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    | Tildes
    Hey there! I'm trying to repurpose a Raspberry Pi that's been collecting dust for a few years, and I'm a bit out of my depth with systems/networking, so I'm hoping for some guidance on what I did wrong (or what I could've done better). The story is: I upgraded my PC and had an o [...]
    | MetaFilter
    "So when the American family slows down time to reflect on gianduia, or pistacchio, or arachidi salate, it feels as though they are not reflecting on flavors with us, they are talking to us as if we were curiosities of history, oddities, eccentricities, exotic pralines with the gift of speech. They [...]
    | MetaFilter
    It's a Waingro World, Brother An essay about how just one unchecked narcissist can fuck up everything for everyone, with parallels drawn between a 30-year-old heist flick and the last fifteen years of American society. [CW: SA, murder, graphic depictions of same]
    | MetaFilter
    I did not want to use this essay to expound on why lesbians don't cruise. There are theories—about power and money and space, the legal concept of the public woman, historic links to prostitution, the impact of the sex wars and the closure of lesbian bars and the power of the pink dollar and the ghe [...]
    | Tildes
    Does Tildes have any way for me to logout of a device I'm not currently using? I don't see any session management or "logout of all devices" in the settings. Would resetting my password invalidate all active sessions? Do I need to email someone? [...]
    | Tildes
    Hi Tilderinos! First, apologies for the ramble. I'm based in the US. I got a letter from our state's child services department telling me that one of my relatives who is a minor has been removed from the custody of their parents. The letter asked me to complete a form to indicat [...]
    | Tildes
    I wanted to hit the gym all my life, but I never really made it until this year. Granted, I do have a sports background and have been active most of my life, but going to the gym was never really for me, until I decided to really do it this year. After years of shoulder and knee [...]
    | PieFed
    If you’d like a PieFed instance of your own but don’t want to deal with setting up a server, installing PieFed, and maintaining it yourself, get in touch with the team at fedihost.co! They’re currently offering reduced-price PieFed hosting to a limited number of instances as part of a beta program. [...]
    | PieFed
    When Cloudflare had problems recently pretty much every PieFed instance went offline. This was a real “wtf are we doing” moment, for me. What’s the point of having multiple instances (there are now 64 PieFed instances!) if they all have a single point of failure. Due to some technical limitations of [...]
    | PieFed
    PieFed 1.2 has just been released. Details and links to examples at https://piefed.social/post/1278967 The post PieFed v1.2 is released appeared first on PieFed.
    | PieFed
    RSL is a new initiative by a group of big internet publishers that seeks to define the conditions under which AI crawlers can harvest their content. Their guide describes the various ways the content can be made available, including for free or a paid royalty but only by digging deeper into their re [...]
    | PieFed
    Anubis uses a javascript-based challenge to stop scrapers from hammering your server. Installing it is easy enough but then you need to figure out how to configure it and it’s pretty intense. Here is the config I have for piefed.social, so far: bots: - name: allow-api-json-xhr   user_agent_regex: .* [...]