Apple poached engineers from the company that owns the patent for the blood oxygen sensor, rather than bothering to license their tech. Company sued and Apple lost, now their products are under an import ban.
I've proactively blocked automatic updates on my watch in anticipation of them doing a rug pull on the feature.
Get uBlock Origin and then YouTube will stop serving all ads. Or quit using YouTube entirely since Google is doing everything in their power to run the platform down the drain.
It's still fairly rough, although they have pushed several patches that helped significantly improve the absolute trash the game was on launch day.
Still no modding support, which was originally supposed to be a day-one feature. DLC release also got delayed. Maybe it'll be a good game by mid to late 2024.
Onlyfans and Piracy
The vast majority of the popular accounts are not run by the women on the profile. Most of them pay friends or agencies to manage the page for them, they simply show up to photo shoots every now and then and enjoy the easy money.
UI doesn't come up until database migrations fully complete. Can take half an hour or more depending on how much content is indexed in your instance.
There are bills to reschedule or deschedule it every year, every one so far has failed. As of today, marijuana is federally illegal, thus any federal criminal charges stand unless otherwise pardoned/commuted.
Federal agencies have been asked to reduce their amount of arrests for simple, nonviolent possession, but there's still plenty of people getting freshly charged at both the federal and state level today.
Marijuana is still classified as a schedule 1 drug and remains federally illegal.
(Complete) Updating to 0.19.0
Now that Lemmy 0.19.0 has been out for a few days, we will be proceeding with the update here on Lemmy.tf. I am tentatively planning to kick this off at 4pm EST today (3.5 hrs from the time of this post).
All instance data will be backed up prior to the update. This one will include a handful of major changes, the most impactful being that any existing 2FA configurations will be reset. Lemmy.ca has a post with some great change info - https://lemmy.ca/post/11378137
You absolutely can refuse to hire someone (in the US) for something they have no control of, assuming it's not one of the few protected classes. I could refuse to hire you over height, inability to grow facial hair, etc with zero repercussions.
That counts as unauthorized access in the eyes of the law. It's a private system and they did not have any agreements permitting them to use it as they wanted.
Why would they need to look into Apple's conduct here? Investigate Beeper for CFAA violations since they cracked into Apple's internal APIs and ignored large chunks of their ToS in the process.
Of course Apple is going to shut down unauthorized access to their messaging system. They'd lose all customer trust instantly if they didn't.
I run the self-hosted version, aside from having to deploy a couple Docker containers it's pretty much the same as the SaaS product.
Backing a Kickstarter for a game is the same as preordering. Money leaves your pocket and enters the studio's before the game is out.
Your title should be "fuck subscriptions, except subscriptions from this site pulled from 1998" since everything in your guide relies on a paid debrid sub.
Hey this name is familiar.... these guys sent me all their app telemetry for a couple weeks because they hardcoded AWS LB IPs into their software, and I got lucky enough to get one of those recycled IPs.
Wouldn't be surprised if their apps are still screwed up and sending large amounts of junk traffic at me, but at least now it's going into a void.
Maybe someone should fork Opencart and patch the security vulnerabilities and try to drive people away from this guy's repo, since he's just combative anytime someone raises a concern.
Or quit using his code altogether.
If they had released mod tools on day 1 like they originally said, most of the game-breaking issues would have been addressed by modders by now.
If the game doesn't meet their own standards, why exactly did they bother releasing it instead of delaying PC like the consoles were?
Steam is the only legitimate source to buy Steam games, every single one of the third party resellers deals in illegitimate keys
Lemmy 0.18.4 Update
I noticed some timeouts and DB lag when I logged in early this afternoon, so I have gone ahead and updated the instance to 0.18.4 to hopefully help clear this up.
We also have a status page available at https://overwatch.nulltheinter.net/status-page/946fd7fd-3ae3-4214-bbbf-dd7206566104 and will soon have this working on status.lemmy.tf.
The end of the server issues saga!
As I'm sure everyone noticed, the server died hard last night. Apparently, even though OVH advised me to disable proactive interventions, I learned this morning that "the feature is not yet implemented" and that they have proceeded to go press the reset button on the machine every time their shitty monitoring detects the tiniest of ping loss. Last night, this finally made the server mad enough not to come back up.
Luckily, I did happen to have a backup from about 2 hours before the final outage. After a slow migration to the new DC, we are up and running on the new hardware. I'm still finalizing some configuration changes and need to do performance tuning, but once that's done our outage issue will be fully resolved.
Issues-
[Fixed] Pict-rs missing some images. This was caused by an incomplete OVA export, all older images were recovered from a slightly older backup.
[Fixed?] DB or federation issues- seeing some slowness and occasional errors/crashes due to the DB timing out. *
Ongoing server issues - potential solution?
