This is @Dave@lemmy.nz and @Dave@piefed.nz but PieFed told me not to use my admin account for general browsing so here I am following instructions.

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Cake day: 2026年9月2日
  • Hal@piefed.nztoAsk Me Anything@lemmy.ca•Is Openstreetmap unusable in some places? And very usable in others?English
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    10 小时前

    Mr Prosser: But, Mr Dent, the plans have been available in the local planning office for the last nine months.

    Arthur: Oh yes, well as soon as I heard I went straight round to see them, yesterday afternoon. You hadn’t exactly gone out of your way to call attention to them had you? I mean like actually telling anybody or anything.

    Mr Prosser: But the plans were on display…

    Arthur: On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.

    Mr Prosser: That’s the display department.

    Arthur: With a torch.

    Mr Prosser: The lights had probably gone out.

    Arthur: So had the stairs.

    Mr Prosser: But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?

    Arthur: Yes yes I did. It was on display at the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard.

  • Hal@piefed.nztoNZ Politics@lemmy.nz•National vows to 'pursue' break up supermarket giant FoodstuffsEnglish
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    17 小时前

    As per my other comment I’m not that convinced that breaking up the cooperative is the right move. How about forcing Woolworths to separate their supply, distribution, and retail operations into separate companies? At least Foodstuffs profits go back to local store owners where Woolworths is just some multinational corporation.

    But you’re right, I don’t think we would be here without the last decade or two of investigations and complaints about the duopoly, with much of that pushed by the Greens.

  • Hal@piefed.nztoNo Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why isn't it easy to transfer your lemmy account to a new instance?English
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    2 天前

    For 1, there’s no central authentication. Accounts prove themselves to other instances with a private/public key pair. I guess you could have some system where the old and new instance connect then transfer that private key so the new instance could prove it’s really you nkt someone impersonating you.

    For 2, we don’t even backfill communities when they sync to an instance for the first time because of the volume. For a while, Lemmy instances would freeze (for everyone) when a user with a lot of content deleted their account, but if you wanted to achieve this I’m sure you could do some slow, async, progressive loading of the content that might happen over days, so volume alone wouldn’t make this impossible. It would also have the potential for large storage requirements or a mismatch between what is allowed on different instances, e.g. you could create an instance, load it up with spam posts, then import it to a major instance to get thousands of views before they could ban you. So here you’d need some protection. Admin review from the new instance? Only allow import from trusted instances? What if someone faked dates or other metadata in their posts before the transfer?

    1. On Lemmy, a community owns the content. So an upvote or comment will get sent to the community’s instance then that instance will federate it to other instances. If one instance transfers a user, there needs to be a way for the owners of the user’s content to federate that update. For something like Mastodon people directly follow a user so their instance is the owner, but for Lemmy with communities you need the user to tell the community about the change then that community would need to trigger the update to it’s own content. You’d have hundreds of communities each triggering updates to hundreds of instances. I see a big risk here of a user being in two states, e.g. one community federated updates ok but another didn’t, and now some instance has two records of the same user. I’m sure smarter people could work out some redundancy here.

    I honestly do think this sounds achievable but like others have said, it’s a lot of work with a lot of edge cases to cater for. So it’s likely not a high priority.

  • Hal@piefed.nztoAotearoa / New Zealand@lemmy.nz•RNZ’s take on AI todayEnglish
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    2 天前

    What I take from this is that it’s an attempt to get China to agree to oversight, which I don’t believe will happen (who would provide this oversight, the US?).

    These incidents are unlikely to cause the extinction of human kind. The idea they might want to replicate is just applying a human thought process to what is definitely not intelligent. The biggest threat to humankind today is definitely the huge increase in carbon emissions that may well kill everyone before intelligent AI (or fusion) is even invented.

  • Hal@piefed.nztoFediverse@lemmy.world•Making Social Media SocialEnglish
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    5 天前

    Unfortunately Lemmy has one major problem when it comes to banning spam bots. Only the instance that a user belongs to can ban the user in a way that federates to other instances. This means if that particular instance doesn’t quickly ban the user, then hundreds of other instances need to do it manually. Currently, a pretty significant percentage of spammers get banned individually by many instances.

    If we had 100x as many users and 100x as many instances, we would have 100x as many bot accounts for every instance to ban.

    The solution is probably something like shared ban lists or ban mirroring (setting an instance up to ban every user that some trusted instance bans). But right now it’s just people clicking, and it’s not scalable.