Meanwhile just a few posts above this:

A deadly E. coli outbreak hit 15 states, but the FDA chose not to publicize it

It wasn’t always an option - around the time of the first big mass migration of Reddit users it wasn’t something you could do. I actually wrote a tool at that time that could automate the manual action of re-subscribing / re-blocking everything.

But yeah, these days it’s a feature of Lemmy itself, which is great because it’s much more efficient than trying to do things client-side.

Super cool project. FYI it does require converting your ebooks to a special format.

I suspected as much since it’s using an Arduino Mega - very battery efficient I’m sure, but very underpowered.

Well in 2015 Jimmy Carter said that the United States is "just an oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery being the essence of getting the nominations for president or to elect the president. And the same thing applies to governors and U.S. senators and congress members. "

That same year The Economist’s Democracy Index downgraded the United States to a “flawed democracy” and it has continued to trend downwards since then.

If you’re looking for something more recent, Bernie Sanders is saying the same thing: “We are moving rapidly into an oligarchic form of society. Never before in American history have so few billionaires, so few people, have so much wealth and so much power”.

So between the massive (and growing) income inequality in the country, and rulings like Citizen’s United it’s hard not to believe it’s not at least on the trajectory towards an oligarchy. Now throw in the blatantly corrupt picks of the Trump administration, where cabinet positions are favors to rich friends, or being given to billionaires with a direct interest in killing the government agency they are running - not to mention all the things he’s routinely done / will do to enrich himself / friends with tax payer dollars and it certainly seems like an oligarchy to me.

And just on a personal vibes level, living here, it feels like legislation to help normal people or solve normal people’s problems is almost non-existent. And when it does happen, it also conveniently throws a ton of money at the rich at the same time (see recent tax cuts, pandemic relief funds, etc.). Even something like the Affordable Care Act, which did a ton of net good things for this country, enriched a whole lot of private healthcare companies along the way rather than creating an actual public option with negotiated prices to keep government costs down.

I don’t know enough to say if it’s a valid theory, but I saw one commenter suggest this scenario:

• Bird strike takes out 1 engine.
• Wrong engine is shut off by the pilots by mistake (now both engines aren’t operating)
• Without engine power, hydraulic systems stop working properly
• Pilots realize their mistake too late while trying to do a go around, try to land instead farther down the runway since they can’t climb.

I had a similar situation where a fence of this style was placed directly next to a bike path. At walking height, it would have been hard to land on, but on a bike at speed? It would have been way too easy to be impaled, and it was terrifying.

Simple thing, but are you sure you mounted the NFS share as NFSv4? I don’t have access to a machine to check right now, but I think it might default to mounting NFSv3, even if both sides support v4.

To add on to this answer (which is correct):

Your “of” can also just be a regular file if that’s easier to work with vs needing to create a new partition for the copy.

I’ll also say you might want to use the block size parameter “bs=” on “dd” to speed things up, especially if you are using fast storage. Using “dd” with “bs=1G” will speed things up tremendously if you have at least >1GB of RAM.

But on the other hand, if loans were subject to bankruptcy, most poor people would never be approved to get them.

Absolutely this. There are issues with deletes not federating properly too, right?

That’s a big part of the issue here too since even when .world cleans up the content it’s already been pushed out to every other instance and will now remain there until all THOSE admins also purge it.

I made one such tool!

https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

I know there’s also a python script out there and a new Android app that has active syncing. I don’t have links handy to those on mobile.

Under this broad of a ruleset, all software would have to be open source.

The PR for the necessary back-end changes is out for review on GitHub: https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3869

That link seems to 404. I will IM you shortly.

Sure thing.

Do you get any additional information in your error log?

If not, would you be open to running a version with additional debugging statements to help identify the cause of the failures?

I know there is an issue when .world is overloaded where this happens, but if it’s happening constantly it has to be something specific with your account vs mine.

LASIM author here - there does not appear to be any API changes in 0.18.4, and it seemed to work fine with my testing.

I’ve updated the table on the Github README to reflect this.

Maybe I’m completely misremembering things, but at some point wasn’t there a hotfix to Lemmy that hard-limited how many comments a thread could have? Does anyone know if there’s a maximum and if so how many?

Just wondering, cause uh, I could see this one having a lot of comments.

I posted this on another thread about this, but I’ll repost it here:

I have made a tool that can backup / copy your account settings, subscriptions, and blocks to a new account: https://github.com/CMahaff/lasim

There are others out there as well if you look.

Obviously the loss of .ml communities would still be catastrophic to Lemmy, but at least your new account won’t start from ground-zero, and you can be less effected by downtime by having 2 accounts with the same subscriptions.

Interesting! I wonder if that should be written up as a bug report, or if it’s by design. I guess I could see both cases. Glad you figured it out though!

The error is bubbling up from the activity pub library that Lemmy uses: https://github.com/LemmyNet/activitypub-federation-rust/blob/main/src/http_signatures.rs

See “ActivitySignatureInvalid”

Not sure why you’d be seeing this though. Something wrong with your Lemmy signature maybe? I’ve never actually set one up myself, but I assume you generate some kind of cert at some point, or it uses your SSL cert or something? Maybe a misconfiguration in that area?