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idk how this would even work but there should be a little button where i can click a little picture of Sartre and it posts the entire "absurdism of the antisemite" quote. Or the "America is a one party state with 2 parties" or anything john brown ever said

There's something about learning loads of useless trivia that draws people, and TIL is really popular. Not only that, but TIL is an organic way to educate people, even on the most commonest of things. The reactionary-TIL has posts like "TIL about the tank man who resisted tanks with his bodie" and "TIL about stalins big spoon" resurfacing every few months, which serves to teach newcomers the lore of the liberal world, and the creation of its based counterpart here would teach the vibes-based ML worldview instead.

may haps i will request it... later

Put your dukes up, let's go.

In my inbox

1. I marked everything as "read".

2. I went to "All" and I can't upvote or comment. Clicking on the upvote or reply icon just makes them shake. But if I open a reply in a new tab - everything is normal. I can upvote and reply.

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Edit

Clearing my cache solved the problem.

db0 and Unruffled have both been banned for reactionary behavior and, in the case of the former, DM harassment.

Due to these irreconcilable differences we thought it only right to allow the community to weigh in on defederating immediately.

According to this person "tankie" is anyone that criticizes the privilege of white westerners in the imperial core who have been privileged and comfortable their entire lives off of the backs of colonized people.

Further context can be found in this thread

https://hexbear.net/post/2484423

As always, use to vote for federation and to vote for defederation.

We got active, new, hot, controversial (which is useless because theres no downvote button why not BOGO?

A not real thing people believe is real, seem likes a meme to me.

I had a post removed today for using the word "spook" in reference to government agents, a common usage that I see around the site, because it is a racial slur, although ive never seen it used with that intent (not that it matters), and it only gets removed maybe 10% of the time. In order to be consistent and not offend any comrades I would propose adding it to the word filter so its removal will be uniform and not open to mod interpretation.

How can I share an archived version of a WSJ journal article? I think the site is actively blocking archive sites but I'm not a tech person so I have no idea if that's true or not.

Example link - https://www.wsj.com/finance/stocks/tesla-stock-fans-not-selling-f45fec37

None of the archive sites listed under "url" work. After the page is saved...

• At archive.today - loading icon
• At ghostarchive.org - "Archiving error"
• At archive.org - It saved the paywalled version of the page.

Maybe this has been discussed before, so feel free to tell me to buz off if so. In the web UI, emojis are rendered at what appear to be a pretty normal size.

For example, this is rendering with a fixed width of 60px

Without the Emoji tag, however, this becomes a normal image.

This now renders at its full resolution of 129x120 pixels.

This is a pretty small deviation, but some of the emojis are much higher resolution.

Take the Kelly Emoji for example: It's pretty small at a fixed width of 60px; however, its full size is 393x268px.

The URL could be rendered using the thumbnail param but that isn't a clean looking rescale:

https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4130400e-bfdb-4b39-bee4-739802528a0f.png?thumbnail=60

vs

However, it does reduce the size of the file from 13kb to roughly 1kb.

For UI rendering, it would appear that the only important requirement is that your Markdown has a title/alt text that is emoji followed by an emoji name.

![kelly]( https://www.hexbear.net "emoji kelly")

![this could be whatever]( https://www.hexbear.net "emoji sicko-flipped")

For users who are browsing from a mobile app, they will see a broken image. The UI replaces the rendered image tag, which should look like this:

<img src="https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4130400e-bfdb-4b39-bee4-739802528a0f.png" title="emoji kelly" alt="emoji kelly">

with this:

<img class="icon icon-emoji" src="https://www.hexbear.net/pictrs/image/4130400e-bfdb-4b39-bee4-739802528a0f.png" title="kelly" alt="kelly">

giving it the classes icon and icon-emoji which then apply some CSS rendering that sets the size to 60px

.icon-emoji {
  width: 60px;
  height: auto;
  max-height: inherit;
}

Even though the UI is scaling these emojis down to a reasonable size, the site still delivers the full resolution file when rendering the page.

The impact of this becomes more apparent when you select the emoji picker. As you scroll through the emoji list, you are generating requests that can total up just over 100 MB of data transferred across just over 2500 files. Obviously, this is an extreme example, one that has more to do with the emoji picker's inefficiencies then anything else.

view larger image here

One of the other side effects (if it really matters to anyone) is that because LemmyUI injects the emoji image via identifying its tag name in the title property and replacing the image tag with the preformed img tag with resizing classes (url and everything), most mobile apps render the inline images at full resolution. It also opens up some shinanigans that I won't outline here, that you won't detect unless you're using a mobile app.

