Ebay BANS people from reselling six 'offensive' Dr Seuss, but allows Mein Kampf and Louis Farrakhan's books to be sold

d3rr · 2021-03-05T05:56:56+00:00

clownworld is real

d3rr · 2021-03-05T04:49:22+00:00

Yeah good points. I doubt it's going to replace the need to fertilize and/or amend anytime soon though.

Well if you get mulch, I hope you don't leave it piled up somewhere where it can catch fire.

d3rr · 2021-03-04T23:44:42+00:00

It just takes that long for a tree to decompose, depending on how big the branches are. Cool, if the leaves are mulched then you can use them as liberally as you feel like. Plan on some settlement after like a year, but anything you put in there will settle out.

d3rr · 2021-03-04T05:03:46+00:00

It won't even matter for like 5 years, but yeah maybe some extreme types of wood would make the soil ph extreme eventually. hugelkultur does seem to be a way to use less dirt though, which is cool if you're buying it. Leaves sound like a winner for sure, but way deep unless you chop them, it can create a barrier.

d3rr · 2021-03-04T04:59:39+00:00

Well there's not much context, but citations are the shit, heck yeah.

d3rr · 2021-03-04T04:56:00+00:00

...and fishing poles fall into water and get lost sometimes.

d3rr · 2021-03-04T02:11:25+00:00

Ha, they can't even elect a law abiding PM.

d3rr · 2021-03-03T21:01:32+00:00

Just get rid of conservative researchers.... problem solved

d3rr · 2021-03-03T19:09:47+00:00

That sounds like bold talk for a one eyed fat man

d3rr · 2021-03-03T04:38:16+00:00

Throw CloudFlare into that mix, and you have the total cleartext traffic % available to TPTB. I think we're talking 80%+

d3rr · 2021-03-02T19:48:43+00:00

Nice! I agree about the power of basil. I've had a hard time with overwatering it too, now I just wait for it to get droopy. Keep it up man we'll post up our bounties in a month or two.

d3rr · 2021-03-02T07:21:58+00:00

More clients more better. I need to try a terminal Spotify client.

d3rr · 2021-03-02T07:16:10+00:00

It's a brave new thick client world. Someday it'll swing back the other way, hopefully.

d3rr · 2021-03-02T06:18:04+00:00

But a given website may be intended for heavy daily usage, making it more of a web app and something closer to these Desktop UIs that you speak of.

d3rr · 2021-03-02T06:06:54+00:00

Hhahha she laughed in his face. Go spin that bullshit to the New Yorker Brennan.

d3rr · 2021-03-01T05:46:29+00:00

Nah nothing has changed much other than Lemmy getting federation going for real. I just wanted to say hi I guess. But since we're here, imo you should consider the merits of Lemmy/Mastodon/ActivityPub. It's a total nothing protocol, just an agreement on what to name your rest api fields. No blockchain in sight. The success of Mastodon for Twitter can be the success of Lemmy for Reddit.

There's already a fork of Lemmy to remove the anti-user features.

d3rr · 2021-03-01T05:21:26+00:00

comment reply fam

d3rr · 2021-03-01T05:17:53+00:00

whut

d3rr · 2021-03-01T03:39:41+00:00

How much would distribution via decentralization and/or openly available backups help/hinder?

This hinders the DB because you are asking accessing it more, but then again a decentralized approach means that your site doesn't need to be huge, and probably shouldn't be. I do love the publicly available download thing. Everyone should do it.

Can others see your labels too?

Nope, it's all private to you, and even that browser, because it is all just local data. RES does have an export thing though so you can switch browsers or PCs or just backup your settings/data.

The standouts would standout on the wiki too

You're right, all doable, I withdraw my concern.

I often wonder if I had actually bothered to research for a truth-seeker forum what I would have found.

I think there's a few decent forums still. Traditional forums, not reddit clones*. I see abovetopsecret being linked to here and there.

and have been addicted to SaidIt for ~2.5 years

truth bombs set us free! i'm addicted too.

That's what I'd hope an animation might provide - an animation that can be updated as new improvement ideas come in.

