essentially that is what mythology has been for humanity. Too bad now we just let advertising borrow the techniques without education the population how it works.
I posted the other day that you can clean up your object storage from CSAM using my AI-based tool. Many people expressed the wish to use it on their local file storage-based pict-rs. So I’ve just extended its functionality to allow exactly that....
I hope people share the positive hits of CSAM and see how widespread the problem is…
DRAMTIC EDIT: the records lemmy_safety_local_storage.py identifies, not the images! @bamboo seems to think it “sounds like” I am ACTIVELY encouraging the spreading of child pornography images… NO! I mean audit files, such as timestamps, the account that uploaded, etc. Once you have the timestamp, the nginx logs from a lemmy server should help identify the IP address.
It sounds like you’re encouraging people to share CSAM images found, which is obviously not the intent of this tool.
Yes, that is in fact the context.
Context: "which is obviously not the intent of this tool. "
it is not my intent to share the images, nor is it the context of the tool… Sharing details about the users, timestamps - would be the obvious context.
Yes. odd how people think sharing CSAM is why people would post here, instead of actually tracking down and prosecuting those sharing CSAM. Details about the users who sharedl CSAM content, such as timestamps - would help identify the offenders for prosecution.
Lemmy seems built to destroy information, rot links. Unlike Reddit has been for 15 years, when a person deletes their account Lemmy removes all posts and comments, creating a black hole.
Not only are the comments disappeared from the person who deleted their account, all the comments made by other users disappear on those posts and comments.
Right now, a single user just deleting one comment results in the entire branch of comment replies to just disappear.
Installing an instance was done pretty quickly… over 1000 new instances went online in June because of the Reddit API change. But once that instance goes offline, all the communities hosted there are orphaned and no cleanup code really exists to salvage any of it - because the whole system was built around deleting comments and posts - and deleting an instance is pretty much a purging of everything they ever created in the minds of the designers.
Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts....
The software developers who created Lemmy openly criticize systems of government and economics. These are nation-state battlegrounds too. The barrier to entrance is very low, as Lemmy doesn’t even do routine tracking of account creation, rate-limiting alone isn’t really defensive. 15 years ago sites like Reddit had major vote manipulation detection logic behind the scenes. This is pretty much unleashed playground for a lot of known tactics.
This isn’t shitpost material, this is reality of how the human mind works, and www.thisman.org that you linked is another example of the human brain works. This s the very meaning of ‘Demon-Haunted World’, where people compulsively flock and put their faith into someone without scrutinizing the actions the person or system is taking. People read a book and say they personally know Jesus… if you haven’t met such a person in your lifetime if you have lived in North America, I’d be surprised.
This isn’t shitpost material, this is the nightmare of reality that’s trending towards self-destruction. Since 2014 crowds have been flocking to icons and symbols of things that are objectively bad.
Ok, I’ve got it wrong, you said hundreds, this is a shitpost.
He learned from the best… George Lucas did everything he could with Bill Moyers to open source the whole humanity meme pattern inspiration in Star Wars. He was trying to tie pre-film, pre-cinema, patterns to film. Passing down the meat and potatoes of society to each generation.
This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It’s about how the admins informed their users....
I’ve found there is a culture within Lemmy developers and long-time operators to discuss in Discord or Matrix chat instead of “eating their own dogfood” and using Lemmy itself to openly discuss Lemmy technical and project issues. These chat services are legendary for keeping things away from search engines and newcomers getting up to speed. Lemmy itself isn’t nearly as search-engine friendly as Reddit was traditionally, it seems like feedback needs to be given as to how important it is to keep things about Lemmy in the eyes of those who actually use Lemmy…
But lemmy.world should primarily communicate via lemmy imo…
I find the same attitude holds for developers who like to hang out in real-time Matrix chat and don’t seem to use Lemmy itself very much and things like code blocks ruining greater-than and less-than slip right into release without much concern.
You mean “comment context” links? It’s been that way for 10 days that I’ve noticed. There are previous posts about it, from 4 days ago: lemmy.world/post/2697806
Here it is. He says “Cindy and I are breaking up” - then proceeds with the review of Laphroaig 10 Year Single Malt Scotch, which he tells us has been his go-to single malt - it’s a “no compromise” Malt, he assures us.
I can’t find it, but a dozen plus years ago I was reading an interview with Phillip K Dick, who was married 5 times, and during the interview one of his- wives was packing things - and he commented to the interviewer to just let them take what they wanted as he has already experienced this multiple times.
