Filter by

• who performed an action
• the originating instance

Possibly more.

It would also be nice if dates could be displayed in other formats than “n days/weeks/months ago”.
That could even be a global option.

Sometimes it seems the modlog has more filtering options than there are UI buttons for? Is that true or am I hallucinating? Something like /modlog?origin=piefed.social appended to the URL (no, that didn’t work).

I’m not sure if this PR and its surrounding code has something to do with it.

There’s an app being presented in a small store with Linux apps, without any licensing information or link to its source code. The package archive contains mostly scripted code, one compiled executable, and this license:

Copyright © 2026 … All rights reserved.

Proprietary software.

Third-party components and assets retain their respective licenses and notices.

There is no additional licenses at all in the whole package, not even in the SVGs that the dev most definitely did not create from scratch.

The app probably pulls in these third party components during runtime, or provides them inside the archive. Short of analyzing every single file in the package I have no idea.

Most of these third party components seem to be pulled from the developers own website (murky), one or two are not, and those are most definitely open-source-licensed, probably GPL.

I raised an issue about transparency requirements in the app store. Not about this one developer - yet.

Most contributors do provide source code and a GPL or similar license, but the app store’s policy phrases this as a nice thing, not a must. But there’s always been a strong faction that does not care about such things at all. And there’s a rising tide of new, mostly LLM-assisted apps that have no concept of transparency, or qualms about stealing code - be it through the LLM or directly.

All in all this is one of those projects that mix FOSS-licensed Linux stuff with proprietary-licensed and closed source stuff in a very unfortunate way.

Is there any sort of legal situation here?

Apart from that - what else would you say about murky ethics here? What arguments can I use to make my point? There’s many similar packages up on that store.

Many people suspect that this developer is lying when they say they’re not using LLMs for development. Any way to disprove that claim based on the package archive?

While writing this I analyzed the software package in question a bit more and I’m pretty sure I know the answer already, but I’m still asking the question. Maybe I missed something, or maybe there is a legal issue I’m not aware of…

Practically every image I upload to my user’s storage increases in size by 10-250%. It’s most apparent with PNGs I optimized but also happens with any random jpg from the web.

I’m guessing that this is an attempt at optimizing that does not check if the optimized result is larger than the original?

Example 1:

• 39.7 KB https://media.piefed.social/posts/cN/dd/cNddFtXPxdUreK3.jpg
• 34.6 KB https://images-cdn.9gag.com/photo/67522_700b.jpg (this is the file I uploaded to piefed.social/user/files)

Example 2:

• 516.1 KB https://media.piefed.social/posts/zU/Me/zUMeYOfy3Es9ZWN.png
• 190.9 KB https://i.ibb.co/VYXP9D8j/scrsh-20261006-214735.png (this is the file I uploaded to piefed.social/user/files)

(This is NOT about differences in filesize calculation - KB vs KiB - I checked)

I want to try out some things with a secondary domain. I’d prefer ethical and non-shady providers. I have a fixed IP and a VPS to go with it, so it’s really only about the domain. A subdomain of my current domain is not enough. A subdomain of the provider would be OK but not ideal.
Even paying very little is not an option right now - maybe later.

Doing some preliminary research, the keyword seems to be Dynamic DNS even if I have a static IP. There are providers but those that pop up easily do not instil much confidence.

I want to hear the Fediverse’s opinions! I haven’t found any recent posts about this.

TIA

Seen in a video, looked it up. Yep, it’s real. Unironically.

Friend Global, Inc.