Yes, even just visually drawing the UI on paper helps me sometimes. Sometimes half of the concept is hidden behind the UI, but all 'users' really care about is what's there in the UI.

d3rr · 2021-03-01T03:20:34+00:00

Martha we want your secrets and we want them now

d3rr · 2021-02-28T23:42:36+00:00

Don't read this... it's such a beautiful day today. Oh no

d3rr · 2021-02-28T23:40:10+00:00

RIP those dank little treats

d3rr · 2021-02-28T23:32:29+00:00

3) SaidIt/reddit open source is big data capable (in the right hands) because it uses the Cassanda DB, which is easily scalable to multiple machines. Most all of these other reddit clones use a more traditional Postgres or MySQL database which do not scale easily to multiple machines. Social media is write heavy and scaling writes is way less straightforward than scaling reads. But none of this shit matters until your site starts to get about as big as SaidIt at its peak, or Voat. Until then not worrying about scaling at all on purpose might even be the smart thing to do. "Premature optimization is the root of all evil".

5) I thought java, though common, has security issues?

Java and javascript are apples and oranges, but neither has security flaws. Javascript and security is talked about a lot because it's sitting here running in your browser and all of those interfaces are constantly evolving. Java is backend only enterprise-grade insanity, Oracle's baby.

6) With this friend-network, the 5 tiers outlined here could indicate users' "status". Like a stop light, red yellow green seem obvious enough (plus orange and blue)

That reddit browser extension RES does something like that. You can tag everyone with custom labels and shit. I support you marking people as Asstrolls.

Imagine top ranked categorized forum content that is automatically linked/fed/shared/noted under related articles on WikiSpooks with other cooperative sites, other functions, and such. Obviously this "smart" sharing in itself is a huge project.

It sounds cool, but also that it would need to be curated, so pick the most meaningful connections, otherwise you just link to 1000 posts and only 4 of them are really worthwhile.

there's a real though realistically slim chance it could take off

If there's one thing I've learned in my years of technology, it's that if you build it, they won't come. I've seen dozens of nice social sites come and go on /r/redditalternatives some of them with thousands of hours put in. (cue building a quick minimum viable product/proof of concept first to see if anyone cares)

d3rr · 2021-02-28T23:17:59+00:00

$2500/mo is decent money. I'm surprised you haven't found a taker yet. I'm still hopeful about this federated reddit clone even though its creators are a bit extreme: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy

d3rr · 2021-02-28T21:29:47+00:00

acceptable... going!

d3rr · 2021-02-28T21:28:21+00:00

I have to auto-block new videos from new accounts for spam. It is unblocked, and you are whitelisted, so on your next upload it will automatically go live.

Anyway, I think you can edit it all you want now.

d3rr · 2021-02-28T07:15:41+00:00

Stand by your Rand

d3rr · 2021-02-28T07:12:07+00:00

I almost clicked away but this shit gets crazy after a while. Definitely giving any other 1970 band a run for their money. Viva albums!

d3rr · 2021-02-27T21:14:33+00:00

thinkpad x230 + coreboot

d3rr · 2021-02-27T20:04:35+00:00

You lop off the main stem above the suckers: https://i1.wp.com/www.humminghomebody.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/look-for-these.jpg

d3rr · 2021-02-27T20:04:02+00:00

You lop off the main stem above the suckers: https://i1.wp.com/www.humminghomebody.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/look-for-these.jpg

d3rr · 2021-02-27T19:10:16+00:00

Google recently announced that they would be removing support for Google services from Chromium.

Thanks Google! DeGoogled Chromium is now easier.

d3rr · 2021-02-27T07:30:59+00:00

I think you're home bro. Protip: you have to prune basil in a certain way to get decent and exponential leaf growth

d3rr · 2021-02-27T05:59:31+00:00

Oh, I remember that well. It was Rolling Stone magazine who published the now infamous article from Wakefield I believe. I think other publications had refused to run it, but R$ was trying to be cool.

d3rr · 2021-02-27T01:22:53+00:00

if this were done with SVG instead, you could deliver from the server a confusing looking SVG payload which is the password but as its rendered coordinates/vector art data. then you add two other wrong passwords to it too, and it would be very hard to decode by a bot, although possible. then you can animate it and change text colors and all sorts of fancy shit once your js kicks in.

d3rr · 2021-02-27T00:24:35+00:00

One thing that sticks out in my mind is the movie Vaxxed or whatever it was called, and especially the celebrities (De Niro?) and RFK Jr. being involved. I don't remember vaccines being so contentious before that, but then again maybe I just wasn't paying attention.

d3rr · 2021-02-26T22:56:25+00:00

Hhahaa nothing is easy around here. You'd also have to figure out a secure way to get the captcha secret into the js widget in the first place, without a scripted browser being able to read it. I didn't dig into how the demo does it. With a plan image, all the user ever has access to is the image itself.

d3rr · 2021-02-26T22:32:48+00:00

Nice, I bet that would work much better than what we have in place now to stop bots and scripts and non-humans.

d3rr · 2021-02-26T22:29:24+00:00

Hello hello.

