“a documented history of migrant abuse” is such a nice way to put it.

A quick search for “libya migrant mass graves” brings up this - https://news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1159951

That’s not ‘migrant abuse’. That’s somewhere on the spectrum between genocide and mass murder.

I remember when MS made the perfect control panel in Win 2k and XP then spent the next 20 years making it worse and worse just because.

And here we are.

Yep, I’ll document it in some way. A FEP seems overkill as it’s really just adding a bit more data onto Actors and Activities, not a big deal.

You say that like it’s a bad thing.

Lemmy users missing out is THE reason they’ll become PieFed users.

I did the DB structure changes at the same time as the ones needed for community flair as they’re quite similar. Might be able to do the rest tomorrow.

Tags, aka hashtags, are instance-wide (not just in a community) and interoperate with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Mbin. Anyone can make a new hashtag and they are completely unmoderated.

Flairs are a limited list determined by each community’s mods and are only used in that community. They will federate with other PieFed instances and with Lemmy (when they finish coding what they’re calling “tags”, a really unfortunate choice of name).

Watch this space.

I’m conflicted.

Making those poor bastards work 12 hour days, 6 days per week for small money is pretty fucked.

Sending them to somewhere that may be a death camp is worse tho.

Feels like the article set up a false dichotomy.

Also, turn off chat heads. Such obvious engagement bait.

“Do you regularly watch videos by Jordan Peterson?” kinda needs to become one of those before-first-date screening questions.

Imagine you want to write a competitor to PostgreSQL and you start out by importing SQLite into your project and building on top of that. To you it seems like a good idea because you’ve never written a DB app before and the only DB you’ve ever seen before is SQLite. You’ll get a prototype real fast but you’ll never build a PostgreSQL equivalent because you never learned the foundational knowledge of how a DB works and because SQLite forecloses all the pathways you need to get there.

Same thing.

Because outsourcing your core business processes is a bad idea. A fediverse app that relies on a library to do all the fediverse stuff is going to have a bad time. Not straight away, but eventually.

Google has put a lot of effort into detecting and blocking stuff like this. They call it “click fraud”, if you want to look it up.

It’ll just mean they start ignoring clicks from you.

You have the privilege of not giving a shit about racist attacks.

This ^ ^ ^ is what privilege looks like.

…and yet, here we are talking about climate change. If they’d instead organized a protest of 10,000 people marching for hours it wouldn’t have been international news and we wouldn’t be talking about climate change.

Vegans love to conflate all meat into one big group because their goal is to make veganism look good in comparison.

In reality, beef is the main problem.

It would be a lot more environmentally effective to convince people to reduce beef consumption and replace it with chicken/pork instead, but vegans aren’t interested in that because for them it’s not really about the climate - it’s about reducing animal suffering and death.

This duplicity muddies the waters and makes getting real actual change that would benefit the climate harder to achieve and less likely to happen.