The explanation of what happened makes sense, but indeed it's hard to say how it's happening. My internet speed is decent so I'm certain everything on the page must have loaded by the time I started clicking. I don't disable JS, and the only extension I have active is one for grouping tabs because I happen to access Fedia on my "side" browser, so not even an adblocker. Blocking nothing at the router level either so not sure how requests could have failed :/
Okay not an error 429 or 500 this time and just some noncommittal Error with no real message in a logged-out UI (that also returns to normal upon refresh) that I once again encountered for the first time.
I upvoted this very post, e-five's comment, and then your reply in rapid succession. The first and last actions went through, but there was a circle indicator beside the "More" option on e-five's comment and the page ultimately loaded https://fedia.io/ecf/3871174?choice=1 and thus the error page. We're both on the same instance and I shouldn't be blocking them or running any script that should mess with upvoting btw
After going back from the error page to submit this comment, hit submit button only to be redirected to https://fedia.io/m/fedia/t/552719/-/comment without the comment having posted. I find the page usually needs to refresh to send a message but this was the first time I ended up on a different page when trying to write something?
Mbin v1.4.0 release
Has changes to the messenger queue layout, the background worker system....
Has changes to the messenger queue layout, the background worker system.
Info: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/releases/tag/v1.4.0
Docker images also: https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/pkgs/container/mbin
<details><summary>Full changelog</summary>
- Remove the local condition from magazine autocomplete by @BentiGorlich in #455
- Add missing flash on contact form by @melroy89 in #454
- Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #460 add user badges to entry and post templates by @e-five256 in #467
- Reread and update as well by @melroy89 in #462 make search recognize !group handle format by @asdfzdfj in #465
- fix nodeinfo schema wrong version, add metadata by @asdfzdfj in #471
- load custom css from routes instead of inline by @asdfzdfj in #472
- adding alt text as caption in lightbox by @asdfzdfj in #473
- hotfix: allow custom style while still in 2fa by @asdfzdfj in #488
- Change the messenger queue layout by @BentiGorlich in #461
- Translations update from Hosted Weblate by @weblate in #474
- Using loading lazy on images by @melroy89 in #491
- Preload our logo by @melroy89 in #493
- FAQ: Explain 'all' messages by @melroy89 in #490
- FAQ: Retries three times by @melroy89 in #489
- FAQ: Typical message queue has changed by @melroy89 in #492
- Fix error on entries with an empty body by @BentiGorlich in #504
- move service worker registration into main app bundle by @asdfzdfj in #507
- use title instead of body for federated entry summary by @asdfzdfj in #506
- adjust tag matching to better handle some eastern scripts by @asdfzdfj in #508
- somewhat fix phpunit so it could run functional tests again by @asdfzdfj in #396
- Add column last\_origin\_update to magazine by @BentiGorlich in #503
- Add the correct cascading attribute to Entities by @BentiGorlich in #500
- Update Symfony packages + recipes+ NPM by @melroy89 in #510
- Update remaining composer packages by @melroy89 in #512
- Fix circular message by @BentiGorlich in #514
- Add support for incoming dislikes by @BentiGorlich in #513
- Remove route for down votes and make it a span by @BentiGorlich in #516
- Upgrade all remaining symfony packages by @melroy89 in #517
- Fix imagemanager not having a useful error message by @BentiGorlich in #523
- slightly fix object body extraction on set but empty body by @asdfzdfj in #525
- Update Postmill link by @melroy89 in #526
- Improve handling of images by @BentiGorlich in #501
- Update version number for 1.4 release by @nobodyatroot in #530 more @ https://github.com/MbinOrg/mbin/compare/v1.3.0...v1.4.0
</details>
Got an error 500 the other day when trying to visit /m/[email protected], what was strange was that it was not rendered "within" the context of site UI but I was shown a totally white page bereft of any decorations except the error message on the top left (first time I ever saw this).
Got an error 500 just now from replying to a message, it was a typical error 500 taking up the main body column on the site (appeared to be logged out and all), and then returned to normal after refreshing.
EDIT: Just tried out spoiler syntax for the first time to update a new thread and submitting the edit also gave me a regular error 500. Edit didn't go through and I had to go back to resubmit.
Nice, I was just back from being mystified at this comment chain as people seemed to be mixing up the mbin instances, hope the maintenance makes Fedia easier to use regardless of whether folks were planning on landing here lol
Former editor at Science Fiction World, Chi Hui, reveals bullying, misogyny, stealing of wages and credits, and more at the magazine
Reading Diane Lacey's open letter about the (self-)censorship scandal of the Hugo Awards, the impetus of collusion/slating from Chinese publishers stood out. zionius actually dug further and presented evidence that the guilty party appeared to be Science Fiction World, which was involved in the Worldcon. So I thought I'd type up something adjacent to the matter.
