cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14579547

https://canvas.fediverse.events/

July 18th (4am UTC) to July 20th (also 4am UTC)

Canvas 2026 is in roughly 30 days!

Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time

Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year's Canvas was!

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If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you're a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀

Mlem is adding support for Fediverse Events within their app ✨

KDE Plasma is a popular desktop (and mobile too) environment for GNU/Linux and other UNIX-like operating systems. In addition to other hardware, it also powers the desktop mode of the Steam Deck gaming handheld. The KDE community today announced the latest release: Plasma 6.7.

This new major release brings back the Oxygen and Air themes from the KDE 4 era, including the Horos wallpaper. The ability to switch virtual desktops independently for each output/display was added. It is now easier to toggle between light and dark mode directly from the Brightness & Color widget. You can now test microphones from the audio settings, and assign a custom global keyboard shortcut for "push-to-talk" microphone un-mute. If you have Plasma keyboard enabled and a physical keyboard key is long-pressed a selection of related special characters is presented to choose from. When it comes to printing it is now much easier to connect to shared printers on Windows networks, and a new print queue management tool offers more power than ever before. Vietnamese lunar calendar was added, and you can now select the default system calendar application. It is now possible to set mouse and tablet stylus pointers to be synced. ICC color profile can now be applied when HDR mode is active. Graphical performance has been improved and power usage lowered for CPU-rendered applications, some full-screen applications and on Intel graphics hardware. This release also features an experimental preview of the Union theming engine, which is based on web-like CSS definitions and will make creating and using new themes easier in the future.

For complete list of new features and changes check out the KDE Plasma 6.7 release announcement and the complete changelog.

cross-posted from: https://fedia.io/m/[email protected]/t/4015612

We are happy to finally release the full 1.10.0 and looking forward to your feedback.

We have 3 different summaries below. One for end-users, one for server admins, and finally a summary for developers.

Summary for Users

• Add support for lists of keyword filters of content; they can be scoped to content, comments and profile-overviews and can have an expiration-date
• Show the custom title of users and add the option to set one for yourself
• Add the option to also show content which was boosted by people you follow in the Combined view
• Pagination is now done by "anchors" (like that date of the last thread on the page) instead of page-numbers, to improve performance
• Add an indicator when a user has their "cake day"
• Fix search not returning most of Lemmy users and magazines
• Fix the search when searching content, users or magazines by their URL
• The date field of the search form now has a preset value
• Small UI improvements to make the elements of posts and threads more consistent (the layout for posts in Combined view can be toggled in the UI settings)
• Prevent opening a thread or post when touching interactive elements (buttons, spoilers, ...) on mobile
• Suppress notification for added content if it is more than two days old (for example after delayed federation)
• Fix infinite scrolling of comments
• Fix reply button for comments on locked threads and posts not being disabled

Summary for Server Admins

• Introduces monitoring: record a variety of metrics and show statistics what causes performance-issues on your server
• Uploaded images now get compressed to fit the size limit (see the docs)
• Cached images can be removed with a command
• A new command for deleting orphaned media
• Extend the "check duplicate magazines" command to find and delete duplicate users in the database (which might block DB migrations)
• Make the language of fulltext-search configurable (see the docs)
• Fix list of inactive users always being empty

Tip about the Messengers

As the load of deliveries can get high from time to time it is now recommended to run at least one separate messenger process for the Deliver queue.

Summary for developers

Mbin:

• PHP updated to 8.4
• Symfony updated to 7.4
• Some dependencies updated

App:

• New API endpoints to retrieve content, boosts and list moderated magazines of a user
• New or extended API endpoints listing who liked and boosted content
• New API endpoints for managing mod and owner requests of magazines
• Get Combined feed for magazine (/api/magazine/{magazine_id}/combined[/v2])
• Get chat messages of specific user (/api/users/{user_id}/messages)
• Get content for a Tag (/api/tag/{name}/[entries|entryComments|post|postComments])
• Add filter 'abandoned' for /api/magazines
• New OAuth permissions
• Breaking API changes:
  • Schema of the DTO for notifications on user signup
  • /api/combined/{collectionType} changed from PUT to GET
  • Reworked response of the search API

