dessalines

Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

andrewmoise

• Use different counts for denominator in scaled rank for posts

timothyhay256

• Improve email notification text

dessalines

• Removing upx.
• Converting joins, filters, and selects to common functions for DB views.
• Using different corepack install method to fix corepack bug.
• Adding listing_type.ModeratorView for list communities.
• Only print migration output when running migrate command
• Search combined
• Adding post_id and type_ filters to combined reports.
• Adding zh-CN as default for zh lang.

Nutomic

• Fix crash while rewriting markdown (fixes #5380)
• Rename actor_id columns to ap_id
• Include saved date in api responses (fixes #5184)
• Fix peertube federation (ref #3837)
• Use mimalloc as memory allocator
• Federate "resolve report" action
• Deny invalid config fields
• Remove instrument macros
• Only list local banned users (fixes #2961)
• Add some url validation
• Allow setting multiple values for cors_origin (fixes #5198)

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@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

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Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

SleeplessOne1917

• RFC for REST-based API redesign
• lemmy-client-rs Release v1.0.4

flamingo-cant-draw

• Add media filter setting

dullbananas

• Prevent incorrectly using delete instead of uplete
• Clean up LemmyError::status_code
• Optimize migrations
• Changes to get_random_community_id: add filters for nsfw and private, use algorthm that doesn't scan the entire table
• Correctly paginate PostView when read_only is enabled
• Add community reports (only the database part)

dessalines

• Adding a slim comment_view variant, without post or community.
• Adding combined inbox
• Adding Combined modlog
• Fixing person_content_combined migration uniques.
• Using input group for allowed and block instance buttons.
• Moving totp and delete account settings into their own cards.
• Adding fedilink translation for link titles.
• Fixing login password limits.

Nutomic

• Change println! to debug!
• Move middleware code into api_routes for faster compilation
• Send federated reports to all community mods
• Change federation community restricted check to apply only locally
• Skip api test for community follower count (fixes #5179)
• Implement request idempotency (fixes #4735)
• Return correct status code for rate limit error (ref #5332)
• Add support for donation dialog (fixes #4856)
• Pictrs delete token
• Image api rework

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

• Liberapay (preferred option)
• Open Collective
• Patreon
• Cryptocurrency

Some foreigners say that our ideological reform is brainwashing. As I see it, they are correct in what they say. It is washing brains, that’s what it is! This brain of mine was washed to become what it is. After joining the revolution, it was slowly washed, washed for several decades.

What I received before was all bourgeois education, and even some feudal education.

• Mao Zedong

Source: https://www.bnnbloomberg.ca/business/technology/2025/01/08/biden-to-further-limit-nvidia-ai-chip-exports-in-final-push

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Some Background: History conditions much of our thinking about our political systems and most Western democracies resemble Rome’s in 60 BC when, as Robin Daverman humorously says, three aristocrats–politician Julius Caesar, military hero Pompey and billionaire Crassus–formed a backroom alliance that dominated the elected senate. The oligarchs ensured that proletarii votes changed nothing and that the masses remained invisible unless they rioted or died in one of the elites’ endless civil wars. Two thousand years later, in Britain’s general election of 1784, the son of the First Earl of Chatham and Hester Grenville, sister of the previous Prime Minister George Grenville, and the son of the First Baron Holland and Lady Caroline Lennox, daughter of Second Duke of Richmond, offered voters offered a choice of dukes. Today, in many European countries (even egalitarian Sweden) ‘democracy’ is a mere veneer over powerful feudal aristocracies that still control their economies. American voters recently watched a former president’s wife competing with a former president’s brother being defeated by a billionaire who installed his daughter and son-in-law in important government positions and ensured that, as John Dewey said, “U.S. politics will remain the shadow cast on society by big business as long as power resides in business for private profit through private control of banking, land and industry, reinforced by command of the press and other means of propaganda”. Most Western politicians are related by marriage or wealth and have, like all hereditary classes, lost sympathy with the broad mass of their fellow citizens to the extent that, as American political scientists Martin Gilens and Benjamin Page found, ‘the preferences of the average American appear to have a near-zero, statistically non-significant impact upon public policy’: Testing Theories of American Politics: Elites, Interest Groups, and Average Citizens

From the article, What kind of democracy does China have?