Someone did try doing some version of this on lemmy.ml (iirc) and hexbear’s image filtering at the time caught it (only whitelisted image domains would work in markdown, so you’d at least have to trick people into going off-site to get their IP)

Nowadays the image backend has proxying, so untrusted image lookups go via the backend server and don’t expose the user’s IP.

There are probably still other holes (like the embeds you mention) but its not as trivial as embedded image links thankfully

Historically I’ve had some times when her takes really made me roll my eyes and stop watching/listening/etc but I’m not sure this is one of them.

Are you referring to the “is this politically useful?” stuff, the chaser comments when the roommate was revealed to be trans, or something else? (or both?)

yeah that exactly. Someone went through it with me. “Okay, but where did you hear that Maduro is a dictator? NYTimes? What biases might they, and other US media have? What is the evidence presented? Is it convincing?”

yeah the closest I ever got to a “one conversation that changed my mind” moment was when someone got me to question my views on vuvuzela on r/CTH. But that was just the tipping point, I’d seen similar discussions play out about other countries before that, and I continued seeing similar topics after, where people had wrong opinions, based on just unquestioned premises adopted from the consensus view of US media.

yeah like, it does/did serve a purpose (shutting down bad faith shitlords instead of wasting time arguing with them) but if people can’t be judicious with their dunks and withhold dunking on those who aren’t obviously just reactionaries picking a fight, then it becomes unproductive.

The point isn’t “PPB anyone who disagrees with you more than a little bit” it’s “chud dipshits that wander in and make tired, bad faith arguments deserve ridicule”. Comrades, and even earnest liberals, radlibs, clueless “apolitical” types, etc. all deserve at least a little bit of charity and explanation of why they’re wrong.

Someone just being clueless deserves an explanation but someone clearly trotting out a tired gotcha might not.

it feels like the outright wrecker chuds are just not showing up to the same extent in real life, so there there’s even less reason to have a “bullying works” mentality IRL.

The line of where it’s worth struggling it out with people (constructively, respectfully), vs just ignoring or insulting them and moving on is an important one to draw, and I think it varies based on the kind of work you’re engaged in. If you’re trying to recruit to your cause, more patience is needed, but if you’re just rallying your existing supporter ingroup or carrying out an action, that’s different. But fundamentally you do want to make a good impression on the general public for most purposes, and being too harsh with people is a great way to lose that respect fast.

right, that’s what I mean, mikefrompa promoted him despite being a mixed bag even back then, was very in on electoralism, even for such a flawed candidate and seems to spend a lot of time on it every time us elections come around. And then post stroke obv it got worse but iirc mike distanced himself from fetterman by then

pets don’t have tracker implants to be clear, they have RFID implants that basically serve as implantable collars with owner info and some sort of id tied to vet records afaik. Not long enough range to be any good for tracking, significantly less than even bluetooth, same tech as cards/fobs that you tap to unlock doors

another reason just from personal experience with a cat who liked laying next to my desk chair, is that its incredibly easy to catch their fur (or god forbid their paw) under the wheels of your chair if they make a habit of sleeping right next to you, behind you, etc

not as much of an issue with a big dog I guess, but cats can be stealthier and are smaller relative to their long fur and size of chair wheels

weird vibes sometimes tbh and has taken some major Ls (he was a major Fetterman booster during his senate race and like has some personal connection to Fetterman and his wife through his history in PA politics)

But far from the worst, I used to listen to him a lot

Critical support for firefox against google hegemony. Because of their market position they literally can’t be as harmful as chrome, but that doesn’t mean these specific features don’t suck shit, its just incredibly important that an alternative to chromium continues to exist (one that isn’t just chrome with a skin over it)

As like every other comment says, we should probably all use a fork of FF.

I don’t lol

I read a few books a year and besides maybe like 10-20% of my IRL comrades who are bookheads I’m still usually the person in the room who reads the most.

I basically just read when I’m procrastinating other things, committed to do it to an IRL friend or comrade, or have like a whole free day (rare occurrence) and can spend a couple hours of it reading at the coffee shop or in the park. My interest comes and goes in waves so it’s usually like, read a book in 2-3 sittings and then don’t read any for weeks.

Getting them from the library helps since there’s a deadline, but sometimes I just have to give up and return a book I haven’t finished and finish it as an ebook which can be a little demoralizing.

I do read a fair amount of long form essays and such on the computer as well, but its really not the same.

I’d echo everyone saying that some reading time could probably come out of gaming time, especially if you can find some way to still make it social. “body doubling” with someone else also doing a stationary activity might help, and then you can take breaks to chit-chat. And honestly I find even talking to mostly uninterested friends about what I’m reading is still engaging if it’s something I am super interested in. Often not wanting to read it with you doesn’t mean they would mind hearing your take or summary on it.

I’m going to try to increase my reading, mostly by cutting down on youtube and hexbear time in all likelihood

people will build horrible nightmares out of whatever tools you give them, unless they have a fair amount of experience/knowledge and put real effort into planning their data model and queries, which is always going to be a small minority of developers.

But personally I tend to have the same preference, I’d rather keep it simple and directly use the db tools as intended.

Are Rationalists radical leftists? no.

Yeah like, I mostly buy the narrative/haven’t seen evidence for any of the conspiracy theories going around, but this particular document is so fucking sus, and the lack of timestamps or anything else to go on to corroborate or add context, means there’s really no way of knowing atm if its real, and the feds absolutely have obvious motive and ability to fabricate this.

unfortunately not thaaat rare livagar L

more matrix rooms would be cool. I think the traa one is good sized?

nah its the media. People who’d barely ever heard of kirk are coming out of the woodwork in my social circles being like “well he didn’t deserve to be killed just for his speech, he was doing politics the right way” because that’s the narrative being blasted on everything rn

probably contrapoints

CW: NSFW, mild gore

https://charlie.pagelet.host/ is this better?

the thread was not about z poster!!! the thread was about the emoji!!!

the context the offending comments were made in was a direct reply to zposter, hence it having the context of the commenters’ (nakoichi and lyudmila) prior interactions with zposter