1) yep sure, admins can ban and unban. sub moderators can ban from their subs for X hours too

2) I can't speak for him, but he would probably enjoy having some more help around here

3) I know a fair amount about DBs, but at a high enough volume, it's "big data" and a whole different skill set. There's a known solution for every data problem.

4) I like PHP because it built the web and they aren't bitches and it looks pretty clean. It doesn't really matter though. Just avoid new languages which do not have robust ecosystems around them. No one wants to build something with conservative boring tech, but there are numerous reasons why this is the right move.

5) python, C#, ruby, PHP, javascript are all fine choices. I'd recommend javascript because you can use it and learn it with frontend or backend projects

6) Sure

7) Possible

8) I'm very aware of your categorization and tagging concerns. Whatever this is sounds complicated. Yes.

d3rr · 2021-02-26T22:17:38+00:00

Agreed, it's so sad.

d3rr · 2021-02-26T22:15:10+00:00

Same here. Now I'm gonna stalk all of songs you've ever posted here. Have you ever tried the newest Nine Inch Nails album Ghosts VI: Locusts? It's working for me.

d3rr · 2021-02-26T08:48:58+00:00

Okay I'm feeling it. This is like environmentocore. When you've tried witchhouse and you've tried horrorcore and you still need more. Okay I'm deeper now. Witchcore? This is some serious next level shit. I'd call it a spell, but how could all of your songs be spells?

d3rr · 2021-02-26T08:37:23+00:00

fucking amazing... I feel something

d3rr · 2021-02-26T08:21:29+00:00

hhhahaa getting banned from /r/changelog is the ultimate

d3rr · 2021-02-26T08:04:24+00:00

RIP homie, fuck those meds

d3rr · 2021-02-26T08:03:29+00:00

It's never gonna be enough... until you can marry your cat.

d3rr · 2021-02-26T07:16:54+00:00

yes this site was down. explanations cost extra.

d3rr · 2021-02-25T19:18:04+00:00

Yes!

d3rr · 2021-02-25T16:47:24+00:00

Good call. I did some digging and vanwatech uses this Russian company for DDOS https://ddos-guard.net/ So Russia is protecting them, thanks comrades.

d3rr · 2021-02-25T15:43:07+00:00

Hhahaa I think you're on it

d3rr · 2021-02-25T15:40:57+00:00

Thanks for inspiring even stronger protections around here. We couldn't have done it without you. How's that?

d3rr · 2021-02-25T07:42:06+00:00

The official DMCA process is basically guilty until proven innocent, so it rubs me wrong. The larger questions are over my pay grade. No victim, no crime, and fuck the Feds.

d3rr · 2021-02-25T06:55:42+00:00

DMCA is a huge attack vector. Also, freer sites attract "illegal" steaming providers/links, for like sports events, which seems to be a hugely contentious issue.

d3rr · 2021-02-25T06:47:15+00:00

d3rr · 2021-02-25T06:43:08+00:00

fancy shit. does anyone have these moving captchas in use today?

d3rr · 2021-02-25T06:01:03+00:00

What's more is that some mobile devices are 100% incompatible with it rather than "just" failing 80% of the time.

Wat?

Cloudflare is complete shit

Agreed, but what's the alternative? Only 8kun is brave enough/needy enough to roll thier own DDOS protection.

The site was down down due to migrating servers or some shit.

d3rr · 2021-02-25T05:51:55+00:00

1996 says Sup

So that was the first big weekend of the summer...
Starts Thursday as usual with The Canteen quiz and again no-one wins the big cash prize
Later I do my sound bloke routine by approaching Gina's new boyfriend to say that he shouldn't feel that there's any animosity between us and then I even go and make peace with her: shouldn't have bothered

Then on Friday night we went through to the Arches...