I’ve noticed very recently (last two days or so) that when I get a direct link to a specific comment, it won’t load anything under certain circumstances....
I can confirm the problem, it’s been gong on all week. It really impacts anyone on another instance with a link, they will fail.
As I understand the situation, Lemmy.world has been suffering from performance problems and certain comment links were being attacked by distributed clients. So they basically have firewalled /comment links for everyone (I assume using nginx based on behavior, or maybe the front-end cloud distributor).
Personally I’m interested to know which specific comment links cause the PostgreSQL performance problems as I’m trying to track down and fix those issues. But I haven’t seen anyone detail which specific post/comment threads cause the problems… I’ve just seen the developers reduce loading to 50 and 300 without creating testing scripts to reproduce the issue for other developers to study.
I’m hoping lemmy.world can implement a less-drastic solution than 100% block of comment links from non-local referral origin… such as a rate limit on those links of 3 per 5 seconds or something low like that. Anyway, I hope you are having a good weekend.
I just did some testing against 0.18.3 main code off GitHub… I even made the users on different instances to test the more difficult case.
Lemmy does not prevent them from commenting on your post after a block. You won’t see their comments once you block them… but as soon as you unblock them… comments made after the block will appear.
I’m seeing a lot of local communities that have very few or zero posts showing up when I click on them. I noticed this after I posted yesterday and got a few answers to my post, but when I go to that community my post doesn’t show up. The sidebar says the community has 80+ posts but I can only see about half a dozen and they...
I haven’t tested with 0.18.3 to see if new features were added to front-end lemmy-ui, but based on my experience with earlier 0.18 releases… the “Sign Up” page of Lemmy needs to have a custom message added for each instance basically introducing the instance from the admins. The experience is pretty bad… on my instance I have registration closed and lemmy-ui still just presents “Sign Up” links and even the form. I think it’s pretty important to get this in the back-end now so that the evolving independent front-ends all support the custom message shown above/below the Sign Up form…
Seems like something that shouldn’t take a lot of coding to get added (admin screen has place to create custom messages like “Legal”) that would be a good lemmy network-wide focus on the newcomer experience.
I found one post from 12 hours ago that describes the problem: lemmy.ml/post/2650814 - but that’s all I’ve seen. Content is way down on lemmy.ml with nothing coming in from .world...
At least on Reddit there was some leveling of downvotes built into the algorithm. This site is making it seem like any slight disagreement leads to downvotes thus encouraging more echo chambers. Maybe it’s the communities I’m commenting on?
comments are hidden on some posts I’ve seen, like it says there are 8 but I see 2.
Lemmy has bug in counting too. Comments are often missing because of replication issues between servers. But the most common issue I’v seen with inflated comment numbers is edits being counted as new comments.
It’s sort of like WiFi and 5G mobile drivers (especially the software driven radios), a lot of proprietary stuff is in the driver that reveals hardware secrets. GPU is also regulated now for export controls from USA-derived technology. With software-driven radios, you see a lot of effort to keep people from using bands outside their national laws.
lemmy internally has SQL flaws that have not gotten much attention. A few days ago, over the weekend, lemmy.ca people studied some of the SQL and exposed a problem where every single new comment and new post on a local server updates 1500 rows in a database table where it should be updating just 1. There have been similar runaway SQL statements discovered. Fixes for the most recent issue are already on GitHub waiting for merge and publication.
lemmy.world had a DDOS in the past 24 hours, Lemmy.ml was showing problem, but now it is entirely unreachable. lemmy.world was showing “Error!” page (server still reachable), but that seems to have only lasted for a hour or so.
6 hours down for lemmy.ml is really going to have a lot of items queued on lemmy.world, beehaw, and other popular servers to delivery to lemmy.ml - causing resources to climb on all those servers.
sh.itjust.works is returning “Server error” on all pages, not sure how long that has been going on.
apparently over 45 minutes so far: lemmy.world/post/1604919
Personally, I don’t think the Lemmy numbers are that big. There are some instances running bots of feeds, a lot of memes. A lot of discussion about Lemmy and other federated services. I do not really consider the volume of posts/comments about everyday topics to be that high.
the comment_like database table in Lemmy also has a timestamp on it, “published” field, that discloses what time you voted. This reveals patterns of your Lemmy usage to other federated servers.