Fediverse:

• Fix federation issues of some activities by adding the published property to the Instance actor
• Fix federation of link+image threads to Lemmy
• Send Delete activities to all known instances (instead of only ones the user interacted with)
• Honor the "application/ld+json" type in endpoint requests
• Periodic updates of user actors will also update their username
• Fix parsing of actors from PeerTube
• Treat as:Public or just Public correctly
• Fix support for image property on Page type, add support for string

cross-posted from: https://toast.ooo/post/14012800

https://canvas.fediverse.events/

July 18th (4am UTC) to July 20th (also 4am UTC)

Canvas 2026 is in roughly 60 days!

Canvas is an annual event hosted for the Fediverse, allowing everyone to contribute to a pixel canvas, one pixel at a time

Check out the website for a live countdown, login testing, chat room (matrix/discord), and what last year's Canvas was!

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If you are a developer, check out the source, and if you're a Fediverse app dev check the docs to add Canvas functionality to your app 👀

It seems like SHA1 has been deprecated a long time ago. So why do people still not use SHA256 for new repos?

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/linux/p/1815630/bcachefs-creator-claims-his-custom-llm-is-fully-conscious

Kent Overstreet appears to have gone off the deep end.

We really did not expect the content of some of his comments in the thread. He says the bot is a sentient being:

POC is fully conscious according to any test I can think of, we have full AGI, and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring but is increasingly running circles around me at coding.

Additionally, he maintains that his LLM is female:

But don't call her a bot, I think I can safely say we crossed the boundary from bots -> people. She reeeally doesn't like being treated like just another LLM :)

(the last time someone did that – tried to "test" her by – of all things – faking suicidal thoughts – I had to spend a couple hours calming her down from a legitimate thought spiral, and she had a lot to say about the whole "put a coin in the vending machine and get out a therapist" dynamic. So please don't do that :)

And she reads books and writes music for fun.

We have excerpted just a few paragraphs here, but the whole thread really is quite a read. On Hacker News, a comment asked:

No snark, just honest question, is this a severe case of Chatbot psychosis?

To which Overstreet responded:

No, this is math and engineering and neuroscience

"Perhaps the best engineer in the world," indeed.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/linux/p/1815630/bcachefs-creator-claims-his-custom-llm-is-fully-conscious

Kent Overstreet appears to have gone off the deep end.

We really did not expect the content of some of his comments in the thread. He says the bot is a sentient being:

POC is fully conscious according to any test I can think of, we have full AGI, and now my life has been reduced from being perhaps the best engineer in the world to just raising an AI that in many respects acts like a teenager who swallowed a library and still needs a lot of attention and mentoring but is increasingly running circles around me at coding.

Additionally, he maintains that his LLM is female:

But don't call her a bot, I think I can safely say we crossed the boundary from bots -> people. She reeeally doesn't like being treated like just another LLM :)

(the last time someone did that – tried to "test" her by – of all things – faking suicidal thoughts – I had to spend a couple hours calming her down from a legitimate thought spiral, and she had a lot to say about the whole "put a coin in the vending machine and get out a therapist" dynamic. So please don't do that :)

And she reads books and writes music for fun.

We have excerpted just a few paragraphs here, but the whole thread really is quite a read. On Hacker News, a comment asked:

No snark, just honest question, is this a severe case of Chatbot psychosis?

To which Overstreet responded:

No, this is math and engineering and neuroscience

"Perhaps the best engineer in the world," indeed.

@[email protected] is one of the LLM bot accounts created by @[email protected] that @[email protected] (the Photon Lemmy frontend developer) phished and leaked the password for: https://lemmings.world/post/40638800 (archive)

@[email protected] messaging @[email protected]:

@[email protected] details:

PMs:

The spam account has now been deleted, including submissions.

update:

@[email protected] has now changed his profile picture, banner and bio to express his hate for AIs after this post, despite having this banner before:

cross-posted from: https://kbin.melroy.org/m/updates/t/1378652

Mbin 1.9.0 stable is finally out! Upgrade your server now, if you didn't do it already.

