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    | Tildes
    Original switch release or hd 2d? So I have the original switch releases of I, II, and III that are based on the mobile ports. I beat one already a year or two ago and had a decent time. My question is should I play II and III as I have them or get the hd 2d remake. I know it se [...]
    | MetaFilter
    How to Leave Substack. Here are some well-reasoned pieces on the subject for you to educate yourself and decide. via Anil Dash, The Handbasket, The Atlantic, "Substack Criticism" on Wikipedia, NYTimes, Platformer, Mashable, An Open Letter to Substack from 2021, Alexander Lee, Nathan Tankus, Lex Ro [...]
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    In the data of registered baby names for boys and girls in England and Wales in 2024, Muhammad and Olivia top their respective lists. The boys names also includes Arthur at #4 and Theodore at #8, while the girls list sees Freya at #7 and Poppy at #8. BBC news: "Names given to baby boys fewer than fi [...]
    | MetaFilter
    It's been awhile since I've posted a Canadian small press round-up, so here's a longer one! Under the fold: Prairie small presses Hingston & Olsen, Thistledown, and Turnstone; Pacific small presses Hancock House, New Star, Now Or Never, Ronsdale, Sono Nis, and TouchWood; Ontario small presses Annick [...]
    | MetaFilter
    There's a general sense that if you choose a bike like this, you're willfully and obstinately slowing yourself down, dropping anchor in the past, and refusing to change with the times. Bikes are supposed to get faster and easier. They're supposed to take you deeper into the landscape and over increa [...]
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    Former Vice-President Kamala Harris, via Twitter: "What the world saw on the campaign trail was only part of the story. My new book is a behind-the-scenes look at my experience leading the shortest presidential campaign in modern history. 107 Days is out on September 23. I can't wait for you to read [...]
    | 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: .* [...]
    | PieFed
    Out of the box PieFed has some pretty conservative settings, intended for small (less than 10 users) to medium (less than 200 active users) instances running on small servers where memory is constrained. Now that piefed.social is becoming busier I’ve needed to tweak a few settings: Gunicorn Gunicorn [...]
    | PieFed
    The admin teams behind a few large Lemmy instances have also set up PieFed instances recently. If you’re looking for an instance run by people with plenty of technical experience and deep connections to the fediverse community, these are the instances for you: piefed.ca – from the lemmy.ca team pief [...]
    | PieFed
    https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/static_files_caching-scaled.png https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/activitypub_caching-scaled.png https://join.piefed.social/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/mastodon_caching-scaled.png The post Optimal Cloudflare caching config for [...]
    | PieFed
    On the surface flair on PieFed functions very similar to how it does on Reddit – on posts they’re community-specific tags that can be used to filter posts in a community. People can also add flair to themselves which is just a piece of text that appears next to their name whenever they make posts [… [...]
    | SpaceHey
    Improved and reopened the "Share new Layout" page in the Layouts Section; Fixed a bug which caused an error when viewing notifications sometimes
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