flamingos-cant (hopepunk arc)

@ flamingos @feddit.uk

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3 yr. ago

Webp's strongest soldier.
Website
Mastodon

Moderating

UK Politics feddit.uk

Fediverse memes feddit.uk

Modern vocaloid is generative AI and I think making a song with Hatsune Miku is justifiable.

5mo ago

Lead Lemmy developer dessalines@lemmy.ml Appears to Have Had Their Account Compromised After Moderation Actions Raise Serious Concerns

You were instance banned under lemmy.ml's rule 4, not the privacy community's rule 4. ml's rule 4 is "No Ads / Spamming". This seems to have been prompted by you reposting a removed post, which frankly seems fair despite what I think of ml's moderation normally.

Rule 4 does seem to be a bad reason to remove the original post, though I think it should've been removed simply for how cringe 'cuckloading' is as a term. Stop trying to link sexual deviancy to moral deficiency.

5mo ago

FR#156 – Share Where?

One problem with the whole C2S thing is you can easily end up in the Matrix/XMPP situation where some clients and servers implement some smattering of standards and it just becomes confusing to navigate and use.

This is approximately the situation in the fediverse today, with Mastodon in the role of Gmail. The difference is that email has IMAP and SMTP, client protocols that are not only standardized but universally adopted. Every email server implements them and every email client expects them.

Tuta has entered the chat.

5mo ago

Proton Mail Helped FBI Unmask Anonymous ‘Stop Cop City’ Protester

Still, a reminder for people to use anonymous payment methods if they're in the authorities scope like this.

6mo ago

Loops is a new short form platform created by Pixelfed creator Daniel Supernault.

I've seen other people on Mastodon/Bluesky mention that the site takes an 'anti-censorship' approach to moderation, so there's a bunch of far right people doing Nazi stuff on there.

6mo ago

What's your favorite band?

Fit for an Autopsy.

6mo ago

Star Trek: Starfleet Academy actor Karim Diané decides to do their AMA on Lemmy!

Some clients do it automatically, but this should work: https://lemmyverse.link/startrek.website/post/35769143

6mo ago

Pinkwashing comes around

Gustavo Fring.jpg

You hate Brianna Wu because she's a woman game dev.

I hate Brianna Wu for being a pick me chud.

We are not the same.

6mo ago

Permanently Deleted

gets bored once he ships the MVP

He doesn't even need to do that, just look at that Whatsapp clone he named after himself.

6mo ago

Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social

I was curious to see how they handle this on the fedi side, because they obviously can't stop you from uploading images to other instances, so decided to do some digging myself.

The fedi code for this is here and looks like this:

 python

    
# Alert regarding fascist meme content
if site.enable_chan_image_filter and toxic_community and img_width < 2000:  # images > 2000px tend to be real photos instead of 4chan screenshots.
    if os.environ.get('ALLOW_4CHAN', None) is None:
        try:
            image_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(
                Image.open(BytesIO(source_image)).convert('L'), timeout=30)
        except Exception:
            image_text = ''
        if 'Anonymous' in image_text and (
                'No.' in image_text or ' N0' in image_text):  # chan posts usually contain the text 'Anonymous' and ' No.12345'
            post = session.query(Post).filter_by(image_id=file.id).first()
            targets_data = {'gen': '0',
                            'post_id': post.id,
                            'orig_post_title': post.title,
                            'orig_post_body': post.body
                            }
            notification = Notification(title='Review this',
                                        user_id=1,
                                        author_id=post.user_id,
                                        url=post.slug,
                                        notif_type=NOTIF_REPORT,
                                        subtype='post_with_suspicious_image',
                                        targets=targets_data)
            session.add(notification)
            session.commit()

The curious thing here, apart from there being both an environmental variable and site setting for this, is the toxic_community variable. This seems to be a renaming of the low_quality field Piefed applies to communities, which are just communities with either memes or shitpost in their name.

You also don't get social credits docked for this.

6mo ago

Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social

So wait, they pull in Tesseract and don't use it to make search better? Talk about missed opportunity.

6mo ago

The state of Linux music players in 2026

Lollypop is actually a GTK3 app (it looks pretty dated on my mostly GKT4 GNOME setup) and it's imo still the best GNOME music app. I'm honestly suprised they say Lollypop's UX sucks but then praise RecordBox's because I can't stand RecordBox (why make me double click to play a song and don't get me started on the Artist+Album view). Also surprised Gapless didn't get mentioned here, I think this is actually pretty decent though its queue system could use work.

The dev says this choice is so you can select songs and instead you should use the little play button next on the right side of all playable entries.

7mo ago

r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance)

I just guaranteed you on fediseer, so you should be good now.

7mo ago

Why responses from mastodon.social don't arrive to my Lemmy instance?

Assuming you have a standard deployment with docker compose, go to the directory with the docker-compose.yml file and run this:

sh

    
docker compose logs lemmy | less

You might have to scroll for a bit, you can hit / then type mastodon.social then enter to find occurrences in the logs. Jump to next/previous match by hitting n and N/shift-n respectively.

I was able to fetch the comment without issue (https://feddit.uk/post/42810312/22639417), so it could be something in your setting somewhere. You can try to resolve the comment (go to search in the web UI and past the URL for comment), then after you can run the command above and jump to the end (Alt->) and it should say something about why it failed to resolve.

7mo ago

FYI: Reddit trademarked some community names (Digg link)

They seem to have blocked Nutomic, so won't see this.

7mo ago

Bluesky just verified ICE

They completely deindexed Link (spacelawshitpost.me) for not showing appropriate reverence for Charlie Kirk after he died by pointing to their TOS policy on promoting violence, but an organisation that only exists to exert violence on non-white people gets a pass.

7mo ago

[Help Design Lemmy] How to describe Lemmy in a single Sentence?

Build communities without the middle men.

7mo ago

QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year

Writing is okish, editing however is horrendous.

7mo ago

What does deletion actually do?