SFW as a publication had been declining in quality for some time – the typical Chinese SF reader will remember their editors' failures to catch plagiarism while circlejerking pointless filler – and at one point actually blamed the planning of the Worldcon for taking up too much of their time. But this was far from the most mismanaged they had been, as one former employee exposed many more problems.
General incompetence
Chi Hui's relationship with SFW began with submitting short stories to the magazine Science Fiction World, eventually becoming an editor at the magazine when it already entered its period of decline, before departing about four years ago.
Due to the Worldcon 81 being highly-commodified and interest in the sci-fi industry, she took the opportunity to write an effortpost that delved into what it was truly like in industry. The gist of it was that as opposed to an actual "sci-fi industry", what investment went into it just made it a "Liu Cixin industry" — as much as a decade ago she noted the same about this "fairy ring", and now the "supply chain" is just as broken. Other authors in attendance, such as Han Song, concurred with this view.
Additional points in that initial post included specific details about the lazy and myopic initiatives at her former workplace such as:
- SFW defaulting to the assumption that its consumers are primarily young men without doing any readership surveys. They attempted to imitate the packaging of For Him Magazine, also popular among young men, only to fail thanks to the costs of printing in full-colour.
- SFW defaulting to the observation that its consumers are probably voracious readers, and since Zhihu and Qidian have young people that are voracious readers, SFW content should match Zhihu/Qidian webnovels. This project is still ongoing.
- Due to the popularity of web literature, SFW planned to create a site to host short stories and novellas. To increase engagement they planned to add gambling elements, except this fell through due to the illegal nature of the ideas.
- Since everyone wants to make SF movies, and successful western movies began from space opera, they wanted to fund IP development of space opera novels, except they had no budget to actually do this.
- Again without doing any readership surveys and assuming that its primary consumers are young men, SFW defaulted to the assumption that young men must like pretty ladies, so promoted and still are promoting attractive women authors for this reason.
- Without conducting any market investigations, and due to the scarcity of novellas, arriving at the conclusion that the market must clearly need sci-fi novellas. There continues to be heavy push to promote novellas while disregarding that no matter the length, they would have to be rewritten for an adaption.
Conversations among industry peers also involved them discussing:
- They're not profitable
- Having no work they can even commercialize aside from authors' names
- Nothing that will sell in print
- Intentionally leaning into works despised by actual SF fans but might attract more readers
Work environment
Yang Guoliang (aka La Zi) is a current editor at Science Fiction World, Chi's former boss, and previously defended SFW's deteriorating standards. He started making statements heavily implied to be directed at her that she "neglected and sullied" the efforts of everyone in the industry with her "impudent lies" and sought to sow division among writers.
In a follow up, Chi thought the accusations absurd, dissected Yang's arguments, and speculated perhaps she was too restrained in her criticism. She drew up an extensive list of her first-hand experiences of total unprofessionalism from 2017–2023 demonstrating which side exactly "neglected and sullied" the industry. Examples include:
- Yang threatened that she wouldn't be allowed out his office unless she submitted to his demands
- Relaxing editorial standards to publish a novel that had ripped off Liu Cixin, because Liu himself stopped writing
- 20% of the staff's annual bonus were transferred to a random bank account to budget for event planning the following year and not reported to finance
- Openly discussing Chi's bust size, and harassing other attractive female co-workers
- Ordering editors to work on superiors' personal businesses on company time
- Threatening to blacklist an author for publishing at rival Eight Light Minutes
- A new employee had already finished working on an issue but hasn't been paid in 3 months, and after seeking payment, had her name removed from all articles she was credited on
- A female employee's executive editor credit ended up going to a male employee and she wasn't given even a passing mention
- Storing porn on company computers
That's just a sampling, and there were instances of toxic drinking culture, belittling women writers, blaming the SF community for poor performance that Chi also touched on. Implied was such an unreasonable workload that mental and physical health of workers were affected, such as requiring therapy or blood pressure medication.
So I guess this slots into the related discussion of writing SF, hope there's some illumination into the inner workings of one of the entities related to the scandal.
From what I'm getting from wincentral's previous articles, the lingo sprinkled throughout their coverage have meanings per the below:
- "Hudson Valley" is the upcoming Windows client (GUI), previously "Next Valley"?
- "Germanium" is the Windows platform already in Canary/Dev channel (kernel), which will be version 24H2
- "Windows 12" is still what they're calling the next major Windows product/OS release (not feature update)
...so at this point in time, Hudson Valley + some element after germanium might be what is considered Windows 12?
