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[–] rimu@piefed.social 12 points 2 hours ago* (last edited 2 hours ago) (2 children)

China raises the price to $6 to compensate, Taiwan to $5.90

Not quite. It's not the foreigners who pay the tariffs, it's the locals. The tariff is charged at customs when the product enters the country and the people paying that are the people doing the importing. Tariffs don't bring more money into the country, they just penalize local people who import goods from overseas. It's a tax. Back when Republicans were consistent they hated all taxes, heh.

From the point of view of the local consumer it makes no difference - the price rises unless there is a locally made substitute they can buy instead.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Ehh, it's ok in the case of JetBrains - if your subscription lapses your license converts to a 'perpetual fallback license' so can just continue using the version you installed when the subscription was originally purchased.

I'm using a 4 year old version of PhpStorm with no issues and no subscription. My PyCharm sub ended 6 months ago and I'm staying on the 2023 version of PyCharm because the latest version comes with lots of AI which makes my CPU fans scream continuously.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 8 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Same goes for downvotes - giving something a downvote is the equivalent of giving everything else an upvote.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago (1 children)

After X attempts to log in, it bans the IP address.

It will scan your wordpress files and alert you if any of them have changed in suspicious ways (hacked).

It can disable the xml-rpc endpoint which is rarely used and is a big vector for hacking.

... and a lot more but those are the main ones for me.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 13 points 3 days ago (1 children)

There are not as many sysadmin job these days because so many on-prem deployments have moved to the cloud. Consider becoming a cloud version of a sysadmin (whatever they're calling it now...). Every platform offers lots of free learning resources and has a certification process.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 6 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The WordFence plugin is a must-have for security.

If you use Caddy instead of Apache then you get SSL automatically. You'll need php-fpm as well, tho.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Ok if trying a memory limit of 512MB doesn't work then I'm out of ideas, sorry.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 5 points 6 days ago (2 children)
[–] rimu@piefed.social 4 points 6 days ago

Yeah, sort of. The total number of subscriptions (by all users) determines the load caused by federation. If you subscribe to 200 communities then I subscribe to the same 200 the federation load will not increase.

So once an instance has more than a dozen users pretty much every community that exists will be subscribed to and adding more users will not increase federation load (but it would increase load caused by the UI)

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Any interesting things in Reports -> Status? Sometimes there are warnings in there which point to config issues.

[–] rimu@piefed.social 2 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) (3 children)

So weird!

Very unlikely to be a proxmox issue.

134217728 bytes is only 138 MB so your php memory limit is set lower than you think. Your php config needs work. Restart Apache and php-fpm (if using) after changing php.ini and use phpinfo(); to check that your changes were applied successfully.

A memory limit of 256 MB should be ok.

 

Recently there have been two more PieFed instances created, which offer accounts to anyone who wants one:

Feddit.online is hosted in USA which should make it a little faster for people there. It also has a different topic structure at https://feddit.online/topics than PieFed.social has.

 

Key updates include the addition of community icons for better identification, a notification management interface, and various enhancements to our API for eventual mobile app support. Below is a detailed overview of the changes we've made.

##Jeena

  • Community icon alongside name in post teaser. This helps differentiate between communities with the same name and adds visual interest.

##Freamon

  • Added a notification management interface to manage notifications from all the communities and posts you are subscribed to - https://piefed.social/alerts
  • Soft deletion of comments, so they can be un-deleted again.
  • Lots of API work for the mobile app. Lots!

#Rimu

  • Generate YouTube thumbnails more reliably.
  • Instance overview pages which make it easy to see posts and people from any instance. Start exploring at https://piefed.social/instances.
  • FEP-268d: Search consent signals for objects. This FEP is a convention for how instances can signal to other instances which posts should be searchable.
  • Track who deleted which posts, for accountability among moderators.
  • Refactoring to support API work by Freamon.
  • Automatically delete voting data older than 6 months (aggregated totals are unaffected). Voting data consumes gigabytes of space and it only meaningfully affects ranking of posts in the first few days. The only other reason to keep this data is for vote manipulation analysis and 6 months worth of data should be plenty.
  • Instances with open registrations automatically close registrations after one week of having no admins log in. This will avoid abandoned instances becoming a vector for spam or a home of trolls.
  • Show instance name after display name. If you notice undesirable patterns of behaviour associated with certain instances you can block the whole instance.
  • Improve visibility of user-level instance blocking functionality. This is separate and in addition to defederation which is controlled by admins.
  • Display PeerTube licence info on video posts. This could be rolled out to other post types in future?
  • Topics now have an option to show posts from communities that are in child topics. E.g. https://piefed.social/topic/arts-craft only has two communities in it so the number of posts shown there is very low. However it’s child topics (Arts, Craft and Photography) have quite a few communities so to populate the top-level topic it makes sense to display posts from all the child topics too. https://piefed.social/topic/tech/programming is a similar case.

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As a free and open source project, PieFed receives no funding and developers are not paid. Any donations you can spare will help cover server and infrastructure costs - https://piefed.social/donate. Thanks!

 

Despite New Zealand’s image as a global leader in environmental stewardship and animal welfare, mud farming paints a far bleaker reality – one rooted in cruelty, neglect, and environmental disregard.

 

We help you find European alternatives for digital service and products, like cloud services and SaaS products.

 

It was long thought that planets couldn’t stably orbit systems containing three stars. GW Orionis is the first counterexample.

 

...more or less.

 

Cooking with any plastic is a dubious enterprise, because heat encourages potentially harmful plastic compounds to migrate out of the polymers and potentially into the food. But, as Andrew Turner, a biochemist at the University of Plymouth recently told me, black plastic is particularly crucial to avoid.

In 2018, Turner published one of the earliest papers positing that black plastic products were likely regularly being made from recycled electronic waste. The clue was the plastic’s concerning levels of flame retardants. In some cases, the mix of chemicals matched the profile of those commonly found in computer and television housing, many of which are treated with flame retardants to prevent them from catching fire.

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On more than 30 occasions, the United Nations Assembly has discussed the blockade against Cuba, which costs the island 5 billion dollars annually, according to some estimates. Every year the resolution is proposed and the whole world, through the vote of the absolute majority of the member countries of the United Nations General Assembly, has condemned the imperialist attitude of the United States towards Cuba.

edit: result of the vote: https://mastodon.nzoss.nz/system/cache/media_attachments/files/113/398/372/180/881/996/original/82c4d1f509e933fa.jpg

 

Our workflows and productivity metrics regularly ask knowledge workers for things that do not make good knowledge work.

Bloggers on reddit lament how much “meta-work” and “not-work” exists in tech. They kvetch about the conversations and the waiting. They consider the principal engineer’s calendar, packed with meetings, quod erat demonstratum that those roles are “easy” and “airware.” They insist that, if they could manage to not get caught, they could keep several such positions simultaneously and never under-deliver on any of them. None of these jobs, they claim, ask them for all that much code.

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