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  1. Comment on Proud Boys fined over $1 Million for destroying property of a Black church in ~society

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    The short answer is that archive.is blocks Cloudflare's DNS resolver (1.1.1.1), which might be what iCloud Private Relay is using (or it might be using another DNS resolver that hides your...

    The short answer is that archive.is blocks Cloudflare's DNS resolver (1.1.1.1), which might be what iCloud Private Relay is using (or it might be using another DNS resolver that hides your location for privacy reasons). archive.is's owner disapproves of services that don't send the location data, so its DNS servers send invalid responses instead.

    Here's a good article summarizing the issue (from 2019)

    1 vote

  2. Comment on Lemmy.world has been hacked and is currently down [UPDATE: It's back up] in ~tech

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    The short answer is that archive.is blocks Cloudflare's DNS, or other privacy focused DNS resolvers that don't send location information to archive.is's servers. This has been happening on and off...

    The short answer is that archive.is blocks Cloudflare's DNS, or other privacy focused DNS resolvers that don't send location information to archive.is's servers. This has been happening on and off for years, and it appears to only have restarted recently.

    A good article summarizing the issue (from 2019)

    Other discussions:
    https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36397710
    https://old.reddit.com/r/DataHoarder/comments/13g4htv/cloudflare_dns_blocking_archiveis/jjyfvst/

    Edit, an example of what archive.is is actually doing to block Cloudflare's DNS:

    $ dig +short archive.is @8.8.8.8
89.253.237.217
$ dig +short archive.is @1.1.1.1
1.1.1.7

    The answer that archive.is gives, 1.1.1.7, is just invalid. (It's in the IP block Cloudflare uses for the 1.1.1.1 DNS server, and has no relation to archive.is.)

    8 votes

  3. Comment on Good, quality YouTube channels? in ~tech

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    Formatted list with links Coffeezilla - (scambuster) Miniminuteman (history/archaeology/ancient scambuster) LEMMiNO (history/general knowledge) Casual Scholar (history/geopolitics) Captainmidnight...
    Formatted list with links
    9 votes

  4. Comment on Good, quality YouTube channels? in ~tech

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    My personal favorite is Overly Sarcastic Productions, which has a mix of ancient/classical history, myths and folklore, and media analysis. As the name indicates, they have a tendency towards...

    My personal favorite is Overly Sarcastic Productions, which has a mix of ancient/classical history, myths and folklore, and media analysis. As the name indicates, they have a tendency towards sarcastic humor, but I like it and the quality is good. I generally prefer the mythology videos because Red is a very good artist, but the history videos are also high-quality; If you're interested in Norse mythology at all, their video on Loki is a good example of the channel.

    You've got a ton of other suggestions to sort through, so I won't add more, but I'll second some other people's suggestions:

    2 votes

  5. Comment on Google Domains Moving to Squarespace in ~comp

  6. Comment on Reddit CEO pledges to not force subreddits to reopen. Admin team then immediately threatens moderators who closed their subreddits with removal. in ~tech

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    If you request the data before the account is deleted, it doesn't matter where you are in the world. Reddit's data request system asks about GDPR/California's data privacy laws IIRC, but it...

    If you request the data before the account is deleted, it doesn't matter where you are in the world. Reddit's data request system asks about GDPR/California's data privacy laws IIRC, but it doesn't require that they apply -- you can just put.

    I don't know about after deleting an account though, since it'll be harder to prove that you own the account. It might still be possible, but you'd probably have to go through some support system instead of the normal process. (If you're in the EU, then it might be worth checking what GDPR says about deleted accounts.)

    6 votes

  7. Comment on New users: Ask your questions about Tildes here! in ~tildes

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    It's worth noting that removed topics/comments are treated differently from deleted ones; According to Deimos, removed comments are visible to the user that posted them in their own history....

    It's worth noting that removed topics/comments are treated differently from deleted ones; According to Deimos, removed comments are visible to the user that posted them in their own history. Deleted posts can't be visible in your own history, since the content is actually deleted from the database.

    3 votes

  8. Comment on Observations on needed features and issues now that the site has gotten busier in ~tildes

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    I realize I should probably ping @cfabbro, since you're basically the expert on finding old feature requests. (Thanks for that, by the way!)

    I realize I should probably ping @cfabbro, since you're basically the expert on finding old feature requests. (Thanks for that, by the way!)

    6 votes

  9. Comment on Observations on needed features and issues now that the site has gotten busier in ~tildes

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    I looked through the gitlab to find some relevant issues / discussions; I wasn't able to find existing issues for a number of your points, so it might be worth creating some new issues. That's a...
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    I looked through the gitlab to find some relevant issues / discussions; I wasn't able to find existing issues for a number of your points, so it might be worth creating some new issues.

    Edit bumps for megathreads

    That's a good idea, though I'm not sure how the mechanics would work exactly:

    • Should edits to a topic always bump it? (Should there be an option? On or off by default?)
    • Should the UI indicate topic edits like new comments?
    • How to prevent abuse? (ie. someone editing their topic every 5min to keep it at the top of the Activity sort)
      • With comments, it's easier to prevent the spam needed to do this

    (I didn't find any existing issues on this)

    Following/Subscribing to Topics

    This is basically issue #107 on Gitlab; though another interesting idea would be the ability to personally "pin" a few topics so that they stay at the top of your main page.

