andrew_s
@andrew_s@piefed.social
aka freamon
- Comment on Trending Communities for Thursday 21st November 2024 1 day ago:
I mentioned the other day that requests to walledgarden error (curl says 'transferred a partial file'). If another instance doesn't get a good response for these requests, then after 3 days, it'll mark the other instance as dead, and not federate out to it. Once this happens, it's a pain, because traffic from walledgarden doesn't make them realise that it's actually alive, you have to wait until it tries again and gets a successful response.
If you haven't done so already, it might be an idea to use curl to query your site, and see what the response in nginx says.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Thursday 21st November 2024 1 day ago:
There's been a recurring federation delay between lemmy.ml and lemmy.world:
https://grafana.lem.rocks/d/cdfzs0dwal3pca/federation-health-time-behind?orgId=1&var-instance=lemmy.ml&var-remote_software=lemmy&from=now-30d&to=now&var-remote_instance=lemmy.world&timezone=browserThe LW admins are aware, but I don't think they've yet nailed down the cause (it fixed itself yesterday, but has started again today). The same thing might be stopping the crawler from getting a full API response from them.
I have a test instance that's subscribed to a couple of communities, but is quiet enough to be able to monitor federation, and if you do that, you realise that there are activities that are meant to happen, and just flat-out don't. Other instances can recover (if they receive a reply for a post they don't know about because LW forgot to Announce it, then they can fetch it instead), but it's all a bit flaky, yeah.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Thursday 21st November 2024 1 day ago:
Boo! the upstream crawler is still borked (up a tiny bit to 9k communities now).
- Comment on Trending Communities for Wednesday 20th November 2024 2 days ago:
Hmmm. Something hasn't responded to the crawler (probably lemmy.world) - https://data.lemmyverse.net/ currently shows about 8k communities, when normally it shows 30k.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Saturday 16th November 2024 5 days ago:
!lemmydirectory@lemmy.dbzer0.com seems interesting, and it only took me 4 months to find out about it. Dunno if the list of communities it covers is being updated anymore though.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Wednesday 13th November 2024 1 week ago:
The bot gets its data from https://lemmyverse.net - which isn't aware of https://walledgarden.xyz. I don't know why, but there's a problem with the site that might be related - if you do
curl -i --header 'accept: application/activity+json' --location https://walledgarden.xyz/it errors with 'transferred a partial file' whereas it works for any other Lemmy server. It must have worked in the past though, 'cos I was able to subscribe and post to a community on there not long ago. - Comment on Is it possible to see a list of communities? 2 weeks ago:
Voyager is probably the most popular. I like Thunder, personally (both are open-source but Thunder isn't completely FOSS because of the language it's written in).
- Comment on Is it possible to see a list of communities? 2 weeks ago:
Accidentally replying to a post instead of replying to a comment is a Sync bug (I think it happens if you try to reply via a Notification). I don't use it, but that app seems a bit unmaintained.
To ping a person, it's like what you did, but you need to include the instance (e.g.
@jimmydoreisalefty@lemmy.world- most apps should auto-complete it once you start typing) - Comment on How long do you think we'll keep seeing "formerly Twitter"? 3 weeks ago:
It has happening. If you look for news of, e.g. "Arnold Schwarzenegger endorses Harris", most outlets just say 'X'.
In my results, The Guardian, the BBC, The Independent, Fortune, MSNBC, The Washington Post and The Hill just used 'X'. Politico said 'on social media'. Only Forbes did the 'formerly Twitter' thing.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Tuesday 22nd October 2024 4 weeks ago:
The creator of 'linux sucks' must be the bravest person in the Fediverse.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 20th October 2024 4 weeks ago:
That community looks to be brand new - the bot needs more than 1 day of data to pick up on a trend (typically it needs 7). I guess that the other community got Streisanded.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Friday 11th October 2024 1 month ago:
Well, you got this post, so I guess so? (the site responds better today, when it was a bit laggy or non-existent previously)
- Comment on Trending Communities for Friday 11th October 2024 1 month ago:
feddit.nl fell over yesterday btw, so that's why there was no post yesterday.
- Comment on Lockpicking Lawyer's size preference 1 month ago:
If an 8-inch wang isn't doing the job for you, it's probably as much about technique as it is about size. (I watched this assuming it was a parody vid, but it's an April's Fool upload from the real channel).
- Comment on Column | No time to read? Google’s new AI will turn anything into a podcast 1 month ago:
I know all the cool kids hate on AI, but as someone out of the loop, that 'podcast' is really impressive. I guess it speaks to how a influential certain style of podcasting is (from the likes of NPR) that a machine can copy it the same as other humans do.
