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Do we have a date for the lemmy 0.19.5 upgrade? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by federino@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Lemmy 0.19.5 was released a few days ago, other instances already upgraded to this version.

Do we have a date for the programming.dev instance to upgrade as well?

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I created autistic_devs community to provide a safe(er) space to discuss our unique issues within the field. (programming.dev)

submitted 1 week ago by th3raid0r@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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After not getting what I needed out of a "managing up" post, I decided to create this community. Essentially the problem is that often we need to solve a social problem that others might deem "trivial". And when folks deem it trivial, they fail to provide anything except encouraging words.

This community will try to bridge that gap.

NTs / Allistics are very welcome, BUT they must understand that we need details, we need patience, and we need kindness around matters of business politics and office socializing.

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403 on API endpoints (lemmy.readme.io)

submitted 1 month ago by refalo@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Tried to use several different API endpoints as described in the link, but they all return 403 with a cloudflare "Just a moment..." html reply. Even tried copying an existing jwt token from a working logged-in browser but the same thing still happens.

Any idea what I could be doing wrong?

curl -v --request POST \
     --url https://programming.dev/api/v3/user/login \
     --header 'accept: application/json' \
     --header 'content-type: application/json' \
     --data '{"username_or_email": "redacted", "password": "redacted"}'
...
< HTTP/2 403
...

<!DOCTYPE html><html lang="en-US"><head><title>Just a moment...</title>
...

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Snowe Impersonators, and Future Verfication Suggestion (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by recursive_recursion@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Thank you for the reports however the toxic posts aren't from our admin but a troll impersonator

If you see these accounts, please ban away

Side Note:

for anyone that has manual registration verification enabled I'd suggest on verifying with known users on past/pre-existing accounts before accepting duplicates,
- esp for admin/moderator usernames

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Is there a chance to exclude community RSS endpoints from the IP block? (lemmy.sdf.org)

submitted 1 month ago by mao@lemmy.sdf.org to c/meta@programming.dev

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Hey sup:)

Idk if it's Cloudflare or something, but the problem is I have an RSS reader hosted on my Hetzner server in Germany, and requests originating from its IP are blocked. Well not exactly blocked, but they return HTML titled "Just a second..." rather than just RSS.

For example:

GET https://programming.dev/feeds/c/python.xml?sort=Active

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en-US">
   <head>
      <title>Just a moment...</title>
      <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">
      <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=Edge">
      <meta name="robots" content="noindex,nofollow">
...

Obviously I totally understand if you wouldn't want to do that – I'm sure it's there for a reason, I was just hoping that this single endpoint could be an exception =]

Thanks!

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Federation problems with the Brazilian instance lemmy.eco.br (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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I can't see a lot of posts from the lemmy.eco.br instance. Take for example the brazilian linux community, observe that you can't see any posts from this instance, but you can on the original instance:

linux Brazil from programming.dev

linux Brazil from it's original linstance

The lemmy.eco.br instance can see our posts without problems, so I'm assuming that the problem lies here. Am I right for assuming that?

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Getting ssl errors when clicking one of the alternative frontends (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by nieceandtows@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

2 comments fedilink

Invalid SSL certificate Error code 526

Including for me.programming.dev

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Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities? (social.coop)

submitted 1 month ago by django@social.coop to c/meta@programming.dev

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Any interest in hosting q&a style programming communities?

@meta

See: https://social.anoxinon.de/@Codeberg/112416604462962336

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Some comments not appearing? (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by refalo@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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I am noticing that some comments, which are coming from users on other verified (via /instances) federated instances, do not show up on a post. For example: https://programming.dev/post/13648105

Does not show this comment on it: https://lemmy.ml/comment/10803786

Any ideas why? I checked the modlog and the comment wasn't removed, and their post history to me does not look like someone that is likely to be banned from the instance, so I'm not sure what else it could be.

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Error uploading pictures (HTTP 502) (programming.dev)

submitted 1 month ago by pro_grammer@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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When I try to upload an image by copying the image and pasting it on the "URL" field, I get the following error:

Invalid status 502 Bad Gateway for Some("003/004/170/971/9e93b608-72cb-4486-9a47-4c8c8c41e998") - \r\n502 Bad Gateway\r\n\r\n502 Bad Gateway\r\nnginx\r\n\r\n\r\n

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What's with all of the empty communities being created? (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by ericjmorey@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Recently, every time I click on a "Trending Communities" link there's an entirely empty community moderated by the @Vacant@programming.dev account.