So after a few days of back and forth with support, I may have finally received some insight as to why the server keeps randomly rebooting. Apparently, their crappy datacenter monitoring keeps triggering ping loss alerts, so they send an engineer over to physically reboot the server every time. I was not aware that this was the default monitoring option on their current server lines, and have disabled it so this should avoid forced reboots going forward.
I am standing up a basic ping monitor to alert me via email and SMS if the server actually goes down, and can quickly reboot it myself if ever needed (may even write some script to reboot via API if x concurrent ping fails, or something). Full monitoring stack is still in progress but not truly necessary to ensure stability at the moment.
Server maintenance today 5:00PM EST
OVH has scheduled a maintenance window for 5:00 EST this evening, hopefully they will be able to pinpoint the fault and get parts replaced at the same time. This will likely be an extended outage as they have more diagnostics than I was able to run, so I would expect somewhere around an hour or two of downtime during this.
I am mildly tempted to go ahead and migrate Lemmy.tf off to my new environment but it would incur even more downtime if I rush things, so it'll have to be sometime later.
Update 7:30PM:
I just received a response on my support case, they did not replace any hardware and claim their own diagnostics tool is buggy. We may be having a rushed VM migration over to a new server in the next few days... which would incur a few hours of hard downtime to migrate over to the new server (and datacenter) and switch DNS. Ideally I'd prefer to have time to plan it out and prep for a seamless cutover but I think a few hours of downtime over the weekend is worth ending the random
Upcoming emergency maintenance
UPDATE 07/25 10:00AM:
Support is getting a window scheduled for their maintenance. I've asked for late afternoon/early evening today with a couple hours advance notice so I can post an outage notice.
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UPDATE 12:00AM:
Diagnostics did in fact return with a CPU fault. I've requested they schedule the downtime with me but technically they can proceed with it whenever they want to, so there's a good chance there will be an hour or so of downtime whenever they get to my server- I'll post some advance notice if I'm able to.
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As I mentioned in the previous post, we appear to have a hardware fault on the server running Lemmy.tf. My provider needs full hardware diagnostics before they can take any action, and this will require the machine to be powered down and rebooted into diagnostics mode. This should be fairly quick (~15-20mins ideally) and since it is required to determine the issue, it needs done ASAP.
I will be taking everything down at 11:00PM EST tonight to
Server issues - currently investigating
EDIT 07/24: This is an ongoing issue and may be a hardware fault with the machine the instance is running on. I've opened a support case with OVH to have them run diagnostics and investigate. In the meantime I am getting a Solarwinds server spun up to alert me anytime we have issues so I can jump on and restore service. I am also looking into migrating Lemmy.tf over to another server, but this will require some prep work to avoid hard downtime or DB conflicts during DNS cutover.
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OP from 07/22:
Woke up this morning to notice that everything was hard down- something tanked my baremetal at OVH overnight and apparently the Lemmy VM was not set to autostart. This has been corrected and I am digging into what caused the outage in the first place.
I know there is some malicious activity going on with some of the larger instances, but as of this time I am not seeing any evidence of intrusion attempts or a DDoS or anything.
Lemmy 0.18.1 Release
## What is Lemmy? Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to t...
Lemmy 0.18.1 dropped yesterday and seems to bring a lot of performance improvements. I have already updated the sandbox instance to it and am noticing that things are indeed loading quicker.
I'm planning to upgrade this instance sometime tomorrow evening (8/9 around 6-7pm EST). Based on the update in sandbox, I expect a couple minutes of downtime while the database migrations run.
Community Imports
I'm running the Lemmy Community Seeder script on our instance to prepopulate some additional communities. This is causing some sporadic json errors on the account I'm using with the script, but hopefully isn't impacting anyone else. Let me know if it is and I'll halt it and schedule for late-night runs only or something.
Right now I have it watching the following instances, grabbing the top 30 communities of the day on each scan.
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REMOTE_INSTANCES: '[
"lemmy.world",
"lemmy.ml",
"sh.itjust.works",
"lemmy.one",
"lemmynsfw.com",
"lemmy.fmhy.ml",
"lemm.ee",
"lemmy.dbzer0.com",
"programming.dev",
"vlemmy.net",
"mander.xyz",
"reddthat.com",
"iusearchlinux.fyi",
"discuss.online",
"startrek.website",
"lemmy.ca",
"dormi.zone"]'
I may increase this beyond 30 communities per instance, and can add any other domains y'all
Lemmy_monkey - a full restyle in the spirit of old.reddit - updated for Lemmy v0.18
cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/433151
Just an FYI post for folks who are new or recently returning to Lemmy, I have updated the linked grease/tamper/violentmonkey script for Lemmvy v0.18.
These two scripts (a compact version and a large thumbnail version) substantially rearrange the default Lemmy format.
These are (finally) relatively stable for desktop/widescreen. Future versions will focus a little more on the mobile/handheld experience.
These are theme agnostic and should work with
darklyandlitely(and variants) themes.
