Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.
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Developer of PieFed, a sibling of Lemmy & Kbin.
This profile is from a federated server and may be incomplete. Browse more on the original instance.
Google gets its way, bakes a user-tracking ad platform directly into Chrome (arstechnica.com)
If you can, use Firefox.
PieFed support for Beehaw (piefed.social)
One of the more interesting threadverse instances is beehaw.org, which holds it's members to higher standards than most places. It wants people to be nice to each other. Imagine that!...
Don't be a sucker (www.youtube.com)
The United States Dept of War produced a film called “Don’t be a sucker” in 1947 specifically addressing the tenets of Nazisim and fascism in a bid to prevent this from happening again....
German politician ‘filmed taking Russian money’ (www.telegraph.co.uk)
A German politician has been filmed taking large sums of cash from a Kremlin-supporting broadcaster, Czech intelligence has claimed....
PieFed development update, May 2024
Here's some highlights from the last 3 weeks and who contributed:...
Study casts doubt on ‘wokeness’ of US university courses (www.ft.com)
Paywall free version...
New: Import community subscriptions from Lemmy
Lemmy 0.19.x added a data export function that produces a file containing a list of all the communities you've subscribed to and communities and people you've blocked. As of now, PieFed can import that file!...
‘In the US they think we’re communists!’ The 70,000 workers showing the world another way to earn a living (www.theguardian.com)
The Basque Country’s Mondragón Corporation is the globe’s largest industrial co-operative, with workers paying for the right to share in its profits – and its losses. In return for giving more to their employer, they expect more back.
Don't forget to indulge in some luxuries this weekend! (piefed.social)
The image is a graphic titled "the real luxuries," highlighting simple yet profound pleasures in life. It features a two-column list with illustrations and corresponding text for each item:...
Threadverse Working Group is formed (mastodon.social)
At this year's FediForum one of the breakout sessions centred around the Theadiverse, the subset of ActivityPub-enabled applications built around a group-centric model of content representation....
Seattle gave low-income residents $500 a month no strings attached. Employment rates nearly doubled. (finance.yahoo.com)
A Seattle basic income pilot gave low-income residents $500 a month, nearly doubling employment rates....
Men benefit more from their looks at work than women do, new research shows (www.cnbc.com)
Study (N=11K;20 years) finds attractive men more likely to attain better jobs & earn more than similarly attractive women. Attractive women had a slight advantage over unattractive women but men saw greatest benefits. For women being attractive is incompatible with stereotypes of leaders. “Women are held to a specific standard...
The IRS will pursue business private jet usage in a new round of audits on high-wealth taxpayers (www.nbcnews.com)
New feature: domain blocking (piefed.social)
In grey text on each post is the domain name of the content being linked to. Clicking on that takes you to a list of all posts that link to that domain, such as this one: https://piefed.social/d/3909...
Gender bias in open source: Pull request acceptance of women versus men (www.researchgate.net)
Our results show that women's contributions tend to be accepted more often than men's [when their gender is hidden]. However, when a woman's gender is identifiable, they are rejected more often. Our results suggest that although women on GitHub may be more competent overall, bias against them exists nonetheless.
Global sea surface temperature as of 1st March 2024 (piefed.social)
James Webb telescope confirms there is something seriously wrong with our understanding of the universe (www.livescience.com)
Astronomers have used the James Webb and Hubble space telescopes to confirm one of the most troubling conundrums in all of physics — that the universe appears to be expanding at bafflingly different speeds depending on where we look....
Tokelau - the first nation to be completely solar powered (youtu.be)
This documentary tells the story of 3 small atolls in the Pacific that overcame their isolation and dependence on diesel generators to become the first 100% solar powered nation in the world. It also gives a unique insight into their sharing-based way of life - their fishing and cooking traditions, education, religion and...
Utopia - John Pilger - Australia's shameful secret (www.youtube.com)
This documentary explores the experiences of Aboriginal Australians in modern Australia. The title is derived from the Aboriginal homeland community of Utopia, Northern Territory, one of the poorest and most desolate areas in Australia....
People who read overwhelmingly support Biden (piefed.social)
Intense first person view combat footage near Andriivka (www.youtube.com)
An amazing combination of strategic commentary, drone footage and helmet cam footage.
Many new topics
https://piefed.social/topic/tv-movies/star-trek...
Real men wear diapers (www.snopes.com)
Daughters and Fathers (lemm.ee)
So much wholesome advice!