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Admiral Patrick

@ admiralpatrick @lemmy.world

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  • I still can't believe they're not related

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  • No, she's much wittier than I am. Though I did try to write it in her style.

  • [Solved] How do I remove a moderator with no posts in a community?

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  • Many new members post and delete their accounts

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  • I had a "2-3 weeks" ETA about 2 months ago for the initial beta release. Looks like that ship sailed. In the last few days I'm kind of getting back into the swing of development but I'm still behind and can't devote as much time to it as I'd like.

    I think the last thing that's preventing a beta release is the settings importer is unfinished (had to be re-written). Once that's done, I can at least get the beta out for use. There's a few other cosmetic things I need to fix as well but it's still usable.

  • Electricians of Lemmy: Planning a kitchen re-wire. Sub-panel or direct run?

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  • Unfortunately, time and money are factors. Not that I want to cheap out, I just thought maybe a sub panel might be more economical.

    They wouldn't know to check the kitchen has its own sub panel.

    I mean, when there's only a 40 amp breaker labeled "Kitchen S/P" I think they'd figure it out.

  • Home Improvement @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    Electricians of Lemmy: Planning a kitchen re-wire. Sub-panel or direct run?

  • 80s Music @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world
    Happy Halloween

    Michael Jackson - Thriller [1983]

    song.link /y/sOnqjkJTMaA

  • Many new members post and delete their accounts

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  • Tesseract (t.lemmy.world) both badges and lets you filter new accounts. You can configure the number of a days an account is considered "new" from 1 to 30 days. Anything that's filtered will be shown as a stub/collapsed item in the feed.

    In the upcoming release (delayed due to personal issues but in progress), you can completely hide content from new accounts (versus just collapsing it) among other filters.

    Additionally, (in the upcoming release) it will automatically hide content from users less than a week old who have deleted their accounts. This feature is a direct response to this "hit it and quit it" nonsense from the accounts you're describing.

  • Blocking instance, comments not blocked

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  • Instance blocking is just blocking all communities on that instance, unfortunately.

    Like Blaze said, you can try Piefed (LW also operates a Piefed instance) or you can use an alternate UI for Lemmy that does hide users from blocked instances. Not sure which do except Tesseract (https://t.lemmy.world/) since I wanted to be able to do the same thing.

    The setting for that is under Settings -> Filtering -> Hide Users From Blocked Instances

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    Reporting Ban Evasions

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    Reporting Ban Evasions

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  • ....yeah. I added a filter in Tesseract to automatically hide "drive-by" posts for accounts that are less than a week old who self-delete themselves. Can't stand that.

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    Reporting Ban Evasions

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  • Not that that isn't good advice to make mods' lives easier in general, but for the ban evader I think you're talking about, it's usually pretty apparent if you look at the profile of the user being reported:

    1. Minutes old, 10+ posts and no comments or maybe 1 boilerplate-looking one.
    2. Usually cycles through c/Politics, c/News, c/Health, c/UK, c/Ohio, c/Television and a few others
    3. Here lately, spams out 10+ posts rapid-fire and then deletes the account (not all UIs indicate a user is deleted, but that info is often helpful).

    Granted, I'm really good at pattern matching. It's like my one neurodivergent superpower lol.

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • Very nice!

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • Unfortunately, there's many many reasons that could be the case. I'm just putting this out there since it's easy to check for and mitigate against.

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • No, that's just /api/v3/user which returns both posts and comments.

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • Good idea with the f2b integration.

    I thought about that before just blocking unscoped requests to that endpoint in Nginx.

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • That was my thought, but also wasn't sure since there might be a use-case I'm unfamiliar with. I vaguely recall seeing a feature request for Photon a while back to be able to just browse comments, so I assume that would be how it worked.

    But yeah as it is now, it can be abused.

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • That's my normal go-to, but more than once I've accidentally blocked locations that Let's Encrypt uses for secondary validation, so I've had to be more precise with my firewall blocks

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • Lemmy. I added a comment above since LW wouldn't let me edit the post.

    Mine's only extended with some WAF rules and I've got a massive laundry list of bot user agents that it blocks, but otherwise it's pretty bog standard.

    If instances have Anubis setup correctly (i.e. not in front of /api/...) then that might not help them since this is calling the API endpoint.

  • Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

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  • Can't edit the post (Thanks Cloudflare! /s) but additional info:

    • I truncated the log excerpts in the post. The user agent string in these requests isn't shown here, but it is blank in the actual logs.
    • This is for Lemmy admins only. It might apply to others in some form, but this seems to be specifically exploiting a Lemmy API endpoint
    • My Nginx solution may have room for improvement; I was just trying to block that behavior without breaking comments in posts and move on with my day. Suggestions for improvement are welcome.
  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    Admins: Instnace randomly running extremely slowly? Check for this

  • The Independent tries to hijack their reader's swipe meant to leave the site to send them further into it instead

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  • Seems more like a genuine feature to me.

    I don't know how many requests I've seen for Lemmy apps to be able to swipe between posts in the feed.

    Seems that's basically what they're doing here.

    But also, gesture navigation is terrible, I hate it, and always turn on 3-button navigation when I get a new phone anyway.

  • Polish president opts son out of new health education classes, saying they “smuggle ideology into schools”

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  • I shouldn't say this, but whatever: It's a "troll" tactic to do that since mods/admins can't ban with content removal if the account is deleted (unless that's fixed in .13?) . Admins can remove the deleted flag in the DB for the user and then do so, but mods can only remove items individually. Not that any of these necessarily warrant removal on their own, but not doing so in this case encourages this kind of "hit it and quit it" behavior, and this user is clearly ban evading.

    I'm not saying this as an instruction manual but merely as a statement of fact about how stupid Lemmy's behavior is with regard to deleted accounts.

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    What are the activity_id formats for various platforms?

  • Fediverse memes @feddit.uk
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    As an app developer, I'm about to just give up on showing the community display names 😔

  • Fediverse @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world
    PSA

    Admins: Watch for the antiyanks troll and consider adjusting your rate limits

  • Lemmy Apps @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    Tesseract Lives....for now. Resuming limited development.

  • Dad Jokes @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    We don't know who stole our teaspoons, but we suspect they're stirring up trouble somewhere.

  • News @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    NYPD detective on Adams' security detail may be tied to crypto millionaire torture case: Sources

    www.nbcnewyork.com /manhattan/nypd-detective-crypto-torture-case-adams-security-detail-suspected-link/6282836/
  • News @lemmy.world
    Admiral Patrick @lemmy.world

    A fire, a fascination with explosives and family discord marked path to clinic bombing

    www.latimes.com /california/story/2025-05-20/fire-fascination-with-explosives-family-discord-marked-path-to-clinic-bombing