…as the sea goes up, both pupils will be underwater.

Sea level rise is going to render that evolutionary adaptation useless! Checkmate, fish

Installed qbittorrent and downloaded a few seasons of Linux isos onto a vps. Discovered accessing those files over SSH to be too slow to play them without buffering so installed filebrowser to get them via http which worked well.

It’s been a long long time since I used bittorrent and wow it works so much better these days.

I had a browse of the code recently. It’s really well put together, I think they have a great foundation it just needs to be optimized. I’m hopeful about friendica.

That’s an interesting algorithm!

IMO the Lemmy scaled sort would be ok if it wasn’t as powerful.

Try the scaled sort on PieFed.social, the amplification isn’t as strong and I just tweaked it to filter out bot posts.

https://piefed.social/home/scaled/all

Yeah, don’t do that.

You can follow PieFed users on Mastodon though - put the url of their profile into the search on Mastodon then click follow.

hell yeah

Don’t worry about that, the OS does not need to control fan speeds, it’s built in to the hardware.

In the BIOS many computers will let you control the temperatures that determine the speed. Also you can use software to override the hardware defaults but it’s usually only really necessary if you want to tune it for extra quietness.

Your computer will automatically increase fan speed when it starts working hard.

By the time NLnet was ready to make a decision on the PieFed grant (7 months after we applied) we’d already completed 90% of the things. No grant for us.

I’ll try again next year if I can plan more than 7 months in advance.

Ask your admins about that - PieFed has that feature but only admins can do it and it’s instance-wide.

That could happen in the future but at the moment and in the past surely we lost more mods as a result of their community being dead than from their community being too active. But we don’t hear from them because they feel rejected and like they failed so they slink away quietly.

99% of communities need more content, not less.

Thank you for this counter-weight!

Some beginner-friendly programming things. If you can tolerate non-oss - PyCharm community edition.

I’ve been thinking about adding Q&A features to PieFed for a while… Initially just the ability to set a comment as the solution to a post and then give that comment more emphasis in the UI. What else do we need? Maybe display the number of solution comments on peoples profile.

Install a floppy drive. No one gonna steal a computer with one of those.

All this rests on the implied assertion that ATProto is part of the open social web.

I don’t know the answer to that and I don’t really care to find out.

Yep good point. A group is just another type of actor, after all.

I like how the did field is in addition to the existing actor field, providing a way to gradually transition the protocol to the new way.