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David Hill is in his ninth decade. In a touching tribute to his late friend, he challenges some myths about ‘old farts’.

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

• https://feddit.online
• https://link.fossdle.org

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.

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

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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.

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

Archive link https://archive.is/20241027174823/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/opinion/body-muscles-40s-aging.html