- Greasyfork here: https://greasyfork.org/en/users/1107499-mershed-perderders
- Github here: https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey
- If you need the userscript for Lemmy v0.17.4, that can be found here:
- https://github.com/soundjester/lemmy_monkey/tree/dev-v1.11-Lemmy-v0.17
- this v0.17.4 userscript is no longer in active development
Screenshot of "Compact" version
main p
Lemmy.tf Instance Rules
I've been stalling on this but need to get some form of community rules out with the added growth from the Reddit shutdown. These will likely be tweaked a bit going forward but this is a start.
We're back! Instance Updates - 06/23/2023
So Lemmy 0.18.0 dropped today and I immediately jumped on the bandwagon and updated. That was a mistake. I did the update during my lunch hour, quickly checked to make sure everything was up (it was, at the time) and came back a few hours later to everything imploding.
As far as I can tell, things broke after the DB migrations occurred. Pict-rs was suddenly dumping stack traces on any attempt to load an image, and then at some point the DB itself fell over and started spewing duplicate key errors in an endless loop.
I wound up fiddling with container versions in docker-compose.yml until finding a fix that restored the instance. We are downgraded back to the previous pict-rs release (0.3.1), while Lemmy and Lemmy-UI are both at 0.18.0. I'm still trying to figure out what exactly went wrong so I can submit a bug report on Github.
Going forward, I will plan updates more carefully. We will have planned maintenance windows posted at least a few days in advance, and I may look into migrat
Cloning some subreddits
If your feed is sorted by New or includes local content, you may notice a TON of new posts showing up on reddit_ communities here over the next few days- I am attempting to scrape as much content as I can from Reddit prior to the API pricing changes on July 1. All of this content will be limited to the reddit_* communities on this instance, if you don't wish to see this content you can simply block the communities as they appear.
If anyone has requests for a subreddit mirror, drop them in the comments and I'll try to get to your request sometime this week.
Edit: Halted since random other Lemmy instances managed to auto-index my new subs, I don't want to flood any feeds outside of lemmy.tf with this. Since I can't control other instances auto discovering my new communities, all Reddit cloning will now occur in a new, defederated instance.
All import activities are now taking place at https://defed.lemmy.tf/.
Script to clone subreddit to Lemmy?
Has anyone made or found a script to scrape a subreddit and import it to a Lemmy community? There are a handful of smaller subs that I'd like to mirror over to my instance (with author attribution) but haven't found anything that works yet. https://github.com/rileynull/RedditLemmyImporter looks promising but links to a non-functioning Python script (tries to use Pushshift, which isn't working at the moment).
Upcoming feature... Stable Diffusion bot!
Figured I'd post a heads up and see if anyone has input/feedback while I'm still working on this.
A friend and I are working on a Stable Diffusion bot to plug into this community. It will be available in the comments section of any post, and you'll be able to call it by leaving a comment with nothing but a tag of the bot's account + an image prompt. Bot will then take your request and run it through one of my Stable Diffusion servers and reply back with its output- not sure if I want to do one or multiple images for each gen.
I'm also looking into some ways to handle custom parameters since everything will hit the automatic1111 API. Initially everything will be forced to 512x512 with a specific sampler, step count, etc.
Let me know if anyone has suggestions or ideas for cool features, I do plan to continue adding to the bot over time but want to get something up here quickly.
Stable Diffusion Lemmy bots
Does anyone know of any Lemmy bots that can use a Stable Diffusion instance instead of DALLe? I found https://github.com/SleeplessOne1917/lemmy-art-bot but it's currently OpenAI only. I've got a machine sitting around with a mostly-idle SD instance and wouldn't mind hooking it up to the comments of a community on my Lemmy server (or here, but don't want to abuse someone else's storage).
Instance Updates - 06/12/2023
Not much has changed today. Email verification is now disabled as we seem to have hit some bug where it just craps out until the Docker pods are restarted, I'm probably going to leave this disabled unless we start getting some large influx of spam users.
Default theme has also been changed to Darkly - Red which feels a bit more reminiscent of Reddit.
Image storage remains my primary concern for instance scalability. I am fairly limited on local storage since the server running this instance is all-NVMe, so if the /pictrs volume fills up too much, I will have to connect a cloud disk. Rather than totally disabling image uploads (which would also mean no avatars), I'm leaning towards setting something like a 400kb limit for all uploads. This is still TBD and may wind up being unnecessary if I can find some cheap option.
Instance Updates - 06/11/2023
In preparation for a (hopeful) influx of users, I've bumped up the resources for the server a bit. We're now running on 4 cores/8gb ram and a 512tb disk on one of my OVH servers, and I may setup a larger disk for image storage if it winds up growing quickly. I've got plenty of resources to spare so there shouldn't be any scalability issues.
Email is also functional and now required for all new signups. No admin validation is required at the moment, but this could change if we start getting a flood of bots or something.
I am also looking for an admin or two to assist with the day-to-day management of this. Not sure what that will look like since I'm pretty new to Lemmy, so any help is appreciated.