I recently upgraded to the latest version of Friendica (I hadn't noticed there was an update until yesterday) and now when I see a post on my timeline from one of the less popular services (e.g.: BookWyrm) there is no longer an icon in the corner of the post linking me back to the source. There used to at least be an icon for the protocol with a link back to the source post. Is there no way to find this now?
Edit: The problem turned out to be that some of the icons weren't visible against my theme's black background.
Edit 2: Changing the theme and then changing it back fixed the problem for some reason.
@Michael Vogel I tried to share an example of one that wasn't working and found my problem. It was a black icon displaying on a black background. It's there; It's just not visible. I'll have to change my theme.
A common problem on updating web applications is that the browser still might have old data (images, CSS files, ...) cached. Usually a forced reload (Ctrl-Reload or Cmd-Reload) will help in that case.
@M.Scheriau @Michael Vogel I do not believe this to have been a caching issue (at least not on the part of the browser) as the previous icons were not SVG format. I imagine it was a bug in the database migration that changing the theme resolved.
"When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
Auf YouTube findest du die angesagtesten Videos und Tracks. Außerdem kannst du eigene Inhalte hochladen und mit Freunden oder gleich der ganzen Welt teilen.
there’s also Double-Height Line Top Half (3) and Double-Height Line Bottom Half (4) which can be used as a poor man’s make-your-own-emoji (screenshot from Terminal.app)
Yesterday, after more than four decades of frustration, I finally learned to solve a Rubik's cube. Not content with just that, I decided to get creative today. This was harder than I expected.
Edit: apparently it's *way* easier to do this from a solved cube than the way I was doing it. I feel less accomplished now. 🙃
Assuming you're not just making a joke, you are going to be amused when you find out the simple 3 move method of replicating that pattern.
(I'm assuming you used a cube solving method to create that classic pattern. That would involve a lot of moves, and a lot of visual confusion as your end goal colors are swapped around for the edge pieces.)
@Isaac Ji Kuo @Jonathan Lamothe Yeah, I just used the same solving method. It ended up being harder because instead of just lookong for matching colours, I had to think about what the opposite ones were.
"Let me put this in terms that even the most ideological libertarians can understand. Say you think there should be precisely one regulation that governments should enforce: honoring contracts. For the government to serve as referee in that game, it must have the power to compel the players to honor their contracts. Which means that the smallest government you can have is determined by the largest corporation you're willing to permit."
but when the roses get back to Earth, from where they were/are observed, they are still red. In fact, on the way back to Earth, they were redder.
The dilation of observable phenomenon with a fixed speed is relative to a fixed point AND the direction of the dilation is relative to the direction of travel towards or away from that fixed point.
The astronauts only appear to age slower relative to the observer on Earth and they appear to age faster on the return trip.
Summary: the astronauts are not younger than they should be when they return to Earth.
Relativity is an observational bias. When you strictly interpret data, because you have nothing else to base knowledge on, the conclusions may become preposterous. And not being able to preform the actual thought experiment prevents you from seeing the obvious error.
Pop culture understanding of relativity is a mistake that illustrates what relativity was meant to point out, from the other side.
Called for a tow to take our disabled car to the mechanic. The muffler was dragging on the ground. Not only did they not send a flatbed (which they're now having to dispatch) but the snow under the car has melted and re-frozen so the still somewhat attached muffler is lodged in a block of ice...
First piece of positive news all week, the part that was dragging was a heat shield, not the muffler. It's probably not as bad as we thought. Waiting on the verdict from the mechanic.
The mechanic's trying to price out replacement parts for us. In the meantime, since the car is still technically driveable, we've taken it home. Hopefully, he'll be able to get us a good deal.
In the meantime, I take some solice in the fact that some people pay a lot of money to get a car that sounds like this one.
@Parker51 Better. The previous crisis (of which this was a part) has been tentatively dealt with. There's still work to be done, but I'm in a much better place mentally.
