Where are you even seeing this in PieFed? This is a glyph in the feather font that we do use for our symbols, but we don’t actually use that symbol anywhere in the codebase.
wjs018
Piefed contributor and part of the piefed.social admin team.
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Programming@programming.dev•AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open SourceEnglish
3·3 months agoMbin 1.9 just came out and lets users basically set a custom image to go with the link. However, the way it federates is kind of messing up lemmy and piefed, where they just think it is a link to the image only.
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Programming@programming.dev•AI’s Unpaid Debt: How LLM Scrapers Destroy the Social Contract of Open SourceEnglish
5·3 months agoLooks like it since it came from fedia. I would need to take a peek at the AP json to be sure when I get a chance. The picture and the link come as two attachments, and PieFed just pulls the first one, the picture.
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Self-hosting@slrpnk.net•A newbie's guide to self-hosting with YunoHost. Part 1: reasons + requirementsEnglish
1·3 months agoTIL Yunohost’s site runs on Flask, just like PieFed! Also, they use TailwindCSS, which is actually really nice. I messed around with it a bit at one point and was a fan.
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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•"Ubunchu!" - The Official Manga from The Ubuntu Magazine Japan has now been fully translated into English (under an open license of course)English
5·5 months agoThere are chapters about both!
Jackalope

Koala

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linuxmemes@lemmy.world•"Ubunchu!" - The Official Manga from The Ubuntu Magazine Japan has now been fully translated into English (under an open license of course)English
73·5 months agoKiriha (the character in the lead image) is a Windows advocate in the story. She is brutal…

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Technology@lemmy.world•PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationEnglish
3·8 months agoStill lots of things to do :)
Lemmy has been at it for years at this point while piefed only started up a bit over a year ago I think? In any case, I have only been a contributor for maybe a couple weeks, so lots of catching up to do!
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Technology@lemmy.world•PNG has been updated for the first time in 22 years — new spec supports HDR and animationEnglish
4·8 months agoRelevant issue: https://codeberg.org/rimu/pyfedi/issues/665
tl;dr - it’s an issue with the pillow image library in python. It’s on our radar though. I got posts working, but you have to click through, the thumbnail still isn’t animated.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Plex issues but not on JellyfinEnglish
3·11 months agoAh, I’ll have to try that out. I kind of forgot that the Playstation even has a browser.
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Plex issues but not on JellyfinEnglish
3·11 months agoMost of my plex users stream via Playstation, an area where Jellyfin has essentially been locked out. I let my users know how they can access my Jellyfin for the upcoming loss of remote play, but almost all of them opted to just pay the $2/mo to keep using their Playstation client.
Not sure where this falls on lemmy’s roadmap or if there is a github issue for it, but you can turn off notifications in piefed per post or comment. You can also enable notifications for posts/comments that aren’t your own if there is a thread you want to keep tabs on.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companiesEnglish
811·1 year agoThe theory that the lead maintainer had (he is an actual software developer, I just dabble), is that it might be a type of reinforcement learning:
- Get your LLM to create what it thinks are valid bug reports/issues
- Monitor the outcome of those issues (closed immediately, discussion, eventual pull request)
- Use those outcomes to assign how “good” or “bad” that generated issue was
- Use that scoring as a way to feed back into the model to influence it to create more “good” issues
If this is what’s happening, then it’s essentially offloading your LLM’s reinforcement learning scoring to open source maintainers.
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Technology@lemmy.world•FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companiesEnglish
114·1 year agoReally great piece. We have recently seen many popular lemmy instances struggle under recent scraping waves, and that is hardly the first time its happened. I have some firsthand experience with the second part of this article that talks about AI-generated bug reports/vulnerabilities for open source projects.
I help maintain a python library and got a bug report a couple weeks back of a user getting a type-checking issue and a bit of additional information. It didn’t strictly follow the bug report template we use, but it was well organized enough, so I spent some time digging into it and came up with no way to reproduce this at all. Thankfully, the lead maintainer was able to spot the report for what it was and just closed it and saved me from further efforts to diagnose the issue (after an hour or two were burned already).
You have clearly never driven on 93 through Boston where the person you replied to said they are from (aka the Big Dig). It is basically an entire highway that is underneath the city. There are many on and off ramps, lanes suddenly become exit only, complex multi-lane exits that branch…it’s intimidating. As somebody that has lived in the Boston area for 15 years now, I still mess things up.
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Technology@lemmy.world•PhysicsForums and the Dead Internet Theory [old specialized forums have started backdating millions of LLM-generated posts]English
22·1 year agoOfficial response from Greg Bernhardt
It’s years since I last used PhysicsForums, but found it immensely useful in the old days while going through my undergrad physics degree (it was less useful for PhD courses). I am not morally opposed to providing AI attempts at an answer in threads where nobody else chimes in. However, using real accounts that belong to other users is wildly over the line. I was surprised to see this wasn’t really called out in the official response thread by the existing users as that is the part of all this that is the most egregious to me.

Looks like this is a feature for most markdown parsers. In piefed, the same thing happens. I wrote most of the customizations for parsing markdown, but nothing to create relative links like this except for footnotes. So, it must be the default behavior of the markdown library we are using.