Well, would you look at that, third-party protest voters / abstainers / “undecideds”: you saved Palestine. /s

i read that as “more Star Trek” and agree completely.

Paging Charlie Brooker…

They could save a lot on consulting fees with a cheap Netflix plan and binge watching Black Mirror.

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.

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.

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…)

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.

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.

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 :(

I use Tesseract 99% of the time and occasionally Photon; they both show the full metadata. I just checked against Lemmy UI and it just shows the description and not the title. Voayger just the link. So scratch “most UIs” from my previous statement then lol.

I thought at least Lemmy UI showed the embed title and description, but maybe they changed it since 0.18.whatever when I last used it.

To a degree yeah, that’s true. Most UIs, though, show the embed metadata which has the actual title. Though in the case of NYT, they’re notoriously bad about blocking non-browser requests (e.g. when Lemmy fetches the metadata server-side).

This probably isn’t the forum for this, lol, but there’s nothing stopping someone from posting a headline from and archive link to Breitbart and putting (Bloomberg) in the title. The actual source URL being visible and linked to the post goes a long way to prevent that kind of chicanery. And if a UI hides the source URL, it’s a bad UI lol.

It may get modded once someone reports the discrepancy, but in the time between it was posted and the time it gets modded, people will still see a tabloid headline thinking it’s legit. (Assuming most people just read the headline which is pretty common on social media).

Something to think about.

Which is why out of principle I’d rather limit my sharing of links to some websites by sharing archive links instead

I develop Tesseract which has MBFC integrated directly into it which is useless for archive links. I just twitched when I read your reply lol 😆

But you’re also involved with the “Fedverse vs Disinformation” community, so I’ll say this: Archive links as the main URL are a way for tabloid trash headlines to carry the same weight as reputable ones. That’s my main gripe against seeing them used as the primary post URL.

As someone who works in tech, hearing the three letters S-E-O has become basically an off switch for my brain. lol.

I’m currently playing Portal, Portal Reloaded, and Portal Stories: Mel at the same time.

Basically I’ll play one, hit “that freaking level” and then rotate through. lol