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Cake day: June 9th, 2023

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  • Yeah, it’s unfortunate a lot of new users are experiencing this. There are several issues with account registration/login, all resulting in the spinning icon of doom.

    1. ⁠Mobile browsers sometimes append a space after your username into the field
    2. ⁠Having any - (dashes) in your password
    3. ⁠Your password being too long
    4. ⁠The username already is in use
    5. ⁠Server load at the time is too high

    What you can try is:

    1. ⁠After you register, even if you get the spinning icon of doom, try to log in. Sometimes it just works!
    2. ⁠If that didn’t work, try the reset password flow. Put your email address into the username field and click the forgot password link

    I’ve found the reset password flow to fix my user when I have login issues.



  • You might be able to setup a mod_rewrite rule to load a specific file path or other url based on the URL path, but a subdomain would probably be easier/cleaner.

    From Apache mod_rewrite docs:

    The mod_rewrite module uses a rule-based rewriting engine, based on a PCRE regular-expression parser, to rewrite requested URLs on the fly. By default, mod_rewrite maps a URL to a filesystem path. However, it can also be used to redirect one URL to another URL, or to invoke an internal proxy fetch.

    Just remember the old adage about regular expressions: when you use a regular expression to try to solve one problem, you create two problems.

    A subdomain would likely be cleaner and easier.








  • But on the other hand, look at how much the lemmy and kbin user base has grown. The blackouts had a significant impact in increasing lemmy adoption and usage.

    Prior to the announced blackouts, I had no idea Lemmy even existed. Now here I am running my own instance.

    Also, advertisers Reddit sells to have halted their campaigns until “next week.”

    I think while on the surface it might feel underwhelming, it had more impact than you think. And now mods are discussing extending the blackout too.


  • There are a lot of things to like about DS9. I’ll try to name some without spoiling anything.

    One of the main ones is the fact it shows a darker more realistic side of humanity that at the time wasn’t present in other Trek. It feels a little more “grown up,” I guess?

    Another is the caliber of Avery Brooks’ acting (and the rest of the cast,) but Avery Brooks in some of the episodes is just truly amazing…

    • Far Beyond the Stars
    • Past Tense
    • The Visitor

    By second to third season the cast really gels and you just love every single one.

    All the crap O’Brien goes through (you will finally truly understand all the memes)

    Worf joins DS9 season 4 and adds even more great stories and interactions within the cast/crew

    The entire overarching plot of the Dominion war and how it impacts the Federation (federation… heheh)

    The whole Sisko / Emissary / Prophets story line across the entire 7 seasons and how he grows into that role

    All the Holosuite episodes, but especially “Take Me Out To The Holosuite”.

    All the Klingon episodes and interaction… Gowron, Martok, Worf

    There are so many good characters, not just the core / Sr. Officers / main cast

    GARAK… Garak is worth watching the entire 7 seasons just by himself.

    Dukat, Winn Adami

    Liquidator Brunt FCA

    Romulans…

    Ferengi… MOOOOOOOOOGIE… ROM and Nog… The Grand Nagus… and of course Quark… Little Green Men

    THE DEFIANT (one hell of a ship)

    To name a few… I could go on.

    And of course, there are always the oddball episodes that continue to be a running joke within the DS9 community…

    Move along home!