Some admins have been developing and sharing solutions, from regex filters to going down into the databases itself.

For my small instance and personally, I haven’t seen any new messages in a while now, after adding this regex to the slur filter mechanism:

(.*(\n)*Hi.*[nN]icole.*[fF]ediverse [cC]hick(.|\n)*)

Sadly my brain is blanking which instance admins I should credit for that, but it was shared around somewhere.

(Also I’m still salty about Origin Systems in 1992!)

They are finally getting re-discovered by younger generations a bit more, but they are often missing from memes like this. Considering how groundbreaking their projects like Wing Commander and of course Ultima were, it is a true shame. They truly fell from the very top and slowly died thanks to EA. (And, admittedly, also in part mismanagement and not being able to overcome the prohibitive cost of physical media i.e. floppy disks and CDs properly)

🫡 Comrade Trump 🫡

Oh, I remember hearing a lecture by one guy from ZenDiS a few months ago, about how they want to cooperate more with other, similar institutes in Europe. Nice to see, that that is bearing fruit. They are tiny and almost invisible, but they have been doing the Lord’s work in trying their best to get German bureaucracy off the proprietary shit dependency.

Wow, you’re right of course. I completely forgot kwrite still existed, tbh.

EDIT: Oooh, consider me whooshed, this is from YouTube, so should be safe

I did not realise catbox.moe allowed such large files.

I may upload this on my PeerTube instance for easier access, after checking if there isn’t some sort of hidden trolling, rickrolling or shock images spliced in 🤔

Not sure what this is about

If I were to give them the biggest empathy I can muster, they may just remove it as silently as possible out of fear of having to moderate the comments of bound-to-be popular post according to reddit’s increasingly stupid rules of discourse.

Still unjustified censorship, very worrysome - but I could on an emotional level understand being fed up with everything at this point and just powertripping because “fuck everything, I don’t want to deal with anything like this, I am not getting paid enough/at all”.

I genuinely do a lot of coding in Kate, the standard KDE editor. It’s enough to do a lot of things, has highlighting, and is more than enough when you just need a quick fix.

I am also still using nano when editing stuff in the terminal. Please, don’t judge me.

I wouldn’t be surprised if that is true outside the US as well. People that actually (have to) work with the stuff usually quickly learn, that its only good at a few things, but if you just hear about it in the (pop-, non-techie-)media (including YT and such), you might be deceived into thinking Skynet is just a few years away.

Depending on the surrounding context, it actually isn’t that bad of an idea. I do think a lot of “shit that just has to be done” is better served as collective duties instead of “let the poor people that have no choice do it”.

That being said, it often also ends up rife with corruption (see conscription/draft dodging tactics) in current contexts. And it can be used as a punishment instead of a duty.

Also, in this specific case, it would essentially be free labour in service not really of the common good, but in service of privately owned farms, which I think are romanticised a lot. Homesteading is not the standard, most are actually already pretty big, and consolidation is still the name of the game.

I am pretty sure the solution the system will land on with the current trajectory of things will be an even more intensive use of prison labour. (i.e. legal slavery)

It’s good that you linked to their home instance, especially because it is canada-related in general, but just in case people missed this: The link I shared is of course already on a PeerTube instance (I run). Sharing gives you a link to the video as it appears on your home instance, and I guess I have been too lazy to pick the link to the original instance.

Here’s a neat tip for Firefox (probably only Desktop?) users: There is an add-on, that redirects you to your home PeerTube instance and, if you choose so, also to PeerTube whenever it detects a YouTube video also being on PeerTube:

https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/peertube-companion/

I am in this picture, how dare you to dox me!

That’s actually a good idea, thank you, I had completely forgotten that that is of course also an option.

I might do that if other options fail - unfortunately, I just checked, and the cheapest option they provide to change or add additional IPs is not free and with no guarantee of it working, I’ll look into other options first.

Reminded me of this classic:

Is it possible that your servers IP might be blocked by YouTube? Can you import a single video from YouTube with the upload-function?

Sadly, no, single uploads and ssh-ing into the server and using yt-dlp in the command line also don’t work. I assume my IP being in some way blacklisted is indeed the issue.

I am currently looking into setting up an HTTP proxy, but besides finding that it is indeed possible and recommended, I can’t find a lot of info on how to best do that. The settings themselves are easy enough - but where to find a good (preferrably free but at least cheap) proxy for it is where I am currently stalling out a bit. Very much learning by doing still on the whole thing :D

My girlfriend and I can use our ‘interfaces’ to connect to a multitude of people, I call it the “Fedilationship”. 😏

Plot twist: Nicole is a real person, building the biggest polycule to date!

That’s so funny, my new girlfriend is also called Nicole, and you won’t believe it, I met her right here on the Fediverse! 😍

Ha, I got interested in researching what exactly Mennonites are, and funnily, the German Wikipedia article has, in its very introduction, this disclaimer:

In den Medien gibt es immer wieder Berichte über Mennoniten in Nord- oder Südamerika, die einen sehr konservativen bis weltabgewandten Lebensstil pflegen und die in der Regel einen deutschen Hintergrund haben. Diese Gruppen stellen jedoch nur einen kleinen Ausschnitt aus dem mennonitischen Spektrum dar, in dem es auch viele modernere, angepasstere und liberalere Gemeinschaften sowie viele andere ethnische Zugehörigkeiten gibt.

Translation by me:

“In the media, there are regular reports about Mennonites in North- or South America, who have a very conservative or even withdrawn lifestyle, who usually have German ancestry. These groups are, however, only a small section of the whole Mennonite spectrum, in which there are also many more modern, more adjusted and more liberal communities, as well as many other ethnicities.”

Seems like your American Mennonite exiles are making the rest of the Mennonite world defensive.

Thank you for sparing us from the clickbait title