Trump:

Ugh, the 1820s is now what two centuries ago is

Uh, it is?

1 Century = 100 years

2025 - 200 = 1825

When referencing time by century, it’s acceptable to round a little, and I’m not complaining about rounding up 4 years.

Are you by chance thinking of it like 18th century = 1700s where it’s one off from what you’d expect?

Judges are already elected in many areas of the US, but for Federal judges, yeah, that would be a bad thing.

Wood-like material? They’re not even using real sawdust anymore? Shrinkflation has gotten out of hand.

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).

I disagree with that take.

Trump’s gutting of federal agencies has only highlighted all the things we take for granted and/or didn’t even know were benefiting us. With a shutdown, that all comes to a stop, and the workers who are deemed “essential” still have to work but don’t get paid. Remember the last shutdowns?

TSA workers still have to work unpaid. ICE isn’t going anywhere. Think they’re thugs now? Wait till they’re not getting a paycheck and taking their (extra) anger out on their victims.

And Musk/DOGE? With all but essential workers furloughed, I have no doubt the dismantling and fuckery will continue except now they’re basically running around with even less supervision than they have now.

Like it or not, Schumer made a hard, but likely correct, call to see the bigger picture.

I believe the expression is “Damned if you do, damned if you don’t.”

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.

True, and I had the same thought. But then I realized that’s probably true for most people that are the face of memes. At least the one I did was lighthearted / in good humor.

I’m only commenting this just to see if I’m right, but maybe an air quality monitor?

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.

Basically people pissed off and need an outlet for that but can’t see the forest for the trees. 🤷‍♂️

Be that as it may, you’re not going to get me to even tacitly endorse arson. Sorry not sorry.

Exactly. If they weren’t going to sell, and signs are pointing that they aren’t, then the vandalizing is just giving them money via insurance as stated.

And leave the people alone that already had Tesla’s prior to Musk going mask-off. They were trying to be part of the solution (moving to EVs) and there’s no reason to harass/attack/vandalize them.

But definitely point and laugh at anyone going out and buying a Tesla now.

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.

• Server: Asterisk
• Softphone: Sipnetic
• VoIP Trunk: Callcentric
• TURN Server: CoTURN
• Infra: Hybrid Cloud / OnPrem

Asterisk was setup with local, 4 digit extensions. My DIDs from the trunk provider came into the SIP registration endpoint, and the admin panel with the provider allowed setting up virtual numbers. Each DID was mapped to a virtual extension with the provider which was then used in the Asterisk dial plan so two devices could have different DIDs and default outbound numbers (e.g. simulating two completely different lines).

I had Asterisk’s TLS and RTP ports exposed to the world so I didn’t need VPN on the client devices (non-TLS SIP port wasn’t exposed). Client softphones were configured to use SRTP for media security. The exposed SIP port necessitated setting up/tuning Fail2Ban to keep spam / brute force attempts at bay.

I did get text messaging to work within Asterisk (SIP client to SIP client), but not through the VoIP trunk. The SMS/MMS endpoint from the trunk was a REST API that I could not get integrated into Asterisk. I had some minor luck getting the SMS REST API bridged into XMPP, but I couldn’t get XMPP to bridge to Asterisk in a way that worked with the SIP messaging.

I just gave up on that due to lack of time.