Microsoft confirms name of the next major version of Windows, and it's not Windows 12
Windows 11 version 24H2 will be the name of the next major Windows OS update.
Crossposting the @windows11 link as it should relate to this mag too:
Windows 11 version 24H2 will be the name of the next major Windows OS update.
A Kyoto court found Shinji Aoba guilty of setting a studio on fire because of a grudge he held against Kyoto Animation, in one of Japan's deadliest mass murders.
First voice access and now print, we're getting to see more and more changes to W11 in the finer aspects of productivity.
Now this is less about physical printers but - one of the buggiest experiences I had on W11 was using the built-in save to PDF feature, which was shockingly slow as it was somehow configured to convert webpages to images first before generating the file, resulting in large and unsearchable PDFs. Unsure of whether this was supposed to be intended behaviour as this print option made it out of WIP, but I'm going to hope WPP gets tested a bit more extensively by the print team lest it ends up spewing out unusable results too 🫠
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(BUG) cannot add to settings»blocked»domains
There is no option to add blocks of any sort (mag/user/domain) from settings, so it's more likely to be intentionally designed that way, i.e. you cannot add nor see a note on a user by going to their page either, you can only hover.
From how I understand it, you cannot block an instance entirely by blocking a domain i.e. fedia.io/d/lemm.ee, what's blocked would be hosted content like lemm.ee/pictrs/..../[file] and not some link posted to lemm.ee/c/abc, you will have to block from the magazine page i.e. fedia.io/m/[email protected] to get rid of them one by one. Domain blocking is probably intended for sites i.e. fedia.io/d/www-bbc-com.cdn.ampproject.org
EDIT:
I still want to see comments from lemmy.world users.
I think this is achievable via visiting fedia.io/d/lemmy.world/comments if you're looking for a stream of any and all comments (not just replies to your own threads/posts), not completely certain though!
Internet user threatens to attack women's rights activists rallying in front of Nexon
The police said they are looking into a threat of attack made online against activists from women's groups that are to rally in front of the game publisher Nexon on Tuesday.
Missed this before, but two separate guides were posted on taking advantage of IntegratedServicesRegionPolicySet.json after this update:
The news of this came out just as e-visas for cdns are getting processed again, is it now the US's turn to have service suspended or does a second attempt no longer fly?
The implication that legacy outlets had advance knowledge of the Oct. 7 attacks and “coordinated” with Hamas prompted Israeli officials to call for the death of journalists.
An Alaska Airlines flight was diverted late Sunday after a "credible security threat related to an authorized occupant in the flight deck jump seat."
An Alaska Airlines flight was diverted late Sunday after a "credible security threat related to an authorized occupant in the flight deck jump seat."
Joseph David Emerson was taken into custody, the Port of Portland confirmed.
I haven't had problems searching things before and was taking a bit of a break from doomscrolling even before the mbin switch, but searching "ontario doctor/s" or "ontario doctorate" would take me to a 500 server error. Other combinations like "ontario dr", "pickering doctor", "post doctorate", "ontario london", had no issues. Error could not be replicated on neither a kbin (ernest's flagship) nor mbin (melroy) instance, and issues for the mbin repo weren't related to search afaict
Using compact view and all other threads settings disabled so probably doesn't have anything to do with loading media.
It seems impossible to see user profiles from the libranet.de Friendica instance, i.e:
Also getting the 500 server error from just trying to go to microblog tab from the homepage -> https://fedia.io/microblog
Avatars are turned on but auto media preview set to off.
Got my WIP email notification late and just now discovered the 9th anniversary wallpaper, how time flies!
There also seems to be an edit to this article:
[ADDED 10/6] Under All apps in the Start menu, Windows 11 system components will now show a “system” label.
Article got updated with ISOs! Build 22631 via the Windows Insider ISO download page - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windowsinsiderpreviewiso
Gonna be apologetic to all the work being put out by Dave Grochocki & team but... instant uninstall for some of these in-box apps as soon as I'm able and glad that they're finally providing the option 😅
Nice - first day of the bug bash and we already got StagingTool to play around with :D
Please go on ahead! My instance still has federating issues, so right now from the Fedia POV m/windowsinsiders is actually m/random, making posting threads difficult on my end.
I tend to despise shortlinks, and aka.ms ones in particular remind me of how binged.it is longer than the actual URL, but I digress, I found the ones for WIP to be descriptive but short/sweet enough that I'd prefer them over the overlong explicit version numbers, i.e. the release for this one is https://aka.ms/wip-beta-7-13
Anyway, in addition to the separate posts, wonder if we can sticky the evergreen shortlinks for the latest release for each channel to the top of magazine for those looking for a quick shortcut:
