I used to play the crap out of A.V.A.T.A.R. As of a few days ago, it was still alive and active.

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You can use telnet or a more capable MUD client. I used to use zMUD back in the day, but it hasn’t been developed since 2008. The last time I sat down and played, I used Mudlet.

Dude! Awesome! On all fronts, awesome.

Agree. Which is why I get so irrationally annoyed when sharing a good piece of journalism that’s not catering to ad-clicks and the peanut gallery here grabs their torches and pitchforks while shouting “PaYwALL!” despite me posting the gist of the article in the post body (enough to get the gist but not the full article for copyright reasons). It’s one of several reasons why I don’t even bother anymore.

Like, good journalism costs money. That money’s gotta come from somewhere if you want good journalists to be able to eat and keep doing what they do.

When I put the IMEI into OP’s tool, it said I had to go through TMobile to [bootloader] unlock it since it was a retail model.

TMobile said the phone “wasn’t in our system” and couldn’t provide either SIM or bootloader unlock codes.

but I can only find it t-mobile locked. I can carrier unlock it myself

Careful with that assumption. I bought a TMO-locked OP Nord N200 thinking I could do that but even after using it on my account for a year, they say “it’s not in our system” and it remains carrier-locked. Basically when it hit the secondhand market, it was removed from TMO’s system and they have no record of it and cannot carrier-unlock it (or that’s the story that was told to me by 3-4 different people within TMO).

but will I be able to access the boot loader

Depends if you can carrier-unlock it.

https://service.oneplus.com/us/search/search-detail?id=op588

I disabled local thumbnail generation almost a year ago, and things mostly work the same.

Instead of a local thumbnail image URL for things like news articles that get posted, it will be the direct URL value from the og:image metadata from the source. Usually those load fine, but sometimes they don’t due to CORS settings on their side. Probably only 1-2% of posts have issues, though.

For image posts that come in via federation, (memes, pics, etc), the thumbnail image URL is the same as the post URL. In other words, you’re loading the full res version in the feed. Since I use a web client that has “card view”, this actually works out better, visually. YMMV whether that’s a drawback for you.

The only pitfall is that you will lose thumbnails for image posts if an instance goes offline or shuts down.

I’m sure that does increase load slightly on other instances, but no more than if the remote instance had image proxying turned on. And the full-res version always has to load from the remote instance (even if you have local thumbnail generation enabled). All in all, I’d say the additional load is acceptable given the benefits of disabling local thumbnail generation.

To mitigate that, in my case anyway, I have my own image proxy/cache in place. My default UI is Tesseract and it’s configured with the image proxy/cache on by default… (I think I saw that Photon is also working on something similar). In this configuration, the first person to scroll past a remote image fetches it directly (via the proxy/cache) and it’s now available locally in the cache for everyone else (unless they’re connecting with a different client that doesn’t use Tesseract’s proxy). Granted, I shutdown my instance last year and it’s just now a private testbed for development, but when I did have daily active users (plural), the proxy cache helped.

Now the only images my instance stores are ones that are uploaded locally.

Why did I disable local thumbnails?

• I closed up my instance and didn’t want potentially problematic thumbnails being generated while I wasn’t actively modding it
• Generated thumbnails go in, but they don’t go out. There’s no way to clean them up later other than the ephemerally generated ones (if someone requests a version in a custom size, for example)
• Increasing storage costs. Like, I’d be scrolling the feed and see some of the dumbest shitposts while constantly thinking “Ugh, this is costing me money to store a copy”.

Orphan Black: Live

I prefer sans-serif fonts visually but prefer serif for readability. So I use Atkinson Hyperlegible which is a mish-mash of both.

And bonus meme:

Atkinson Hyperlegible is my new jam. I’m dyslexic and it helps tremendously even though that’s not its primary goal. It also looks a lot better than OpenDyslexic which I used to use.

Loaded “Hyperlegible” onto my Kobo, the reader app on my phone, and set it as the default font on my desktop environment.