"When newly widowed Elsie is sent to see out her pregnancy at her late husband's crumbling country estate, The Bridge, what greets her is far from the life of wealth and privilege she was expecting.
Edit: Thought it would be less concerning to those who'd seen this post to edit rather than delete. I promise I will seek help if of becomes necessary.
Very familiar with anxiety and panic and here to talk to if you ever need it.
Only good advice is also the most obvious: Take time for yourself. Don't force yourself to do things when you know you can't. The exhaustion builds up and takes a toll. People are generally very understanding in my experience.
@uoou There are some rather urgent things that need my attention, but I'm going to take a day to collect myself before I address them. I wouldn't be doing anyone (myself included) any favours if I attempted to solve this in my present state.
So Merry and Pippin pull out their laptops, realize the door opening API call is unsecured, and use curl to POST "X-Authorized: Friend" to it, being sure to set the language encoding to Elvish first.
@pseudonym @Unixbigot @LapTop006 when I broke my arm, I got home and realised there was no way I could get my DESFire fob out of my pocket to get in to the house. Thankfully there is a way to log in on my phone, which I could just about manage left handed!
Achievement unlocked: making a Costco run on transit.
I brought a camping pack and filled it to absolute capacity. It was a bit of a challenge, but doable... and still better than dealing with the parking there.
From the agenda dispatcher, you'd choose "m" for match (which lets you search for all kinds of things or combos of things). Then type PRIORITY="A" or whatever.
You can use > or < as well. But remember that "A" is less than "B", it doesn't consider A greater than B just because you think of it as meaning higher priority.
Internet was dropping packets like crazy (up to 50% packet loss). My ISP's tier-1 tech support didn't even know what the ping tool was.
I've worked tech support for a telco before, I know what the quality of the training is like because of the ridiculous turnover, so I get it, but geez...
This begs an ettiquette question: what is the correct response to the following conversation that doesn't involve being an asshole?
Tech: Your connection seems fine on my end. Me: It can't be. I'm getting about 25-50% packet loss. Tech: How do you know that? Me: The ping tool. Tech: What's that?
After a long pause, my response was "a very basic network diagnostic tool." That came across more condescendingly than I had intended, but I couldn't come up with a better way of saying it.
razorblades were discovered behind fash posters at a station just outside London a few weeks ago (a lot of fash are also "tradmasc" types so may be buying the blades anyway for the "grandad" safety razors they like using)
There are also various scrapers you can get cheaply (sold for removing stickers from car windscreens) which can be used to attack suspect stickers without putting yourself in danger..
@vfrmedia This is good to know, because I haven't seen any nasty stuff like this yet, but I'd probably reach out with my bare hands if I hadn't just been warned. 😅
Incidentally, I'm super lefty and I use an old steel "mid-century" razor with double-sided blades myself, a choice I made some years back to avoid putting all those plastic disposables into the landfill. 🪒
@vfrmedia Also, did you say "straight razor," as in the flip-out thing that can slit your throat? I could never. I live in earthquake country after all.
I had a similar experience in the Covid pandemic. A bunch of conspiracist anti-vax stickers appeared on lamp posts around town here. I took to tearing them off, or if stuck down too well I'd apply a marker pen. The next week I found someone else had got there with the marker before me, and a couple of weeks later they stopped appearing.
Okay, I'm done making pen rolls. This is the first one I actually didn't eyeball and am reasonably satisfied with the finished result. Made an identical one for Katy. #FountainPens
Learned from the last pen roll and have significantly upped my sewing game. I made this one out of an old shirt that no longer fit me. (I swear it shrunk.) #FountainPens
It's not at all uncommon for our car to sit unused in the parking lot for a week at a time. Why is it that when we get the worst snow storm in recent memory that we for one reason or another end up having to drive in it every single day?
I'm so fucking sick of these attacks on human rights.
