Or, you know, just moving there and voting those a-holes out of office? The average default Lemming reaction being violence is getting old.

Now, now, now. Let’s not be too quick to call it “disinformation” or “propaganda”. It could just be Respectful Dissent. Every Opinion Matters. /s

RCS is a whole can of worms. It’s presented like a carrier services (and carriers are in the mix, though often just for authentication), but it’s really a Google service. With Android, RCS connects directly to google’s mothership.

I believe on iOS those go to Apple’s servers which “peers” with google. Maybe search the RCS endpoint for Apple and see what comes up?

Maybe native implementation could be something developers could work on in the future?

Can’t rule that out, but it would likely be optional at best.

LibreTranslate is pretty heavy to host, so I’m not sure how many instances would want to enable that. There are some hosted LibreTranslate instances, but I’m not sure how overloaded/performant they tend to be and/or if they’re suitable for a bunch of people to plug a Lemmy client into.

FWIW, I run a local LT service for myself, and it’s deployed via Docker. It’s not too difficult to setup, but yeah, you’ll need to be comfortable with Linux, Docker, and probably Nginx/Caddy/etc basics before tackling that.

This is actually one of my New Year’s resolutions lol. Right now, my backups are local and my offsites are a hodgepodge of cloud services (basically holding encrypted container blobs of my stuff). Not ideal.

I’m looking at signing up for rsync.net since a lot of my backups are done via rsync anyway. Plan is to keep my local backups as-is and rsync them to rsync.net.

I’m not making excuses for Judge Merchan, but it’s easy to say what you’re saying when you’re not personally dealing with a guy who can and will send an angry mob of violent nutjobs to your house. Something to keep in mind.

Photon has a setting option to integrate LibreTranslate.

I haven’t played with it yet, but I would assume that does what you want. Other than third party clients or browser extensions offering translation capability, I don’t think there’s any native way to do that.

Full disclosure: I have no idea what I’m talking about when it comes to “big money”

Would, say, transferring my 401(k) to a Roth IRA safeguard it against this kind of crap? “Roth IRAs are better” is something I’ve heard people with money say lol.

I’ve got a nice wireless optical one; absolutely love it.

AI bots absolutely rip through your sites like something rabid.

SemrushBot being the most rabid from my experience. Just will not take “fuck off” as an answer.

That looks pretty much like how I’m doing it, also as an include for each virtual host. The only difference is I don’t even bother with a 403. I just use Nginx’s 444 “response” to immediately close the connection.

Are you doing the IP blocks also in Nginx or lower at the firewall level? Currently I’m doing it at firewall level since many of those will also attempt SSH brute forces (good luck since I only use keys, but still…)

Maybe will be better received at !tech_memes@lemmy.world ?

reflecting Lemmy’s political leanings

I’m not here for that at all., and I tend to block anyone who makes their political ideology their entire identity. Can we not just be people talking to other people about cool stuff and leave the political ideology at the door? Geesh!

Like, I don’t want this place to be a lefty circlejerk any more than I want it to be a rightwing circle jerk. Not everything has to have a political angle to it.

I also refuse to let .ml set the tone for the entirety of Lemmy.

I self-host Gogs, currently, but I am looking at Forgejo after several recommendations. Not sure how useful AP integration will be at first, but it’d be a “nice to have” once it’s there for sure.

The reason I’m looking at a hosted one rather than on-prem is the hosted one is basically my “hot” backup.

That was going to be my follow-up question lol: How should I handle the original repo? Leave it at the last commit and add a “We moved” note, strip it down to a stub that points to the new repo, or something else.

What’s a good alternative (assuming this is one of the few things I don’t want to self-host)?

I self-host Gogs for my internal projects, but my public stuff is on Github. The only “fancy” GH feature I use is the actions since it will do ARM builds which I can’t do locally.

It’s even easier than that - You can actually just replace the Piped hostname with “youtube.com” or another Piped/Invidious hostname and use the rest of the link as-is. Same for Invidious. They all use the same API, at least for the basic watch and embed functions.

The only problem is doing it programmatically since you have to know the link is to a Piped/Inviodious instance, and it’s difficult to do by URL alone (regexing the path and params gives too many false positives).

Because YT thought they could be TikTok. I’ve got no other explanation. But yeah, agreed, they’re just regular YT videos but worse.

Yep that works now.

Broken link? It just 404’s

I’m on Android, but when I had an iphone as a secondary device, I just pinned a Lemmy webapp to the home screen. I try to keep my installed apps to a minimum. My way of not getting sucked into the thing all day.

But yeah, good/sad to know that the metadata isn’t as widely displayed as I thought it was :(