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 @[email protected] '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!

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.

Probably most of them, at least in small “butterfly effect” ways. But mostly, I paid attention in class and remember how to think without having to have answers spoon fed to me. So many people I work with, of a variety of age groups, just seem to lack that skill.

You mentioned home economics, and I only had to take one semester as a required elective (yes, you read that right) and just kind of coasted through it. While I didn’t think much of it at the time, but I appreciate knowing how to use a sewing kit to make small repairs. I’ve patched several holes in my favorite “lounging around the house” robe and extended its life probably 3 times.

NVMe SSD in a USB 3 enclosure is about as fast as you’re going to get.

I queried my instance’s database. Admin privilege. The info here isn’t any kind of private information so I can share it.

OP nuked their 2 hour old account:

lemmy=# select id, actor_id, banned, deleted, published from person where name='happyhouseslave';
    id    |               actor_id                | banned | deleted |           published           
----------+---------------------------------------+--------+---------+-------------------------------
 12117366 | https://lemmy.world/u/happyhouseslave | f      | t       | 2026-06-18 13:21:00.995133+00



lemmy=# select name, deleted, removed, ap_id from post where creator_id=12117366;
         name          | deleted | removed |               ap_id               
-----------------------+---------+---------+-----------------------------------
 *Permanently Deleted* | t       | f       | https://lemmy.world/post/48327685
 *Permanently Deleted* | t       | f       | https://lemmy.world/post/48324567

One of many reasons I refuse to interact with accounts less than a week old and/or those that have no other activity history.

I’ve been in an airbags deployed accident while wearing glasses. I was fine, and so were my glasses.

Getting hit in the face with a pillow is actually worse than hitting the airbag at 50 mph. The airbag also partially deflates nearly as fast as it inflates. i.e. you don’t smack into it hard and it just cushions you and keeps you from smacking into the steering wheel. It’s also designed to work with the seatbelts, so those should also be keeping you from being right up in the airbag’s business. Hence, the technical name for airbags, SRS (supplemental restraint system)

You’d have to be eye-level with the center of the steering wheel, not wearing a seatbelt, and right up on it for that to be a concern.

It’s annoying AF, agreed, but there’s no provision in the API to do anything about it. That’s just how the platform is designed to operate.

The only things we can do about it are:

1. Notice who does that frequently and refuse to interact with them (block them, tag them, remember their username, whatever works). If mods notice this, it would be nice if they’d ban those users from the community because what they do IS disruptive to the community.
2. Optionally, don’t interact with accounts younger than a week in the “ask” communities because those are known to self destruct.

If a user deletes their account or nukes the post, even admins can’t restore it as it just says “Permanently deleted”

Removed by mod

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

Yeah, I just avoid all communities that start with “Ban” or “Fuck”. Life is much less irritating that way.