I propose the following course of action:
We pick a specific target and trash its value. - Do whatever we can to make it lose money, customers, resources, employees, reputation. - Do our best to make it toxic waste that investors won't touch. - We make it easy for anyone to join the carnage. - We keep hammering it until it dies or we get protections
Then we collectively pick another target and do it again.
And again.
Until the dying screams of US corporations reach the ears of those with the power to call off the attacks on women, minorities, LGBTQ+ people, disabled people, and everyone else this administration is going after.
When they stop, we stop, negotiate, and stand ready to start again if they don't follow through.
@Lexington Streetsweeper @🅰🅻🅸🅲🅴 (🌈🦄) Give me a screen reader (preferably NVDA) accessible alternative with good discounts, free shipping, clear product descriptions, and a large variety of products, and I wouldn't mind doing it.
@angelastella @lednaBM I love the smell of a win~win in the morning. I mean the Europeans are ahead of the curve here, but it appears like this idea is already being implemented.
rumors are tesla dealer protests tomorrow at 11a. i’m going to visit the one closest to us with snacks and see what’s what.
i’m wanting to hear more about fun things, like stink bombs in apple and target stores… every day. that would be fun to hear about in the news. just horrid smells driving shoppers out…
maybe rotate seven? one day for each of the week? mondays postcard campaign to the office of microsoft?, tuesdays dog poo set on fire in front of disney stores, etc.?
@melioristicmarie ima bit worried that some of this might recoil on electric cars as a whole, i'd rather people deface property than block chargers, for example (esp since tesla chargers are also usable for others these days)
but, putting graffiti/stickers on them that say something like "by charging here you support viral disease" or something...
@carbontwelve @melioristicmarie If you’re going to vandalize Teslas, do it at dealerships - bring the pain directly to Elon, not folks who thought they were doing a good thing buying an electric car.
@melioristicmarie historically, this has actually worked incredibly well. The civil rights movement targeted Woolworths and unions targeted GM. The rest of the industry just did whatever once the first company caved. This strategy has a proven track record of winning.
@Hex @melioristicmarie YES! My mom and grandma were alongside other Blacks and Latinos picketing in front of Woolworths,Kress, Bullock's/Bullock's Wilshire and Robinson's in the early and mid 1960's in Los Angeles: those stores did not hire Black and Latino employees for the sales floor and restaurant. And they didn't want Blacks and Latinos shopping there. We're going to have to go BACK to 1962 and 1963 in order to fight these assholes.
@woozle @Hex @melioristicmarie Those pickets and protests along 7th St are some of my earliest memories of growing up in LA. Sad that we will have to return to those in order to fight back against the idiot.
@melioristicmarie Also it’s really hard to effectively boycott all the things at once but concentrated boycotts on one or two targets at a time? Totally doable.
good choice, especially since it's been tanking the last couple days, and we all know why he wants the consumer protection gutted, because Teslas are crap and he doesn't want to pay to actually FIX the problem. (As far as his popularity, nothing can fix his total lack of redeeming factors and just how much of an infantile douche he truly is)
@lednaBM I’m looking into it. Leaning towards a “bought it before he went nuts” and a “2017” sticker. I’d really like one that references his ketamine use because I truly believe that’s what happened to him but can’t find one.
@lednaBM I would understand and also, please don’t do this. We bought these cars like 6 years ago before we knew he was fucking insane. Back then he was criticizing Trump for not doing enough about climate change and seemed to be driving a solar and electric vehicle revolution. Don’t punish those of us who bought his cars or what he’s doing now…
@BillMcGuire @medley56 Again, it's perfectly OK to target Musk himself with angry crowds. Too bad we don't have any billionaires paying people to do this the way the christo-fascists do. This also tells people a lot about the sociopathy and hoarding money disorder in the 100 millionaire plus community. No human should be worth that kind of money. Assets should be deflated. And, a wealth line should exist akin to the poverty line. Nobody goes below poverty, and nobody goes above wealth.
