Still ongoing, but basic functionality is working.

Nokia (was massive) Siemens ASML SAP

This is so steampunk I love it

It’s sort of built in. During initial setup a blocklist is downloaded which includes fox news, RT, brietbart and 3000 more fascist, conspiracy and misinfo sites. Admins can unblock anything but I assume they have not bothered.

FYI

Fox News is banned from all PieFed instances and on https://piefed.social every post linking to nypost.com has a red warning symbol with a popup saying “very unreliable news source”.

video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gAT-BbyOWw

code https://github.com/Leproide/Linux-G15-Daemon-Logitech-G110-

I’m pretty sure it will only work with a handful of old Logitech keyboards.

When I eventually upgrade my OS and can’t compile the stack for some reason, I’ve got a Sun Type-7 waiting in the wings.

I have an old gamer keyboard with extra programmable keys on the side, which I use for cut, copy, paste, close tab, close window, etc. Logitech provides drivers/software for Windows & Mac only.

To make it work I have a custom monkey-patched USB driver that I compiled from source, some weird daemon that interacts with the driver and some shell scripts on top of that. I’m not sure how but it works thanks to a 9 year old youtube video made by a guy from eastern europe somewhere.

I made [email protected] for all the drama at social media companies

PieFed has a trans theme, btw

AppleScript really is amazing and I’m surprised Apple doesn’t publicize it more. There’s nothing like it.

Have you looked into using zram?

My cute puppy: [email protected]

Actually pretty close to how it was.

People on the radio keep talking about this revolutionary information superhighway which sounds grand but no one you know has an internet connection but you read in the newspaper that in a town nearby there is one in a public library. You travel there and find a single computer. There are no instructions and none of the staff know how it works. When you ask to see “the internet” they show you an icon to click and leave you to it. You click it, strange noises happen for a bit then stop and nothing happens, the computer seems frozen. Maybe you broke it but then literally 10 minutes later it un-freezes and you see a list on the screen:

• alt.binaries.mom
• alt.binaries.misc
• alt.binaries.warez
• alt.binaries.etc
• alt.binaries.warez.flightsim
• and so on, hundreds of them
• comp.lang.c
• comp.lang.perl
• comp.lang.prolog
• blah blah gibberish

Ok none of that sounds like an “information superhighway” so close the window and go back home.

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Lemmy has moderators and admins which remove CSAM. Plebbit was intentionally built in such a way that no one can remove anything. Extensive discussion of this at the OP’s original post https://lemmy.world/post/23704373. Ctrl-F for “censorship”

Something tells me the “I don’t host CSAM I just host posts that embed/link to CSAM (from other hosts)” argument won’t hold up in court.

https://beehaw.org doesn’t federate with lemmy.world which cuts them off from most of Lemmy-space.

Heavy nostalgia with this one

Human-readable names are a critical feature.

The fundamental flaw with microblogging is that people follow other people. Those people then spew a bunch of random posts on all sorts of topics. Very few people are consistently interesting, leading to a timeline / feed of random crap with a few nuggets of goodness scattered through it. This is unavoidable because of the person-follows-person architecture.

There are other pernicious effects that come from centering the individual. The narcissism, defensiveness, dunking are all enflamed, rewarded and promoted. Mastodon avoids some of this by not using a recommendation algorithm but the fundamental mistake of centering of the individual remains.

Also short-form content tends to be brainrot that destroys attention spans and reduces complex issues to bite-sized hand grenades to lob at The Other.

Combine hand grenades with narcissism and news/politics and the result is kinda predictable in hindsight.