What's going on?

What's the motivation?

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Cannot follow @pid_eins@mastodon.social (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by robinm@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

2 comments fedilink

Hello,

I’m trying to follow Lennard Poetting (@pid_eins@mastodon.social) from my programming.dev account without success.

On its user profile on mastodon.social, when I click on the “follow” button, then enter “programming.dev” (which is in the completion list) then “take me home”, I am redirected to https://programming.dev/authorize_interaction?uri=https%3A%2F%2Fmastodon.social%2Fusers%2Fpid_eins which is a 404 error.

I also tried to search for “@pid_eins@mastodon.social” directly from programming.dev, found it, but 0 toot, and no button to be able to follow it.

Am I doing something wrong? Is mastodon.social and programming.dev not federated?

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Broken icons/images (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by cmeerw@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

3 comments fedilink

Anyone else noticing all those broken icons/images on this instance?

e.g. https://programming.dev/pictrs/image/1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png?format=webp&thumbnail=96 seems to result in something like "Request error: error sending request for url (http://pictrs:8080/image/process.webp?src=1e947440-0f0d-4768-ba4b-1480551e7cc9.png&thumbnail=96): error trying to connect: dns error: failed to lookup address information: Name or service not known"

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Handling large bursts of POST requests to your ActivityPub inbox, using a buffer in Nginx (join.piefed.social)

submitted 2 months ago by anzo@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

2 comments fedilink

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/89462

Handling large bursts of POST requests to your ActivityPub inbox, using a buffer in Nginx

Fediverse traffic is pretty bursty and sometimes there will be a large backlog of Activities to send to your server, each of which involves a POST. This can hammer your instance and overwhelm the backend’s ability to keep up. Nginx provides a rate-limiting function which can accept POSTs at full speed and proxy them slowly through to your backend at whatever rate you specify.

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Small Site Outage (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Hey everyone! Recently there was a small issue with the backend (docker shenanigans) that brought the site down and then took a bit to fix

Things should be fixed for now and we will be looking more at it in the future to try to prevent the site from being taken down that way again

Downtime was around 30 minutes

The best place to reach us when theres an outage with the site and to receive updates of it is on the discord server or matrix space or on one of our microblog accounts

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Lemmyvision Song Contest (stacks.programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

2 comments fedilink

Hey everyone! I wanted to do a post here talking about an event going on in the fediverse called Lemmyvision. This is a competition where various communities each choose a song and then those are voted on by users to rank which ones people enjoy the most.

Its being ran as a fun way to see various kinds of music from around the world, sharing more between our online communities across Lemmy, and as a way to songs from lesser known artists. We are participating with game soundtracks as an opportunity to showcase new advancements in the game development space, especially for indie games that might otherwise not get much exposure.

There was a national final to determine the song our instance would submit in the programming.dev event community. After voting the song Your Inception from the game Casette Beasts was chosen.

Submitted Songs and Voting

Ive compiled all of the songs into playlists on three different platforms for watching

Feel free to listen to them and vote using the voting link https://tally.so/r/nWNgKQ. When selecting what instance you are representing theres an option to select programming.dev for people voting from the instance.

Voting is done by ranking the songs from your favorite to your least favorite. Users from our instance can't rank the song we submitted to keep things fair.

If you want to chat with other people about the competition theres a community for it here

Future Events

This post will be going into the meta community for people who might not know the event community exists (and i'll likely be doing another post when the event Canvas is happening).

Any other future posts will be posted in the programming.dev event community. All major event posts will be made on our blog with the category set to the event name and the tag "Event".

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Thank you for your reports!🤗 (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by recursive_recursion@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

3 comments fedilink

Thank you to everyone that submitted a report about the toxic user on our instance

Transphobia is absurd, horrid, and isn't allowed on our instance

As my software dev program finishes next week I'll be able to provide a quicker response to reports!

Anyways
Thank you again to everyone making these reports🤗 and I highly encourage anyone else that spots anything sketchy to do the same as your reports helps us keep p.d a safe and cool community to share and discuss code related stuff🌻❤️

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Programming.Dev Apr 2024 Feedback Form (polls.programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Hey everyone! Ive made a form that can be used to give feedback about the site including what you think its doing well and what you think needs improvement

Based on responses if something is highly requested we can prioritize improving/adding that first

Ill try to run these a couple times a year

Will be pinned for a day in the instance

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The President of the United States is blocked on this instance (programming.dev)

submitted 2 months ago by v9CYKjLeia10dZpz88iU@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

28 comments fedilink

https://www.threads.net/@potus

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Piracy-Related Content on P.D: An Open Dialogue with Our Community (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by bugsmith@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Hello P.D users.