    A Drafts section

    Issue #581

    “Shortlisted” groups

    Semi related: Issue #552 and #776

    Choosing groups from the new post view instead of posting from the groups view

    #768 and #603

    Subscribed topic tags

    #359

    Built-in invite request form

    There actually is a "built-in" invite request system -- it's an email address that gets reviewed by Deimos, and most of the filtering comes from people having to spend the effort to read the docs to find it. It might be possible to build a system to offload some of that from Deimos to the community, but if it's just open / fully unreviewed, then it's just shifting the work back to Deimos again.

    Issues: #589, #590

    “Only New” filter for comments


    There's probably an issue for this, as it's been mentioned a few times in the feature suggestion threads, but I didn't find a specific issue.

    Rethinking time-limit on Exemplary labels


    (I didn't find any existing issues on this)

    Add a “Funny” modifier to the “Joke” label

    (I didn't find any existing issues on this)

    Rethinking the necroposting warning

    I think one of the issues with this is that posts older than a month are half-archived -- you can't vote on (or label, IIRC) old comments because of data-retention / user privacy (only the vote count is tracked, not the individual votes). This makes older posts a bit weird to work with, since they have a mix of unvotable old comments and normal newer comments.

    Also, it seems like they run into some issues with some of the sorts -- they may only show up in some configurations of activity, and won't show up in the other sorts. (#648)

    Relevant but slightly different issue: #748

    Improved search

    There are lots of issues on the gitlab for search, I won't link them all here.

    Mark direct messages as unread

    (I didn't find any existing issues on this)

    Tag cloud

    There have been a few discussions on this sort of thing in the recent meta discussions, but I'm not finding a good match in the issues.

    Put a vote button on the bottom of the post for self-posts

    I'm not finding an issue for this, but adding the vote button used for comments to the list of actions at the bottom of a post would probably be the best option here.

    33 votes

  10. Comment on Favorite ambient / instrumental music? in ~music

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    Most of the music that I listen to is instrumental, so I have a bunch of recommendations... If you know of Kurzgesagt, each of their videos has its own background music; the full version of each...

    Most of the music that I listen to is instrumental, so I have a bunch of recommendations...

    If you know of Kurzgesagt, each of their videos has its own background music; the full version of each song is available from Epic Mountain Music. They have a distinct genre, but there's a lot of variety in there songs; there are also recurring themes between the songs for related topics. (Though it'd take a bit of work to categorize them by theme -- they have something like >17hrs of music by now.)

    My personal favorites are Immune System 2, Ants, and Egoistic Altruism -- they're long, but they're really good. (Which is a general theme with Epic Mountain Music.)

    I also have to second @OnceAndFuture's recommendation of the Stellaris soundtrack; there are lots of good video game soundtracks in the space of ambient/instrumental music.

    A few of my recommendations for video game soundtracks:

    I'm a bit more limited on non-video game soundtracks, but here's what I've got:

    • Wintergatan - I don't know how to categorize this ("folktronica", according to Wikipedia), but it's instrumental music with a large variety of uncommon instruments. (If you've heard of the Marble Machine, it's the same band that made that.)
    • The Legend of Korra Book 1 soundtrack - a mix of 1920s and east Asian styles; I wish more of the music from LoK / Avatar was available, but this is the only official soundtrack.
    • Nexflix's She-Ra reboot soundtrack - 80s style electronic/orchestral music
    2 votes

  11. Comment on <deleted topic> in ~movies

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    Interesting! It's nice that libraries are catching up with the proliferation of streaming services, so hopefully we'll end up with more services that focus on serving the public rather than aiming...

    Interesting! It's nice that libraries are catching up with the proliferation of streaming services, so hopefully we'll end up with more services that focus on serving the public rather than aiming strictly for profit.

    As a side note: It might be good to edit the title to mention libraries/universities so that it doesn't just seem like a piracy site at first glance (though I'm not sure if you can do that, or if someone with retagging abilities would have to).

    4 votes

  12. Comment on The most liberating decision: just deleted my Reddit account in ~tech

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    Most of Reddit's listings (ie. a user's comments, posts, saved posts, etc) only allow you to see the most recent 1000 items -- beyond that, it won't show you anything, even if you delete/unsave...

    Most of Reddit's listings (ie. a user's comments, posts, saved posts, etc) only allow you to see the most recent 1000 items -- beyond that, it won't show you anything, even if you delete/unsave newer items. To delete older comments/posts, you'll probably have to go through Reddit's data-request system, which will give you a CSV of all of your old posts/comments. I'm not sure if the existing scripts are built to work with this, but it should be possible to delete everything using that.

    2 votes

  13. Comment on These subreddits are going dark or read-only on June 12th and after. Some already are. in ~tech

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    Since the subs are just set to private, you should still be able to archive your comment history as CSV using Reddit's data request system (thanks to GDPR & co). I'm not sure what happens when a...

