New from 404 Media: we've got leaks from Amazon, GitHub, Adobe, Citi, and more. The big takeaway is that companies in all industries are suddenly throttling their employees' AI use because AI is actually too expensive. Cutting off access to some models entirely https://www.404media.co/companies-are-throttling-employees-ai-use-because-its-too-expensive/

Tell them, Gribouille

It‘s as simple as that:

If it takes only 1 in a billion to do something extraordinary for all of us, we‘d wait 2.5 years on average now, given everyone gets a chance.

If only 100,000 rich people rule everything, we‘ll be waiting 25.000 years for things for the same.

That‘s why oligarchies always sucked and will continue to do so, not matter how brillliant or shrewed the current bunch is.

PieFed v1.7 is released: Following Users, Faster Browsing & Smarter Moderation

This release saw contributions from some new people, which is great to see.

In this release you can now follow other people, not just join communities. When you follow someone their posts will show up in your ‘Subscribed’ feed, regardless of whether you have joined the community it was posted in or not.

You can also follow Mastodon+ accounts. Getting Mastodon integration working really well is going to be a long journey but this release gets us headed in that direction. Eventually I hope that this integration will provide a steady source of timely content to cross-post into threadiverse communities as well as being a peer citizen in the Mastodon-flavored parts of the fediverse.

New:

• You can follow other users and their posts will always show up in your ‘Subscribed’ feed, regardless of the community they were posted into. Following Mastodon users works also but should be considered as very experimental. This will improve soon.

In the future you will be able to upload a list of people that you exported from your mastodon profile and follow them in one go. And add people that your instance doesn’t already know about – but not yet. These features will be rolled out in future versions once the dust settles on this version.

• Mastodon posts have a new design that is distinct from threadiverse posts – there is no post title and larger author profile pic.
• Communities can be marked as being a favorite, which makes them more prominent in the ‘Communities’ menu.

• Clicking anywhere in a post teaser takes you to the teaser – you don’t need to aim for the title
• Dramatically improved page load times on Chrome-based browsers (Speculation Rules API).
• Little spinner thing while a vote is being cast
• Updated translations
• Preview markdown when editing a wiki page
• RSS feeds on the home page, including a feed of posts from your subscribed communities
• Topic selection during onboarding looks way nicer now.
• Accessibility improvements to headers.

For Developers:

• Massive CSS reorganisation by travis-jeans. Lots more usage of CSS variables. Improves maintenance and accessibility.
• API: Users can now log out
• API: Follow and unfollow users
• API: video file upload works now

For Instance Admins:

• Communities where every moderator is a bot or inactive are flagged as un-moderated. Reports about posts in un-moderated local communities go to admins.
• Warnings on domains can be 3 types instead of only a warning – the other two are ‘helpful context’ and ‘recommendation’

• Send a DM to a user asking them if they are a bot, with 1 click. If they do not respond their account is automatically flagged as a bot
• Email bounce inbox can now be accessed through POP3, not just IMAP
• Tokens used by mobile apps can be set to expire, using the JWT_EXPIRY_DAYS environment variable
• More accurate tracking of when a user was last active. This will significantly increase your MAU stats.
• Strict allowlist mode to reduce attack surface exposed by federation
• /admin/federation form split up into 3 separate pages rather than one long confusing page.
• Option to disable DM sending for individual users if they lack the self-control to use it responsibly.
• compose.yaml has changed a bit: For most containers the build target is now “runtime’ instead of ‘builder’.

For example

  celery:  
    build:  
      context: .  
      target: runtime  

• Topics can be associated with countries, for more targeted onboarding suggestions based on the viewer’s location.
• To reduce server load and network traffic, a maximum number of votes that can be cast each day has been set at a level that will only affect the top 2% of voters, leaving the bottom 98% unaffected. This quota can be altered with an environment variable. View a profile to see how much of their daily quota has been used.

To upgrade from 1.6.x

git pull  
git checkout v1.7.x  

At this point you might see an error message about a merge conflict with compose.yaml. To preserve your custom compose.yaml you will need to copy it somewhere else, then git checkout compose.yaml then git pull again (or use git’s stash feature). This time the pull will succeed so after that copy your custom compose.yaml it back, overwriting the one from git.

Then,

./deploy.sh or ./deploy-docker.sh

If you had to do the compose.yaml fix up earlier then you might want to compare what you have with https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/src/branch/main/compose.yaml and manually copy and paste some improvements in particular the target: part of the db container.

