I used to watch one with Adam West and Burt Ward playing the vigilantes, but the grit and realism of that show got to me after a while.

You mean “unread”? I see, maybe blocked or /ignore or whatever it’s called on Discord. I don’t think I’d date a Discord user either, so it’s ok.

Ehh still seems useless, they then just have to age the accounts before posting. One thing I’d want to know is of those posts are in topic areas that anyone would want to influence surreptitiously.

Kind of useless probably, at least in the present state of Lemmy. We’re not particularly overrun by new users. That would be a good problem to have.

Just wear a hat to cover up the L written on your forehead.

I remember it from baseball, way back. Each team had a W-L record.

Wait what? It doesn’t sound like there is anything to revive. IDK what it means to be “left on read” but yeah, move on. If it’s a long term Discord maybe things will reset themselves after a long enough wait, but don’t bet on it.

Try Forth if you want a bare bones language.

Common Lisp has meta programming built-in but no one uses Common Lisp for a good reason.

I use Common Lisp, but maybe you’re right and my reason for using it is bad.

Web search finds some Facebook resources:

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=report+threat+on+facebook

If you have to do crap like keep a bat next to your bed, you’ve somewhat already lost.

You know the person’s Facebook name? That might help.

Maybe this? https://www.ic3.gov/

I was only able to make sense of this after looking at the Hexbear crosspost and following the comment thread. It’s a parody of a similar map of China.

You have it approximately right, serving from an https domain does nothing to authenticate the thing being downloaded. There is such a thing as signed downloads, authenticated by a “code signing certificate”, used for things like Windows installers. Linux distros tend to use PGP signatures instead. Signing the download can in principle be a more secure process than serving a domain over https, since servers get pwned all the time. The download signing, by contrast, can in principle be done completely offline. There is a catch to that involving connecting to a timestamp server, but that gets into the weeds.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_signing

Bands can start their own “labels” on archive.org, https://archive.org/details/netlabels . is that what you had in mind?

The attraction of youtube for almost all listeners is the huge copyrighted collection, which is (mostly) there through artist permission or upload, because the artists get a chunk of the ad revenue. Any serious competitor would also have to somehow deliver a payment stream, which means ads or subscriptions or something. Not really a fediverse thing.

Lemmy is sort of crappy through its software decisions, similar to how Reddit is crappy but in some ways worse. There’s not much we can do about that as users. Reddit also manages to paper over some of its crappiness through moderator interventions, while Lemmy tends to let crap slide. Crappiness = clickbait titles with no indication of what the link is about, lots of duplicate posts, etc. Lemmy adds the problem of fragmenting communities across instances. I think I heard that posts duplicated across multiple communities in a single instances will somehow be cleaned up in 1.0, which can help.

Anyway there’s not a whole lot that users can do, except maybe launch some new instances or forks that don’t suck as much.

How can I wipe the dust in a way so as to avoid just pushing it around so much?

Vacuum it. My friend has a Roomba that does her whole house automatically. I thought those things were ridiculous until I actually saw it.

Also, as someone said, air filtration should get some of the dust out of the air. That is healthy for breathing. If you don’t mind the noise, you can make a powerful air filter from a box fan and 4 furnace filters: look up “Corsi-Rosenthal box” for how to do that. Otherwise you can get a smaller one.

So find the places where the bitrate changes and decode and analyze those frames. Outdoors, true, leaves blow around, there is wildlife etc. A harder problem. I was thinking more of an indoor security camera. As for examining the bit rate, I guess it depends on the encoding, but e.g. in .mp4 there is a “key frame” every so often and then a bunch of delta frames, and if stuff is changing too fast iirc the key frames become more frequent. But I believe there is a fast way to scan for them, that is needed for fast forwarding in video.

I have to wonder if there’s a faster way than literally decoding the video and analyzing the decoded frames, if that’s how you’re doing it with ffmpeg. Video compression revolves around motion estimation so maybe it’s possible to just scan the file and find frames where the motion vectors (the data saying how the stuff in the picture is changing at a given frame) suddenly get larger. I assume this is for something like a security video that usually shows a static picture, and OP wants to flag when someone enters the room. In that case there will be almost no motion most of the time, and suddenly there will be some.

One thing that can help (more for libraries than large applications) is “dependency cooldowns”. Basically don’t use the latest version of anything until a few weeks after its release. The hope is that most malicious changes or blatant bugs will be caught fairly early.

https://blog.yossarian.net/2025/11/21/We-should-all-be-using-dependency-cooldowns

The keyboard just sits in my backpack, so I have it if I want to type more than a few sentences on my phone, which usually means I didn’t bring my laptop (an old chonker). A smaller laptop would be better tbh, but my old one broke and I haven’t replaced it. Yeah seeing the phone screen while typing isn’t so easy, but I’m a touch typist, so I type first and then look. Battery not too much of a problem tbh. I just charge it up once in a while. I had one previously that used AAA cells (preferable) but I misplaced it.

It’s not perfect but it beats the phone keyboard and I would say beats a Blackberry-style keyboard. I never used a real Blackberry but I had a Nokia E63 for a while, and it was the same idea. It was better than a screen keyboard but still a severe compromise. You can currently get something like that from M5Stack.

The tiny BT keyboard with horrible keybounce that I had for a while looked like this:

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3601

I like to think the linked one might be better, but I haven’t tried it.