I just decided a couple of yrs ago to NOT put that sort of identifying stuff on my only mode of transportation since I live in TX, a very red state with kooks abundant who would relish bashing my car with baseball bats or setting it on fire. NYet.
@BillMcGuire @lednaBM If they can do that, the sticker is not the thing that’s gonna give me away. It’s my geolocation data, my credit card history, and everything else the ad companies have accumulated about me.
Need to find the fabled-to-exist "cops are wusses" bumper stickers, slap 'em on, and see how long it takes 'em to realize why they're getting pulled over so often.
R'amen! I remember just putting a small Biden/Harris sticker on my car in 2020 and got people flipping me off and screaming pro-Trump slogans at me while driving, getting honked at in parking lots from idiots with the huge Trump flags in the bed... and one night I had one of those big trucks practically on my bumper on a dark stretch of road while heading home from work.
Only had it 3 weeks. I wanted SO badly to put a Harris yard sign in my yard for 2024, but I don't have the money to maintain, let alone repair, anything that's damaged if someone objected. I am a blue dot in a county so red that many local positions have been unopposed on the ballot for over 20 years. Many flag-waving Trumpers around here. Sucks. My pro-science and nerdy bumper stickers get me plenty of side-eyes as it is.
@punissuer @lednaBM we're expecting insurance to pay out until they won't, then we're expecting people to sell their Teslas and dump their stock before both are considered worthless.
Following your strategy - don't pick the biggest target as your first target. Pick one that you know you can win. Winning builds momentum. We need the power to take on bigger targets.
@peterbrown Stickers that says: Swasticar (Not my invention! But I think it's a very good idea.) Make them easily removable so you can't be held liable for damage. But have so you can do it again, and again, and again, and again. @alice @punissuer @lednaBM
I jusy fixed a seam that was going in one of the pairs of sweatpants I wear for bumming around the apartment.
Was it a neatly done fix? No.
Will anyone ever see it though? Also no.
Hoping to keep working on stupid little stuff like this with the sewing machine to build up my confidence/skill to be able to tackle stuff that actually matters if it's done well.
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If you’re in #Ontario make sure you register to vote or you won’t get your voters card in the mail apparently.
F*ck off Doug Ford.
Edit: Multiple areas of the elections ON website say registered voters need to confirm to get their ballot. Unsure if it’s legit or if it’s poor marketing materials. I know it’s not Fords fault exactly, but I’m choosing to blame him. He called this snap election lol.
Edit 2: thanks to @CStamp we now know it’s poor marketing.
Dunno. That just reads to me like if you want the card and you have moved since your last tax return or you’re a new voter, now’s the time to let them know.
Otherwise you won’t get a card but you can still vote by using their site to find your polling place and showing up on voting day.
@david Yeah, that's just looks normal. If you've moved or just turned 18 you should check the website, otherwise you don't need bother. Elections Ontario is independent and not something DF can mess around with.
@mariellequinton Right, plus registering is a convenience, not a requirement. If you’re not registered, you can still go to the site in a few days, enter your postal code to find out your polling place, and show up on voting day with ID and you’re good to go.
Having said that, my newly-18 year old twins were excited to go register over the weekend…
worth noting that the voters database doesn't seem to synchronize with other Ontario data, as we moved five months ago, and updated our healthcards and drivers licences, but the voters list still had us at the old address.
You don't have to go online to confirm and get your card. You'll get it regardless unless you've moved or have just turned 18. And Elections Ontario is independent.
@mariellequinton here is from Elections Ontario and it’s definitely feeling like you *NEED* to confirm it to get the card. Wording feels weird to me, likely because the word “Register” is a proper noun in this case.
And remember that, as long as you know where to go to vote--check with your local Returning Office to be sure!--you don't need your voter information card to vote. Bring a couple of forms of ID with you (Health card doesn't work), and you'll be good to go. What the voter information card does for you, mostly, is that it tells you you're already on the voters' list and won't need to fill out a form day-of, and tells you where you go to vote without having to call and find out. /1
But if someone is not on the list of electors currently, it has nothing to do with Doug Ford. By law, it can't. He can't do anything about it, either way.
