Good point about the jurisdiction. I’m not too worried about making a bit announcement about it though as this change simplifies things - before https://piefed.social/rules talked about needing to be legal in both Germany and New Zealand but now it’s just New Zealand. So now there’s less restrictions not more or different.

Lemmy fixed the latency thing a few versions ago :)

There are easily enough donations to cover hosting costs but nowhere near enough to enable me to spend as much time working on the software as it needs.

Sure, please see https://piefed.social/donate

hmm it’s pretty nice outside, maybe later…

Into two old servers in my garage.

Gulf War 3

System config. Piefed.ca is put together different than others in a way that is way more scalable but much harder to get right.

I’ve been using JetBrains Mono and Maple looks the same but nicer. Thanks!

we thought the chance of an Amoc shutdown was maybe 5%, and even then we were saying that risk is too high, given the massive impacts. Now it looks like it’s more than 50%.

I read the first two sentences of the articles you posted, which is more effort than you put in.

I’m well aware of the various bad things the IMF has done. But bringing up evidence of that anytime the IMF appears in a headline is just distracting and irrelevant. The issue at hand here is whether subsidies are an effective or harmful response and you fixating on who is talking about the issue (and mischaracterizing what they’re saying, at that) is not helpful.

Read the second sentence in the article.

Even though you might post into a Lemmy community, piefed.social still has to store the original copy of the meme.

It would be good if the instance chooser showed content retention policies in some way so people could take that into account when they choose an instance.

All piefed.social communities have infinite retention. Our stuff is high quality and worth keeping forever, it’s just the trashy Lemmy content that gets deleted ;-)

It is off by default. Admins can set the content retention policy on any community.

On piefed.social I’ve set pretty much every meme, shitpost and anime community to expire after one year or less. Check the sidebar of the community to see, it’s beneath the moderator list.

the poll panel used a new, AI-driven process to flag what it called “logical discrepancies” in their records [and then purge voters from the roll]

heh heh yeah, about that…

PM me the community names, I can do it unilaterally.

unlimited downloads at just 400 kbps after their data allowances expire.

Well they did say BASIC mobile data…

PieFed only stores 90 days of read post history.

Now that we have had that feature running for a long time I can see how much space is used by this (430 MB) and I think it’s fine to increase this to 180 days.

I’ve also added an admin option at /admin/misc which will let you increase it to any value. If you want to keep read history ‘forever’ than just put a really big value in there. On a single user instance the amount of data used by this table will probably be much smaller than it is on piefed.social.

We can adapt and the process of doing that in capitalism involves prices rising and rising until people can’t afford things and stop buying them, thus reducing demand.

That’s super tough on people who don’t have much money and they don’t consume much anyway so when they tap out it doesn’t reduce demand much. So prices need to rise enough to hurt the middle class in developed countries, meaning the lower classes everywhere else have a really shit time.

Meanwhile there are some oil uses that are completely unable to be reduced, such as emergency services, food distribution, etc so the govt will intervene in the market to ensure that happens. This means all non-essential sectors of the economy must reduce usage by significantly more than 20%.

Meanwhile every country’s govt is doing everything it can to try to lock in 100% of their usual supply and some will succeed, leaving other countries to make much bigger cuts than 20%.

There will be lots of people making 100% cuts while a few make none. Humanity isn’t great at sharing especially at a global level.

If you have a stake in this, please vote in the poll at https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta/p/1965370/which-platform-s-should-we-use-for-discussing-piefed-development

PieFed contributors only, please. Not just developers, anyone who wants to see what developers are up to can vote too.