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She’ll have to get a computer and use it in her free time instead of a phone. It’s the best way
30-something grey wolf therian and furry. Admin of yiffit.net lemmy instance and packmates.org mastodon instance.
She’ll have to get a computer and use it in her free time instead of a phone. It’s the best way
Yes. If your country is authoritarian use cryptocurrency such as Monero. Even Bitcoin can be much better.
The bank would know the amount, the merchant and other details even if it’s a merchant from abroad. The bank might have a duty to report certain transactions or could be forced to give out a record. Other international payment process or foreign banks will generally not refuse a request if it comes from a country government you are a citizen of.
You can use crypto to buy gift cards to shop at regular retailers. This is your safest bet if you’re concerned about a state surveillance of your transactions.
Not that instance, but Lemmy is missing a lot of moderation and federation tools. Right now you only have sledgehammers to deal with tiny nails, in regards to tooling.
I’m sorry, I need to say it:
Did she check the control singer? If the control doesn’t say she’s a fascist, but the other one does, then it’s not a placebo but her actually being a fascist.
Good point. I think that might be it actually. This could be the reason.
It should be safe as long as you put in a valid timestamp and not some other value. If you run a large instance, then you run the risk of pseudo-DDoSing yourself by sending a large amount of requests to dead servers, but unless you’re a large instance you shouldn’t have to worry about that.
That seems to be the case more or less. In my case times go from 0:00 to 0:25 or so when it finishes.
In theory that’s what Lemmy now does every day, but I have no idea why it fails to update some instances sometimes. Instances which are very much alive at 12AM which is when this gets executed.
Do you know if you had any cronjob running close to 0:00 (server time, possibly UTC) that could have interfered with the validation of dead instances that lemmy now does?
I’m trying to figure out what could have interfered with these checks in the first place.
It only works for new posts. Try creating something new in a community that you know lemmy.world knows about.
Older posts may appear progressively, but there’s no guarantees.
Yes. That should fix it. There is instances that are genuinely down. Later today I’ll try to share a script to detect which ones are down and which aren’t via curl. In our case we had 350+ false positives.
Hey, this happened to us recently. In your database check the table called 'instance ’ and make sure the value for ‘updated’ is less than three days old for lemmy.world
There are false positives regarding the detection of “dead instances” in the latest version of Lemmy and it’s actually your instance that stops sending out messages to lemmy.world
It’s probably trolls. Best thing you can do is report them. I talked to their admin once and they seemed nice.
The Hot timeline becomes stale if the lemmy server isn’t restarted every 6 hours or so, which takes 10 seconds but can’t be done on larger instances such as lemmy.world because it kills the queue of outgoing activity.
This is a known bug and is being worked on. For the time being you should try with “top 6 hours” and “top 12 hours” sorting.
Sorry for the late reply. If you’re interested in music, you could give both javascript or C# a try. C# works integrated with the operating system and is not sandboxed by the browser, which means that you could do nifty things like actual sound processing and interact with sound devices etc.
In general you will want to start with a console application that receives user input, does something and even prints the output. Let me give you an example of playing an audio file in C#
LINE 1: System.Media.SoundPlayer myAudioPlayer = new System.Media.SoundPlayer(@"c:\mywavfile.wav");
LINE 2: myAudioPlayer.Play();
In the first line we are calling a pre-existing blueprint (library) that knows how to create an audio player. This blueprint can be located in System > Media > SoundPlayer within the collections of libraries. We are giving this virtual audio player a name and called it “myAudioPlayer”. Then, after the “=” sign we are giving it the instruction to be created with a preloaded file that would be found in “C:\mywavfile.wav”.
In the second file we are commanding our newly created virtual audio player and telling it to play the file. Please note that this audio player would not have a visual interface yet. You would hear audio coming from the speakers but no way to pause. Fortunately C# / .NET (.NET are the pre-existing libraries that you can use), has a drag-and-drop way to create windows application interfaces with buttons via the “Visual Studio” editor, so you could potentially create a drag-and-drop interface and bind a button with a Stop symbol to the instruction “myAudioPlayer.Stop();”
This is just a very very basic example, but object oriented programming often boils down to this: create virtual representations of something and then command them to do something.
If this has peaked your interest check out this playlist of a full complete programming course in C# which is what I used to learn programming years ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umAcMO3d9_E&list=PLFqasLx4-AErVMCWiIyJe9uA3yQMPBukG
In the end it’s all about creating a series of instructions that the computer will follow. The trick is to learn what these instructions mean and to not be scared by their syntax, because behind every scary looking syntax there’s just an instruction that can be explain in human language.
Oh I had to zoom in before I got hit. Hell no.
Oh yeah, apologies for the above comment. C# is definitely a good option, especially if you use windows and love messing around with the OS
I’m not sure I fully agree with that approach for most people since C++ resources and tools seem to not be the user friendliest but then again if it worked for you that is amazing.
Yes, but It’s pretty hands off since 99% of security stuff is managed for you by the Lemmy software, including rate limiting. Just make sure you use a secure password and if you want put the instance behind cloudflare which is super easy to do.