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I've gotten very bored of lemmy nowadays, so i only comment once every few days. Dunno why, but hopefully lemmy gets interesting again or something.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30380129

The new German government has agreed to stop family members of refugees with subsidiary protection status from moving to Germany. The controversial move will particularly affect Syrian families.

There are currently around 351,400 people with subsidiary protection status living in Germany, the majority from Syria. They receive a residence permit, it was initially for one year, in 2024 this initial period was extended to three years.

They have the right to live and work in Germany and access social benefits. But while asylum-seekers and recognized refugees have the right to reunification with spouses and children under the age of 18 under German and EU law, those with subsidiary protection status do not.

Now, the new coalition government of the conservative Christian Democrats (CDU), its Bavarian sister party, the Christian Social Union (CSU) and the center-left Social Democrats (SPD) plan to suspend family reunification for those with subsidiary protection status for at least the next two years.

Thank you @[email protected] for [unintentionally] reminding me to make the weekly thread lol

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/30154650

Odd video, but strangely calming to listen to.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/post/761023

PieFed uses PDQ hashing to generate a fingerprint of an image and can use that fingerprint to detect other posts that use the same or fairly similar images, for moderation purposes. Hashes are added to a block list which stops the image from being re-posted in future. Demo

PieFed does not generate PDQ hashes itself - it uses a separate service to do it. Several different instances could be using the same hashing service which will be more efficient than everyone running their own. When an image is being federated around the URL of it will be sent to the hashing service by multiple different fedi instances and only the first will be slow as all the subsequent requests will be served from a cache.

Get the code from https://github.com/rimu/pdqhash-python

By doing a GET request for https://yourdomain.tld/pdq-hash?image_url=url_to_image_to_hash you will receive JSON like this:

{ 
    "pdq_hash_binary": "100100100011...",  
    "quality": 100  
}  

The quality score (0–100) indicates how well the image content supports a reliable perceptual hash.

Higher scores mean better contrast, edges, and texture in the image. PieFed accepts anything > 70.

Welp, it's been ~10 weeks since this community's been revived. Glad to have revived it more.

Sorry if i don't reply to everyone. I read all your comments, though!