Seems pretty clear to me that it is VOTER SUPPRESSION. No registration = NO card. Those cards are a reminder of when and where to vote, without one, you'll have to figure it out yourself.
@WhistlingStella That's how it has always been. You're automatically registered to vote and your card goes to your last known address. They've now just made it super easy to update it if you've moved.
Your voter registration card also doubles as a proof of address if you need one. It's handy.
@mayintoronto My notice says to "confirm, update or add your information". I have never been asked to "confirm" my information before and the notice is unclear as to whether "confirmation" is a prerequisite for "registration" or whether voting cards will be mailed as usual without "confirmation ". It is at best ambiguous and 16 days before the election, unnecessarily confusing.
@WhistlingStella I know the people who work at Elections Ontario (and who build their website), and I really can't imagine that they'd do this on purpose. They'd likely quit before they'll be a party to voter suppression like this.
As much as I dislike Dougie and can't find a good reason for this election, the link is to verify that you are on the register of voters, add yourself if you are not, or update info if it has changed.
It even says that you can register directly on the spot, at the polling station if not already registered.
This is not new, this not a Doug thing. I have done the same in the past, and even once had to make a correction to my name when I showed up to vote.
If you want to tell Doug Ford to Fuck Off, I'm all with you, but let's do it with our ballots.
Your advice to check and update voter's registration remains valid.
@kicou @RandomCanuck lol yes sure, not Doug’s fault. But the wording is insanely confusing. Here is a screenshot from elections Ontario website and I have another screenshot that says the same from another part of the site.
Ya, this is for you to receive your card. It makes it easier to vote. You can vote without it but you have to figure out where your polling station is.
If you did not receive your card but know you are eligible to vote, GO VOTE!
Except if you are a Ford supporter, in which case ignore my previous sentence 😋
I emailed elections Ontario for clarification, received this response: Thank you for contacting Elections Ontario.
You do not have to be registered to vote. If you’re registered to vote, you’ll receive a voter information card in the mail with information about when & where to vote.
The ‘confirm’ option is to check if you are already on the Register.
If you are not registered to vote. You must bring one piece of ID showing both your name & home address to register & receive a ballot.
I have never before in my life touched a sewing machine, but now that I have one, I decided that the first thing I'd try to make was a pen roll for my #FountainPens (one of them is a ballpoint, but we don't talk about that). There are definitely some things I'd do differently the second time around, but I freaking love this machine!
I have acquired what I believe to be a high-quality hand-me-down sewing machine from my mother-in-law. Now, apart from thread and fabric I only need to have one more thing...
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The map() function is used to apply a given function to every item of an iterable, such as a list or tuple, and returns a map object (which is an iterator). Let's start with a simple example of using map() to convert a list of strings into a list of
@flyingsquirrel Yup. And there's a multiprocessing version which can be useful if you're doing a very large csv but you probably want imap() for that one.
Source code: Lib/multiprocessing/ Availability: not Android, not iOS, not WASI. This module is not supported on mobile platforms or WebAssembly platforms. Introduction: multiprocessing is a package...
If you're looking for a function that applies another function to each element of a list and aggregates the results, it'd typically be done with a list comprehension:
[your_function(item) for item in your_list]
But you can also use list(map(your_function, your_list)) if you want. Basically, it's a built-in function rather than a method of the list class.
There's also a whole discussion to be had about lists vs generators and why you often wouldn't even need to make a list in the first place, but I won't get into that unless you want to know more.
the logic being that `map()` take any iterable, jot only lists, but sets, dicts, and anything that complies with the iterable protocol. I'm not saying you have to _like_ it. See also `str.join()`.
@Marcos Dione Yeah, in hindsight, that makes sense. I'm usually a Haskell programmer, not a Python programmer, so I don't usually have to deal with the question of whether a function is on an object or not.