    Since the subs are just set to private, you should still be able to archive your comment history as CSV using Reddit's data request system (thanks to GDPR & co). I'm not sure what happens when a sub is banned or actually removed, but at least for private subs Reddit can still show the comments/posts to someone, so the data has to be kept around.

    It won't let you get context for the comments, but it will get you the text and other direct info. (Though I think it just gives you the post id for that, so you might not be able to get the post titles in private subs.)

  14. Comment on Big Giant Circles - Peanut Butter Cupquakes (2014) in ~music

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    Thanks for the recommendations! I've started listening through The Glory Days and I like it a lot -- the different variations in style are interesting and I like some more than others, but they're...

    Thanks for the recommendations! I've started listening through The Glory Days and I like it a lot -- the different variations in style are interesting and I like some more than others, but they're all consistently good.

    1 vote

  15. Comment on I just submitted my first ever merge request! in ~tildes

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    I'm impressed! I put in a few comments, but it looks good! (Though I have very little experience with the Tildes codebase, so don't feel the need to take my advice.) I put in one a few days ago...

    I'm impressed! I put in a few comments, but it looks good! (Though I have very little experience with the Tildes codebase, so don't feel the need to take my advice.)

    I put in one a few days ago with a bunch of simple CSS/template fixes, but I've been avoiding dealing with the python side because I'd probably break something... I might follow your lead and try something larger.

    One issue that I'm considering is the auto light/dark theme switching, but that touches basically everything to some extent -- CSS, templates, intercooler stuff, the settings page, and database migrations (without a clear default...)

    6 votes

  16. Comment on Tildes fundraiser June 2023: Encourage an app developer (me) to work on a Tildes app faster, by donating to Tildes (not me)! in ~tildes

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    We're now at exactly 200! At the rate this is going, I'm hopeful to see how far we get, and interested in what this might encourage others to make. (Especially with a bunch of new people...

    We're now at exactly 200!

    At the rate this is going, I'm hopeful to see how far we get, and interested in what this might encourage others to make. (Especially with a bunch of new people interested in helping with the site -- who knows what we'll come up with!)

    7 votes

  17. Comment on Stellaris Nexus | Announcement trailer in ~games

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    The main selling point of this appears to be that the games are short (as in an hour or two) -- specifically to deal with the issues that 4X games have with game length. I'm not sure how it'll...

    The main selling point of this appears to be that the games are short (as in an hour or two) -- specifically to deal with the issues that 4X games have with game length. I'm not sure how it'll deal with other multiplayer issues (like asymmetric turn lengths), but it seems like the goal is to be similar to Stellaris, but to make multiplayer feasible by reducing the time commitment.

    3 votes

  18. Comment on Everything announced during Summer Game Fest 2023 in ~games

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    I don't usually pay attention to game news, but Stellaris Nexus looks interesting. It looks like it's aiming for shorter multiplayer games -- anyone who's tried organizing a group to play a 4X...

    I don't usually pay attention to game news, but Stellaris Nexus looks interesting. It looks like it's aiming for shorter multiplayer games -- anyone who's tried organizing a group to play a 4X game knows how difficult it is to actually finish the game, given scheduling issues and the level of commitment required.

    2 votes

  19. Comment on Apollo will close down on June 30th. Reddit’s recent decisions and actions have unfortunately made it impossible for Apollo to continue. Thank you so, so much for all the support over the years. in ~tech

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    Most of the bulk downloaders use the reddit API, and as such are limited to the most recent 1000 items, so it'll only get your 1000 most recent saved posts, 1000 most recent comments, etc. A...

    Most of the bulk downloaders use the reddit API, and as such are limited to the most recent 1000 items, so it'll only get your 1000 most recent saved posts, 1000 most recent comments, etc. A slightly more reliable way is using Reddit's data request system, which isn't limited to the most recent 1000, to get a full list of saved posts (in csv format). (Which should be possible to pass into one of the bulk downloader tools to actually archive.)

    IIRC the data request takes a few hours to process, and then sends you a link to a zip file through a reddit message. I'm not sure if there are good tools for processing that export, but it's just CSV, so anything that can handle that (ie. excel/google sheets if you're less of a tech person) should work.

    12 votes

  20. Comment on Resources and help for setting up a Tildes dev environment in ~tildes

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    I'm not particularly well-versed in docker, but you might be able to use a docker image instead of vagrant? The vagrant setup appears to just be setting up a debian 10 image with some bind mounts...

    I'm not particularly well-versed in docker, but you might be able to use a docker image instead of vagrant?

    The vagrant setup appears to just be setting up a debian 10 image with some bind mounts and forwarded ports, and then using ansible to deploy a dev environment; as long as there aren't nested containers or other kernel-level things being used, the same should be possible with a docker container.

    config.vm.synced_folder "tildes/", "/opt/tildes/"
config.vm.synced_folder "ansible/", "/srv/ansible"
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 443, host: 4443
config.vm.network "forwarded_port", guest: 9090, host: 9090
    1 vote