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Community boosting! (ka.tet42.org)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tet42@ka.tet42.org to c/lovecraft@ka.tet42.org
 

There are currently 70 subscribers to this community thus far but I think we can do better than that! Please tell your friends about us!

And please consider taking part in the book club that Seeker of Carcosa is doing such great work on!

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I need to get caught up on the book club. I sputtered out after week one because of some work commitments and travel. I certainly hope that others in the community will switch from lurk mode to active participants. I sincerely appreciate your time and effort to put these readings together and hopefully in the next week or two I can find the time to get caught up.

Be seeing you!

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't hate it. It makes room to tell new "old" stories without just completely dismissing canon. The idea of a "fixed point in time" is a concept that I think originated with Doctor Who. The Strange New Worlds concept is similar, but instead of a fixed point its a fixed event or fixed outcome.

I do wonder though, how much of this "time pushing back" is actually that? Or is it actually just the "Federation Time Cops" from the far future making sure things happen even if someone successfully meddles with history. I actually kind of hate the concept of time travel being a thing in Star Trek. Leave it to shows like Doctor Who.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There seems to be very little allegory or subtlety in any shows these days. I remember having high hopes for this Prisoner remake based almost solely on McKellen being cast in it. This was my first re-watch after watching it as it aired. I thought I'd give it another chance and maybe pay more attention to see if I missed something. I didn't, what a disappointment.

 

My musical tastes are fairly obvious. Classic rock, metal, prog. Show me what YOU got!

 

I've been re-watching Justified to get ready for the new series/season starting this month. I really hope we see some Deadwood actors appear again like we did before. A lot of people make fun of Olyphant's acting, but I really enjoy it. He was kind of wooden in Deadwood, but I think it is played to pretty great effect. I love seeing him stride down the thoroughfare like a randy maniac bishop.

 

I recently rewatched this newer adaptation of the Prisoner and while it was mostly not great, I really did think McKellen has what it takes to be a great #2.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Feedly is the closest thing to Google Reader that I've found.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

In the real world, the "drugs and/or brainwashing" can be replaced with poor education and fixation on cults of personality and outrage culture pushed into their brains and eyeballs through 24/7 media coverage. The wolves are the media, the billionaires, and others in power who need the sheep to move and vote in the ways that is often against their own best interest. Sorry to get a little political, but those factors are in play no matter what the ideology is.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I think that there is a combination of all those things. I believe there are Village agents, "wolves among the sheep", who influence villager actions. I also believe that many of the villagers have long been broken via drugs and/or brainwashing. This makes them pliable to anything that the agents embedded in the community wants them to do. I think that the Village probably doesn't take on more than a handful of people like #6 at any one time for fear that they might team up and influence an easily influenced group of villagers by emulating what the embedded agents do. TLDR, I think most of the villagers are more or less brainwashed lemmings and the ones that aren't are agents.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago

I haven't used Portainer in a while, but you should be able to click Stacks then +Add Stack and then name your new stack and paste in the docker-compose.yml, then Deploy

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I do appreciate your feedback, but I think at a minimum that anyone trying to run a Lemmy instance in Docker should know how to install docker and docker compose and how to run basic commands like docker compose up -d. There are many tutorials out there for doing just that and I'm not trying to reinvent the wheel. Once you have gotten that part done my document kicks in and picks up where the official documentation is currently lacking (in my opinion).

I do explain a lot, but I did my best to explain it in terms that most anyone could understand.

I will take your feedback to heart and maybe try to write a step by step tutorial for people who are completely new to Docker as well.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I don't use unraid, so I'd have no way to develop and test it. But I think all you really need to do is install docker and docker compose and then just follow my guide.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Thanks for your comment, but I don't see much value in pulling a new copy of the docker-compose.yml from the Lemmy GitHub. The only things I would be updating when Lemmy updates is the tag/version. If they added new environment variables some time in the future I could certainly take a look at their updated compose file to see the changes but I wouldn't want to pull it down and replace my custom compose.

I specifically don't care for their (Lemmy devs) choices for logging, docker networking, and the built in nginx, so removing and simplifying all that was my main goal. Everyone has their own way of doing things, and this is mine.