Yes, I installed a Lemmy server my own self, there is no screening, approval, or even a “terms of use” on the signup page. This is the “wild west” of social media. And some of the claims on the GitHub project page such as “full delete” are an overreach, as it has no footnote that federated servers do not have to comply with the delete of your replicated votes/comments/posts/profile
I wish humans could get firmware upgrades
-bug fix: anxiety has been reduced by 50% -bug fix: memory has been buffed by 50% -bug fix: removed reoccurring memories of past failures
Lemmy Safety now supports cleaning local pict-rs storage from CSAM (github.com)
I posted the other day that you can clean up your object storage from CSAM using my AI-based tool. Many people expressed the wish to use it on their local file storage-based pict-rs. So I’ve just extended its functionality to allow exactly that....
PSA: You can upload images to a Lemmy instance without anyone knowing
EDIT...
Lemmyshitpost community closed until further notice
Hello everyone,...
Temporary Changes to our Sign-Up Policy
Lemmy.world is temporarily disabling open signups and moving to an application-required signup process, due to ongoing issues with malicious bot accounts....
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Interesting comment on HackerNews in November 2022 about what Reddit was going to do with data and GPT
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/9fcc4225-5779-4e33-8af8-30cbc11141aa.png...
Mark Hamill casually out memeing everyone since before the internet was a thing. (lemmy.world)
Lemmy.world announces blocking communities via Discord [update]
This is in regard to Lemmy.world blocking piracy communities from other instances. This post is not about whether you agree with the decision. It’s about how the admins informed their users....
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Man reviews Whiskey while his wife is packing her stuff and leaving him in the background (youtu.be)
Here it is. He says “Cindy and I are breaking up” - then proceeds with the review of Laphroaig 10 Year Single Malt Scotch, which he tells us has been his go-to single malt - it’s a “no compromise” Malt, he assures us.
Direct comment links seem to have stopped working in some situations
I’ve noticed very recently (last two days or so) that when I get a direct link to a specific comment, it won’t load anything under certain circumstances....
Can blocked users still view and comment on my posts?
lemmy.world API for communities list returns a page of results even if no such page exists, behaving different from other version 0.18.3 servers
curl ‘https://lemmy.world/api/v3/community/list?type_=Local&sort=Old&limit=1&page=250000&show_nsfw=true’...
Lots of posts are missing for me Danish
I’m seeing a lot of local communities that have very few or zero posts showing up when I click on them. I noticed this after I posted yesterday and got a few answers to my post, but when I go to that community my post doesn’t show up. The sidebar says the community has 80+ posts but I can only see about half a dozen and they...
It Took 23 Days for Lemmy Posts to Double from 1 Million to 2 Million (lemmy.world)
Source: lemmy.fediverse.observer/dailystats&days=90
Idea: Automatic Distribution Encouragement
Imagine the following:...
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lemmy.ml is getting nothing new from lemmy.world, seem cut off since Saturday EDIT: fixed on Wednesday
I found one post from 12 hours ago that describes the problem: lemmy.ml/post/2650814 - but that’s all I’ve seen. Content is way down on lemmy.ml with nothing coming in from .world...
Why is lemmy.ml initially in Chinese? (lemmy.world) Chinese
Whenever I click a link, any link, on lemmy.ml, the UI always renders in Chinese and a half second later renders in English....
Is anyone else getting downvotes for benign disagreements here?
At least on Reddit there was some leveling of downvotes built into the algorithm. This site is making it seem like any slight disagreement leads to downvotes thus encouraging more echo chambers. Maybe it’s the communities I’m commenting on?
"Showing 3006 changed files with 79,968 additions and 18,966 deletions" (lemmy.fromshado.ws)
Sinéad O’Connor, Irish Singer of ‘Nothing Compares 2 U,’ Dies at 56 (variety.com)
Is sh.itjust.works down rn? edit: It is back up :)
https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/058f0014-2876-40cc-8298-8169fafde765.png
Lemmy.ml ~~is down right now~~ (back online, was unreachable for about 6 hours) (isitdownorjust.me)
lemmy.world had a DDOS in the past 24 hours, Lemmy.ml was showing problem, but now it is entirely unreachable. lemmy.world was showing “Error!” page (server still reachable), but that seems to have only lasted for a hour or so.
VLemmy AWOL Investigation
What I know so far:...
YSK: Your Lemmy activities (e.g. downvotes) are far from private (i.imgur.com)
Edit: obligatory explanation (thanks mods for squaring me away)…...