I understand. I get similar issues when I jump to other languages. The ones I had more impedance has been golang for certain decisions and rust because of the "harsh" syntax and verboseness.
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LB I do not understand at all how people are arguing this is GTS behaving badly and not scrapers like...
FediDB: how many users do you have GTS: I'm not telling you don't crawl my page FediDB: I'm going to do it anyway how many users do you have GTS: Fifty billion FediDB: okay thanks FediDB: hey wait you lied to me!!!
Like idk sounds to me like you should have walked away at "don't crawl my page" and if you get the wrong numbers after that that's on you
Honestly looking at FediDBs GitHub there's a lot of complaints about it's scraping behavior in general. Like it will keep repeatedly hitting domains that don't even have fedi servers anymore
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. It's quite silly that fedidb is slamming my server asking for instance info on instances I shut down years ago. I get requests every h...
Hi! I'm not very techy so this might be a dumb question, but. On your popular fediverse accounts list here: https://fedidb.org/popular-fediverse-accounts Where's George Takei? He's at @georgetakei@...
Ultimately the real problem we aren't discussing though is that Dansup is accusing the GTS devs of doing this "for clout", when they are doing this for "leave me alone", which is the opposite of clout.
It's complete bullshit and he should be embarrassed to say it.
Guy steadily gaining more influence over the fediverse with his software and massively unmanageable instance sizes spends most of his time beefing with other fedi devs...I don't think this is actually GOOD for the fediverse.
"This isn't about my scraper ignoring robots.txt and pounding instances that don't even exist anymore with requests indefinitely, it's about them trying to get clout by randomizing numbers (that I shouldn't have been scraping) so big nobody would even believe them!"
i said this before on a standalone post but if theres one thing he could learn from his idol gargron is to shut the fuck up and actually work on his bullshit software (that doesn't even do its job properly lmao)
seriously say what you want about website boy but at least he was smart enough to back off and do his shit instead of acting like the next jesus christ
@chkdsk it's funny because about a month ago during a meltdown Eugen literally told him DIRECTLY and PRIVATELY "hey man quit posting right now you're not doing yourself any favors" and he proceeded to post that message and keep posting for a bit and making everyone mad before he finally listened
A ton of his recent posts, including this GTS one, are full of nothing but people trying to tell him "hey man please stop posting this it's such a bad idea"
@jeremiah @chkdsk I think the posts he deletes have a bigger effect than the posts he keeps, because if he left half these posts up for people to see he'd get way less attention
personally while an instagram-like service has its use (visual artists would like it a lot) even though just making an alt frontend for mastodon/other existing softwares would do the job as well...
loops was a fucking grave mistake. not only because that form is an evil product of modern internet designed specifically to addict you and worsen your attention span, but also it just Won't fucking Work. tiktok is a cash cow because it has an algorithm designed to keep you sucked in for hours
so its just a dumb fucking thing that makes no sense. and i think posting short vids on existing microblogging side of fedi software is good as is
@chkdsk @jeremiah anyone who cares about fedi would have cloned vine instead
Small file sizes, hard to monetize so no big financial incentives, and in 6 seconds you can tell one tightly thought out joke or show your dog and can't spread weird misinformation
i haven't used the app myself but vines were actually fun. tiktok is just straight up brainrot (and while its sometimes funny it literally fucks up your brain)
@chkdsk @jeremiah out of the tiktoks I've seen the only good and memorable one I can think of that couldn't have fit in a vine is the "it goes in the square hole" one
@chkdsk @jeremiah I have a burner tiktok account that I only made to keep an eye on people buying plots of land in the desert or swamp attempting to build communes with absolutely no skills in anything
@chkdsk @jeremiah in a way, my interest in people building ill advised communes and my interest in people building ill advised online communities are the exact same interest, just one is more likely to end in someone going to the hospital
@gildilinie oh I've been into commune people on and off since well before Cohost the problem is you have to find the ones that spend enough time online that they post enough about it that you get the details
Luckily these days more and more ill advised communes are being started by tiktok people
@gildilinie Cohost should have been a commune tbh they at least had the money for property that isn't ten hours away from a water source and maybe some infrastructure
@chkdsk When you formulate it like that, yeah. You're right about loops.