Donations

PieFed is free and open-source software while operating without any advertising, monetization, or reliance on venture capital. Your donations are vital in supporting the PieFed development effort, allowing us to expand and enhance PieFed with new features.

Donations can be made via Patreon, Liberapay or Ko-fi.

The PRAM battery holders from Jurassic Computing for the LCs have arrived. I love the PCBs! 😁 #retroApple

uglemt i sinn og tanker

this seems good

Continuing with Norwegian church theme. A quick stop in Borgund. #Norway

David Potter, the man who put Psion in the palm of your hand, logs off at 82 https://www.theregister.com/personal-tech/2026/07/03/david-potter-the-man-who-put-psion-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-logs-off-at-82/5266624 #theRegister #PersonalTech

RE: https://neuromatch.social/@jonny/116324676116121930

Boosted already but this is just to say that "coders" at the same time complaining that "delete everything" in a comment can hobble an agent and is tantamount to criminal, and insisting that these things are Artificial Super Intelligence is exactly what Orwell was describing with Doublethinking: holding two absolutely opposite concepts in the mind at the same time and juggling one and the other ad hoc without ever considering that they're incompatible.

Recensionen i Expressen gav skjuts. Vi säljer just nu bäst av samtliga böcker hos Bokus. Köp här: www.bokus.com/bok/97891796...

“For two decades, Europe's #competitiveness debate has been framed around a familiar diagnosis: labour costs are too high, and the answer is wage restraint, flexibility and deregulation. This report shows that diagnosis to be wrong. The binding constraint on European #growth is not the cost of labour, but the direction of #capital.”
https://www.etuc.org/en/document/report-labour-squeezed-investment-stalled

Last pit stop before the finish line!

I just released version 0.99 of PASTA/80, my Pascal cross compiler for classic and modern Z80 machines. It contains lots of tiny enhancements and bugfixes to feed your 8-bit addiction.

https://github.com/pleumann/pasta80

Binaries available for MacOS (Arm and x86), Windows (x86), Ubuntu (x86) and Raspberry Pi OS (Arm).

Happy coding!

#z80 #ez80 #pascal #turbopascal #cpm #zxspectrum #zxspectrumnext #agonlight #console8 #retrodev #retrocomputing #retroprogramming

Why implementing ActivityPub is hard, and why it doesn't have to be

https://hackers.pub/@fedify/2026/why-activitypub-is-hard

REFRESHED! Styling vertical Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Mongolian text

https://www.w3.org/International/articles/vertical-text/

It explains how to use CSS to produce vertical text.

This article was updated to include recent developments, and improve the format.

Some new content was also added. For example, it indicates how to make select options vertical using emerging CSS properties. It also explains why horizontal script languages should not use vertical- properties, but sideways- properties instead.

Journalists are in the business of choosing words and the #BrokenTimes chooses them terribly. "Windfall" is "unexpected good fortune". The correct word is "corruption".

hey remember how i mentioned making a virtual file system with specifically apache thrift sockets specifically after twitter inc stopped using facebook watchman and made our own git fuse fs? https://github.com/facebook/watchman/blob/dfae45bc767000ba4f1f0346ca592a9fac2fec5f/CMakeLists.txt#L57-L59

option(ENABLE_EDEN_SUPPORT "If enabled, add support for the Eden \
  virtual filesystem.  That requires fbthrift."
  ON)

thrift was our thing!!!!! fb uses google protobuf bullshit!!!! "eden" is a fucked up name!!!!

"Vaccine myths are not new. They have circulated for decades, surviving retracted studies and countless public health campaigns. Now, a new poll suggests that, while relatively few Americans fully believe those falsehoods, many remain uncertain about them—a finding that suggests opportunities to counter vaccine misinformation."

https://www.cidrap.umn.edu/childhood-vaccines/new-us-poll-identifies-large-malleable-middle-vaccine-misinformation

#PublicHealth #vaccines #immunizations #ChildrensHealth #misinformation

Making serious headway in my plan to become the world's wealthiest man by selling "I bought this car before Gnarls Barkley went crazy" bumperstickers.

🎙️ ... is this thing still on?

LaTeXML announcement season starting with the next ar5iv update (Sunday, 5th of July)

This time it's proper BIG news. #Rust