting the content?

It looks like there is an ‘enable toxic mode’ setting that DOES switch off the auto-updating blocklist. The LLM that wrote this post claimed that there is no way to turn it off.

from src/lib/policies/system.ts:

export async function updateSystemFilterPolicy() {  
    if (SBDisabled && get(userSettings).enableToxicMode) {  
        SYSTEM_POLICY.set(BLANK_SYSTEM_FILTER_POLICY)  
        return  
    }  
   // auto-update of blocklist continues below  

The original post was written using AI so it’s going to have a lot of inaccuracies like that.

Overall though, having gone through the code myself, the LLM is in the right ballpark. The most friendly evaluation I can give is that this does seem poorly documented, too opaque and overly prescriptive. And needlessly encrypting the payload looks very shifty.

New stupidity tier unlocked

https://github.com/anomalyco/polaris does not exist. Is the url wrong?

Yes, each community has it’s own separate tag/flairs.

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2216045/you-can-now-block-posts-based-on-their-flair

You have pasted that comment into eleven different discussions.

In a 234-page report, the UN Group of Human Rights Experts on Nicaragua revealed structures of systematic repression that quelled anti-government protests that erupted in 2018 and left at least 350 dead and hundreds detained.

The [54] officials named [in the report] “played key roles in arbitrary detentions, torture, extrajudicial executions, persecution of civil society and the media, denationalization campaigns, and the confiscation of private property,” a statement accompanying the report said.

More at https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/nicaraguan-officials-committed-systematic-repression-un-says-2025-04-03/

Too late, the “betrayal” happened.

Now that he knows, if he says and does nothing and then she kills herself, how’s he going to live with that?

I just fixed a bug in the instance blocking, I hope it helps!

Ah, I just found a bug here - the instance blocking wasn’t checking the instance of the author, only the instance of the community. It checks both now.

Thanks for bringing this up!

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Yes although when you post in a remote community the remote instance will send your content wherever. They don’t know who you’ve blocked.

That’s one of the reasons I post in local communities more, these days.

Fuck off Jack

“AI is a tool” is a thought-terminating cliche. The phrase is intended to foreclose other ways of framing the discussion.

It doesn’t do it in comments, just when you make a post.

Apparently Bun was always an especially bad example of how to use Zig.

From https://andrewkelley.me/post/my-thoughts-bun-rust-rewrite.html

The Zig team regularly checks in on our users’ projects. We read source code to find out how the language is affecting users, we test changes to see how problematic breakage might be, and we check for performance regressions.

We became increasingly horrified at the programming practices we saw in Bun’s codebase. Hacks on top of hacks. Abuse of assertions. Most of all, recklessly speeding past feature after feature with very little time taken for reflection and elimination of bugs and technical debt. Jarred was already writing slop well before he had access to LLMs. Now, it’s not our business to police what our users do, but you may have noticed people screaming in our faces about memory safety constantly. You can imagine how we might want to put some social distance between ourselves and a project whose irresponsible software engineering practices invite the exact kind of criticism that people are eager to level.

We made futile attempts to guide them towards better programming practices. There were a few exceptional heroes who did their very best in a dysfunctional company. You know who you are. But you can’t stop a rising tide.

By this time, we all felt at ZSF that Bun was a net liability, and this was before RoboBun became the #1 contributor.