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[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

I've proactively blocked automatic updates on my watch in anticipation of them doing a rug pull on the feature.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

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.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

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.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Marijuana is still classified as a schedule 1 drug and remains federally illegal.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 22 points 9 months ago (5 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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.

 

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 migrating the instance to my Kubernetes cluster so we can do a rolling deployment, and leave the existing pods up until everything is passing checks. In the meantime, I'm spinning up a sandbox Lemmy instance and will use that to validate upgrades before hitting this instance.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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/.

 

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).

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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).

 

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.

Some thoughts on image uploads

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.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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.

 
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