hendrik

Heheh, valid objection. Guess Newton wasn’t the only smart person in history 😆 And drama has always been part of human history… But we still hear those names over 300 years later. Along with a lot of other names of people whose results are taught in university today. But yeah, that hypothetical situation (Newton’s achievements in mathematics being replaced by Leibnitz) would make a good Dr. Who episode.

Possible. But then we’d need somebody else to develop calculus and write a Principia Mathematica and lay the groundworks for the age of enlightenment.

Yes. And mathematics. And a key figure in the scientific revolution. Probably also one of the most intelligent people ever.

Why not a linked list? Or a hash-table?

It’s far more pronounced on the internet anyways. People come here to vent. And the (social media) platforms incentivise them to do so, the way they’re build. I’d say it’s far less a thing in real life.

Well, there isn’t really a way around automated filtering. Spammers and malicious actors also send their stuff in bulk. And those big tech companies already have human content moderators. Usually in some poorer countries and it’s a horrible job. I suppose there just arent enough humans to also deal with the flood of spam, manually.

These systems are far from perfect. And I’m not really an expert. I don’t use Meta’s platforms. I can’t tell much from that screenshot. It’s missing the URL and it hints at some rule that might be shown below.

And I didn’t want to say “trust Meta”. Quite the opposite. I just think this one specific claim could be true. Not everything is a conspiracy theory. We know they have automated spamfilters. And we know these make a lot of mistakes. Very similar with what other spamfilters do with short URLs. I’d say the simplest explanation is: their spamfilter sucks. Not that they somehow conspired, wrote additional software to deliberately target Pixelfed instances, but just when it’s a short post… No. I think in this instance it’s the simple explanation. But yeah, gwnerally: Don’t trust and of the big tech companies. They don’t act in your interest at all.

We just should take care not to spread misinformation. We need to stick with the truth. And It’s not like the article says. And what they’re infering is wrong, too. And seems that Meta didn’t respond, isn’t up to date anymore, either. (Given Meta tells the truth, but I don’t see any reason to doubt this. This is exactly what happens with spamfilters all the time. And why would they reverse it immediately, if there’s more to the story?)

Other than that, I agree. If somebody chooses to use a platform like that, they get entangled in some soulless machinery. And that machinery isn’t there to help the user, but mainly to uphold whatever a big tech company likes or needs. Mainly profit and control. Terms and conditions apply.

Has already been refuted in the other post: https://lemm.ee/post/52524220

I believe it was an honest mistake by the spamfilter.

That’s kind of what happens when somebody re-uses already assigned namespaces for a different purpose. Same with other domains, or if you mess with IP addresses or MAC addresses. The internet is filled with RFCs and old standards that need to be factored in. And I don’t really see Google at fault here. Seems they’ve implemented this to specification. So technically they’re “right”. Question is: Is the RFC any good? Or do we have any other RFCs contradicting it? Usually these things are well-written. If everything is okay, it’s the network administrators fault for configuring something wrong… I’m not saying that’s bad… It’s just that computers and the internet are very complicated. And sometimes you’re not aware of all the consequences of the technical debt… And we have a lot of technical debt. Still, I don’t see any way around implementing a technology and an RFC to specification. We’d run into far worse issues if everyone were to do random things because they think they know something better. It has to be predictable and a specification has to be followed to the letter. Or the specification has to go altogether.

Issue here is that second “may” clause. That should be prohibited from the beginning, because it just causes issues like this. That’s kind of what Google is doing now, though. If you ask me, they probably wrote that paragraph because it’s default behaviour anyways (to look up previously unknown TLDs via DNS). And they can’t really prevent that. But that’s what ultimately causes issues. So they wrote that warning. Only proper solution is to be strict and break it intentionally, so no-one gets the idea to re-use .local… But judging from your post, that hasn’t happened until now.

Linux, MacOS etc are also technically “right” if they choose to adopt that “may” clause. It just leads to the consequences lined out in the sentence. They’re going to confuse users.