I'm sure the recent news of lemmy.world's removal of piracy communities has not escaped the attention of many of you. For those who have not heard, here is their announcement on the matter.

Now, being as transparent as possible, this is not a subject that the admin team of P.D have discussed in great detail up until this point. We have yet to create an explicit rule stating that piracy related content is forbidden on this instance, and doing so is not something any of us wish to do.

With that being said, this topic requires more deliberation and consideration. There is more complexity to this issue than taking a stance for, against, or tolerant of piracy. There are legal considerations. And the truth is that we are not 100% sure on what the legal implications are for allowing piracy related content to exist on this instance, either directly on our communities or indirectly via federation.

One thing that must be considered when looking into the legalities is jurisdiction. I believe being part of a larger federation complicates this more than a centralised service, but P.D must at a minimum be considerate of the laws of the country its server(s) is hosted in, and the laws of the country the person responsible for the instance resides in.

For those who don't know, this instance is administrated by a reasonably large team of volunteers, but is hosted and ultimately provided by only one: snowe. There is no legal entity behind P.D other than his person, and this means that any ramifications of this subject ultimately fall on his shoulders.

After an initial discussion between us, it is clear that some professional legal advice is required. Snowe is intending to seek formal legal advice. Up until that point, we cannot say what the official P.D stance will be on this topic long term.

What I can say, is that nobody in this administrative team desires to impose any restrictions on users of this instance that overreach and limit discussion unnecessarily. So long as content here is not dangerous, hurtful or offensive, we have no wish to filter it out on an instance level. Communities can impose their own rules, for the most part.

You can expect a further update on this topic in the future, once we have a better understanding ourselves, and we will keep this topic as transparent as we possibly can. Until then, in relation to this matter, we do not currently intend to defederate from any instances or ban any communities that discuss piracy. Linking to websites that provide pirated content will also not be explicitly banned, but linking to or directly hosting pirated content on P.D is prohibited. Should any of these rules change, we will communicate it as quickly as possible and far ahead of any drastic action that would need to take place as a result.

I believe the majority of our users here will understand the pressure that any Lemmy instance faces by hosting content that can make them susceptible to legal action. To those of you who are understanding, we thank you for that, and are grateful for your patience with us while we get a better understanding ourselves.

Feel free to discuss this matter here.

Thanks,
The P.D. Admin Team.

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Introducing Bytes, our programming microblog instance! (bytes.programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Site link: https://bytes.programming.dev Blog post: https://stacks.programming.dev/posts/bytes/

Introducing the official release of Bytes, our programming microblog. This is being run for the most part in a similar way the main programming.dev instance is and anyone is free to join even if youre not a programmer (but be warned most topics will be about programming or similar aspects).

The software the site is using is called iceshrimp which is one of the misskey forks which has a better UI than mastodon and a lot of advanced features and customization

Microblogging

Microblogging is essentially making small posts of text or image to share things going on. This can include things like sharing things happening, progress on things youre working on, making polls for people to vote on, chatting with others, etc.

As opposed to programming.dev where things are sorted into communities, bytes works based off hashtags where you add tags to your post based on what categories it falls into.

Timelines

Theres 5 main timelines in the instance to browse (excluding custom ones).

Home is the place to see posts from everyone you are following.
Local shows posts from everyone in the instance.
Social shows a combination of posts from home and local.
Recommended show posts from instances that have been recommended by the admins (currently I have this set to mastodon.gamedev.place, peoplemaking.games, and gamemaking.social)
All shows posts from all instances the server is currently pulling from.

Antennas

Antennas are a feature where you can set certain keywords to look out for and it will generate a feed of posts that have one or more of those keywords in them

This has further options such as making AND conditions, OR conditions, excluding posts with certain keywords, getting notifications, and changing the source of posts (to things such as posts made by certain people or on certain instances)

Reactions

As opposed to only having one thing to react to posts with (aka a like) you can react with any emoji you want on a post. We have added some custom emojis to start off with on the server but if you have ideas for more feel free to reach out.

Translation

If theres a post made in another language, you can select the translate option to translate the post into english to then be able to read!

Lists

Lists are a feature where you can set a bunch of people and it will make a feed with posts from those people.

