[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 2 hours ago
  • He couldn't possibly know they'd go for that.
  • Grifters don't always think things like this through.
  • A surprising # of people would probably willingly take the death penalty to get 15 minutes of fame, especially for an action as popular as this was.
[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

Harry Belafonte did a good amount of xmas songs, all of them great.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 18 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

I personally don't think he did it. He could easily be a grifter trying to take credit for a very popular act. There's no shortage of those. All you'd need to do:

  • Walk into a public place with a bag of somewhat incriminating items, but nothing that's linked to the actual crime scene.
  • Arouse enough suspicion to get the cops called on you. Being a white guy with black hair and a hoodie is not enough for someone to call the cops on you, I have no idea why people believe that was enough for a McD's employee to call the cops.
  • Claim credit for the shooting to the cops.
  • Bonus points - Have a social media history praising similar actions.

The altoona cops then forwarded this to the NYPD, who were desperate to pin this on someone, after they messed up and let the shooter slip through their fingers. Out of the all the tips, this was the best one they'd gotten so far, so they're running with it now.

This also explains why Luigi's taking credit for some, but not all of the claims the police made (especially about the money he was supposedly carrying).

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 hours ago

Nearly every societal problem has a solution, but you need a medical / buddhist / marxist / approach (probably a lot of other disciplines / lenses use this approach too, those are just some ones that more or less follow this).

  • Correctly identify the actual problem.
  • Find the root cause(s) of the problem.
  • Name / describe the state without that problem.
  • Outline the cure / steps to carry it out and reach that goal.

The only problems that aren't solvable, are things that would break the laws of physics.

As for drugs / alcohol use, lemmygrad and hexbear have a lot of good threads on drug / alcohol use, and how to view it, and handle it collectively. The USA is probably the worst example of a country to look at for alleviating the societal ills brought about by alcohol and drug mis-use, so its good to look at how socialist countries have tackled it throughout history. If you can't find a thread I'd recommend asking over there, because you'll get a lot of good answers.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago

Oooh yeah that's a good one.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 hours ago
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I've been listening to a ton of classic xmas albums lately, and want some more to add to my xmas playlist.

Thx in advance.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 3 points 11 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

Its also really surprising to me that western europe, especially germany, being a front line of the cold war, doesn't have higher home-ownership rates. These are very rich imperial-core countries, which had huge infusions of resources from the US to raise standards of living after WW2 and provide a more appealing "alternative to communism". Yet home-ownership is still pretty low in a lot of these welfare states.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml -2 points 11 hours ago

Home ownership is by family, not every single person.

Also just because something "feels" wrong in your gut (probably because it doesn't satisfy your western-supremacist biases), doesn't make it false. Claims should be backed up by data, not gut feelings.

[-] dessalines@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 hours ago

I don't want to turn this into a homeowners association / HOA gripe-fest, but we "own" our home, and I'm not allowed to put a bird-feeder on my balcony, according to HOA rules. This is in freedom-loving USA.

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submitted 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

My favorite that I've used for years, foursquare, is shutting down in a few days. Pretty bummed because I found some of the best restaurants I've ever been to with it. 15 years and thousands of reviews, all in the trash now.

Google maps is useless for most cities, in mine every restaurant has a 4.7-4.8, and seems gamed.

Yelp is an awful company I'd rather not use, and its based on top reviewers, rather than reviews.

Tripadvisor is missing way too much to be useful.

What are ppl using nowadays?

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Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

We should also have a bugfix release for a few issues with the last release, and have 0.19.8 sometime soon.

flamingo-cant-draw

avdb13

dessalines

Nutomic

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

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Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

We should also have a bugfix release for a few issues with the last release, and have 0.19.7 ready today or sometime soon.

karminski

dullbananas

  • Combine action tables. This will greatly improve the performance of lemmy's post database queries by simplifying the number of joined tables.

