It sucks to hear that a project like LFS is forced to drop System V support. I never was a fan of systemd, so this is a bit dissapointing, albeit understandable.
Hello I'm a Linux newbie and I need some help. I'm running fedora on my laptop and I want to connect my Logitech mouse. I got solaar installed but I need to manually install the udev rule. I'm following the Instructions here
So I understand that I need to copy rules.d/42-logitech-unify-permissions.rules from the solaar GitHub and place it in /etc/udev/rules.d the thing I don't know how to do is get there. I'm not super familiar with the terminal
Solaar appears to be available through the Fedora package manager. Among other reasons, using the package manager is preferred because it gives you a mechanism to remove it cleanly, including any system changes such as the udev rule
PieFed blocks !enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
PieFed blocks !enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
PieFed blocks !enoughmuskspam@[url=https://lemmy.world/]Lemmy.World[/url] (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
PieFed blocks !enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
The block is only by default. The admin can choose to override it. Many big instances have done so, including
piefed.social
piefed.world
piefed.zip
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PieFed blocks !enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
There are all kinds of fun stuff in the Piefed code. Allow me to dredge up a comment I made recently:
@edie@lemmy.encryptionin.space was looking at PieFed code the other week, and I ended up taking a look at it too. Its great fun to sneak a peak at.
For example, you cannot cast a vote on PieFed if you've made 0 replies, 0 posts, AND your username is 8 characters long:
def cannot_vote(self):
if self.is_local():
return False
return self.post_count == 0 and self.post_reply_count == 0 and len(
self.user_name) == 8 # most vote manipulation bots have 8 character user names and never post any content
If a reply is created, from anywhere, that only contains the word "this", the comment is dropped (CW: ableism in the function name):
def reply_is_stupid(body) -> bool:
lower_body = body.lower().strip()
if lower_body == 'this' or lower_body == 'this.' or lower_body == 'this!':
return True
return False
Every user (remote or local) has an "attitude" which is calculated as follows: (upvotes cast - downvotes cast) / (upvotes + downvotes). If your "attitude" is < 0.0 you can't downvote.
Every account has a Social Credit Score, aka your Reputation. If your account has less than 100 reputation and is newly created, you are not considered "trustworthy" and there are limitations placed on what your account can do. Your reputation is calculated as upvotes earned - downvotes earned aka Reddit Karma. If your reputation is at -10 you also cannot downvote, and you can't create new DMs. It also flags your account automatically if your reputation is to low:
PieFed boasts that it has "4chan image detection". Let's see how that works in practice:
if site.enable_chan_image_filter:
# Do not allow fascist meme content
try:
if '.avif' in uploaded_file.filename:
import pillow_avif # NOQA
image_text = pytesseract.image_to_string(Image.open(BytesIO(uploaded_file.read())).convert('L'))
except FileNotFoundError:
image_text = ''
except UnidentifiedImageError:
image_text = ''
if 'Anonymous' in image_text and (
'No.' in image_text or ' N0' in image_text): # chan posts usually contain the text 'Anonymous' and ' No.12345'
self.image_file.errors.append(
"This image is an invalid file type.") # deliberately misleading error message
current_user.reputation -= 1
db.session.commit()
return False
Yup. If your image contains the word Anonymous, and contains the text No. or N0 it will reject the image with a fake error message. Not only does it give you a fake error, but it also will dock your Social Credit Score. Take note of the current_user.reputation -= 1
PieFed also boasts that it has AI generated text detection. Let's see how that also works in practice:
# LLM Detection
if reply.body and '—' in reply.body and user.created_very_recently():
# usage of em-dash is highly suspect.
from app.utils import notify_admin
# notify admin
This is the default detection, apparently you can use an API endpoint for that detection as well apparently, but it's not documented anywhere but within the code.
Do you want to leave a comment that is just a funny gif? No you don't. Not on PieFed, that will get your comment dropped and lower your Social Credit Score!
if reply_is_just_link_to_gif_reaction(reply.body) and site.enable_gif_reply_rep_decrease:
user.reputation -= 1
raise PostReplyValidationError(_('Gif comment ignored'))
How does it know its just a gif though?
def reply_is_just_link_to_gif_reaction(body) -> bool:
tmp_body = body.strip()
if tmp_body.startswith('https://media.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media1.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media2.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media3.tenor.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://i.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://i.imgflip.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media1.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media2.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media3.giphy.com/') or \
tmp_body.startswith('https://media4.giphy.com/'):
return True
else:
return False
I'm not even sure someone would actually drop a link like this directly into a comment. It's not even taking into consideration whether those URLs are part of a markdown image tag.
I then made a comment from my lemmy.ml account, and replied to it from my piefed.zip account, and neither .social, nor europe.pub can see my .zip reply, but can see my lemmy.ml comment!
