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rimu OP , 1 day ago

Thanks for grabbing the chart.

My Stats 101 alarm bells go off whenever I see a graph that does not start with 0 on the Y axis. It makes the differences look bigger than they are.

The 'outsiders, gendered' which is the headline stat, shows a 1% difference between women and men. When their gender is unknown there is a 3% difference in the other direction (I'm just eyeballing the graph here as they did not provide their underlying data, lol wtf ). So, overall, the sexism effect seems to be about 4%.

That's a bit crap but does not blow my hair back. I was expecting more, considering what we know about gender pay gaps, etc.

rimu OP , 21 hours ago

Really great comments at https://peerj.com/articles/cs-111/reviews/. The reviewers are very nice about it but do point out some big issues towards the end.

rimu , 6 days ago

Report AND downvote. Reports only go to your instance and the originating instance whereas downvotes go everywhere. Highly downvoted content will get noticed by someone, eventually.

rimu , 14 days ago

The faircode model assumes that contributions from random outside people are minor and that the bulk of the work is done by the founder(s). To the founders there is little actual benefit from being an open source project, anyway. I can understand the attraction of the model in that situation.

My ideal OSS project would be receiving a steady stream of contributions from a wide variety of people without an elite sub group that considers themselves to be "the authors", which would be obviously unsuited to the faircode model. Sadly few projects achieve that and are largely the work of one person.

IMO it depends on the situation/project.

rimu , 14 days ago

I'm sure kiwifarms and stormfront will appreciate this service. Read between the lines in the FAQ.

rimu , 15 days ago

Not all servers are equal. I would trust a post from lemmy.world or lemmy.ml to have valid metadata, for example. It'd be great if admins had some way to specify trusted instances (with the biggest 6 instances as initial defaults).

There would be other uses for the trusted instances concept. Automatic sharing of moderation actions, block lists, community lists, etc

rimu , 14 days ago

Link previews for content from untrusted instances could still be generated just as they are now.

The centralisation that has happened is a separate issue.

rimu , 15 days ago

I've found that if left on default settings, CloudFlare is not that great at caching. It requires a bit of configuration to really make it sing. itsfoss.com thought they were "using CloudFlare" but probably not to it's fullest potential.

rimu , 15 days ago

2 requests per instance - one for the HTML of the page and another for a preview image.

rimu , 18 days ago

You might want to discuss this in one of the communities at https://ani.social.

rimu , 19 days ago

FYI the german word for "emotion triggered by a combination of sad, funny and stupid dystopia" is "Traludystopieunglücklichkomik".

ChatGPT told me.

rimu , 22 days ago

If you like Elixer you might enjoy contributing to Akkoma, which is similar to (but better than) Mastodon.

https://docs.akkoma.dev/stable/development/

rimu , 23 days ago

I appreciate the practical suggestions section, there's some great ideas there.

You might be interested in the low bandwidth mode that https://piefed.social has. It can be enabled during login and removes most of the images and Javascript.

Really, developers need new tools to support these values. Our dev tools report on performance and reliability but not on sustainability / energy use / CO2. Our programming frameworks offer flexibility, power and expand-ability but never intentionally constrain our energy / waste / performance. The only exception to this that I've seen is Google App Engine which has some resource utilization limits and a pretty limited ORM that feels like fighting with one hand tied behind my back sometimes.

rimu , 24 days ago

It's an election year and Kim Kardashian has a massive Instagram following. That's all this is.

rimu OP , 25 days ago

Thanks

rimu , 29 days ago

Ubuntu has a set of scripts you can run to harden a new server (not advisable on a server that has already been configured for something). You need an Ubuntu Pro subscription to access them but you can get a free trial and then cancel it after you've finished.

More info at https://ubuntu.com/security/cis.

I did this process for a customer recently and it was pretty straightforward and much much more thorough (over 100 configuration changes) than just tweaking SSH and fail2ban.

I expect other commercially-oriented distros offer something similar.

rimu , 1 month ago

It's too early to say, as the method of accounting for 'active user' changed recently.

Seems to me like Lemmy is "consolidating". Some people are leaving but the community is deepening in norms, understanding, commitment and cohesion. This shows up as better content and discussions all the time. Spam is snuffed out quickly, more communities have better moderators. Our infrastructure is maturing and the software is getting better.

rimu , 1 month ago

Yeah, it's nicely integrated. Also because it's on my phone there is the option to use the voice input mode of the keyboard which is a vibe. Talking with an ai feels different.

rimu , 1 month ago

PieFed has a de-escalation function that post authors can use to indicate they've changed their mind about something. Screenshots here https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/@rimu/111577832133087147

rimu , 1 month ago

Fedi garden is just someone's website, they can put whatever they want on it. No big deal.

rimu , 1 month ago

People have wildly different ideas about the nature of the fediverse. That's the nub.

rimu , 1 month ago

Disable Javascript and images in your browser.

rimu OP , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

It should be.