SleeplessOne1917

Nutomic

dessalines

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

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Lemmy v0.19.7 Release (join-lemmy.org)
submitted 1 month ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/22529967

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Changes

This is a small bugfix release with the following:

  • Fixing cors origin wildcard. by @dessalines in #5194
  • Fetch community mods synchronously by @Nutomic in #5169
  • Move aggregates to replaceable_schema, fix error (fixes #5186) by @Nutomic in #5190

Full Changelog

Upgrade instructions

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

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Lemmy v0.19.6 Release (join-lemmy.org)
submitted 1 month ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Changes

This release took a long time to complete due to a major performance problem which brought lemmy.ml to a crawl every time we tried to deploy the new version. It took a lot of testing (in production) to narrow it down to a single commit, and finally fix the problem.

The release itself contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements:

Lemmy

Enhancements

  • Parallel federation sending by @phiresky in #4623
  • Reduce CPU usage for generating link previews by @phiresky in #4957
  • Switch from OpenSSL to rustls by @kwaa in #4901
  • Increase max post url length to 2000 characters by @dessalines in #4960
  • Increase max length of user bio to 1000 charactes by @dessalines #5014
  • Reduce maximum comment depth to 50 by @nutomic #5009
  • Resize post thumbnails by @nutomic #5107/files
  • Add category to RSS feeds by @nutomic #5030
  • Allow users to view their own removed/deleted communities by @dessalines in #4912
  • Add backend check to enforce hierarchy of admins and mods by @dessalines in #4860
  • Do pictrs transformations for proxied image urls by @dessalines in #4895
  • Enable more build optimizations by @nutomic in #5168
  • Calculate "controversial" ranking with exponent instead of multiply (just like Reddit) by @dullbananas in #4872
  • Automatically remove tracking parameters from URLs by @dessalines #5018
  • Relax timeout for sending activities by @Nothing4You in #4864

Bug Fixes

  • Fix admin notification for new user registration (fixes #4916) by @Nutomic in #4925
  • Allow community settings changes by remote mods @flamingo-cant-draw in #4937
  • Fix problem with connecting to Postgres with TLS @FenrirUnbound in #4910
  • Fix bug when commenting in local-only community by @dessalines in #4854 and @abdel-m in #4920
  • Fix scheduled task to delete users with denied applications by @Nothing4You in #4907

API

  • Return image dimensions and content type in API responses by @dessalines in #4704
  • Adding a show_read override to GetPosts. by @dessalines in #4846
  • Add show_nsfw override filter to GetPosts. by @dessalines in #4889
  • Require authentication for site metadata fetch endpoint by @dessalines in #4968
  • Add the ability to fetch a registration application by person_id by @dessalines in #4913
  • Order community posts by published data, not id by @dullbananas in #4859
  • Throw error when non-mod posts to mod-only comm or when URL is blocked by @flamingo-cant-draw in #4966
  • Add option to search exclusively by post title by Carlos-Cabello #5015

Database

  • Approve applications in transaction by @Nothing4You in #4970
  • Use trigger to generate apub URL in insert instead of update, and fix query planner options not being set when TLS is disabled by @dullbananas in #4797

Lemmy-UI

  • Fix full-size post images. by @dessalines in #2797
  • Fix modlog ID filtering. by @dessalines in #2795
  • Allow Arabic and Cyrillic characters when signing up or creating community by @SleeplessOne1917
  • UX - Swap "Select Language" and "Cancel/Preview/Reply" button locations around in commentsReverse order of buttons in Reply TextArea
  • Fix jump to content by @SleeplessOne1917
  • Fixing peertube and ordinary video embeds. by @dessalines in #2676
  • Changing sameSite cookie from Strict to Lax. by @dessalines in #2677
  • Remove show new post notifs setting. by @dessalines in #2675
  • Fix memory leak around emojis on server render by @makotech222 in #2674
  • Enable spellcheck for markdown text area by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2669
  • Pre release dep bump by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2661
  • Add ability to fill magnet link title on post creation. by @dessalines in #2654
  • Registration application view by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2651
  • Add torrent help by @dessalines in #2650
  • More moderation history by @dessalines in #2649
  • Fix tribute related bug by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2647
  • Remove min and max length from password input when using login form by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2643
  • Remove trending communities card from home. by @dessalines in #2639
  • Set data-bs-theme based on the presence of "dark" in theme name by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2638
  • Fixing modlog filtering to allow admins and mods to filter by mod. by @dessalines in #2629
  • Fix issue from logo bugfix by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2620
  • Make more post params cross-postable by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2621
  • Fix wonky comment action icon button alignment by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2622
  • Prevent broken logo from crashing site by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2619
  • Add rate limit info message. by @dessalines in #2563
  • Fix getQueryString by @matc-pub in #2558

