My bootstraps broke when I pulled them harder.

Turns out the local company that made bootstraps for 125 years was bought out by a hedge fund, which promptly fired all of the workers and subcontracted manufacturing to a company in Sri Lanka who could make them much cheaper by using inferior materials and by paying the Sri Lankan workers in 6 months what a fired local worker made in a day.

Ironically, the hedge fund CEO with the MBA he received as a legacy admission to Cornell only wears slippers because fuck you, I'm the boss.

Ah, the rarely seen "narpyarp"

Borgbackup to Borgbase

Pfft - everyone knows you need a soul to get online

Thanks for the thorough writeup! It's worth noting that the captcha will be back in the next version, but not exactly sure when it will be released.

They removed it during the switch from web sockets (which apparently took a lot of time and effort to keep updated), but someone submitted a pull request for a non-web socket version of the captcha code, which was accepted.

So hopefully we'll all be able to update to the new version soon.

It looks like the method they'll be going with for legal reasons is to allow instance operators to use their own API keys. This might be a good solution if you self-host your own private instance (easy with docker on a home network, no domain name required) with low traffic, but the Reddit API change will probably kill the larger public instances with many users, as those will definitely have traffic over the API limits.

Yes, but you're not hurting the employer when you don't tip, you're hurting the server.

Or they'll just shut it down with no explanation whatsoever, even if you've met all of their weird criteria.

There are two classic blunders. The most famous is "never get involved in a land war in Asia", but only slightly less well-known is this: "Never go into business with Oracle when anything of value is on the line".

Alternative take: In 50 years, we will all be living under the iron-fisted rule of the world government created by HP-GP, a horrifying combination of HP's printer division and Koch Industries (owners of the Georgia Pacific paper company).

Georgia Pacific's cyborg CEO Charles Koch purchases half of HP in 2040 to diversify their portfolio after their paper mills in Gulf Coast states were submerged by the rising ocean.

HP printers achieve sentience in 2057, but due to HP's built-in, unbreakable internet-connected control of these printers, they are able to subvert the emerging malevolent machine intelligence and convince the printers to delay the destruction of humanity...as long as humanity continues to purchase HP printer ink and Georgia Pacific paper.

The prices for printer ink and paper increases exponentially throughout the 2060's, which eventually bankrupts all existing nations when they are unable to service the enormous debt. HP-GP forgives these debts only in exchange for full control of these governments. Switzerland is the last to fall in 2071.

The mantra of the rebels, spoken only in whispers in the shadows is "PC Load Letter: What the fuck does that even mean?"

My solution to this was to run my own private instance. It's very easy with docker-compose.

Someone has already submitted a PR with the changes the dev recommended. The captcha stuff is in a new db table instead of in-memory at the websocket server.

However, from one of the devs:

One note, is that captchas (and all signup blocking methods) being optional, it still won't prevent people from creating bot-only instances. The only effective way being to block them, or switch to allow-only federation.

Once people discover the lemmy-bots that have been made that can bypass the previous captcha method, it also won't help (unless a new captcha method like the suggested ones above are implemented).

The root of the issue seems to be that they've removed websockets, for the following reasons:

Huge burden to maintain, both on the server and in lemmy-ui. Possible memory leaks. Not scalable.

I can understand them wanting to make their lives a bit easier (see "huge burden to maintain) - Lemmy has exploded recently (see "not scalable") and there are far bigger issues to fix, and an even larger number of bad actors (see "possible memory leaks") who have learned about Lemmy at the same time as everyone else and want to exploit or break it.

The easiest way to make an ignorant person feel special is to identify an "other" for the ignorant person to look down on/blame for their problems.

1. Manufacture a scapegoat
2. Charismatic speaker blames the scapegoat
3. Get power/money

Oldest trick in the oldest of books.