I care more about Instagram because I've got artist friends who rely on Instagram for studios sales and courting galleries, and I mostly just want institutions and artists to be off big tech.
I've got a Pixelfed account on the flagship instance that I'm migrating now (didn't realize Dan never worked on meaningful export functionality until I went to use it).
I do like having a photo focused account/app separated from the microblogging one.
@jeremiah @chkdsk I keep wondering why we need servers dedicated to image posts instead of like...front ends
Maybe there's something I'm missing but it feels like you could just have Mastodon or GTS or whatever and just have a front end that filters down to just image posts, or a front end that shows your posts in a portfolio view
@jeremiah @chkdsk Most people I know who are trying Pixelfed (and are familiar with fedi meta in general) are trying it *despite* Dansup's posts, not because of them.
Making the pictures actually fit on my screen rather than posting through daily bouts of main character syndrome would be nice I guess, but what do I know 🤷
It makes me think that his goals may be aligned with the "silicon valley exit strategy": - start any project - make drama - pose as a disruptor, opposed by various groups - inflate own audience numbers - sell
I don't run a fedi server, but I do run a regular website and any crawler that disobeys my robots.txt gets severely mistreated by me, without shame. If you break the well-established convention that robots.txt represents -- I don't care why -- then you get what you get.
This feels very firmly like the FO side of FA, FO.
A lot of people's first reaction seems to be "your server should not react to crawling this way" when I feel like the real question should be "why is the crawler not respecting robots.txt?", which just seems wild to me. Literally blaming the victim.
@Lnklnx :sdf: @lori If I'm not mistaken, one of the original purposes of robots.txt was to warn crawlers about things which might cause problems. If they ignore it, that's on them.
It haunts me that he didn't even say that, he said "spread tea," this language is so appropriated he doesn't even know how to work it properly.
Altho, speaking of language, he calls this an "inconvenience" here, when instead it's "lack of interest in shared values including on technical basics so basic even I, who doesn't touch computers, knows is basic."
@tully @bright_helpings and this is exactly why I feel strongly about calling this shit out at this point because he keeps saying shit and deleting it and thinking he won't be held accountable for anything. Unless you pay attention his timeline is basically always just good looking PR speak posts, but we all know that's not the reality
Right? I'm watching this whole thing and don't understand how it's a controversy because GTS is doing all the right things regarding this, but then again, the Fedi is crawling with tech bros. Some hide better than others.
What I don't get is why the same ire isn't being directed at Misskey and its forks? Misskey (and Sharkey) accurately report the total number of registered users, but they do not accurately report the monthly active users. On FediDB, some Misskey instances show 0 MAUs (even big instances with a lot of users), while some report a frozen value based on what their MAUs was before Misskey switched to not reporting it.
@2something if i had to really speculate, it's because the misskey devs didn't call dansup out on appropriating AAVE about a month ago, which he absolutely was doing
Just to provide some perspective here, the endpoint in question exists specifically to be crawled by robots, nodeinfo is not a user-facing page and does not serve a purpose for federation. GTS could remove the endpoint if they’re not interested in it being crawled or serve 0s. The proposed behaviour seems to be more punitive than reasonable.
@Gargron but the real problem isn't what the software is doing, it's the extremely public accusation that another dev was acting maliciously at him personally
@chkdsk @jeremiah @Kiloku I'd say most people trying pixelfed have no idea who dansup is, most people couldn't tell you who runs any website unless they're billionaires. I guarantee most Tumblr users can't name the guy running that because he's not in the news every other day like Elon or Zuck. Dansup is a non entity to them.
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