Interesting. One of my instance’s guiding philosophies is “Quality over Quantity”. I’ve taken different steps toward achieving that (defederate from the Reddit repost instances, disallow pretty much all content bots, manually/locally mod duplicate posts, etc).

Do you plan to publish your algorithm/filter? Would be interested in seeing if it could be tuned and possibly reduce some of the workload for me.

I’m pretty sure that game is why I have anxiety as an adult.

Oh, that’s better. Definitely the lighting.

Maybe it’s the lighting on the bonus/Jim frame, but I have to keep telling myself, “Jurassic Quark isn’t real. Jurassic Quark can’t hurt me.”

Already working on plans to attempt to migrate my instance to a Piefed backend. Gonna take some doing/experimentation, but hopefully will be able to share the knowledge learned (and, ideally, a migration script).

Moar!

To this day, male and female Moclans brawling in the street to the tune of 9 to 5 is one of the biggest laughs I’ve ever gotten out of science fiction.

“You can’t score an epic space and land battle to Dolly Parton.”

MacFarlane: Oh yeah? Watch me.

Yeah, I’m actually planning to see about trying to migrate from Lemmy to Piefed (as an instance). Rimu said it’s technically possible but will need some manual work to ETL the data over. Hoping to start poking around and making some attempts soon-ish. Right now, still just doing my homework and familiarizing myself with Piefed.

It’s a long history of Github, Lemmy, and admin chat interactions that culminate in my desire to never willingly interact with them again. It’s just too much and too off-topic to post here.

I love that format. Hope to see it used more often.

I have absolutely no desire to use or learn Rust and even less desire to deal with those devs.

It’s been a long-running thing for blogspam to appear here. Usually admins will step in at some point and squash the accounts, but any time I see anything.blogspot.com as a post URL, I look at the account history and see if that’s all they’re posting. 9.9 times out of 10, that’s all they’re posting, and I ban them with content removal. Same for other sites that pop up out of nowhere that get spread from a brand new account.

I have no idea what the objective is (SEO, ad views, etc), but it’s been a thing as long as I’ve been on Lemmy.

Thanks for the list: some of those I had yet to ban.

Not to be snarky (ok, a little snarky lol), but I don’t see the Lemmy devs stepping up to do anything about this. Still can’t even delete DMs.

If anyone has other suggestions to mitigate this (maybe a Greasemonkey snippet to require a click to load inline images as a patch for the lemmy Web UI?), I’m all ears.

Tesseract dev here.

For what it’s worth, I went back through and checked my DMs from “Nicole” and they’re all uploads directly to the home instance the DM came from (e.g. they went through pict-rs, and only the instance admins would be able to see the client IPs in their access logs). So, this doesn’t seem like a de-anonymization attack, though all it would take is “Nicole” to start hosting the images somewhere they control to achieve that effect.

Safety Precautions Available in Tesseract

Use Tesseract’s Image Proxy

It has the ability to proxy images (separately / better than the Lemmy built-in method) both local and remote (e.g. to outside image hosts). The hosted instance (tesseract.dubvee.org) has that enabled but each user must enable it in settings (Settings --> Media -> Proxy Images).

For Tesseract installs run by other instances, it would need the server-side component enabled by the instance admins before the user setting will show up to be enabled by the user.

If you see the “Proxy Images” options in Settings -> Media, then the admins have enabled the server-side component. If not, you’ll need to ask the admins to configure/enable media proxying. If you’re self-hosting it, then it may not provide any additional privacy unless you’re running it in a cloud server or somewhere other than where you’re accessing it.

Disable Inline Images

It also has the option to disable inline images (Settings -> Post and Comments -> Inline Images). I’ve confirmed this also works for DMs. With inline images disabled, instead of the image, the alt text, if available, will be linked to the image. If no alt text, then the image URL will be a clickable link. In either case, clicking the image link will load it in a modal on-demand.

Coming Soon (Released Just Now in 1.4.32)

After reading this post, as a precaution, I’m going to push out a hotfix (hopefully this evening) that will disable inline images in DMs by default. If someone you trust DMs you, you can just click on the image link to view it in a modal (like any other link preview).

Testing this feature now and should have it released this evening. Works like email clients when you disable inline images; a button/switch will appear at the top if it detects there are images / media embedded which will allow you to show the images; defaults to off.

Depends on what I’m transferring and to/from where:

• scp is my go-to since I’m a Linux household and have SSH keys setup and LDAP SSO as a fallback
• sshfs if I’m too lazy to connect via SMB/NFS (or I don’t feel like installing the tools for them) or I’m traversing a WAN
• rsync for bulk transfer and backups
• Snapdrop/Pairdrop for one-off file/text shares between devices with GUIs (mostly phone <–> PC)
• SMB if I’m on a client PC and need to work with the files directly from the fileserver
• NFS between servers
• To get bulk data to my phone (e.g. updating my music library), I connect via USB in MTP mode and copy from the server via SMB or sshfs.

It’s fantastic. Haven’t seen it since the original run. Like most of my media collection, found the DVD box set at a yard sale years ago for like $2 and am finally sitting down to watch it.

Fry: But we need Star Trek to give us hope for the future.

Leela: But it’s set 700 years in the past.

there’ll be someone from Wales next.

Does this count (Futurama)?

Any idea if he’s referring to a turnkey “run a script” / “push a button” type solution that’s not (yet) available?

If all other aspects of it are technically possible, I’d be more than willing to manually muck around in the database to move things ove and take what was learned from that and hopefully make a DB migration script.