I've been looking at https://helge.codeberg.page/fep/final/fep-1b12/ which is the closest thing we have to a standard way to do communities. It was written by a Lemmy dev and so Lemmy does 95% of what is described there.

The only missing piece is the replies, which Lemmy devs have no tepid interest in https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/2004. However Mastodon has this so we have an example to copy. I expect nailing that one down will be the bulk of the discussion to be had.

The replies collection is only really really useful when adding a remote community for the first time and back-filling old content, so it's not something that people on large instances will miss very much if Lemmy never implements it.

rimu OP , 2 months ago

Developers from Discourse, NodeBB, Mbin, PieFed, Hubzilla and maybe some more that I forgot. Possibly Lemmy devs too, someone is contacting them directly about that.

If we can get Discourse and NodeBB sharing nicely with Lemmy+Mbin+PieFed it could more than double the size of the threadverse. It's a big deal.

rimu OP , 2 months ago

Thread i verse, threadverse??? I don't know :)

rimu , 2 months ago

It's quite disarming, isn't it?

But the nice happy guys coding the thing now are not the ones who are going to make the decisions later which will bring about the extend + extinguish phases, the ads, the crypto or whatever form the enshittification takes.

rimu , 2 months ago

Oof, yeah that's bad...

rimu , 2 months ago

Python is the number 1 programming language and has been for years. All of these sources use different methods to calculate their rankings and come to the same conclusion:

• https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/
• https://spectrum.ieee.org/top-programming-languages-2022
• https://github.blog/2023-03-02-why-python-keeps-growing-explained/
• https://www.statista.com/chart/21017/most-popular-programming-languages/

rimu , 2 months ago

They both implement the ACME protocol internally, allowing them to integrate with services like Let’s Encrypt to automate regularly obtaining the certificates needed to offer HTTPS.

I did not realise this. Very nice, I'll be trying Caddy on my next server!

rimu , 2 months ago

It depends

rimu , 2 months ago

X11 or Wayland?

rimu , 2 months ago

Netlify has the highest network data transfer fees. If you're going to use them, you must have a CDN.

rimu , 2 months ago

They wrote their own GUI toolkit (oof) and it's hardware accelerated (argh), so OS portability is going to be unusually difficult unless they planned for it from the beginning. No mention of that in the article, so I doubt they did.

rimu , 2 months ago

You're quite right. If the website works well on a mobile, you don't need an app. However a lot of the fediverse is built in such a way that it really sucks in a mobile browser.

Here are the stats: which fediverse platform works best in a mobile web browser.

rimu , 2 months ago

Being mediocre is fine. And you can't expect to feel competent after 2 years, especially if you're not in a supportive environment. Maybe 5 years. It took me muuuch longer than 5.... This stuff is hard, don't expect to master it quickly.

rimu , 2 months ago

There is this, which has been ongoing since 2020:

https://codeberg.org/fediverse/fep

https://socialhub.activitypub.rocks/t/fep-a4ed-the-fediverse-enhancement-proposal-process/1171

How not sure how much attention is paid to it by fediverse devs, though?

rimu , 2 months ago

GPUs these days use a whole lot of power. Ensure your power supply is specced appropriately.

rimu , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Yes. This is why:

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/09/comparing-network-utilization-of-lemmy-kbin-and-piefed/

https://join.piefed.social/2024/02/13/technical-performance-of-each-fediverse-platform/

rimu , 2 months ago

Thanks :)

rimu , 3 months ago

or they could just comply with the law:

sites will have to provide a reason to users when their content or account has been moderated, and offer them a way of complaining and challenging the decision. There are also rules around giving users the ability to flag illegal goods and services found on a platform.

Doesn't seem like a big deal to me.

rimu , 3 months ago

Just to clarify something. It seems nitpicky but I hope it saves you some time.

You don't add instances you follow accounts on those instances. When you follow someone on a Mastodon incidence all their posts will start to flow to your instance. When you join a Lemmy community all the posts in that community will start to flow to your Lemmy instance.

rimu , 3 months ago

So if I create a spam community on lemmy.world and lots of other instances have opted to trust lemmy.world, they automatically subscribe to my spam community and then get sent my spam?

rimu , 2 months ago (edited 2 months ago)

Sorry, didn't see this question earlier.

It is low on server resources. When subscribed to 700 communities (which causes a lot of incoming traffic), CPU load average is < 1. Uses about 1.5 GB of RAM (including postgresql and redis) and disk usage after 2 months of operation is only 3.5 GB.

Today someone contributed docker configuration and a docker-compose file, which could help with setup. However documentation is limited so it's not really ready for widespread deployment.