veniasilente

@veniasilente@lemm.ee

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice downloads on the rise as users look to avoid subscription costs | The free open-source Microsoft Office alternative is being downloaded by nearly 1 million users a week⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why would you do that to yourself???

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mario’s brother, a good plumber (takes the shit out).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Reddit moderation tool is flagging ‘Luigi’ as potentially violent content⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit protip

  Add the special referal code “Luigi” to your posts to get extra engagement and feedback from prominent and influential Reddit members!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Danke.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Video of Trump Sucking Musk's Toes Blasted on Government Office TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but where is the video? To share.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It seems some higher level moderation of communities may be required⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  …Why is there a conservative magazine in lemm.ee to even begin with?

  This sounds pretty easy to nip in the bud. With a bulldozer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What keeps Americans from being mad about the state of their country?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The fact that it’s exactly what they want.

  Trump won with the popular vote: thhose want to be fascists. And those who don’t vote, well they just confirm a fascist in power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In light of recent events, here's OpenStreetMap editors discussing naming of the Gulf of Mexico⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
  • name:en: Gulf of Mexico
  • stupid_name:en-US-confederate-bootlicker: Gulf of Amerikkka

  That should suffice.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  By all means do. It’s not like much of value is lost at this point.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anonymous: Trump is making America weaker and we’ll exploit it - News Cafe⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you okay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important News - Geoblocking of the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooooh that makes lots more sense.

  And it’s also lots more stupid. Oh well. Carry on, internet!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important News - Geoblocking of the UK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Complying with the act would mean we would either have to implement Age Verification for all users to access the site,

  Isn’t that just the usual [ ] Yes I totally swear I’m over 13 checkbox?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t even hand me a uniform or a qt cap, and they work with Node.js despite several warnings; I ain’t representing shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you work for a company, you’re a representative of that company.

  I’m not. Corporate is paying for my work (and barely, at that, given current rates), not for my ethics or for my ethical standing before other people who might not work at the company. If you believe otherwise, you might have been brainwashed by corporate-paid education.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wikipedia article blocked worldwide by Delhi high court.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, lemme get this straight: Wikipedia is being censored (worldwide, might I add) because a party complains that they are reported of as being accused of a thing, or because of the thing itself?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft fires employees who organized vigil for Palestinians killed in Gaza⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, given the kind of company, it’s not like you’d obtain a consent if you asked. They’re too busy getting that Israeli money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Seeking feedback: how should lemm.ee move forward with external images? (related to frequent broken images)⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Frankly, one of the big reasons why I like the Fediverse is that you don’t have to depend on the source keeping up their stuff - we get our own copies. That includes both the text (the posts) and the media (the images), and to me, that’s one third of the point of the entire thing. If I wanted an image that can only be seen at the dumpster cage that is Twitter, I’d go over there shrug and move on.

  Of course that’s not always workable because storage is (despite everything) not cheap, medias grow large (I can eg.: understand saving pictures, but heaven forbid trying to save a video) and there’s still not a good way to deal with “”“problematic”“” storage. So, my recommendation and expectation would be something that functions like Option 2: Proxying Images. Basically, we download our own copy but only store it “while it matters”.

  How to Supplement Options

  Now, maybe some proposals I would lift to have their feasibility studied. Any combination of one or more of these could, if implemented, help in enhancing or even supplantting the chosen method for storing remote media. I personally see them more as a means to enhance Option 2.

  • Only save copies of images (perpetual or proxy) that are below certain thresholds: file size, resolution, trusted hosts, etc… Sure, that still means you have to download every image at least once to evaluate it, but at least we get some sort of automated guarantee that for “easy” stuff, we won’t be filing more connections than necessary. The big win of this option is that lemm.ee is not paying for the larger resource cost of fetching larger images after their post is made. I’m guessing the main drawback would be the bikeshedding required to decide which images get saved locally.
  • Related option to the above: only save (perpetual) thumbnails or smallened versions of images, never the real ones. Would pretty much instantly cover the case of eg.: most memes. The big drawback I can see to this is managing those images for deletions would be harder unless a Lemmy instance can keep a searchable map of hashes from each image to their thumbnail and vice versa.
  • Require that any image is linked from an imagehost or filehost that is trustable for durability. Big drawback: notoriously more effort (and potential loss of privacy) for users means this actually disincentivizes posting rich content.
  • Pool up resources and get some cooperative work going with some other instance(s) to set up a shared proxy agent that downloads the images for us, so that lemm.ee doesn’t have to host the images but can have the clients fetch them without sacrificing privacy. I feel this one incentivizes posting rich content because you can get some level of assurance that it’ll remain available and be “cheap” to access from across the Fediverse, but requires more instances to chip in.
  • Images? Pfff. Text is where it’s at.