BTW I recently added the database structure for post licenses and have PeerTube video licence information being saved into the DB when they federate to us. However there is no UI that will let people specify a license for their PieFed posts or comments. The UI needs to present a list of licenses to choose from and reading about all the different ones made my eyes glaze over.

You might like to start there as it seems to be an interest of yours!

Yes we could really do with all of those. Patches welcome. Other than a preference for PEP 8 I don’t have strong opinions about particular linters or formatters.

I see the benefits of types but am not puritanical about it. I’m ok with the way we’re using types at the moment. Most utility functions have types specified, especially those that return database objects so the type information flows up to the routes pretty well. I mostly see it as a way to help my IDE autocomplete work better than as a holy grail. I’m sure there are places where more types could be added but making it a policy that every function must have a type signature seems OTT.

I’m pretty interested to try KaiOS (successor to Firefox OS) sometime.

Pretty much.

It’s a hobby project so we work on things we find fun or interesting. To me, tests are neither of those.

Yep, this Python-based project has no tests but not because it’s written in Python, lol

it’s actually about how often posts are shared without reading, not how often people glance at a headline.

Excellent news!

Part of the issue is the system of voting is set up so that there can only ever be two parties. Dividing the country up into chunks and then having one winner in each chunk creates a situation where voting third party is a wasted vote. When there are only two options it’s pretty hard to vote for your interests.

In the 90s when New Zealand changed to MMP to led to a proliferation of new parties getting into parliament and the people involved were much much less often old white males. It changed the dynamic completely.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mixed-member_proportional_representation

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electoral_system_of_New_Zealand

Yes it primarily federates with Lemmy and Mbin so it has all the same content. See https://join.PieFed.social/features for a comparison.

I’ve spent months travelling all over China.

It’s got amazing infrastructure everywhere and more going up everywhere. Streets are clean. People are healthy. No beggars. Certainly not “developing country” in the sense that Laos or Cambodia are “developing country”.

Seems like a binary distinction between developed and developing is too clunky. We need at least 3 categories, maybe 4.

Getting full Mastodon interop in PieFed is going to be a long road. I urge you to bite off a smaller piece to chew until you get comfortable - https://join.piefed.social

Yeah there are multiple ignored GitHub issues about Mastodon’s federation of replies, going back many years. It’s never getting fixed. This realisation sent me on a multi-week quest to find a platform that does replies properly. Akkoma and Friendica seem better at replies but have other shortcomings.

If you get a chance, go to Riga in Latvia. They have whole streets of architecture in that style - https://theculturemap.com/art-nouveau-architecture-in-riga-where-to-find-it/

Media literacy crash course https://youtube.com/watch?v=sPwJ0obJya0&list=PL8dPuuaLjXtM6jSpzb5gMNsx9kdmqBfmY&index=1&pp=iAQB

I use my searxng instance several times a day.

DNS server/cache/pihole. If that goes down I can’t browse anything.

I also selfhost a SaaS that I built. It’s essential to me that it’s available to my customers although I don’t use it personally.

I love the movement in this one

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.

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.

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

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.