Lemmy claims to be able to support any Bootstrap 5 theme as a drop-in Lemmy theme, and it’s surprisingly close to being true. If you go to ponder.cat right now, you’ll see one, based on Sandstone, that I’ve been fooling around with, because the provided Lemmy themes are mostly awful to me.

You could run one backend instance, have a main frontend to it on lemmy.whatever.com, and have a second frontend on whatever.com, with the theme set to a minimally modified version of Clean Blog or something, stripping out all the UI stuff and leaving only a blog. That would give you an RSS feed, a blog, a community that Lemmy people could follow, and a Fediverse actor that Mastodon people could follow, all in one place with all the comments unified. If you want to set the theme up that way, I can give you pointers, since I’ve just now been working on this for my instance.

I think you would need more RAM than that. Between Rust and Node, I probably wouldn’t try to make do with less than 2 GB at a bare minimum, and 4 might be better.

Huh?

Manifest v3 is not the rendering engine. The issue with manifest v3 is that the extension format is changing, so it’ll be more difficult to make ad blocker extensions work on Chrome. But a Chromium fork that is focused on privacy, of which there are several, and an ad blocker of which there are several, want to work together to make sure that their ad blocker is still working on the Chromium fork in question, it’s hard for me to see it being insurmountably difficult for them to collaborate on an API that will let it happen.

It’s not automatic, it can be difficult since they’re diverging from Chromium. But it is not on the same scale as trying to maintain a divergent browser engine.

It’s very cheap. Hostinger’s cheapest tier ($17/mo) can easily handle a single-user Lemmy instance. You’ll have to once in a blue moon worry about the image storage growing without limit, but it’s a solvable problem.

Nothing questionable that Mozilla does can affect the forks, as long as the forks have enough manpower to sustain themselves. There are, in fact, a few examples of projects with questionable leadership getting abandoned by their userbase, as everyone migrates to the fork.

I think what you need to worry about is whether the fork you’re using has enough momentum and developer time that it’s going to stay alive. That’s a concern whether or not you have a concern that the central leadership is going to do something obscene.

Thank you! It is monthly active user count (MAU) divided by number of subscribers. That gives a good metric for active communities, with a preference for newish communities with a lot of organic activity.

A few times a day, it takes the highest community by that metric, that has at least 50 subscribers and hasn’t already been posted, and posts it.

Am I right in assuming that - API wise - the bot only interacts with ponder.cat, and doesn’t make calls to the remote instance? (I’m wondering if there’s any barriers to it operating with communities that aren’t on a Lemmy instance).

Yes, that’s right. It should work fine on a non-Lemmy instance.

Does the bot resolve the human first, check what they moderate, and then resolve the community if they moderate it, or just always resolve the community, and then compare its moderators with who made the request? If its the latter, this could be a way for bad actors to crowbar a community onto your instance (assuming it doesn’t purge it if things don’t match up, of course).

It’s the latter. I think it’s okay. The same thing can happen on any instance where someone can search for a community from any other instance.

What would have happened if Otter had sent /add https://lemmy.ca/feeds/c/medicine.xml medicine@lemmy.ca ? Would this be like that time when someone put ‘google’ into google.com, and the Internet blew up?

It’s limited to one posting every 5 minutes per feed, so the damage would be limited, but you’re right that it would enter an infinite loop and post once every five minutes until someone put a stop to it.

Really great tool, thanks!

Thank you!

In the commands, will {instance} always be rss.ponder.cat?

create account on rss.ponder cat

Or do you make the communities and then we add feeds to them?

No to all. This particular tool is only for communities on other instances. It doesn’t interact with the big feeds on rss.ponder.cat.

rss.ponder.cat is for the all-RSS-post communities that I’ve been making. A lot of them will be pretty heavy on their posting, so some people may prefer to block the whole thing wholesale. I can add communities if people request it, but it’s something I want to be a little bit careful with, so as not to create too much spam.

This new tool is designed to add RSS feeds to communities outside of ponder.cat. Something like releases of a FOSS project, weather updates for a city, things like that. The moderators of those communities can use the bot to do whatever they want within their communities, without having to involve me.

Does each message need to have only one command?

No, you can issue multiple commands. It should work fine. Of course if it gives you any issues, you can let me know.

Edit: Otter already answered, I just didn’t see it. I’m leaving it for posterity, though.

I am not on reddit. Are you?

When smartphones were new, I started dating a girl who would roll over in bed first thing in the morning, pick up her phone, and start scrolling. I thought it was incredibly weird. Why not life? Why computer? Now, I do the same thing, and it’s normal. Or rather it was until a couple of weeks ago.

The scary thing is that I’ll start to get antsy as the one-hour mark comes near. I’ll keep checking the clock for when I can pick it up and get my stimulation. So far it is working most days, though, and it feels like it improves the rest of the day for me.

No phone or screen usage for 1 hour after I wake up.

I haven’t broken the addiction completely, but it’s progress.

Perfect sense. I don’t think that’s any kind of official expose by Target, only one person talking about their experience. But you’re right that it’s not conclusive one way or another.

It depends on the state, but they often can be combined to add up to a felony.

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladviceofftopic/comments/1dclnzd/if_target_can_compound_shoplifting_events_until/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Target/comments/1aiualn/how_does_target_keep_track_of_people_stealing/

Someone who claims to be Target LP goes into some interesting detail about their loss prevention, and doesn’t bring this up, in a context where it seems likely that they would have, if it were accurate.

It really comes across how upset he was about fourth amendment protections, when he was a cop.

I think that over the next few years Sam Altman is going to learn the same lessons that events have been trying to teach Elon Musk since circa 2021.

1. You didn’t build that. The people that work for you did.
2. Being a big hero is contingent on you and your behavior, and can change.
3. Those people who are giving you all this money aren’t your comrades. When your usefulness is at its end, they won’t give you a second thought.

That sounds perfect. Installing the system -devel package and -lfreetype is the right way to do it. Glad you got it working!

Remove the locally compiled install and install freetype-devel, and see if that works.

That is what GNU Stow does, with a lot of package-management-like helper commands which make it all organized and convenient.

i don’t. i install the dev package of my distro

I think you cracked the code. I was really curious what distribution this person was using that didn’t have freetype, but missing installing the -dev package makes perfect sense and I definitely remember doing that and tearing my hair out trying to figure out why I couldn’t compile some thing that needed dev headers.

OP, install libfreetype-dev or its equivalent on your system. 90% chance that fixes it.