I will probably take a look at your Traefik configs and add them as a separate document for those that don't want to use NPM. My goal is to add a subsection for most of the current revproxy choices.

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I do not recommend using Ansible. It adds additional requirements and complexities that are unnecessary. Ansible is a great tool for managing multiple servers and software installs, in my opinion it is not the right tool to install Lemmy on a single instance. My install instructions require only that you have docker and docker compose installed.

That said, you could easily replace the docker-compose.yml that Ansible set up for you with the one I am providing. Just don't run Ansible against your server again or it will wipe out your changes.

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tet42@ka.tet42.org to c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
 

I am working on writing up some quality help/instructions for Lemmy instance admins. This is targeted toward those that are newer to Lemmy and Docker, but even those that know a thing or two might learn something from me. I have been a sysadmin for over 20 years, so I know some things.

I thought I'd share the first complete page I have written. I'd love some feedback if you have any to share.

Be seeing you.

P.S. I frequent the Lemmy Admin matrix chat and I moderate the Install Support channel. Stop by if you have questions! https://matrix.to/#/#lemmy-support-new-instance:discuss.online

[–] tet42@ka.tet42.org 1 points 1 year ago

It's one of the few remaining intact and operating Rockafire Explosion animatronic band. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rock-afire_Explosion

 
 

I'm sure I'm not the first to think about this, but I haven't seen it mentioned yet. I believe there is another problem with open registration instances besides just the threat of spamming.

If you go through the process of making a new post in ANY community and you attach an image and then cancel the post the image is STILL on the server at the given URL and is publically viewable if someone has that URL.

Theoretically, someone could upload illegal images this way and hotlink to them from another site. Because there are no posts on the instance with the bad image attached an instance admin would have no way of knowing the images were there unless they make a habit of browsing the pict-rs datastore regularly. There's currently no easy way to moderate or delete images in the pict-rs datastore.

I don't think I need to elaborate more on what kinds of images could be lurking on your very own server which could be hotlinked into VERY dark places on the web. Saying that you "didnt know" that they were there is not a defense. When the authorities are knocking on your door because you are hosting illegal images you will be sorry that you didn't take a more active role in your user base.

I realize that even if you close or set manual registration that there's still the danger of a bad user doing this very thing, but I think putting in some minor hurdles would greatly decrease the chances.

Regardless, I think there needs to be a better way to manage the pict-rs part of Lemmy and an easy way for admins and instance owners to be able to view EVERY attachment on their server to make sure there's nothing there that could get them in trouble.

I run a small instance that just have people I personally know on it, so it's not a worry for me. But the larger instances that are opening signups to strangers should be aware and take precautions.

 

I really try not to get over hyped on this news. I think Flanagan is the best steward for the Dark Tower adaptation. I really hope this comes to fruition.

 

If you're a fan, this probably isn't news to you. But I thought I'd share it anyway.

I am really excited for this, and I hope it succeeds where others have failed.

 

Two new communities for Lovecraft fans and for Stephen King's Dark Tower universe.

We've started an HP Lovecraft book club! Join in the fun!

https://ka.tet42.org/c/lovecraft

!lovecraft@ka.tet42.org

H.P. Lovecraft


https://ka.tet42.org/c/dark_tower

!dark_tower@ka.tet42.org

The Dark Tower


Extra bonus community for the classic British TV show The Prisoner.

https://ka.tet42.org/c/theprisoner

!theprisoner@ka.tet42.org

The Prisoner

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submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by tet42@ka.tet42.org to c/lemmy@lemmy.ml
 

First I want to say that I love the idea of Lemmy. I think it's very reminiscent of the old days of BBS's and networked message boards (FIDOnet).

With that in mind I'd like to suggest that maybe some thought should go into guiding people to the right instances to sign up on.

I think more instances should try to specialize in certain content and host communities that cater to that. Much like the BBS's of the olden days you could have an instance that is all about sports, or an instance specializing in comic book communities, or an instance that caters to a certain region or state.

With that in mind, it would be great to have a page that indexes instances by interest groups so people could make better decisions about which instance to join rather than just everyone trying to pile up on lemmy.ml.

Thoughts?

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