News masterofballs • 3 years ago • 58%

www.worldgreynews.com

[Archive link](https://files.catbox.moe/xw5tmn.pdf)

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I would like to buy this just to make a MP3 player for my car.

liliputing.com

I'm so excited to get this phone. I may wait till the second consumer edition though

News masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

BMJ, one of the world's most influential general medical journals, urges Facebook's Zuckerberg to act over inaccurate, incompetent, and irresponsible "fact check" of the journal's Pfizer vaccine trial investigation in an open letter.

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

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A really good explanation of rust lifetimes

News masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

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Another CNN producer wants to fuck kids

News masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

cross-posted from: https://wolfballs.com/post/4200 > Says stop lying to the world

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I can't wait to play through this game on a raspberry pi

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

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Hello; This is how I run the wolfballs backend codebase. To make UI changes more work is needed. If someone wants I can make a tutorial on that next. Copying the contents of the readme below. # Alternate Lemmy docker and vscode instructions I like to be able to run a rust app with cargo run and not rebuild images. Even if it's quick. This alternate docker method mounts the lemmy code into a container that installs all your dependencies. To get started you need a couple things installed on your machine; 1. [Docker](https://www.docker.com) For the ui features; 2. [VSCode](https://code.visualstudio.com/) 3. [Remote Container Plugin](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode-remote.remote-containers) ## Instructions Clone lemmy down, `git clone https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy.git lemmy` `cd lemmy; # go into lemmy the directory` clone down this repo into the docker directory `git clone https://gitlab.com/wolfballs/lemmy-remote-development.git docker/debug` Build the image; builds a arch linux container with a suder user name developer `docker-compose -f docker/debug/docker-compose.yml build` Do house keeping stuff the same as other methods. `mkdir -p docker/debug/volumes/pictrs` `sudo chown -R 991:991 docker/debug/volumes/pictrs` You can go ahead and test this with the terminal if you don't want to use vscode. To do that, `docker-compose -f docker/debug/docker-compose.yml up -d` `docker-compose -f docker/debug/docker-compose.yml exec lemmy /bin/bash` Might need to update rust; `rustup update` Ok now you can just run `cargo run` And you can visit the ui at, `0.0.0.0:1236` You can stop the container with; `docker-compose -f docker/debug/docker-compose.yml down` ## Run in VSCode If you would like a whole development environment based on vscode with all plugins auto installed continue to the next section. Bring down the containers `docker-compose -f docker/debug/docker-compose.yml down` From the root directory of the lemmy code base, copy the devcontainer and vscode directories from the debug section to the root. `cp -a docker/debug/devcontainer/ ./.devcontainer` `cp -a docker/debug/vscode/ ./.vscode` Now you can open up the project from vscode. VSCode will actually be running inside a arch container. Type `F1` and select `Reopen in container`  Now you can click run in the debugger on the left. Break points aren't yet working due to async await in the main function. I'm not yet sure how to fix that. If someonw knows of how to get that working please open a issue and let me know. However server starts and the terminal in vscode is inside of the container. You can make code changes and click the restart button and it will restart very quickly.  Thats is! You've got rust extensions auto installed in vscode for you.

Lemmy masterofballs • 3 years ago • 91%

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As I explore the lemmy code base I'm documenting what I learn for other's so they may find it useful. I like to mount code into a docker container and run cargo from the terminal. The docker run instructions for lemmy in the docs are great but it requires a user to rebuild the rust container to see changes. We can use volumes to just use **cargo** directly in the terminal. This repo shows a tutorial of how i'm running lemmy and how you can use vscode to bring up a complete development environment. It's based on the regular docker environment. The difference being it gives you a complete Arch linux development environment you can mount in the terminal or directly in vscode. Hope someone finds it useful.

truthsocial.com

lol run your own trump social network

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

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Refactored code to be more object oriented. Moved errors to separate functions so one doesn't crash the whole project. Merged code from another contribute that will download pictures from outside sources and allows you to specify the chunk size. Works pretty well now I think. I downloaded the entire meme community from lemmy.ml in about 10 minutes. Pictures, gifs, videos everything. Still no comments. That would require a bunch of css I think. I want to work on something else on the actual site next.

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Posting in tech news because it has to do with trumps social media platform. I agree with his assessment of rumble being compromised. It is Canadian based and to well funded. I’ve been more and more red pilled on investors changing the course of America in unnatural ways. See 4 Chan researchers commentary ;  Ordinarily natural market forces would prevent this type of thing but due to the various government bailouts the last 15 years strange things have happened.

Lemmy masterofballs • 3 years ago • 100%

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Hi lemmy; I've made a program that will download all the post and images for a lemmy community. It downloads them into a html file. This way users don't have to worry about losing all their post because they can download the whole community themselves. Demo https://files.catbox.moe/8wgbm4.mp4 I hope someone finds this useful. Someone asked me for it so I provided it.

