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Admiral Patrick

@ ptz @dubvee.org

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I'm surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

Special skills include: Knowing all the "na na na nah nah nah na" parts of the Three's Company theme.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

Avatar by @SatyrSack@feddit.org

  • Ghost of Lemm.ee?

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  • 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.

  • TIL: Lemmy's instance-level URL filters also evaluate against community descriptions [See edit]

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

  • TIL: Lemmy's instance-level URL filters also evaluate against community descriptions [See edit]

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  • 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).

  • To those who are new to this whole fediverse/threadiverse/this thing, how has your experience been?

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  • I wouldn't recommend it to anyone in real life. There are parts that are just way too jarring.

    Ugh, this. And I hate that it's like that.

    Like, I used to have my instance open to whoever to sign up. My guiding principle was to have a place that wasn't overrun with [parts that are just way too jarring]. Holy shit was that an impossible goal to do alone so I shuttered it up and now it's just a private instance / testbed for Tesseract.

    My friends knew I was active on Reddit, and that was fine. But I wouldn't tell them I spend any amount of time here because what they would see going to almost any random instance will probably definitely not look good on me by association despite that I'm nowhere near that.

    So if anyone shares this desire, I am open to un-mothballing my instance, rebranding, and taking on new admins and re-opening to users who also want a place like that.

  • Why do some users have zero upvotes on their new posts/comments?

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  • 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.

  • Is there a way to filter news on lemmy

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  • 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.

  • Whats the best alternative to twitch and youtube?

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  • 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.

  • "Nyet, nyet... pyay that man his money!" Dear Fediverse-- do we have a 'film clip' sub/community here? (see post for film clip; it's from "Rounders")

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  • I totally get that.

    The closest active alternative I can find is !screengrabs@piefed.social but it's for still images. Maybe if the clip fits the theme there, they'll allow it?

  • "Nyet, nyet... pyay that man his money!" Dear Fediverse-- do we have a 'film clip' sub/community here? (see post for film clip; it's from "Rounders")

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  • Only one I can find is !movieclips@lemmy.world but it's 3 years old and has 0 submissions. Maybe you can revive it? Surprisingly, the mod for it is still active on the platform.

    Otherwise, "if you build it, they will come".

  • The people like AI because they treat it like a search engine.

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  • 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.

  • Bears or no bears?

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  • new york (2) final.docx

    Lol. I would need several extra hands to count the number of times I've had people email me documents with filenames like Copy of new york (2) REVISED-final(1).docx

  • Avril Lavigne - Complicated

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  • She sings better than me. That's a pretty low bar, though 😆

  • Bears or no bears?

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  • It's like when I see a place named "Westmoreland" I'm like "Ok, so someone thought, "there's more land west of where I was, and I'm not very creative".

  • Disturbed - Land Of Confusion

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  • could be seen as passive aggressive commentary against FOSS links

    Nah, I get it. I get annoyed when people post Invidious links. Not because I'm against them, but because I run an Invidious instance myself and have a browser plugin to re-write YT links to use that one that's 15 feet away from me. But the plugin only works if the link is to YouTube. When it's some random Invidious instance on the other side of the planet, it takes forever to load because of the multiple levels of redirection and is just frustrating since my browser plugin would have redirected a YT link to my local server.

    I just figure with my ample bandwidth, PeerTube's P2P load balancing, Lemmy's small-ish userbase not sending a million simultaneous requests to it, and not having to proxy to another source (e.g. YT) it would balance out in my favor.

    Will def continue to provide "corpo" links or maybe switch back to those for the "main" link and provide FOSS ones as alternates. If you've got a preference here, just let me know.

  • Sometimes the transporter clones go a little...weird.

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  • Like so many other shows, it's on my watch list. Just haven't gotten down to it yet.

  • Disturbed - Land Of Confusion

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  • Fair enough!

    I'm a huge fan of people embracing the internet as it was originally intended rather than the corporate machine it turned into. As long as it's not some shady-looking site posted by an hour-old account, I'm perfectly content to stream some tunes from someone's basement homelab haha.

    I've got gigabit fiber so might as well spread the love. This instance is almost 3 years old, and the PeerTube instance runs under a subdomain of it, so hopefully I've established a good enough reputation that people aren't turned off by it.

  • Melania Trump's 'absolute stinker' of a documentary buried by reviewers

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  • Siskel & Ebert give the film no thumbs up: "Not even worth pirating to watch ironically".

  • Sometimes the transporter clones go a little...weird.

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  • What show are these based on? I feel like I need to watch it.

    Edit: Brooklyn Nine-nine?

  • Disturbed - Land Of Confusion

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  • Good deal.

    Not a problem. I've considered posting things from my Navidrome server (where I'm actually listening when I post here) but I don't love the idea of the links getting hit by bots and whatnot

    Heh, I've got bot detection on my web services and they're all redirected to a Nepenthes tarpit where they just get fed an endless stream of slop. Just doing my part to make the world better lol.

  • Funny car engine rebuild after 1 run

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  • That's basically me. If someone dragged me to a race, I'd be trying to find a way to watch the pit crew in action cause I wouldn't give a crap about the actual race haha.

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    People named "Stephen" during the holidays be like...

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Finally setup Nepenthes and caught my first bot

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I still can't believe they're not related

  • Fun Loops ▶️ @midwest.social
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    Guess the software company...

    loops.video /v/bePSFsDK7o
  • Fun Loops ▶️ @midwest.social
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    When your cat is laying cozy on your lap and you decide to move

    loops.video /v/awHNSVcoqf
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Bulding off of a meme from last year because it's still true

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Happy Treksgiving! 🦃 🖖

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Come to DS9 my house for Thanksgiving. Among other characters who have thus far RSVP'd, we have...

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world
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    Resolved

    At your convenience, can someone please run your "reset-federation-failures" script against dubvee.org?

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    It's still over a week away, but I have to start mentally preparing myself now for the incoming Tellarite delegation.

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    This is going to be my new official Thanksgiving sweater

  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    I'm going out to get some space cigarettes now. I'll be back real soon.

  • Technology Memes @lemmy.world
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    Why I will never use AI in my workflow:

  • simpsonsshitposting @sh.itjust.works
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    When your A/C can't keep up...

  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    America's largest power grid is struggling to meet demand from AI: Rising prices out of the auction trickle down to everyday people's power bills.

    www.reuters.com /sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/americas-largest-power-grid-is-struggling-meet-demand-ai-2025-07-09/
  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Using ZRAM on a laptop with 8 GB RAM. Worth it or waste of CPU?

  • memes @lemmy.world
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    Not gonna lie, this is probably my favorite work-from-home perk.

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Huge fines coming for Californians caught by drone with illegal fireworks

    www.sfgate.com /bayarea/article/california-drones-illegal-fireworks-20629637.php
  • TenForward: Where Every Vulcan Knows Your Name @lemmy.world
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    Evasive Maneuvers

  • Mildly Infuriating @lemmy.world
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    Got my Minimal Phone today. It's DOA.