There was only one car going so some of us had to get the train. We got through quite late. Then we went to a pub to take the gear
There was no problems getting in - we saw some others waiting down the front of the queue so we skipped in
It was a good night - everyone was nutted and I ended up dancing with some blonde girl
I thought she had been quite pretty until last night when Matthew informed me that she had, in fact, been a pig

When the club finished we wandered the streets for a while until we got to this 24-hour cafe
I didn't like the look of it so we left and got a taxi back to Morag's flat
I couldn't sleep so I sat about drinking someone else's strawberry tonic wine and tried to keep everyone else up

Then at ten o'clock in the morning we went downstairs to buy some drink
We had intended to watch the football in the afternoon but we'd passed out by then and slept right through it, awaking to find that England had won two-nil
Then we went to get the train home and had a few in the station bar
We had some stuff left from the previous night's supplies so when we got home we decided to go down to John's indie disco
Same story as Friday - lots of hugging, lots of dancing etc. etc
I couldn't sleep again so went to the park to look at the toon, taking a detour through the playpark
To get in we had to climb over a ten-foot steel fence, which resulted in severe bruising of our hands, legs and groins, but we had a good laugh on the stuff, especially the tube-slide, which probably doubles up as a urinal for drunk teens
Then we walked through the woods to have a look at the tomb. Big disappointment, but the mist on the lake was cool

Sunday afternoon we go up to John's with a lot of beer in time to watch The Simpsons - it was a really good episode about love always ending in tragedy except, of course, for Marge and Homer. It was quite moving at the end and to tell you the truth my eyes were a bit damp

Then we watched these young girls in swimsuits have a water fight in the street (You taping this, aye?)
We went up to the pub about ten
It was busy for a Sunday night, lots of people we know, including my first ever girlfriend who I still find very attractive, quite frankly, but I didn't really speak to her
She's probably still a bitch, anyway
Her friend Gillian was there, I had a chat with her, she was still quite pleasant
At the same time I watched Malcolm make some terrible attempt to try and chat up a girl we know called Jo. He made some remark about her skirt that was barely there the previous night or something

I couldn't sleep again that night, thanks to some seriously disturbing nightmares...Matthew says I should cut down on the cheese

"went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever, high with our friends it's officially summer."
"went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever, high with our friends it's officially summer."
"went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever, high with our friends it's officially summer."
"went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever, high with our friends it's officially summer."
"went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever, high with our friends it's officially summer."

I got some sleep eventually on Monday afternoon
It was a beautiful day, and later that evening Malcolm introduced me to the power of Merrydown - £1.79 a litre, 8.2% - mmmm.....

Judith and Laura came round later and we sat in my back garden and drank
Then Matthew came round and we went up the town

"went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever, high with our friends yeah"

It's officially summer

"went out for the weekend, it lasted for ever, high with our friends it's officially summer."

d3rr · 2021-02-25T04:52:03+00:00

How could you put a price on conquering linux gaming forever, by obsoleting Wine with ProtonDB? Android gaming is a lot closer to linux than it is to Windoze too.

d3rr · 2021-02-24T04:22:10+00:00

JUST SAY NO

d3rr · 2021-02-24T03:53:41+00:00

Oh shit this is real life?

d3rr · 2021-02-23T05:25:14+00:00

Nuclear peace is cool, sign me up

d3rr · 2021-02-22T22:11:01+00:00

Beats me, I haven't kept up with all of the drama here. My code was like 2h of effort but it's Reddit's fault for formerly being fake open source.

d3rr · 2021-02-22T22:01:48+00:00

yes, we all are

d3rr · 2021-02-22T18:36:02+00:00

Yes, we're feeding all of the data into the great banhammer in the sky, as we speak

d3rr · 2021-02-22T18:32:17+00:00

nah, I just pushed a code change the other day

d3rr · 2021-02-22T02:40:23+00:00

You don't need words of wisdom, you are actions of wisdom.