[ Let me add more clarity here: what this feature does is two things. On a local instance, if you block someone who is on your instance, they cannot reply to you. However, this condition is not federated (yet, it would seem), and so, to get around this "issue", the system will drop comments from being stored in the PieFed database IF the blocked user is remote. This means you end up with "ghost comment chains" on remote instances. There is NEW code as of a few weeks ago, that will send an AUTOMATED mod action against blocked remote users to remove the comment. So long as the community is a local PieFed community, it will federate that mod action to the remote server, removing the comment automatically. For PieFed servers, eventually, they would rather federate the users block list (that's fair), but it would seem this code to send automated mod actions to remove comments due to user blocks is going to stay just for the Lemmy Piefed interaction. I don't really understand why the system simply doesn't prevent the rendering of the comment, instead of stopping it from being stored. It knows the user is blocked, it already checks it, it should then just stop rendering the chain of comments for the given user, prevent notifications from those users, etc. ]
~~Moderators of a community can kick you from a community, which unsubscribes you from it, and does not notify you.~~ This has been removed actually, the API endpoint is still there.
I was going to say that Admins had the ability to add a weight to votes coming from other instances, but the videos that showed this are now gone, and as of v1.5.0 they have removed the instance vote weight feature, claiming it was "unused".
All this to say. Piefed is a silly place, and no one should bother using its software.
Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at runtime.
This is precisely what PieFed does.
As I have noted in the post, the block can be disabled/circumvented by the admin. But the rule is still in the .py file where all the business logic are, hence hardcoded.
Hard-coded data typically can be modified only by editing the source code and recompiling the executable, although it can be changed in memory or on disk using a debugger or hex editor.
But I guess that would undermine your point if you read one whole sentence further, huh?
lmao, you literally had this explained to you on a previous thread and you're still on it. Really that desperate to simp for genocide denialism?
Hard-coded data typically can be modified only by editing the source code and recompiling the executable, although it can be changed in memory or on disk using a debugger or hex editor.
Exactly. If you want to make the same code logic block "notenoughmuskspam" (for example) instead, you would have to patch the source code. In this case there is no "recompiling the executable", since its Python. I don't really see that undermining my point though.
Your comments sound very angry so I am blocking you for the sake of the mental wellbeing of both of us. Have a nice day.
Exactly. If you want to make the same code logic block “notenoughmuskspam” (for example) instead, you would have to patch the source code.
You literally pointed out that it's an option that can be turned off as an admin option without the need for editing the code, which means the initial claim made in the meme is outright misinformation. But considering you've had that explained to you previously and still came back a day later to peddle bullshit, I'm guessing you're already well-aware of that, and just trying to push the old fascist line - 'Repeat a lie often enough and loud enough and people will believe it'.
That 'more information here' thread was an interesting read. I just use a keyword blocker userscript and it does most of what they hardcoded. I guess if people like to have their hand held while browsing, the defaults from piefed is for them.
PieFed blocks !enoughmuskspam@lemmy.world (and a few other communities) by default. At the time of writing this post, you can search for the comm on many PieFed instances and you will not find it.
The direct links work to that community work on piefed.ca, and feddit.online. It's not been added to europe.pub yet.
I'm going to suspect this is actually a community search bug, or an oversight.
Yeah, Piefed looks awesome, so does loops. I would like to join over there, but I'm not sure how being a mod here on sh.itjust.works would translate. They were thinking about adding an instance there too, but again, not sure if I can still mod here.
Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at runtime.
Hardcoding has nothing to do with whether or not the filter can be disabled. It is about how the filter is implemented (comparing against a string in the code, as opposed to a string loaded from config file or database).
Hardcoding has nothing to do with whether or not the filter can be disabled.
I like how you "forgot" to include literally the next sentence.
Hard-coded data typically can be modified only by editing the source code and recompiling the executable, although it can be changed in memory or on disk using a debugger or hex editor.
Soft-coded data, on the other hand, encodes arbitrary information through user input, text files, INI files, HTTP server responses, configuration files , preprocessor macros, external constants, databases, command-line arguments, and is determined at runtime.
The block is soft-coded, not hard coded. And don't try to selectively quote from a source the other person linked to you, it's probably just gonna make your dishonestly obvious.
PieFed blocks the word "Musk" by default unless turned off. This isn't an assault on anti-Musk speech. Neither would I characterize enoughmuskspam as anti-Musk.
Hard coding (also hard-coding or hardcoding) is the software development practice of embedding data directly into the source code of a program or other executable object, as opposed to obtaining the data from external sources or generating it at runtime.
Hardcoding has nothing to do with whether or not the filter can be disabled. It is about how the filter is implemented (comparing against a string in the code, as opposed to a string loaded from config file or database).
The 4chan image blocking is excessive but the rest of the stuff just reads like the dev didn't think anybody else would use their software so they implemented them 'good enough' for themselves.
That whole tread just reads like a counter-moral panic by the .ml instances.
I think the muskspam community search block is an oversight, especially given that "piracy" is in that codeblock and the communities referenced here can still discover piracy communities via the community search.
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in reply to johnyreeferseed • • •Solaar appears to be available through the Fedora package manager. Among other reasons, using the package manager is preferred because it gives you a mechanism to remove it cleanly, including any system changes such as the udev rule
packages.fedoraproject.org/pkg…
I'm not a Fedora user myself, but I suppose if you open the terminal and run
sudo dnf install solaarThis would install both solaar and the udev rule.
solaar - Fedora Packages
packages.fedoraproject.orgbuckykat [none/use name]
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