Any DNS query for a name ending with “.local.” MUST be sent to the
mDNS IPv4 link-local multicast […]
Implementers MAY choose to look up such names concurrently via other
mechanisms (e.g., Unicast DNS) and coalesce the results in some
fashion. Implementers choosing to do this should be aware of the
potential for user confusion when a given name can produce different
results depending on external network conditions […]

The RFC warns about these exact issues. You MAY do something else, but then the blame is on you…

I wasn’t even implying that. I think it’s more nuanced. And I don’t think America is as democratic as it should be. So I’m not sure if I’m even blaming the people. For a lot of things there are exactly zero solutions available, disregarding how/whom you vote. I mean I’m kind of with OP here. I’m not from the US and I can’t really relate. We just hear very different takes from overseas. Some people believe the country is turning into an authoritarian system soon, some think we’re painting an overly dark image. And I, too, wouldn’t know how to vote if you always get only 2 (fake) choices who both don’t really care for the people… So I can somehow relate to people just not taking part in voting. It’s just a bad situation. And I wish for the best. Though, I think at least 50% of the citizens have lost track on what America is about… And politics is more entertainment than solving any of the big issues. And you people in the US really have some big (societal) issues to tackle.

But isn’t that kind of putting lipstick on a pig? I mean got elected to become president. And 77 million is a lot of people… And I’m not sure if that’s going to change policies and society. It’s kind of accepted now to be a biggot and do harmful things. And I’m really not sure if it’s acceptable under these circumstances to be a “silent majority” anyways. I mean it’s not exactly like watching the nazis take over a country. But I think there are parallels. And I don’t think it’s ethically alright to just watch. At some point if you don’t do anything, you become part of the problem. IMO.

We Germans even have two distinct words for that: “Fernweh” and “Wanderlust”. It’s definitely a thing. I’d argue the first one matches your feelings more closely. Probably a lot of people can relate. Even for grown-ups vacation is special. You get to relax, go on an adventure, be far away from mundane every-day life, work and obligations…

Sure, I don’t really judge. Asking tech support questions is hard. You need to find the correct place. Volunteer some information, while you probably don’t even know which details are relevant… It’s rarely ill intent even if someone doesn’t get it exactly right. And your question seemed genuine to me. I’m not a mod here, though. I can’t really comment on if it’s been the right place or not. I’d say maybe find another community to ask support questions about networking. And if it’s just this one time, just attribute this as a mild overreaction by the mods. Oftentimes the lines are a bit blurry when making those kind of decisions. I still think you deserve an answer to your question, but yet again I don’t know the details…

I can only speculate. Either you didn’t give them enough time, or you weren’t polite and they ignore you, or you didn’t message the one who dealt with you. Or the mods just aren’t nice or transparent to people. Idk. I can just say your removed post looked a bit low quality since it included no useful information to help you, and it was about networking issues, not selfhosting. Also this post is probably again in violation of rule 3. Since it’s not about selfhosting in general, but your issue with the mods.

Usually, write them a direct message.

But terminal access also kind of invalidates the WebUI requirement. If you have a terminal open anyways, you could as well just do eject -t && handbrake-cli ... && eject and skip all the switching to the browser and clicking on things… That’d close the tray, rip the DVD and spit it out when finished, all in one line. At least that’s what I would do.

There are people out there without any kind of conscience or memorse. If they can somehow make a profit, they’ll sell somehing to you or anyone who is willing to listen.

I think so, too. I mean we also have human authors end up at a random camping site somewhere in Europe in the 70s and come up with the random idea of writing “The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy”. Either we allow randomness to inspire a novel. Or we’d need to say a lot of old novels aren’t original ideas either.

I think it’s impossible then. My experience aligns with these recommendations. First tell it to come up with interesting story ideas. Then pick one. Have it write an outline. Have it come up with story arcs, subplots and a general structure. Chapter names… Then tell it to write the chapters individually, factoring in the results from before. Once it trails off or writes short chapters, edit the text and guide it back to where you want it to be.

It’ll just write bad and maybe short stories unless you do that. I mean you could theoretically automate this. Write a program with some AI agent framework that instructs it to do the individual tasks, have it reflect on itself, always feed back what it came up with and include it in the next task.

I’ve tried doing something like that and I don’t think there is a way around this. Or you do it like the other people and just tell it “Generate a novel” and be fine with whatever result it will come up with. But that just won’t be a good result.