Drive

The drive is a spot where you can upload photos for usage around the site or externally. All users have a limited amount of drive space but it should be high enough where you wont run into it unless youre uploading a lot of large files.

Chat

The site has a private message system thats a bit more advanced than the one on programming.dev. You can make group chats that contain multiple people.

Pages

You can create pages that contain text or images to link to or for other people to browse!

Channels

Channels are the equivalent of communities. You can make posts for certain topics in channels for that topic. This feature currently doesnt federate and is still a work in progress though.

Customization

The site features a very large amount of customization where you can customize the content of both of the sidebars to many different options, set a custom theme for yourself (with a built in theme editor), add plugins, mute specific instances, mute posts containing specific words, etc.

Hope you enjoy the new instance!

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Threads Federation Results (stacks.programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Its been a couple days which means I have the results of the threads federation poll we ran on the instance. The percentage difference between all of the options stayed relatively the same through the entire thing.

poll results

This was ran as ranked choice voting which means the least voted option gets eliminated every round and the votes for that option are distributed among the peoples second or third choices depending on if that was their first or second choice.

The total votes table shows the current votes for each option in each round. Differences shows the increase in votes the options gained from the last option being eliminated. Percentage shows the total % of votes the options have for each round.

Silenced was the first one to be eliminated with much less votes than everything else at 18 votes (aka 8.5%). Next up was limited being eliminated at 53 votes (25%). Out of the final two, blocked has the most amount of votes with around 55% of the vote total or 115 votes.

This means that threads will be fully defederated from on our instances. I will be running a poll again in around 6 months as a check in after threads has been federating for a bit to see if we want to change the decision or keep it.

also note you will notice some numbers in the tables not being the same round from round, some people voted for the same option multiple times which means I couldnt give them a second or third choice since they only did 1 or 2

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Programming.Dev Legal Site (stacks.programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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Introducing the programming.dev legal site! This is a place to easily see all of our legal documents instead of them being spread out in various locations.

You can find the site at https://legal.programming.dev

The documents are open to changes and are not final so if you have suggested changes and ways we can improve them feel free to reach out either by creating an issue on the legal site repository, by messaging me (Ategon) or by emailing info@programming.dev

Included Documents

Privacy Policy - How we collect, protect, and use information provided to us
Terms of Service - Terms that govern your access to and use of our services
Automation Guidelines - Guidelines when using any form of automation on an account
Code of Conduct - Expected conduct when interacting on our sites or on communities on our sites
Contributor Guidelines - Guidelines for contributing to our projects
Cookie Policy - How we use cookies
Defederation Policy - How we defederate with other instances
Donation Policy - How we handle and spend donations made towards us
Moderator Guidelines - Expected conduct when moderating a community

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Remember Me Frontend Feature (programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago by tengkuizdihar@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

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You guys know that "remember me" checklist on every login page? Is it possible for us to use frontend that have that? Everytime my browser is starting up, the lemmy instances just forgets who I am and I must login again. This is not the observed behavior if I'm using Jerboa on my phone though.

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Threads Federation Poll (polls.programming.dev)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Ategon@programming.dev to c/meta@programming.dev

34 comments fedilink

In the past we said we were going to run a federation poll regarding Threads (activitypub compatible instance created by meta) and now that theyre ramping up federation and we have a new instance coming that would interact with that I decided its time to do so

This poll is only open to people who have an account on programming.dev as it only affects those users (other instances decide federation on their own).

This also only affects us pulling content from them. Them pulling content from us isnt stoppable on our side (and if it is they can still get it through things such as boosts from instances in the middle on the microblog side or by querying the api).

There will be mention of a link aggregator side and a microblog side. The link aggregator side is this site and the microblog side is a new instance being started up where I wanted to get this poll out before I release it publicly.

On the side of Threads they are making interacting using activitypub opt in so the amount of users there would not flood out everything else as people need to explicitly change in their settings that they want to interact with mastodon, etc.

Regardless of whats voted you shouldnt notice any changes on the link aggregator side similar to how mastodon users barely pop up now

This will be pinned in the instance for a couple days to ensure as many people as possible vote. Afterwards ill collect the results and make a post with them here (not pinned)

Note accounts created after this poll was made cant vote to prevent vote manipulation

Side Note:

Submitted Songs and Voting

Future Events

Microblogging

Timelines

Antennas

Reactions

Translation

Lists

Drive

Chat

Pages

Channels

Customization

Included Documents

Programming.dev Meta

Links

Credits