To whom it may concern. I found your glove. Wait a minute…

If my NAS gets sick anytime in the near future:

I’m of a mind that link shorteners should be banned everywhere. You should never click a link unless you know exactly where it’s going. Plus, some of them have interstitial ads and/or get deleted after a period of time, so even in the best case scenarios, they’re just spraying out ads and link rot when you get down to it.

Not to mention, they’re almost always used on platforms where you can just click on the link regardless of how long and/or unwieldy it is.

The only use case for bit [dot] ly and their ilk are if you need to publish a long link in print medium (such as a newspaper public notice or something) where a full link to a specific page would be unreasonable to expect people to type into a browser by hand.

Yeah, I mentioned the list wasn’t comprehensive and was just an example of the username format they’re using.

Replying to your other comments here, but good deeper dive. The abridged whois was sufficient to confirm pretty much all I needed to confirm (that it was one of those pop-up AI plagiarism lookalike news sites) and that there was an active campaign to promote it here. Since I don’t use any other social media, I was just reporting the ones flooding the Threadiverse but definitely seems they’re flooding all the social media zones. I can’t do anything about those, but figured I’d throw out a warning here.

It does work on URLs. The https part gets stipped out because of how the regex

Oh, nice. For some reason I assumed it was only domains.

It always worked on federated content?

I know it has for a good while but I forget when it was applied to inbound federation. I think it was that Mastodon/Misskey spam wave I was thinking of but don’t recall which version was running at the time and how I wished it would stop content to those domains from federating in. Nice contribution, BTW.

Edit: Apparently it can do URLs and not just domains. See @flamingos@feddit.uk 's reply below.

URLS, no, but it can disallow specific domains. So it could work against specific spam domains but not against a bunch of accounts spamming, say, a Github repo, unless you want to block links to all of Github which isn’t ideal.

There’s a list of disallowed domains that can be configured in the admin area. Until relatively recently, it would only prevent users of that instance from posting to them, but somewhat recently it now prevents inbound federation of anything linking to those. If something links to a blocked URL (post, comment, user with that in their bio, etc), Lemmy will reject it.

I don’t know why more admins don’t look at the spam that gets modded and add the domain to their URL block list other than it being tedious work lol.

DL/Dwazou operates (operated?) like a spambot cranked up to 11 but at least they posted legit stuff. These are just slinging the same AI-plagiarized slop site from a bunch of different accounts.

I see your account is a similar age to my own, so you may remember the infotinkerviral spam slop that was going around a few years ago. Not sure if I spelled that right, but similar M.O. to that.

Rare esoteric wisdom that can only be gained by fucking around and finding out

AKA my 20s. I fucked around a lot but I also learned from every “finding out”.

Happy cake day!

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I never played it on Lynx, but California Games was like the Wii Sports of the NES.

My favorite thing was hitting the seagull with the hackey sack.

The upstairs neighbor: [Frost troll wearing clogs doing jumping jacks]

Real missed opportunity not calling the project CONNECTicut

There was another early 90s show, Nurses, which was a spin-off of Empty Nest.

For a few years in the 90s, there was a whole Golden Girls Cinematic Universe lol.

totally. Thankfully someone uploaded upscaled recordings to Youtube because you cannot buy or stream it anywhere.

I’m watching Empty Nest and Scrubs more-or-less at the same time, so I’ve got two shows running right now that both have sassy nurses named Laverne lol

What do you want to practice? Just general sysadmin stuff? Networking? Clustering? Horizontal scaling? All of the above?

Old PCs are just Debian servers waiting to happen. Depending on their specs, you may be able to do VMs or you can utilize container frameworks like Podman, Docker, or LXC to deploy individual applications or application stacks. Or you can just bare metal install anything you want.

Years ago, I bought a batch of 16 Wyse thin clients on eBay for about $15/each. These had 4GB SSDs and 2 GB RAM, so I upgraded about half of them with 64-120GB SSDs (whatever I had lying around) and 8 GB RAM. Thin clients can usually be found pretty inexpensively and are pretty power efficient, but they’re not performant workhorses. They’re great for practicing networking, VLANs, system orchestration (e.g. Ansible, Cockpit) application clustering and horizontal scaling, diskless workstations, setting up a demo office server and workstations, and even VMs if you’re just practicing; they’re a little underpowered to run a lot of VMs, but you can certainly run a few small ones just to practice managing them.

than to carry something like an evaporative cooler

Evaporative coolers don’t really work in high humidity. If you live in an area that’s a dry hot, they work great. Summers in my area, though, are very muggy. Other than ice pack based products, the only passive coolers I’ve found work in humid environments are these sweat bands that have either desiccant beads in them or that stuff that’s in diapers. They pull the sweat away keeping it out of your eyes and give a little evaporative cooling at the same time.

Webapp. It’s the development branch of Tesseract.

I can use regexes, so it makes it a bit shorter list: