Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Haven't seen it with that title before, to be fair.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
I thought this was a local place for non-political people...
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
On my phone so I can't dig out links, but there are two tools being recommended: Redact and PowerDeleteSuite. Both allow you to edit the comment/post before deleting, because if you straight-up delete the message Reddit reserves the right to the message content as it stood at deletion.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Haven't tried it, to be fair; I think the fact that it's over there on DAB is what makes me forget it exists.
Will have to make a note to tune in at some point, thanks.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Testing reply from a federated instance; hope you get this.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Honestly, the majority of exposure I get to new music these days is Radio 1 whenever the kids have it on in the car, so it's all very mainstream.
Though I have been enjoying Cassyette's output recently.
Two9A 1 year ago • 85%
Half of the time spent compiling with -funroll-loops -O6, amirite
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Got an idea for something? Try building it, see how far you get. Like I had an idea while browsing Twitter last year sometime, that it'd be neat to have a threaded conversation view... So I made a site that used their API to fetch and build the conversation. It didn't look good, but it was at least somewhat functional, and I learned a bunch.
Then Musk threw their API in the trash, but you know, you can't control the vagaries of the world...
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
I'm actually seeing a fair number of people linking or mentioning Lemmy, there may be traction...
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
I'll admit to a little shitposting in the AMA thread to be fair, but mostly to promote Fediverse alternatives where people are asking where they can go.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Mm, the hayfever suddenly hit me yesterday; and I was just thinking it had been a good year for it so far.
Tempted fate there.
Morning, how're we doing. I don't know if we can make the daily threads a regular (or perhaps even an automated) thing, but do drop in for a natter.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Heck, by the time we'd know for sure that Lemmy isn't working out, there'd be no content left on Reddit to go back to.
It's already much busier here than it was a couple days ago, though; I think we'll be alright.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Mm, I use(d) Slide personally, which is more-or-less abandonware at this point. I expect that'll just get its API user disabled by the dev, so it "doesn't work" any more.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Today's rant: I mentioned yesterday that I enjoyed the rant threads of a Thursday, but today I don't have anything to rant about.
Meta-rant?
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Oh hey, it's a casUK.
Are we thinking of using the same timetable for daily posts, or mixing it up? I do very much enjoy Thursday Rants, and I'm not the only one, I'm sure.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Working through Olsen's Exploring LotR video/podcast series myself, it's kinda tangential to the topic but there's a lot of content there, and it's in the same world as reading the book itself.
Episode 235, only thirty weeks or so behind now...
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Mm, I'm a big fan of Decronym on Reddit, the bot that wanders around demystifying acronyms. There was a post by the bot's creator yesterday where they covered how many API calls it makes, and how there's been no clarity on whether there'll be a free tier of API usage etc.
It could shut down all the comment bots on the site.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
This comment further down states that the main issue is with the heavy JOIN-laden SQL queries that build the pages; the queries get long enough that pages time out.
Load-balanced frontends for lemmy.ml would hit the same backend/DB, as I understand it, so spinning up a frontend won't necessarily help with the load. What's needed is someone who knows pgsql optimization, and that's not me. (I might be able to help if it were MySQL...)
Two9A 1 year ago • 91%
Can attest: I have a small VPS (docean's lowest tier, in fact) and in the deep past I had occasions where a blog post was popular enough to throw it offline for a while. I wasn't about to lock myself into paying more money forever, to keep the site running for a day's peak traffic.
In the case of lemmy.ml, this isn't helped by the frontend being Websockets-driven, which holds open a connection for every concurrent user; I hear Dessalines and crew are working on cutting that dependency out and dropping down to something more static, which should help with load.
Two9A 1 year ago • 71%
Kinda cancel out the far-right invasion of Voat? It's a line of reasoning, certainly.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Might be a silly question, but: does ActivityPub support setting up a subinstance that gets its data from somewhere else? Traditionally you'd probably do that with a pgsql machine and multiple frontends, but having thought about it while typing this out, putting that load on the ActivityPub protocol would mean loading up the master to much the same extent as just having the traffic hit the master directly...
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Many thanks, dropped 10mBTC.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Reasonable premise, well-argued request, and polite throughout... This person's been in IT before, right.
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
New Reddit has a lot more tracing and BI, tracking user behavior in order to suggest ads/content. It's part of why the New site is so much slower to scroll through, but it does mean a lot more data for Reddit to work with regarding their users.
Not to mention the dark UX patterns like hiding comments behind a More button, which itself is tracked and may serve an ad alongside the comments fetched.
This might already be being worked on, but: I noticed that when I subscribe to a community the state of the Subscribe button doesn't change to Joined until I restart Jerboa. Similarly, the list of subscribe to communities in the burger menu doesn't update. If I should file an issue on GitHub instead, do feel free to moderate this away.
So I've been using Duolingo long enough that it's become background noise: think I'm on a 780-some streak at this point. I'm essentially only dropping by daily to do one lesson and maintain the streak, as opposed to actually *wanting* to learn something new. It's probably not helped by the new unit structure constantly repeating things that have just been covered; I think this is the fourth time I've worked through the weekdays in Hindi... Which is all to ask: for those lemmites (lemmings?) who are on a long streak, how do you get the passion back?
Two9A 1 year ago • 100%
Mm, I wanted Voat to work out when it first cropped up in Reddit comments, but the exodus of Donaldites meant abandoning that account.
Let's hope a moderated and federated version means any communities of that persuasion can hive themselves off.