Also added it as an option in Tesseract UI (which I swear I’ll be releasing “soon”).

Probably “copying” Apple’s iNoun naming convention?

Ran into a hiccup while trying to reproduce (there seems to be considerable lag between adding a domain to the filter list and the federation processes handling it), but now that I was able to reproduce it successfully, I made a bug report: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/6320

Granted, I don’t think the instance level URL filters were meant to be used for the domains of other instances like I was doing here. They’re more for blocking spam domains, etc.

e.g. I also have those spam sites you see in c/News every so often in that block list (e.g. dvdfab [dot] cn, digital-escape-tools [dot] phi [dot] vercel [dot] app, etc) , so I never see/report them because they’re rejected immediately.

During one of the many, many spam storms here, it was desired by admins for those filters to stop anything that matched them from federating-in instead of just changing the text to removed on the frontend. So it is a good feature to have. Just maybe applied too widely.

Though I think if a user edited their own description to include a widely-blocked URL (no URLs are blocked by default), they’d just be soft-banning themselves from everywhere that has that domain blocked.

If a malicious community mod edited their communities’ descriptions to a include a widely-blocked URL, then yeah, that could cut off new posts coming in to any instance that has that domain blocked (old posts and the community itself would still be available).

All of those would require instances to have certain URLs blocked. The list of blocked URLs for an instance is publicly available from the info in getSite API call, so it wouldn’t be hard to game if someone really wanted to. Fortunately, most people are too busy gaming the “delete account” feature right now 🙄.

The person who cross-posted it was probably definitely from your local instance.

You only ever interact with your local instance’s copy of any community, even remote ones. If the community is to a remote instance that is either offline or since de-federated, there’s nothing that prohibits you from interacting with it*. Because lemm.ee is no longer there to federate out the post/comments to any of the community’s subscribers, only people local to your instance will see it.

*Admins can remove the community and, prior to it going offline, mods can lock it. But if an instance just disappears, you can still locally interact with any of its communities on your instance; the content just won’t federate outside your instance.

I haven’t looked. Just noticed it earlier today and haven’t had time.

Lol. I guess now I gotta decide which is more annoying: Not having content from c/Books or having to deal with unwanted spillover from .ml. I don’t have the chutzpah to ask the mods to change the community description lol

Just figured this might catch other people off guard like it did me. I never would have expected the community description to be evaluated for the URL filter (only posts/comments).

I’ve seen that and my best guess has always been the initial/self upvote got “lost in the mail” during federation. AFAIK, the post creation and the initial upvote are separate activities that need to federate. Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

If your instance is resolving a post manually that it doesn’t already know about (and it it’s not coming in from being subscribed) then it will not get the initial upvote, but I don’t think that’s what you’re referring to here.

Like someone else said: Block the news and politics communities if you like to browse /all. You can always unblock them later.

It was with heavy heart but I also blocked silence7@slrpnk.net. Nothing against them, and they post nothing but quality material in what I fully believe to be good faith, but they’re just…too much. The only reason I had to block them individually is they post in more than just news/politics communities but never goes off-brand and only posts news/politics/“everything is a bummer” things. There’s probably a few other people like that, but shouldn’t be many.

That should just leave you with the few oddball posts where it’s just the people that don’t follow the no news/politics rules.

I haven’t been to Odysee for a good while, but is it still Rumble-lite?

I only learned of Odysee because I saw a video linked to it here and went directly to the video. When I saw it had embed code, I added support in Tesseract UI so the videos would play from the post. Then I went to the main site and saw the front page full of rightwing nutjob rants and vaccine skepticism and was like “nope”. Had I saw that beforehand, I wouldn’t have added embed support, but the work was already done so I left it in. That’s basically why I refuse to add embed support for Rumble.

Wondering if ownership/leadership/policies have changed since about 2 years ago when I wrote the embed components for it and last interacted with it.

Maybe AI should be more like a parent and simply say “I don’t know. Go read a book, find out, and let me know”.

Pretty sure my mom did know the answer but I learned more by reading a book and telling her what I learned.