Andrew

‘subscribe to anything’ is handy, too. I’m subscribed to this post, for instance, so get notifications of new top-level comments.

That’s kinda funny, in a way - unsophisticated prevention for an unsophisticated attack.

Everyone trying to use the Internet normally suffers due to this kind of stuff.

It seems to be quite a lot for the server it’s hosted on though (which is not the snappiest). There are, of course, still areas in the world where - for one reason or another - people still are effectively on dial-up speed-wise.

Buster should turn their attention to the size of the images uploaded to servers like this: 1.1M is arguably overkill for this one.

It probably is. I’d tried Mastodon but found myself not going back. Phanpy re-invigorated my interest in it.

Accounts (which contain the private key that signs the headers in your posts, and the public key to verify) are required for ActivityPub to work.

You can look at the git logs for any open-source project if you want to feel better about it: there’s usually a regular pattern of:
do this for all the things.
Followed by either:
hang on, wait. Not *all* the things.
Or:
Missed these out of all the things

Oh, okay. Citing the specs is a good argument killer.

There’s a Closed Issue relating to this at https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3540
From there you can navigate to the right place to open a new Issue if you want.

That’s arguably the expected behaviour - for a discussion, ‘link’ effectively takes you to the comments, for an article (or a link to a image), it takes you there instead.

You could use ‘guid’ instead - that always links to the post on Lemmy, and it usually contains a useful thing on other sites’ RSS feeds.

There was a great windows app called ‘dvdshrink’ that let you rip commercial DVDs onto blank DVDs (shrinking them if necessary). It got taken down with a Cease & Desist, but the MPAA or whoever didn’t worry about who took the domain. For a long time, the site was just filled with ads instead - now it’s a bit more sophisticated: no real link to download the software, but lots of genuine-seeming donation requests.

The fake site is at the first search result for that software (edit: it’s probably best not to link directly to it)

Oh, right. Sorry. I’ve gone back and checked the post I was thinking of when I made that comment, and - yeah - it turns out I was misremembering / didn’t properly investigate the first time.

Yeah - I think anything the UI is doing, it’s getting the info from the API, so the poster would’ve had to use the ‘cross-post’ feature. There are some apps (e.g. Voyager) that try to wrangle cross-posts by title or URL, but title-matching can give false postives, and URL-matching usually assumes that one link hasn’t picked up some cruft, and it can’t do much for uploaded images if the poster didn’t cross-post (because it’ll be 2 different files with different URLs)

Decades ago, my school’s drug info was similar: every drug had a single entry (‘euphoria’) in the Pros column and a massive list (ending with death) for the Cons column.

I’m not sure that it ever quite worked - the videos currently on Lemmy are likely to ones brought in manually, rather than new ones that have come in via federation.

The community copies (on lemmy.ml, endlesstalk.org, etc) all show 0 subscribers. At a guess, it’s because the format of the Followers collection on PeerTube is slightly different - it doesn’t have the empty ‘items’ array that Lemmy expects, so it just rejects it. As such, any new posts will also get rejected by Lemmy (the same way it does if a community genuinely does have 0 subscribers). A couple of Updates have come through, so maybe Updates circumvent that check.

The lead dev is Rimu - which isn’t on LW’s admin list.

Have you been playing with language settings? This post is in ‘Akan’, but your previous posts are a mix of ‘English’ and ‘Undefined’.

If you’ve removed ‘English’ as a language you understand, the posts from 3 hours and 3 days ago won’t be visible to you.

Sorry. It’s from me being too online. Must. Put. Phone. Down.

It was two, fwiw. They were also upvoted, and engaged with (which is what the trolls want, of course). I shouldn’t have made that comment - it’s a sign that I’ve been on my phone too much this morning. I’ll amend it, and then go out for a walk or something.

Well it’s good to see that - unlike Lemmy - Reddit users have found a way to bash Windows without using pre-transition images of Elliot Page. So they’ve got that going for them, at least. (I’m assuming this post is also poking fun at Reddit, for being riddled with ads)

EDIT: Apologies, I shouldn’t have made this comment. I’ll leave it up, so the replies have some context.