klu9
@klu9@lemmy.ca
- Comment on does patrick stewart’s head look like a football with a face? 3 days ago:
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 4 days ago:
Thanks for the details.
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 4 days ago:
Thanks for the info. I’ve heard of it but never tried it.
Does it at least have easy ways for users to filter what they don’t want? E.g. block lists that users can subscribe to.
- Comment on A List of Social Media Platforms that Still Permit Free-Speech 4 days ago:
Ay, there’s the rub.
Even the article’s author chooses to exclude some types of content, like porn.
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- Comment on Did the western world just suddenly go back to pretending wrestling is "real" for some reason? 1 week ago:
{sneaks up behind Trump with a folding chair}
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
whispers to border agent “Btw, I level up characters for Elon.”
Border agent waves you through.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
- Comment on Swiss officials not following EU use of burner phones for US travel 1 week ago:
Switzerland, however, seems to be taking a less confrontational approach. The message seems clear: Switzerland has no interest in provoking Washington.
WTF? Simply not taking your regular phone is “confrontational” and a provocation?!?
- Comment on Smartphones and computers are now exempt from Trump’s latest tariffs 2 weeks ago:
Damn! And I just built $500-million-dollar factory bringing jerbs back to America!
- Comment on ‘Average man from Derbyshire’ shocked to find photo of tattoo celebrating child’s birth was used to deport migrants 2 weeks ago:
“Open source material has depicted TdA members with a combination of the below tattoos”. Except I sincerely doubt the images are actually open source. Someone please, on top of all the gazillion other suits, sue the US govt for copyright violation.
- Comment on The US Secretary of Education referred to AI as ‘A1,’ like the steak sauce 2 weeks ago:
Baghdad Barbie: “This isn’t Linda’s fault… it’s Sans Serif’s fault!”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
No sure whether to crosspost this to c/NotThe Onion or c/NaziOnion
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
I think one of the articles I looked at said the Focus estate is their last estate and is expected to end production this year or the next.
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- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 2 weeks ago:
The thing is, that twat in the White House doesn’t care about cars sold in Europe by US companies, only cars exported to Europe from the US.
And IIRC Ford has completely ended the production of saloons and hatchbacks in the US to focus solely on US-tax-break-covered “light trucks”: 4x4s, crossovers, pickups, vans etc.
AFAICT there is only one Ford-badged saloon left in production anywhere in the world (the Mondeo/Taurus, with no successor planned), made by a joint venture in China and sold in the Middle East. And the last estate (Focus) is expected to be discontinued this year.
Leaving only oversized energy-guzzlers (even the full EV 4x4s have a bigger carbon footprint than a compact ICE hatchback) unlikely to win a huge swathe of the European market even before he alienated every non-fascist on the continent.
- Comment on Approving US-made cars would make UK roads less safe 3 weeks ago:
I remember this same whole “Wahhh! You don’t buy our cars!” palaver playing out with the US and Japan back when that cunt was first expressing his love of tariffs. (Late 80s/early 90s)
Sure, Japan had some trade barriers. But Japanese automakers absolutely worked their arses off with market research, design etc in order to succeed at selling in the US market. US automakers couldn’t even be arsed to install coin holders that fit Japanese coins, let alone put the steering wheel on the right side of the car.
And even if US automakers nowadays showed even a modicum of nous for foreign markets, practically their entire production line has been geared to churning out ever more monstrous pickups and 4x4s, thanks almost entirely to their fucked up tax rules on vehicles.
- Comment on What efforts would it take to strip the name Americans from the folks inhabiting the US? 3 weeks ago:
I mean, “Yanks” is right there.
Or “septics”, if you wish to be politically correct.
/jk
Writer H. L. Mencken collected a number of proposals from between 1789 and 1939, finding terms including Columbian, Columbard, Fredonian, Frede, Unisian, United Statesian, Colonican, Appalacian, Usian, Washingtonian, Usonian, Uessian, U-S-ian, Uesican, and United Stater.
- Comment on Which Browser Should I Use In 2025? - Hackaday 3 weeks ago:
Used to use Floorp, then Zen, now on Firedragon, a mod of Floorp with many features from Librewolf.
- Comment on Couldn't be worse than what we have now... 3 weeks ago:
Narf!
- Comment on 390 Million Faces: Clearview AI's Secret $750,000 Attempt To Buy Your Mugshot 3 weeks ago:
Clearview buys photo-ID-for-porn database in 3… 2… 1…
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Should a movie released in 1995 be considered an "old" movie? 3 weeks ago:
[OT: watch “Shadow of the Vampire” after watching the OG Nosferatu.]
- Comment on EU considers tariffs on digital services Big Tech 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 4 weeks ago:
Broken link
- Comment on Virginia Giuffre, who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault, says she has days to live after car crash 4 weeks ago:
Fediverse version: “I’m dying… let me just make a quick Pixelfed post about it.”
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 4 weeks ago:
Presumably due to all the Russian donors enabled and ennobled by the Tories for the last two decades.
- Comment on UK government says anyone working in Britain for the Russian state will have to register and declare what they are doing or face jail 4 weeks ago:
Finally, a way to unite George Galloway and Nigel Farage.
- Comment on Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots 4 weeks ago:
I believe using a CDN would defeat the author’s goal of not being reliant on third-party service providers.
- Comment on Cheapskate's Guide: Nuking web-scraping bots 4 weeks ago:
A problem with this approach was that many readers use VPN’s and other proxies that change IP addresses virtually every time they use them. For that reason and because I believe in protecting every Internet user’s privacy as much as possible, I wanted a way of immediately unblocking visitors to my website without them having to reveal personal information like names and email addresses.
I recently spent a few weeks on a new idea for solving this problem. With some help from two knowledgeable users on Blue Dwarf, I came up with a workable approach two weeks ago. So far, it looks like it works well enough. To summarize this method, when a blocked visitor reaches my custom 403 error page, he is asked whether he would like to be unblocked by having his IP address added to the website’s white list. If he follows that hypertext link, he is sent to the robot test page. If he answers the robot test question correctly, his IP address is automatically added to the white list. He doesn’t need to enter it or even know what it is. If he fails the test, he is told to click on the back button in his browser and try again. After he has passed the robot test, Nginx is commanded to reload its configuration file (PHP command: shell_exec(“sudo nginx -s reload”);), which causes it to immediately accept the new whitelist entry, and he is granted immediate access. He is then allowed to visit cheapskatesguide as often as he likes for as long as he continues to use the same IP address. If he switches IP addresses in the future, he has about a one in twenty chance of needing to pass the robot test again each time he switches IP addresses. My hope is that visitors who use proxies will only have to pass the test a few times a year. As the whitelist grows, I suppose that frequency may decrease. Of course, it will reach a non-zero equilibrium point that depends on the churn in the IP addresses being used by commercial web-hosting companies. In a few years, I may have a better idea of where that equilibrium point is.