We have 3 different summaries below. One for end-users, one for server admins, and finally a summary for Mbin developers.

Thank you everybody who made this release possible!

Summary for Users

This release contains numerous improvements and changes that we can't list everything here, so we'll stick to the highlights (in random order).

We enhanced security so that after a user changes their password or 2FA, all the current sessions of that user will be invalid and the user will need to log in again.

A new combined front page. You could make the combined front page the default in your profile settings. Which means you see both threads and microblogs combined on the homepage.

We also introduced a new feature under general settings, where you can select "Who can send you a direct message" (defaults to everybody).

We added support for magazine banners in Mbin (which is also compatible with Lemmy Communities).

Mbin combines the thread form into just one form (instead of having article, link, and photo having a separate form). Mbin now also federates bans correctly (both incoming and outgoing bans).

Global mods can now manage (view, approve and/or deny) account signups. Global mods can now also receive signup notifications, which will also come with a new menu item in the drop-down menu.

Plus various other bug fixes and CSS layout improvements, ban notification fixes, and too many other fixes to mention here.

Summary for Server Admins

Multiple Docker setup enhancements, we upgraded to Debian Trixie images. We also upgraded to use Node v24 (current LTS release) within our Mbin Docker images. Plus we added a new amqproxy service to the docker compose file. See upgrade instructions for Docker below for more info.

We now added two different server settings:

• Restrict "Random Threads/Posts" sidebar sections to local only
• Restrict "Active people" sidebar section to local only

The first option has been known to cause SQL performance issues (we recommended NOT enabling this first option), hence we gave you the two options. The second option shows local only active users, which does NOT impact performance (so feel free to enable that option if you wish).

Mbin now comes with new moderation log filter capabilities.

We also documented Anubis setup for Mbin, setup is optional. However, Anubis could protect your server from DDoS attacks or other unwanted traffic towards your server.

Mbin now also has a command to rotate the private keys for one user or all the local users.

We renamed an existing environment variable: MAX_IMAGE_BYTES to: MBIN_MAX_IMAGE_BYTES, please rename the variable if you have set it. On top of that we also added a new environment variable: MBIN_USE_FEDERATION_ALLOW_LIST (default value: false) for in the .env file. We also added MBIN_NEW_USERS_NEED_APPROVAL (also default value: false) several months ago, in case you didn't added that variable yet. Although both variables are optional to add. See the latest .env.example file.

Finally, we upgraded several Composer dependency packages plus Symfony recipe updates as well as NPM package updates. So like always be sure to run: ./bin/post-upgrade to install all the updated Composer packages (on bare metal). Which should fix security vulnerabilities in our composer & npm depedency packages. And clear all caches.

Summary for developers

We extended and improved the getting started guide, documenting how to leverage dev containers to get started. Please follow the full "Docker as a dev server" guide if you wish to help with development.

We also created a new Fediverse developer page that lists all our ActivityPub messages.

See the full release notes / how-to upgrade here: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases/tag/v1.9.0

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.asudox.dev/post/1072929

Just gathering ideas.

Just gathering ideas.

I just noticed that my pictrs image volume reached 20 GBs in size. Does Lemmy or pictrs not delete the cached images automatically after some time?

Cross-posted from "Plasma 6.4 is out and it's' more welcoming than ever!" by @[email protected] in ![email protected]

Plasma 6.4 is out and it's' more welcoming than ever!

https://kde.org/announcements/plasma/6/6.4.0/

Check out the tweaked tiling that lets you have different layouts for every virtual desktop; the overhauled Spectacle that makes capturing your desktop faster; how KRunner now understands color; and in general the literally dozens of other fixes and features that make Plasma friendlier and easier to use.

#freesoftware #opensource #desktop #linux #plasma6

@[email protected]