The only issue is controlling Alex Jones. He's too batshit to ever work under anyone and without him most of the value evaporates.
So now it's up to rich people to decide if Alex Jones gets to stay on the air. Will asshole rich people who want him to continue buy it or will some nice rich people buy it to shut him down?
I look forward to cutting a pizza like that and then trying to convince others to let me have the biggest slice. Or seeming magnanimous by giving them the biggest.
Although, the distribution of the toppings is not equal throughout the pizza - on the edges there is a lot more crust.
Hi Jerry,
All good questions which reveal holes in our documentation! Quite a lot of the contents of .env are optional.
There is no S3 support yet. You might not need it though - after almost 1 year of operation piefed.social only has 14 GB of media saved. I've put a bit of thought into how to minimize disk usage with good results.
Yes if you leave BOUNCE_ADDRESS empty it'll go back to the sender instead.
It's configured in the .env file. You need an IMAP email inbox somewhere, which is outside of piefed's scope to provide. The BOUNCE_* stuff is for logging into that inbox, which you won't need to provide if not using BOUNCE_ADDRESS.
Yes, set MODE='production', case sensitive. AFAIK anything other than 'development' will cause production mode to be used.
That's used to connect to https://sentry.io for debugging purposes. You won't need that.
MAIL_ERRORS=True will cause piefed to send you an email whenever a bug occurs. I don't recommend using this unless you're doing development work. You also need to have MAIL_* all set up nicely for it to work - it needs a SMTP server to connect to.
I'm guessing it's a PeerTube thing. It started happening to me after I scrolled past a few dozen videos which makes me think it's a rate limit with a misleading error message.
There is one community with lots of .mp4 videos - https://piefed.social/c/ukraine@sopuli.xyz. These seem way way more efficient than YouTube so I haven't seen the need to get too clever with lazy loading those, although it's doable if necessary.
Yes I put a bit of effort into the multiple-video issue, with low powered devices in mind.
The biggest win on that front was lazy-loading the YouTube embeds. Also I found that Chrome can handle quite a lot of videos at once while Firefox gets overwhelmed pretty easily. In my testing with Chrome on my 2012 Macbook https://piefed.social/c/videos@lemmy.world performed okaaay. The tab used only 90 MB of RAM, surprisingly.
Videos in communities are only loaded if running on AC power and the way that is detected is using a fairly recent browser API that is only provided by Chrome (and derivatives). I'm not simply using loading="lazy" on the <iframe>, I'm using JS to add extra logic to do with the battery. Browsers that don't have the battery API (Safari, Firefox, 10 year old Chrome) load an image instead. Even Chrome will use an image instead if running on battery power (e.g. on a phone that is not charging).
I think I've been pretty conservative in this regard.
I try hard to forget Unit 731.
That wikipedia page is NSFL, deeply disturbing.
https://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/2024/turning-everyday-gadgets-into-bombs-is-a-bad-idea/
That blog post describes how it works in more detail. We now live in a world where any battery could be a bomb, there is no way to detect it and the equipment for making those bomb-batteries costs $15k on Ali Express.
This is over 4x longer than the longest undersea cable in the world
HVDC transmission losses are quoted at 3.5% per 1,000 km
So 15.75% of the electricity would just vanish. That takes the shine off it a bit although if the price difference is big enough it would still be worth doing.
I've banned 1074 accounts from the instance I run, most of them for boring reasons like spam. Usually between 1 and 10 per day.
Over the last 3 weeks there have been significant contributions from h3ndrik and myself.
Context https://www.reuters.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/openai-remove-non-profit-control-give-sam-altman-equity-sources-say-2024-09-25/