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cross-posted from: https://sopuli.xyz/post/29899836

The first American academics fleeing Donald Trump's America for France have arrived.

Aix-Marseille University last week introduced eight U.S.-based researchers who were in the final stage of joining the institution's “Safe Place for Science" program, which aims to woo researchers who have experienced or fear funding cuts under the Trump administration. AMU offers the promise of a brighter future in the sun-drenched Mediterranean port city.

While both France and the European Union have launched multimillion-euro plans to woo researchers across the pond since Trump assumed the U.S. presidency in January, AMU's initiative was the first of its kind in the country — meaning the eight researchers who were welcomed are the first academic refugees planning to trade the United States for France.

 

Meanwhile stock market is up. What a shit show.

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/32536153

This was a busy month, with ~80 pull requests merged, as we're trying to get all the breaking changes we can added before the 1.0 release.

The release is still several months away, as even after finishing up the rest of the 1.0 milestone issues, we still have to add this new functionality to Lemmy-UI and Jerboa, and do extensive testing.

Here are some of the major changes made over the past month:

  • Added multi-communities (One of the most requested features).
  • Added a new rate limiting library.
  • Refactored the API structs and library for better usage in Rust projects.
  • Improved the migration diff checker.
  • Using an external library for checking invisible characters.
  • Votes are now removed when banning + removing data.
  • Added a GDPR style data export.
  • Storing upvote / downvote totals you gave to each user, and a setting to display that history next to their name.
  • Added ability to make a note for a user.
  • Added an RSS feed for modlogs.
  • Added an API action to get liked / disliked content.

Full list of changes by user

Lemmy:

Lemmy-ui:

Or see the full list of changes at the links below:


An open source project the size of Lemmy needs constant work to manage the project, implement new features and fix bugs. Dessalines and Nutomic work full-time on these tasks and more. As there is no advertising or tracking, all of our work is funded through donations. Even so there is barely enough time in the day, and no time for a second job. The only available option are user donations. To keep it viable donations need to reach a minimum of 5000€ per month, resulting in a modest salary of 2500€ per developer. If that goal is reached we can stop worrying about money, and fully focus on improving the software for the benefit of all users and instances. We especially rely on recurring donations to secure the long-term development and make Lemmy the best it can be.

Donate

 

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/32469567

After the Trump-backed “Big Beautiful Bill” passed both the House and Senate, one social media user protested, “17 million people just lost health care. 18 million kids just lost school meals. 3 million Americans just lost food assistance.”

Van Orden responded to the post, “YES!”

After he received backlash, the post was quickly deleted, with the congressman claiming he had meant to reply to a different post.

 

cross-posted from: https://piefed.ca/post/46722

 
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cross-posted from: https://discuss.tchncs.de/post/39836617

Lasst uns bitte die Atomkraftwerke wieder einschalten, für eine prüft Notizen sichere Stromversorgung.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

It's not just native Apps. Alternative web UIs like Thunder, Photon and Voyager need them too.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Mobile Apps need an API too.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Sounds like corruption 101

[–] tfm@europe.pub 12 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Nooo bro it increases in value bro I'm investing in watches bro

[–] tfm@europe.pub 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)
[–] tfm@europe.pub 3 points 2 months ago

I'm the only admin atm. Currently it's not a lot of work. But if it's growing I'll get more admins onto the team.

There are already a few mods in the country specific communities. Join our mod team if you have some spare time!

If I'd be forced to drop it, I'd know people who could potentially take it over.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 months ago

You can also check out Ghost.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Learn the basics of WordPress first then check out Bricks Builder. It's not free but the best in it's class. If you aren't doing this professionally you'll experience a steep learning curve but once you master it, you can build pretty much anything you want extremely fast.

If you really want to build it in HTML and CSS you'd have to build your own theme.

[–] tfm@europe.pub 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you like more about Piefed compared to Lemmy?

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 months ago (4 children)

What's your experience? Are you a web developer or in IT?

[–] tfm@europe.pub 2 points 2 months ago

Ausgefüllt!

[–] tfm@europe.pub 4 points 2 months ago (2 children)

based in Europe

Yup. Hetzner in Germany to be precise.

has decent privacy

Will I ever spy on you or sell your data? No. I'm a big proponent of the GDPR and will do everything I can to comply fully. That said, if you want perfect privacy, you’d need to host your own instance.

isn’t de-federated from too much content

Only instances that are clearly malicious, such as those dedicated to spam, trolling, misinformation, or illegal content (including Holocaust denial and Nazism) will be completely blocked once discovered. No defederation happens because of politics or moderation choices.

and has some resilience

Hetzner is a pretty reliable hosting provider. Running this instance currently costs me about €20 per month. As long as costs remain reasonable, I plan to keep it going. It’s my way of supporting the Fediverse and promoting better social media and a better society. :)

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