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

https://files.catbox.moe/p97ii8.mp4 I have made some progress on backing up communities. I have a program that backs up all post and their images if they uploaded them via wolfballs. It outputs it to a html file. Still some stuff to smooth out. It takes a while to run on a community over at lemmy.ml. After I finish it up i'll post the source instructions and I'll also post it over on lemmy forums.

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

I like the direction the lemmy dev's are working towards. I don't feel I need to work on features right away and i need a rust refresher. I'm gonna write a backup tool over the next week or two that will download an entire community from the wolfballs api. That way if something ever happens you can back up your community yourself. Will be open source of course.

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

It occurred to me today that Lemmy (What wolfballs is running off of) Has most of what we would need to add all the basic social media features of facebook. We can add a timeline that would work like a automatically created community for each user. Then we add the concept of friends. So you can make post to your timeline visible to only friends. Then a timeline viewer that can view all personal post of friends and communities you are a part of. I don't know if the main lemmy devs have thought of this. Would be great if they would be on board. I can try to ask them what they think . We could really have a shot at destroying facebook for good if this is done right. And open source. Just brain storming here.

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

Have not moved the deployment yet. Mainly because i'm a little nervous everything will crash and burn. But I have docker running and our custom images built on this thing. Will have a few hours of downtime possible when I cut over to this hosting provider. This should see improved speeds on image uploads. I'm serving this site out of 10 mbit upspeed on a raspberry pi right now. Which is amazing but also probably can't handle more than like 100 people at a time. I also talked to one of the lemmy maintainers the other day. And he said they will remove the slur filter in the main code base. so thats nice. I don't like maintaining a fork and would rather contribute back to upstream for new features. At the end of the day all this effort is to protect us all from censorship. Stuff like wolfballs tshirt/ meme wear shop to cover server cost should be seperate code bases.

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

I don’t think they get it. It’s gonna fail. It’s a bad design. I hope for them the best but using a block chain as a social network is *removed*. It only works good as a currency and maybe payment transactions.

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

https://help.dreamhost.com/hc/en-us/articles/214840947-What-is-DreamCompute Their DreamCompute looks pretty good. I could buy the biggest instance and stick everything on there at once. I tried to use their VPS but it doesn't allow root or docker so that doesn't work. If we need to scale further I can seperate the database from the rust app with another instance. Even with hundreds of picture uploads i'm only using like 150MB's for this website. These guys supposedly host a literal Nazi website so they should be pretty good about not banning us. Not that I condon Nazi'sm but Freespeech is As American as Apple Pie

Wolfballs Development masterofballs • 3 years ago • 0%

## Think i'll document what I learn about the code base here. Lemmy 's docs say that lemmy is built with, * Rust * Actix * Diesel * Inferno * Typescript I've written some Rust before. A little sdl game, and a couple other things. It's been a while because I got kinda burnt out with the Rust community. They are pretty woke and honestly I prefer the C++ community. But Rust is a super fast language and it's perfect for this site. I've actually been able to handle around 100 users traffic on a pi4 and SD card. I take daily db backup because sdcards are more corruptible. Anyways, I'm also pretty good with Typescript. If you know javascript you don't really need to know much about Typescript to use it. Inferno seems to be a react like library. I've used Vuejs, angularjs,1 and 2+. So it's not a huge learning curve. Honestly its probably my least faviorite javascript framework ever so far. Maybe I can get used to it and learn to like it. Compiling a web and desktop version of the flutter app also seems like it might be a good path forward. It just looks and feels so much nicer. I don't know flutter or dart at all though. Diesel and Actix are technologies I have not worked much with. Today I went through the getting started guide for Diesel here https://diesel.rs/guides/getting-started And finished that up. It feels pretty straight forward to work with. Doesn't do too much but does enough to make database work easier. I've worked extensively with postgres and used to write my own migration scripts. Diesel helps take care of some of that stuff for you. Lemmy code base is pretty big so I have a lot to read and understand before I can quickly add features. But i'm on the right track. I typically attack these sort of problems by understanding each technology by starting small projects and then trying to follow the control flow of a larger app in a debugger or just printing lines. I also write out Dockerfiles and docker-compose environments as I go so I never have to figure out how to set up an environment twice. Easy things like removing the slur filter was quick and easy. I found the spot where it was removed it and just rebuilt. Adding something like polls will take database work, rust work, ui work and so I really have to understand the whole stack to do that. Which will take a little time doing this on the weekends and while my family is asleep. I hope to have a big feature or so done in December's end. After the first 1 or two subsequent features should go faster.