Admiral Patrick

I’m surprisingly level-headed for being a walking knot of anxiety.

Ask me anything.

I also develop Tesseract UI for Lemmy/Sublinks

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  • Yeah, I’m talking more people who just spam downvotes than anything. There’s definitely an ego angle on the mod side, for sure, but in my own case I let the script and its thresholds take care of that and just review later.

    In the case of my script, it also accounts for upvotes (and the overall up/down ratio and number of submissions for them in the community) as well as the account’s age. I don’t want to publish the thresholds to avoid people gaming them, but I’ve got it pretty well tuned to avoid all but the weirdest false positives. It’s not perfect (tends to err on the side of caution), but at least it’s fair and removes ego/emotion from the mix.





  • Personally, I think no to both points.

    I liken it to people intentionally showing up somewhere they clearly don’t want to be just to “boo” people minding their own business. See something in /all you don’t like and throw it a downvote? Whatever. But making a conscious effort to go in and/or consistently downvote stuff in that community is crossing a line, IMO. At that point, just block the community and move on.

    Mods can’t (currently?) do much about it, but on my own instance, I can detect that kind of activity with database scripts. They run on a schedule and, after a user hits a certain threshold of strictly negative “participation”, the script will ban them from the community.


  • AI bots absolutely rip through your sites like something rabid.

    SemrushBot being the most rabid from my experience. Just will not take “fuck off” as an answer.

    That looks pretty much like how I’m doing it, also as an include for each virtual host. The only difference is I don’t even bother with a 403. I just use Nginx’s 444 “response” to immediately close the connection.

    Are you doing the IP blocks also in Nginx or lower at the firewall level? Currently I’m doing it at firewall level since many of those will also attempt SSH brute forces (good luck since I only use keys, but still…)



  • Admiral Patrick@dubvee.orgtoSysadmin@lemmy.worldThe new Dell naming scheme is out
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    It’s like their entire product line can be named with a script seeded with random buzzwords:

    function generateProductName() {
      const baseName = 'Dell'
      const buzzwords = ['Base', 'Plus', 'Premium', 'Pro', 'Max']
      let modelName = ''
    
      for (let i = 0; i < 1+ Math.ceil(Math.random() * buzzwords.length); i++) {
        modelName +=  ` ${buzzwords[Math.floor(Math.random() * buzzwords.length)]}`
      }
      return baseName + modelName
    }
    
    
    for (let i=0; i<6; i++) {
        console.log(generateProductName())
    }
    
    Dell Premium Pro Plus Pro Max
    Dell Base
    Dell Max Plus
    Dell Pro Pro Pro
    Dell Plus
    Dell Base Plus
    

  • reflecting Lemmy’s political leanings

    I’m not here for that at all., and I tend to block anyone who makes their political ideology their entire identity. Can we not just be people talking to other people about cool stuff and leave the political ideology at the door? Geesh!

    Like, I don’t want this place to be a lefty circlejerk any more than I want it to be a rightwing circle jerk. Not everything has to have a political angle to it.

    I also refuse to let .ml set the tone for the entirety of Lemmy.







  • This probably isn’t the forum for this, lol, but there’s nothing stopping someone from posting a headline from and archive link to Breitbart and putting (Bloomberg) in the title. The actual source URL being visible and linked to the post goes a long way to prevent that kind of chicanery. And if a UI hides the source URL, it’s a bad UI lol.

    It may get modded once someone reports the discrepancy, but in the time between it was posted and the time it gets modded, people will still see a tabloid headline thinking it’s legit. (Assuming most people just read the headline which is pretty common on social media).

    Something to think about.


  • Which is why out of principle I’d rather limit my sharing of links to some websites by sharing archive links instead

    I develop Tesseract which has MBFC integrated directly into it which is useless for archive links. I just twitched when I read your reply lol 😆

    But you’re also involved with the “Fedverse vs Disinformation” community, so I’ll say this: Archive links as the main URL are a way for tabloid trash headlines to carry the same weight as reputable ones. That’s my main gripe against seeing them used as the primary post URL.