Me right now:

Dude, it’s your platform, Meta.

I was gonna say…“just stop selling them the ad space”. Like, wtf?

I’d have probably thought the same thing except a group of girls played/sang it during the high school talent show, so I already knew it was a real song.

FWIW, they did a kickass cover of it.

LOL, please tell me there’s a “let’s play” of that

• One Thousand Miles: Lip Sync Battle
• White Chicks: One Thousand Miles

I…kinda actually do (long story), but I also have a lot of pet peeves lol.

A+ for the article saying “in {number} states” and actually listing the states. So many articles fail to do that, and it’s one of my biggest pet peeves.

Assuming it’s this (LAPQO71A) …

Guide: https://cdn.cs.1worldsync.com/a5/d0/a5d06ff2-92b9-4510-a5af-b71e1deb4083.pdf

Page 20

Looks to be on the left (in the image) below the fan and underneath where your hand is in the image.

Kim Jong-un looking like he’s about to ask you to come visit his island for the weekend and perhaps pen a wee testimonial. Wonder if he also has a jet standing by at Choteau?

For me, if I can reach it, it’s “here”. If I can’t reach it without moving, it’s “there”.

What are the chances this opens some eyes / forces development of empathy? (I asked rhetorically)

It’s because your Linux PC is doing what you want it to do, and your Win 11 PC is doing what your employer + Microsoft wants it to do.

So instead of seeing that THC being pretty widely available for years has not caused the sky to fall and should be a reason to legalize it federally, they clutch their pearls and double down.

Sigh!

Yep, known issue: https://feddit.org/post/13613230

Can confirm, but depending on the VPS, your traffic may only be metered in one direction. Mine only meters egress, not ingress, so it’s not too bad if I want to use my media server.

I’m still putting that together, but it’s basically something like:

UPDATE post set url = thumbnail_url where thumbnail_url like 'https://dubvee.org/pictrs/image/%' and url like 'https://lemm.ee/pictrs/image/%'

For the Kbin users to clear out their avatar/banners, I just did:

UPDATE person set avatar=NULL, banner=NULL where instance_id=(select id from instance where domain='kbin.run')

UPDATE community set icon=NULL, banner=NULL where instance_id=(select id from instance where domain='kbin.run')

…and will update that for lemm.ee

I’m working on a Bun/NodeJS script to download the avatars, icons, and banners for all the lemm.ee users/communities, upload them to my pictrs, and then update the DB with the new values referencing the local images.

Prob gonna have to break that up into two steps so I can download and file the images before lemm.ee goes down and upload/assign them after (so they’re not overwritten by federation).

Not sure if I’m gonna do that for comment / post body images. Basically, I just want the archived communities to look nice.

Depending on how the admin has pict-rs (the “subsystem” it uses for media) configured, post images can create local copies /thumbnails for image posts. Some instances opt to do that, some don’t.

Other images like ones posted a comments, user/community avatars/banners aren’t stored anywhere except their home instance.

But yeah, even the limited caching has proven problematic if questionable/illegal content gets posted.

I’m gonna run some scripts on my instance’s database to look for posts that have lemm.ee pict-rs URLs and local thumbnails. Then update the url value to that of the local thumbnail_url. That’ll at least fix them on my instance where I have a copy.

I won’t be doing that until after lemm.ee shuts down, otherwise the original values will federate back in if there’s any activity on the posts.

For comment images or ones where my instance didn’t create a thumbnail, they’ll just have to be broken I guess - same goes for the community icons, though I suppose I could go ahead and get local versions of those and update the communities afterward. Prob also set those to “Mods only” in the database to keep local users from trying to post there.

For user avatars, I’ll probably just clear those in the database so when looking back at old content from .ee, it won’t try to fetch them and timeout/404.

There were less posts to worry about then, but for community icons and user avatars, that’s the same thing I did when kbin shut down.