New Contributors

  • @abdel-m made their first contribution in #4920
  • @johnspurlock made their first contribution in #4917
  • @FenrirUnbound made their first contribution in #4910
  • @kwaa made their first contribution in #4901
  • @Daniel15 made their first contribution in #4892

Full Changelog

Upgrade instructions

This upgrade could take as long as ~30 minutes for larger servers, due to needing to recalculate controversy ranks for all historical posts.

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Special shout out to @SleeplessOne1917, @phiresky, @dullbananas, @mv-gh, @Nothing4u, @asonix, @sunaurus, @flamingo-cant-draw, and @Freakazoid182 for their many code contributions and helpful insights.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

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Lemmy v0.19.6 Release (join-lemmy.org)

What is Lemmy?

Lemmy is a self-hosted social link aggregation and discussion platform. It is completely free and open, and not controlled by any company. This means that there is no advertising, tracking, or secret algorithms. Content is organized into communities, so it is easy to subscribe to topics that you are interested in, and ignore others. Voting is used to bring the most interesting items to the top.

Changes

This release took a long time to complete due to a major performance problem which brought lemmy.ml to a crawl every time we tried to deploy the new version. It took a lot of testing (in production) to narrow it down to a single commit, and finally fix the problem.

The release itself contains numerous bug fixes and minor improvements:

Lemmy

Enhancements

  • Parallel federation sending by @phiresky in #4623
  • Reduce CPU usage for generating link previews by @phiresky in #4957
  • Switch from OpenSSL to rustls by @kwaa in #4901
  • Increase max post url length to 2000 characters by @dessalines in #4960
  • Increase max length of user bio to 1000 charactes by @dessalines #5014
  • Reduce maximum comment depth to 50 by @nutomic #5009
  • Resize post thumbnails by @nutomic #5107/files
  • Add category to RSS feeds by @nutomic #5030
  • Allow users to view their own removed/deleted communities by @dessalines in #4912
  • Add backend check to enforce hierarchy of admins and mods by @dessalines in #4860
  • Do pictrs transformations for proxied image urls by @dessalines in #4895
  • Enable more build optimizations by @nutomic in #5168
  • Calculate "controversial" ranking with exponent instead of multiply (just like Reddit) by @dullbananas in #4872
  • Automatically remove tracking parameters from URLs by @dessalines #5018
  • Relax timeout for sending activities by @Nothing4You in #4864

Bug Fixes

  • Fix admin notification for new user registration (fixes #4916) by @Nutomic in #4925
  • Allow community settings changes by remote mods @flamingo-cant-draw in #4937
  • Fix problem with connecting to Postgres with TLS @FenrirUnbound in #4910
  • Fix bug when commenting in local-only community by @dessalines in #4854 and @abdel-m in #4920
  • Fix scheduled task to delete users with denied applications by @Nothing4You in #4907

API

  • Return image dimensions and content type in API responses by @dessalines in #4704
  • Adding a show_read override to GetPosts. by @dessalines in #4846
  • Add show_nsfw override filter to GetPosts. by @dessalines in #4889
  • Require authentication for site metadata fetch endpoint by @dessalines in #4968
  • Add the ability to fetch a registration application by person_id by @dessalines in #4913
  • Order community posts by published data, not id by @dullbananas in #4859
  • Throw error when non-mod posts to mod-only comm or when URL is blocked by @flamingo-cant-draw in #4966
  • Add option to search exclusively by post title by Carlos-Cabello #5015

