cross-posted from: https://beehaw.org/post/574562

Here's a laundry list of sort with tons of tools we'd like to see

• Role for approval of applications (to delegate)
• Site mods (to delegate from admins)
• Auto-report posts with certain keywords or domains (for easier time curating without reports)
• Statistics on growth (user, comments, posts, reports)
  • User total
  • MUA
  • User retention
  • Number of comments
  • Number of posts
  • Number of reports open
  • Number of reports resolved
• Sort reports
  • by resolved/open
  • by local/remote
• Different ways to resolved a report
  • Suspend account for a limited amount of time rather than just banning
  • Send warning
• Account mod info
  • Number of 'strikes' (global and local) and reports
  • Moderation notes
  • Change email
  • Change password
  • Change role
• Ability to pin messages in a post
• Admins should be able to purge
• Filter modlog to local
• Better federation tools (applications to communities, limiting)
  • Applications to communities to allow safe spaces to exist (people should not be able to just "walk in" on a safe space - similarly to follow requests in Mastodon in a way)
  • Limiting (Lock our communities down from certain instances but still allow people using our instance to talk to people from those instances)

Obviously considering the moment when this is being made - federation tools are our highest priority.

ChatGPT, Microsoft Bing, Google Bard - al die chatbots die afgelopen jaar zijn verschenen, werken op basis van grote taalmodellen. Het lijkt zo simpel: je stelt een vraag en je krijgt antwoord. Maar onder de motorkap zijn het razend ingewikkelde systemen, die alleen zo goed kunnen werken omdat ze zoveel training hebben gehad. Hoe werkt dat precies? En wat zijn precies de risico's en bezwaren van deze nieuwe technologie?

We all know that Lemmy is part of the Fediverse, but how does it do that. This is done trough federating with both other Lemmy servers, but also by implementing the ActivityStreams protocol sot it can communicate with other applications on the Fediverse.

The linked document describes the protocol and how it should work.

De Nederlandse Kiesraad gaat kijken of de software die bij verkiezingen wordt gebruikt in de toekomst niet meer via een cd-rom hoeft te worden verstuurd. Dat gebeurt nu wel met de testsoftware, maar veel computers hebben geen cd-romlades meer.

If you want to help with the development or just want to test things with your own Lemmy instance, you will have to set up a local instance on your own PC. This is not that hard, but it is not uncommon that you will do something wrong and if you are not, that experienced with the technology that is used, it can be hard to understand the error messages that you receive. That’s why I wrote this blog to help developers to run their own local instance.

So when setting up your local instance, it is a good idea to read the official guide for local development. We will now set up both the API/back-end and the front-end.

The back-end

First, we need the rust toolchain. The easiest way is to just get Rustup by following the installation command you find on this website.

Now before we start checking or building the back-end we need to install all required libraries.

For Debian-based (like Ubuntu) this is:

sudo apt install git cargo libssl-dev pkg-config libpq-dev curl postgresql

For Arch-based this is:

sudo pacman -S git cargo libssl-dev pkg-config libpq-dev curl postgresql

For macOS, you can just install postgresql:

brew install postgresql brew services start postgresql /usr/local/opt/postgres/bin/createuser -s postgres

Now we need to add a db user for Lemmy to the database. Sometimes psql cannot be found, in those cases you can often just switch to the postgresql user with sudo su postgres

psql -c "create user lemmy with password 'password' superuser;" -U postgres psql -c 'create database lemmy with owner lemmy;' -U postgres

You can change the password if you want, in that case remember the password you entered.

Now we have everything we need for the back-end, it is time to download the Lemmy project.

git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git --recursive git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy-ui.git --recursive

Make sure you don’t forget the --recursive flag, it is required to download all the code.

Now we can have a look at the configuration of the back-end. In the “lemmy” project there should be a folder named “config”, in this config file are 2 files, defaults.hjson and config.hjson. If you need to make settings to your server, you can make those in the config.hjson file. You can use this to change the password of the database, for example. The defaults.hjson file should help with finding out how this can be done.

Now we can check if everything works correctly, open a shell in the “lemmy” project (this is the back-end). There should be a Cargo.toml file in this folder.

Here you can now run cargo check to check if everything compiles. This should run fine, and then you can run cargo run. Now you should have a running server.

After making changes, you need to format the code with cargo +nightly fmt --all and run the linter with ./scripts/fix-clippy.sh.

The front-end

To get started with the front-end we need both Node and Yarn. Node is available through brew with “brew install node”, but you can also install it from the Node.js website. For many Linux distributions, it is also possible to use your package manager.

Then we still need Yarn, there are again multiple ways to install Yarn, the recommended way to install yarn is trough corepack, this is explained on the yarn website. You can also install it through brew with “brew install yarn” or simply trough npm with npm install -g yarn. I went for the npm route.

After installing yarn, you can install all node dependencies with yarn install and start the development server with yarn start.

Image uploads

We did not set up an image server, so you won’t be able to upload images. The docker setup does support this, but for general development building the docker containers is too slow.

Windows

I haven’t tried this out on Windows, but you should be able to follow all the Linux steps with Windows subsystem for Linux. You might be able to get it to work natively, but some installation steps will be different.

Google may soon be ordered to break up its lucrative ad business, which amounted to nearly $225 billion in 2022 and represented nearly 80 percent of Google's total revenue.

June 19th Jagex will add the Woodcutters' Grove to Fort Forinthry. With this update, they will also rebalance the woodcutting skill and even add the new Imcando Hatchet. This will make cutting logs from slow trees like magic trees a lot faster and more in line with the current state of the game.

Svelte 4.0 Beta is out. The most important changes are the minimum requirement of Node 16, TypeScript 5 and Webpack 5 (although the use of Webpack is not recommended)

Svelte 4.0 focusses on structural improvements of the project and comes with better types for use in TypeScript. Even though the project, itself, is now moving to JSDoc (they say that this makes library development a lot faster). More impactful changes are expected in Svelte 5.

With the update of last Monday, they increased the area loot on desktop to be the same as on mobile. Now we can finally just pickup most of our drops without moving while doing slayer. (if you need even more range, you can even use the Lorehound to extend this range by 2 tiles)