The matter of rendering size appears to be a known issue: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/issues/3520 or at least an issue that's been reported. I don't know what the ramifications would be in using the /images/process end point for every emoji inserted into a comment. Obviously, it wouldn't be worth it to use that endpoint to receive a resized file via the UI. It doesn't seem to be an endpoint you can call without some kind of authentication anyway. Not as simple as adding ?resize=60 to the end of the URL. If I had to guess, you would want to use that endpoint on upload to save the file at the approprate size. (I think that's how it should work anyway, pict-rs documentation is pretty... sparse).

Just something I've noticed and wanted to put out there to the wider hexbearian audience. I've yet to set up a dev environment for lemmy (it's on my growing list of things I'd like to tinker with); otherwise I'd probably look at this myself, since it could be a simple change (which I admit is a naive thought).

No idea if you do appeals

I sent this DM to avoid the impression on the part of @destroyamerica@lemmygrad.ml that I was trying to publicly accuse them of being an alt just because we had a disagreement. Making it a DM establishes that it's personal banter.

If this is unacceptable, so be it, but 30 days ban for this waters down the definition of harassment a lot.

There are a few users on the site without pronouns now (other than "none/use name", I mean like there is no pronoun field at all)

Was considering writing a patch for this unless this is intended behavior now? I would have submitted a diff but I can't build lemmy on my system to test any changes :(

It seems like the patch would be pretty easy, there is already pronoun validation code it just needs to be applied when people try to update their username

This seems like a deviation from the path laid out for us by comrade TC69

What do you think?

I’m probably going to the_dunk_tank for this, but…

Requirements: Violentmonkey browser extension. Tampermonkey and Greasemonkey might work as well, but I haven’t & won’t test them. Note also that I haven’t & won’t test Chrome or Edge, either.

// ==UserScript==
// @name        lemmy-delete-tagline
// @match       https://hexbear.net/
// @require https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@violentmonkey/dom@2
// ==/UserScript==
VM.observe(document.body, () => {
  const node = document.querySelector('#tagline');
  if (node) {
    node.remove();
    return true;
  }
});

Edit to add: Maybe it needs some work: when I click on the homepage icon from another page, it fails to remove the tagline. I’m an old who doesn’t understand how progressive web applications work. Maybe I need to remove the return true and also tune how often the observer observes. Or maybe there’s some trigger I should hook it up to. Simply removing return true does seem to work, but I have no idea if it’s at the cost of any appreciable performance.

Edit to add more: !companero@hexbear.net suggested that I just use a uBlock Origin filter. I tried it and it works. It’s as simple as:

hexbear.net###tagline

I stopped visiting hexbear.net because it is so slow to load. Today i timed it, it took 1 minute 36 second to load the main page. My connection is 24 Mbps, Reddit for example takes less than 1 second to load the main page. Is this a problem on my end? Or is the site slow for other people?

The title says it, I'm trying to change my email, when placing my new email and clicking save the thing gets stuck in a loading loop until the site times out. All other functions work well and it seems to be only hexbear related as other lemmy instances do not have this(at least for me). Would be glad to provide anything for it to be fixed. Thanks

I don't know how many messages have done that today in the past ~7 hours. ~5-ish I guess.

I've been checking "all" once in a while to not miss any.

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Edit

Also - I just noticed that a significant number of messages are entirely missing from "all". I have messages to "5 hours ago" and then there's a huge lacuna to "2 days". I've been posting quite a lot so ~40-ish messages are missing. If not a lot more.

Off topic: Who doesn't like the word "lacuna"?

You don't have to expand every post to check it out, this is just one view option

cross-posted from: https://hexbear.net/post/2058302

You are the only instance that is this hard to connect to lol!!!

I went to the trouble of swapping my Misskey instance to one on your Allowed list... it still isn't accepting my invite! That's the only way I can get your posts to appear on the instance...

P.S. Re: my username: I forgot which account I was going to give dental advice. Actually, I just remembered. Someone who mentioned braces. I was going to tell them to get Super Floss which is at big box stores and stuff. It's so awesome, obliterates braces gunk (this saved my life in high school, wish my orthodontist told me, screw orthodontists, they are all demons)

for example when I type :cringe and it opens the menu for me to browse, it pulls up like 200 emotes most of which don't even have half of the word cringe in them, just way, way too many results so I couldn't find the ones actually tagged with the keyword. Am I doin something wrong?

Love the new system, thanks so much for the hard work! I think something in the searching algorithm is a bit loose? I don't know how to code in the slightest so idunno but something sure isn't right

Not sure if this is the right place to ask. Delete if not allowed. But I am in a Mastodon server and see basically always the same opinions shared by everyone. I am just wondering if it's a Mastodon thing or a server thing

I keep finding things like direct replies to my posts and to my comments in the wild instead of via my inbox because my stuff is marked as read before I’ve interacted with the page. Any idea why this might be?