I’d add the hardware drivers must be open sourced at the end of support as well, and no drm, patent, reverse engineering legal protections for a out of support Device/chipset

Because censorship of topical newsworthy events is antithetical to freedom. Sure first the censorship will start with “gruesome” but it won’t stop there, let people opt out, but it shouldn’t be scrubbed from existence.

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Any system is imperfect, that means some people in prison must be innocent, that means crimes are being inflicted against innocent people.

Before we try to manage the entire population at large, let’s just eliminate crime in prisons and jails. That’s a controlled environment, but it’s rife with crime. If we can’t fix a controlled environment, how can we possibly fix an open environment?

Using the drones for a led based video display just makes sense but I was still surprised when they did it.

I wonder how they plan out the movements?

I have no interest in debating your quoted comment from above. I’m as an individual saying a fork makes sense to get around the strong political opinions of the developer.

3. It is just a configuration change for the administrator of a specific instance. But if somebody wanted to make politics-free pie feed as a fork of the project, without the opinionated block list, but otherwise following the original project. That would be totally appropriate.

For instance I use pipe pipe which is a fork of new pipe plus sponsor block, because the new pipe developers decided sponsor block wasn’t good philosophically

If new pipe gets an update, pipe pipe updates, and it rolls through a couple hours later. No big deal.

1. Thank you for providing links on my home instance, that is very considerate of you

2. I don’t think it matters how easy it is to opt out, the fact that a political opinion is the default is the problem.

3. A fork is appropriate, to remove the political opinion, it can follow the other project with the modification to the block list.

I don’t know, this level of what about ism feels like an attack on a very real and legitimate issue

Absolutely I agree that pie feed does great things, and they’re updating, but 100% this is a real legitimate issue. And it needs to be addressed.

Given this is the only place I have found this discussion happening in a productive way, we shouldn’t sidetrack it.

Basically we’re talking about the lead developer maturing and removing their opinions. It takes almost zero effort to code that, but it might take a lifetime of effort for them to come to that position.

I understand other commenters frustrations with your counters, it feels like a dismissal, this is a real problem affecting real users today and they have legitimate grievance. If they want to organize, that is very reasonable.

Now you’re talking past me.

The issue is not that there is an option, the issue is not that there is even a suggested option.

The issue is a writer of core infrastructure software is putting their prejudices into the software as a default that have to be opted out of. That is antithetical to federation. That is pushing an agenda. That has no place in core infrastructure software.

Imagine if the Linux kernel by default, hard coded, blocked all IP addresses connecting to China, anybody could go in and remove those blocks, but they’re there by default… Infrastructure should not have political opinions baked into it

We can go back and forth about wither this has had a material impact. That’s not actually important. What it demonstrates is this software project is not mature yet. They still have too many emotional biases baked in.

I half expected them to have the Lemy.lol block baked in, thankfully they didn’t, but it wouldn’t have surprised me if they did.

I see them all, as a admin voyager shows me removed comments in place. I’m surprised the earlier messages didn’t also get purged, they deserved to be

Funny side note: hexbear blocked one of my diet communities at the instance level, so the echo chamber goes both ways.

The behavior you demonstrate here is exactly why hexbear is so widely blocked, and it makes it difficult for those of us trying to keep the infrastructure less opinionated when this is how you behave when you have a legitimate grievance

Thanks for pointing that out.

That level of opinion in core infrastructure software is very inappropriate. This is disturbing

It would be better to default to dynamically pull from feediseer

Can you point to the file in the pieced codeberg repo that hardcodes these blocks?

I need to understand if this is a block built into the software, or just an option the operators who deploy piefed have set in a blocklist.

This is the screen time needed when you wake up to catch up on everything and get out of bed… Right?

You have two downvoters, probably the same person

Jet has an automated removal bot that will nuke someone for a single down vote. Their opinion is worthless because their moderation is dog shit.

Not actually true, there is nuance there: https://hackertalks.com/post/13655318

But hey, everybody makes mistakes including me, would you like to participate in those communities? If I unban you would you positively engage?

Is it possible to never go to a fast food chain?

We have the physical addiction to glucose, but you have overcome that before

We have the habitual triggers, something in your life makes you think of your old addiction, those you have to find a way to get past, maybe the snacking

We have the situational triggers, seeing a place, going past a place, triggers old addictive cravings, this is where having a buddy you can call and talk it out can be helpful.

If you are willing to wear a CGM all the time, you can have a buddy monitoring it and get alerts if it goes outside of a predefined range (say 6.5) so your buddy can help you deal with the recovery

When you fall off the wagon before, you mentioned fast food, but what is different the month before falling off and the day you fall off?