I had no idea FOSS tax software was a thing. Huh. I’ll try and play around with it at some point and let you know.

I guess these guys are just plain old tools.

The little I’ve seen of Joe seems like this:

Some rich guy you’ve never heard of: “So, umm, yeah, I’ve been trying this new form of yoga.”

Joe: hits blunt and drinks something harmful “Oh yeah?”

Guy 1: burp “Yeah, and it’s really opened my eyes and shit, y’know?”

Joe: “Oh really?”

(This but for who knows how long).

I forgot: are Lemmy’s active and hot sorts chronological? They’re pretty decent, but I do find stale content does get stuck on one that isn’t there on the other.

Tbh, I haven’t really had this issue in a few weeks. I’m tempted to think it’s usage-related, and could possibly indicate that my memory allocation for the DB is still too high.

If the piece was merely sharing an opinion, it does seem like over-moderation to remove something like that. I often take the approach of surface-level content moderation, as I don’t have the time or desire to vet every single link and keep track of which sites have the “right” viewpoints on certain things. Vote-based sites like Lemmy or Reddit often are sufficient to weed out bad links; a mod’s job should be to remove content that is obviously against the plain meaning interpretation of the community rules. If someone posts a Nazi flag here with the title “Hitler Rules,” it would obviously be against any rules about “hateful content.” However, this is the equivalent of someone saying, “This article about which bottled water brands are the best is bad because the person who wrote it said something mean to me a few years ago.”

I wish more people would understand the value of letting people make their own life choices, even if you disagree with them.

Yeah, I heavily modified and expanded upon someone else’s query to seek out and destroy more of the accounts. Theirs is basically pattern-matching some of the Gmail-with-numbers spam, but there’s a subset using junk@junk with no actual .TLD to try and get people’s email verification to bounce. Someone else said that ended up in people getting their email relay account suspended, hence why email verification (at least without CAPTCHAs) is a fairly bad idea. I added a table join and some extra matching to find some of those extra bogus “emails,” which typically results in quite a few more accounts being banned. There are two major caveats with my method: 1) it doesn’t delete the accounts, which is really just a simple modification to the query to “fix,” and 2) it doesn’t deal with spam accounts that have no email attached, although those seem to be a fairly small subset of the account spam. I’ll see if there is an easier way to deal with those, but getting most banned or deleted is still pretty easy.

I had this issue as well on my instance. Here’s how I fixed it with SQL commands included. TL;DR Turn on CAPTCHAs, don’t use email verification (as they will spam the shit out of it), and use SQL commands to ban all of them in one fell swoop.

I just realized that Steve looks a fair bit like Ed Speleers (at least as a Borg).

This worked. Thanks! Turns out my bootstrap style looked like shit, but at least I know where to put things!

I wonder if it’s some strategic bullshit to try and scare people. Fuck it, most of those people are the kind who would enjoy using Lemmy anyway.

https://NormalCity.life is one I’m talking about to you from as we speak, but honestly visting to see if anything strikes you as worth subscribing to from your existing account is great. We’re going to be expanding our community repertoire to feature more permutations of “tech and creativity,” and I’m currently writing a multi-post series on the Fundamentals of Lemmy.

I still think Reddit forcibly removing the head mod of r/Piracy is peak irony. They can’t not have people discussing copyright infringement, even through in years prior they were threatening to ban the community.

You can basically have as many themes as you want in a Lemmy instance. You can have a decent accessible theme as default, but sprinkle some nostalgia in a few other options users can choose if they want.

Android supremacy.

I like the part in every interview with u/spez where he says that the API was never intended to support third-party apps but then never mentions that the official Reddit app is based on the source code of a third-party app they purchased. His logic is impeccable.

I mean, someone else is working on an iOS client inspired by Apollo for Lemmy called Mlem. You can even install it on your Apple device here.

It feels right to be reading this from the comfort of Lemmy.

Infinity is on F-droid, and if emulators (think BIOS files) demonstrate anything, it’s entirely possible to pass liability to end-users through mechanisms like that.