As for the embedded link, this works for me (and others on the same site as me), but it might not for others:
- Submitted 1 month ago to videos@lemmy.world | 4 comments
- Submitted 1 month ago to nyt_gift_articles@sopuli.xyz | 1 comment
- Comment on Pay us, or let us sell your info to 1200 partners 1 month ago:
I think they're all pushing their luck with it, trying to get away with it until any actual legal repercussions happen. I first saw this a while ago with a French newspaper - apparently the majority of newspapers there do it.
- Comment on Washington's Dream 2 - SNL 1 month ago:
Thanks. Turns out that if it wasn't for Washington, Americans would be free to occasionally measure themselves in 'stones', based on the easy-to-remember system of there being 14 pounds in a stone. Or maybe 12. America's loss, either way.
- Comment on Washington's Dream 2 - SNL 1 month ago:
I'm guessing "Washington's Dream 1" was for America to have TV shows with sketches that go on for slightly too long, punctuated by incredibly enthusiastic audience noises (in England sketches are mandated to only last 3 minutes max, and are greeted with quiet stares of appreciation).
Only kidding: this was a fun video.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Sunday 6th October 2024 1 month ago:
I mean, like, acktually ... 'factoids' are incorrect facts:
The term was coined in 1973 by American writer Norman Mailer to mean a piece of information that becomes accepted as a fact even though it is not actually true, or an invented fact believed to be true because it appears in print
Don't care, subbed to !factoid@sh.itjust.works anyways.
- Submitted 1 month ago to unitedkingdom@feddit.uk | 9 comments
- Comment on MNT Pocket Reform Teardown - An Unapologetically Chunky Pocket PC, That's Also Repairable 1 month ago:
Nice. The thumbnail image reminded me of an Open Pandora, which similarity looked like a chunky DS and ran Linux (it was mostly intended for playing emulated games). The Pandora was never that repairable though, in the sense that it was mostly a system on a chip.
Before I even looked, I thought that I bet this device is more expensive than I'd assume - the crowdfunding site is listing prices roughly between $1000 and $1500.
- Comment on Network Rail: Twenty railway stations affected by cyber-attack 1 month ago:
Poor old Northern Rail - they only just got WiFi in the last couple of years (that's not even a joke).
- Comment on Trending Communities for Wednesday 25th September 2024 1 month ago:
I guess we can only be thankful that 'map_enthusiasts' is the name they went for (since MAP is a term pedophiles have tried to rebrand themselves with). As soon as there's any overlap with anything that anyone finds sexual, it shows how ridiculous it all is ('carporn' is nice pictures of cars, but 'car-crash porn' is a form of Symphorophilia (arousal from accidents), 'whatever-porn' is nice pictures of whatever, as long as that whatever isn't women, because women-porn is actually the thing called porn).
Anyway ... clearly this thing annoys me more than it should.
- Comment on Trending Communities for Wednesday 25th September 2024 1 month ago:
I know this has been said before, but 'SFW porn' communities - urgh.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
This is from 'Shaun' btw, who I mostly associate with videos criticising JK Rowling and her controversial friends.
It's worth the watch, imo (though I can't claim to be massively informed about the subject, so I have nothing to refute what he is saying). From what I remember, the gist of the video is that Israel is colonial power in a post-colonial world.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered - Announce Trailer | PS5 & PC Games 1 month ago:
I bought the Last of Us 2 upgrade, so I can't really criticise anyone buying this, but I've played this game to it's absolute death - had every conversation, completed every mission, even played through on the hardest difficulty to get all the trophies - so I can't imagine ever playing it again. It's Guerrilla Games' own fault - if they hadn't made it so good, they could have had an extra tenner from me.
- Comment on Can we talk about? - Fan service getting out of control. 1 month ago:
Oh, well, that's put me off Alien: Romulus a bit, to be honest. I kind of hate these call-backs, especially when there's no sophistication to them (I can forgive the "I've got a bad feeling ..." in Rogue One, but am utterly bored of hearing it in other Star Wars output).
The ominous side to all this, is that when films become entirely about referencing themselves, they stop being about anything else. Sci-fi works best when there's an analogy for something that exists in our lives, and offers an opinion on that matter. For example, Lucas has argued that the Ewoks in RotJ represented the Viet Cong, which is a bit clumsy, but it's better than the sequels, that only seek to represent earlier iterations of Star Wars.
- Comment on Mars brings Marathon name back in UK as nostalgia rises for retro sweets 2 months ago:
I think I've finally fully mourned the loss of the 'Marathon' name to the clearly inferior 'Snickers' - bring 'em back at the size Marathons bars were, that'd be a thing!