ExtremeDullard

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[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Food pedants aren't gullible. They know full well water isn't worth anything like the price it's sold when it's bottled. But they're pedants: it's their job to look sophisticated. They literally make a living out of talking bullcrap about food.

That's why I said: if they want to pay silly money for water, they're welcome to. What I oppose if ordinary people listening to them and getting taken for a ride next time they go out for dinner.

But I think reasonable people won't fall for that one. It's just too stupid on its face. And people who are too dumb to know water is just water, well... a fool and his money...

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 12 points 3 hours ago (3 children)

That's a blatant scam for self-appointed restaurant critics and other food pedants.

Let them be scammed. Why not... I have nothing against taking money from fools, so long as they don't convince reasonable people to do the same.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 7 hours ago* (last edited 7 hours ago) (1 children)

As for automatic deletion of older posts...this is something that a piefed admin can do on a community by community basis. When it is turned on for a community, that retention policy is listed in the community sidebar. For instance, if you look at the sidebar of !anime@ani.social, you will see that posts are retained on piefed.social for 365 days.

Okay then it's fine. I was afraid it was a compulsory thing. I wouldn't consider importing my Lemmy communities on Piefed if it forgot old post.

Pulling in those 50 posts works most of the time but sometimes, for unknown reasons, it fails and only some posts get mirrored.

Okay. Well I was just curious. I suppose all the posts will show up after I migrate the communities over here.

Thanks!

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submitted 10 hours ago* (last edited 10 hours ago) by ExtremeDullard@piefed.social to c/piefed_help@piefed.social
 

How come this Lemmy community only shows the last 15 posts / 10 months worth of posts on Piefed?

This community or this community (from the same Lemmy instance) too are clipped, but they both show a year's worth.

Does it have something to do with the date at which the first PieFed user join them?

I know Lemmy instances only start mirroring a community hosted on another instance when someone on that instance joins it. But after that someone joined and the instance is done mirroring the community, the whole of it is browseable.

If I had to guess, I'd say Piefed instances only mirror the 15 last posts after the first user joins, or a years's worth, whichever applies. Correct?

And if so, does this also apply to native Piefed communities? In other words, does Piefied "disappear" older posts in Piefed communities?

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 14 hours ago

Strange... Usually Trump hacks who screw up get an ambassadorship. This one must have been exceptionally bad, which is saying something considering how low the bar is to be a Trump appointee.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 42 points 14 hours ago (4 children)

Just wait until he discovers that the truck has a battery and can charge the phone with the engine turned off. It's gonna blow his mind.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 11 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

What a terrible, terrible country...

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 20 points 18 hours ago

A worm in the brain certainly doesn't seem to help mental health...

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 1 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Yeah... I never though I'd root for that ultra right-wing piece of human refuse John Bolton ever in my life.

John Bolton makes Donald Rumsfeld, Karl Rove and Paul Wolfowitz more palatable to invite to a terrible surprise party. That's how much of a piece of shit Bolton is.

Yet Trump is somehow so much worse that he makes Bolton worth defending. That's quite a feat...

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 32 points 21 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)

But I thought Trump could declassify things just by thinking about it? His words, not mine.

That's where you've been had. Trump doesn't think. He says any old shit that goes through his deranged mind at any given moment, even if it makes no sense or contradicts what he said 5 minutes earlier.

Coherent thinking is done for him by other people - namely the Federalist Society and the Heritage Foundation. Those particular sonsabitches never wanted a pedo president, nor do they want anything declassified. But Trump is the best fascist racehorse they could find in 50 years, so they put up with his shenanigans.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 10 points 21 hours ago

I can tell you as much without any microphone. It's so obvious that it takes a Republican congresscritter or a MAGA dumdum to ignore it.

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 2 points 22 hours ago (1 children)

I watched the trailer, and it looks like a right ole shite action movie. However, I will say this:

President Down

Why is fiction always better than reality?

[–] ExtremeDullard@piefed.social 12 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

You don't become a billionaire by playing by the rules.

Actually you're wrong about that.

These guys do play by the rule: they obey the law to a tee. But... they obey the LETTER of the law, not the spirit. That's why nobody can't stop them and throw them in the slammer for tax evasion.

What you need to be a billionaire is to be psychopathic enough to think you're the only person whose interests matter, and have enough money to pay for equally psychopathic tax lawyers to establish some legal constructs for you that enable you to pay almost zero taxes legally. Once you're rich enough to pay the lawyers, you get exponentially richer.

It's legal, but they're still psychopathic sonsabitches.

 

Hey all,

I'm evaluating PieFed as a replacement for Lemmy, with a view to importing my two Lemmy communities to move them out of the failing Lemmy instance they're currently hosted on (a PieFed exclusive I understand). I've created an account and imported my Lemmy settings yesterday, and so far it's been more or less smooth sailing.

But there's one showstopper for me: when I create a post, there's no field to specify the thumbnail image URL. When PieFed guesses the image URL correctly, no problem. But here, I just posted this YouTube video, and just like on Lemmy half of the time, the thumbnail image didn't get picked up. On Lemmy, I always manually insert the thumbnail URL when I post YouTube links for that reason.

Similarly, some sites make it extra-hard for software to correctly guess the og:image - Reuters for instance - and so in those cases when it doesn't work, I manually set the correct thumbnail URL too.

Here on PieFed, there doesn't seem to be a provision to set the thumbnail URL.

Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something obvious? I really doubt this basic functionality is missing from PieFed.

 

See? Not all AI is bad.

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