Thanks man :)

d3rr · 2021-02-21T21:53:15+00:00

Agreed, the future of voting in the US looks pretty dismal. Pushing for paper ballots only in your state is probably the only path forward.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T20:49:58+00:00

At least this is a real vaccine and not mRNA!

d3rr · 2021-02-21T09:05:26+00:00

Omg this sub dude. This shit is hilarious.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T09:01:34+00:00

laughs in confused libertarian

d3rr · 2021-02-21T08:48:28+00:00

But guys, we need to build a ~~swimming pool~~ firing range there, and Trump said it's okay

d3rr · 2021-02-21T07:03:17+00:00

Well it's interesting to hear that this one bot posting 20 things a day ruined this site. If you were here and it bothered you that much, you should have brought it up more often. Usually it's the alt-right ruined the site, or restrictions on alt-right extremist content ruined the site. You really think spam is the issue here? How often do you see spam even on the frontpage?

There was an abuse problem with banned users still voting over the last month or two, and that issue has been fixed.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T06:53:08+00:00

It doesn't matter, we were here when the world needed us.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T06:52:13+00:00

How are you going to have anonymous social media without shills and bots? You're not. Pay to play.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T06:48:43+00:00

I'm not trying to gatekeep, I'm just saying this isn't my site and I can't just willy nilly go changing shit around. I do have mangora's ear if enough people wanted something changed, that's why I always talk about consensus. Your main concerns seem to be policy/political in nature, that's not my department and I opt out of all of that shit.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T03:08:15+00:00

So much work for an antique codebase that no one cares about. But if you can form some kind of consensus and multiple people wants changes, I'm down. I think the future looks a lot like Lemmy.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T02:49:38+00:00

What, tech help? I'm down. The heat is off now that no one is here, but I'd still be interested in any improvements that can be made. I can't remember the specific conversation that we had but some offers for help have been strange.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T02:45:48+00:00

We should probably donate to this Google employee union to strike the beast

d3rr · 2021-02-21T02:37:10+00:00

That's interesting, the usual complaint is that all of these sites just have politics posts.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T02:34:34+00:00

You're the one posting dicks on a beautiful Saturday.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T02:33:57+00:00

I'm just here to bitch as a user. This could be removed as off-topic but not my sub.

d3rr · 2021-02-21T00:36:41+00:00

This bullshit is 27 days old, worthless

d3rr · 2021-02-21T00:26:12+00:00

Why are you spamming /s/news with junk?

d3rr · 2021-02-20T21:45:20+00:00

Dems are the sore winners. They beat Trump but it's not enough, they want to straight up remove him from history.

d3rr · 2021-02-20T21:42:48+00:00

Shit man, heavy stuff. Hopefully there's some relief for you because the pressure from your dad is no longer. I wish your mom a speedy and full recovery. I don't have any words of wisdom but I'll be here to updoot your sometimes dank memes. Hang in there, and gardening is never the wrong decision.

d3rr · 2021-02-20T20:30:10+00:00

I was told I get a free dinner coupon if I sit through a presentation...

d3rr · 2021-02-19T20:08:30+00:00

Very bad. Brave is also behind requiring a full dox to withdraw your BAT from Uphold. Uphold's policy was $10k or more, but Brave changed it.

d3rr · 2021-02-19T20:01:23+00:00

Sore ass winners.

d3rr · 2021-02-19T18:33:43+00:00

Beats me

d3rr · 2021-02-19T05:10:05+00:00

In my head it means an excellent song, like exceptional. But you're saying it just means a sausage... like any old sausage? I guess I've heard bangers and mash before.

d3rr · 2021-02-19T05:02:31+00:00

Thanks for caring OP. Your exceptions are reasonable although of course "calls to violence" isn't always clear cut.

d3rr · 2021-02-19T05:01:10+00:00

how could this be clownworld any other way

d3rr · 2021-02-18T20:02:52+00:00

He's pretty handy, I think he could survive a lot. Maybe he's tied up with work. Anyway, if shit ever hits the fan here, you can reach out to me on reddit, same username. I have full tech access still.

d3rr · 2021-02-18T19:53:20+00:00

It's only been 2 days, I'm sure he's fine and will get back to you.

d3rr · 2021-02-17T07:02:07+00:00

Bangers all around

d3rr · 2021-02-16T15:26:27+00:00

it appears to be working for me. maybe try incognito to get around your DNS cache.

d3rr · 2021-02-15T20:38:31+00:00

Build on AWS they said, all of the cool kids are doing it.

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