Database

  • Approve applications in transaction by @Nothing4You in #4970
  • Use trigger to generate apub URL in insert instead of update, and fix query planner options not being set when TLS is disabled by @dullbananas in #4797

Lemmy-UI

  • Fix full-size post images. by @dessalines in #2797
  • Fix modlog ID filtering. by @dessalines in #2795
  • Allow Arabic and Cyrillic characters when signing up or creating community by @SleeplessOne1917
  • UX - Swap "Select Language" and "Cancel/Preview/Reply" button locations around in commentsReverse order of buttons in Reply TextArea
  • Fix jump to content by @SleeplessOne1917
  • Fixing peertube and ordinary video embeds. by @dessalines in #2676
  • Changing sameSite cookie from Strict to Lax. by @dessalines in #2677
  • Remove show new post notifs setting. by @dessalines in #2675
  • Fix memory leak around emojis on server render by @makotech222 in #2674
  • Enable spellcheck for markdown text area by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2669
  • Pre release dep bump by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2661
  • Add ability to fill magnet link title on post creation. by @dessalines in #2654
  • Registration application view by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2651
  • Add torrent help by @dessalines in #2650
  • More moderation history by @dessalines in #2649
  • Fix tribute related bug by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2647
  • Remove min and max length from password input when using login form by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2643
  • Remove trending communities card from home. by @dessalines in #2639
  • Set data-bs-theme based on the presence of "dark" in theme name by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2638
  • Fixing modlog filtering to allow admins and mods to filter by mod. by @dessalines in #2629
  • Fix issue from logo bugfix by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2620
  • Make more post params cross-postable by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2621
  • Fix wonky comment action icon button alignment by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2622
  • Prevent broken logo from crashing site by @SleeplessOne1917 in #2619
  • Add rate limit info message. by @dessalines in #2563
  • Fix getQueryString by @matc-pub in #2558

New Contributors

  • @abdel-m made their first contribution in #4920
  • @johnspurlock made their first contribution in #4917
  • @FenrirUnbound made their first contribution in #4910
  • @kwaa made their first contribution in #4901
  • @Daniel15 made their first contribution in #4892

Full Changelog

Upgrade instructions

This upgrade could take as long as ~30 minutes for larger servers, due to needing to recalculate controversy ranks for all historical posts.

There are no breaking changes with this release.

Follow the upgrade instructions for ansible or docker.

If you need help with the upgrade, you can ask in our support forum or on the Matrix Chat.

Thanks to everyone

We'd like to thank our many contributors and users of Lemmy for coding, translating, testing, and helping find and fix bugs. We're glad many people find it useful and enjoyable enough to contribute.

Special shout out to @SleeplessOne1917, @phiresky, @dullbananas, @mv-gh, @Nothing4u, @asonix, @sunaurus, @flamingo-cant-draw, and @Freakazoid182 for their many code contributions and helpful insights.

Support development

We (@dessalines and @nutomic) have been working full-time on Lemmy for over five years. This is largely thanks to support from NLnet foundation, as well as donations from individual users.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. A recurring donation is the best way to ensure that open-source software like Lemmy can stay independent and alive, and helps us grow our little developer co-op to support more full-time developers.

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submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml

Don't panic , we're just doing some server upgrades.

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submitted 1 month ago by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml
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Here is our regular update that explains what we have been working on for the past two weeks. This should allow average users to keep up with development, without reading Github comments or knowing how to program.

We also apologize for all the downtime on lemmy.ml recently, but thanks to @Nutomic and @phiresky, we've narrowed down the issue, and have a fix for it.

This was a blocker for the 0.19.6 release, so that should be ready to go soon, with 0.20.0 not long after.

flamingo-cant-draw

SleeplessOne1917

Nothing4You

Integral-Tech

dessalines

Nutomic

Support development

@dessalines and @nutomic are working full-time on Lemmy to integrate community contributions, fix bugs, optimize performance and much more. This work is funded exclusively through donations.

If you like using Lemmy, and want to make sure that we will always be available to work full time building it, consider donating to support its development. Recurring donations are ideal because they allow for long-term planning. But also one-time donations of any amount help us.

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